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> Gov. Mike Parson on Wednesday expressed his opinion the Cole County prosecuting attorney would bring charges in the case of a Post-Dispatch reporter who alerted the state to a significant data vulnerability.

The actual headline reflects the content of the article better: "Parson says he believes prosecutor will bring charges in Post-Dispatch case." Having read the article, I don't see anyone but Parson opine that the reporter will be prosecuted, and if this whole ordeal has done nothing else, if has at least offered adequate reason for me to dismiss Parson's opinions with prejudice.
> I suspect they’ve got no choice but Foxxcon and Pegatron

If my quick google is correct they could buy foxconn for ~$3B USD out of the 36B cash on hand. Or start building a competitor...
I somehow remember some way of getting them to be read on an atari.
In this space I absolutely love https://lnav.org -- the "mini-ETL powertool" featuring embedded SQLite and *nix-y CLI for chaining / scripting.

Edit:

PS Unaffiliated, just a fan since 2016(?)

PPS Despite the name and original / primary use case, lnav is useful for things beyond "just" logfiles(!)
>The one actual professional (as in paid as main income) photographer I know doesn't talk about the technology or the brand of camera they use at all because it's mostly moot: it's the picture and getting paid that matters. They don't carry their camera anywhere either; just an iPhone 12 mini.

>Subject matter is more interesting than the technology for me.

This has always been the case though. Amateurs and people who suffer from GAS place far too much reliance on the tool. They want to purchase the ability to create good works and become defeated when they learn they can't and quit. This has been true ever since the introduction of mass market film cameras. Many pros back in the film days carried around point and shoots or fixed lens cameras for personal use and left their F3s and 80-200mms at home.

This is just a reality of the consumer society we live in; people are advertised to incessantly and are conditioned to expect purchasing things to make them better. Thankfully art is a cathartic form of protest to this in many ways; you can't buy and compute photographic skill.

I'm semi-pro and my main gear stays at home unless I'm working on a project, personal or professional, and I carry my iPhone and a Fuji X100 for daily/personal stuff.
I think using floppies is a great way to safeguard privacy. Even if someone finds those disks, they won't be able to read them
I agree. Humans like sharing things, even if they shouldn't. We're bad at keeping secrets. I was just making the point that your claim of leaks in the military isn't necessarily comparable to a leak about a company. You do have a point about the large numbers of service members - that would raise the chances of something happening.
If you employ a million people, there will be a certain number of suicides per year
The food for the workers was also seemingly college canteen food because the whole accomodation setup was a converted college + student dorm (which had been closed since COVID)

Edit: Found a video of someone complaining about the food when it was still a college hostel.
Now imagine what students, who do not have the same organizing abilities as workers, had to go through.

https://youtu.be/RH336--NQVg
Says who? He didn't get to have a trial to determine this because the prosecutor backed him into a corner with threats of excessive punishment.
My vulnerability is that I take immunosuppresants, which makes the vaccines significantly less effective (last I heard a few months ago, fully half of the breakthrough infections of the vaccinated were in the small population of immunosuppressed people).
Recently read and recommend Sea People: The Puzzle of Polynesia by Christina Thompson:

> […]

> For Christina Thompson, this mystery is personal: her Maori husband and their sons descend directly from these ancient navigators. In Sea People, Thompson explores the fascinating story of these ancestors, as well as those of the many sailors, linguists, archaeologists, folklorists, biologists, and geographers who have puzzled over this history for three hundred years. A masterful mix of history, geography, anthropology, and the science of navigation, Sea People combines the thrill of exploration with the drama of discovery in a vivid tour of one of the most captivating regions in the world.

* https://www.goodreads.com/en/book/show/40536236-sea-people

It examines the question of the migration of Polynesians, but also the history of people examining the question itself: from the earliest European historians to the Polynesians themselves asking question about their own traditions, and how different 'senses of history' interacted.

It also gives a general description of the system of navigation used:

* https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Polynesian_navigation
I can't help but think so much of this could be solved if we simply had real and effective product liability rules and consequences for things that use software.

You give it away for free, no guarantees and such? Great, we appreciate it.

You sold something to someone? Okay, well, like with food and buildings and cars and airplane rides, we understand that if it's done wrong it can be really harmful, so we have real legal consequences for getting it wrong. Where you sourced your inputs is not my problem when it does -- whether that input was "free software" or "rotten ingredients" or "faulty concrete."
Because if protection from symptomatic infection increases at a population level, then overall transmission becomes less likely.

