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  1. No, for logistical reasons. There are around 235,000,000 eligible voters in the US, across 3,797,000 square miles. There is no "federal ID" or "drivers license", each State "does it's own thing". This is per the US Constitution, in the 9th Amendment. Something like that would require a Constitutional amendment, and a Constitutional Convention. The last time was 1933, and would NEVER happen in the current US political climate.

    As of September, 2016, 13% of US adults still don't use the Internet, so this would have to be addressed first. Maybe, if there was some giant national "push" this could be fixed in the next 10 years. So no, this idea is unworkable in the US.

  2. John's original LinkedIN profile is gone, now it's just John G. His full name is John W. Gamble Jr., and he made over 2.6 million in total compensation last year. A Whitepages search doesn't find anyone in Atlanta, but does find a John W Gamble Jr. (Age 50-54) in Lockport, NY. This PR release has him at 51 in 2014. According to this he is also on the board of both CyrusOne, Inc. and CyrusOne LP, a real estate company that specializes in data centers. And his "public assets" are over 7.5 million.

    He's worked "in tech" long enough to theoretically "know better" than to let this happen. What did he know about security audits, and when did he know them?

  3. Well, they ARE denying this breach is the reason. In science, "Correlation does not imply causation". However, when it comes to super-greedy C-level execs with insider info that they KNOW will cause a huge stock drop...well, I'm sure you can figure out the truth. But they will NEVER admit to cashing in stocks because of this, or any "actual verified knowledge" of the breach when they did so. Maybe if Trump proactively pardons them they will then admit to it.

  4. Re:Proof of concept.. on Swarms Of Flying Robot Bees Could Monitor Weather, Collect Data (venturebeat.com) · · Score: 1

    "you" don't control them. You just tell them where to go, and they use their own on-board control systems to get there. "Swarm flight" tech has been around for several years now for multiple drones. For power, you would follow the bio-mimicry idea and make the "hive" the recharge center, and probably also a repeater for the control systems. You been instructions to the "hive", it broadcasts to the individual "bees". Most of the "intelligence" would reside in the "hive".

  5. Re:Companies are Unrealistic on US Employers Struggle To Match Workers With Open Jobs (npr.org) · · Score: 1

    I almost "personal market"ed myself from getting my current job at an MSP. Between my wiki page, my resume, and the "portfolio" I put together with how-tos, visio diagrams, pictures of my lab rack...they guy thought I WAS my own small-time MSP. But I'm horrible at actual sales, and after a two hour interview I got the job.

    I suspect the people who are asking about AWS are the "first tier" screeners, who only know to ask specific questions. If you manage to make it past them and interview with someone who is actually in the division your trying for, THEY would comprehend how the current skill set is applicable to their job.

  6. Re:I wish the US would do this. on Energy Firm Slapped With $65,000 Fine For Making 1.5 Million Nuisance Calls (theregister.co.uk) · · Score: 1

    Are you running your own PBX? I'm running freePBX 14, with IPComms as the SIP provider. I've never actually set the CID as all zeros, but I did forward my gvoice number to the DID, and set one of the outgoing CIDs to that gvoice number and that is what showed up on the CID on a different cell phone. It's a SIP trunk, not just a SIP phone...I've actually got three phones hooked up at the moment; one Aastra 6755i and two Cisco 7942's that I had to reflash into SIP phones.

  7. Re:I wish the US would do this. on Energy Firm Slapped With $65,000 Fine For Making 1.5 Million Nuisance Calls (theregister.co.uk) · · Score: 1

    With me, their all showing up with the same area code and prefix as me. Theoretically, I could make a call show up as 000-000-0000 by setting that as the CID in freePBX.

  8. XMBC / Kodi on Cord-Cutting Still Doesn't Beat the Cable Bundle (wired.com) · · Score: 1

    Really has everything except "local channels". I still have both Netflix and Hulu, Hulu often has a large (and easily accessible) back catalog of TV shows, and I want to actually support Netflix's "original content" development.

