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>Asked if there was evidence the database had already faced concerted attacks, scraping, or scanning, Rogers said, “I don’t want to get into it.”
>“Not that I am aware of,” he added. “I don’t know.”
>Rogers declined to comment on whether he’d been approached by national security officials about the site.
Good luck trying to destroy a digital record at this point.
Edit, Referenced: https://www.technologyreview.com/s/614642/dna-database-gedma...
Edit, Also incredibly relevant: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=21461957
https://www.huffpost.com/entry/jnco-jeans-comeback-cost-250_...
Even if both of those had been appropriate, his sentence fair and he was making obvious efforts to avoid past behavior, you couldn't be sure that you weren't taking money that was generated from the trafficking of other human beings. That's where Ito fucked up, plain and simple.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jeffrey_Epstein#Conviction_and...
"While most convicted sex offenders in Florida are sent to state prison, Epstein was instead housed in a private wing of the Palm Beach County Stockade and, according to the sheriff's office, was after 3 1⁄2 months allowed to leave the jail on "work release" for up to 12 hours a day, 6 days a week. This contravened the sheriff's own policies requiring a maximum remaining sentence of 10 months and making sex offenders ineligible for the privilege. He was allowed to come and go outside of specified release hours.
Epstein's cell door was left unlocked, and he had access to the attorney room where a television was installed for him, before he was moved to the Stockade's previously unstaffed infirmary. He worked at the office of a foundation he had created shortly before reporting to jail; he dissolved it after he had served his time. The Sheriff's Office received $128,000 from Epstein's non-profit to pay for the costs of extra services being provided during his work release. His office was monitored by "permit deputies" whose overtime was paid by Epstein. They were required to wear suits, and checked in "welcomed guests" at the "front desk". Later the Sheriff's Office said these guest logs were destroyed per the department's "records retention" rules (although inexplicably the Stockade visitor logs were not). He was allowed to use his own driver to drive him between jail and his office and other appointments."
Info on his wikipedia page is well sourced: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jeffrey_Epstein#Conviction_and...
Ito visited Epstein several times at Epstein's residences, which all apparently are plastered with enough "art" to make someone question if he really was a "reformed" sex offender. It should be perfectly clear to everyone that Ito understood two things: Epstein wasn't rehabilitated and Ito could claim enough plausible deniability if his dirty laundry ever got aired. His apology would be more meaningful if he actually donated to charities out of his own pocket rather than promising to externally raise funds...
Check out the his Wikipedia entry on how lax that sentence was.
0: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jeffrey_Epstein#Conviction_and...
This apology would've meant something had it happened a month ago. Or if had any substance beyond vague usage of the words apology and sorry.
This is damage control pure and simple and without tact. Had this been disclosed say a month earlier as the new criminal case began to form, this apology might actually mean something other than "Shit now everyone sees this putrid stink cloud is hanging around me too."
The mindful way through depression: Zindel Segal at TEDxUTSC https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=1A4w3W94ygA The book that the talk is based on: https://www.amazon.com/Mindful-Way-Through-Depression-Unhapp...
Just my 2 c
This article and mod are helpful, even if obvious, for people like me who bought an official case with my RPi4 expecting them to work well together.
Also excited to follow your Dramble project!
The one thing I wish it did have a search function lol.
EDIT: A big reason I pushed away from digital and on to physical was distractions. Paper notebooks dont have the majority of human knowledge and world events just a click away.
I'd add that it's the the incredibly immature economic system, paired with an even more immature(new) industry that leads to this kind of failure.
I feel like this is a symptom of tech in capitalism. Where the goal is to maximize profits and minimize effort, rather than doing the job correctly. Fitting that this would befall a high freq trading firm.