yellowyacht

I just discovered that Oracle's founder Larry Ellison owns 98% of the Hawaiian island of Lanai. Perhaps Mark Zuckerberg heard about it and wants to achieve the same.

Is that really the case here? Is Google's marketing holding them back from profitability? Is GCP spending more on marketing than building useful products & expanding their infrastructure?

> The industry has been setting up informal working groups to pool knowledge of mitigations, communicate when our platforms are being leveraged against one another, and cumulatively wasting thousands of hours of engineering time implementing measures to deal with this abuse, and responding as attackers find new ways to circumvent them.

Does anyone know how to get in contact with these informal working groups?

> Thanks for the support.

THANK YOU! After reading the email chain, I have a much greater appreciation for the work you do for the community!

Fantastic! I played with it some and I'm really impressed. Thanks for not requiring an account. What do you plan to do with it next?

I'd love to see a similar bill to ban the US Government from banning encryption. Would that need to be an amendment?

To bad this stuff does not go on your "permanent record"

OT: When I select text on this page, it drags like it is an image. It is both weird and not user friendly. I select text to help read and follow long sentences. Is this some sort of anti-copy-paste mechanism? If so, the text is in the source so it's not useful

I know people who plug the hotel ethernet into their own travel router to circumvent the captive portal. Though now you have to travel with another device

My university used to have researchers offer to pay students for testing out new OS ideas, such as 3D visualization of file systems. Some ideas looked super brilliant, but I had to look over at the researcher and smile because I didn't know how to use it. Neither would my grandmother. Sometimes the simplest ideas win.

> change the tax regulation for foundations (my wife is in this business and her blood is boiling with what she sees)

What are some of the issues your wife has seen here?

Facebook is using doublespeak here.

> It is important to understand that malicious actors obtained this data not through hacking our systems but by scraping it from our platform prior to September 2019.

.. a couple paragraphs later ::

> We believe the data in question was scraped from people’s Facebook profiles by malicious actors using our contact importer prior to September 2019.

Gee, that sounds a lot like someone abused your contact importer tool to do something you didn't intend for it to do. Which is also the definition of other "hacks", like SQL injection

What was serious or negative about my response?

I have never considered this issue before, so what are the good alternatives to this? For MIT admissions to call their teachers and ask questions?

> I feel like it’s a honey trap

That's a serious accusation you are 'feeling'. What evidence do you have?

Instead of "correct", the layer should be "Performs" or "Works for me". Then maybe the next layer should be "Works for others without crashing"

> Ok, genius, you go write a blog post then.

That was unnecessarily antagonistic

This may help someone else. Weird that this feature gap exists 8+ years after they launched Google Scholar

As Azure was the root of this issue, I wonder if they've actually made changes since this quote:

> Azure CTO Mark Russinovic on July 19 said Azure had 99.995 percent average uptime across its global cloud infrastructure, but promised improvement. He noted that three high profile outages between September 2018 and May 2019 were the result of “multiple failures that only through intricate interactions led to a customer-impacting outage,” adding: “In response, we are creating better ways to mitigate incidents through steps such as redundancies in our platform, quality assurance throughout our release pipeline, and automation in our processes.”

Source: https://techmonitor.ai/techonology/cloud/microsoft-jedi-cont...

Is that all between January and April?

I'm not a Swiss, so I don't know what your army strategists are preparing for, but generally a military staff plans for dozens of scenarios, not a single one. The overall trend of conflicts has changed, but the frequency has not. This might surprise you. There have been many conflicts since WW2 and even the end of the CW

https://reliefweb.int/sites/reliefweb.int/files/resources/Du...

I agree that a bottomless barrel of funding is the wrong approach and they should get it together

Worth noting that it's edited by 22 or 23 (it says 23 in the footer) attorneys is especially well done: https://handbook.clerky.com/editorial-board

It's hard enough to find a concise post like this that is more than one person's opinion, but finding one that combines >20 is worth bookmarking & reading