Wow, there's a lot of populist (and somewhat racist) nonsense there. Let's see if I can just focus on the main points.
Companies would then be required to pay the victim all the wages they said they did, plus interest, legal and accounting costs, and any IRS fees and penalties the victim may have incurred.
There are two victims when someone steals another's identity to get a job: the person who's identity was taken, and the business who hired the thief. While the former may get hit with IRS penalties on their taxes, the latter also risks getting hit with fines for violating various labor laws. Punishing them further will not help stop the problem, it will simply raise the cost of hiring new employees, resulting in fewer jobs.
I know what you're thinking. This would hurt the legal immigrants and non-white U.S. citizens who couldn't get a job because employers weren't certain of their identity.
Nope, that's not whom it would hurt. It would hurt legal citizens, regardless of race. Why? Because it's harder to forge all of the documents of someone with an H1B needs than it is to forge a social security number. If this law were passed and I was looking to employ anyone, I would avoid anyone using a citizen's SSN, no matter what.
Push the responsibility onto businesses
No, all of the responsibility for enforcing immigration and identity management belongs to the government. But first they have to provide a way for people to do what they're going to do anyway legally by giving them some carrots (like making it easier for immigrants to register with the government); if that doesn't work, then they can pull out the stick. Jumping to stricter enforcement of non-existent laws will only make things worse, not better.
Never mind that they are handing the crown jewels over to a bunch of people, who, should the shit hit the fan, are more than happy to steal all that data and keep it for themselves, leaving their rich corporate masters with nothing.
Encrypt everything and don't let your provider ever touch your private key. Doing it any other way is just asking for data theft.
What is incorrect about that statement? Does Iran not engage in online censoring? Are they not sophisticated about it? Or are they just not in the Top Ten of countries which do so?
If you're going to claim something is not true, you have to say what about it is false. Blanket statements and ad hominems do not prove your assertion.
Indiana? Isn't that the state who's Supreme Court just ruled that individuals do not have the right to resist police who invade their home illegally? Good luck getting them to stop the TSA from touching you illegally.
No kidding. If the TSA tried to shut down DFW, it would cripple something like half of the air traffic in the country, passenger and freight both. There's no way they would've followed through with that threat; if they had, every Congressman from Texas would've voted to remove their funding immediately.
You're the one who's mistaken. Every poll I've seen shows that the public hates these pat downs. Poll after poll has a clear supermajority of respondents either disliking them, or outright hating them.
None of which means a damn thing to the powers that be, of course. Until someone starts fighting back, we won't see any changes, it will just get worse.
Generally speaking, I agree with what you wrote. I try to only connect with people on LinkedIn with whom I've had a professional experience. That said, I do have some connections through family members in different industries, and those have come in handy a few times. You never know where your next job will come from, after all. Just because you're a programmer doesn't mean an accountant or salesman can't hear about a potential opening in your field down the road.
Wouldn't weight sensors in the cart handle the problem of people not scanning items? The sensor detects a change in weight, yet there's no corresponding scanned item, so a servo is activated which locks the wheels until you scan the item in question. Doesn't seem that difficult to do.
I think a more worrisome part of this kind of venture is, after a few hundred or thousand years, are the inhabitants of the ship going to even care about the planet they were originally going to? Maybe they'll be happy to stay on their current home and roam the galaxy, or maybe they'll decide to turn around and go "home" (but not before using part of their reaction mass to accelerate some spare parts towards the people who doomed them to live in a tin can all their lives, first).
Perhaps letting a person have 1, 2 or 3 children depending on how well adapted they are
Are joking aside, we're talking about something taking 300,000 years, with a ship that gradually modifies its internal state from one planet's equilibrium to another's. I don't think you need to add in any husbandry to get the exact result you're looking for.
The folks behind Khan Academy themselves position their site as a supplement to traditional teaching, not a replacement for it. I view it as a kind of tutoring for my kids, to help them work through some areas where they're struggling. For instance, my daughter (6th grade) was having trouble understanding positive and negative integers, and order of operations. After watching the videos on those subjects and doing the associated exercises, she now has them both down pat and has gotten A's on several tests in math class using the skills she developed thanks to Khan Academy.
So no, it's not a one-size-fits-all approach. But it sure does help.
It's preposterous to state that human evolution is over. Here's a short list of evolutionary changes from just the last 10,000 years:
* Blue, green, and gray eye variants * Ability to process lactose as adults * Ability to process high-starch diets without developing diabetes (the prevalence of which is much lower in populations with older histories of farming) * Wider variety of skin tones * Differently shaped and sized teeth and skulls from the past
And those are just surface traits that are easy to see/detect in everyday life.
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Wow, there's a lot of populist (and somewhat racist) nonsense there. Let's see if I can just focus on the main points.
Companies would then be required to pay the victim all the wages they said they did, plus interest, legal and accounting costs, and any IRS fees and penalties the victim may have incurred.
There are two victims when someone steals another's identity to get a job: the person who's identity was taken, and the business who hired the thief. While the former may get hit with IRS penalties on their taxes, the latter also risks getting hit with fines for violating various labor laws. Punishing them further will not help stop the problem, it will simply raise the cost of hiring new employees, resulting in fewer jobs.
I know what you're thinking. This would hurt the legal immigrants and non-white U.S. citizens who couldn't get a job because employers weren't certain of their identity.
