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  1. On 6/20/2019 at 8:13 PM, Aqua Buddha said:

    I like how Trump is a supposed germaphobe but he'll raw dog a porn star.

    Well, this actually makes sense. I've had periods of germaphobia but it's never manifested itself when a naked woman was in front of me.

     

  2. 5 hours ago, cactusflinthead said:

     

    This is a demonstration of the banality of evil. The fact that this is being discussed in court as children are being subjected to inhumane treatment by the federal government is fucking insane. Fuck the legal process, that shit should be shutdown immediately and everyone standing idly by including everyone against these practices is guilty.

     

     

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  3. 14 minutes ago, jimmyjazz said:

    Obviously football and basketball are extreme long shots for almost every kid, especially gringos.  There's a bit of a different dynamic at play in some of the lesser sports, though.  My son wants to play soccer in college -- he's not looking for a D1 program like UNC or Duke, he'd be cool at Southwestern or some other small school -- and conversations with coaches at those schools have highlighted an important aspect of recruit-ability:  grades.  Their take has consistently been if a kid is a good athlete who basically knows how to play the game and they're pulling maybe 3.5 or so in HS, they'll probably latch on somewhere.  The risk is just way lower.  Is there value in that?  It probably depends on the kid.  Mine is fairly interested in education, and I could easily see him teaching HS and being part of the coaching staff as well.  A small school in Texas is prime for that path.

    It's like this in baseball where they offer a partial scholarship with some academic money.  A lot of people don't understand that you need the grades and the athletic ability to be a college prospect.

    If a teenager approaches the process by putting in the academic and athletic work, it's a win-win no matter what happens. My oldest had partial scholarship offers from several Southland Conference schools and a Sunbelt school for baseball. He ended getting a full ride on an Air Force scholarship and forgoing college baseball. For HS kids, grades will always open up more opportunities than athletics with the exception of the genetic statistical outliers.

     

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  4. 13 hours ago, conVINCEd said:

    I reffed for 5 years (soph hs-soph college).   Mainly basketball with a lot of baseball, and some softball and soccer.  I can’t imagine there are many better paying part time jobs for hs kids, but you earn every fucking penny.  In the early 90’s it started at $15/game,  and when I started reffing older kids when I was in college, I made as much as $35/game.  In hs it was also cash money, no taxes. I could write a book about the ridiculousness I witnessed during that time.  I will say this, it teaches you a lot about dealing with people. 

     

    My teenager has been an umpire and 7on7 ref for the past several years. Baseball pays the best between 30-50 dollars a game but it is definitely work.

    He says the secret is tuning out the parents and vanishing the second the game is over. Never linger around the field after a game.

  5. With the proliferation of video streaming, how is catfishing even possible anymore? If a stranger is making extraordinary claims about personal relationships but can't live stream themselves you should be skeptical. If they are offering you $9 million to rape and murder...

     

     

    Three Alaska teens charged Tuesday with the murder of Cynthia Hoffman allegedly killed the 19-year-old earlier this month as part of an elaborate scheme to cash in on a $9 million offer that didn't really exist from an Indiana man who merely pretended to be a multimillionaire, prosecutors say.

     

    https://www.foxnews.com/us/alaskan-teens-charged-with-murder-after-phony-multimillionaire-offers-9m-for-proof-of-slaying

  6. 6 minutes ago, BradInATX said:

     

    I just spent an unhealthy amount of time deleting a previous response to another post to make sure that this was the only thing I quoted. Go fuck yourself. If you like Europe so much, why don't you move there.

     

    I think you missed the Justified reference.

    With that said...

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  7. 9 minutes ago, BradInATX said:

    It's about that 11:30 Friday night bourbon cloak room time. Make it rain!

    As some one who consumes bourbon while posting in the cloak room I am not sure how to take this comment. On one hand it's nice to know I am not the only one but on the other hand this is an unhealthy habit that shouldn't be encouraged.

  8. Running for President as a mayor definitely has it's disadvantages but this has to be the biggest one. A mayor is so close to the frontline that it's impossible to avoid get splattered with with muck from this kind of situation. A Governor, Senator, Congressman or VP wouldn't have to answer for cops being cops or gentrification.

