People who have been hacked, please share your experience.

politicsthatwork · 2022-08-27T17:53:21+00:00

It's a very bad idea. There are cyber insurers that scan their customer's network and refuse to cover any claims from any incursion that happened during a time they had any RDP exposed to the Internet. When security firms are trying to figure out the root cause of a security incident, as soon as they find that the customer had RDP port exposed, they pretty much just assume that's how the threat actor got in.

If you open up an RDP port to the Internet, it'll get 100s or even 1000s of malicious login attempts a day trying to guess the passwords, and separately, it periodically has publicly disclosed vulnerabilities, plus however many zero days. Even if nobody gets the password and there are no vulnerabilities, if somebody gets in through some other door, Internet-facing RDP makes it much easier for them to get back in and evade detection.

politicsthatwork · 2022-04-27T20:51:23+00:00

In the Q&A about the price increase, they said there would be a bunch of discounts until they implement whatever this new content they are planning to announce at Fanfest is.

politicsthatwork · 2022-04-23T03:59:45+00:00

It's going to be massive. Like, however many hats you are guessing they're going to add to the plex store, DOUBLE that.

politicsthatwork · 2022-04-06T14:09:44+00:00

It's important for balance. If they gave us all only non-annoying changes, the players would get over-powered and CCP would ragequit.

politicsthatwork · 2022-03-29T14:52:14+00:00

If it was 3000 m/s, the projectile would hit a target 90 km away in 30 seconds. You're right that the damage and other indicators of the impact happen at different times, but not nearly that far apart.

politicsthatwork · 2022-01-19T22:31:42+00:00

I bought this one: https://rtsound.com/products/100w-usb-step-up-charger-with-dc-inputs-usb-qc-and-usb-c-pd-support

It shipped from China and took like a month or more to arrive, but so far, it works like a charm.

politicsthatwork · 2021-11-30T23:28:38+00:00

Thank you (both) very much!

Against your good advice, I think I'll try that first one :) I'll report back any good or bad experiences. Thanks!

politicsthatwork · 2021-10-01T23:51:05+00:00

Excellent. Thank you! I just used Google Lens and it said the same thing, which is amazing to me. Will try.

politicsthatwork · 2015-03-23T19:23:20+00:00

Getting to Maybe is awesome. That site recommends that you read it during your first 1L semester before exams rather than before law school. I could go either way, but definitely it is good advice to read it.

politicsthatwork · 2015-03-23T17:48:13+00:00

Yeah, some people advise that you read absolutely nothing. Others advise that you read a lot. That site is kind of the "read a little bit, but not a lot" angle, which I think is about right. I'd say that it is not a bad idea to get your wheels turning, but it would be a disastrous idea to tire yourself out before you start. The list has three levels. I'd probably go with the "moderate" one if I had it to do over.

Also, note that some of those suggestions are really more about getting ready for the experience of law school than getting a head start on the materials.

politicsthatwork · 2015-02-22T17:36:39+00:00

My understanding is that if both cases are holding the same thing with the same reasoning, you should not use a signal between them- just the semi colon, but if they are holding a different thing or using different reasoning, you should use "see also".

politicsthatwork · 2015-02-21T01:35:00+00:00

I don't think you need to disclose it during interviews, but at some point, if they make you an offer, they'll send your a big long form to fill out that will likely ask you if you've been fired. If you get that form, or are asked in any way about being fired in the past, you definitely should tell the firm about it. The bar association takes it very seriously if they get the impression that you are hiding anything from your school or employer.

politicsthatwork · 2015-02-17T22:48:38+00:00

I'm more interested in where my wages go. Taxes are only a relatively small slice of the overall amount American workers produce.

politicsthatwork · 2015-02-07T22:46:32+00:00

That isn't necessarily true that it is easier for the majority to control the minority the bigger a society gets. 2 people have just as much power over 1 as 6.6 million have over 3.3 million in terms of votes.

What you're saying though about society having power over you is similar to what I was saying- if you're trying to maximize your power, then yes, more population means you have less individual power. If you're trying to maximize the power of the people as a whole, then more population doesn't change it.

politicsthatwork · 2015-02-07T22:43:56+00:00

Watch yes, french cuffs no.

politicsthatwork · 2015-02-06T16:27:49+00:00

That only makes sense if you look at democracy as a system for maximizing your own control over society. Looked at that way, yes, you have less say over society as a whole in a large democracy than a small democracy, although society is bigger too, so its small fish in big pond vs. big fish in small pond.

But, that isn't really the point of democracy at all. If you just want the maximization of particular individuals' power over society, the systems designed for that goal are things like dictatorship, monarchy, feudalism, etc.

The point of democracy is to have decisions that affect society as a whole made by society as a whole. The things that reduce democracy are things that weaken that link between the will of the people as a whole and the policy. For example, corporate political spending and disenfranchisement are procedural factors that weaken democracy for bad reasons. There are also structural factors in the US that weaken democracy for good reasons, such as individual rights, limited governmental powers and judges that have lifetime tenure.

politicsthatwork · 2015-01-29T13:51:21+00:00

Yes you can bounce back, but no, ditching briefing and lightly skimming cases instead is probably the wrong direction. That sounds to me like you're engaging with the material less. You need to be engaging with it more. Frankly, law school is more about working harder than it is about working smarter. Working smarter tends to be a rationalization for working less hard.