Look, the risks are pretty low for younger people, but from a population level every extra bit of immunity helps to reduce the likelihood of health care system collapse (which has been the goal throughout the pandemic).
> What reality has shown, time and again, is that medical systems across the entire world are incapable of dealing with COVID while providing the same standard of care that people generally expect. (For both non-COVID and COVID cases.)

Speak for your country. Numerous countries did not blink an eye, and did not panic either.

I think people forget that it all started by "lets flatten the curve" before it turned into a pandemic of fear for absolutely no reason.
> “This premise that there was an intent to beat the clock is ridiculous,” Inglewood Mayor James T. Butts Jr. said at the time.

It has become surreal that public officials can get away with blatantly lying these days.

Edit: Interestingly enough, the mayor is not white, which surprised me at first given this stance, but then I found that the mayor came up through law enforcement, was deputy chief in Inglewood, and chief of police in Santa Monica. This is what people talk about when police are viewed as the state-sanctioned gang.
"Breach" is a legal term, and although IANAL, it seems semantically correct here. When anyone outside of your organization gains access to sensitive information in your systems, regardless of their intent, that is a breach and these guys accomplished that. PCI and all of those other security protocols and programs don't draw the line at white-hat access vs black-hat access.
Edit: Touché.
Huh, I'd never picked up on the alternative word.
From what I remember, Samsung killed off floppy disk manufacturing when it was still bringing $70M annually. Not surprised some places still use them. Considering how dated it is, it's probably safer than having a USB dongle because nobody can read it
> The reporter did the equivalent of noticing a lock was rusted through and barely hanging on. He poked the lock and it crumbled to pieces.

No. The reporter did the equivalent of opening a book available to be read by the public and having the audacity to try and figure out what the words on the pages meant.
As others have stated for legal liability purposes.

If you werent legally required to store documents or there is a limitation on length, you wouldn't want to continue to store those records.

I work alongside hospital radiology systems.

Large organizations only keep what's required and are looking to purge all else (like deleting mammos after 15 years, pediatrics after 21... Requirements vary state to state in USA).

So if a patient comes suing you with a malpractice in the future, they can say they no longer have the records (as they only kept till legally required).

I doubt they would win a case solely on this but would definately help them.

A vendor created a cloud archive solution for reports/images, with unlimited retention.

Customers (hospital organizations) are demanding features for purging data aka "retention management".

So I bet this happens in all industries/businesses
As a general rule, the truth of moral-institutional declarations by public figures is inversely proportional to their frequency and fervency.
That UK report suggests that protection from symptomatic infection reduces (at the 10 week mark) for Pfizer, but not for Moderna.
The German government is pretty good at putting on a face of respectability and proper process, while also doing bad things. I'm reminded of the fact that the state began a criminal investigation of FT after they reported on Wirecard's fraud on the insistence of Wirecard itself.
>Apple specifically getting called out here is odd to say the least.

"a single death is a tragedy, a million deaths are a statistic"

Saying "$COMPANY treats its workers poorly" provides a concrete entity to be mad at and might lead to some protests/social media posts, whereas saying "most electronics makers treat their workers poorly probably leads to a resounding "that sucks but what can you do?".
Agreed. Rather than "grow" I'd prefer to look at organizational success through time in terms of evolution.

That being said, there are tons of companies out there that are huge and do no advertising. Word of mouth, relevance to reality, and quality of product win out over the long term.
The Temporal API supports a `from` method/function on most of the options - that's very much the functional approach to avoid `new`.

Often objects that are class based will expose a `of` or `from` method that abstracts over the `new` keyword `Array.from()` is one example instead of `new Array()` (of course the most common way is `x = [1, 2, 3]` but these other options exist too).

This seems fairly functional to me.
I don't know to be honest, the oil from Russia that's refined has a lot of sulphur so maybe it's just because it's cheaper?

Spewing carbon into the air is still a smaller price to pay than not having electricity when you need it in my opinion. While hydro tends to be quite reliable and predictable I wouldn't want to bet everything on it, just like wind and solar you are still dependent on the weather albeit to a much lesser extent. At least a part of your reserve power needs to be independent of the weather. On a global scale it's just a drop in the ocean.
There are probably a baseline of real security alerts for 3rd party credentials per day. For any given user, hers may have been from this bug or it may have been a real attack. If normally there are 200 alerts per day but while this bug was present there were 20k per day, then any given message was likely to have been from the bug, but some were probably real.
vaccines are more effective the more people have them.
The middle class is disappearing, but a larger proportion of the part that disappears every year becomes better off than worse off. The upper middle class and the working poor are both increasing in size at the expense of the middle class, but the upper middle class is growing more.

