● NEWS ● #TruthOut #Finance ☞ #GOP Candidate JD Vance Accuses #Walmart of “Slave Labor” But Invests in Its Stock https://truthout.org/articles/gop-candidate-jd-vance-accuses-walmart-of-slave-labor-but-invests-in-its-stock/
#walmart
#Walmart lets orders to PO Boxes go through, then sends them to FedEx, which can’t put anything in a PO Box. - BaronHK’s Rants ⚓ https://baronhk.wordpress.com/2021/12/08/walmart-lets-orders-to-po-boxes-go-through-then-sends-them-to-fedex-which-cant-put-anything-in-a-po-box/ ䷉ #baronhk | more in http://schestowitz.com/2021/12/08/#latest
OK, the similarity in this case if rather apparent https://www.thefashionlaw.com/vans-accuses-walmart-of-escalating-campaign-of-infringement-in-new-trademark-case/ #vans #walmart
Latest #Openwashing by #LinuxFoundation • 𝖳𝗎𝗑 𝖬𝖺𝖼𝗁𝗂𝗇𝖾𝗌 ⇨ http://www.tuxmachines.org/node/156675 #walmart #Linux #TuxMachines
#linuxfoundation #openwashing #walmart now, i.e. the usual PR services http://techrights.org/wiki/Linux_Foundation
● NEWS ● #ACM #Education ☞ #Democracy and Technology: An Interview with Richard Sclove from Beth Simone Noveck https://dl.acm.org/doi/pdf/10.1145/3368273 "In 1994, I coined a term—the cybernetic #Walmart effect"
● NEWS ● #TheHill #Environment ☞ Judge dismisses #Greenpeace lawsuit against #Walmart https://thehill.com/policy/energy-environment/573247-judge-dismisses-greenpeace-lawsuit-against-walmart
● NEWS ● #Techdirt ☞ #Litecoin #Walmart Hoax Easily Exploits A Lazy U.S. Press https://www.techdirt.com/articles/20210914/06504947559/litecoin-walmart-hoax-easily-exploits-lazy-us-press.shtml
● NEWS ● #TruthOut #Walmart ☞ Predatory Banks at Walmarts Made Over 100 Percent of Profits From Overdraft Fees https://truthout.org/articles/predatory-banks-at-walmarts-made-over-100-percent-of-profits-from-overdraft-fees/
"The Most Unwanted Song" (optional version with score) is close-to 22 minutes of your life that you'll never get back if you listen to it in its entirety.
"The Most Unwanted Song" is an "avant-garde" novelty song created by artists Komar and Melamid and composer Dave Soldier in 1997. The song was designed to incorporate lyrical and musical elements that were annoying to most people. These elements included bagpipes, cowboy music, an opera singer rapping, and a children's choir that urged listeners to go shopping at Walmart. (Wikipedia)
[via reddit]
#music #NOTmywork #DEFINITELYnotmywork #KomarandMelamid #VitalyKomar #AlexanderMelamid #DaveSoldier #TheMostUnwantedSong #1997 #avantgarde #bagpipes #cowboymusic #operarap #childrenschoir #Walmart #politicalrally
They also made "The Most Wanted Song". Less unique. Also less Walmart.
Meow
#ElasticSearch, one of the database engines targeted by the #MeowDbAttack, has long had ZARRO authentication and security features in its free version.
(Security was added in only release 6.8, in May 2019, the database itself was released in 2010 https://www.elastic.co/guide/en/elasticsearch/reference/6.8/release-notes-6.8.0.html)
Instructions on securing the databse which remains unsecured by default are dated Februarry 2020:
https://www.elastic.co/blog/how-to-prevent-elasticsearch-server-breach-securing-elasticsearch
ElasticSearch is "trusted, used, and loved by" #Bayer, #Adobe, #Lenovo, #WalMart, and #Kroeger (https://www.elastic.co/elasticsearch/) and is the featured search utility on #AmazonAWS (https://aws.amazon.com/elasticsearch-service/)
The (strongly justified IMO) attack has removed nearly 4,000 unsecured databases since July 22:
One of the first publicly known examples of a Meow attack is an Elasticsearch database belonging to a VPN provider that claimed not to keep any logs.
I'd really like to hear from #ElasticNV or founder/CEO #ShayBanon. For now, crickets:
https://twitter.com/kimchy
https://twitter.com/elastic
HN: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=23957510
SO: https://stackoverflow.com/questions/63067062/elastic-search-indexes-gets-deleted-frequently
Vendor, service, client, and deployment bullshit like this is a major cause of my frustrations (and worse) with the IT industry.
Other targets include #MongoDB #Cassandra #CouchDB #Redis #Hadoop #Jenkins, and unsecured network-attached storage devices (NAS).
Hats off to Meow's authors.
#sysadmin #dbadmin #netadmin #devops #infosec #schadenfreude
