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    Carson Wentz is not interested in being a backup quarterback and would want to move on from the Eagles if the current situation -- with Jalen Hurts starting under center -- continues in Philadelphia, sources connected to the team told ESPN

    For a guy not interested in being a backup in the NFL, he sure spent a lot of time this season playing like a fucking scrub. Small sample obviously, but Hurts seems like he can play.

  2. 6 hours ago, BradInATX said:

    I'm not at all worried about Durant feeling the need to be the alpha.

    It's the fact that all of the fans and media are going to acknowledge and reinforce that KD is the man. No hiding from it. Kyrie won't be able to convince himself. And that NY media is savage.

    Durant will defer to Kyrie just like he did Westbrook. Doesnt mean he's not the better player, just that Kyrie will be the dominant personality and try to lead the team.The problem is that Kyrie's a fucking idiot. Good luck with that KD.

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  3. That goofy aggy probably moves me  through to the finals. I'm tied and still have Kamara, D. Johnston, Hopkins and the Pitt D. Opponent has Kelce. I came into the playoffs as #6 speed and knocked out #3,#2. #4 is killing #1, so I should have a decent shot next week.

  4. 1 hour ago, Dr. Teeth said:

    That one year of video operations at Tulane goes far for Cade’s brother. 

    Cannen Cunningham, a former standout at SMU, spent the 2018-19 season on staff at Tulane under Mike Dunleavy Sr., where he served as the associate director of video operations for the Green Wave.“I am thrilled to be able to add Cannen to our staff,” Boynton said. “I have gotten to know Cannen really well over the last year or so as I have watched his development as a coach. He has a great knack for player development and has a relatability with players that will be a tremendous asset to the continual growth of our program. Cannen has strong knowledge of basketball as he has learned from a couple of our game’s best teachers. I look forward to the energy and relationships that he can bring to elevate our program to the next level.”

  5. 1 hour ago, 'stache said:

    How does the LHN make money? 80% of the commercials are for UT.

    It doesnt make money. UT commercials are evidence that they can't find anybody else to fill those slots. The other revenue stream is what they charge to include LHN to various cable/streaming packages. Its a flawed product, and I'm sure ESPN will pull the plug as soon as it can.

  6. 2 hours ago, Hornius Emeritus said:

     

    As a (dare I say it?) social media mogul of sorts, I disagree.  Social media doesn't "cause" the the self-selection of information. That's on the consumer of the media, just as it always has been. 

    Except the way these social media companies operate is by pushing information to you that they know you are predisposed to like. They want the clicks. Also the "like" and "follow" features are powerful psychological tools. When people gets likes and follows it's like a hit of dopamine.

    So you have algorithms pushing you social media you already agree with, and then likes, retweets, and all the other social media bullshit digs into people's brains. It easy to see why someone's world view (no matter how fucked up it is to others) makes sense to them because they live in social media vacuums where they observe and recieve constant validation. It makes perfect sense to them.

    And the Zuckerberg's and Dorseys of the world feign concern as they chuckle and watch the billions roll in.

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  7. Well played Bert, you stupid fat fuck. Leaves the best team in the Big 10 West after 3 rose bowls because he felt the need to "spread his wings" which must be code for getting fat. now he's back in the Big 10 West signing on with basically the worst team. 

    This link is great because you can see bert's mass and hence gravitational force increase year by year. He's heading towards Mangino territory. 

    https://madison.com/wsj/sports/college/football/college-football-the-rise-and-fall-of-bret-bielema/collection_9261b19c-7f55-5927-bae2-8e15542fe31d.html#1

    Also no bert thread is complete without 

    Jen-Bielema-bikini.jpg 

     

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  8. https://www.wral.com/hard-drugs-pervasive-in-some-fraternities-21-charged-with-links-to-unc-duke-app/19434025/

    Not worth its own thread, so i'll drop this in here. Shocking to know that weed and drugs are still quite popular on the college scene. This quote jumped out at me: 

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    Poindexter, who is a member of Phi Gamma Delta, also said all 22 members of his fraternity pledge class "went in" to purchase an ounce of cocaine for spring break during his sophomore year.

     Say it ain't so Poindexter. An entire ounce??? 

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  9. 5 hours ago, TXSG8R said:

    I forgot to ask earlier, are those companies transitioning their Solarwinds budgets to code analysis / monitoring for their new open source toys?  While taking more of their IT security in house is good on paper, I wonder if they fully understand what they’re are signing up for. Open source isn’t any more secure than an IP product, you’re just signing up for the code security in house, which can be daunting depending on the size of your org/needs. Hence why the gov’t won’t go that route, and Solarwinds will likely keep on rolling with gov’t contracts. As much as they distrust companies, they distrust their IT staff’s competence even more. 

    Based upon my somewhat limited interaction with government IT staff, that distrust is probably well earned. 

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  10. 1 hour ago, Chad Fuck said:


    But it was around then. You guys know “America First” was a thing then. So were conservative racist broadcasters. Father Coughlin anyone?

    We were at each other’s throats until we found a good lot of external enemies to unite us.

    Yeah there was a fair amount of government propaganda baked into the news reports in those days. And the number of avenues to consume "news" were certainly far far fewer. Now any fuckstick can broadcast their world view if they can succeed in capturing an audience. Much easier to do these days. Its an interesting contrast in how information is disseminated and consumed between these two eras.  

  11. BITW seems like an interesting way to "invest your money". While ostensibly its just a holding fund for cryptos, its price has swung from 33 to 199 and back down to around 70 currently. So basically no correlation to the crypto value it is supposed to represent. This seems like the market equivalent of gambling with cousin eddie

     

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    When reached for comment by Newsweek, Kumar forwarded his email correspondence with SolarWinds. He first notified the company of the issue on November 19, 2019. SolarWinds' information security team responded a few days later on November 22, 2019.

    "Thank you again for reporting the misconfiguration in a responsible manner. The GitHub repository misconfiguration has been addressed and it's no longer publicly accessible, also treatment has been applied to the exposed credentials. We'd like to ask that you verify this on your end," the team wrote in response to Kumar.

    Can someone explain the significance of this. I guess I think of Github as a cloud hosted tool for software development, version control, source code management etc... I cant believe a company like Solarwinds would keep their source code on external infrastructure, so  presumably this means that you can run also run github on your own server infrastructure? Also what is the meaning of "update server" in this context? A separate article on Reuters on the topic makes this seem like evidence of poor security practices in general, but not necessarily relevant for the current shitstorm. 

    https://www.reuters.com/article/global-cyber-solarwinds/hackers-at-center-of-sprawling-spy-campaign-turned-solarwinds-dominance-against-it-idUSKBN28P2N8

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    Security researcher Vinoth Kumar told Reuters that, last year, he alerted the company that anyone could access SolarWinds’ update server by using the password “solarwinds123”

    “This could have been done by any attacker, easily,” Kumar said.

    Neither the password nor the stolen access is considered the most likely source of the current intrusion, researchers said.

     

  13. 6 hours ago, bluto said:


    I’m very fresh to the options game... so to make money on your position, you actually need it to be below $100/share on exp, correct? Assuming you don’t assign the contracts.

    If I hold the position all the way to close, I would need the price below 100 to make money, but I can sell the position at any time prior and the value of those contracts can vary dramatically due to the price of the underlying, volatility, time decay, etc... As an example, the last trade yesterday was at $22. There is a good chance I won't hold all the way to expiration and simply look to get out for a decent profit after a good plunge, hopefully sooner rather than later.  

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