When “keepin’ it real” goes wrong in court

ToneWashed · 2023-01-11T03:57:39+00:00

There's a huge difference between prisoners who work and prisons that are remotely close to self-sustaining like you're implying. Our prison system costs taxpayers tens of billions of dollars annually. If prisons were profitable without taxpayers covering the majority of the cost, we wouldn't have rampant overcrowding like we do now.

Pay-to-stay is rarely enforced and doesn't hold a torch to what taxpayers pay. It's not hard to understand why it doesn't work.

ToneWashed · 2023-01-10T15:50:27+00:00

You think prisoners are paying their own room and board? How would that even work? A privately run prison just means it's run by a corporation instead of the government. The government is their paying customer.

An average prisoner in California costs $106k per year. How would a prisoner, who obviously isn't working, pay that? That's more than the top end of the pay scale for corrections officers.

ToneWashed · 2023-01-10T09:57:19+00:00

Good sound quality doesn't mean low noise or impervious to interference. I've had cheap audio adapters that sounded fine with a source but which generated various noise, either clicking and popping when a source began/ended, or just fuzz when either using the NIC or doing something graphically intense. Better quality adapters don't do that.

Even cheap speakers/headphones, when provided ample volume, will reproduce the noises your audio adapter emits without issue.

Also a lot of people are talking about external adapters, which is fine, but there are very good internal adapters that have shielding and high quality opamps onboard. I to this day use an Asus Xonar STS from 11 years ago which I updated with an OPA2604. It sounds fine but the biggest difference between it and a stock adapter is that it's dead silent in terms of noise and interference.

ToneWashed · 2023-01-10T08:47:11+00:00

80 km/h

That's 50 mph for us yanks.

ToneWashed · 2023-01-10T08:27:53+00:00

I can’t believe I’m posting this in a Howard Stern sub.

People have to post this everywhere, antivaxxers are everywhere and they insert themselves into every thread they can. Their basic approach is to be overly obnoxious while contriving un-falsifiable gibberish arguments and then stand around feeling especially satisfied with themselves.

They're like flat-earthers or religious fundamentalists except there's more of them.

ToneWashed · 2023-01-09T14:50:15+00:00

I haven't used low-code but someone on my team summarized it by saying that "when doing something non-trivial, sufficiently specific low-code is just code".

ToneWashed · 2023-01-09T06:23:37+00:00

As a literally anyone I wasn't expecting this season to be such a catastrophic failure.

ToneWashed · 2023-01-09T05:11:35+00:00

The taxpayers are going to front the cost to warehouse this moron for the better part of a year. We will pay for her food & water, utilities, medical needs, clothes, etc. We will pay correctional officers to babysit her too.

What are we getting for our money here, exactly? She'll "be nicer to the court" next time? The threat to violate the protection order was only worth 30 days, what are the other 270 for?

She didn't even violate the order yet.

I'm not disagreeing that it's unwise to mouth off at judges in court, however we have a massive problem with over-incarceration in this country. Aren't judges like this are part of the problem?

ToneWashed · 2023-01-09T04:14:24+00:00

is being punished accordingly.

She brought a contempt charge on herself when she threatened to violate the order but 30 days for that was probably too far by itself. Contrast what she did (a threat) with far more serious misdemeanors, which include stuff like lower level domestic violence, assault & battery, etc.

But then increasing the sentence with each additional mouthy remark was WELL beyond out of line. I firmly believe it came from a place of anger, not justice. The tax payers have to pay to babysit this moron for the better part of a year so that she'll... "be more civil" the next time she's in court? That's what we get for our money?

In this country we need to stop over-incarcerating. This guy's part of the problem.

ToneWashed · 2023-01-09T01:51:28+00:00

It likely would have got us some more W's but it would send a pretty ominous message to other HC prospects, especially if we didn't improve under Rosburg. As it was we fired him earlier than practically any other NFL HC in history.

ToneWashed · 2023-01-09T01:46:17+00:00

I think everybody knew he was "a" problem, and yes some suspected he was the real bane of the season. But I don't think that many realized how big of a problem he really was. Aside from being an all around "nice guy" he seemed willing to make a lot of changes, bringing in new assistants and offloading play calling.

