TO BE FAIR, THERE SEEM TO BE STRAIGHT WOMEN INVOLVED, TOO: Moore says lesbians, gays, socialists behind sexual misconduct allegations.
Straight female Trump voters, even.
Author Archive: Stephen Green
November 30, 2017
POSTINDUSTRIAL ESPIONAGE: Judge postpones Uber trade secret trial based on bombshell memo.
Judge William Alsup said during a hearing Tuesday that he’d only just received the letter, which a former Uber security analyst sent to one of the company’s lawyers. The full content of the letter hasn’t been shared publicly, but parts of it were read aloud during the hearing.
The 37-page letter, written earlier this year by Ric Jacobs’ attorney, details tactics Uber allegedly used to obtain trade secrets and destroy evidence. The letter details allegations that Uber employees were trained to “impede” ongoing investigations by using messages that vanished and couldn’t be traced to the company. Uber fired Jacobs in April.
“These tactics were employed clandestinely through a distributed architecture of anonymous servers, telecommunications architecture, and non-attributable hardware and software,” the letter says, according to transcripts from Tuesday’s hearing.
The memo also alleges Uber employees educated the company’s autonomous vehicle team in Pittsburgh “on using ephemeral communications, non-attributable devices, and false attorney-client privilege designations with the specific intent of preventing the discovery of devices, documents, and communications in anticipated litigation.”
PLUS: Uber Reports Massive $1.5 Billion 3Q Loss As Two Investors Drop Out Of New Financing Round.
BREAKING: McCain to vote for GOP tax bill.
SPECIAL RELATIONSHIP: Trump Fires Back at Theresa May After UK Condemns Anti-Muslim Retweets.
WHAT COULD GO WRONG? Canada to redact more than 5,000 records from questionnaire asking Muslim asylum seekers about religion.
The questionnaire is being redacted partly because it has been deemed to be “offensive.” Some of the questions that were asked:
Canada is a very liberal country that believes in freedom of religious practice and equality between men and women. What is your opinion on the subject? How would you feel if your boss was a woman?
How about: “Yes, I believe in the equality between men and women” and “No, I have no problem if my boss was a woman”? If these were not the answers — which apparently they were not, hence the reason for the redaction — then Canadians have a right to know. It is more offensive to deem women as inferiors in accordance with the Sharia than it is to ask the question. Canadians should also know about other possible incriminating data that may have been redacted, as it may well have impact upon the safety and well-being of Canadians.
Governance-by-virtue-signaling is never done for the protection of citizens or their rights.
CHARLOTTE HAYS: Democratic Rep Suggests that Members of Congress Are Above Ordinary Sexual Conduct Rules.
Congress over the years has made itself a privileged class. A quip from Rep. James Clyburn, Democrat from South Carolina, says it all. When asked why, unlike Harvey Weinstein, Matt Lauer, Bill O’Reilly, and Charlie Rose, Rep. John Conyers, the scourge of the elevator, is keeping his job, Clyburn instantly replied, “Who elected them?”
Got that?
Members of Congress are a protected class, insulated from the consequences of their deeds. There is even secret fund, paid for by us taxpayers, to defray the cost of settlements when our public servants (ha ha) step out of line and harass someone. Our elected officials vote in ObamaCare but are made exempt from having to rely upon ObamaCare themselves.
Many Americans aren’t aware of the extent to which Congress has set itself up as a quasi-nobility (without being noble). Voters probably think their elected representatives are struggling with increasing ObamaCare premiums just as they are. Joke’s on us, my fellow taxpayers.
I’m not laughing.
LIZ SHELD’S MORNING BRIEF: Lauer Down, Twitter Trouble and Much, Much More.
21ST CENTURY THEFT: Websites use your CPU to mine cryptocurrency even when you close your browser.
Over the past month or two, drive-by cryptomining has emerged as a way to generate the cryptocurrency known as Monero. Hackers harness the electricity and CPU resources of millions of unsuspecting people as they visit hacked or deceitful websites. One researcher recently documented 2,500 sites actively running cryptomining code in visitors’ browsers, a figure that, over time, could generate significant revenue. Until now, however, the covert mining has come with a major disadvantage for the attacker or website operator: the mining stops as soon as the visitor leaves the page or closes the page window.
Now, researchers from anti-malware provider Malwarebytes have identified a technique that allows the leaching to continue even after a user has closed the browser window. It works by opening a pop-under window that fits behind the Microsoft Windows taskbar and hides behind the clock. The window remains open indefinitely until a user takes special actions to close it. During that time, it continues to run code that generates Monero on behalf of the person controlling the Website.
RELATED? Tesla owner builds a bitcoin mining rig in a Model S to use free Supercharger power.
PERHAPS SARAH HOYT WILL LET ME BORROW HER SHOCKED FACE ONCE AGAIN: Al Franken Admits In His New Book That He Faked Apologies To Save His Political Career.
In his new book “Al Franken, Giant of the Senate,” released in May 2017, Franken explains that he has managed to keep his head above water with these past controversies by giving fake apologies.
Fox News reports:
Franken eventually apologized for his crude remarks, but he later wrote in his book, “Al Franken: Giant of the Senate,” that he faked the apology to get the necessary support for his election win, according to the New York Times.
“To say I was sorry for writing a joke was to sell out my career, to sell out who I’d been my entire life,” he wrote in the book. “And I wasn’t sorry that I had written Porn-o-Rama or pitched that stupid Lesley Stahl joke at 2 in the morning. I was just doing my job.”