The broadcast components of our culture which must appeal to the largest cross-section of society do indeed cater more to the lower end compared to years past, because that is where the largest number of people still are. Without the middle class glue holding the top and bottom together, the center of gravity of popular culture gradually gets lower.

This tends to drown out the first trend I mentioned, the growth of the upper middle class, if you stick to broadcast media like movies, TV, and radio. But when you look at other forms of media which target cultural niches, you'll find the upper end is alive and well.
>These MRNA vaccines didn't come from nowhere; they have been in development for decades.

And not once could they even get to stage 3 clinical trials. This should be a red flag, not something used to promote them.
Or stop using common law system? Follow strict Nulla poena sine lege?
Show HN: A CLI utility automagically converting Unix timestamps
No, it would exist but it would be different because it would have been produced for self-expression, not profit.
1. Learnt a great deal of C++.

2. Started a serious side project (6 months every day apart from xmas day lol).

3. Paid off my mortgage.

4. Got promoted at work.

5. Started weight training again.

6. Paid off one my credit cards.
Private doesn't mean they can do what they want. It used to be frowned upon (and illegal) to discriminate based on medical status, but it looks like it doesn't matter any more when it comes to vaccines.
What value do they provide? Their existence is in all likelihood one of the reasons the author put pen to paper in the first place. It is rewarding the author and encouraging creative work to be able to pass on ownership of creative works just like other belongings.
Biden signs $137M deal for Covid test strip factory will take 3 years to build
“Everything is automated” world would still require maintenance, but all the maintenance jobs would be “bullshit” by Graeber’s definition, as they help to maintain some technological system. Which means any kind of technologically developed society will have these “bullshit” jobs, even anarchist one.
Email is a pile of garbage created with the same mentality of web and UN*X. This stupid shit in 2000 and 2020 still sends my IP address to the receiver for no reason so I have to use the web interface which removes it but then I can't control headers so I probably can't use PGP because some idiot wants to use that S/MIME shit (which was unsurprisingly broken due to the E-Fail bug). Coming up with a bunch of ad-hoc key-value pairs with keys you hope people will adhere to is not engineering. It's web shotting. When you do this it makes a sound of web being shot like *THWIP*.

Coming up with yet another way of encoding key-value pairs (or any type of serialization) is not engineering; you have not addressed the concrete problem in any way what so ever other than explaining what the syntax will be.

Like wtf is wrong with you people? How hard is it to call encrypt_message(your_message) and verify_message(their_message) without introducing RCE vulns? There is nothing hard about delimiting different entries in a list (for argv or whatever). This is pre-school stuff. The reason people omit it is becaues UN*X makes the path of least resistance to be insecure shit like system(), but even then it's still easy to work around it time after time if you are above the age of 12.

Federation is also a hare-brained concept. Why in the hell do I want my address to be qualified with some stupid string? Is this so I can make a group and LARP about firing missiles from mydomain.com to yourdomain.com? How is it possible that XMPP was created with the same idiotic concept once we already knew email was garbage? Federation is absolutely and thorougly pointless. The literal only reason it makes any sense is because if it was fully centralized, the service would just be dead once comapny #1 dies.

DAY OF THE SEAL SOON
This is Missouri. It might be hard to find a competent DA in the entire state.
Not really surprising. HPE has provided bottom-of-the-barrel support for decades.
> have proven to minimize the impact of deadly infections

if Omicron is as mild as shown by the current data, you won't be able to show any kind of baseline difference between boosted and unboosted.
It's long been a trope that Police aren't responsive to the citizens they nominally serve, but nowadays they aren't even controlled by the political leaders of their municipalities. Heck, it's not that uncommon to see cops threatening politicians and just ... getting away with it.
We're talking criminal prosecution here, though -- the only pre-trial settlement is a plea bargain or a dropped prosecution, neither of which are likely if the prosecutor really takes this dog to trial. The next steps are going to hinge on whether the Missouri Highway Patrol is a competent and relatively non-political entity, since they just returned their investigation to the prosecutor's office.

Now, even if a jury convicts this is unlikely to stand on appeal just given the bare facts as we know them, but the state can definitely drag the reporter through jail, trial, and possible imprisonment as an example of what happens to anyone the governor takes a dislike to.
I too desperately want a sterilizing vaccine. Given the existence of influenza and the common cold (a bunch of rhino and corona viruses), this seems unlikely unfortunately.
Great point that we have no idea how to verify anything now since they changed their systems.

