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We're doing penetration testing of our systems this week. I wonder how adversarial these guys feel when doing this stuff especially if their initial - oblique May 20, 10:04 5
- Ive found most tests to be futile efforts on stuff addressed years ago. Almost purposely setup to succeed to make the company look good. "Yeah, we're secure" -- nm* - budice May 20, 10:07 2
  - We had this done maybe 2 or 3 years ago (same company) and they got all the way to Domain Admin. I'm hoping for a better result this time :) -- nm - oblique May 20, 10:08 1
    - My work back in the day only funded DR tests to succeed. Otherwise seen as a waste of money/time. So it always was reported as a success. -- nm* - budice May 20, 10:16
- Who penetrates the penetrators? -- nm - Qale May 20, 10:07 1
  - From the top to bottom and then the bottom to the top? -- nm - JD May 20, 10:08
I'm shocked! Private equity sold off Red Lobster's land and then leased it back at higher than market rates. -- (link) - Mop🧹 May 20, 09:48 3
- Did they need the cash infusion from the property sale to keep the business afloat? Because it didn't work. -- nm - Masked Baron May 20, 10:09 1
  - And now I'm singing Weird Al's Mission Statement to myself... ~monetize our assets~ -- nm - Masked Baron May 20, 10:10
- personally I would write my tax code such that these kinds of shell games would be punitively assessed -- nm - hollywood big shot May 20, 09:51
now they’re just trying to Costanza a recession before Labor Day -- (link) - hollywood big shot May 20, 09:42 1
- Infinite, constant, sustained growth! Paperclips for everyone! -- nm - Mop🧹 May 20, 09:49
it’s like raaaaain -- (link) - hollywood big shot May 20, 09:41 2
- In a very uncharacteristic move, Carter's tombstone will read "FUCK THAT GUY". -- nm - Mop🧹 May 20, 10:17
- Wow, I hadn't thought of that. -- nm - zeitgeist May 20, 10:11
Nerds: In one of the Fallout New Vegas DLCs, the main NPCs are Dr. Klein, Dr. Mobius, Dr. O, Dr. Dala, Dr. 8 and Dr. Borous. - Tim May 20, 09:25 2
- a Klein bottle is a container with 0 volume - Reagen May 20, 09:28
- spoiler - oblique May 20, 09:27
"how bad you want us to lose? gotdamn!" -- (link) - hollywood big shot May 20, 09:21 1
- That was a really fun Q and A session with we've been losing the last 20 years as a highlight 8-) -- nm - JD May 20, 09:23
Cool random story about Bills rookie Keon Coleman. -- (pic) - Volnelk 🍊 May 20, 09:21 [Attachment] 1
- And now Keon's selling them for $29.99 on his website. Thanks, kid! -- nm - Krusty May 20, 09:32
SCOTUS refuses to hear case by conservative group to challenge Maryland school district transgender policy -- (link) - oblique May 20, 09:19
That season finale of The Traitors Australia S2 was something else. (spoils) -- (edited) - Jovian May 20, 08:42 6
- I just watched this last night too. I initially thought it was great but then agreed with you. -- nm - 🏳️‍🌈 mandy chem 🏳️‍🌈 May 20, 10:07
- spoiler - LMS May 20, 09:08 4
  - spoils - Jovian May 20, 09:52 3
    - although the best for me in the finale?? (spoils) - Jovian May 20, 09:55 2
      - the whole season was kind of ... do these people never self-reflect? (spoiler) - 🏳️‍🌈 mandy chem 🏳️‍🌈 May 20, 10:08 1
        
        OMG OMG (SPOILS) - Jovian May 20, 10:18
Pacers/Celtics Game 3 is in Indy on May 25th, the day of the Indy 500. There are ZERO hotel rooms left. -- nm - Remlik May 20, 08:20 14
- Uhm... isn't the 500 on a Sunday? That would be the 26th, so, same weekend. -- nm* - LFG May 20, 08:36 2
  - doh! thanks -- nm - Remlik May 20, 10:24
