This feels like a trap. Did I just sell my soul to your cats by looking at them?

10/10, worth it.

First and foremost.

Let’s get one thing absolutely and crystal clear.

Politics is absolutely fucking not a fucking game and fuck you for callously saying it is.

40 million Americans are facing food insecurity because of this attitude.

24 million more will see their healthcare costs go up. Because of this attitude.

I could list a rather shocking amount of absolute and unmitigated shit that is happening right now, because of this attitude.

Making offers you know are nonstarters isn’t negotiating. Especially offers that are largely unacceptable to your base. Fucking around with the lived and wellbeing of everyone here is not appropriate.

It was also unnecessary. Most of us realize that republicans are in control and that they could end the shut down with everything they wanted any time they want. (Also, could have stopped it from happening.)

Also, why would you trust a man that convinced the House to hold out, promising to vote against cloture the last time, only then to backstab everyone and vote for cloture?

There is no reason to; and he’s lost control of the democrat senators. As for last nights no-vote, I was somewhat relieved until certain of the other senators came out saying he approved it or whatever.

Not that I outright believe it, but it does suggest he knew they were turning rogue. Maybe one shouldn’t bullshit with things that won’t get accepted instead of shoring up the party unity.

(Maybe he should have endorsed Mamdani, too, for that matter.)

Well for one thing, I do admit when I’m wrong.

You’re full of shit, so I assume it’s all projection.

Furthermore, this attempt at negotiating and compromise signals an intent to… you know… compromise…. With people that haven’t actually compromised in 20 years.

Which, if you have not been paying attention, is how we’ve come to be here.

Yeah, I have no reason to believe Schumer is going to do the right thing here, either.

Because you cant admit you’re wrong, I can’t?

I would be delighted to be wrong. And you’re fooling yourself if you think Schumer is up for a fight.

This is your reminder that the reason the government is shutdown is because they want it shut down.

They could reopen it tonight, if they wanted to, and do all this shit they’re wanting to do, too.

They’re not doing that because they want it closed.

Exactly. I bet this time next week cluck cluck chuck will cave.

Used properly, repairing pretty much anything with a sledgehammer will ensure it’ll never break again.

the brown stuff is cheese that’s been baked low until it’s uniformly crunchy. Which is great on the edges, for example.

Not so great in the middle.

I’m more worried about how crunchy that pizza looks.

I don’t think pizza is supposed to look like that. I could be wrong, though.

probably don’t want to run a UV light inside the Falcon.

I’d sooner kiss a wookie!

Its in the name!

Do chicken have horns?

I’m sure he brings that much value to the company.

They don’t have that much value from actual sales…so it’s gotta come from somewhere…

Dingdong The Dick is Dead!

There used to be a submarine hotel, you have to scuba dive to get to. Might still be around.

that’s just it… any vulnerable system lets them get their nose in the door, then the camel starts snooping around the tent for whatever it can get. Eventually, they find away to something juicy.

The thing is, whether we’re talking about digital or physical security, the weakest thing in any system is the humans. The sloppy passwords (c’mon it should have been Louvre25! lol.) is a human thing. clicking that phising scam is a human thing. kipping off to the egyption bedroom for tryste with receptionist is a human thing.

the simple password isn’t the problem. The people being complacent is.

Biblical justice is literally not equal justice for all.

foreigners could be taken as slaves, women were somewhere between the indentured israelites and the chattel slaves. (closer to the chattel slaves, if we’re being honest.

Oh. and we all know they’re not following biblical justice anyway, because they’re not in jail. And they certainly don’t stone their daughters when they have sex before marriage.

At least it wasn’t the default password.

I’ve known clients that have never removed the default admin account, with a default admin password… and looked at me like I had a horn growing out my ear…

Usually, there’s a network for IP cameras, with a central server holding the video. There’s then, usually, a firewall to anything outside that, and frequently just a hardline to a monitoring system. (another computer with lots of monitors, typically.)

Most modern systems can VPN to the firewall and run a client there via remote desktop, and then access the monitoring system that way; but the server itself is not.

As to the complexity of the password, typically there’s different levels of permissions. The basic ones would just let you monitor real time, probably review recordings, and maybe rip those recordings. (but not change settings, or otherwise delete anything.) A place like the Lourve would have multiple guard stations connecting in on the local network; with dozens of guards watching cameras at any given time; and would each need their own account/logins if you wanted to make the password actually complex.

a large part of the problem is just the sheer amount of people that would need to have acounts- the lourve says they have ~1300 ‘reception and security’ staff. (for the record, reception would also be part of the security envelope… though they probably wouldn’t need the password.)

anyone dialing in from off sight would likely have their own password (and have elevated permissions to allow that.). Frequently, by remote desktoping into a system on the local network.

You’ll also notice theyre not saying the security system was actually compromised- even if the cameras were pointed the right way, they’d still have gotten in and out because the windows were a point of vulnerability. They might have been able to respond faster, but they were in and out in ten minutes. a camera wouldn’t be able to stop that, if you account for normal human reaction times… if they’d even notice the ‘contractors’.