Benghazi ringleader Trey Gowdy: "I think both sides ought to be really careful criminalizing the fact that they don't like certain people. It's reckless." https://t.co/mIt8ntS399
Confirmed: @AOC wins a spot on the high-profile House Oversight committee, giving her a potentially huge platform to interrogate Trump administration officials in next two years.
> "I am afraid it will be on my gravestone. 'Rudy Giuliani: He lied for Trump.' Somehow, I don’t think that will be it," Giuliani said in an interview with The New Yorker.
> "But, if it is, so what do I care?" he continued. "I’ll be dead. I figure I can explain it to St. Peter. He will be on my side, because I am, so far … I don’t think, as a lawyer, I ever said anything that’s untruthful."
that's an....interesting why to clear your conscience
Winning in #Afghanistan may not be an available option, say RAND experts. But losing is. A precipitous U.S. departure, no matter how rationalized, would mean "choosing to lose." http://r.rand.org/90c1
House Speaker Nancy Pelosi instructed the Sergeant at Arms to cancel a walkthrough for White House officials preparing the State of the Union address. https://read.bi/2U7mJKX
It seems to me that if it's a real security product you fail closed, because that's secure. And if it's a consumer convenience device, you fail open, because that's convenient, and you're not really trying to be secure anyway.
For people just tuning in - concerns:
- Lock has no mechanical override and a history of glitches.
- IoT hub collects entry / thermostat / water data with no clear privacy / use / breach notification agreement.
- Property requires residents connect hub to their personal network.
Master keying suffers a similar problem but I haven't checked if our apartment uses master keys or just copies of each individual key
I guess probably master keying since they do go around to do apartment-by-apartment maintenance every now and then, so that's not necessarily a bigger flaw
But I'm not sure how trivial it is to get a key made commercially with a specified bitting versus just figuring out the master PIN
(it's trivial to create a key from a blank with the master bitting though so meh)
> Mr Katter said: "In my whole life up to 50, I had never seen or heard of a homosexual person. Now it's fashionable, it's just like a fashion trend - tomorrow there'll be another fashion".
or maybe because for most of those 50 years homosexual people were demonized so they stayed hidden
it's comments like that i wish the person who says it has a child who comes out as being homosexual
BUILD A WALL & CRIME WILL FALL! This is the new theme, for two years until the Wall is finished (under construction now), of the Republican Party. Use it and pray!
Big correction here from mainstream news reporter ... [checks notes] ... uh, Mitch McConnell https://www.washingtonpost.com/opinions/call-hr-1-what-it-is-the-democrat-politician-protection-act/2019/01/17/dcc957be-19cb-11e9-9ebf-c5fed1b7a081_story.html?utm_term=.4285a3d2548e
The most Chicago thing ever: Police union endorses alderman who faces federal extortion indictment - https://www.chicagotribune.com/news/local/politics/ct-met-fop-endorses-ald-burke-20190122-story.html
NBC News: Nurse at Arizona healthcare center charged after incapacitated woman gives birth. https://www.nbcnews.com/news/us-news/nurse-arizona-health-care-center-charged-sexual-assault-after-incapacitated-n961691
@Yuuki You probably know something I don't but this is very contrary to what I've learned. The Chinese government retains popular support in large part due to high economic growth. The growth has slowed down because as the median wage has skyrocketed, low and medium skill industries like shoes have naturally moved to other countries like Vietnam. I have definitely not heard anything about the Chinese government wanting to slow down growth.
@puzzlepiece87 IIRC, there were some publications awhile back about how the central government intends to slow growth to focus more on a sustainable growth rate but it's entirely possible that this was state news foreseeing the upcoming drop in growth due to tariffs and a maturing economy.
And trying to get ahead of it to shape people's opinions.
