October, 2016 archive
Chris-Crossed 0
Thom and his guest explore the heart of Trump’s support.
(I don’t know how that got there.)
Via Juanita Jean.
Hack Reporting 0
El Reg interviews breach expert Troy Hunt, who is skeptical of the spate of reports of government-sponsored data breaches. A snippet (emphasis added):
“Blaming state hackers has become like a ‘dog ate my homework’ excuse,” he added.
El Reg caught up with Hunt for 30 minutes shortly after he spoke about data breaches and other matters at the ScotSoft conference in Edinburgh on Thursday.
He said that large datasets such as the LinkedIn cache were commonly dumped online by hackers when when they are “no longer profitable to sell”. There are exceptions to this rule such as Ashley Madison, where hackers immediately leaked the purloined data as wide as possible in an effort to embarrass and pressurise the business.
Details at the link.
Trumpling Women (Updated) 0
Really, now, aside from its having been documented, was anyone at all surprised?
Afterthought:
It will be interesting to see whether this will prove too much for the self-proclaimed “Christians” who have so loudly supported him.
I’m betting it won’t. I expect that they will decide that, whoever the woman in question was, she was a fallen woman, she was asking for it, she was no better than she should be (whatever the hell that means), boys will be boys, and–oh, you can fill in the rest of the blanks.
Addendum, Later That Same Day:
“An Armed Society Is a Polite Society” 0
Leonard Pitts, Jr., writing about the recent school shooting in South Carolina, reflects on the fundamental break with reality illustrated by the news coverage of violent death in the United States.
Perhaps the most frustrating thing is that that hierarchy has no basis in reality. Last year, PolitiFact tallied the number of Americans killed in this country by terrorism in the 10 preceding years. It came to 71. The number of us killed by guns in that same time frame? 301,797.
In a way, the phenomenon he highlights is natural. Unusual, out-of-the-ordinary events are “news.”
Death by gunnuttery is commonplace and mundane in NRA paradise.
Stray Question 0
If little eagles are called ‘eaglets” and little pigs are called “piglets,” why aren’t little chickens called “chicklets?”
It’s a Fargone Conclusion 0
There is no limit to how far they will Fargo.
Customers and former employees of that unit, Wells Fargo Advisors, have contacted the Observer following last month’s $185 million in government fines against the bank over employees’ opening of fake deposit and credit card accounts. The sources said questionable practices arising from the bank’s aggressive approach to sales also extend into its brokerage operation, which sells everything from mutual funds to annuities to IRAs.
Fargo to the link for the details.
“An Armed Society Is a Polite Society” 0
Politeness is a family value.
A female relative found the family members inside a unit of the Redwood Creek Apartments at Southwest Windmill Drive and Greenway Boulevard, according to police.
Just another day in NRA Paradise.
Nothing To Do, Nowhere To Go 0
The last time the number was this low, I was in grad school.
(snip)
The four-week average of claims, a less-volatile measure than the weekly figure, dropped to 253,500, the lowest since December 1973, from 256,000 in the prior week.
The number of people continuing to receive jobless benefits declined by 6,000 to 2.06 million in the week ended Sept. 24. The unemployment rate among people eligible for benefits held at 1.5 percent. These data are reported with a one-week lag.