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Reportedly Taylor Taranto is or was a “county GOP webmaster”.
Donald Trump posted what he said was Obama's address on same day an armed man targeted Obama's house
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It took me until now to realize that the article was talking about Obama’s home address, and not like a Gettysburg address or other speech. That makes more sense.
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The FBI had been monitoring Taranto’s online activities because of his involvement in the riot, and began searching for him last Wednesday after he asserted on his YouTube livestream that he was in Gaithersburg, Maryland on a “one-way mission” and intended to blow up the National Institute of Standards and Technology.
“My one follower is super interested in my crime plans, let’s do this”
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Just taking “I reject your reality and substitute my own” to it’s natural conclusion.
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There’s a cluster of relatively affordable hotels on the Rockville-Gaithersburg line a couple of miles from the last Red Line stop (and a couple of miles from NIST), my guess is that he was staying there.
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Looking up the wiki in them they have an investigation into the world trade centre as well as standards on identification for federal employees. Seems much more likely than a weights an measure freak which would be more on brand for Brexit.
I’m sure if somebody blew up the US references for the multiple types of acres and gallons as well as your chains, perches, and rods they would be a hero doing the world a favour.
ISO would still exist.
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This reminds me of Veep, where Jonah based was running for president, and his War on Math.
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Hindu nationalists in India are pushing their own kind of mathematics.
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“I’ll show them that a password standard that recommends changes every 90 days is wrong!”
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Is it treason yet?
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When everyone is a reptilian then every sewer grate is a door.
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Hey, if you destroy the standards, then all the things you hate will have to come to a screeching halt while new, non-woke standards are created, right?
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NIST also does battery and materials research, among many other things.
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I would join that crusade. Especially if someone tried to recruit me during the 3-4 days every quarter when I’m struggling to remember my new password and retrain my muscle memory.
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Have you pointed the sysadmins to the NIST standards that say “don’t do that”?
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The sysads hate it too. More, even, as there are more passwords to keep track of.
It’s the CyberSecurityTheater department who makes that sort of decision, because they never suffer consequences for making a system too difficult to access.
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