The point of the comic is that people expect a firewall to protect them from attacks, but then the attack comes in as a path traversal and the firewall does nothing.

It's called a Path Traversal attack.

Basically, if you add a ../ in a query, you can start to work backwards in the directory tree to root, then go up again to someplace you shouldn't go. The firewall doesn't block this attack, cause it's just doing a regular HTTP(s) request.

https://owasp.org/www-community/attacks/Path_Traversal

Sorry to burst your bubble, but those don't work without a lot of gym time.

If you're on the juice, but don't put in the work, your body just gets weird.

You don't need to take them apart, you can just plug in an outlet tester.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Electrical_outlet_tester

Also, depending on what you plug into it, the device itself might complain about a missing ground connection.

Of course, if you're looking for other issues, you might have to take it apart, but just checking if everything is connected the way it's supposed to can be done non-invasively.

My best friend? Gets the cash no questions asked.

If I needed additional follow ups, then he's not really my best friend.

I think using this exact language may be your problem. 🤣

If you're going to carry a towel everywhere, then might as well wear it. But at that point I'm just saying everyone should just wear kilts.

You can't imagine what a $2 trillion budget can do to a bond market?

If someone is from the UK and you ask where they're from and they answer Scotland, do you roll your eyes?

If someone is from Paris, do you get mad that they didn't say France?

People expect others to know a little geography, so if you're from one of the bigger states, you can assume most people have heard of it. After all, there's a pretty big difference between the average person from California, and the average person from Arkansas.

The point is that the court was NOT using AI, but any attempt to subvert the justice system is really bad.

Read the article, you do not want members of a legal system trying to hack each other's computers.

His punishment is that he needs to submit all his paperwork in person and on physical paper. The court system did everything correctly. He was caught cause a human noticed weird spacing and a difference between his physical forms and digital submissions.

Definitely AI.

The dog isn't hitting the cones in a way that would actually knock them over.

The third cone falls jumps and falls apart after.

People's reactions are... Weird.

About 5% of the audience is weirdly blurred out.

The sound doesn't really match what's happening.

And that type of a dog agility trial wouldn't have that big of an audience.

Edit: I completely missed the fact that the PVC pipe jumps have no feet. There's no way they'd be standing like that. And those types of jumps also have the bar on pegs so they can fall if the dog "misses" the jump.

One example:
https://clipandgoagility.com/dog-agility-jumps/ready-jump-dog-agility

I pronounce it Oosa, so USA is an acronym for me.

Look, all I know is if I buy a computer and it breaks up with me and fucks off to another dimension, I'm asking for a refund.

Except that won't be valid for warranty repairs. If you want your computer fixed at the manufacturer's cost, you have to take it to a manufacturer certified shop. At least Best Buy can handle it locally and you don't need to sent it off.

You're making the same mistake as the guy who got caught.

No AI was used by the court system. The humans in the courts saw an attempt to hack a process that doesn't exist. Just cause his attempt failed doesn't mean he doesn't deserve to get punished.

If you attempt to kill someone, but fail, even if there was no way for it to work, you still go to jail.

I found that a lot of banks reject it unless both of the fields have been active inputs.

So do the auto fill, then click each field so it thinks they were both used, then click login.

Dumb, but two of my financial institutions require it.

This is LIKELY referring to a texas law that was advanced 3 years ago banning local governments from implementing their own health and safety laws.

https://www.texastribune.org/2023/06/16/texas-heat-wave-water-break-construction-workers/ .

This post implies that it was done at the federal level, since it uses a picture of Johnson, the speaker of the US House of Reps.

I'd like to see any evidence that this is being done at the national level. Texas is it's own subset of dumbfuckery.

in before - "Well, it just shows what could happen" no -- we don't need to lie to imply falsehoods to exaggerate what's actually happening. There's plenty of bullshit out there that we don't need to make it up.

edit: See Folstar's comment below - I was not up to date on the shenanigans happening at the federal level.

Thank you, I did miss that.

Wrong company to defend here. They know exactly what's going on and they encourage it cause it makes them buckets of cash.

Oh maybe monitoring chats for sex pests. Referring things to the cops when you see blatantly illegal things.

Paying proper moderators.

Not encouraging minors to code up games for pennies.

You know, what any in person for-profit location would do to keep the place safe for kids.

We keep pretending that just cause it happens on a computer, that there's nothing that can be done, but the root cause is that these people are so greedy that they're actually ENCOURAGING kids to get taken advantage of, instead of putting any effort into stopping it.