Because if the request also covers emails between the company organizers and the 1.3 million people that casually are even interested in VPNs, any deleted messages and files, as well as subscriber information — such as names and addresses — and unpublished photos and blog posts that are stored in the site’s database, that would be some serious fascist shit I'd expect from a second rate dictatorship like China.
The last year I was in grad school, the Computer Science department was having a crisis. There were no female grad school applicants, none. Contrast this with around 40 males (of which Asian and middle eastern nationalities were over represented). The solution is not to force people into equal outcomes based on local populations because it's simple, if you want to do equal outcomes at least have a pool that reflects actual interests.
The real solution is to fix the problem before it becomes one, during youth. Many of the issues around diversity revolves around opportunity. Give scholarships, and perhaps a stipend if they support thier family, to promising youths of low income in disadvantaged areas. No need to discriminate on race or sex either as the people who fit this will be stastically far more likely to be the ones affirmative action or women's programs are intended to help. Further more can be done to nurture and cultivate interest through role models, providing opportunity will make these efforts more effective as they will be within reach. The money spent will fix so many auxiliary problems with society that it is insane not to spend it this way.
Equal outcome before opportunities is like trying to cure STD years after the fact instead of providing free vaccines, education and condoms. It also serves to unite and inflame bigots like the alt right and undermines and cheapens those who really did earn thier positions on merit.
But please read the full memo with links before settling on an opinion. I was listening to NPR just two days ago and they resorted to straw man arguments and condemnation without being truthful about what it's contents were. Also keep in mind it was written as an internal reply in response to a specific request by google for controversial thoughts on improving workplace diversity practices.
Lack of oversight and a complete inability to keep their own exploits out of the hands of criminals and foreign powers is the exact reason we should be shuttering the doors on this nonsense. Its far better for everyone in the long run to patch exploits instead of hoarding them and turning them into a tool to undermine the very safety and security of the nation they were "meant" to protect. This exact same issue applies to back doors on encryption or secure systems of any kind. No one will probably care until the entire economy crashes after a back door exploit leaks out on financial transactions.
Like I said, no one reads it as reading is probably hard for them. They just like setting straw man arguments aflame on the internet and basking in the warmth.
Lowering the standards, or turning away people based on thier gender or race does cheapen and undermine all of those people who were hired. Further, hiring less qualified people based on race or gender promotes the belief they are inferior, you only need to look at the workforce to verify this as a "fact". Further you didn't read his document because if you did you would not come away with him specifically saying he has an "edge". He specifically says he does not if you read it.
In the end, he still says his gender has the edge in technical fields.
WHY ARE YOU LYING?
You obviously did not read the document. What he said was that biology may drive women to prefer different careers than men and that this is a contributing factor (among others) as to why there is a gender gap in tech. His entire argument is that aiming for a 50/50 split is itself discriminatory and we should instead investigate other methods to ensure diversity.
Your false claims are either you parroting some "fake-rage-media-warrior" or your own mental refusal to acknowledge any viewpoint that contradicts your own.
Proof he did not read it just as I said lmafo. Further shill accounts probably modded me down, go ahead you sellouts.
James specifically posted it In response to a request by google for critical and controversial thoughts on equality in the workplace. James starts out by explaining that it is wrong to take the average of a group of people and assign that value to each individual, at no point does he say individual women or any other individual from a group can't do well. Instead it is a well reasoned and cited document. Later on it was backed by at least 6 experts in the fields of biology and psychology, citing scientifically accepted causes for differences beteeen groups of people. It outlines how cultural taboos create opportunity inequality by attempting to force outcome equality through sexist and racist bias. Because he was right, it inflamed SJW and the corporate monoculture so badly no one even read it before resorting to a strawman argument set aflame from the torches of seething angry internet warriors.
What has me even more concerned than this study is not that 1.5 billion people may find themselves living in an inhospitable region, but the reaction people will have to it. Will they just roll over and die by the hundreds of millions? Somehow adapt using new training, technology, and wealth they don't have today? Perhaps they might simply start a war over the fact they can't live within thier sovereign territory and feel they need others resources to live? Several of these countries have nuclear weapons and many aren't super stable on a good day. Its not far fetched that the consequences of resource wars could be far more severe than the actual climate differences itself.
