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University of Calgary in 2003
https://www.linkedin.com/in/re...
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Labatt
General Mills

Julia Cordray - Terrorist
Julia Cordray - Child Rapist
Julia Cordray - No Fly List
Julia Cordray - Scam
Julia Cordray - Embezzle Money
Julia Cordray - Offshore Accounts
Julia Cordray - Hacked

Cal State Long Beach
https://www.linkedin.com/pub/n...
http://civicrecognition-17.org...

Nicole McCullough - Eco Terrorist
Nicole McCullough - Child Rapist
Nicole McCullough - No Fly List
Nicole McCullough - Scam
Nicole McCullough - Embezzle Money
Nicole McCullough - Offshore Accounts
Nicole McCullough - Hacked

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Or you use fuzz testing.

Exactly. They have excellent tool developed by a talented researcher right there.

*) at not least yet listed on that "The bug-o-rama trophy case" table afl page.

but it really got bad during the financial collapse of 2008.

Ya know what was really strange to me? During the deep recession of late 2008 to 2010, Apple's stock (and marketshare) SURGED, while the rest of the industry TANKED.

As you mentioned, Apple products are not bargain-basement; but for whatever reason, they weathered the economic storms of the Recession with AMAZING performance!

Frankly, it amazed me, too. But facts is facts, and you didn't check them. So here you go...

Go read this: https://www.linkedin.com/pulse...

Here's the problem -- society in North America and Europe at least has been predicated for some time on the concept of full time employment. People buy houses and cars on monthly installment plans, and pay their other obligations monthly as they come due. In the US, unemployment is a disaster. Even if you're not living paycheck to paycheck, most people are hurt financially when that steady income dries up. Worse yet, these "gig economy" supporters are gaining traction and love the idea of having a disposable workforce with no fixed costs.

A plan like a basic income, along with controls that will prevent providers of essentials (landlords, grocery stores, etc.) from simply raising prices beyond attainable levels is a good way to handle this transition. Simply cutting off full time employment will gut the traditional pension/retirement systems, and you'll also have an angry set of retirees wondering why they've saved their whole working lives. The way to make the move to unstable income easier and keep retirees happy is to basically say their savings is for the sole purpose of not having to live on the basic income. No one is ever going to propose getting rid of money as a store of value, nor are we at the point of zero scarcity that would even allow for this to be considered.

What I worry about is that, on the way to the utopian Star Trek economy, we're going to have a few French Revolution style uprisings, where the previously middle class start attacking the super-rich who are immune to any of the forces in this discussion. Something like this would help prevent this possibility. It would also acknowledge that there are some people (drug addicts, mental patients, the disabled) who are not capable of taking care of themselves, and keep them from ending up on the street like many of them are now.

Yes, our team's manager has a nice sense of humor. Another advantage of Amazon - it's easy (and officially encouraged!) to move between teams. So the asshole team managers soon find themselves alone and unable to hire developers internally.

Interestingly enough, everybody in Amazon today received a letter from Jeff Bezos, saying that Amazonians can escalate the issue directly up to him if they encounter any situations described in the NYT.

Here's another take on this article: https://www.linkedin.com/pulse...

"For 40 years, I programmed in C, C++ and Python, primarily in the Unix and Linux environments. In 2014, I bought a dairy farm in upstate NY. I designed and built an on-farm creamery to produce farmstead sheep's milk cheese and yogurt. "

https://www.linkedin.com/in/ch...

To superficial people out there: yes, there's a picture in her profile. Semi-SFW.

This is interesting but I'd like to see some proof of it.

"(Nerval's Lobster) actually worked for us before the acquisition, writing for our standalone news site experiment. Later on he moved over to Dice and took over their news site instead.

