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For a period Google was basically ignoring individual users requests for direct actions but calculating an overall rate for an organization as long as the organization followed all sorts of laws, etiquettes and google rules and stayed above some threshold..

A big part of their revenue was from email signups that were usually ultimately obnoxious and google couldn't really verify if a email address was legitimately signed up or slammed.

Sounds like a coincidence waiting to happen.

I think they should focus more on signing structured data and indexes so people can just exchange IA content however they like and know it hasn't been tampered with. There's not much a state will be able to do as long as they rotate keys, etc, so there are just state demanded revocations which can be ignored.

Isn't medic a valid military vocation? I'm not really sure anyone should be allowed to administer substances with an LD50 if they are functionally illiterate at identifying an improbable calculation.

Aside from directly incorporating a company yourself, there are also payroll firms that will basically take a cut to turn your (possibly international) freelance/contract income into a salary.

It's kind of your own company as a service so naturally it is more expensive than doing everything yourself before considering your time cost/efficiency.

Yes, I meant the 5th is only to avoid testimony incriminating himself, which he couldn't do.

He doesn't have the right to plead the 5th to avoid testifying against anyone but himself or his spouse, so his attempts to plead the 5th were just nonsense. Making an issue now seems to me like the "justice" connected criminals he was protecting by his contempt are somehow more worthy of rights than everyone they have used this tool on.

I find it a further stretch to call them "alleged purchasers of our products" when the only purchased element is theoretical ownership.

The speculative investors who respond to whatever phishing campaign is in their spam folder don't get confused for product purchasers.

I think its roughly the same with MPAA rating system when it steps into "adult themes", etc. A movie can show all the same scenes and still not be rated the same because they can be framed as tangential or they can have the main role model dependent on a casino for income, needing alcohol like Popeye needs spinach and saying their calling in life is the perfect one night stand.

North Korea is entirely GEO fenced for all android apps so no policy specifics need to be identified, unlike Iran where free games could be played but could cause a problem if they violate local law or South Korea where Google actually sells android apps.

I think I get you, though I've been thinking of it rather differently.

I feel like a lot of the evergreen hype in computing is framework, practices, etc, that try to break things down into a system where any junior could then just fill in each piece and of course this always collides with the larger context problems.

Once you get to a certain point with such a system, either you have been paying attention all along or you have no idea what you've made and how to deal with a real cross cutting problem and you get to the point where the systems promise is really irrelevant, you succeed based on actual expertise you supposedly weren't going to need.

With GPT-like AI around its current level, I feel like some of these systems for breaking down programming projects are going to face an actual test now that the junior engineers to do it are some GPU costs that could be run in parallel and won't have the usual heterogeneous resources problems of testing with a real project team.

I'm not really sure if any systems will survive (or something learned in the process will make a good one) but I feel like it would be a proof of a holy grail that is suppose quite important, and just the refutation of many systems is itself a major disruption to the field.

It's really a planning discussion not a personal one. Planners where I lived chose rail as well as streets and I get reliable transport by rail or the Schroedinger street choice.

People have been killed for decades by traffic jam negligence. Another freeloader making an entire jam is just pointing out how wrong it is to let dangerous private property have unlimited use of public streets for free.

Once companies are established they also tend to insist all their investments are legitimate barriers to entry. I doubt Sears would have lasted as long as it did if people didn't fear its ultimately worthless real estate investments.

How will you un-wear a battery with a press of a button?

I don't see anything inconsistent with a subscription if the manufacturer is responsible for replacing the battery during a warranty time. I prefer large ecosystems with 3rd party parts to dealing with proprietary manufacturing and warranties though.

If they can get the welfare system to take over, why have temporary grad students? Grad students with 20 years TA (or research) experience could really reduce the number of tenured professors they need to pay.

> Not every school can run a viable world class computer science program.

This is a consideration, but for WV residents it is better to have a mediocre program with in-state tuition than no program and this will eventually affect the WV economy as a whole..

There's a short term logic in shutting down everything that isn't competitive to attract out of state students, but the resulting function of the public system wont fulfill any of the goals of a state system.

How long will it take to resilver an array of these?

Unless processing fees are limited by law, shipping companies gladly pay customs fees at a border so they can then collect more money from the recipient. Whether or not they demand COD or ever deliver that package, they want that money.

> That is precisely my point, the threat actors are not civilians, so you can't defend them with the resources you have as a civilian

But this is leading to a crazy generalization. Microsoft can't defend itself as a civilian with a physical presence all over the globe that hires thousands of workers. Nonetheless, the sequence from solarwinds to this breach represents a terrific amount of China's focus.. Tearing through old data to find an expired key, probably also encrypted, and combining it with an active config error for it is a bit more than scanning for a standard attack against a class of old routers.

If your data is pooled without e2e encryption it is in the middle of a capture the flag game and will be owned. For Microsoft to make a cloud that doesn't have to be secure from the most sophisticated resources of China they would have to stop assembling all that data so that it would have to be assembled with the boring and endless botnet scans on hundreds of thousands of different end points.

Attackers will always get better at automating distributed scans but it is always a small percentage game that isn't as great as owning 3 clouds that each have equally good copies of about a third of this data.

I would hope that people who ended up with unsecured endpoints also didn't feel like they understood it and it was the product for them.

The description sounds a lot more like a trendy restaurant where no one can figure out what is actually on the current menu. That's more of a permanent complaint than an opening night one.

The particular method suggested is about using correlatable known text with audio situations to build the accuracy for other recordings of the same typist. I.e. a meeting with a chat feature or an office app may have correlated exanples.

Doesn't a service like moveit just blur the lines between cloud and on premises? I mean how exactly did they find these 400 orgs fast enough, was it a centralized command center?

You lost me entirely on the second paragraph. Some kind of militia attitude or trusting private armies probably means you are getting well beyond normal civilian behavior. You buy locks, you compare lock manufacturers, if you aren't the easiest of targets or the most valuable you represent a waste of time.

I'm not really sure about this logic. Is an APT going to use anything but old vulnerabilities against an off cloud shop that might have unique auditing to burn them? Are they going to develop a new one for such a shop when the payout couldn't be a fraction of what a success would return from even a minor cloud vendor?

On top of that you also have all the same regular vectors of desktop/mobile OSes, etc. So the cloud isn't really an adequate defense if you are a real target and is just one much more handy cookie cutter vector that will almost certainly trawl your data accidentally to an APT group when a mistake makes it practically free.

Sure, but maybe that payment power is going to have a lot of side effects that are worse than limiting/filtering gifts through potentially corrupt governments that can also prevent other situations.

For example, the resource curse implies there will be great reasons for companies to risk gifts of small amounts of money to lots of people in a country about to vote on whether to protect collective assets from corporate theft..

All the weird action committees of US corruption haven't even had the logistics to directly bribe voters of a low population state to piss in the pot. Should they get iris wallet addresses for everyone correlated to scan locations? Is anything the US would do about this beyond the capabilities of Kenya?

> My reading of that data is different from yours. Does a 20% chance of something sound more likely or less likely?

More likely than a non pet-owner (10%).

Its hard to parse.. I think Biden planned to add less than 4 GW/year on average from 2021 - 2030 to get to 30 GW of offshore added. The 27 GW added per year being required from 2035 means a giant climb from 2031 to 2035.

For a sauce sure, but developing a process for reheating spaghetti that results in good spaghetti sounds a lot more complicated than taking 10 minutes for fresh spaghetti, or really no additional minutes given the sauce has to heat up from frozen.

I hope the government hasn't been reimbursing travel expenses without first confirming there are no excess prison accommodations going to waste. A review is probably necessary to get hotel costs back.