Not saying the revelations caused loss of life but as a rule you don't want your successes in foreign spying to be made public. Think of the impact in WWII if our enemies knew right away when we had cracked their codes? That is a valid argument for Snowden to be called a traitor.
Every government spies on other countries, this is known. What is not known is the details. When those details are exposed the spying can be countered.
During World War 2, reporters voluntarily withheld things that they learned without direct coercion pending the end of the war. For example, the Japanese Fire Balloon attacks.
Not saying the revelations caused loss of life but as a rule you don't want your successes in foreign spying to be made public. Think of the impact in WWII if our enemies knew right away when we had cracked their codes? That is a valid argument for Snowden to be called a traitor.
Every government spies on other countries, this is known. What is not known is the details. When those details are exposed the spying can be countered.
Except that Snowden didn't reveal anything about cracking codes (well, not exactly, more on that in a bit). He basically said that the NSA is listening in on you. If your communications were properly encrypted and you were careful to make sure your hardware/software wasn't infected with NSA-generated malware (which you should be doing anyway, again, cause odds are the Russians, Chinese, Iranians, or whoever else would also be trying to do so), then you probably were relatively safe.
Now, there was the issue of the dual elliptic curve pseudo random number generator being backdoored by the NSA. Guess what -- this wasn't news. That algorithm was suspected of being backdoored as far back as 2007. In fact, it was such a shitty algorithm in general (not just for being backdoored but for other reasons), that anyone who knew anything about crypto back then basically said "only and idiot or someone on the take would use this algorithm." All Snowden did was confirm that yes, the NSA did backdoor the algorithm.
I would just note that there is always a war going on. At anytime except the last round in eclipse your allies could break the alliance and betray you for the win.
I knew Comcast had shitty customer service but damn I did not know they could blow past my expectations before they even installed the equipment. After their first attempt Tuesday where they went to the wrong house, lied about attempting, or something they finally got it installed today during which I overheard the technician having to lie to the phone service rep in order for them to set up my modem; Motorola SB6121.
Based on how the technician hinted at it the service reps are instructed to lie to customers about their modems being incompatible as an incentive for them to lease a modem from Comcast. The technician seemed to dislike Comcast about as much as the average internet user amusingly.
If AT&T would fix the box by the road which is causing our DSL to only work half of time we would not have switched but the last technician from AT&T put it bluntly that they would be leaving it as is. They did make sure to offer wireless broadband for more than double the cost and half the speed.
Yeah, one of the customer service reps basically called my wife a liar when she called them after they failed to show up the first time. If it was not for the fact that my wife needs working internet for school I would have stayed with AT&T.
Comcast is notorious for blowing off install appointments. I once watched one of their vans pull into the driveway next to mine so that they could call in my house description, claim I wasn't home, and leave. When I called the service line to complain about what they blatantly did right in front of me, they called me a liar, too.
Lucky for us, AT&T U-Verse works great in our neighborhood, now that they've gotten the bugs out.
I received an invitation to a job interview for a position that I applied to in October last year (for a Government job position). I had to tell them no as I had already decided on changing my profession. I asked why the delay - "The government didn't give us approval till today". I could have gone for it and grabbed a mundane job inspecting carcases every day but my mind was made up.
I received an invitation to a job interview for a position that I applied to in October last year (for a Government job position). I had to tell them no as I had already decided on changing my profession. I asked why the delay - "The government didn't give us approval till today". I could have gone for it and grabbed a mundane job inspecting carcases every day but my mind was made up.
If it takes them that long to make a decision on hiring anyway I worry about what would happen if you took the job.
On further investigation after talking with one of my friends who works in the Water Department, there was a clamp on new jobs over the December period for some reason. Even internal transfers weren't being done for some reason.
However at the end of the day this is just a glorified factory worker job. I'm glad I was never tempted by the good hours and steady work.
So, Jezabel - Gawker's clickbait outrage slash celeb gossip blog - is getting SAVAGED for paying 10K for unretouched photos of Lena Dunham, and then basically body-shaming her and pulling some mean-girls bullshit. And then, after the photos turned out to actually be minorly altered, and Dunham looked good in both - instead of apologizing, they doubled down and started trying to defend it, while attacking Dunham and Vouge with the most pathetic, passive-aggressive bullshit ever.
I'm a bit conflicted about putting it in the fail thread, because to say I'm greatly enjoying these fucking shitbag industry jokes not only being hoist by their own petard, but being pilloried by their own community is massive understatement - but putting some class fuckups like that into the things of your day thread wasn't quite right.