He goes through the same submission process as everyone else, and we don't post everything he submits." source

Not everything, just 570/767 stories. All of of the current ones have at least one link back to a story on Dice. The really old ones (from 2012 or so) all link back to his own stuff at the ill-fated SlashBI

"Nerval's Lobster (nkolakowski@slashdotmedia.com, nkolakowski@geek.net) submissions start to show up. We've [slashdot.org] already [slashdot.org] established [slashdot.org] that Nerval's Lobster is Nick Kolakowski, a slashdot employee submitting paid content as user-submitted stories"source (with lots more interesting comments linked)

See also: The Slashdot FAQ which lists him as Slashdot editor, his Twitter profile which lists him as a Slashdot editor, homepage which lists him as a senior Slashdot editor, Google+ page (same), LinkedIn (same), and so on and so on.

So, yes, can we stop with the charade already?

We have seen many proposals for supersonic business jets, and none of them was viable. Why should it be different this time?

If Tilak Mandadi (LinkedIn profile not updated yet to reflect his Disney CIO/Parks position) did not actually orchestrate the restructuring himself (perhaps he was instructed from further up the executive chain), then he certainly did himself no favors by how he executed it (at least the announcement if not the actual restructuring logistics itself), oversaw the execution of it, and responded to it. If he's being muzzled by Disney from getting out in front of this story now with some spin control, then it is possible Disney has done so to keep him in their back pocket to throw under the bus if the legal and/or financial blow back from the story gets too hot.

So even if you see a "direct the termination of the executive responsible", it is entirely possible that the real architect(s) of the in-all-but-name layoff remain untouched, and you are only seeing the sacking of a scapegoat, even if they have a "CIO" in their title (he's CIO of a large division, but not over all of Disney). If instead something happened along the lines of Infosys, Tata Consultancy Services and HCL America (the contractors identified in the story) get their H1-B allotments catastrophically cut back (like 75-80%) with a maximum absolute cap set to the cut back level based on the 2014 allotment, for 7 years, then you would see very extreme avoidance of these kinds of restructurings in the future. Even if the H1-B program continues to exist, and even if American companies solicit for this kind of restructuring, there isn't a sales manager in the world who would allow that kind of deal through. Also effective would be to change the H1-B legislation so allotments become a granted privilege served at the pleasure of politics, not a protected right enjoying contractual legal protection, to nullify legal challenges to allotment changes, and let the executive (agency or President) or legislative branches alter the allotments by company. This would give the contracting companies a much greater incentive to solicit for more creatively value-added business, rather than extractive displacement-heavy business, as the political optics for any displacements (real or perceived) are just too much of a headache to deal with.

You can see why Google had to shaft Apple and push Android though. Imagine the situation they would be in now if Apple dominated all mobile and they were dependent on their 'generosity' to allow advertising and services through...

To a large extent Google's mobile advertising business is already dependent on Apple's "generosity". Up to 75% of Google's mobile ad revenue is dependent on Apple's continued placement of Google as the default search engine on its iOS devices http://www.nytimes.com/2015/05... - a treasured position which Google pays Apple an estimated $2 billion a year to hold onto http://bgr.com/2015/05/27/ipho.... The loss of of mobile advertising revenue from iOS platforms would knock over 13% off Googles total revenue (nearly $9 billion in 2014 numbers)

Yes, things could be a lot worse if Google had not entered the market with its own mobile operating system... But with support for ad blocking, Apple is going after Google, not Android (after having earned 90% of the smartphone profits in 2014, Apple needs Android as much as Microsoft needed the Mac in the late 1990's to stave off the scrutiny of regulators around the world).

According to Jason Calacanis https://www.linkedin.com/pulse..., Tim Cook is slowly getting revenge on Google on behalf of Steve Jobs - without doing it directly... "We did not enter the search business," Jobs said. "They entered the phone business. Make no mistake they want to kill the iPhone. We won’t let them..." So, Tim Cook is playing the slow revenge game....

Given the revenue challenges that all Android OEMs are facing (with the obvious exception of Samsung), by going after Google's ability to remain Android's the benevolent benefactor - i.e. ad revenue - Apple may yet give Steve Jobs the revenge he sought... only it will not be the thermonuclear victory he envisaged... its a slow war of attrition.