He added: “I learned that campaigns have their own rules, their own laws of physics, and that if I wasn’t willing to accept that, I would never get to be a senator.”
This revelation should be disconcerting to those who are considering giving him another chance in the Senate while the majority believe he should resign.
Which dovetails with this catch from Brit Hume:
Even The New Republic’s Jeet Heer has jumped on board the resignation train.
GOOD QUESTION: How Can NBC Claim Not to Have Known About Matt Lauer?
According to the Variety report, several women “complained to executives at the network about Lauer’s behavior, which fell on deaf ears given the lucrative advertising surrounding Today.” In the words of another former NBC reporter, “Management sucks there. They protected the shit out of Matt Lauer.”
His bosses were also likely aware of the button he had under his desk that automatically locked his office door, a feature that the late Roger Ailes also had installed for himself at Fox News. Apparently that did not set off any alarm bells. Nor did his history of creepy comments to and about women on air.
Yet even after the Variety story broke, NBC News released a statement that read, “We can say unequivocally, that, prior to Monday night, current NBC News management was never made aware of any complaints about Matt Lauer’s conduct.” As of Wednesday afternoon, NBC had received two additional complaints from women against Lauer.
Management can make all the claims it likes; whether anyone believes them is a separate issue.
QUALITY CONTROL: Tesla Employees Say 90% Of Model S/X Cars Fail Quality Checks After Assembly.
Last month we highlighted a report from Automotive News which suggested that Tesla’s Model 3 production misses might have been the result of a rather basic and embarrassing problem…the company hadn’t yet figured out how to weld. As automotive manufacturing consultant Michael Tracy of Agile Group pointed out, the clues of Tesla’s steel problems came from a video posted by Musk himself of the Model 3 assembly line. Referencing Musk’s video, Tracy said a well functioning auto assembly line would not produce the sparks seen in the video below which are symptomatic of welds spots overheating or poor alignment of components.
And while it’s difficult to believe that Tesla hasn’t been able to iron out simplistic assembly line issues like the proper alignment of welds, a new report from several current and former employees would seem to lend some credence to Tracy’s hypothesis. As Reuters notes today, interviews with nine “current and former employees” revealed that 90% of all Model S and Model X vehicles that roll off the assembly line fail quality control checks…which compares to roughly 10% for Toyota.
A boutique manufacturer of expensive automobiles can afford, at least for a while, to hand-finish its products before turning them over to its customers. But if Tesla has any hopes of scaling up to Toyota-level production, it will have to scale up to Toyota-level quality control.
IN CASE YOU MISSED IT: A disturbing tidbit from Variety’s investigation into Matt Lauer.
Lauer, who was paranoid about being followed by tabloid reporters, grew more emboldened at 30 Rockefeller Center as his profile rose following Katie Couric’s departure from “Today” in 2006. His office was in a secluded space, and he had a button under his desk that allowed him to lock his door from the inside without getting up. This afforded him the assurance of privacy. It allowed him to welcome female employees and initiate inappropriate contact while knowing nobody could walk in on him, according to two women who were sexually harassed by Lauer.
What is something like that called — an “instill-panic button?”
Ouch.
November 29, 2017
THERE ARE CERTAIN SECTIONS OF THE STRIP, MOHAMMED, I WOULDN’T ADVISE YOU TO TRY TO INVADE: ISIS Teases Vegas in Upcoming Sequel to Original Film Threatening America.
THERE IS A LOT OF RUIN IN A NATION, STILL:
Not many people had lost any sleep awaiting the announcement.
HUFFPO: White House Christmas Decor ‘Spooky,’ Like a Scene from ‘The Shining.’
You might not be interested in the Gleichschaltung, but HuffPo will help make sure the Gleichschaltung is interested in you.
NEXT! NBC Fires Lauer Over Sexual-Harassment Claim — But Are More Coming?
Ed Morrissey:
After the announcement, HuffPost reporter Yashar Ali remarked that he and other reporters began hearing about Lauer before they started working on a bigger story:
If that was the case, Lauer’s sudden firing removes that obstacle. He has no more power over careers inside or outside of NBC, which means that the floodgates should open up shortly. That may produce some uncomfortable moments at NBC, including for Guthrie and Kotb, who worked with Lauer for years without apparently ever knowing of any issues. Just as with CBS This Morning, the women may not only have to pick up the pieces but also ask themselves how they missed the signs.
Apparently Lauer’s bad behavior was something of an open secret at NBC, which still hasn’t received any real blowback for spiking the original Ronan Farrow story on Harvey Weinstein. Farrow took his story to The New Yorker, where burst the dam on the infotainment industry’s tolerance (to put it mildly) for sexual predators.
So Lauer is gone, but the Peacock Network still has much to do before anyone believes that it has actually cleaned house.
MORE LIKE THIS, PLEASE: Trump court pick Kyle Duncan is the Neil Gorsuch of Louisiana.
A WORTHY CAUSE: Slow Motion Magic.
I assumed my magic days were over due to the loss of dexterity and slowness of motion which are symptoms of this specific type of Parkinson’s. Instead of giving up my passion for magic, however, I realized that I could adjust my technique and would just have to be twice as good. In the spirit of making the best of a difficult situation, I decided to use magic to raise awareness about Parkinson’s disease.
Slow Motion Magic was born.
The first link goes to his GoFundMe page, and this link goes to his fascinating YouTube videos.
HMM: Did Rep. Conyers Tacitly Admit Dems Are Hiding Assault Allegations?
Well, he is an “icon.”