I think it's kind of true in the sense that the decrease in growth is not necessarily as big of a deal as implied and also the result of the government not pulling the extreme shenanigans they have in the past to bolster it
Which is actually a good thing since that has historically caused a lot of problems
(but was necessary given the importance the Chinese government placed on highlighting the growth)
Like we could have just not interviewed the dumb kid but no this is far more normal
#BREAKING: Elwood's superintendent is accused of insurance fraud after using her own insurance to help a student get treatment, according to court documents : https://www.wthr.com/article/court-documents-elwood-schools-superintendent-used-her-insurance-pay-students-medical
NEW: Rep. Sheila Jackson Lee intends to resign as chair of the Congressional Black Caucus Foundation, after being named in a lawsuit accusing her of retaliating against a staffer who planned to sue the CBCF over an alleged rape by a former CBCF employee https://www.buzzfeednews.com/article/darrensands/sheila-jackson-lee-congressional-black-caucus-foundation
All of the publications here at Condé Nast will have paywalls by the end of the year. https://www.wsj.com/articles/conde-nast-to-put-all-titles-behind-paywalls-by-year-end-11548244800?mod=searchresults&page=1&pos=1
Venezuela's Opposition leader declares himself interim president, recognized by Canada-U.S. https://www.cbc.ca/news/world/venezuela-president-protest-guaido-maduro-1.4989733
@MBraedley ironically i can't get through the wall street journal's paywall to confirm, but replies say it includes ars
@Wipqozn i know maduro is a tremendous jerk and has been doing awful things, i have no information about the opposition leader. I'm not surprised trump jumped in to an international mess, but i am surprised by trudeau. i didn't think toppling other govts was canada's jam
I "enjoyed" this @edyong209 article about hagfish slime, by which I mean it trapped me on a rollercoaster of horror, revulsion, and awe: https://www.theatlantic.com/science/archive/2019/01/hagfish-slime/581002/
@Yuuki I'd 100% bet on this interpretation being the truth.
@TimStone I'm going to #WellActually this too, sorry. The Chinese government is still pulling shenanigans to bolster the growth rate, there's just much less they can practically achieve due to "sorry now that your median wage has quintupled it's now cheaper to make this in Vietnam"
@TimStone Problems caused by Chinese government overaction are not in decline from the past, imo.
@GodEmperorDune I was about to make a joke here but then I realized that the hagfish known for its slime is actually the Atlantic hagfish, not the Pacific.
@puzzlepiece87 They are making efforts to reign in shadow financing for LGFVs, which is the most risky historical behaviour due to the absurdly large debt bomb it's created. They still have a ways to go and the typical misrepresentation aspect is still at play, of course
> Nobody knows for sure, but when we look at things that are harder numbers to fudge...our estimate is growth probably about 3.5 percent versus roughly 7
> Not only does China's NBS refuse to respond to inquiries, Straszheim said, but the statistics unit will announce only its total GDP growth figure — not the components of that number. "If you don't have the components, how can you have a total? And if you have the components, which would add to the total, why are they not publicly available?" Straszheim asked.
@TimStone That's good, but also not, imo, a key determinant of their economic slowdown. Opinions can differ.
@TimStone This said there's also been an issue with public-private partnerships as an alternative where the "private" partner is just owned by people in or in proximity to local government so ehh
(Where by slowdown I mean still very fast growth compared to more developed economies)
@TimStone Absolutely. You can't have a medium or above sized business in China without being absolutely ready to respond to what the government asks of you, including that you get their lackeys into ownership.
@TimStone oh the "train a local company for X years" and then the contract is never renewed because the local company knows exactly how to do the thing?
It's a large issue because a significant portion of expenditures occur at the local government level, so whatever production/services are being created are likely in some way impacted by that spending
@GodEmperorDune This also, but that's separate! It turns out economic corruption in China has multitudes!
@TimStone Yes absolutely but also the whole totalitarian state thing. Both/and.
Don't cooperate and get Wen Xiabao'd wait wrong name, let me find it.
Trying to find the name of that guy who was a top party official and got too popular and then he and his wife got put away for both "corruption" and corruption.
