Well, maybe if the German justice system (West and East) had been a bit more… enthusiastic about prosecuting Nazi-era crimes in the 1940ies, 1950ies, 1960ies, 1970ies, 1980ies…
I’m exaggerating, and probably somewhat unfair, but one does get the impression that, for the first 20 years or so, the only prosecutor who was really serious about this was Fritz Bauer. (You probably know him, link is for those who don’t.)
Related: a good film about Nazis in the post-war era justice system.
This fucking guy
A settlement just means that both sides agree that the suit is over. How much, if any, money changed hands is buried by a confidentiality cause.
I’m sure that the other twerps are daydreaming that it was close to what he asked for.
There was plenty of bad behavior going around that day, not just from the MAGA twerp.
There were Hebrew Israelite assholes on the one side, racist Catholic youth pricks on the other, Phillips describing the latter as “predators” and the former as "prey and deciding he absolutely positively needed to interject himsef into the proceedings, and the media eating it all up and publishing edited video.
Twitter has offered further explanation of the celebrity account hijack hack that saw 130 users’ timelines polluted with a Bitcoin scam.
socialite being a special word for “rich barfly”
The two penetration testers whose arrest and imprisonment made headlines last year are finally sharing their story, and it is a doozy.
Florida man Justin Wynn and Seattle resident Gary DeMercurio, both pentesters at infosec shop Coalfire Systems, said the ordeal they experienced in Iowa last September could have been avoided had they just done a better job of documenting the scope of their audit in writing.
That and not running into an ornery sheriff. A favorable judge died suddenly, too, mid-case.
The judge ordered the ex-Google exec to also conduct speeches to up to 200 people titled, “Why I went to federal prison,” to hammer home to newbie engineers, entrepreneurs, and students the dangers of stealing trade secrets from massive tech corps
The UK government has performed a massive U-turn on A Level exam results, promising to use teachers’ assessments of students instead of the computer-driven system that caused havoc and sparked protests over the past week.
Shortly after furious teens chanted “f**k the algorithm” outside the Department of Education in London this afternoon, the Conservative government announced it would scrap the software-controlled approach that downgraded as many as 40 per cent of students’ results, some by an extraordinary three grades.
The algorithmic approach also amplified social divisions by giving an advantage to private schools, due to their smaller class sizes, and disadvantaging state education, in which class sizes are larger. High-performing students in poorly performing schools were at risk of losing university places after they received A Level grades far lower than they expected, whereas private schools saw a significant increase in their student’s estimated grades.
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I’m not British, so what the hell are you talking about? A Levels are school subjects studied by teenagers in England, Wales, Northern Ireland, and elsewhere, typically for a couple of years from the age of 16. The kids get to choose their courses – usually three or four – go to lessons, submit coursework, and take exams. Their final results are used to get into university: a particular uni course might require AAB in specific subjects. Exams were cancelled this year due to the COVID-19 pandemic, leaving officials with a choice: give the young adults grades predicted by their teachers, or use software that downgraded two-in-five students. It went with the latter, and many teens expecting grades like A and B were assigned grades C, D and worse. This caused them to lose their university places.
I really hope they succeed. It’s sad that people just a few kilometers from my home have to live under dictatorship.
Strikes at factories and mines are good tactics for forcing political reforms. Minsk Tractor Plant, where 5000 workers are striking now is one of the bigger sources of national income (a bit off-topic, but Minsk Tractor Plant also makes awesome, simple, DRM-free tractors that you can fix yourself if something breaks).
The 2016 hacking of the Democratic Party’s email system – and subsequent leaking of its messages – was personally ordered by Vladimir Putin and aided by Julian Assange, according to the US Senate Select Committee on Intelligence.
America’s comms watchdog will hand over confidential documents on China Telecom to US government officials probing the state-owned communications giant and its operations in the Land of the Free.
Since at least as far back as 2002, China Telecom’s American subsidiary has been authorized by Uncle Sam to provide international communications services in the United States. Earlier this year, though, amid escalating trade and diplomatic tensions between America and China, the executive branch of the US government turned the screws on China Telecom.
SoftBank’s Japanese 5G network has been awarded “clean status” by the US government.
Introduced earlier this month by the State Department, the Clean Network programme is an attempt to protect American technological interests by limiting the usage of equipment and software from vendors perceived to have ties to unfriendly state adversaries. Critics argue it’s a cynical attempt to sideline competition from Chinese tech companies in favour of US outfits.
