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> If you really want justice then you need a coherent statement of the offense, there should be a fair hearing with representatives of all sides, there should be impartial review whether that be trained judges or a selected jury of peers or whatever else, and so on.

Cool. Since China is the source of this virus, can they take the lead here? I'll wait.
> Did he exceed authorized access?

He did not. He was given a level of authorization that he did not exceed.

The problem, again, is in the ambiguity of the word “authorized” that allows multiple plain readings.

To me, it’s absolutely plain that “authorized access” refers to system authorization (that is, what the computer tells the user their permissions are), and “exceeds authorized access” refers to bypassing the system authorization limits. That’s absolutely the plain reading to me.

To you, you read “authorization” as “policy authorization” (that is, where another human tells you what your permission levels are).

The fact is, there are multiple kinds of “authorization” involved in this case, which means different people can have different plain readings of the statute. While your reading seems obvious to you, it seems strained to me. My reading might be strained to you, but it’s obvious to me.
Would it be reasonable to demand every company hire a team of armed guards? No? So why is it reasonable to demand they each hire a cybersecurity team?

It’s reasonable to tell companies to lock the doors. It’s reasonable to tell them to follow accepted best practices in tech too, but not that they be experts prepared for everything.
Could but probably won't. At least I found that even though I like the bike portion of my commute and had kept it up for the first few months it eventually dwindled away in favor of sleeping in and working longer. Something to be said for the motivation of being required to get somewhere.
Oh man I’m currently looking into doing exactly that. Can you elaborate a little bit on how it works?
4chan figured this out as early as March 2020: google "site:4plebs.org shi zhengli"
> It's physically impossible to build a house that can't be broken in to

Obviously you're correct because impossible is a tall order, but it's possible to get close assuming the aspiring intruders don't have dynamite or artillery[1].

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bastle_house
oh yeh that's it!

a complete head case, nevertheless he's a million times more successful than I so perhaps I'm the one who's nuts.
As I understand it we haven’t identified a similar enough animal virus to be the source. China has and continues to have every incentive to find it.
You are getting downvoted because it's muckraking. There is nothing shady about NIAID giving a (verrrry small for this type of research) grant to a foreign research lab, which is doing research about a topic of interest. That's how you ensure the U.S. government gets a copy of the results.
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The other astonishing things is the sudden about face by the media. I'm glad they allowed themselves the liberty of looking at alternative origins. But... they were SO adamant and complicit in any discussion about alternative theories being shut down under the guise of conspiracy, Trumpism, anti-China, etc. (These are the same people who have no qualms about attributing anything to Russia even if evidence is thin, so it's clear there is hypocrisy involved).

Edit: It looks like Twitter is suspending the account of the Fauci email leaker(s). So the MoT is still on it.
The courses go by a certain order after the core intro courses. For example, the 140's courses are more systems-y than say, the 150's which are theory courses.

Intro core systems include 106B, 107, 110, and the newly introduced 111.

Happy learning!
"never again" are such big words. Let's not assume short to mid-term shocks will automatically translate into long-term changes.
Depends how you point. Look I'm French, we built the lab.

In France, all the people involved in the lab construction "quit" any official functions they had before the virus. That's the legend, the doubt is quite strong.

People are just now refusing it could NOT be the lab. And are mounting into conspiracy theory etc just because not everyone rolls over the floor with their conviction.

No: the lab source is likely (suspicious communist behaviour, french handlers all disappeared, geographical proximity, thematical proximity - as in they studied these kind of virii), but not sure yet.

And I'm taking flak in my family for not jumping to the most "obvious" conclusion - probably because they live in France and I live in China hehe. I think the communists are equally able to be stupid enough to refuse any investigation, to have put military command of the lab to actually be ready to study a natural virus under military command, that they were not quite competent enough to raise the virus to that particular gain of function, and that the french handlers left their ministerial position out of precaution.
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If anyone out there is involved with this I am very interested and very motivated to figure out if I can get a JavaScript engine running in a DFINITY canister. I just need a compiled wasm and a candid file to try it out. I think. The wasm might need to be compiled in a particular way.
> and even harder for computer systems

Things are actually getting better in some ways. Modern OSs with automatic updates are more secure than OSs have ever been. The days where clicking a link on an email or plugging in a USB could infect your computer are almost gone outside of rare zerodays which get patched for everyone pretty quick.

Things are getting even better with hypervisors, SELinux and secure languages rolling in. Significant portions of Android and in the future linux, will and are being rewritten in rust which wipes out entire classes of the worst bugs we are being faced with.