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  9. Legalizing weed is supposed to make the populace mellow but not these Colorado parents. They must have opted for the Four Loko on this day.

     

    "Parents and coaches were unhappy with a call made by the 13-year-old umpire during Saturday's game, according to the Lakewood Police Department. They then stormed the field and began punching each other as the 7-year-old players looked on."

    https://www.cnn.com/2019/06/19/us/parents-brawl-little-league-baseball-trnd/index.html

     

  10. 1 hour ago, Zavala said:

    Well I'm not a lawyer, but using taxpayer dollars to pay off criminals that are holding your data hostage doesn't seem like a very legit move.

    The city council voted on the matter and the payment was covered by insurance, it's legit.

    1 hour ago, Zavala said:

    Thing is, aren't they supposed to be, you know, competent? If they are incompetent, how are the tax payers on the hook for their major fuck ups? 

    City employees are paid pennies. You get what you pay for when you pay below market rates.

     

    1 hour ago, Zavala said:

    I don't think paying them was the right move. That sets a horrible precedent for paying off criminals who hold data ransom. It funds their work. It encourages more of the same. Finally, how are they so sure they are going to get a legit decrypt code after flushing 600k down the crypto toilet to these people? Are they foreign actors or domestic? Could the city be held liable for funding them? Say they take that 600k and do something more horrible than data theft..  

    The precedent was set years ago when organizations started paying the ransom. The situation is a very complicated prisoners dilemma, everyone would win if no one paid the ransom but everyone's data has various degrees of value and the ransom is less than the cost of not paying.

    If the keys didn't work then people would stop paying ransom so the perpetrators have a big incentive to ensure the decryption keys will work.

    These are usually foreign actors outside of the reach of U.S. law enforcement. These are criminal organizations of course they will do bad stuff with the money.

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  11. 10 minutes ago, Zavala said:

    Hm. Seems like it's a horribly setup system if the backup data was also vulnerable. I don't understand how it's legal for them to pay criminals ransom.  

    How would it be illegal?

     

    11 minutes ago, Zavala said:

    What an easy inside job setup for someone to accidentally type their info into a phishing email then squeeze the tax payers for $600k. If this is the new normal I'd be curious how close attention the investigators are paying to the people in charge there. 

    It's a bit more complicated than someone engaging in a phishing scam. There also must be a series of technical fuck ups along the way before a critical system can fall victim to ransomware. Its SOP to determine why all layers of security failed or didn't exist, usually it's simple incompetence.

     

  12. 2 hours ago, swraith said:

    ^^ because that is how the legislative process works. Making sausage is messy.  

    True. The School House Rock explanation was theoretical and meant for children not yet exposed to reality.

    2 hours ago, swraith said:

    Amash would never get a committee to vote on this by itself

    Yep.

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  13. 1 hour ago, Blotto said:

    That may be the case, but at least in the info posted by Anastasis, the amendment Amash was pushing  in 2018 was to be attached to a bill dealing specifically with FISA. That makes a hell of a lot more sense than sneaking equivalent language into a spending appropriations bill. The practice of ramrodding legislation through by attaching amendments to completely unrelated bills pisses me off. I admit I don't have a well thought out alternative to the status quo, but that won't stop me from angrily shaking my fist at the clouds.  

    Yeah, I hate when Congress ramrods legislation like this because it is usually screwing over the American citizens.

    In this case, bitching about Congress using this method to return some of our civil liberties is like complaining about Christina Hendricks pushing her boobs into your face. Some things just don't warrant criticism.

     

  14. 6 minutes ago, Zavala said:

    I get it, they are "involved", but I'm curious how the city still pays $600k ransom. 

    Are these federal agencies advising to pay the blackmail?

    My thought would be that if the normal city services couldn't be performed, the feds take over and provide assistance, instead of allowing the city to pay criminals to get back into their computer systems.

    The Feds are involved in the forensic investigation not the incident response side of things. The feds don't have the ability to get involved at the response level. In reality they are pretty useless in these situations.

    If the ransomware has encrypted an organization's data with ransomware they often will do the same to the backups making restoration impossible. Either you build from scratch or pay the ransom.

     

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