Comment Let me guess (Score 4, Insightful) 40
You'll get spied on and your service disconnected if you speak badly of Elmo or dear leader.
Comment I left.... (Score 1) 88
The local teleco switched to Fiber. I get 2Gbps up/down. + phone for $80 a month. I had Comcast Business for $200 a month, I had a 3 year contract for 160 the first year, then 180, then 200. Except it didn't stay that consistent. Their fees increased. the contracted base amount stayed the same.
So I'm saving 140 a month now. i may drop the phone and save another 30. And my speeds are better. So far I haven't had any issues.with reliability. 2 months of service, it's been up while I needed it.
I can't say that for Comcast either. Even on a business account, I had regular outages.
Comment The Enshittificator (Score 1) 53
Sounds like they're using his playbook. https://ancillary-proxy.atarimworker.io?url=https%3A%2F%2Fwww.youtube.com%2Fwatch%3F...
Comment Re:Pyrrhic (Score 1) 143
You might want to let the jewish president of Ukraine know that.
Comment Re:Verizon isn't much better (Score 1) 88
What you have to do is cancel the service and get new service in another name. Did this back and forth with my wife for a few times because it was close to $50 a month cheaper.
Comment Re:Deal with it? (Score 2, Interesting) 88
I love how you frame this as Biden's fault. Comcast has received over a half a billion in various subsidies. https://ancillary-proxy.atarimworker.io?url=https%3A%2F%2Fwww.usaspending.gov%2Fre...
Submission + - Report Alleges Russian Hack Exposed Jared Kushner's UAE Bank Account Access (yahoo.com)
An anonymous reader writes: Jared Kushner has been accused of holding two secret bank accounts in the Middle East that were exposed by Russian operatives who hacked his phone.
Screenshots from Kushner's phone were found on a remote server run by Russia's foreign military intelligence agency, according to a bombshell new book excerpt published by Vanity Fair, which President Donald Trump's son-in-law blasted as "outrageous fabrications."
The claims date back to 2017, when Dutch authorities arrested a Russian operative with the GRU after learning that he was traveling to the U.K. for a spy mission. The Dutch gave him two options: work for the Netherlands Defense Intelligence and Security Service, or get arrested by the British.
The Russian hacker decided to switch teams and is said to have given Dutch spies access to a sensitive GRU server that contained secret files with screenshots of Kushner's iPhone X, according to the excerpt of the book by freelance investigative journalist Matthew Cole.
By 2018, the Dutch had figured out how the Russians got into Kushner's phone—and they stayed on the device to track his activity, the report claims. They are said to have soon discovered Kushner logging into a UAE bank account that had received hundreds of millions of dollars from a bank in Azerbaijan.
At the time, Kushner served as a senior adviser to the president and director of the Office of American Innovation in the first Trump administration.
The bank account, which Vanity Fair dubbed Alpha, was held at First Abu Dhabi Bank in the UAE. It was overseen by Tahnoon bin Zayed, the bank's chairman—and brother of UAE ruler Mohamed bin Zayed.
The bank account stemmed from an idea by bin Zayed and Saudi Arabian Crown Prince Mohammed bin Salman to set up a slush fund to help the Trump administration with its foreign policy goals, like erecting a wall between the U.S. and Mexico. Though the slush fund idea eventually fizzled out, the two Middle Eastern royals put at least $2 billion into two accounts for Kushner, the outlet reported.
The other bank account, referred to as Beta, was used by the crown prince to transfer $1 billion for Kushner, according to Vanity Fair. A source was quoted as saying that Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu learned that the Saudi royal had money for Kushner and encouraged the Trump son-in-law to have the funds deposited in the Israeli Central Bank instead.
Under the second Trump administration, Kushner, 45, has been acting as one half of the president's makeshift peacemaking duo alongside special envoy Steve Witkoff. He is married to the president's daughter Ivanka.
Kushner denied the allegations in a lengthy statement on Thursday.
"The allegations made by this author are completely insane and never happened," he said. "We denied every one of these claims on the record, yet the author failed to provide a single shred of evidence to substantiate any of them. No bank statements, wire transfer records, account numbers, transaction dates, or other verifiable details were provided to support these extraordinary accusations."
"These are outrageous fabrications being presented as investigative journalism," he added. "This is not journalism. It is a mixture of fantasy, fiction, and advocacy, written by someone who is either deeply disturbed or acting with sinister intent."
Chad Mizelle, an attorney for Kushner, also issued a statement on X refuting the claims. "Before publication, we sent Simon & Schuster a detailed 13-page letter responding to and categorically denying the extraordinary allegations made against my client, Jared Kushner, and challenging the total absence of supporting evidence. Vanity Fair has now published an excerpt amplifying these false and defamatory allegations," he wrote, vowing to "pursue legal action."
Screenshots from Kushner's phone were found on a remote server run by Russia's foreign military intelligence agency, according to a bombshell new book excerpt published by Vanity Fair, which President Donald Trump's son-in-law blasted as "outrageous fabrications."
The claims date back to 2017, when Dutch authorities arrested a Russian operative with the GRU after learning that he was traveling to the U.K. for a spy mission. The Dutch gave him two options: work for the Netherlands Defense Intelligence and Security Service, or get arrested by the British.
The Russian hacker decided to switch teams and is said to have given Dutch spies access to a sensitive GRU server that contained secret files with screenshots of Kushner's iPhone X, according to the excerpt of the book by freelance investigative journalist Matthew Cole.