And I think they also tried to flee to a US embassy last minute and request asylum
BREAKING: 11 national #union leaders ARRESTED outside @SenMajLdr Mitch McConnell’s office
They want to work. Their members want to work. They all need paychecks. Mitch had them arrested.
#WheresMitch #StopTheShutdown #OpenTheGovernment https://t.co/P7FVUf4Ywy
#Venezuela: Maduro accuses the U.S. of leading a coup against him and has broken off diplomatic ties, order U.S. diplomatic staff to leave the country in 72 hours.
There appears to be a *second* ROK-Japan incident over an MSDF surveillance flight: South Korea condemns Japanese patrol flight over ship as 'provocation' https://www.reuters.com/article/us-japan-southkorea-military/south-korea-condemns-japanese-patrol-flight-over-ship-as-provocation-idUSKCN1PH0TW
we need to wash the taste of getting our asses handed to us doing regime change by doing one in South America, where we've actually succeeded (in getting a lot of people killed)
@GodEmperorDune Yeah, we haven't interfered with South American politics since... checks notes Why you'd just hand me a ticker labeled "Days Since Last Incident" set to 0?
@Yuuki I need to find the video but there's some american thinktank conglomerate essentially whose only job is to install right wing governments in south america (and had many hands in brazil)
The McAfee 2020 Campaign is, as of this day, in exile. I am being charged with using Crypto Cuttencies in criminal acts against the U. S. Government. More videos coming shortly. Stay tuned. https://t.co/C75zcbnKTD
White House seeks list of programs that could be cut if shutdown lasts into March, a sign it is bracing for a lengthy funding lapse https://www.washingtonpost.com/business/economy/white-house-seeks-list-of-programs-that-would-be-hurt-if-shutdown-lasts-into-march/2019/01/23/661adb3a-1f55-11e9-9145-3f74070bbdb9_story.html
@puzzlepiece87 hmmm, which is better, having your unproven theory that the vaccines causes autism is true or death. i would personally choose the former coming from someone who had a allergic reaction to routine childhood vaccination which set back development milestones and who's parents was told that i would not be able to cope with normal school
sure an allergic reaction that sets back development milestones may not be the same as autism but people with autism can live normal-ish and full lives
forcing republican senators to vote to either vote against trump by reopening the govt OR stick with trump and keep the govt shut down is lose-lose so he is blocking the vote altogether to shield them
the govt shutdown is actually not that bad for republican party goals (demonstrate federal govt disfunction, remove federal govt power), so they're not in a hurry
> After watching House Democrats pass those bills for more than four weeks, Senate Majority Leader Mitch McConnell (R-Ky.) is eager to flip the script and have Democrats vote “no” on a bill to reopen the government — a day before federal workers impacted by the funding lapse will miss their second paycheck.
@GodEmperorDune This would also have become a matter of urgency if he feels like he's screwed either way, which is very possible
I don't think based on what he's done so far he thinks he can effectively deflect blame here as he usually would because typically the President wouldn't be so stubborn and they could coax Dems into a concession as Dems are wont to do
@murgatroid99 At the expense of the president recognizing he can indeed use them as pawns though, so idk. Obviously I'm not the one not getting paid so it's much easier to say that but I also don't think it's good if they have to worry about that happening over something dumb next time either
The official inquiry into Seb Gorka's security clearance has begun.
@TimStone Yeah, I recognize the political downsides here. I'm just starting to wonder if conceding here would be the right thing ethically, even at that political cost.