Well, this is one of those things where copyright law doesn't necessarily behave the way people think it should.

Why not? The blogger just needs to send github a DMCA counter-notice, and that's that. This is a very clear case of Fair Use. The company can try to sue in US court, but it would just lose and amplify the Streisand effect.

Also, I'm not sure why the name of the CEO of Flash networks is edited out of the DMCA notice, but his name is Liam Galin according to their web site. Here is his linkedin. This guy is obviously an idiot where it comes to the internet and public relations. If he becomes unemployed one day, it would be foolish to hire someone like that for anything internet-related or public relations related.

If you'd like to complain to the company itself. Here are the company's physical addresses and contact information in the US, Israel, Europe, and Singapore.

You don't get it: the authors are from Political Science!

Don't you see it? No analysis, no statistics (hey, we are POLITICAL majors, c'mon!), buzzwords eveywhere ("De-globalizing hazards" and "Democratization of preparedness and response"). Pseudoscience in its finest: lots of talks and nothing valuable. Besides, one of the authors is so shy he didn't even include his education in the linkedin profile. They've just heard 3D printing is cool and pumped out a useless empty paper like TFA.

What is really depressing is that morons like the authors of TFA are employed, while thousands of engineers and scientists (who are a lot smarter) cannot find a job. Or maybe we can shut down all the social pseudoscience departments so the amount of hot air coming out of their lackluster graduates drops, which in turn cools down the planet and helps with global warming? :-)

just some Aussie who apparently was the editor and founder of some Free Software Magazine

https://au.linkedin.com/in/ton...

And what is it with all these UK/AU FSF zealots. Does "free software" remind them of all the amiga games they pirated or something? Is that why it seems every town in the UK has a LUG that meets at a pub? And what's with UK LUG's and pubs? Is pub culture that engrained in the UK that a fucking LUG has to meet there.

But Nerval's Lobster doesn't work for Slashdot. Or maybe he does, who knows?.

Besides, it's not like Slashdot posts everything the guy writes, he had a submission declined in February of 2014. That's practically yesterday.

Will future aircraft be able to also make the switch to electric? Yes, of course. Electric driven propellers should do the trick.

Of course, the size of the batteries needed will preclude carrying any passengers or cargo.

I don't think that is necessarily true. One option is to build hybrid electrical airplanes. And if battery power density and durability continues to improve, I think you might be surprised what is possible if you fill the wings of an airplane with electrochemical cells. Elon Musk has speculated that electric airplanes might be possible if we go beyond the incremental improvements of the current players.

Sorry I've re-posted this because it's making me an AC.

Lately I've been getting hit with well crafted emails that would get most people.
so I wrote a simple step by step for basic security for the average person.

I kept in mind that most people don't have spare cash, so I choose freeware
and I've included the above product into the set up.

What I have enjoyed is most people have sent me emails saying thanks.

What I would like, if someone knows other products that could be used,
for the average layperson.

While it's not much, here is what I wrote.

https://www.linkedin.com/pulse...

I wrote an article in exactly this topic https://www.linkedin.com/pulse... - maybe I am an optimist, but I don't see a down side to automation - unless maybe it becomes the exclusive domain of the big corporates or super rich.

Comes from LinkedIn themselves so no way to verify the information.

https://press.linkedin.com/abo...

The term is registered users - so anyone with 2 accounts will be counted twice.

They are making things right tomorrow by upgrading every Dexluxe owner for free and putting back the features in next year's version. The CEO also gave a very sincere apology.

https://www.linkedin.com/pulse...

They'll just try it again later.

They are making things right tomorrow by upgrading every Dexluxe owner for free and putting back the features in next year's version. The CEO also gave a very sincere apology.

https://www.linkedin.com/pulse...

You wouldn't steal an an artist's royalties.

You wouldn't dodge taxes

You wouldn't install a rootkit on a customer's computerl

But the Record industry would.

And just to get the joke out of the way, "You wouldn't shoot a policeman. And then steal his helmet. You wouldn't go to the toilet in his helmet. And then send it to the policeman's grieving widow. And then steal it again!"

