>The disappointment is real when you tell the ransomware guy, "We're not paying. We just restored from backup."
Worked at a trucking company as a software dev and this exact thing happened. Got hit with ransomware attack but our IT team had daily backups of EVERYTHING. This was when ransomware was first "taking off" and they weren't even 100% sure if the attack was real.
I wish I got to see the ransomware's operator's reaction, but I honestly feel like they probably had enough people falling for it so I doubt they really got that upset.
Some of it did turn out to be true. A few things were confirmed to be false, and quite a few of the more salacious ones remain unconfirmed either way and will probably remain that way. Considering the very guilty looking connections that the whole Trump orbit had with Russia, it's a wonder it didn't get even more traction.
I mean, the president's son and campaign official sent an email to Trump's campaign manager inviting him to a meeting with a woman connected to the Kremlin. Multiple officials have gone to jail for Russia connected or Russian adjacent crimes. His national security advisor had secret unofficial meetings with Russia. He also accepted tens of thousands of dollars from a Russian government news organization to give a speech just a few months before becoming the national security advisor (he was even photographed sitting at the head table with Putin).
There is nothing in the Steele Dossier that seems out of place, out of character, or even unlikely. Much of it is unconfirmed, but it all fits into the official and true narrative from what we know do far.
Oh, I don't care if they do and never said they shouldn't, I just think someone should make a FOS version.
How dare someone want to use something free and open source, that's developed by a vast community of individuals instead of relying on 1 individual (who might disappear at a moment's notice) for every single update and bug fix. Tstst.
> that's developed by a vast community of individuals instead of relying on 1 individual
Being FOSS or licensed doesn't dictate the number of developers so isn't a rebuttal against licensing.
> (who might disappear at a moment's notice)
Nor does it change the ability of people to disappear
> for every single update and bug fix.
Nor are you unable to get a license which allows you source access or rights should they disappear. Most really don't mind clauses about things after their disappearance.
The only thing you seem to be against in your rebuttal is that a license fee be paid. Otherwise you're just wishing for active and vibrant development so far, regardless of licensing.
>2. This policy only can be set on managed machines.
What about kids in school? So only the poor kids who don't have access to their own hardware will be subject to these rules that prevent them from viewing source? Sounds pretty insane.
What's truly absurd is the apparent lack of critical thought that went into this decision.
Keep patting yourself on the back though, Eric. You're obviously totally 100% right on this one /s
Not surprising when all of the people around me who are vaccinated keep getting covid. My coworkers wife came down with appendicitis after getting the vaccine and her mom got covid after being vaccinated as well.. my boss's dad got covid after being vaccinated. I work in an office with 4 other people so it's not like there is a high chance of that happening, but it did.
Either the immunity wanes over time or people who are vaccinated are taking more risks or something
Worth remembering that applying anecdotal experience to an entire world population in terms of generating statistics is unlikely to be accurate, and very much at risk of confirmation bias.
Most vaccines are only 65% efficacious in preventing infection from Delta. So even amongst 100% double vaccinated crowds, 1 in 3 will contract covid if exposed.
The real difference is the reduction in serious complications and hospitalization and death. Going off stats from my state (NSW in Australia), 78% of people hospitalized were completely unvaccinated. 19% had one shot. 2% had both shots. Those numbers are really, really hard to argue against IMO.
edit: I should add, it's even worse when you consider that 80% of our state is 100% vaccinated, meaning that the 78% figure above is true despite being from a pool that makes up only 20% of our state's population.
I mean I'm not basing anything on personal anecdotes, I'm simply stating that my personal observation supports what a scientific study says. When there is evidence to back up an anecdote it ceases to be an anecdote.
And it's not like I'm making decisions based on my coworker's family members getting covid lol. This is a much more complex issue, and that really kind of reduces the entire thing to the point of absurdity.
> I'm simply stating that my personal observation supports what a scientific study says. When there is evidence to back up an anecdote it ceases to be an anecdote.
That's actually a really good example of confirmation bias :) it can be a real sneaky logical fallacy! In this case you have no controls in place to verify the what, why, or how of those people's infections, but because it matches what you think it should you've accepted it as further evidence that confirms the proposition of the study. Anecdotal evidence remains anecdotal whether or not it correlates with a position in either direction.
So is the argument from fallacy... If you want to argue against science then you should bring your own evidence because claiming that someone agreeing that their observations match 3rd party scientific observations is a fallacy is beyond silly.
Based on this, it should be expected that the 2% figure you quoted would increase over time. I would say in Australia a lot of people are still in the "honeymoon phase" of immunity where it hasn't started to significantly wane amongst the population of the fully vaccinated.
Yes exactly right, which is what the Israeli data has indicated. It's not a huge decrease, but there's a definitive slow decrease in efficacy - worth noting it's nearly entirely against the Delta variant again though. So even though 2 shots will continue to keep you moderately safe, the argument is that there's no good reason to not get a booster (just like a flu shot every year).
edit: to quote specifics from the study
> Our findings are in line with findings from the randomized trial of the BNT162b2 vaccine, which showed a reduction in vaccine efficacy against symptomatic infection from 96% in the first 2 months after vaccination to 84% at 4 to 7 months after vaccination, when averaged over all age groups combined
Worked at a trucking company as a software dev and this exact thing happened. Got hit with ransomware attack but our IT team had daily backups of EVERYTHING. This was when ransomware was first "taking off" and they weren't even 100% sure if the attack was real.
I wish I got to see the ransomware's operator's reaction, but I honestly feel like they probably had enough people falling for it so I doubt they really got that upset.