  9. Re:Not A Moment Too Soon on 50,000 Users Test New Anti-Censorship Tool TapDance (www.cbc.ca) · · Score: 1

    I really think that has FAR more to do with Germany being a federal parliamentary republic VS. the US's "winner takes all" system. The US system seems to end up with only two parties, no matter how many times a "third party" splits off. A parliament allows many different groups to share power, although theoretically it can "collapse" into a "snap election" for Prime Minister at any time.

  10. Re:Tragedy of the Commons on A Global Fish War is Coming, Warns US Coast Guard (usni.org) · · Score: 1

    Well, there IS a third solution, mentioned in the "future documentary" titles "Soylant Green"...

  11. Still in use! on What Happened To Winamp? (arstechnica.com) · · Score: 1

    I side-load it on my phone. I also have a VM running Shoutcast, so I can stream music from my collection across my wifi. I love Dronezone for specific types of meditations, and Space Station Soma is really good too. Especially after a few bottles of Robitussin LOL

  12. Re:Gab does ban some content on Google Explains Why It Banned the App For Gab, a Right-Wing Twitter Rival (arstechnica.com) · · Score: 1, Interesting

    Facebook has kill Isreali groups, kill Republican groups, kill police groups. Has anyone actually killed Republicans or police because they were egged on by Facebook groups? (Notice I left out the "kill Isreali groups", since I'm pretty sure those groups ARE complicit in murder) It's still not up to the level the Nazi's did, 11+ million non-combatants. I'm not saying that advocating murder of any group is a good thing, but equating a FB group at the same level as people who fly the Nazi flag and are proud of what it represents is disingenuous at best, and a near-traitorous false equivalence at worst. Nazi Germany was an entity that waged open, declared warfare on the USA. Flying the Nazi flag at a march is "aiding and abetting" an actual enemy of the USA that millions of Americans died defeating.

  13. IT'S OFFICAL: Twitter is dying on Google Explains Why It Banned the App For Gab, a Right-Wing Twitter Rival (arstechnica.com) · · Score: 1

    They added "zero" users in Q2. Now, it seems they measure in "millions of users", so they might have added under one million, I don't know. They did get 9M in Q1, which is their highest since Q1 2015...far better than q4 2015 when they actually lost 2M. Still, out of the estimated 4.77 BILLION mobile phone owners in 2017, A HREF="https://www.statista.com/statistics/282087/number-of-monthly-active-twitter-users/">328 million users isn't even hitting 10%. Facebook is at 2 billion.

  14. Re:Never trust email 100% on How Hackers Are Targeting the Shipping Industry (bbc.com) · · Score: 1

    "train people to pick up a phone and call if they see something out of the ordinary." At my last job, we really tried to drill this idea into the Accounting department's head. It actually worked, and stopped several potential phishing scams dead in their tracks. They eventually subscribed to Mimecast that actively hooks into their AD to verify (one among many methods) that internal senders are internal senders, only accepting email from specific IP addresses, running sandboxes on all attachments, etc.

  15. Re:Version Control = Good on Developer Accidentally Deletes Three-Month of Work With Visual Studio Code (bingj.com) · · Score: 1

    It's not like there aren't even any free apps he could try...it took me longer to make the post than to find all of these.

  16. Re:It's left-wing fascism. on WordPress Bans Fascist Website Linked To Charlottesville Killer (fastcompany.com) · · Score: 1

    True, what would have been better is if they had their march and no "counter protesters" showed up, no news gave them any face time, etc. Just mostly ignore them by the general public, like your supposed to do when your two year old throws a tantrum at home. Being violent, yelling, etc back at them just pushes people further into the "we're at WAR!" mindset. I hate to advocate law enforcement monitoring anyone, but when people align themselves with the idea of genocide and ethno-states, with groups that have actively engaged in open warfare against the country...I honestly don't know what should be done to defuse it all. I do know, however, Trump is not helping with that.

  17. Re:It's left-wing fascism. on WordPress Bans Fascist Website Linked To Charlottesville Killer (fastcompany.com) · · Score: 1

    I thought of the same thing; let them expose themselves for who they truly are. And they will just retreat back underground...

    Let's just both hope that we have a contingency plan in place for a "critical mass" crisis. I too am for ideological consistency; however I'm still very undecided on the idea of extending such freedoms to groups that have, in the past, actively engaged in open warfare against the USA and cost millions of lives in said wars. We already fought the Nazis once in WWII, and fought the Confederacy back in the Civil War. Even though I am a strong believer in freedom of speech, allowing groups who align themselves with those who have waged actual open battlefield war against us is a bit foolish.