Both the Florida blooms and I do have information from the department of natural resources stating that nitrogen and phosphorus are to blame for that particular lake (omitted for anonymity) but the DNR is actively managing both to stop algae growth in streams and lakes statewide. But facts probably don't interest you and you seem the type to think man made CO2 emissions don't matter along with the rest of the pollution spilling into the environment.
I consider myself informed and there are more worries than just pesticide residue. These plants are often created to be drought and disease resistant on thier own, as well as growing in a wider range of climates. A danger is that these are grown, doubly so in an area where they are not indigenous, in such a way as to escape captivity. It's similar to the same risk imposed by the release of non indigenous species to a region. With GMO like salmon that grow twice as fast this could be a real concern if they somehow escaped and were able to breed. Containment of GMO is necessary else it could create species extinction by competitive pressures.
Exactly this. The real problem is soluable nitrogen fertilizer used on lawns and crops. The lake near my house 70 years ago had good water clarity and supplied ice to the city, it was cut up and delivered to iceboxes. Now it's a green sludge in the summer and it's even pretty bad in the winter time (from all the dead algae). The only real difference is all the fertilizer used upstream. It's even worse in places like Florida where massive blooms from farming choke wildlife out as it washes out to sea.
Unless they fly in there own laborers, having to deal with American labor is going to be hilarious to them.
"You want 8 hour work days AND 15 minute breaks? We're out"
I'd fire any robot that demanded such nonsense also. The only way this is going to be cost effective is if the vast majority of jobs aren't coming back and a handful of engineers and robot techs do the work of tens of thousands of assembly workers.
We caught them red handed -- they claimed 'cyber attack' but we have the uptime reports. We have the connectivity reports (their CDN is Akamai - you can view real time attack data for their network -- if the FCC site was down, a big chunk of the web would have been too). It would have made big news in the IT/networking world if Akamai hiccup'd... since they were able to handle the world's largest DDoS last fall. That got noticed... by, erm, everyone. Network Operations Centers all over the world saw it. Did anyone see the FCC DDoS? crickets
There's evidence that the bot is being run on an API -- in other words someone inside the FCC specifically gave access. They have to issue special keys (just like with Reddit!) -- and they're rate limited. They would know who's doing it instantly, because that API isn't available for just anyone: You have to ask for it -- click on the link, it'll show you the form; It asks for name and e-mail. Someone from the FCC said as much -- it was API accesses, not public-facing. If there was a connectivity issue it wasn't external, it was internal, preventable, and that's why they won't give out the server logs. Because they knew who was doing it, could have stopped it, didn't, and are letting it continue to happen as we speak. They know exactly which comments are being submitted by bots, and who owns them. Purely for my own amusement, I went looking for the Terms of Service for accessing the API. Click. Click. Aaaand here we are: "FCC computer systems employ software to monitor network traffic to identify unauthorized attempts...":snip: "If such monitoring reveals evidence of possible abuse or criminal activity":snip: cough Fraud cough "Unauthorized attempts to upload or change information on this server are strictly prohibited". Not going to do anything, FCC? Says what they did is "strictly prohibited"... soooooooo.... crickets
The previous link provides evidence it's a grand total of... five. Five different copy pasta text; And all sourced from the same stolen identity databases. And the submission times are painfully obvious that it was automated: The number of submissions per second was nearly constant too, like clockwork. And submitted alphabetically. What's more... They prepared for this years ago. You can say, unironically, "Thanks Obama" for that one. They specifically upgraded the public comments after the last network neutrality comment crush. Rather a lot (footnote: ECFS is the comment system -- and it was specifically targeted for a revamp and big bump to system capacity). That capacity wasn't exceeded -- not by the general public anyway. The inflow rate of submissions from John Oliver's gofccyourself.com came in well under -- 150k versus 1.1 million? It's hard to imagine how they'd add all that extra capacity only to have it fall over dead under a fraction of the load. Someone was even nice enough to make a map of who's submitting the comments. Look at the first time this happened. Then look at that one. Notice anything? This time around, the map looks like a mirror of the population distribution of the entire country. By the numbers, the whole nation knows about Network Neutrality, across every demographic... equally. Including the deceased.