Though, I do find it somewhat horrifying that at some point in their editorial process, they saw the photos of Dunham in Vouge, and basically said "Nah, that's impossible. Lena Dunham can't POSSIBLY look that good, have you seen her in real life, peee-yew. Those photos must be heavily retouched! Quick, get accounting to authorize a 10K bounty for the unaltered photos." I should note that horrified does not nessissarily mean surprised, considering the Jez has a long history of hypocrisy. But this is simply so fucking blatant that I'm amazed that they didn't catch it even with their astoundingly low standards.
I cut the tip of my finger off with my brand new knife. It doesn't hurt much, but I can't type with my right index finger anymore. So many typos.
Ouch. I haven't done anything that bad, but I've definitely cut myself right after I've gotten a knife before. Luckily, not recently. What knife was it anyway?
Ouch. I haven't done anything that bad, but I've definitely cut myself right after I've gotten a knife before. Luckily, not recently. What knife was it anyway?
A Zyllis Chef's knife. My dad said "If it didn't hurt too badly, you know the knife is sharp".
I found some coffee beans that I had stored away and forgotten in a tin so I made 3 cups worth.
I ended up being polyuric and super buzzed for 6 hours.
I think my caffeine tolerance must have dropped a heap or the finer burr grinder setting allowed for more caffeine to make it from the beans to the liquid.
The hard drive my games are stored on has started to fail. Which is not a big deal, but because Origin has no backup feature I have to re download BF4.
Origin actually supports this. Just google on how to do it. I believe you have to initiate the download, pause it, then copy the files over, and continue it.
Origin actually supports this. Just google on how to do it. I believe you have to initiate the download, pause it, then copy the files over, and continue it.
That sounds like more of a work around than support.
First job lost. They removed the listing without even responding to my original cover letter/resume. I know I should expect this, but getting no answer at all instead of a simple decline is much more intolerable.
Yes - these days you're lucky to hear from them at all, even if it's an automated "we received your application" email. I've stopped getting excited about interviews. Even the ones that go well, I haven't heard anything afterward. No "thanks, but we're going with someone else," or "the State decided not to fund the position" call. Just nothing.
It sucks, because going into an interview with the attitude of "well, I'm probably never going to hear from YOU again either" is shit. I hope I can fake enthusiasm relatively well.
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Every government spies on other countries, this is known. What is not known is the details. When those details are exposed the spying can be countered.
There's no war going on now.
Now, there was the issue of the dual elliptic curve pseudo random number generator being backdoored by the NSA. Guess what -- this wasn't news. That algorithm was suspected of being backdoored as far back as 2007. In fact, it was such a shitty algorithm in general (not just for being backdoored but for other reasons), that anyone who knew anything about crypto back then basically said "only and idiot or someone on the take would use this algorithm." All Snowden did was confirm that yes, the NSA did backdoor the algorithm.
Based on how the technician hinted at it the service reps are instructed to lie to customers about their modems being incompatible as an incentive for them to lease a modem from Comcast. The technician seemed to dislike Comcast about as much as the average internet user amusingly.
If AT&T would fix the box by the road which is causing our DSL to only work half of time we would not have switched but the last technician from AT&T put it bluntly that they would be leaving it as is. They did make sure to offer wireless broadband for more than double the cost and half the speed.
Lucky for us, AT&T U-Verse works great in our neighborhood, now that they've gotten the bugs out.
I had to tell them no as I had already decided on changing my profession.
I asked why the delay - "The government didn't give us approval till today". I could have gone for it and grabbed a mundane job inspecting carcases every day but my mind was made up.
However at the end of the day this is just a glorified factory worker job. I'm glad I was never tempted by the good hours and steady work.
I'm a bit conflicted about putting it in the fail thread, because to say I'm greatly enjoying these fucking shitbag industry jokes not only being hoist by their own petard, but being pilloried by their own community is massive understatement - but putting some class fuckups like that into the things of your day thread wasn't quite right.
Though, I do find it somewhat horrifying that at some point in their editorial process, they saw the photos of Dunham in Vouge, and basically said "Nah, that's impossible. Lena Dunham can't POSSIBLY look that good, have you seen her in real life, peee-yew. Those photos must be heavily retouched! Quick, get accounting to authorize a 10K bounty for the unaltered photos." I should note that horrified does not nessissarily mean surprised, considering the Jez has a long history of hypocrisy. But this is simply so fucking blatant that I'm amazed that they didn't catch it even with their astoundingly low standards.
I ended up being polyuric and super buzzed for 6 hours.
I think my caffeine tolerance must have dropped a heap or the finer burr grinder setting allowed for more caffeine to make it from the beans to the liquid.
It sucks, because going into an interview with the attitude of "well, I'm probably never going to hear from YOU again either" is shit. I hope I can fake enthusiasm relatively well.