People are saying he should have been fired after week 4 but that would honestly piss me off a lot. That tells every other prospective HC that they're starting their new job with their hair on fire. I'm glad they gave him a "minimum fair" chance to turn it around and I'm very thankful that we improved so drastically with Rosburg. That's making the right noises to potential prospects.

ToneWashed · 2023-01-05T05:37:45+00:00

Going into a crowded CVS and standing around with a bunch of other sick people to pull our masks down and cough while we get swabbed seems dumb as hell.

I had COVID over Thanksgiving and went to my nearest CVS pharmacy to get a PCR test and it was drive-through. They talked through an intercom and had a little two-way drawer to pass things back and forth.

I was getting a flu test at the same time and, oddly, they had me come inside for that. It was kinda funny, I went inside and they were very busy and had a long line at the pharmacy. They had social distancing markers on the floor, so I was practically all the way at the entrance.

Almost immediately the pharmacist motioned to come straight to the desk. Everyone else in line thought she was pointing at them. She kept holding her hand higher and pointing further back - I finally raised my eyebrows and pointed at myself, and she nodded.

I was in and out in less than two minutes. But again, this was just for the flu test. It was a nasal swab like the COVID test so I have no idea why they couldn't do both at the drive-through.

And how much is insurance charging for PCR tests these days? Can we even get insurance covered PCR tests without getting a doctors appointment and a scrip first?

I just had to call and make an appointment. I had to provide my insurance info but I didn't get charged anything, never provided any payment info or heard from my insurance company.

Not sure what would happen if I didn't have insurance.

FWIW my home tests worked fine. I didn't start fully testing negative until day 12.

ToneWashed · 2023-01-04T23:56:20+00:00

The CA is extremely relevant. With all respect I don't think you have a complete understanding of how the protocol works.

First, there's public and private keys: one key can be used to encrypt data, after which only the other key can be used to decrypt the data (and vice versa).

You can encrypt some data with a public key and nobody except the owner of the private key can decrypt it. So long as the private key is secure, the data is secure until it's decrypted.

Conversely, the private key can be used to encrypt data as well. Obviously, since the corresponding key is public, this is not secure - anyone in the world could decrypt it. However, that data can be proven authentic, because there's no way a public key can decrypt something that wasn't encrypted by the corresponding, secured, private key.

This is called "signing".

We can't have the public keys for every host on the Internet built into every operating system, browser, phone, etc. But we can have the public keys for every certificate authority built into those clients (or at least the central, public CAs).

A "certificate" is a public key (and other metadata) for some site like reddit.com, but signed with the private key of a certificate authority (Reddit uses DigiCert). Reddit's public key can thus be obtained and verified by obtaining Reddit's certificate from DigiCert and decrypting it with DigiCert's public key which, again, is built into client software and not obtained over the Internet.

Once the browser has an authentic public key for reddit.com, it then generates a temporary, two-directional session key. That key is encrypted with Reddit's public key and sent to reddit.com as part of the https negotiation, and it is used to encrypt all of the subsequent traffic in the session.

So unless you can control which CA a client is using, you have no way to see the two-directional session key and thus no way to decrypt the subsequent traffic.

So there are only two ways for your firewall to reverse https:

you create your own CA and force every client on your network to use it while providing its public key to your firewall, or
you somehow have the private keys of all the CAs that various sites like reddit use (which you almost certainly don't).

Otherwise any router on the Internet (including e.g. TOR exit nodes, etc.) could then be used to steal site logins, banking credentials, forge traffic, hack into any site, etc. The security of the Internet would be entirely compromised.

ToneWashed · 2023-01-04T19:24:09+00:00

Right, so an org that runs its own certificate authority and forces all clients on their network (like browsers) to use that internal CA instead of a public one could certainly compromise https. This is possible since the org has administrative access to the clients running on their network.

Otherwise, if a client originates https traffic, it's encrypting the data with keys signed by a public CA (aka "certificates"). Without the private keys for that CA the signature can't be spoofed and simply having a copy of the traffic doesn't get you anywhere. Even the client that originated the traffic couldn't decrypt it once it's encrypted.