Oh, they never filed a report with the Department of Homeland Security, which is what every government agency is supposed to do if they experience a cyber attack. Double bonus round, Here's the FCC's own page on cybersecurity preparedness and response. And what do they say? "The FCC, because of its relationship with the nation’s communications network service providers, is particularly well positioned to work with industry to secure the networks upon which the Internet depends." Sounds like someone who'd have a plan, you'd think.They claimed to the media something their own policies dictate what the response should be -- and they did
You are a few years behind the times. The engine, brakes, throttle and more have already been hacked remotely, and not by state sponsored terrorist groups with thousands of workers and billions of dollars in support but by two people out of thier garage. Auto makers have no perceived incentive to make thier vehicles safe from hacking and do stupid shit like attach the wireless enabled infotainment system to the can bus that runs critical vehicle safety functions.
It will take a mass casualty that gets national exposure, or a single senator/congressman fatality to get anything reversed. I'm all for automous vehicles but they have obviously been oversold in terms of what's possible today and public safety should be a concern. Until the cars can be harassed by pissed off human drivers and not freak out they won't be viable in cities. People will abuse their weaknesses straight away.
I'm guessing you aren't too familiar with America, clearly your failure is injecting some kind of common sense to the issue. Chances are fault will be found with the customer as they don't have a legal dream team or lobbyists acting on thier behalf.
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Because if the request also covers emails between the company organizers and the 1.3 million people that casually are even interested in VPNs, any deleted messages and files, as well as subscriber information — such as names and addresses — and unpublished photos and blog posts that are stored in the site’s database, that would be some serious fascist shit I'd expect from a second rate dictatorship like China.
The last year I was in grad school, the Computer Science department was having a crisis. There were no female grad school applicants, none. Contrast this with around 40 males (of which Asian and middle eastern nationalities were over represented). The solution is not to force people into equal outcomes based on local populations because it's simple, if you want to do equal outcomes at least have a pool that reflects actual interests.
The real solution is to fix the problem before it becomes one, during youth. Many of the issues around diversity revolves around opportunity. Give scholarships, and perhaps a stipend if they support thier family, to promising youths of low income in disadvantaged areas. No need to discriminate on race or sex either as the people who fit this will be stastically far more likely to be the ones affirmative action or women's programs are intended to help. Further more can be done to nurture and cultivate interest through role models, providing opportunity will make these efforts more effective as they will be within reach. The money spent will fix so many auxiliary problems with society that it is insane not to spend it this way.
Equal outcome before opportunities is like trying to cure STD years after the fact instead of providing free vaccines, education and condoms. It also serves to unite and inflame bigots like the alt right and undermines and cheapens those who really did earn thier positions on merit.
But please read the full memo with links before settling on an opinion. I was listening to NPR just two days ago and they resorted to straw man arguments and condemnation without being truthful about what it's contents were. Also keep in mind it was written as an internal reply in response to a specific request by google for controversial thoughts on improving workplace diversity practices.
Lack of oversight and a complete inability to keep their own exploits out of the hands of criminals and foreign powers is the exact reason we should be shuttering the doors on this nonsense. Its far better for everyone in the long run to patch exploits instead of hoarding them and turning them into a tool to undermine the very safety and security of the nation they were "meant" to protect. This exact same issue applies to back doors on encryption or secure systems of any kind. No one will probably care until the entire economy crashes after a back door exploit leaks out on financial transactions.
Like I said, no one reads it as reading is probably hard for them. They just like setting straw man arguments aflame on the internet and basking in the warmth.