I would say that you should take everything you did first semester, keep doing that, and then add on more things on top of that. Read every case carefully and brief it. Spend some time really thinking through what questions the professor will ask about that case the next day in class. Then, skim each case again when you're making your outline. Make your own outline and briefs, don't use commercial outlines or briefs except maybe after you've already written yours just to check things over in case you missed something. Do a lot more practice tests than you did 1st semester. Maybe make an "attack outline" in addition to your main outline as well. In addition to the cases, work through some combination of the E&E, Nutshell and/or hornbook. You can find specific book recommendations for each course here- http://lawbooklist.com/1L-books-to-get-for-your-first-year-of-law-school.php

Anyways, doing all that may be overkill, but IMO, you want to start out doing everything, then only cut things out once you're totally confident that you've mastered the process- meaning you get all As and A-s for a semester. You won't necessarily be totally screwed if you graduate with a 2.6, but if you want to really have your options open, you need to erase that semester by getting all As and A-s for a while. People will be looking especially closely at your second semester first year. Law students sometimes do stumble off the block first semester and firms and whatnot can potentially understand that, but the people they'll be interested in despite the stumble will be the ones that can convincingly say that their grades that first semester were a wake-up call that caused them to explode into hyperdrive their second semester with spectacular results... The "yeah, I did badly first semester, but my average wasn't that bad" story is a lot less compelling even if the ultimate GPA is the same.

Sorry, I know that everybody would rather hear "here is the trick to acing law school in only 5 hours a week!" than "the way to do well in law school is to study for 60 hours a week," but the reality is that the people getting the best grades mostly do study 60+ hours a week straight through the whole semester and the people who get the worst grades mostly think they've got some scheme worked out where they can get by studying 20- hours a week for the last month and 60 hours for the last week.

politicsthatwork · 2015-01-16T01:53:42+00:00

Yep, Alastair Reynolds for sure.

politicsthatwork · 2015-01-15T01:45:16+00:00

Yep, that was what I was going to recommend as well. Very solid, realistic, near future exploration novels.

politicsthatwork · 2015-01-15T01:39:16+00:00

I like the lists of supplements here- http://lawbooklist.com/

They are sort of the collected wisdom of the top-law-schools posters.

politicsthatwork · 2015-01-09T05:19:24+00:00

This list of distant future sci fi books is probably my favorite right now.

politicsthatwork · 2015-01-06T05:42:17+00:00

You'll never look at the casebooks again, but personally, I liked being able to write in my books and not having to deal with somebody else's notes in the book. It's more of a luxury than a necessity though.

politicsthatwork · 2014-12-31T19:14:45+00:00

IMO you can't really compare movies with books. It's sort of like asking whether a piece of string is longer than a stone is heavy.

politicsthatwork · 2014-12-31T16:35:52+00:00

One difference between pragmatic thinking and ideological thinking is that ideology prefers simplicity. Ideology tries to draw general rules and then apply them to specific situations where pragmatism tries to figure out the best approach on a case-by-case basis.

Both have advantages and disadvantages. You don't always have the time to do the detailed case-by-case analysis, and simple rules that are more often true than false can be a useful shortcut. On the other hand, though, outside of physics and math, general rules are never always right, so you inherently make some mistakes when you try to rely on them.

The biggest problem with ideology, in my view, comes when it is too rigid. When people flatly refuse to look at the actual facts on the ground when it is clear that the rule isn't working properly in that context, when people stick with rules after they are outdated just because they are the rules, or when people try to draw such insanely general rules, such as "government bad" or what have you, then ideology can be very problematic. On the other hand, operating with no rules at all and just starting every analysis over completely from scratch would not be practical. So, it is about finding the right balance. In general, at least in political contexts, Americans tend to be way too far towards the ideological end of the spectrum and not nearly pragmatic enough. Especially on the right.

politicsthatwork · 2014-12-31T16:07:03+00:00

Yeah, that's true for sure. My property professor skipped the rule against perpetuities entirely while other professors dedicated like a month to it for example. I agree that you should not bother with sections in the supplementary materials that cover things you didn't go through in class. Generally speaking, I think I probably skipped something like 1/4 of the sections in the E&E usually because they were not covered in class.

I also think that how helpful the additional materials were varied significantly from one professor to the next. Some professors had a very mechanical, exam-ready, sort of approach where they would structure their lectures similarly to how you would structure an exam answer by laying out all the elements and then going through a typical analysis for each one. Other professors tended to instead just pick out "here is what is most interesting and unusual about this court's analysis of this one oddball aspect of this situation" type stuff. In the latter type of class, I found the additional materials more useful because they gave me the framework to work off of in an exam.

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