At least from CNN's story, it seems unclear whether this was an attack by a known pro-Iran group, with an "in retaliation for killing schoolgirls" tagline. Or an attack by some unknown group(s), with such a tagline.
Given how many hacking groups don't like the US, the latter would tell us almost nothing about the attackers' actual identities and objectives.
Though if I was a hacking group with little interest in Iran, hitting a US-based target...I might make some pro-Iran noises, trying to confuse the attribution. Or to curry favor with China, Russia, NK, ...
(And I'm not ruling out a nation-state actor being directly behind this.)
I'd politely inform the org which ran the contest. Noting that you don't know if their "winner" violated any contest rule by doing this - but they seem to be in violation of a prior informal agreement with you, to credit your work.
Without a real-time, probably national "who has voted & where did they vote" database - how would a "just show up and vote" system block a citizen from voting once in each of multiple jurisdictions?
You can solve that simply by putting all such votes inside signed envelopes, and waiting to count the contents until all the envelopes can be checked for duplicate voter details. In Australia this can be forced on you if you are caught double voting, or you can opt into it if you don't want to appear on the (public) electoral roll (and hence can't be ticked off), or you're voting from outside your electorate (so they don't have a copy of your electorate's roll).
SSN? To me this is one of those friction things, why is it hard? Like taxes, I would take an option rather than tallying up just pay a flat $5K fee or something under your expected tax bracket.
> voting for a bad person because you like their policies.
These days, you're lucky if you get to pick from "Bad", "Very Bad", and "Worst".
(BTW, does Mr. Bad look like he'll competently implement and honestly administer his policies? 'Cause without those, "good" policies ain't worth squat):
It's quick, catchy, and convenient to call out a few corp's which pay their workers squat while the bosses rake it in.
BUT - what about the ever-inflating costs of basic daily living - housing, food, medical care, transportation, and education - for the 99% of Americans who aren't too rich to care? Does that not count as "affordability crisis", because denouncing it risks being non-performative activism? After all, if we somehow rolled back that inflation, it would hit the pocketbooks of the 1% pretty hard...
But for 99% of Americans, "affordability crisis" is the ratio between the wages they receive and the prices they have to pay.
So if you could (say) roll back rents to pre-RealPage levels - from the PoV of the ~25M rent-burdened (and worse) Americans, would that meaningfully differ from receiving a huge wage increase?
There's the concern that once we get, say, a $30 minimum wage, that will drive prices up further and then people will be saying we need a $50 minimum wage. So we could wind up back where we started except it is harder to plan for the future, interest rates are higher which drives up the cost of housing and housing construction, etc.
The counter to that is an increase in total factor productivity which really makes us richer by being able to do more with less. That is, Henry Ford changed the world by creating a production system where workers plus a reasonable investment in capital could produce cars that those workers could afford. Contrast that to child care, for instance, where it just takes a certain number of workers to take care of a certain number of children. In the case of child care you can subsidize it so along side "expensive and available" you will get a certain amount with is "affordable at point of service but rationed" that is never enough.
which I think has an element of truth to it but that it also comes out of a need people have to believe that all problems are caused by a conspiracy of a few sinister people. Like it or not, people don't believe in markets and they don't believe in government. Maybe they are right to not believe in these things but in a certain sense it becomes a self-reinforcing pose.
the difference is that knowing 2^8 is generally not useful to people who don't know it
this here is something that's pretty useful to most ssh users, yet seldom spoken of
a better analogy would be comparing it to calling a very good, but not well-known restaurant a secret place - using the word to mean a hidden gem rather than an intentionally hidden secret
Portrait or landscape - if your use is dominated by looking at the screen and/or situations where it can't set it down (to use the KB), then the iPad is better.
Assuming the software you need supports iPad, etc.
No, you’re not the only person. I use it to read news, blogs & hckrnews. Probably more than 2h per day. Often in an IKEA bamboo Bergenes, which I have several laying around the house, upside down with a usb-c cord charging it till 80%.
The verge does have lawyers on staff (obviously, as does any media organisation of a certain size). I would be sure they have consulted with them, but there is also a story in this.
In the timeline we are in you just gift cash, a golden idol or a peace prize to government officials and the laws won't apply to you... especially not if the people that are suing you are part of the "legacy" media.
> “There is disagreement between NASA and SpaceX on whether the provider’s current proposed approach for landing meets the intent of the Agency’s manual control requirement,” [...]
> The report notes that during every one of the Apollo program’s crewed lunar landings, astronauts engaged the backup manual control method. (Of course, this occurred six decades ago, when flight software was considerably less sophisticated than today.)
Soo... How well has that "sophisticated" flight software performed, when landing unmanned probes on the moon in the past few years?
Given how many hacking groups don't like the US, the latter would tell us almost nothing about the attackers' actual identities and objectives.
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