The problem is that the attackers are also getting more sophisticated and the targets are becoming more valuable with more and more getting put online.
I personally started with this talk by Rich Hickey (person who made Clojure) https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ScEPu1cs4l0

One of the best "why Clojure" talks that I've seen, especially for somebody coming from an OOP perspective, like myself.
At this point, with repeated attacks against our infrastructure, we need to get said countries to either help us route said cyber attacks (state sponsored or not).

If this continues to happen we are looking at a really bleak future. There is an -insane- amount of money at stake here. How many meat/farm futures got affected by just taking out the meat industry this time? How much money can these people get not just by the ransomware attack, but by also knowing how fucked an industry is about to be and cashing out.

When they can do this shit with impunity it's a problem. And there's potentially a lot of money available.

This is all just ignoring the fact that some of this might be state sponsored.

I think it's time to start getting some sort of cooperation from said nation states and allowing us to help take out some of their trash.

Because the other option is to treat this like state sponsored attacks on our infrastructure and no one is going to like that.
The dominance of those forums is the problem. Note how many posters on this thread are calling out how "shocking" articles and evidence are? This is how social media works by pushing hot buttons. Actual science is based on evidence and is often an extreme bore. What we are seeing is people getting excited over made up stories while ignoring the real hard work which has time and again pointed to viruses hopping from animals to humans.
this is terrifying.. who can we even trust then :\

Such exposed dishonesty leads to more and more people completely losing faith in everything that the scientists say and turning into anti-vaccers etc.
This is a nice gesture by H. Jerome Keisler, every bit helps to promote a math subject that frightens off so many.

That said, it's a shame the PDFs are in image format instead of text as it makes it more difficult to copy notes etc. from the text into one's workbooks. This would save the student time in taking notes.

Another minor criticism I have is that like many texts on mathematics it lacks both detail on the background to mathematical concepts and their applications. For example, the discussion of Eula's Formula on page 879 is somewhat incomplete. In some ways the Wiki page https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Euler%27s_formula does a better job in that it has a diagram of the 'Three-dimensional visualization of Euler's formula' (its application to circular polarization, etc.). Including this diagram and having some discussion about the significance of the relevance of the i, e and ᴨ in this famous relationship would have put the subject into better context.

(I recall the significance was lost on me when I first studied the subject for the same reasons. I think that many mathematicians don't realize that many of us ordinary mortals just don't think the same way they do, so including more visual descriptions and diagrams, typical applications and historical background do actually help one's understanding. However, I acknowledge that including this extra material makes textbooks larger and thus more expensive. Perhaps that's the penalty we have to pay.)
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So when we find Anthrax outside its normal "range" but close to a lab we can just say, yeah, no, while it's not endemic to this location it is 1000 miles away, so nothing to worry about? Oh, and never mind the lab.
These labs are in major cities. Epidemics are likely to be detected in Major cities. The chance of an outbreak being near a research lab aren't as long as you seem to think.

If an outbreak were to happen in the United states just about everywhere would be near a CDC location: https://www.google.com/search?client=firefox-b-e&tbs=lf:1,lf...]
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Got it
anyways thank you for your advice I really appreciate
I remember suffering through that nonsense as well. Then I remember a moment in a class in college where something "clicked" and I suddenly understood the game. After that it became simply tedious, but not raw torture like it had been. To be honest, it has helped me think a couple layers deeper about some of the media I consume.

I still think it's stupid and trite in the way it's handled in the educational setting and completely agree it mostly a garbage way to analyze things. Once you understand the game it becomes quite brainless and formulaic in most cases.
We first start by moving all the non legacy stuff to MFA. There are so many easy targets in security that we can look in to first before declaring it impossible because of a handful of legacy apps.
Several were HOSPITALIZED with a respiratory illness, in a lab studying bat viruses on humanized mice.

The cognitive dissonance you are suffering is painful, I'm sure, but it's obviously clouding your judgment.
Seems similar to Mary's room.

Or could you ever really understand what it's like to lose a child if it never happened to you?
There is no lead. Since America is the prime location for infection and death we should probably try to be serious about the issue instead of getting distracted.

And what exactly is China expected to do in any case? Apologize? Pay in the way fining Germany for WWI led to WWII?

You are full of moral rage, yet still have essentially zero scientific support. Are you sure that is okay?
>> If workers are also now expected to provision their own work space (space, desk, chairs, monitors, etc.), then the compensation model around those jobs also needs to be adjusted to account for that

I've been working from home for 5 years. Standing desk, Aeron chair, dual ultra wide monitors, it goes on and on.

It all adds up to about 1% of my compensation over those years.

I spend whatever it takes to have a great working environment, if I see something that will incrementally improve the 8 hours a day I spend working I immediately buy it. As far as my income goes it amounts to a rounding error.

>> there's a lot of people, including almost all the tech-oriented professionals under 30 that I know

That's called selection bias.

