I fully expect that when the dems get more investigative powers in January that we’ll find out how many more of these kinds of things we’re living through right now. There won’t be many situations simpler than this one, though (assuming that mistakes were made here).

Source I guess:

• https://youtu.be/B31ZJcPl_3Y?t=8818

As an aside, I like that news team:

• Wired phone cords under chonky headsets FTW.
• Novel way of stalling for 30 seconds while on live tv.
• “The trump agenda for a deep red district is a very appealing agenda to run on. In a swing district like CO-8 the trump agenda was a bit of an excrement sandwich for Gabe Evans. It was just tough for him to chew on or serve to other people.” (https://youtu.be/B31ZJcPl_3Y?t=10842)
• “Kyle Clark, this one’s on you, OK buddy.” (https://youtu.be/B31ZJcPl_3Y?t=13289)

“What bigger break could there be?” she asked.

The way I tend to think about it these days is that this guy is part of a community where that kind of thing is normal; otherwise, why would he share it?

If anything sexual is so big of a deal to him (and I infer it is from the statements he made), then how does that align with shielding his boss from the allegations made against him?

That guy?

The guy who pays money to a third party company to log all of his internet browsing habits and share them with his son as proof he isn’t looking at porn?

I’m sure that a company that caters to highly conservative people who feel the need to be “kept honest” with their browsing history does a bangup job keeping their servers up to date, and no foreign intelligence teams focus on it at all after the Speaker of the House bragged about using it.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Chris_Murphy#Health

Good teachers: “It’s broken again. That’s on me. I don’t know what I’m doing wrong with the passes. To shreds you say?”

Personally, a single “bathroom pass” NFC card that a teacher hands out to any student in their class that needs a bathroom visit wouldn’t cause me much security consternation; that any student could be carrying the pass at any given time is enough anonymztion for my concerns. I’d be more concerned about germs; a group pass is going to get nasty.

Add in a requirement that the scanners have to be connected to an airgapped system, and the system software ONLY reports/stores if a trip took more than X minutes, where X is some agreed upon time by teachers/parents/etc how long a trip should take, and I think that’s a a decent basis for a product that most school districts will completely ignore while they get wined/dined by someone who completely intends to sell the system at a loss and profit off the data collected.

Someone who was 55 in 1996 lived through an era where you could start a new life by moving a part of the way across a state in the US and nobody would think to research, or it wasn’t uncommon for people to have two whole families that never knew about each other (bigamy). Who cares about security cameras because nobody has time to look through all the footage? Who cares what you got up to in your 20s¹ when you’ve got a family and a job in town?

Then storage got cheap enough to store it all, and computers got fast enough to look through it all (but there’s still no time to figure out who egged your car over a weekend). All those old people don’t have to live in the world they built, either, AND the world is built so it can’t be undone. All that data will always have value to someone, and storage is only ever going to get cheaper in the long term.

[1] Old busybodies need to get off their high horse judging people. Data miners are already working their way backwards looking for something of value, and if you spent a nine month summer in Europe sometime in the late 50s then it’ll eventually come it if someone bothers to look.

I wonder how they power it. Has anyone put a clock on his long form talks to see if there’s a max time, or if they end kind of suddenly even if he’s on a roll with the crowd?

You can have long guns purchased through the Civilian Marksmanship Program shipped directly to your door. Those are a drop in the bucket compared to most firearm purchases in the US, though.

So the idea was publicly aired without any internal discussion at all. Kind of makes me wonder who knew enough about it to put it forward as an option that also didn’t know enough about it to consider direct side effects.

Completely agree, but alternatively: is there enough red stuff and red pumps to meet demand even if it wasn’t a stupid idea for the reasons you gave? I doubt business owners are going to taint their existing tanks for the reasons you gave, and there’s not enough of a guarantee this scheme will be around long enough to build new infrastructure for it, and the massive fueling stations on the interstates damn sure don’t have red tanks/pumps ready to go.

Does this even put a dog in the fight for the businesses who add the dye, or who sell the red diesel? If market manipulation like this were a goal, why not just put a tax holiday on all diesel?

Edited to remove idea someone else already posted.

All of them at once.

Get very, very good at virtual machines, containers, and networks and set up your computer so that it looks like an OSCP test lab environment. Have your daily driver computer have its own user space networks decoupled from each other.

We’re kind of at a point where a lot of concepts have been done and done well. If you get used to having NFS (securely!) set up, you can run it on your host computer which runs something relatively boring and have a bunch of VMs that do whatever you want. Tried something weird with the latest Gentoo and it didn’t work? Flip the off switch on that VM, mount the image as a drive and copy off what you want, then start over.

Who GAF about the fact that Nixon definitely was involved in these crimes and taped himself covering it up, it was The Deep State™

Nixon used the southern strategy to make an appeal to racists to restore The Good Ole’ Boy Network which is how people in power or aspire to be in power think the world is supposed to work. He got elected and could then start “fixing” “things.” His impeachment and removal stepping down was a very public example of someone not in the good ole’ boy system disrupted the power structure. Inevitably people bought their way into that system and his removal wiped out the “investments” they made. There’s probably some feeling that the Deep State stole their money, and they want reprecussions for the theft.

“We need to use America’s health data to determine whether the food we eat, the chemicals we encounter, the vaccines that we’re administering, the other environmental and lifestyle exposures are contributing in one way or another to the chronic disease epidemic,”

Is there a way to buy calls on the accuracy and specificity of actuarial tables, and puts on the number of americans with health insurance?

He’s running for governor of alabama and needed something to get his name in the news so there’d be something to spin. He’s running against one of the prosecutors of the 16th Street Baptist Church Bombing, and that sound bite is what his media team thought would be sufficient for the people of alabama.

Musk: Yes, we should all slow down. With no external verification and upon the agreement of this handshake, we should all stop developing so fast. We, especially, will slow down. You can trust us.

Actually, what does that look like? I assumed from the expansions the bottleneck wasn’t algorithmic, i.e. each data center that they bring online was designed from the ground up to be at 100% all the time. Is that not the case? Can you even (for lack of a better metaphor) underclock your datacenter? Does the cooling work that way?

For that matter, are they doing that trick where the datacenter is owned/operated by Independent DC Company X, and has exclusive lease agreements for compute?

Need money to live, so get a job. Need to pee in cup to get job. Company pays for the test so they get the results. Company offsets cost of test by selling data to test labs. Test labs find cancer markers and make note in database. Insurance company buys database. Insurance company marks pre-existing condition found in test and raises insurance costs. Still not informed of test results. Life insurance companies buy database. Premiums raised to point of being infeasible. Still not informed of test results. A few years pass. Get sick. Eventually get doctors appointment. Bladder cancer detected, stage 4. Die.

What’s the problem here? You’re right, it’s how there’s an opportunity not being captured. Our company will keep and maintain the database, and instead of losing money by insuring sick people, your company for a nominal fee can have constant access to the data so any underpayment issues can be avoided before they start.

That’s my elevator pitch to a VC firm. The first paragraph is a storyboard for an ad we’re going to shoot. The other higher-up at the company is going to see if his girlfriend will be the person in the story.

Where it comes to privacy and security sometimes you just have to be there. I’m aware there was a situation surrounding VeraCrypt and TrueCrypt, but I don’t know which one is the one to use going forward if either of them are.

LibreSSL and OpenSSL and how all that came to be is a good read as well.