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Comment · 4 years ago
I heard from a security friend that their sentinel one endpoint detection got popped and the hacker posted screenshots of thousands of unaddressed security alerts in the dashboard. Can anyone confirm? I'm still looking for the proof.
Comment · 4 years ago
History shows that so-called radicals, if allowed to say what they really think, will end up taking over.
Comment · 4 years ago
As long as you allow so-called extremists to speak, they will get their message out there and will convert more people to their politics.
Comment · 4 years ago
Musk's purported reason for buying Twitter was because he wants it to be an outlet for free speech. In his words (well paraphrased), he was calling it the new town square of democracy. Instead of building his own, he bought it.
Comment · 4 years ago
The whole point is that less people will be banned. I'm hoping that the only people that are ever banned are those posting pornography or violating us laws.
Comment · 4 years ago
The exposing of the cheating didn't help.
Comment · 4 years ago
I'm increasingly loathe to hire a new college grad for enterprise software positions due to four years of terrible instruction that we have to deplorable. What are they even learning in modern day institutions?

Meanwhile, I have zero qualms about hiring high school grads with a github who can talk about the base language intelligently, let alone frameworks like spring.

Comment · 4 years ago
As the linked Twitter thread implies, I don't even look at degrees when I do my hiring. I hear that, in the security industry, it's even worse where people with degreed are discriminated against for being filled with worthless and downright wrong bits of knowledge. Based on the latest round of entry level interviews I've had held in software land with recent college graduates, I'm inclined to agree.

College as STEM job training is absurd and clearly a failure. As you say, it's about much more than job training, but I would argue it doesn't even do that. Hell, it makes applicants worse somehow.

Comment · 4 years ago
The combat is simpler overall, but weapon choice massively impacts playstyle thus giving it more variety. Whereas breath of the wild encouraged you to try new weapons by breaking them after use, elden ring (like all "soulsborne" games, encourages you to try its arsenal of weapons by simply showering you with them at every possible opportunity. Even weapons in the same "class" such as shorts words can have different movesets, lengths, and weight which makes it completely possible that you may prefer to play with the starting weapon (and armor if you're inclined) the game gives you for the entire game. This type of play is viable.

In addition to being able to upgrade any weapon, you can also attach special abilities to them (this one let's me do a charge! That one makes me flip over attacks and slam my sword! The other one let's me make a magical flame!).

So in the end, while the base system is less complicated than breath of the wild's combat, the customization makes it "wider."

Don't let cries of "it's difficult!" enter into your judgment. Every enemy, especially bosses, are just Megaman battles where you memorize patterns. Due to the rpg elements and how you customize your character, you can ignore entire boss mechanics all the way to the end if you so choose. The difficulty people complain about likely comes from your lack of movement (compared to spiritual ancestor ninja gaiden black) and the fact that there is a noticeable delay between commands and execution coupled with a command queue: if you press dodge you will note your character is not immediately dodging so you press it again: your character then dodges twice.

Comment · 4 years ago
Still waiting for the war crimes tribunal for the American military + Bush and friends.
Comment · 4 years ago
I don't think anyone has ever said that. Even people who enjoy rt understands who funds it.
Comment · 4 years ago
Biological; nuland admitted that the US did fund those labs and that they did deal with dangerous viruses, but that they weren't for biological warfare. Either way, the charge has a lot more weight since the us funded labs exist. Biological weapons?? Probably not.. but here is the thing: Meanwhile here in the west, I am reliably told those labs don't exist while Russians are getting ready to use chemical weapons, just like in syria. Except the Russian chemical weapon charges were found to be bogus just like the Syrian ones. This comes AFTER Russian mod warns its people that the US will be attempting to false flag them with another "chemical weapon attack." Who do I believe? The west is at the bottom of that list.
Comment · 4 years ago
Russian/orthodox world perspective: whether the west likes it or not, ukraine's illegal coup government went out of its way to oppress Russians all over the country. Azov was on a campaign of war crimes against the east long before the current war: "russia instigated the ethnic Russians in the east to rebel!" Come the cries, but, even if true, our answer is to shrug and say the United States does this all the time. Turn about is fair play. Moreover, the view from Greece and Serbia is that the United States and Europe are causing needless Ukrainian deaths by encouraging them to fight a hopeless war. Western propaganda claims lives in this case.

Just FYI as how the east is looking at this.

Comment · 4 years ago
The US doesn't have the best track record either(read the worst), but I'd rather them have a "we will not support any belligerent at war" instead of picking a side policy.
Comment · 4 years ago
Just pointing this out since the violent war criminal running Ukraine is giving out guns to men women and children now (and even prisoners), you don't qualify as a civilian if you shoot back. The only reason Ukraine hasn't already been flattened by Russian bombers and artillery is because of the incredible restraint they are practicing. This isn't some line I heard from Russia today or sputnik or whatever: you can look at their actual war zone and those cities are still standing. Compare that with the Donbas which was turned into a scrap yard within days by Ukrainian shelling 8 years ago.

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