You have chosen to live in a location with expensive real estate. Good for you. Other people made different choices. I have rooms in my house I haven't been in for months.
I would agree that it doesn't seem like much. But the article says that the director of the wuhan institute's BSL-4 laboratory wrote in 2019 that “Maintenance cost is generally neglected ... Some BSL-3 laboratories run on extremely minimal operational costs or in some cases none at all.”

Most importantly, "the WIV housed numerous laboratories that worked on coronaviruses. Only one of them has the highest biosafety protocol: BSL-4, in which researchers must wear full-body pressurized suits with independent oxygen. Others are designated BSL-3 and even BSL-2, roughly as secure as an American dentist’s office."

"Shi Zhengli herself had publicly acknowledged that, until the pandemic, all of her team’s coronavirus research—some involving live SARS-like viruses—had been conducted in less secure BSL-3 and even BSL-2 laboratories."

There is apparently a history of SARS escaping from Chinese labs on multiple occasions, and the bat coronavirus from the mine that was human transmissible was the "only one whose genome closely resembled SARS". And according to the Wuhan lab itself, the coronavirus is "96.2%" similar to this sample, though they tried to hide this.
If a naked man locked in a tiny apartment can make 10k/yr doing what is essentially admin work, then it's completely plausible that a disciplined and skilled engineer with web scrapers, computer vision, custom Python scripts and pants could make 100k+ working part time.
Anytime you can let a group of criminals get away with impunity it's going to run out of control until we get... the current situation.

It's getting close to having China and Russia either start cooperating with us to flush these guys out, or we start having "fleet exercises" in their seas again. I think it would be prudent of said nation states to wash their hands of these folks.
The fact that he ends the essay with "If I were a Jew..." and not "If I were an Israeli..." makes it pretty clear to me which group he is referring to. Especially considering the author's other comments praising bigots like Louis Farrakhan
I find it hard to believe that a Hypersonic missile etc could go from mach-whatever to just hovering, and hover for hours on end like the Navy says they did. Certainly odd.
> We need preventative care and treatment and everything in between.

Not to mention the fact that the cybercriminals who do these attacks also get involved with state-sponsored offensives. The ransomware stuff might just be "training wheels" or resume bullet-points for something far worse in the future.

If we're going to get serious about stopping the state-sponsored stuff and even bother to have the "US cyber-command" it makes sense to go after the relatively petty criminal elements as well. If they can't make a dent with these, why should we think that can go up against the FSB?

Corporations can only ever view cybersecurity as yet another compliance exercise (and all the incurious checkbox tickers that entails). The smart ones will play "cops and robbers" (red-team/blue-team games) but they can't offensively go after cyber criminals. Unfortunately, that's what needs to be done to get ahead of this stuff.
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There is a lot of evidence that Fauci had quite a bit of conflict of interest, and knew about the gain of function research long before he denied it to Rand Paul in May.

It's not muckraking. There is heavy smoke, and people denying the existence of fire while trying to get people to stop looking for it.
As pointed out in the article, there were exactly 3 cities in the world working on gain-of-function research related to bat-originated coronaviruses. Galveston, Texas, Chapel Hill N.C, and Wuhan. It’s way more narrow than just being near a biological laboratory.
You're taking this the wrong way. You have to update your priors and calculate a joint probability knowing everything we know about the origins of this particular virus.
So it sounds like Fauci is saying they didn't fund gain of function research in the Wuhan lab.

If they did doesn't that really mean Trump is either more responsible for Covid or equally as responsible as China?

Trump allowed the ban to be lifted after the Obama whitehouse explicitly shut down this kind of research. Fauci just worked for Trump. It was ultimately on Trump, not an employee of his.
Hire some game devs! The camera movement in particular could use some polish.
Yeah, it's a cliche at this point. BMW USA's response was so unsympathetic that I think they are ok with it as well. I certainly wont ever do business with them again.

Even if the plug was improperly gapped from the factory (or dropped on the floor) the tech would have to miss that and the fact that the car ran worse when he finished than when it arrived. And that the computer said things are worse.

It's either malicious or so incompetent that there's no practical difference.

I talked to the tech on the phone before finding out about the plug. The tech definitely knew I was having trouble. Interestingly the tech did admit it would be possible to bend a vale doing the media blasting. I guess that's why service writers exist to "manage the customer".
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> What switch flipped to make all these come out right now?

Vaccination rates are nearing immunity across the major US population centers. I can imagine "they" wanted to ensure orderly vaccinations and return to the normal economic activity before any possible disruption of the political order.