Lowering the standards, or turning away people based on thier gender or race does cheapen and undermine all of those people who were hired. Further, hiring less qualified people based on race or gender promotes the belief they are inferior, you only need to look at the workforce to verify this as a "fact". Further you didn't read his document because if you did you would not come away with him specifically saying he has an "edge". He specifically says he does not if you read it.
In the end, he still says his gender has the edge in technical fields.
WHY ARE YOU LYING?
You obviously did not read the document. What he said was that biology may drive women to prefer different careers than men and that this is a contributing factor (among others) as to why there is a gender gap in tech. His entire argument is that aiming for a 50/50 split is itself discriminatory and we should instead investigate other methods to ensure diversity.
Your false claims are either you parroting some "fake-rage-media-warrior" or your own mental refusal to acknowledge any viewpoint that contradicts your own.
Proof he did not read it just as I said lmafo. Further shill accounts probably modded me down, go ahead you sellouts.
James specifically posted it In response to a request by google for critical and controversial thoughts on equality in the workplace. James starts out by explaining that it is wrong to take the average of a group of people and assign that value to each individual, at no point does he say individual women or any other individual from a group can't do well. Instead it is a well reasoned and cited document. Later on it was backed by at least 6 experts in the fields of biology and psychology, citing scientifically accepted causes for differences beteeen groups of people. It outlines how cultural taboos create opportunity inequality by attempting to force outcome equality through sexist and racist bias. Because he was right, it inflamed SJW and the corporate monoculture so badly no one even read it before resorting to a strawman argument set aflame from the torches of seething angry internet warriors.
This is what you get when your AI design is lazy and gets fed human data.
We don't have much to worry about until they start living together, we have human sacrifices and mass hysteria.
What has me even more concerned than this study is not that 1.5 billion people may find themselves living in an inhospitable region, but the reaction people will have to it. Will they just roll over and die by the hundreds of millions? Somehow adapt using new training, technology, and wealth they don't have today? Perhaps they might simply start a war over the fact they can't live within thier sovereign territory and feel they need others resources to live? Several of these countries have nuclear weapons and many aren't super stable on a good day. Its not far fetched that the consequences of resource wars could be far more severe than the actual climate differences itself.
Lock implies you need a key, this is analogous to a button anyone can press.
If an ad gets past my script/ad blocker... guess what? I don't ever buy whatever shitstain was advertised.
If only normal people acted this way the internet would be a much better place.
When you can phish the White House cyber security expert in to doxing himself, anything seems possible.
Both the Florida blooms and I do have information from the department of natural resources stating that nitrogen and phosphorus are to blame for that particular lake (omitted for anonymity) but the DNR is actively managing both to stop algae growth in streams and lakes statewide. But facts probably don't interest you and you seem the type to think man made CO2 emissions don't matter along with the rest of the pollution spilling into the environment.
I consider myself informed and there are more worries than just pesticide residue. These plants are often created to be drought and disease resistant on thier own, as well as growing in a wider range of climates. A danger is that these are grown, doubly so in an area where they are not indigenous, in such a way as to escape captivity. It's similar to the same risk imposed by the release of non indigenous species to a region. With GMO like salmon that grow twice as fast this could be a real concern if they somehow escaped and were able to breed. Containment of GMO is necessary else it could create species extinction by competitive pressures.
Wow what a cute baby you have there! Is it apple or android?
America has such a love of sociopathy that psychologists have had to adjust the score downward in America vs. Europe
Still waiting on the headline "Does Betteridge's law still apply to news?"
Exactly this. The real problem is soluable nitrogen fertilizer used on lawns and crops. The lake near my house 70 years ago had good water clarity and supplied ice to the city, it was cut up and delivered to iceboxes. Now it's a green sludge in the summer and it's even pretty bad in the winter time (from all the dead algae). The only real difference is all the fertilizer used upstream. It's even worse in places like Florida where massive blooms from farming choke wildlife out as it washes out to sea.
Unless they fly in there own laborers, having to deal with American labor is going to be hilarious to them.
"You want 8 hour work days AND 15 minute breaks? We're out"
I'd fire any robot that demanded such nonsense also. The only way this is going to be cost effective is if the vast majority of jobs aren't coming back and a handful of engineers and robot techs do the work of tens of thousands of assembly workers.