By 2018, the Dutch had figured out how the Russians got into Kushner's phone—and they stayed on the device to track his activity, the report claims. They are said to have soon discovered Kushner logging into a UAE bank account that had received hundreds of millions of dollars from a bank in Azerbaijan.
At the time, Kushner served as a senior adviser to the president and director of the Office of American Innovation in the first Trump administration.
The bank account, which Vanity Fair dubbed Alpha, was held at First Abu Dhabi Bank in the UAE. It was overseen by Tahnoon bin Zayed, the bank's chairman—and brother of UAE ruler Mohamed bin Zayed.
The bank account stemmed from an idea by bin Zayed and Saudi Arabian Crown Prince Mohammed bin Salman to set up a slush fund to help the Trump administration with its foreign policy goals, like erecting a wall between the U.S. and Mexico. Though the slush fund idea eventually fizzled out, the two Middle Eastern royals put at least $2 billion into two accounts for Kushner, the outlet reported.
The other bank account, referred to as Beta, was used by the crown prince to transfer $1 billion for Kushner, according to Vanity Fair. A source was quoted as saying that Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu learned that the Saudi royal had money for Kushner and encouraged the Trump son-in-law to have the funds deposited in the Israeli Central Bank instead.
Under the second Trump administration, Kushner, 45, has been acting as one half of the president's makeshift peacemaking duo alongside special envoy Steve Witkoff. He is married to the president's daughter Ivanka.
Kushner denied the allegations in a lengthy statement on Thursday.
"The allegations made by this author are completely insane and never happened," he said. "We denied every one of these claims on the record, yet the author failed to provide a single shred of evidence to substantiate any of them. No bank statements, wire transfer records, account numbers, transaction dates, or other verifiable details were provided to support these extraordinary accusations."
"These are outrageous fabrications being presented as investigative journalism," he added. "This is not journalism. It is a mixture of fantasy, fiction, and advocacy, written by someone who is either deeply disturbed or acting with sinister intent."
Chad Mizelle, an attorney for Kushner, also issued a statement on X refuting the claims. "Before publication, we sent Simon & Schuster a detailed 13-page letter responding to and categorically denying the extraordinary allegations made against my client, Jared Kushner, and challenging the total absence of supporting evidence. Vanity Fair has now published an excerpt amplifying these false and defamatory allegations," he wrote, vowing to "pursue legal action."
Comment Re: Not surprising (Score 1) 40
Racists sure get angry when you call them out.
Comment Re:Zoe Kleinman ?! WTAF ?!?! (Score 1) 91
1. Slashdot is not the general public, FFS, and needs intelligent, factual technical stories written by their fellow "techies".
How many links about the PHP vulnerability have you submitted?
2. She has been talking shit about stuff she doesn't understand for a long time.
*Citation needed
3. There are many well-spoken people with actual technical knowledge who can explain stuff clearly based on that knowledge. Unfortunately many of them are white and have penises, so will not be employed by the BBC.
Not once today did I ever think about other peoples penises. You might want to do some deep self reflection. And while we're talking about skin color, Zoe looks pretty white to me. https://ancillary-proxy.atarimworker.io?url=https%3A%2F%2Fwww.linkedin.com%2Fposts...
Comment Re:Zoe Kleinman ?! WTAF ?!?! (Score 1) 91
Because the average person doesn't know PHP from PBJ. Oh and fuck off with your DEI bullshit.
Comment Re:Microwave beam is not a "heat ray" (Score 5, Interesting) 139
If you want to be sloppy and put all immigrants in the same bucket. 100% of illegal aliens are criminals. Even if they committed no crime after spitting in our faces and wiping their asses on our laws by breaking in.
If you left your house today I guarantee you were breaking some law in one form or another. Did you drive exactly the speed limit or fail to come to a complete stop? You also broke the law. So get down off your high horse. In the grand scheme of things someone being here illegally and working construction is about last on my list of priorities. You're being taken advantage of by propaganda so you don't see the people in charge robbing you blind.
If someone broke into my house and claimed a room, I wouldn't care if they didn't do anything else to hurt me. What they already did was enough for their asses the be dragged out and whooped in the street.
You don't own the country.
Comment Re:Give me a fsckin break (Score 2, Informative) 119
Google is selling AI as a service so it could easily set demands and requirements. Anthropic had the balls to say no to the military and it angered the dementia patient and the drunkard https://ancillary-proxy.atarimworker.io?url=https%3A%2F%2Fwww.bbc.com%2Fnews%2Fartic...
Comment Re:Times have changed (Score 0) 119
Please, you couldn't locate Iran if I handed you a blank map. You also didn't give one fuck about Iran until dear leader started antagonizing them. How many times have we declared the strait open again? https://ancillary-proxy.atarimworker.io?url=https%3A%2F%2Fhormuz.now%2F
Comment Re:Microwave beam is not a "heat ray" (Score 2, Informative) 139
It turns out that immigrants commit fewer crimes than citizens. https://ancillary-proxy.atarimworker.io?url=https%3A%2F%2Fdocs.house.gov%2Fmeeting...
I'll reserve comment on the current administration.
Comment Re:Microwave beam is not a "heat ray" (Score 1) 139
Microwave links are line of sight. I wouldn't want to stand in front of a transmitter.