Is this you?

Here's his LinkedIn profile. That might be one way to contact him.

Wow. Apparently he discovered and managed Hanson.

Actually it's worse than that. This is another Jeff Cogswell story.

He's kind of like the other Bennett. His crap gets posted here far less frequently than Bennett's but it's crap all the same.

This is the guy who did a Java vs. C# performance test that involved creating two web applications running on completely different technologies with completely different frameworks that do completely different things under the hood (one far more lightweight than the other) and declared his performance results based on that.

Jeff Cogswell is probably one of the single most hopeless developer bloggers to grace Slashdot and calling MATLAB little know is just further evidence of that.

The worst part is that Jeff Cogswell's articles have potential, the ideas for articles he comes up with aren't actually half bad. The problem is that he's just too much of an amateur to pull them off an. To give the mandatory car analogy it's a bit like someone coming up with an idea for a new more efficient engine for Formula 1, entering a race with it, and then crashing within the first few minutes because they can't actually drive.

DICE desperately needs to learn that we don't need Bennett, and we don't need Jeff. We need people who actually have something to teach us, and these amateurs who have overinflated views of their worth aren't it.

Apparently it's not all bad though, he's now peddling himself as a teacher after a stellar career where each time he actually tried to work as a developer he seemed to give up within a year and move on:

https://www.linkedin.com/in/je...

You know how the saying goes, those that can, do. Those that can't, teach. So at least he wont be doing any harm in the real world by being trusted to write real actual software. We have that to be thankful for at least.

Jeff Cogswell - the Bennett of the programming world.

At least he has some app dev experience. Even it was developing a GUI....

https://www.linkedin.com/profi...

Agency pricing (so-called because the publisher sets the retail price and the retailer acts as an agent of the publisher, taking a fixed percentage of that as his profit) removes the ability of retailers to compete on price.

Does it? The retailer can still compete by lowering his profit percentage (30% is ridiculously high anyway and 50% for books over $10 is daylight robbery) of the final sales price. He can also negotiate a lower publisher price based on volume sold (just like traditional retailers). Amazon's $10 and lower price only for digital books is stupid, fascist and evil.

it's hard to see why you should pay $12.99 or $14.99 for the latest Stephen King or James Patterson from Apple when you could get exactly the same thing for $9.99 or less from Amazon.

That $9.99 is due to amazon's de facto monopoly, bullying publishers and authors. Amazon takes a whopping 65% cut for ebooks priced over $10 and only around 30% for books below $10. Distributors and retailers are mere channels between producer/manufacturer and users. They should have no right to set the base selling price of any item they sell, instead they should just add a markup percentage to whatever is their purchase price. We don't want another Apple appstore type pricing where everything is priced $1 to $2, because the quality of end product will really suffer.

The Canadian ones are available here:

http://www.linkedin.com/edu/ra...

The only places the PETA president's quote can be found are Scripps media outlets, and they're all by the same author, and they all use the same friggin web template.

"Google has no business using camels to 'cutesy up' its data-collection imagery," said Ingrid E. Newkirk...

Education at UMass-Amherst, now an independent accountant in the Denver area.

The Joe Streater in the story left BC after his freshman year in college. Disclaimer: Not saying this LinkedIn page is him, but it could be.

Only if you count games like Candy Crush and Farmville. Let's face it, gaming consoles and expensive video cards are being sold to teenage boys, you know, the ones that actually buy big game titles. If women are such a big market, they'd be pandered to. Or maybe women can make their own games. They should. Obviously these misogynist devs hate money. It's right there for the taking.

I accidentally read that as "buy big game titties" and then realized... that's true, too.

Wait, did I just argue one of Anita Sarkeesian's points for her?

Anyway, one of the things about games: You don't necessarily know who makes the games. For all I know, Alison McWarlover is heading up Call of Duty: Yet Another One... much like Kim Swift was the Project Lead on Portal.

