Posts by Florida1920 1243 publicly visible posts • joined 17 Jan 2011
Ignored SEC EmailsGood grief, SEC is using email for this level of inquiry? They should be using Certified postal mail at least, so there's a trail. There is a bit of humor in the fact that a USG agency looked like a spammer, though!
Anyone familiar with the alphabet can solve one. I switched to a Q&A on my board and the number of would-be spammer registrations plummeted. I moderate all new registrations anyway, but the switch greatly reduced my workload.
The ones on Google (which you see if you click through search results too quickly), where you have to ID street signs, cars or buildings are particularly annoying. FFS Google, so what if it's a robot? It's not as if Google doesn't use bots to scrape my site.
An NSA employee with access to highly classified information is STUPID enough to run a crack? And disabled his AV to enable it to run? Oh, that shouldn't have set off any alarms in his/her head! I wouldn't give that idiot access to the road leading to the parking lot. With brain donors like this working in our security agencies, we might as well hand Putin the keys to the country and start learning Russian.
Back in the 90s I inserted macros in Word .doc files I'd created and stored on our company's server, such that anyone who opened one sent me an email without knowing it. The idea was to confirm the people who were supposed to review them were at least opening the files.
One day I got a call from the IT manager, wondering why she was seeing a bunch of emails she'd sent to me in her Sent folder. I explained it was because she was opening Company Confidential engineering docs in a directory she wasn't authorized to view.
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No he won't... but he might swim to a boat off shore. If he gets onto a British flagged vessel, well, the odds of Unc Sugar getting him back aren't good.Not if Agent Lucy has anything to say about it.
It's cases like this that keep the NRA alive in the U.S. Their mantra has long been, "No matter how 'reasonable' the anti-gun movement proclaims their intentions, they will never stop. First it's firearm magazines, the next thing you know, you're being done for an Airsoft." Cases like this one go a long way toward proving their point, regardless of where you stand on gun ownership.
@Bill Stewart
Congress seems to be a bunch of Chaos Monkeys.
In any case, may I remind you that we have rewritten the dictionary
The government is trying to rewrite (or shred) the Constitution. It's ironic that the U.S. is actively trying to undermine the Venezuelan government, while our "president" and his clique are suggesting the same rights-violating tactics be applied at home.
@Hans 1
If your dad has a high grade charger that can deliver 2 or more amps, then his cable will get "quite warm" and wear out sooner ...
I've often wondered about this. Say you buy a "quality" US-made cable and connect it to a cheap Far Eastern charger. Aren't you replacing the good American electrons in the cable with anemic Far Eastern electrons?
These are the sort of things that keep me awake at night.
@Powernumpty
The bit about guy taking it home is probably WSJ (written salacious junk) used to detract readers.
Use the "media" to propagandize the people? Back in the late 60s, when Nixon was president, he was known to be on good terms with the publisher of Readers Digest, which you'd hardly have called liberal or progressive. Yet, during that same time, before Nixon resigned in disgrace, RD ran several "true story" articles about how the Internal Revenue Service had destroyed peoples' lives over innocent mistakes on their tax returns. Oh, those horrible IRS agents! People lost EVERYTHING!
My friends said I was a paranoid delusional for thinking RD was publishing those "true stories" to scare people into not cheating one cent on their taxes.
The greatest trick the Devil ever pulled was to convince the world he didn't exist.
Fox News reported today that Russian agents got an American NSA contractor drunk, causing the contractor to divulge Top Secret information regarding Trump's tax cheating American security. Sen. Mitch McDufus (R-KY) immediately called on congress to ban the importation of Russian vodka. "The Russian distilling industry is out to destroy our kleptocracy democracy!," McDufus exclaimed.
"Besides," he went on, "If Americans want to get drunk and spill secrets, there's plenty of Kentucky bourbon to go around."
@Naselus
most Western democracies have spent a considerable amount of the last 50 years avoiding teaching general critical thinking skills to the population because critical thinking generally leads to questioning government statements
I agree with everything before "because." I think you give government too much credit. The real reason is more likely because to teach critical thinking, the teacher must understand and practice it. And it's hard. Binary thinking is so much easier. You could put forth a good argument that this is an artifact of Western culture, especially that favorite theme: that the U.S. was founded on Judeo-Christian blah blah blah.
Now turn your Bible to the Book of Genesis and the J-C creation myth, and what follows. And what has followed. I'm not an anthropologist, but I've studied the creation myths of Native Americans and compared their relationships to the planet with the myths and ecological relationships of "average" white Americans. The latter are taught almost from birth to not think critically, to accept the Bible as the Word of $deity, accept monotheistic patriarchy as the one, true faith, and all that follows in the family sphere.