I switched to using icloud keychain a while back, after a breach LastPass had a few years ago.
This article was not about retelling the GNU story. Think of that sentence as a cultural reference, not an explanatory history.
The CDC has guidance for how colleges should handle students who test positive for Covid. You cannot have a student who has tested positive living in the dorms with other students.

You do not need to be in the hospital to be sick, no?
the current one is more right-center-left

You wouldn't label the Labour Party or the The Greens right wing?
If "right" in your sentence refers to the Free Democratic Party (FDP) the abolishment of the data retention regulation would even be a "right wing initiative", which is kind of funny. Not sure if I agree, the only thing that's certain for the FDP nowadays is that they lack a clear profile.
> You can replicate NoScript and even uMatrix inside uBlock Origin now (uMatrix is even officially deprecated by uBlock Origin now)

I ignored this, thanks!
When allowing 3rd parties to access your AWS resources, IAM keys are in most cases the only way to achieve this.

For example, most CI/CD systems don't support OIDC yet, so you have to add IAM keys to them. GitHub Actions is a notable exception here.
Or they could not? Among college-aged folks, Corona has mild symptoms - maybe approaching a bad flu.

When I was at school, we had flu outbreaks. People got sick, their roommates got sick…and no one was tested or quarantined or had to wear masks. Life continued.

What if we just stopped? We could treat Corona outbreaks at schools like cold or flu outbreaks. Would anyone even notice Omicron ripping through the student body if we weren’t obsessively looking? I doubt it.
> Thats >10 weeks of protection at no monetary cost to you.

monetary costs are not the only costs you pay
Reviewing code is (should be) significant less work than reimplementing it yourself, if you were able to do it in the first place.
Ah hm seems legit, didn't think it through. Weird why OP didn't manage then..
I prefer to just use a normal mice (In fact mine is not that normal because it is vertical). I'm on macOS and why bother to shop an old school one for rare usage? That's why I prefer the context menu too.
Yes, approximately 2-3% of the population are sociopaths, who are only self-interested.

Another huge portion or of the population really just care about getting wealthy, with litter regard for anything else.

Seriously, if you want to be rich, all you have to do is be somewhat bright and willing to be a Republican political operative.

See Madison Cawthorn, Marjorie Taylor Green, Sarah Palin, etc.

I’ve see it myself: some of the dumbest folks I went to school with are killing it in the GOP. Dumb as rocks.
Even then it might make sense to make hydrocarbons that are easier to store!
Know thy time. A specific and comprehensive understanding of how one’s time is spent is the precondition for choosing and following through on effective behaviour change.
> It all seems pretty much fine.

I was terminated and feared what it would do to my career, it was most certainly not "pretty much fine."

> It's unclear to me what you'd like the recruiter to have done differently

This is my point, there's nothing you can make a recruiter do to truly act in your interest. Because they get paid when you sign, they're motivated to act on behalf of the company, not you the developer.
This hasn't been peer-reviewed yet, but preliminary studies are showing that the vaccines actually do have negative efficacy after 90 days:

https://www.medrxiv.org/content/10.1101/2021.12.20.21267966v...

Yet another point in favor of "Let's not presume until the studies have been completed."
Beat Apple at making a car?

How do they figure that, I wonder.
Conditional modules are a nice solution to this problem.
Is this the case with criminal records?

There was a rumor that in the Rittenhouse case, one of the other folks involved had a much much larger actual criminal history then the one they released, but that a lot of the history was hidden in various ways?

This was supposedly misinformation but the details were pretty specific, and they seemed to indicate that there might be a method to basically hide past convictions so a full picture would not be available.

Has anyone heard of something called "Expungement"?

Google got me to these guys: https://www.record-clear.com/

They claim even felonies can be removed, even if there are probation violations etc.
> Porn and AI is gonna get real messy.

From a practical standpoint I think it is going to be an unmitigated nightmare: people creating AI revenge porn, fake porn of famous people, etc.

From a legal standpoint, I don't think AI changes that much. People still own their image and while I would support stronger penalties for creating fake media of people, the law protects third parties using your image without your permission. Revenge porn already carries specific penalties in many jurisdictions[1].

> I guess there’s the question of if we even should, since none of it’s real anyways.

I absolutely think you should have say over the release and distribution of porn that uses your image. Not because it's wrong to make porn, but because you are impacted by its existence.

[1] I am generally skeptical of the ability of the prison system to deal with these kinds of things, but if we are going to have one I am glad it's included in the list of crimes.