Far-fetched, I know. But if you had to have a theory, here is one.
Welcome to the security vs. privacy debate. Glad to have you here, please read the pamphlet and please don't resort to a "won't anyone think of the children" argument. Because the statistics around facial recognition just don't work for that argument. However many children you think are saved with this: it's nowhere near that figure, if not flat out zero.
they made a LOT more than 5m. I would have also been putting bets into the markets much earlier and cashing in on the stupid chaos.

Continuing to let them do this with impunity is going to lead to escalated attacks.
This is a tough problem. Open source is a business tool, and for some also a raison d'être. If open source is not a raison d'être for you, then consider changing how much of the product is open source.
Strange that this article tries to paint anyone right-wing who postulated this theory way before the mainstream finally accepted it as being racist or crazy, as if nobody had talked about this evidence back then. The journal articles published by the lab were public information, as was their prior lab leaks in 2019, poor safety practice anecdotes, etc.

Thousands of social media accounts got banned on all the major platforms during months of suppression all because this theory didn't fit Big Tech's political agenda. Will they get unbanned? Will anyone of them apologise? No, it's business as usual for our corporate overlords. If you're on the wrong side of their agenda then you'll be cancelled even with paper thin reasoning.
Doesn't seem like a fit for their clientele which is mostly homeless tweaks hanging out in their parking lot.
When you can drop a bomb into a pickle barrel from 30000 ft, the question is not “how do I make my pickle barrel stronger?” it is “how do I decrease my reliance on this single pickle barrel?”

Spy-craft is notoriously laughable in its effectiveness. InfoOps, on the other hand...

I guess I’m saying comparisons to both Air based warfare and to the propaganda machine are both the most useful analogs, imho.
Hey, wait a jiff, I have pants!
If the goal was to disable the pipeline the attacker could just apply thermite somewhere along one of it's many unguarded miles. The reason that doesn't happen is because retribution for such an act would be striking to say the least.

It's impossible to prevent all attacks, physical or cyber, so at some point one needs to either submit to an order where attackers act with impunity, or otherwise invest in retribution.
You're imagining what is essentially an impossible scenario, because your setup is factually badly wrong.

The ransomeware attack in question wasn't capable of shuttering the pipeline as a target, whether the hackers wanted money or not. That was a voluntary action by the company, a questionable precaution they chose to take.

The US military isn't directly restrained by that pipeline. They have their own fuel supply lines that do not particularly care about that specific pipeline. And even if they did, they can go to the source, they don't require that pipeline for fueling purposes. They have other means of mobilizing refueling, up to and including anything that is necessary from a transport, manpower and logistics standpoint (including commandeering approximately four zillion private fuel trucks and tankers to get fuel moving for defense purposes).

There is no scenario where that pipeline existing or not existing tomorrow would shut down the US military or prevent its ability to defend against an impossible and amusingly implausible attempted land invasion of the US domestic territory.

So, imagine if that was a nation state (uh, which one?) mobilizing for an invasion that can never happen, an invasion that could never get across the Atlantic or Pacific. No.

Bombs start falling? From where? China? Russia? Russia is doing what, invading the east coast? With what ships? With what air cover? With what magical clandestine capability to hide a massive military as they sneak across the Atlantic on non-existent ships. With what aircraft carriers? And with China, so the US sends bombs back the other direction. The ability to throw a thousand nukes at China isn't restrained by the East Coast pipeline, and they know that, as does every other nation on the planet. Again, your setup is so far outside of reality that it's absurd.
Your comment can be applied to itself recursively.
It’s crazy to me how many people on even this forum, a place purportedly of science, continue to dismiss a lab leak origin out of hand citing it as some sort of crackpot theory. The serious questions raised in this article have been around since last April but it’s only now it’s even allowed to talk about them on digital forums.

Excellent write up by Vanity Fair.
It's the joint probability of everything we know.

p(Epidemic started in Wuhan) * p(origin in market right next to lab) * p(lab is one of 3 in the world to conduct gain-of-function research on conronaviruses) * p(lab scientists were notably sick prior to outbreak) * p(no accident ever happening in a lab) * p(et cetera) = very small number.

That's not evidence per se, but it does show you how probable a human error is.
>"The Sacklers are paying $4.275 billion, and they very much plan and expect to be done with this chapter," said Marshall Huebner, an attorney representing Purdue Pharma, during a hearing last week.

Did they make more than 4.3 billion from the opioid crisis? If so, then this result is a fucking joke and an insult to those who died.
I routinely drive on roads where traffic lights are active only at certain times, and when they are unlit the appropriate behavior is to ignore them. Also, these unlit traffic lights were in the back of a truck, and should definitely be ignored.
I continue to find Google search immensely valuable and am continuously impressed at how well it performs in finding something I know exists as well as getting me to the right information I don't know. Often I get the answer I need right in auto-complete like when I was recently trying to remember the name of the Sri Chinmoy Self-Transcendence race.