  - visitors will be amazed if their rooms even have indoor plumbing -- nm - hollywood big shot May 20, 09:38
- Doesn't that bode well for the home crowd? Shouldn't home fans not need hotel rooms? -- nm - JD May 20, 08:27 2
  - Won’t all the Indy car fans be able to sleep in their camper trailers? Walmart should charge for overnight parking -- nm* - Trending May 20, 08:29 1
    - The Indy fans already have their rooms. It's the basketball game date that was just announced yesterday. -- nm - JD May 20, 08:31
- Didn’t they just postpone a game, because of a crossover with the Fever? -- nm - Trending May 20, 08:23 4
  - the Fever moved a game. -- nm - Remlik May 20, 08:30
  - The two play in the same venue. The Indy 500 is ran on a racetrack. -- nm - LFG May 20, 08:29 2
    - Yep—but they can postpone, a day, to ease the burden on the city -- nm - Trending May 20, 08:30 1
      - LOFL - LFG May 20, 08:33
- Sounds like poor planning on someone's part. -- nm - sycor May 20, 08:22 1
  - Seriously. -- nm - ReluctantCynic May 20, 08:49
- I read this post and immediately wanted to go to ST to post it. -- nm* - Volnelk May 20, 08:20
I guess that's the end of any conservative support for the ICC going forward and through the end of time now. - Jovian May 20, 08:19 3
- Conservatives support the ICC? -- nm - znufrii May 20, 09:10
- oh no. the people that were never gonna support the icc aren’t gonna support the icc. -- nm - mafic May 20, 08:37
- the US has never recognized the ICC's jurisdiction since its inception because that would have subjected the Bush admin's war criminals to prosecution -- (link) - hollywood big shot May 20, 08:30
Fall Guy and Challengers both dropped less than 40% this weekend (38% and 33%!). And both are headed to PVOD this week. Insane. - MDH May 20, 07:58 1
- What price point are they going to PVOD at? -- nm - Dano May 20, 08:41
Wow. Alice Stewart (a very frequent CNN Political Commentator) died over the weekend at the age of 58. -- nm - Jovian May 20, 07:55 2
- 58! Must’ve been because of the jab 💉 -- nm - Right Wing Mouth Breaters May 20, 08:25 1
  - That is actually what is being pushed by the filth dwellers on X. -- nm - Jovian May 20, 08:30
Great Britain vs Norway at the World Hockey Championships: This one's for all the herring! -- nm - Reagen May 20, 07:48 1
- To make their sticks they first must cut down the tallest tree in the forest -- nm - rollo May 20, 08:08
DC getting "Pixar Putt" for 2 months. "First-ever, popup, mini golf experience featuring popular Pixar characters" It's $35/person. -- (link) - MDH May 20, 07:42 6
- $35 for mini golf is a ripoff. -- nm - znufrii May 20, 08:10 2
  - Truly. That better at least come with a cart, caddy, and complementary beer(s). -- nm - Masked Baron May 20, 08:42 1
    - I think the one near me is $10, can get it as cheap as $5 at the shore -- nm - znufrii May 20, 08:45
- I went to this in chicago a couple years ago, it was pretty shoddy and disappointing -- nm - rollo May 20, 08:07 1
  - *slaps a Buzz Lightyear sticker on a windmill and calls it a day* -- nm - Masked Baron May 20, 08:40
- I would so do that. I love putt putt -- nm - crash davis 😺 May 20, 07:47
Weekend viewing: The Fall Guy, B, no more, no less. 30 minutes too long. - Masked Baron May 20, 07:41 1
- Balls, this was supposed to go below. -- nm - Masked Baron May 20, 07:41
The The have announced their first tour in 24 years - MDH May 20, 07:39 5
- this is the day -- nm - hollywood big shot May 20, 08:59
- Wow. I was listening to them earlier today. -- nm - Dark Callisto 🦊 May 20, 08:03
- The who? -- nm - oblique May 20, 07:58 2
  - No, they've toured more recently. -- nm - Reagen May 20, 08:02 1