We caught them red handed -- they claimed 'cyber attack' but we have the uptime reports. We have the connectivity reports (their CDN is Akamai - you can view real time attack data for their network -- if the FCC site was down, a big chunk of the web would have been too). It would have made big news in the IT/networking world if Akamai hiccup'd... since they were able to handle the world's largest DDoS last fall. That got noticed... by, erm, everyone. Network Operations Centers all over the world saw it. Did anyone see the FCC DDoS? crickets There's evidence that the bot is being run on an API -- in other words someone inside the FCC specifically gave access. They have to issue special keys (just like with Reddit!) -- and they're rate limited. They would know who's doing it instantly, because that API isn't available for just anyone: You have to ask for it -- click on the link, it'll show you the form; It asks for name and e-mail. Someone from the FCC said as much -- it was API accesses, not public-facing. If there was a connectivity issue it wasn't external, it was internal, preventable, and that's why they won't give out the server logs. Because they knew who was doing it, could have stopped it, didn't, and are letting it continue to happen as we speak. They know exactly which comments are being submitted by bots, and who owns them. Purely for my own amusement, I went looking for the Terms of Service for accessing the API. Click. Click. Aaaand here we are: "FCC computer systems employ software to monitor network traffic to identify unauthorized attempts..." :snip: "If such monitoring reveals evidence of possible abuse or criminal activity" :snip: cough Fraud cough "Unauthorized attempts to upload or change information on this server are strictly prohibited". Not going to do anything, FCC? Says what they did is "strictly prohibited"... soooooooo.... crickets
The previous link provides evidence it's a grand total of... five. Five different copy pasta text; And all sourced from the same stolen identity databases. And the submission times are painfully obvious that it was automated: The number of submissions per second was nearly constant too, like clockwork. And submitted alphabetically. What's more... They prepared for this years ago. You can say, unironically, "Thanks Obama" for that one. They specifically upgraded the public comments after the last network neutrality comment crush. Rather a lot (footnote: ECFS is the comment system -- and it was specifically targeted for a revamp and big bump to system capacity). That capacity wasn't exceeded -- not by the general public anyway. The inflow rate of submissions from John Oliver's gofccyourself.com came in well under -- 150k versus 1.1 million? It's hard to imagine how they'd add all that extra capacity only to have it fall over dead under a fraction of the load. Someone was even nice enough to make a map of who's submitting the comments. Look at the first time this happened. Then look at that one. Notice anything? This time around, the map looks like a mirror of the population distribution of the entire country. By the numbers, the whole nation knows about Network Neutrality, across every demographic... equally. Including the deceased.
Oh, they never filed a report with the Department of Homeland Security, which is what every government agency is supposed to do if they experience a cyber attack. Double bonus round, Here's the FCC's own page on cybersecurity preparedness and response. And what do they say? "The FCC, because of its relationship with the nation’s communications network service providers, is particularly well positioned to work with industry to secure the networks upon which the Internet depends." Sounds like someone who'd have a plan, you'd think.They claimed to the media something their own policies dictate what the response should be -- and they did
You are a few years behind the times. The engine, brakes, throttle and more have already been hacked remotely, and not by state sponsored terrorist groups with thousands of workers and billions of dollars in support but by two people out of thier garage. Auto makers have no perceived incentive to make thier vehicles safe from hacking and do stupid shit like attach the wireless enabled infotainment system to the can bus that runs critical vehicle safety functions.
It will take a mass casualty that gets national exposure, or a single senator/congressman fatality to get anything reversed. I'm all for automous vehicles but they have obviously been oversold in terms of what's possible today and public safety should be a concern. Until the cars can be harassed by pissed off human drivers and not freak out they won't be viable in cities. People will abuse their weaknesses straight away.
I'm guessing you aren't too familiar with America, clearly your failure is injecting some kind of common sense to the issue. Chances are fault will be found with the customer as they don't have a legal dream team or lobbyists acting on thier behalf.