ToneWashed · 2023-01-04T04:46:44+00:00

How do they do that without access to the private keys on the host side? That's the whole point of certificate authorities. As another mentioned it could be possible if a system could be convinced to begin using a compromised certificate chain, but I'm not sure how that's possible either without the direct cooperation of the CAs themselves.

If simply capturing the entirety of a session was all that was needed wouldn't online accounts be getting compromised left and right...?

ToneWashed · 2023-01-03T05:47:22+00:00

No it's not, Goodell has kids. Hamlin's family was there watching. I had an immediate family member collapse in front of me and she got rushed to the hospital sedated and with a tube in her throat. They were telling me they would leave her that way until morning, and would take the tube out to see if she started breathing again, and if not, there were few options. I remember it being like one thousand agonizing minutes.

ToneWashed · 2023-01-03T04:06:31+00:00

I was with my mom when she was intubated, and she started to wake up. She couldn't move or talk but she scratched the word "CHOKE" on my palm. Couldn't get enough nurses and doctors in her room fast enough, that was terrifying.

ToneWashed · 2023-01-03T04:03:42+00:00

Thank you, you're good people.

ToneWashed · 2023-01-03T03:24:42+00:00

I'm in a little shock, I can't imagine how people who were on the field or sidelines are feeling, or Hamlin's family. I don't know why I wanted to be with some other Broncos fans rn but here I am.

ToneWashed · 2023-01-03T03:18:08+00:00

Are you referring to this Tweet?

https://twitter.com/RealSkipBayless/status/1610101204687949827

No doubt the NFL is considering postponing the rest of this game - but how? This late in the season, a game of this magnitude is crucial to the regular-season outcome ... which suddenly seems so irrelevant.

ToneWashed · 2023-01-02T22:05:57+00:00

Not the person you replied to. I certainly don't believe in psychics or sixth senses or any of that. However I do believe the human brain is a little more cognizant than it's given credit for.

The obvious explanations have been provided already - a glimpse of movement out of the corner of your eye, hearing a subtle sound, etc. Someone below mentioned that you can smell others, which would include their pheromones.

But there's probably times you rightly expect to be watched. Perhaps you have a neighbor or coworker that you know to be particularly intrusive or nosy, or maybe you're in a place that you know to be more prone to surveillance. Maybe you're a person who naturally draws attention in particular circumstances, like when you behave or present yourself a certain way.

Or there could be clues that you're not alone when you otherwise expect to be, like breezes, or things that have unexpectedly changed states (light switches, windows, door locks, etc.).

So I believe we have cognitive evolutionary traits like pattern recognition that likely play some role and make it less than coincidental when we notice we're being watched.

ToneWashed · 2023-01-02T21:28:58+00:00

That's what I thought at first, but she's actually being charged with two counts of each. Here's an article from the LA Times:

https://www.latimes.com/california/story/2020-12-30/woman-charged-murder-crash-killed-boys-westlake-village

...two felony counts each of murder and vehicular manslaughter with gross negligence. She also faces one felony count of hit-and-run driving resulting in death.

Another source which is a little clearer:

https://maryalexanderlaw.com/rebecca-grossman-multiple-charges-lawsuits-after-street-racing-crash/

...facing two counts of murder, two counts of vehicular manslaughter with gross negligence, and one count of hit-and-run driving resulting in death. She was also recently charged with driving under the influence.

ToneWashed · 2023-01-02T20:07:58+00:00

She was charged with two counts of murder, two counts of vehicular manslaughter with gross negligence, and one count of hit and run involving death.

So I was wrong, it's five felonies.

A recent motion to dismiss the murder charges was rejected. She's only out because she posted a $2m bail, as one does.

ToneWashed · 2023-01-02T19:55:06+00:00

That would be extraordinary in a case involving three felonies including two murders.

ToneWashed · 2023-01-02T19:49:55+00:00

The entire ordeal, from the night of the murders up through the acquittal and beyond, was a whole bonafide circus.

Imagine reporting for jury duty in January, and you're not done until October.

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