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Just last year, in the official Christmas Tree in Minneapolis precinct 4 headquarters, discarded malt liquor containers and menthol cigarette packages were used as ornaments:
https://slate.com/news-and-politics/2018/12/racist-christmas...
What perspective make you happy about taking a middle road around a police force, and society, that tolerated this? The police haven’t needed to hide their outright motives: it’s race, whether it’s killing someone or decorating a Christmas tree. Other officers don’t speak up. Enjoy the privilege, I do and am more than aware.
https://www.aclu.org/other/fix-fisa-end-warrantless-wiretapp...
They don't give a fsck about the political inclination of those speaking. They even fought for the rights of Nazis to march in Skokie:
https://www.aclu.org/other/aclu-history-taking-stand-free-sp...
And maybe it's just me, but I don't get the impression that most very light editors of Wikipedia have even made a single proposal for deletion.
https://www.supremecourt.gov/DocketPDF/18/18-1150/114285/201...
For those that use Zoom - consider spending at least a few minutes to make a mental threat model about Zoom. Who might go after you? What features does Zoom have that might be exploitable? What's the worst thing that can happen? The worst case for Google is not the same as the worst case for a professor or elementary school.
Maybe Zoom doesn't work for your use case - fine!
Maybe Zoom is good for your use case - fine!
Lots of people will be using it either way, so it's good to have Alex help lock it down.
1. Google's threat model may not be your threat model, and it definitely isn't the threat model of my daughter's school. A corporation like Google may be concerned using native applications, written in unsafe languages, written by developers from other corporations in China. That said, Zoom isn't wrong for everyone.
2. Google is motivated to push their own solution for obvious reasons.
3. Tavis, or others, at Project Zero might know some things, maybe we'll find out.
From https://www.cloudflare.com/resources/assets/slt3lc6tev37/5xl...:
"A log of the DNS request, with truncated source IP address, is routed from Cloudflare’s edge data centers to Cloudflare’s main data center. The data first enters a stream processing platform that translates the truncated source IP address into the autonomous system number (“ASN”) of its originating network, and deletes the data within 25 hours of ingestion. Moving from the stream processing platform, the data flows into a database table, where the DNS data record is stored with the ASN instead of the truncated source IP. The DNS data records in this database table are deleted within 25 hours...
Cloudflare has an agreement with Asia-Pacific Network Information Centre (“APNIC”) that allows Cloudflare the use of the 1.1.1.1 IP address. In exchange, APNIC has access to the anonymized logs stored in the Public Resolver table in Cloudflare’s data center for research purposes. APNIC has access to this data through the use of a unique, authorized API key."
Once petabytes of data are out there in your GCP or AWS environment, "portability" will be costly due to extortionistic pricing of egress bandwidth.
https://twitter.com/LasVegasLocally/status/12371489198988369...
https://blogs.sciencemag.org/pipeline/archives/2020/03/06/co...
Anyone with a prepaid credit card can spoof numbers, make calls for < $0.005/minute, just by running apt-get install asterisk with a minimal configuration.
Not true at all. There is a great benefit to "flattening the curve" to spread out the infections over time, as a high percentage of cases for older individuals will require hospitalization, and there are a limited number of beds available. If reasonable isolation measure are in place, this could happen, as there would be fewer active carriers at any time to transmit the virus to vulnerable populations.
$ echo 1.1^8 | bc
2.1
Nice concession.https://www.opensecrets.org/pacs/lookup2.php?strID=C00428623
1. Multitasking!!
2. Good maps app
3. 3G
4. SIP client
5. All the music you would ever need through Rhapsody
These came years, sometimes many years, to other mobile platforms. The downside with the N95 was the lack or touchscreen and the crappy crappy Symbian UI.
But in 2007, I could stream music from a subscription service while using mapping to navigate, then take a SIP call.