Nope, that's not whom it would hurt. It would hurt legal citizens, regardless of race. Why? Because it's harder to forge all of the documents of someone with an H1B needs than it is to forge a social security number. If this law were passed and I was looking to employ anyone, I would avoid anyone using a citizen's SSN, no matter what.
Push the responsibility onto businesses
No, all of the responsibility for enforcing immigration and identity management belongs to the government. But first they have to provide a way for people to do what they're going to do anyway legally by giving them some carrots (like making it easier for immigrants to register with the government); if that doesn't work, then they can pull out the stick. Jumping to stricter enforcement of non-existent laws will only make things worse, not better.
Seeing as how "US Attorney" is an actual title for Federal prosecutors, I think that narrows a bit whom you should be most peeved at.
Pfft, everyone knows 53 is the best number. It's like 42, but it goes to 11.
Never mind that they are handing the crown jewels over to a bunch of people, who, should the shit hit the fan, are more than happy to steal all that data and keep it for themselves, leaving their rich corporate masters with nothing.
Encrypt everything and don't let your provider ever touch your private key. Doing it any other way is just asking for data theft.
"Among the most sophisticated" != "works every time"
What is incorrect about that statement? Does Iran not engage in online censoring? Are they not sophisticated about it? Or are they just not in the Top Ten of countries which do so?
If you're going to claim something is not true, you have to say what about it is false. Blanket statements and ad hominems do not prove your assertion.
Indiana? Isn't that the state who's Supreme Court just ruled that individuals do not have the right to resist police who invade their home illegally? Good luck getting them to stop the TSA from touching you illegally.
No kidding. If the TSA tried to shut down DFW, it would cripple something like half of the air traffic in the country, passenger and freight both. There's no way they would've followed through with that threat; if they had, every Congressman from Texas would've voted to remove their funding immediately.
You're the one who's mistaken. Every poll I've seen shows that the public hates these pat downs. Poll after poll has a clear supermajority of respondents either disliking them, or outright hating them.
None of which means a damn thing to the powers that be, of course. Until someone starts fighting back, we won't see any changes, it will just get worse.
from the spit-it-out-you-wee-bastard department
Generally speaking, I agree with what you wrote. I try to only connect with people on LinkedIn with whom I've had a professional experience. That said, I do have some connections through family members in different industries, and those have come in handy a few times. You never know where your next job will come from, after all. Just because you're a programmer doesn't mean an accountant or salesman can't hear about a potential opening in your field down the road.
For every $1 of food stamps creates ~$1.40 in economic growth while the economy is slouched
You really need to back that statement up with hard data.
Hey, don't look now, but I think there are some damn kids on your lawn.
Someone already answered this upthread: http://news.slashdot.org/comments.pl?sid=2167426&cid=36172204
Then either pick a competing product, or scan the bar code on the front of the shelf. Doesn't seem that difficult either way.
Wouldn't weight sensors in the cart handle the problem of people not scanning items? The sensor detects a change in weight, yet there's no corresponding scanned item, so a servo is activated which locks the wheels until you scan the item in question. Doesn't seem that difficult to do.
I think a more worrisome part of this kind of venture is, after a few hundred or thousand years, are the inhabitants of the ship going to even care about the planet they were originally going to? Maybe they'll be happy to stay on their current home and roam the galaxy, or maybe they'll decide to turn around and go "home" (but not before using part of their reaction mass to accelerate some spare parts towards the people who doomed them to live in a tin can all their lives, first).
Perhaps letting a person have 1, 2 or 3 children depending on how well adapted they are
Are joking aside, we're talking about something taking 300,000 years, with a ship that gradually modifies its internal state from one planet's equilibrium to another's. I don't think you need to add in any husbandry to get the exact result you're looking for.
The lions wouldn't last very long.
Just put lasers on their foreheads, that ought to even things out a bit.
So people today are different from people 10,000 years ago, yet evolution doesn't happen. The cognitive dissonance is strong with this one.
The folks behind Khan Academy themselves position their site as a supplement to traditional teaching, not a replacement for it. I view it as a kind of tutoring for my kids, to help them work through some areas where they're struggling. For instance, my daughter (6th grade) was having trouble understanding positive and negative integers, and order of operations. After watching the videos on those subjects and doing the associated exercises, she now has them both down pat and has gotten A's on several tests in math class using the skills she developed thanks to Khan Academy.
So no, it's not a one-size-fits-all approach. But it sure does help.
so it's probably still pretty cold for us? maybe Canada-like?
FTFY.
There would also need to be some mechanism to implement natural selection.
Easy solution: put lions on the ship and give them free reign. That ought to do it!
It's preposterous to state that human evolution is over. Here's a short list of evolutionary changes from just the last 10,000 years:
* Blue, green, and gray eye variants
* Ability to process lactose as adults
* Ability to process high-starch diets without developing diabetes (the prevalence of which is much lower in populations with older histories of farming)
* Wider variety of skin tones
* Differently shaped and sized teeth and skulls from the past
And those are just surface traits that are easy to see/detect in everyday life.
More info here: http://discovermagazine.com/2009/mar/09-they-dont-make-homo-sapiens-like-they-used-to
50%?!? I don't understand how anyone can justify giving up half of your income to the government.