El Reg readers probably fall outside these limitations, but the bulk of Americans don't. I wouldn't presume to speak for Brits. But as we're talking about American corporations and the recent U.S. election, it's fair to say the problem isn't the government -- they aren't smart enough to run a long-term con like that. The problem is embedded in American culture. Thus, there are no short-term solutions. Google, FB and Twitter are a problem, but at the same time they have brought the greater problem into sharp relief. This greater problem has existed for a long time, but it's only now that we're giving it serious discussion.
@Stephen Battleware
"Meanwhile, the Saudis paid for 20% of Hillary's campaign:"
Ummm, from one of your links:
Jordan says hack led to posting of 'false news' that Saudi funds ClintonJordan's official news agency said on Tuesday that it was hacked when, over the weekend, a story briefly appeared on its website that said Saudi Arabia is a major funder of Hillary Clinton's campaign to become the next president of the United States.
Trump said something like that during the campaign. I know it's naive, but the people who were swayed by Russia's tweets and FB ads were naive, too. They drank the Kool-Aid, from several other sources as well, and Trump got elected.
I mean, yeah, using Twitter and Facebook to steer an election is bad, but what about Fox "News?" Was there any greater propaganda tool for Trump? Is there now? We have a dolt for a president, and he was elected by dolts. If you somehow could turn off Twitter and Facebook tomorrow, the dolts would still see him as the New Messiah. That's where the problem lies.
How did you draw the line between clan-appeasement, and keeping terrible people around just to avoid the interview process? That sounds like quite the tightrope act!
I was fortunate to be able to hire some good people and retain most of them until the Fortune 500 I worked for tanked. If I had a secret plan, it was to hire people not necessarily best suited for the positions, but with successful careers in work not entirely dissimilar. That kind of diversity makes for a rich workplace. Everyone I hired was better educated, which would have enhanced my possibility of advancement, had not Marketing scuttled the ship. Before you can be promoted you have to have someone qualified to take your position.
I always included the appropriate members of my staff in planning meetings, so they felt included in projects they had to complete, but I also always ran interference for them so they could do their jobs without having to deal with the politics and bureaucracy. And we had plenty of both. My goal was to create the kind of environment I'd want to work in. Unfortunately, the higher-ups were more into feathering their own nests and to Hell with the people who kept the wheels turning. Our Marketing department seemed totally uninterested in what we were making, only getting the company's name on their resumes so they could move on to something better. The people who took out the trash knew our products better than the Product Managers.
Fortunately for me, I had no formal management training (except from my father, who was a fair-minded exec and set a good example), I just made it up as I went. We became a successful department, well regarded in the company. That was in contrast to the situation before I deposed my boss, when our department was laughed at. Common sense. Treat others as you'd like to be treated, and don't let your position of authority go to your head. You need your staff more than they need you.
Typical management. "Somewhere in this stack of CVs is the right candidate."
"Not necessarily. Any one of them would be a drag on the department, not an asset."
Yeah, try to sell that to your manager. Man, I hated having to hire, always tried to keep the clan happy so they wouldn't quit and force me into interview mode.
Should have one of those hand cranked weather radios. Relying on a smartphone to listen to FM is stupid, because what do you do when it runs out of juice and you don't have power?
Congratulations on completely missing the point. The chips are there; all the SOB has to do is use his position to get them turned on. Sure, they're not a panacea, but they can't hurt. Oh, except the corporations this administration and its minions are in thrall to.
As the post above this one notes, waiting for endless scripts to load is what ruins browsing experience. Your browser may be faster, but most of the time the advantage is lost. This morning I tried to read breitbart.com to see how Goebbels Bannon was gloating about the Alabama election, and got a blank page. Yes, I'm using ScriptBlock (on Chrome, so sue me). Why is it necessary to endure boatloads of Javascript simply to view a site's home page?! Oh, the Breitbart page loaded fast all right, because there was nothing there. (On reflection, I figured there would still be nothing there worth reading if I disabled ScriptBlock, so I didn't bother.)
I appreciate browser makers trying to improve their product, but they're shoveling against the tide until sites wise up and stop dumping tons of garbage into their pages when all people want is CONTENT.
Isn't Fort Bragg home of Special Operations Command?
The United States SOC is headquartered at MacDill Air Force Base in Florida.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/United_States_Special_Operations_Command
Fort Bragg is the HQ for the US Army SOC, a different unit.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/United_States_Army_Special_Operations_Command
Still, messing with military in any way is a guaranteed FAIL.
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