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How to own an airline in 3 easy steps and grab the TSA nofly list along the way
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Re: How to own an airline in 3 easy steps and grab the TSA nofly list along the way
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I once saw someone who goes by “it” explain that it liked “it” because it has a sort of ungendered quality to it, whereas “they” is instead gender- neutral . It explained that we use “they” to refer to humans because we assume humans are gendered, and the implied gender is the quality that makes “they” (or for that matter “he” or “she”) implicitly refer to a human. But it rejects the notion humans must be gendered, o…
This is exhausting. I wish we could simplify English so that all beings use a single pronoun, and be done with it. This one’s that gender, this one’s neutral gender, this one’s genderless… who cares. If gender or plurality is key to the sentence we can add a word. I like how in Indonesian to make a word plural you double it: pencil pencil = multiple pencils Can we come up with a pronoun that literally means “the bein…
Should we overhaul all languages that use gendered language? I speak French and often think in French (le/la, etc), obviously I speak English, but a lot of modern English comes with heritage from cultures, languages, hell even concepts of thought (yes thinking in differently languages gives unique perspectives of the world).
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> down to other more selfish reasons, e.g. Edward Snowden's mass theft and leaking of NSA secrets. What was Snowden's selfish reasons?
In an attempt to sound like he had noble reasons for leaking hundreds of thousands of unrelated secret documents to journalists, Snowden claimed it was watching James Clapper's congressional testimony in March 2013 that triggered him to start downloading and exfiltrating classified material.
This was a lie. He'd actually started collecting his trove of stolen documents many months prior, in mid-2012, coinciding with arguments with his managers. He had a grudge against his employers, and he acted upon it.
Snowden also never mentions that nation-state adversaries got all of this material too. The intelligence agencies of China and Russia must have been rubbing their hands in glee when he fled to them in quick succession. No wonder Russia continues to protect Snowden from being brought to justice in the US, from their point of view he did a stellar espionage job for them.
That's not the only bullshit from Snowden either. Even little things like his claimed $200k salary when it was actually closer to $100k-ish. He's a serial fabricator full of grandiose claims about himself and what he did.
His elevation to hero status is a moral travesty.
Re: How to own an airline in 3 easy steps and grab the TSA nofly list along the way
#224Earlier quoted context omitted.
Snowden was a compromised asset of Russia, working for them. Most of what he released had nothing to do with his stated purpose. People have all kinds of reasons for doing that sort of thing. Sometimes they really believe in the other country, sometimes it's entirely selfish. We won't know even if he says something on the topic, since we can never know his mind, and he'd demonstrated that he's dishonest.
> Snowden was a compromised asset of Russia, working for them. So Snowden was a Russian asset, who wanted to go against Russia by leaking information about a US surveillance program, and then after failing being a Russian asset, went back to Russia...?? I'm having a lot of trouble with this line of logic, can you point me to something credible on this? I can 100% believe there was a selfish purpose, but this doesn't…
>>go against Russia by leaking information about a US surveillance program
The information Snowden leaked was in no way against Russia, it benefited Russia enormously.
Even the stuff that was on his claimed point created turmoil in the US to this day, which harms the US and only helps Russia
The other stuff he leaked helped Russia directly, and directly endangered and likely got killed US people and/or assets.
and of course he claimed his laptop was secure while he was in Hong Kong on his way to Russia. Anyone who thinks it stayed that way and he was allowed/invited to stay in Russia is a fool.
There is nothing he did that didn't harm the US and benefit Russia, and he was a very successful Russian op. the mere fact that it is still being debated here in the Us shows how successful it was, even if just a provocation/disinformation operation.
Re: How to own an airline in 3 easy steps and grab the TSA nofly list along the way
#225This guy is a (hobbyist?) security researcher who responsibly alerts companies of vulnerabilities. However are his actions of downloading the no fly list and offering to share with journalists legal? Or does that cross into overreach and criminal activity?
it isn't a guy and it uses it/its pronouns.
This is downvoted, but the homepage really does say "hello i am maia arson crimew (it/she)".
I'd feel uncomfortable referring to anyone as "it" though, as there are some connotations with that :-/
Re: How to own an airline in 3 easy steps and grab the TSA nofly list along the way
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Am I missing something? It seems Maia didn't share the data at all, and only offers to if someone can demonstrate they will use it responsibly. Moreover, depending on the contents of the list, this likely offers proof of what is generally suspected, that the no fly list is a form of discrimination and authoritarian overreach, targeting people that haven't been convicted of a crime but are "suspected" due to race, rel…
> Maia didn't share the data at all You literally immediately falsified that assertion: > and only offers to if someone can demonstrate they will use it responsibly. And nobody ever lies of course.
Depends what exactly they mean with "demonstrate". It can mean email from J. Random Person with "pinky promise I will use this list for good", or it can mean "well-known journalist with a clear public track record".
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Re: How to own an airline in 3 easy steps and grab the TSA nofly list along the way
#228Earlier quoted context omitted.
CSV you say? Let's hope Bobby Droptable's cousin Bobby Double Quote Comma-Semicolon don't get in it...
I just had one today that had the last char of a field as '\', which escaped the closing quote and then munged the column count from there.
Isn't that your parser's problem? I don't think true CSV has any special characters other than comma, quote, and CRLF.
Re: How to own an airline in 3 easy steps and grab the TSA nofly list along the way
#229Wow, actual hacker news. For once. Meanwhile, another front page article is some genius asking why there aren’t any cars in 1984.
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Good to see that; thanks for digging deeper. I hope he has done this behind the scenes and the holes are patched, because I'm sure that by now, someone with worse intent has already followed those footsteps...
In the aforementioned Daily Dot article: > CommuteAir added that the server, which was taken offline prior to publication after being flagged by the Daily Dot, did not expose any customer information based on an initial investigation. As a side note, maia uses it/its pronouns.
According to wikipedia maia has used both it/its and she/her at various times, so it seems either is appropriate.