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wmt commented on Felony Charges for 6 Reporters at Inauguration Protests   nytimes.com/2017/01/25/bu... · Posted by u/RA_Fisher
skrebbel · 9 years ago
So this is what the NY Times know:

    - In a certain area, protest turned into riot
    - Cars were being set on fire
    - The police does a sweep, arresting 230 people
    - 6 of those 230 people were reporters
And they chose to run a headline like this? They make it seem as if the journalists were targeted because of their profession, and that isn't what happened at all.

What is this - Trump lies all the time, so as long as we anti-Trump people lie a little bit less than Trump does, we're good? Fight fire with fire?

I'm slowly losing my faith in both sides of this fight.

wmt · 9 years ago
This not an anti-Trump story. The story is about the DA and the police filing obviously wrongful felony charges.

Sure, a bigger number of protesters also got similar charges, but that's not a big news because it's everything but obvious that the charges are bogus.

With reporters covering the event the situation is different. Mass arrests during riots I fully understand, and then reporters may get caught up in the net, but after you identify the reporters, you let them go. You don't file felony charges against reporters filming the event, unless of course you are a crooked DA.

wmt commented on Americans Work 25% More Than Europeans, Study Finds   bloomberg.com/news/articl... · Posted by u/antouank
jdc0589 · 9 years ago
Europeans have this shit figured out then. 25% less work means stopping at 3:00PM every day for me (unless you count the difference as block vacations). This would be LIFECHANGING. I get bored and stop concentrating around that time every day as is.
wmt · 9 years ago
The workdays in Europe are your pretty typical 8 hour days, the difference I think comes from the 15-30 annual vacation days per year, plus all the public holidays.
wmt commented on Why Finnish babies sleep in cardboard boxes (2013)   bbc.com/news/magazine-227... · Posted by u/stevekemp
stevekemp · 9 years ago
It does.

I expected it to be a little cheap because most baby-stuff isn't going to be useful for very long (the babies growing so quickly), but all of it felt solid, and the designs are pretty great too.

wmt · 9 years ago
The cloth diapers are also a nice touch! We ended up using mostly cloth diapers until the baby started eating solid foods.
wmt commented on Symantec's Bad Week   blog.appcanary.com/2016/v... · Posted by u/ontoillogical
justinlardinois · 9 years ago
Is there any reason for a Windows user to use anything other than Microsoft Security Essentials (or Defender as it's been called since Windows 8)? It's free and everything I've seen and read indicates it works just as well if not better than commercial antivirus suites.
wmt · 9 years ago
No other reason than that it systematically sucks at stopping malware campaigns compared to pretty much everyone else on independent third party comparisons such as https://www.av-test.org/en/antivirus/home-windows/

But at least it's free!

wmt commented on Research suggests many US parents will lie when saying kids made them happier   washingtonpost.com/news/w... · Posted by u/wallflower
eevilspock · 9 years ago
The article seems to cite public policy as the source of the difference. I don't think public policies are the root cause, but rather the underlying values of the culture that gave rise to them (as the article later seems to suggest). I'll bet that the U.S. end of that chart tends to be characterized by cultures that put individualism above all else, while the other end much less so.

Individualism is good; I'd never want the other extreme. I think Asian cultures subvert the individual to the group far too much. But the extreme individualism of the U.S. has led to an ever more selfish, narcissistic and cold society, where material gain and personal comfort trumps everything.

wmt · 9 years ago
The Nordics, where having kids also increases your happiness, are also very high on individualism as opposed to collectivism. The key difference to the US are the public policies that allow families never to stress about things like arranging daycare to the kids from the day they born.

These policies are not there to combat individualism, but to enable it with taxpaid support networks. Most of them are not poor aids, but state benefits that everyone enjoys, like the free or cheap high quality daycare used by the poor and rich alike.

wmt commented on How to Compromise the Enterprise Endpoint   googleprojectzero.blogspo... · Posted by u/nnx
electic · 9 years ago
The software you buy to keep you safe actually exposes you to more risk than if you didn't buy it. How ironic.
wmt · 9 years ago
How much more? I always imagined that it's more likely for a standard user to open every email attachment and execute it than it is to get targeted by a malicious attacker who knows what software your users are running and writes exploits tailored for them, but I could be wrong.
wmt commented on How to Compromise the Enterprise Endpoint   googleprojectzero.blogspo... · Posted by u/nnx
benjarrell · 9 years ago
The thing that kills me is, AV software for Linux is just looking for Windiws viruses. Tripwire seems more appropriate for Linux.

I've had that debate and it was decided that we had to have something. FWIW we use TrendMicro deep security.

wmt · 9 years ago
Typical AV for Linux is for server products serving mainly Windows clients, and the Windows clients are more probable to run random binaries.

Linux malware, outside of someone trying to crack the computer, largely doesn't exist because have you ever tried to ship binaries for all Linux distros?

wmt commented on PulseAudio 9.0 released   freedesktop.org/wiki/Soft... · Posted by u/ronjouch
nercht12 · 9 years ago
Imagine wireless devices communicating with each other at frequencies higher than humanly audible? No, I don't mean radios. I mean some sort of "bot speak" that would allow for localized communication without an internet connection. Might be useful for researchers in the field without internet access. Could also be useful for business bots to host private conversations without adding to the chatter or needing access to private networks.
wmt · 9 years ago
Why not radios? I don't see any obvious benefits in using sound waves over the RF spectrum.
wmt commented on Internal irc-log of the tor-project reveals debate about hiring an ex-CIA agent   pastebin.com/WPAmqkW8... · Posted by u/mercuryIntox
nickpsecurity · 9 years ago
"TOR's funding never was a secret."

Sort of. The Pando article they reference, which showed me more about them than the author, points out that they try to promote the funding as "independent" source rather than U.S. government-backed groups made by or tight with CIA. All the press around the situation would make you think it's a group for the people, by the people, and so on with some historical military connection. Whereas, the people aren't funding most of Tor: "The Man" Tor appears to oppose is. Even in this conversation, they're worried about that image situation and how to minimize exposure that one CIA person might work in Tor despite the fact that such types are funding it it. If it's so transparent, you wouldn't have so much work on that.

Who knows why it's coming up & it's not secret as you said. Yet, Tor pages I've read certainly weren't describing themselves as a tool of U.S. intelligence agencies funded by their fronts. They seem to work at avoiding that in favor of some image independent that U.S. intelligence just happens to also like and use. Which is inaccurate.

I'm curious. If we take away all U.S. govt connected funding, then how much is left for the developers and how many will that be? That should be a hint at level of independence.

wmt · 9 years ago
>Yet, Tor pages I've read certainly weren't describing themselves as a tool of U.S. intelligence agencies funded by their fronts.

I'm not sure DARPA or Naval Research Laboratory are really intelligence agency fronts.

https://www.torproject.org/about/sponsors.html.en

Tor is supported by intelligence agencies because of the value it brings to them. For someone undercover, Tor is a great way to keep in touch, and if you're confronted you have a plausible explanation of wanting to buy LSD or watch kiddie porn or whatever most people use Tor for.

wmt commented on Walgreen Terminates Partnership with Theranos   wsj.com/article_email/wal... · Posted by u/dhawalhs
dennyis · 9 years ago
Man I've gotta say that despite all the bad news this really bums me out. I love being able to run down to Walgreens, order my own blood tests, and get the results without a doctor or a big hassle.
wmt · 9 years ago
Do you care if the results are garbage or not? Because that's why they're booting them out, all Edison results from 2014 and 2015 were voided. http://www.wsj.com/articles/theranos-voids-two-years-of-edis...

u/wmt

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