Both. Do both. Make it easier for them to address the issue than ignore you. Depending on which side of the aisle your MP is on, focus your letter on either “those evil <other side> are doing thus terrible thing, I know you’re bold enough to stand up to them.” or “this policy seems to have the following problems, and it’s leaving you open to attack from <other side>. It’d be a shame if you lost your position over it.”
I prefer wooden pegs with a stainless spring, but plastic has to be pretty much the worst choice.
What I find particularly concerning is that the were able to “hide javascript commands that link the victim’s phone to a new device” in the payload of a qr-code. I can’t see any valid use for javascript in the group joining process, I would expect the code to just be a signal URI with the relevant group ID, so is there sone external javascript interface being exposed?
If they’re anything like the pegs I got, vinegar won’t help, they basically crumbled to dust!
The glue on boxes is almost certainly that strong so that anyone trying to open the box to tamper with it will also rip it, making their attempt obvious. It drives me nuts too, but aparently that’s the sort of world we live in now.
If they’ve got the machinery to tow your machinery then definitely don’t risk it. At this point you can do more good if you’re out of gaol and not destitute. Mind you, if you can get ner their vehicles unnoticed, a squirt of milk in the vent air intakes could provide delayed revenge when it goes off.
An UPDATE without a WHERE clause that doesn’t get noticed for a week or two. Your data’s hosed and you can’t really cope with reverting to your last known good backup. Bonus points if you haven’t tested your recovery procedures recently. Then he runs around screeching about how the data is obviously fraudulent and he’s a genius for finding it.
Fair point, so maybe take a view on whether they’ve turned up with heavy machinery or just kidnap cars. In the OP’s case they don’t have time to prep, so they’re going to have to play things as they are. If you’re in a situation like this and do have time, you could find better ways to be able to blockade the road as needed. The blockage doesn’t need to last very long, even delaying their entry by minutes might give more people time to escape. Blocking their way out slows this operation and the next one. Once people know they’re in the area they lose the element of surprise.
It’s a real shame when that happens. It’d be terribly unfortunate if they accidentally dropped a few rolls of barbed wire that they were transporting, and they sprang open and got tangled all over the road and verge.
Oops, your tractor, or other large machinery just broke down at the narrowest part of the road. It’s unfortunate that it’ll take days, maybe weeks to fix, and noone can drive past in the interim.
If they can’t get their vehicles in, out back out, they’ll struggle to operate.
I started reading that from the top and got increasingly angry on the way down. That creature is a monster.
(In the ‘Churchgoer’ slide I think you have the wrong year on the bit about ICE)
One group you’ve missed that I think can do a lot of good are what you might call ‘Interference’. Basically finding ways to make the system less efficient and effective. The resistance manual that’s been going round has some ideas, but there’s also basic stuff that can gum up the processes they use to be evil.
If they start a tip line to identify a certain class of individual, send them tips. Lots of tips. Make them plausible so they have to divert time and energy to investigting them.
If you see an official vehicle when you’re travelling, obstruct it as much as could plausibly not be deliberate. Drive slowly and brake harder than you need to. In fact, do that anytime you can cause a nuisance.
Slow productivity anywhere you can. If you have to interact with a business that supports the oligarcy, do everything you can to reduce their efficiency. Call them repeatedly for minor things and talk for as long as possible. Place orders and then cancel them after they’ve started fulfilment. Return things.
Be sand in the cogs of the system without exposing yourself to direct physical danger. None of these things will end the threat on their own, but they make it easier for others to resist and add up if many people do them. If you’re working online use protection. A good, ideally foreign and non-logging, VPN helps, TOR also helps, but you should always assume these things c`n be compromised, so stack them.
They already have the money for the original paper, do they charge for retractions? I don’t know, but I’d assumed not.
Would the journals be under any obligation to accept these bad-faith revisions or retractions?
The problem with releasing them on day one is that you then can’t gather more. If you’ve only just exposed the edges of the malfeasance you need time to get the rest before exposing it. Go too early and the rest of the evidence can be destroyed, covered up or those holding it coearsed into silence.
