So if you were doing a more serious program you wouldn't use this?
I'm not familiar with BSD but when I was using Kali if I was using a share it was to feed into something else, classic example being wordlists fed into hydra[1] or something.
I mean there are two main arguments that people make, the bombings of Hiroshima and Nagasaki were war crimes, and that they were completely justified.
Either one is arguable, the justifiable one has pretty solid data as to how many people were being killed in American bombing raids and how many people would have died in a land invasion of Japan. https://www.history.navy.mil/about-us/leadership/director/di...
I mean it is pretty much the opposite of impossible to surmise!
Given that there are lots of well known arguments on how the use of the atomic bombs were justified because of lives saved I find it a bit much to claim it was arguably one of the most barbaric acts of the war without even a nod towards hey, maybe it wasn't though, since the phrasing implies that hey everyone everywhere agrees it was pretty darn barbaric.
I read not too long ago about things I didn't learn in school:
- Most cities in Japan had already been extensively fire-bombed
- The Japanese High Command were not shocked that atomic bombs could exist or that yet another city was obliterated
- The Japanese - Soviet war was also not going well for Japan. They would much rather surrender to the Americans than the Russians.
You are framing it as if a land invasion was inevitably the only other option. That's also impossible to surmise.
The Americans were basing their decisions on a land invasion, and they were intending, evidently, to continue lots of firebombing prior to doing a full scale invasion. That is known.
Something that is evidently not known here is the meaning of surmise, which my dictionary tells me is
"suppose that something is true without having evidence to confirm it."
so, I think what people are trying to say is it's impossible to know for certain. And yes, it is impossible to know for certain if a land invasion would have happened, but it does seem like a pretty good chance of it given the planning for one.
The article definitely goes out of its way to point out that the researchers were Kurds, which if you know anything about the region makes complete sense: Catalan researchers would insist on being identified as Catalan researchers and not Spanish. Scottish researchers might reasonably insist on not being identified as English. This identification was almost certainly requested by the Kurish researchers themselves.
The only thing odd here is your taking umbrage at someone else's need for visible political identity, which makes you seem reactionary or at best naive.
If someone's buying the data they will care sooner or later. After all, if they wanted bogus data, they can generate it themselves instead of buying it.
I went through a serious attempt to remove all of my resumes on the web. Paid a firm, whole nine yards.
Several data brokers still have very, very old copies.. and they still sell them.. and recruiters still buy them.. and still contact me.. and still get met with an email politely telling them off.
But that years old shitty linkedin dataset still gets sold to thousands of people for thousands of dollars a year and nobody bats an eye. The recruiters are too stupid to spot the bad data and the brokers too lazy to care.
Usage patterns? Fridge being opened means someone is home. That data point is meaningless in isolation, but can be valuable if you want to use it to confirm/deny other data points - let's say another data broker is trying to get an accurate ad targeting profile but only has breadcrumbs here and there such as IP addresses, user-agents that by themselves don't mean much, but they can use other data points (such as fridge activity data) to link your otherwise-anonymous IP-based profile if they see that the only times this IP lights up is when the fridge was also used recently.
Whether that's currently done is up for debate - maybe there are other lower-hanging fruits that are easier to do, but if you've exhausted all your other options and still want even more accurate profiles, I don't see why you wouldn't do it.
Unless there's cameras everywhere in the fridge (plus advanced object recognition that knows that that bundled up pack of goat cheese inside a ziplock bag is in fact goat cheese) or people are scanning items as they take them out I don't see how that would work and both things seem kinda unlikely so it's weird they'd start with the easiest part which is hook up the thing to the internet.
