Author: Bear

It seems the feds are sending Google search warrants for identifying info of users doing searches for certain terms. For instance, searching the name of a crime victim.

Because “news” outlets are for shit, I commonly do web searches on names of people involved in some crimes, all in hopes of digging out more details. There was a shooting in Philly once that killed a little girl. The police claimed it was done with a full-auto rifle. I found the claim dubious since no charges reflected unlawful use or possession of an automatic weapon. I did a lot of searches on that little girl’s name trying to find more data. I even did an open records request to the Philly PD to learn how they determined the rifle was automatic (which they refused to say). And for the record, after months of searches, I finally discovered the police had lied (which I’d expected). They didn’t even have the rifle to evaluate; it was recovered months later, in another state, and was a semiautomatic AK variant.

But if I’d been using Google, by fed “standards,” I might have implicated myself in that case.

Another example: A while back, a local 11 year-old girl disappeared. When she popped back up, it seemed she’d been transported across the state line by an adult male, to “party” with a group of adult males. I did a number of searches on assorted names in that case, to see what and who would be charged.

But again, if I used Google, I could have been implicated.

Looking at blog stats, I routinely see people getting here via Google searches. Don’t be that fucking idiot.

I’m not even going to link everything. You can look up the details yourself.

Facebook says their systems went down due to a router “configuration error.” Ars Technica says that a FB tech, while trying to push a BGP router update, somehow deleted the routing table. Early versions said the tech also managed to lock himself out of his account, so couldn’t fix what he’d done.

Later versions explain that the lack of access was because FB’s network admin channels are on the same general FB network. So when he knocked down FB services, he also knocked down all their internal tools and accounts. Oopsie. But now it really gets stupid.

With the network down, they had to physically access the routers to re-enter the routing data directly. Annoying, but hey; what could go wrong?

“Internal FB network.” Turns out their building access controls run on the same — dead! — network.

They were physically locked out, too. In the mindless quest for teh grand Internet of Things, it never occurred to them they might need…

Keys.

I’m guessing, from the timing of reports, that most of the outage time was spent just trying to get in to the routers.

Over at The Zelman Partisans:

DID HE REGISTER THAT AUTOCANNON?

Reportedly, a US MG grabbed an interesting souvenir in Afghanistan (while booting several refugees from a plane): a ZU-23 23mm autocannon. That might just be a bit of an NFA violation.

Remember back in August, when some dipstick (HR spambot?) tried recruiting me for a microbiology job? In Massachusetts.

It’s baaacck. This time I replied.

You are, apparently, what happens when HR outsources recruiting to shittily programmed bots.

Please notify your script-kiddy that your resume search function requires re-programming with a better time filter, and more accurate search terms. This will help you to not attempt to recruit electronics technicians for microbiologist positions, and will exclude resumes posted more than a decade ago. Your programmer should also note geographical limits listed on resume postings, to avoid trying to recruit people for Massachusetts who have publicly stated they will never live or work in that Ghu-forsaken socialist hellhole.

You might scan my signature block and inform said script-kiddy that firearm policy and law have little to do with microbiology.

In the event you actually are a human, I could only assume you’re a fucking idiot.

—
Carl “Bear” Bussjaeger
Firearm policy and law analyst, The Zelman Partisans

But apparently the critter figured out that in-person lab work really can’t be a work-from-home job. They removed that [part.

CDC Director Walensky: Covid Vaccines “Cannot Prevent Transmission” of China Coronavirus
“Our vaccines are working exceptionally well,” Walensky said then in the same breath admitted they “cannot prevent transmission.”

“So if you’re going home to someone who is not vaccinated…I would suggest you wear a mask in public indoor settings,” Walensky said during an interview with CNN’s Wolf Blitzer.

They don’t make you immune. They don’t prevent transmission. She implies the pseudo-vaxxed are primary spreaders.

So… What exactly are the pseudo-vaccines doing “exceptionally well“?

Because Ghu forbid he infect those dead people.

Autopsies relocated as medical examiner goes unvaccinated
An upstate New York county is being forced to send human bodies to a hospital 50 miles away for autopsies because its prominent medical examiner has not been vaccinated against the coronavirus, according to county officials.

Rensselaer County moved autopsies on Friday to Glens Falls Hospital from Albany Medical Center Hospital, which requires everyone who works there to be vaccinated, Richard Crist, the county’s director of operations, told the Times Union.

No link, but yesterday I saw an article about how NY’s pseudo-vax requirement for healthcare providers (is a medical examiner doing autopsies really providing healthcare?) “encouraged” so many to get “vaxxed,” with a full 11% getting jabbed post-mandate.

Left unsaid was that 13% of all healthcare providers in the state still preferred unemployment over the jab.

One might wonder what those educated, trained, and experienced folks know.