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by zigzigzag 9y ago
Spanish CERT has announced it's a worm that's exploiting the EternalBlue NSA exploit (in SMB/Windows file sharing).
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by zigzigzag 9y ago
Classic. GCHQ and NSA are joined at the hip. If telefonica are right and it's spreading through the NSA hacks revealed by the Shadow Brokers then GCHQ/5-eyes has some responsibility for what's been happening.
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by zigzigzag 9y ago
What I'm trying to say is that things on the Continent have been fucking bleak, and what happened in Britain, as a comparison, is kids' play Putting aside your ridiculous belief that Brits did not suffer in WW2, what I don'
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by zigzigzag 9y ago
it is also true to say that a lot of people voted leave on the promise of £350 million a week extra for the NHS No it's not. Can you show that with any sort of data at all? Or do you define "a lot" as simply "more than
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by zigzigzag 9y ago
Maybe it's because the Brits (as in the civil population) never really got to experience the horrors of war for the last 200 years, at least. Are you serious? What do you think the Blitz was?
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by zigzigzag 9y ago
Those sums aren't some arbitrarily thought up "exit fees" They are, actually: 1) The number being cited keeps changing (upwards) 2) When asked how they calculated those figures, and what the legal basis was, the Commission
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by zigzigzag 9y ago
David Cameron led the campaign to remain , as did the government. Coulson, the press officer whom Cameron picked, and who you're trying to finger as part of some "overt" and "out in the open" conspiracy, also camp
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by zigzigzag 9y ago
Facebook makes money through simple commercial advertising - nothing sinister there. Cambridge Analytica might just make money by convincing fools that they have some secret insight or power, when they actually don't. Psychics and medi
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by zigzigzag 9y ago
I note that your profile says you are a strategist & speaker on "digital, UX and branding". I would hope that a branding specialist would have no trouble understanding the Brexit result. It doesn't require deep analysis.
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by zigzigzag 9y ago
You mean all twice, both times leaks from or against politicians that are deeply unpopular? Of the candidates running in the French first round, all of them were anti-EU except Macron. Given the "anything anti-EU == Russian" idi
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by zigzigzag 9y ago
Men get passed over for promotions they deserve all the time too. You're just assuming it's because of your gender but haven't provided any evidence for it.
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by zigzigzag 9y ago
It's also the case that the hiring pipelines can be biased in other ways. For instance if a woman fails a phone screen she may be given a second phone screen anyway, or even on-sites anyway, "just in case", whereas the man wo
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by zigzigzag 9y ago
The issue is not necessarily hiring. There was a story on HN a while back saying how Facebook recruiters had stopped bothering to target women specifically because even though they were heavily incentivised to do so, the FB hiring committee
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by zigzigzag 9y ago
What kind of an answer is that? Do you have evidence that they have leaks they're sitting on? If so, why would the leaker not just send their materials elsewhere? The point of Wikileaks is to publish, after all. You're arguing tha
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by zigzigzag 9y ago
The logic for that appears to be circular. Schnier himself says he simply "doesn't think" Iran or North Korea are capable. Based on what, exactly? The skills to find and develop exploits are not particularly rare. This isn&#x
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by zigzigzag 9y ago
This comes up every time Wikileaks is mentioned, and it is ridiculous every time. Assange has stated, very clearly, that Russia is not the source and that if they had leaks related to Russia they'd publish them. But they don't. Pr
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by zigzigzag 9y ago
Hmmmm. That website is ... unconvincing. At best. The heart of De Correspondent is our founding document from 2013 – a manifesto of sorts – and these core principles have informed how we’ve built De Correspondent ... 1. De Correspondent pr
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by zigzigzag 9y ago
Does it? In another HN thread there was a link posted to this article from 2004: http://www.nytimes.com/2004/07/25/opinion/the-public-editor-... Apparently the actual staff of the NY Times are under no i
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by zigzigzag 9y ago
A decent article with hard data, albeit a lot of words extrapolated out of one unsurprising fact: with the decline of local newspapers, journalists now mostly live in the cities. Jonathan Haight has a similar dataset where he shows the rema
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by zigzigzag 9y ago
It's not just a handful of optimisations. The entire JVM is performance focused in a way the CLR just isn't. Microsoft historically put their resources into the C# language and the IDE. Sun/Oracle put their efforts into the r
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by zigzigzag 9y ago
.NET is primarily used by two cultures that don't place a big emphasis on open source development: Windows and giant in-house enterprise IT projects, often at banks. Banks have historically struggled with open source: it took a long ti
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by zigzigzag 9y ago
I think they're similar in goal but quite different in implementation. AMP gives publishers a lot more control and apparently that shows up in ad revenue figures.
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by zigzigzag 9y ago
This isn't whilst a project is being built. It's after it's been built, in perpetuity, to constantly remind people that the thing in question was "paid for by the EU". The logos of the actual entities that paid
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by zigzigzag 9y ago
London's transport system is at capacity, not just roads but rail and air transport are all operating at 100% and can barely grow. So restricting transport further is politically difficult, for example, it is typically hard to actually
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by zigzigzag 9y ago
The UK is already deforested and almost all land is in use, either for cities/towns or agriculture. There is no space to put new forests there. So for the UK to meet its own targets it has to look elsewhere.
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by zigzigzag 9y ago
Coal plants are not designed to be constantly started and stopped. For one, constantly cooling and reheating the equipment would damage the metal.
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by zigzigzag 9y ago
That used to be the case, yes. Since the arrival of many-channel TV and changed viewing habits (e.g. lots more internet use) the advert-break-effect has lessened considerably.
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by zigzigzag 9y ago
lol, username checks out. The EU uses propaganda so routinely people don't even notice it anymore. Like how federalists always refer to the EU as "Europe" even though Europe is a continent with several non-EU countries in it,
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by zigzigzag 9y ago
That hasn't happened yet though. Stock brokers, on the other hand, once the quintessential white collar job, have been completely replaced by automated trading algorithms.
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by zigzigzag 9y ago
I think things make a lot more sense if fascism is recognised as a far-left ideology: the notion that it's "far right" doesn't really make any sense when examined and so we should really just question if it's been m

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