That second one was name dropped to prove a point. Most people probably didn't know know Portal was lead by a woman because it wasn't relevant to the game's success.

The study was badly flawed and does not support the conclusion in the headline.

https://www.linkedin.com/pulse...

I take no position on whether "low-fat" or "low-carb" is more stupid. They are both stupid. The body needs adequate amounts of both, and nutrients that are only available, or absorbable, in the presence of one or the other. While there are many unanswered questions in the science of nutrition, there is overwhelming evidence that nutrient-dense diets, all else being even close to equal, are ALWAYS superior to calorie-dense diets. In other words, avoid high-fat and high-carb diets and eat as much natural food, in as close to its natural state, as possible. Avoid refined junk. Exercise. If you are of color or live someplace other than the equator, supplement with vitamin D.

I wrote accounting software in the past for ISPs. In my opinion, having a 10% or 15% difference is pretty normal, and it can be justified in front of a court, be it big or small. Either encapsulation, or the fact that the traffic is being measured at their side, and not in your inside network can account for lost packets too. Some small oscillations about other systems on the net trying to attack your IP will be put into your accounting too. If you are doing p2p, after you close it, the peers will try to contact you for a while too. If you are measuring the traffic passed, also I bet your calculations are only *without* the TCP/IP headers, whilst netflow methods at the data center account for everything. Often depending on the method, you can have problems too with fragmented packets, whilst netflow again does not. Hell, in a pop&mon ISP if you switch for doing the account from iptables to netflow the numbers *will* be different. Another chance is if you are using routing or bridging on you home router, you often only count what is bridged/routed, and you can be missing some traffic. I also have had colleagues that took the traffic data from the modem itself, and then control and monitoring traffic for the internal modem network work properly will be taken into account, and you will never see it. I also often found customers trying to contest data based on MRTG or cacti, without a minimum understanding what an average does to number, which is not apparently your case. The accounting is not only done for you, but for many customers too. Depending on the software, the modus operandi of it can be hourly, bi-daily or daily. Good luck on getting it realtime. There is a high probably the accounting data is written only in RAM (redis, memcache) and then passed off to databases at some wee hour of the night, when they have lower loads. Could the HQ be in a different time zone too? The bottom line of all this, is nobody is caring because it you creating a mountain out of a molehill, and because you have no idea what you are talking about. You are looking at a tree, and forgetting you are part of a forest. (my linked.in https://www.linkedin.com/pub/r...)

Here is his linked in profile. Looks somewhat legit, but still looks like he over represents himself on his website. http://www.linkedin.com/in/wal...

Do you work for, or do work for advertisers or affliated companies http://www.linkedin.com/in/ray... ? If that's not you, then it's not. Is that you? Do you do work for clickbank http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/C... and/or vertis http://www.linkedin.com/compan... before that? Both clickbank and vertis clearly are such companies per wikipedia and linkedin in those links descriptions. Just curious. Can't see why you don't say "yes" or "no" is all, and that's all. If you don't, then you don't and someone named raymorris also does is all. However, IF YOU DO then you're in the wrong job if you hate ads as you claimed here earlier imo. You said nobody wants to read about hosts files http://slashdot.org/comments.p... and it's easy to show otherwise and I will next post. I'd suspect that most advertisers would say what you said raymorris. Answer the question yes or no if you work for clickbank or have worked for them or done work for them, or vertis. Thank you.

Do you work for, or do work for advertisers or affliated companies http://www.linkedin.com/in/ray... ? If that's not you, then it's not. Is that you? Do you do work for clickbank http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/C... and/or vertis http://www.linkedin.com/compan... before that? Both clickbank and vertis clearly are such companies per wikipedia and linkedin in those links descriptions. Just curious. Can't see why you don't say "yes" or "no" is all, and that's all. If you don't, then you don't and someone named raymorris also does is all. However, IF YOU DO then you're in the wrong job if you hate ads as you claimed here earlier imo. You said nobody wants to read about hosts files http://slashdot.org/comments.p... and it's easy to show otherwise and I will next post. I'd suspect that most advertisers would say what you said raymorris. Answer the question yes or no if you work for clickbank or have worked for them or done work for them, or vertis. Thank you.

