In other news today...
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@PJH said in In other news today...:
Don't let the word 'recommendations' fool you. The current weekly alcohol guidelines are 'recommendations' and are at the level of what used to pass for a Friday lunchtime. Yet they are taken as a limit when it comes to bashing drinkers for 'dangerous levels of drinking,' these days, and where 2 pints is now 'binge drinking.'
There's 'we don't want to be like the US' and then there's 'US? what's that?' We tried Prohibition. Tip: it don't work.
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article @boomzilla linked in In other news today...: said:
see the graphic photos after the cut
I'm confused, are there graphic photos after the cut. I only see one, and it's not all that graphic...
Also, if that's a pun it's in bad taste....
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What happens when a terrible director tries to intentionally make a terrible movie? We'll probably find out.
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@boomzilla said in In other news today...:
Lorena Bobbitt meets Jeffrey Dahmer:
So Armin Meiwes then?
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After this, last month:
We now have this:
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@PJH
Belfast Zoo ... they probably are making a statement about borders ... #nohardborder
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@Luhmann said in In other news today...:
Belfast Zoo ... they probably are making a statement about borders ..
Brexit would be better off if it was negotiated by monkeys?
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@PJH And earlier this week I saw an article about a flock of flamingos from Chester settling down in Apeldoorn. Though I seem to recall it's normal for them to fly off before they get clipped; they generally come back.
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@PleegWat
The flamingos will be deported. Their asylum request has no leg to stand on.
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@PJH Nope thread is
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inb4 "Oh hi shark"
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@hungrier Can something that's already bad jump the shark? (An no, autocorrect, I'm not at all interested in hump the shark, TYVM.)
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Video games make people violent
Or maybe not
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Well yeah. Without video games, you can't be prepared for the necessary decision of whether to restrain someone using your electric powers, or drain their life to heal yourself.
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@hungrier
Or whether to withhold critical potions and pheonix downs in case you need them more later.
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Containers may not be as secure as you think
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According to Aleksa Sarai, a SUSE container senior software engineer and a runC maintainer, security researchers Adam Iwaniuk and Borys Popławski discovered a vulnerability, which "just spams out all your root credentials all over the internet. It's nuts"
That sounds pretty bad
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Someone should protest for user's right to suffer from preventable programming...
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Meanwhile in B*****m, some women's rights group hands out a rather unusual award:
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Also in B*****m: seems they are looking for an Australian:
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@TimeBandit said in In other news today...:
Containers may not be as secure as you think
Ahem.
Red Hat claims that if you deploy SELinux, this bug shouldn't bother you. Because nothing is actually running on your system.
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Article @Cursorkeys linked in In other news today... said:
he found a female tiger in a “rinky-dink” cage
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Welcome news, I'm sure, for both users of the platform.
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Whoopsie daisy! Estimate on how many weeks it's been since their backup actually ran successfully, and hasn't been subsequently corrupted?
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@izzion said in In other news today...:
hasn't been subsequently corrupted?
Going on four months now...
Edit: Oh, you mean their backups...
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@izzion said in In other news today...:
Whoopsie daisy! Estimate on how many weeks it's been since their backup actually ran successfully, and hasn't been subsequently corrupted?
The company's staff is now working to recover user emails, but as things stand right now, all data for US customers appears to have been deleted for good and gone into /dev/null.
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@HardwareGeek
Yeah, I saw after I posted that the article specified that they apparently caught the attacker formatting the backups.If pressed to bet, I'd bet the "attacker" was a disgruntled ex-insider.
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@izzion said in In other news today...:
@HardwareGeek
Yeah, I saw after I posted that the article specified that they apparently caught the attacker formatting the backups.If pressed to bet, I'd bet the "attacker" was a disgruntled ex-insider.
If your backups are online media then they aren't backups. I've heard more than one story now about ransomware formatting 'backups'. You'd think people would know better.
I'm in charge of backups for my company, so they're physically air-gapped when not actually being written to, and we have three distinct sets (daily, weekly, monthly). We had a cryptomalware infestation and it did write to absolutely everything it possibly could, took just 4 hours or so to repave everything from the previous night's backups.
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@izzion said in In other news today...:
If pressed to bet, I'd bet the "attacker" was a disgruntled ex-insider.
That was my guess, too.
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@izzion said in In other news today...:
Whoopsie daisy!
What are the odds (without RTFA, of course) that an intern/newby/SrStaff person accidentally did it and they're just covering up...
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Blakey absence explained:
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@PJH OMG, he's had a seizure?
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Meanwhile in Germany, some concerned, polically-correct citizens heard their ears ring:
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@JBert said in In other news today...:
Meanwhile in Germany, some concerned, polically-correct citizens heard their ears ring:
http s://www.thelocal.de/20190213/authorities-weigh-criminal-charges-on-german-churches-still-ringing-nazi-bells
FWIW, this isn't really an example of PC gone amok. Germany has long had an exception to free speech regarding Nazism.
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@jinpa That exception to free speech then has further exceptions limiting when the rules apply. In this case it seems the bells aren't used to publicly promote Nazism, they're just there and staying there (most likely they're even out of reach for the public unless those churches open up the belltower for visits every weekend).
I guess it makes excellen lawyer fodder.
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@JBert Well, here's the thing: Someone complained so the authorities are required to act on that complaint.
And it also might very well turn out that the ultimate conclusion will be: "No need to do something about it."
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Give it time. We'll soon have our murder bots.
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https://www.nytimes.com/2019/02/14/nyregion/amazon-hq2-queens.html
A stunning victory for the forces of anti-graft
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@TimeBandit said in In other news today...:
I'm not saying their conclusion is wrong, but when the researchers use the phrase, "moral panic" to describe the dangers of one incorrect outcome, but do not mention any danger in the opposite incorrect outcome, it does not inspire confidence in their objectivity.
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@jinpa said in In other news today...:
@TimeBandit said in In other news today...:
I'm not saying their conclusion is wrong, but when the researchers use the phrase, "moral panic" to describe the dangers of one incorrect outcome, but do not mention any danger in the opposite incorrect outcome, it does not inspire confidence in their objectivity.
Erm, that's not what they're using that term for.
In isolation, a cherry-picked result such as this might add undue weight to the moral panic surrounding electronic gaming. Study preregistration and registered reports act as bulwark against drawing such post hoc inferences.
They're using that as a prominent example to show why they're doing things they do.
And "moral panic" is a very good term to describe the hubbub surrounding these games.
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@Nagesh said in In other news today...:
@djls45 Yes. We had the great freedom struggle.
Ah.
But it looks like it was 90 years of protests and minor militant action until finally the British decided that they needed the USA's help in WWII more than they needed to keep control over their colonies.