    - ha! like any of them are still alive .. as IF! -- nm - mud May 20, 08:23
I’m probably overthinking this connection -- (edited) - znufrii May 20, 07:34
Pacers say goodbye to New York...what is the song used? -- (link) - Remlik May 20, 07:19 6
- "Like I Need a Prayer" Andrew DeLong -- nm - Reagen May 20, 07:27 5
  - thank you! -- nm - Remlik May 20, 07:30
  - This dude -- (link) - Reagen May 20, 07:28 3
    - I ran shazam on it a ton and couldnt find it. How did you? -- nm - Remlik May 20, 07:34 2
      - Google Now Playing -- nm - Reagen May 20, 07:36 1
        
        ah thank you sir -- nm - Remlik May 20, 07:39
‘The Sandman’ cast additions: Esmé Creed-Miles as Delirium, Adrian Lester as Destiny and Barry Sloane as “The Prodigal.” -- (link) - mud May 20, 07:06
If you had May 19 as the first day I turned on my AC this year, please step to the window to collect your winnings. -- nm - Masked Baron May 20, 07:04 5
- I turned mine on Saturday I think it was -- nm - oblique May 20, 07:37
- I think I am the last to see the increase in electricity rates, but it has almost doubled. the kilo watt hour not our consumption -- nm - Pippy Shark May 20, 07:06 3
  - Doubled? Wow! Mine is middling to ok. I got a long contract though. -- nm - Qale May 20, 07:14 2
    - I am super pissed. we spent a lot of money on foam spray insulation to end up paying the same amount. I realize that it would be even higher without - Pippy Shark May 20, 08:04 1
      - Uh, what (watt)? That's not a commodity / service that quantity discount pricing should apply to -- nm - JD May 20, 08:30
weekend viewing: Outer Range S2, Spider-Man: Across the Spider-Verse, some hockey and some golf. -- nm - mud May 20, 07:01 7
- Bottoms B+, Palm Springs B+, Be Your Own Pet + CSS + Gossip + Sleigh Bells + Tegan and Sara: A - JD May 20, 09:09
- Palm Royale - Carole Burnett gets an A+, rest of the cast gets an A, series overall gets a C+, finale gets a D. -- nm - pmb May 20, 08:54
- Wrapped up The Afterparty S2 and started on Schmigadoon! S2. - Masked Baron May 20, 08:09
- I finished True Detective S4: A. Started watching Fallout -- nm - oblique May 20, 07:36
- Godzilla x Kong (B), started Dead Boy Detectives (A-) so far. A lot of Fallout 3, now that I have better weapons I'm enjoying it more. - sycor May 20, 07:29
- Madame Web 4/10 -- nm - crash davis 😺 May 20, 07:12
- Iron Claw B+, Madame Web DNF -- nm - Pippy Shark May 20, 07:06
St. Louis Cardinals unveil City Connect uniforms (for Kim's birthday) -- (link*) - crash davis 😺 May 20, 06:53 11
- Better. -- (pic) - Last Of My Kind May 20, 07:33 [Attachment] 4
  - Better -- (pic) - Last Of My Kind May 20, 07:34 [Attachment] 3
    - *kicks you in the face with a fundamentally perfect, but intense drop kick* -- nm - Yadi Molina May 20, 07:37
    - Better -- (pic) - Last Of My Kind May 20, 07:36 [Attachment] 1
      - 50 DKP minus. -- nm - Masked Baron May 20, 07:37
- They couldn't have done less but I'm good with it as their uniform is iconic and shouldn't be messed with. -- nm - Krusty May 20, 07:16
- Those look homemade. -- nm - Volnelk May 20, 07:15
- Gah, I hate that nickname. -- nm - Masked Baron May 20, 06:54 1
  - I think of Louisville but whatever. As Kris Bryant said. -- (pic) - Last Of My Kind May 20, 07:43 [Attachment]
- *uncontrollable snickering* -- nm - English people May 20, 06:53 1
  - indeed -- nm - crash davis 😺 May 20, 06:54
Dan Snyder (!) was behind the Young Trump movie and thought it was going to be a hagiography. He's pissed and wants to recut it after seeing it. -- (link) - Reagen May 20, 06:38 3
- Release The Snyder Cut -- nm - hollywood big shot May 20, 08:12