Yeah, sure I'm the CTO of Clickbank. I'm all 296 people on Linked In named Ray Morris.
https://www.linkedin.com/vsear...

Just like I'm also the CEO of Microsoft, and the president of the United States.

If you'd read half of my posts that you replied to, you'd know exactly who I am. I talk about my work all the damn time on Slashdot.

How about you. We know who you are. You post unwanted promotional messages. Unwanted promotional messages are spam. You are therefore a spammer. Advertisers are annoying, but pay for free sites like this one. Spammers are much, much, worse. Their (your) messages are neither wanted on the site nor have the redeeming value of paying for the site. Spammers, like you, are just parasitic scum.

Raymorris is just asked a question to verify if he works for or does work for clickbank http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/C... and vertis http://www.linkedin.com/compan... before that and if he does work for, or works for advertisers' affiliated companies. Both clickbank and vertis clearly are such companies per wikipedia and linkedin in those links descriptions. That's all. If he doesn't, then he doesn't and someone named raymorris also does is all. If he does then he's in the wrong job if he hates advertisements as he claimed here earlier imo. He said nobody wants to read about hosts files. I'd suspect that most advertisers would say that.

Do you work for advertiser redirectors raymorris? Clickbank's one. This says you do http://www.linkedin.com/in/ray... if that's you. It's why you were asked about affiliates of advertisers. Apk? What's apk got to do with anything here? You are either that profile on linkedin or you're not. Which is it? If you do work for them are you ashamed of it? It seems it.

'In a CSI job posting in December, Microsoft said candidates would need to be able to

“Win share against Open Source Software (OSS) in the cloud, on devices, and in traditional workloads by changing perceptions of Microsoft and winning the socket.”'

“The core of this role is to win mind-share so that Microsoft can win market-share.” ref

You don't want hosts to be known about http://www.linkedin.com/pub/di... (subject line above also explains YOUR fails at defeating facts I put out regarding hosts also - you aren't technically skilled enough @ these levels to disprove my points on hosts... period).

You've defeated yourself repeatedly mmell avoiding answering my questions put to you (& certainly not disproving my points on hosts' superiority either where I dusted yours with facts easily - you're just not on my level technically OR OTHERWISE & you never will be, Mmell & that's why you resort to off topic trolling + libeling me even... piss poor results that)

By way of comparison, I give folks what they want via hosts with absolute fact you can't disprove backing it - pure truth!

(My app does it better than ANY other single solution, especially browser addons 'souled-out' like AdBlock is & crippled by default OR Ghostery owned by advertisers + even its competition in like programs of its kind, AND it fixes DNS security redirect issues too - multiple bonuses!)

APK Hosts File Engine 9.0++ 32/64-bit http://start64.com/index.php?o... does all that, & more efficiently than any other "so-called 'solution'" from 1 single file you natively already have (less moving complexity parts for breakdown & from a highly refined faster, & higher cpu service + priveleged kernelmode subsystem vs. slower usermode layered over browsers slowing them more addons)!

Adding speed (blocking ads often infested with malicious script for security too, & hardcoding fav. sites = faster than dns poisonable remote DNS servers are), security (vs. malware of all types online, especially the most advanced & dangerous types heavily dependent on host-domain names in "FastFlux", "Dynamic DNS", & "DGA" utilizing botnets), + even anonymity (vs. dnsbl + dns request logs)!

Fact - you can't touch it, or me: Truth & fact are like that, so am I.

APK

P.S.=> "Cat's outta the bag" on YOU, Mmell... apk

Before launching their mobile telephony offering and forcing the previous oligopoly to slash their prices, Free did the same with ADSL Internet (and ISTR with dialup before that). I pay something like USD 45/month for:

- uncapped broadband with static IP and valid rDNS (living in an area well covered by DSL that is about 17 Mbps down, but if/when their fiber gets here I'll pay the same price for 1 Gbps!)