Yeah, it's his "compromise" in which he made it even worse than the original goal, because of course
One of the GOP senators even admitted that the bill was a "strawman" proposal meant to form a starting point for further debate in the Senate but it's unclear to me why everyone's acting like there's no sense of urgency
I suspect that if it were merely a smaller amount of money specifically for building the border wall Democrats would have caved already, at least in the Senate, which would have put pressure on Pelosi. But the WH's position isn't giving anything to the Democrats, so it's really absurd
So.. Google will prevent ad-blockers other than AdBlockPlus from running in Chrome …https://motherboard.vice.com/en_us/article/wjmqmq/upcoming-version-of-google-chrome-will-make-it-harder-to-block-ads
...One day after Google won an antitrust ruling that said it was OK for Google to pay AdBlockPlus to whitelist Google's ad tracking.
https://www.bundeskartellamt.de/SharedDocs/Meldung/EN/Pressemitteilungen/2019/21_01_2019_Eyeo_Google.html;jsessionid=774455D54B65CCA12AA95A511DBA6BA8.2_cid387
Hmm somehow this is real and yet I'm not sure why 🤔 But yes the president should absolutely do the SOTU from a racist highschool's gym, it's pretty frickin' representative of the state of the union :|
Two things here first why is Jack doing so many interviews we still hate you my dude and two uhhhhhhhhhhhh what the hell Zuckerberg?
Oh my god
Tonight I have a live interview with Russia probe witnesses Carter Page, Sam Nunberg, Jerome Corsi and Michael Caputo — all appearing *together* to detail their experiences with the probe.
@GodEmperorDune I honestly think the reactions to this event are very paranoid. People are reading so much into a proposed API change with security and performance implications
@GodEmperorDune This is exactly what I was talking about in the other room: the way people jump so baselessly from "this would be one impact of this change" to "this was the intention of the change"
@murgatroid99 i'm happy to give google the benefit of the doubt, it's just heightened sensitivity with anything relating to ads so long as google makes most of its money from ads
@TimStone are they even being paid or are they part of the shutdown?
@GodEmperorDune It's not even just about giving Google the benefit of the doubt, it's about treating engineers like actual people and not soulless corporate ad money machines
the tech industry as a whole needs to grapple with taking responsibility for the impact of the things that we build rather than just "well that's not our intention, whoops"
Billionaire @MichaelDell on @AOC's 70% marginal tax rate on millionaires:
"Name a country where that's worked -- ever."
Co-panelist and MIT professor Erik Brynjolfsson: "The United States!"
#Davos2019 https://www.washingtonpost.com/technology/2019/01/23/billionaires-davos-hate-alexandra-ocasio-cortezs-percent-tax-rich/?utm_term=.cc24715dab28
> Ad blocker extensions like uBlock Origin work by reading network requests sent from ads on a web page to a user’s computer and filtering them according to the user’s preferences through a Chrome application program interface (API) called “webRequest.” In the new version of Chrome, however, extensions will still be able to see the network requests sent to a user’s computer via webRequest, but they will no longer be able to block them.
> Instead, ad blockers will have to rely on an API called “declarativeNetRequest” which requires them to specify which types of network requests from ads they should block in advance, rather than allowing the dynamic blocking capabilities found in uBlock.
> Moreover, as Hill noted, the declarativeNetRequest API limits the number of specific requests that can be blocked to 30,000 unique types. This is not enough to enforce EasyList, a popular list of basic rules for blocking unwanted content on the web, much less more sophisticated blocking rule lists.
@GodEmperorDune OK, the point I'm trying to make here is that there is no evidence here that this action was taken on the instruction of a higher-up, or with the goal of impacting ad blockers.
“Some of Trump’s allies have suggested that Giuliani be barred from evening interviews because of concerns that he was going on TV after drinking” https://apnews.com/1b3a0037c65941509653ca2a20cd366d
BuzzFeed CEO Jonah Perretti, whose net worth is estimated at $200 million, is anti-union and has opposed any efforts for BuzzFeed employees to unionize so he can get away with cuts like this https://twitter.com/lalpert1/status/1088217558891880448
The National Air Traffic Controllers Association lastest statement sounds quite dire:
“...we cannot even calculate the level of risk currently at play, nor predict the point at which the entire system will break. It is unprecedented.” https://www.afacwa.org/air_traffic_controllers_pilots_flight_attendants_detail_serious_safety_concerns_due_to_shutdown