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  1. Re:Long Overdue on White House Considers Restricting Chinese Researchers Over Espionage Fears (nytimes.com) · · Score: 3, Insightful

    The CIA is in there too, but that's a horse of a different color for U.S. readers, isn't it.

    Yes. Also, it should be for most people. The US is, for all it's faults, open and free. China is a totalitarian regime. It's a false equivalence to claim they approach being equal to each other.

  2. I wonder if something got lost in translation. Or if it's trying to build off the success of "Made in China". But the three areas TFS covered were microchips, AI and electronic cars.

  3. Ah, it's to verify a whitelist? Cause that's not how JS works (well, it is on my machine, but...)

  4. Re:Made in China on White House Considers Restricting Chinese Researchers Over Espionage Fears (nytimes.com) · · Score: 5, Insightful

    Flip over your iPhone. It says "made in china, designed in cupernico". Their goal is to get rid of the second half. And to have "made in china" on the bottom of most websites (not literally, cause that would turn people off.)

    This is not an "own manufacturing facilities" push. This is an "own the IP" push.

  5. Re:Dammit Let the market work. on Senate Democrats Plan To Force Vote On Net Neutrality (engadget.com) · · Score: 1

    I think the government should either highly regulate ISPs or run them, like other utilities - at the very least on the last mile. But I'm not saying it's a bad idea. I'm saying your position sounds very much like regulation/government control. Which is ironic.

    I think most people you think are "saying it's a bad idea... something smells fishy" are actually calling out your hypocrisy. Also, I'll note, "anti-capitalist" is a weird phrase. It's likely to be wrong (pro-regulation != anti-capitalism) and comes across as pretty antagonistic.

  6. I run a small operation and usually try to find the $50 SSL certificate so I can keep going for another year. What does this mean for me?

    It depends on your certificate provider. It may require no changes on your part, if your certificate provider logs them in a CT log. If it doesn't you probably want to switch providers. There's nothing you can do to make up for them not doing it/make them (well, you can complain and see if they're fixing the problem soon enough).

    Note, Let's Encrypt (which is free) does log it, so other cert providers probably do too.

  7. How does "this is absolutely the URL you meant to go to" imply "give them the ability to phish by replicating the OS/browser fullscreen"? FFS, just because I want to make sure I'm getting data from somesite.com, doesn't mean I trust somesite.com to run code/be fullscreen/etc.

  8. Perhaps, on the other hand, without letsencrypt most of us would not have websites.

    Well, would not have encrypted connections to our websites... which Google is trying to make the same thing as not having a website. But I've had an unencrypted website for years. Mighty hackers, see my resume on route to other people!

  9. Re:Er, what about LetsEncrypt on Starting Today, Google Chrome Will Show Warnings for Non-Logged SSL Certificates (bleepingcomputer.com) · · Score: 4, Insightful

    No, we need warnings for certificates that aren't trusted. Otherwise SSL does nothing to prevent man-in-the-middle attacks.

    Sometimes, not protecting against a MITM attack is fine and I don't need to worry about preventing it. Examples include "being on a LAN and accessing something that is required to be behind https by W3C standards" or "local development of secure services before they're uploaded to test".

  10. Or, the UK blocks FB and FB loses tens of millions of subscribers overnight. I mean, sure that's small in the scheme of FB, but it's still a lot of money.

  11. Re:Median Salary on Talent War in Silicon Valley Demands High Salary (axios.com) · · Score: 1

    No, but maybe you should feel bad that whatever their salary is it dragged the median down to $28,000 so they're making much less than that

    Median literally means middle. It's not an average. It just means as many workers make less than 28k as make more than that. The lower half can all have salaries of 27.9k and the upper half can have salaries in the billions, and the median stays the same.

  12. Re:Title II != Net Neutrality on Senate Democrats Plan To Force Vote On Net Neutrality (engadget.com) · · Score: 1

    Title II means the internet would be regulated the same way as the radio.

    Or, more accurately the phone. The only reason the fairness doctrine existed was a limited number of content providers. That is not true of the phone or the Internet.

    Your "text of the bill" stuff is nonsense. It's simply overturns the FCC decision.

    You're right that the FCC would be bad if it did that. But there's no reason to think that's going to happen.

  13. Re:Dammit Let the market work. on Senate Democrats Plan To Force Vote On Net Neutrality (engadget.com) · · Score: 1

    More GOOD will come from opening up the infrastructure,

    So your fix for "too much government" is to confiscate the infrastructure (maybe only the last mile of infrastructure) from Comcast, AT&T, etc and lease it to their competitors.