- The Nickelodeon guy? (No.) The Rebel Moon Guy? (That’s Zack.) The Twisted Sister Guy? (Dee.) The hot dog guy? (That’s Oscar Mayer.) -- nm - Mop🧹 May 20, 07:28
- Not sure why you're surprised by the who. Snyder is proving to be a contender for worse person ever (non-murdering-category) -- nm - Will Hunting May 20, 07:14
Ineluctable ˌinəˈləktəb(ə)l ADJECTIVE Unable to be resisted or avoided; inescapable. - crash davis 😺 May 20, 06:06 1
- Rodomontade ˌrädəmənˈtād NOUN Boastf ul or inflated talk or behavior. VERB Talk boastfully. - crash davis 😺 May 20, 06:48
Red Lobster files for bankruptcy -- (link) - budice May 20, 06:06 7
- what had happened was . . . -- (link) - hollywood big shot May 20, 08:40
- sounds like they were and had been already in trouble. But that investor group Thai Union really did them NO favors at all. -- nm - Jovian May 20, 07:47
- The chain has struggled since being sold to private equity. Then Thai Union, its supplier of shrimp, bought into the company. - Mop🧹 May 20, 07:17
- “ Red Lobster has assets between $1 billion and $10 billion and estimated liabilities of $1 billion to $10 billion”. That’s a lot of wiggle room. -- nm - Mop🧹 May 20, 07:12
- and announces an all you can eat shrimp deal? - tRuMaN May 20, 06:26 2
  - People are pointing at that but it's the same old leveraged buyout shit. -- nm - Reagen May 20, 06:34 1
    - with some potential missmanagement to favor your owners so they can drain all the cash from you before bankruptcy. i.e. typical capital management. -- nm - tRuMaN May 20, 06:42
Bruce Nordstrom, who helped grow family-led department store chain, passed away at 90 -- (link) - budice May 20, 06:01
Wordle 1,066 5/6 - crash davis 😺 May 20, 05:57
YGPB - mud May 20, 05:12 1
- PBYG - crash davis 😺 May 20, 06:02
Daily Myth for May 20 - znufrii May 20, 05:04 3
- You're welcome. -- nm - Bakunawa May 20, 06:18
- I like this visual -- nm - Pippy Shark May 20, 06:12
- i think we should do this every eclipse. -- nm - tRuMaN May 20, 06:05
Happy birthday, Kim! Woo hoo!!! 🥳🎂🎉 - Krusty May 20, 05:03 19
- HBD -- nm - zeitgeist May 20, 10:19
- happy birthday -- nm - Peglegpete May 20, 09:00
- happy birthday, Kim!! :) - — nm - i.b.! May 20, 08:56
- Happy Birthday! -- nm - pmb May 20, 08:54
- Happy happy, joy joy! -- nm - LFG May 20, 08:37
- Thank you all! ❤️ -- nm - Dark Callisto 🦊 May 20, 08:04
- Happiest of birthdays (and also glad to hear David is doing well!!!) -- (link) - oblique May 20, 07:56 [Image]
- Kim? The Kim? The one from the podcast? I luff her!! -- nm - Qale May 20, 07:53
- Happy Birthday!!! -- nm - Jovian May 20, 07:48
- Happy birthday! Hope it's a great day! -- nm - Last Of My Kind May 20, 07:45
- Woohoo! Happy Birthday! -- nm - sycor May 20, 06:32
- Happy happy birthday! Truly, you are a Malcolm Gladwell in a foodchem world -- nm - prayformojo 🐵 May 20, 05:59
- indeed! -- nm* - crash davis 😺 May 20, 05:57
- Happy birthday, my hero and role model. -- nm - David May 20, 05:55
- Happy Birthday!! -- nm - Pippy Shark May 20, 05:52
- Happy birthday! -- nm - ty97 May 20, 05:20
- bappy hirthday. -- nm - tRuMaN May 20, 05:08
- cheers!! -- nm - mud May 20, 05:07
- Happy Birthday!!! -- nm - Dano May 20, 05:04
Assange granted another appeal against extradition to US to face espionage charges -- (link) - znufrii May 20, 05:02
ICC prosecutor seeks arrest warrants for Netanyahu and Hamas leaders -- (link) - LMS May 20, 04:25 3
- Midnight Run II -- nm - hollywood big shot May 20, 05:59 2
  - OK, I laughed. -- nm - Reagen May 20, 06:06 1
    - I didn't. -- nm - mud May 20, 06:07

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