Having a dead man’s switch is a way to ensure whatever you’ve gathered gets released if you’re no longer in a position to gather more. As such I disagree with the poster about making it public knowledge before release. Keep it secret until you have everything, then release it.
Trying to avoid using any arithmetic operators, and sticking just to binary (extending beyond 16 bit unsigned ints is left as an exercise for the interested reader):
#!/usr/bin/perl
# This increments $i
my $i=1;
print "Start: $i ";
if (($i & 0b1111111111111111) == 0b1111111111111111) {die "Overflow";}
if (($i & 0b0000000000000001) == 0b0000000000000000) {$i=(($i & 0b1111111111111110) | 0b0000000000000001);}
else
{
if (($i & 0b0111111111111111) == 0b0111111111111111) {$i=(($i & 0b0000000000000000) | 0b1000000000000000);}
if (($i & 0b0011111111111111) == 0b0011111111111111) {$i=(($i & 0b1000000000000000) | 0b0100000000000000);}
if (($i & 0b0001111111111111) == 0b0001111111111111) {$i=(($i & 0b1100000000000000) | 0b0010000000000000);}
if (($i & 0b0000111111111111) == 0b0000111111111111) {$i=(($i & 0b1110000000000000) | 0b0001000000000000);}
if (($i & 0b0000011111111111) == 0b0000011111111111) {$i=(($i & 0b1111000000000000) | 0b0000100000000000);}
if (($i & 0b0000001111111111) == 0b0000001111111111) {$i=(($i & 0b1111100000000000) | 0b0000010000000000);}
if (($i & 0b0000000111111111) == 0b0000000111111111) {$i=(($i & 0b1111110000000000) | 0b0000001000000000);}
if (($i & 0b0000000011111111) == 0b0000000011111111) {$i=(($i & 0b1111111000000000) | 0b0000000100000000);}
if (($i & 0b0000000001111111) == 0b0000000001111111) {$i=(($i & 0b1111111100000000) | 0b0000000010000000);}
if (($i & 0b0000000000111111) == 0b0000000000111111) {$i=(($i & 0b1111111110000000) | 0b0000000001000000);}
if (($i & 0b0000000000011111) == 0b0000000000011111) {$i=(($i & 0b1111111111000000) | 0b0000000000100000);}
if (($i & 0b0000000000001111) == 0b0000000000001111) {$i=(($i & 0b1111111111100000) | 0b0000000000010000);}
if (($i & 0b0000000000000111) == 0b0000000000000111) {$i=(($i & 0b1111111111110000) | 0b0000000000001000);}
if (($i & 0b0000000000000011) == 0b0000000000000011) {$i=(($i & 0b1111111111111000) | 0b0000000000000100);}
if (($i & 0b0000000000000001) == 0b0000000000000001) {$i=(($i & 0b1111111111111100) | 0b0000000000000010);}
}
print "End: $i\n";
Depending on exactly what you mean by importing from excel, there are libraries for Perl/Python/your scripting language of choice that will simplify that so it becomes a matter of a fairly small amount of code to build a test harness that does exactly what you want.
“Sure you can.” Later on the druid fails a diplomacy check because they’ve got an ant stuck between their teeth.
It certainly can be a pain in the proverbials. It’s one of those things that can be good or bad. When it’s the end user deliberately choosing to use it, it can provide extra peace of mind and lock down certain attack vectors, when it’s the vendor doing it, it’s just a way to make it harder to service your machine. That it also still locks down certain attack vectors is almost a byproduct in that scenario.
Matching communication styles is the key here. If there’s a general chatty vibe to the team and you’re the only one not engaging then you’re the odd one out and that will invite comment.
If your team are chatty, you don’t need to go all out at the same level they are, but showing some willing and chatting at least sometimes will usually be enough to ensure harmony. Knowing how to disengage without causing offence or annoyance is also an important skill.