  14. Re: Black Mirror again on China is Now Monitoring Employees' Brainwaves and Emotions (fastcompany.com) · · Score: 1

    That was my point. They implemented everything from 1984 and have moved on to implementing things from more recent sources. Like Black Mirror. Not "no longer do 1984" moved on, outgrew cause it didn't imagine smartphones and AI moved on.

  15. Re:Per-pupil spending 4x times that of the 60ies on Wages Aren't the Only Reason Teachers Are Striking (axios.com) · · Score: 1

    I do address it, implicitly, by pointing out, that, even if it were inadequate, it could not possibly have been only 25% of what was necessary... You can make this suggestion a little less ridiculous by pointing out something else, that became 4 times more expensive than it was in the 60ies.

    See, this is your bullshit. You insist it had to be 25% of adequate and later that I identify things that have quadrupled in price. If each only doubled, that would get us to 4x. And, since there are other variables, each has to less than double.

    But, here's your bullshit answer to the 4x cost (after adjusting for inflation): Management salaries, real estate (esp. in areas that have a lot of kids), women's wages (look at the gender gap for teachers, esp. in the 60's), wheat prices, etc. A lot of things have increased more than 4x, even adjusting for inflation.

  16. Re:This is an old scam on China is Now Monitoring Employees' Brainwaves and Emotions (fastcompany.com) · · Score: 1

    McKinsley (founded 1926) is "newer" than brain reading machines, millimeter wave cameras or even modern lie detectors?Heck, Six Sigma is older than the first two.

  17. Re:Per-pupil spending 4x times that of the 60ies on Wages Aren't the Only Reason Teachers Are Striking (axios.com) · · Score: 1

    See, you repeat "four times" a lot. But, since you don't address if the 1960's budget was adequate, what improvements in education have taken place, or if there are costs climbing higher than inflation, you're just talking about a delta. That's not useful by itself.

  18. Re:This is an old scam on China is Now Monitoring Employees' Brainwaves and Emotions (fastcompany.com) · · Score: 1

    As opposed to companies wisely buying McKinsey Consultants and Six-Sigma black belts.

  19. Re:When I read one of these articles... on China is Now Monitoring Employees' Brainwaves and Emotions (fastcompany.com) · · Score: 1

    I also lament that tech like this could actually work for our betterment, if only we could find a way to ensure it was deployed by trustworthy people with adequate safeguards against misuse.

    There's an easy solution to that - don't fucking network it. The vast majority of people who are spinning out of control don't know it. Just telling them they have an issue can get a lot of people to seek help.

  20. Re:Black Mirror again on China is Now Monitoring Employees' Brainwaves and Emotions (fastcompany.com) · · Score: 1

    1984 worked great as an instructional book for them, why wouldn't they move on once they completed that?

  21. Re:Per-pupil spending 4x times that of the 60ies on Wages Aren't the Only Reason Teachers Are Striking (axios.com) · · Score: 1

    Or, education in the 1960's wasn't spending enough and sucked? Or maybe some costs went up faster than inflation? Maybe we have computer labs and AV clubs with greenscreens and other stuff? Certainly, since then, we've added special education (which has added a lot to the budget) and women's sports.

    "We're spending more money" isn't an argument.

  22. Re:Parents? on Wages Aren't the Only Reason Teachers Are Striking (axios.com) · · Score: 1

    However, it's also instructive that local government most often cuts or neglects the core responsibilities when money gets tight; fire protection, police, schools.

    That's because that's where their budget is. 50+% of the total budget is education. Police and fire make up 50+% of the remaining budget. After that you get into lots of smaller budget items.

    Even "across the board" cuts will necessarily be focused on education, police and fire.

    (Budgets used are US-based)

  23. Re: Budgeting Hell on Wages Aren't the Only Reason Teachers Are Striking (axios.com) · · Score: 1

    While there are universities in America where you just take classes (and usually lack sports programs), the majority are designed around being residential facilities. As such, they have dining halls, gyms and a massive number of extra curricular. While not as useful careerwise, they often help round a person out. And competition between universities is important in sports, debate or anywhere where putting together a team is relevant.

  24. He's right, feeling have no technically correct. You don't have to dig deep to determine why (although you can). Now, what do you do about someone who is "simply offended by everything?" Probably ignore their input, and lose them as a customer. But they're not wrong in feeling that (psychological issues aside).

  25. They got a $40 MM investment like 5 years ago. I imagine most of the money goes to running the ad services and dealing with community management.