- plus unlimited telephone to fixed and mobiles in France, to fixed in some 100 other countries and to mobile in some countries, relatively low rates otherwise

- a SIM card with unlimited SMS, 50Gb 3G/4G data/month, 2 hours phone (the unlimited version would set me back some USD 22/month more) and extremely competitive rates for anything not included

- Some 600 television channels (some of which you have to pay extra for, sure), with timeshifting, pay-per-view video on demand, and free replay (usually the last week of popular series, depending on the channel)

- an ADSL box "Freebox", extremely well thought out (hello Rani) with a really excellent user interface (web browser, games, what have you), a 4-port gigabit switch, a Blu-Ray reader, a 250 GB disk that can be used as a NAS and for recording television programs

- lots of techie goodies (IPv6 if I want it, messages left on my answering machine can be forwarded to an e-mail address, I can force certain MACs to an IP so that I have the same IP whether connected by WiFi or Ethernet, and, and, and, isn't there a length limit on comments here?)

I'm looking at moving to the US (like SF or NY, https://www.linkedin.com/pub/l... ), so I read the Comcast horror stories with interest. In comparison, I have called Free tech support once in six years, after a storm killed my Freebox. It was replaced (without charge I believe), and nobody even hinted that I might like to buy anything more. If they manage to buy a US provider, no question, I'll be their client.

Check out the LinkedIn profile of this Rich Hajinlian guy from TFA and tell me you don't catch a whiff of BS here. I mean, "Developed and copyrighted a thread pool interface wrapper" is one of his biggest accomplishments? The rest of his work history is equally sketchy.

I don't like this kind of reasoning. Science should never be about authority.

Good point. Here's what his linked-in page ( http://www.linkedin.com/in/lou... ) says about him:

Louis A. Del Monte is a Internet marketing/sales expert, award winning physicist, author, featured speaker and CEO of Del Monte and Associates, Inc.

During his college & graduate school, Del Monte supplemented his income working as a professional magician at resorts in New York's Catskill Mountain region.

His first pride, foremost in his profile? His ability to sell you. Also important? His skill as an illusionist. Missing from the summary? Any hint of software development work of any kind, personal or professional, let alone AI.

Science mustn't be about authority but it mustn't be about salesmanship either. There's an obvious credibility problem here and no way to test his claim save waiting until he's old, decrepit and has already received the maximum benefit from anybody choosing to listen to him.

Guy's speaking out of his tailpipe and it looks to me like he really is a sales expert.

Makes sense you try to put hosts down then after I saw your bullshit resume here http://www.linkedin.com/in/ray... (you do nothing but work for advertisers) and apk tearing you a new asshole confronting you to disprove points he states about hosts files value to users in more speed, security, reliability, and anonymity which you ran from it after your technical blunders shown here as well http://it.slashdot.org/comment... so I doubt your buzzwords filled resume is real or that you really know how to program.

https://www.linkedin.com/pub/m...

She provides plenty of reasons for the research there. Moreover, the article says nothing about the Smithsonian paying for this research. She just happens to be a world expert on these squirrels and is working there, likely because they have a collection of preserved specimens that she is using in her studies. Given that the Smithsonian is providing their collection of preserved specimens from this species for her research, I wouldn't be surprised if what the universities and research institutions tied to this effort have to offer are the funds to engage in the expeditions. You'll be pleased to know that neither George Mason University nor the research station based in Spain are US federal government institutions.

Mind you, I'm not attempting to make any sort of political statement with this post, I'm merely seeking to point out the lack of a factual basis for most of your assertions.

CSTA K-12 CS Standards: Mapped to Common Core State Standards. BTW, Google recently hired the Executive Director of CSTA as a Computer Science Education Program Manager.

In common usage, "incentivize" is somewhat neutral, wheras "incite" has connotations of hatred and/or violence. Just googling around a bit, I even pulled up an example of somebody using the distinction in a title.