  18. Other than hanging out with the POTUS, did these "boards" actually accomplish anything? Was there any legislation drafted that came from this? Obama had something similar called "President's Council on Jobs and Competitiveness" which also seemed to amount to nothing; it was abandoned "due to a lack of engagement from council members".

  19. Re:It's left-wing fascism. on WordPress Bans Fascist Website Linked To Charlottesville Killer (fastcompany.com) · · Score: 1

    It's just that I still remember when "I disagree with what you say but I'll defend, to the death, your right to say it." was the ideal to which we aspired.

    However, these groups do NOT feel the same way towards others. They are advocating a "white ethno-state", something that can only be achieved via genocide, murder, and totalitarianism. Giving them the freedom to march is giving them freedom to recruit. When they recruit enough, they will attempt to enact these ideas. Their ideas are not some abstract thought game, some theoretical scenario.

    Normally, I would completely agree with your statement. Yet when it comes to defending "to the death" a group of people that want me dead...maybe just kill myself so they don't have to expend the energy? Count myself lucky because I'm white, so I don't have to worry if they hit critical mass?

  20. Re:Social responsibility or a PR pre-emptive strik on WordPress Bans Fascist Website Linked To Charlottesville Killer (fastcompany.com) · · Score: 2, Insightful

    "antifa" or anti-fascist groups wouldn't exist without the fascist groups. They wouldn't have even shown up to do counter-protests if the fascists didn't come to various locations. Everyone who says these things obviously support these fascist ideas, or at least that's how everyone around the planet perceives this false equivalency.

    Arguing that white supremacist groups, pro-Nazi groups, etc should be able to perform their what is basically a "march for treason" either supports their goals or does not comprehend what these groups actually want to accomplish. Their very loud calls for a "white ethnostate" is a call for genocide, murder, and totalitarianism; there is no other way to accomplish this goal. IMHO anyone flying a Nazi flag is committing treason, as the Nazi were most certainly considered enemies of the USA since they declared war against us. Marching with their flag is "adheres to their enemies" and "providing them aid". Now, just "displaying" the Nazi flag is covered free speech, but these marches go far beyond just display.

    I'm not even going to address BLM here, as that is a different conversation. I am just addressing the antifa vs fa problem.

    The fact that your post is marked at 4, Insightful is disturbing. Mine will probably be marked down, which is equally disturbing.

  21. Shame is a societies immune system, attacking anything that agitates the over-all "body" too much. These viewpoints have gotten to the point they are agitating society "too much" and this is just part of the eventual "blowback" until the "disease" is pushed back below an "infection level".

  22. Re:Cool that someone still stands for freedom on Cloudflare is the One Tech Company Still Sticking By Neo-Nazi Websites (qz.com) · · Score: 1

    Yes, this right here: "Congress shall make no law respecting an establishment of religion, or prohibiting the free exercise thereof; or abridging the freedom of speech". This also applies to the "entire government", not just Congress. Now, one could argue that Executive Actions are not technically laws, or other such loopholes, and then those have to be fought out in the Courts.

  23. Re:SubjectIsSubject on Trump Can Block People On Twitter If He Wants, Administration Says (arstechnica.com) · · Score: 4, Interesting

    Too bad for you that the White House officially contradicted your statement back in June. They have yet to issue any "correction" on this until today.

    "The president is president of the United States, so they are considered official statements by the president of the United States." White House Press Secretary Spicer

    Just because Spicer no longer holds that position doesn't automatically make all his previous statements null and void. Now, Sebastian Gorka said "there's a difference between tweets and policy and @realDonaldTrump's feed is the former, not the latter" so once again the White House is giving contradicting messages on their policy. Therefor, since they can't give a coherent policy, the courts will have to decide this. But the White House Communications Director/White House Press Secretary is higher up on the food chain than a Deputy Assistant.

  24. Re:Imagine it's 2035 on I Bought a Book About the Internet From 1994 and None of the Links Worked (vice.com) · · Score: 1

    It's dead? Bizarre, I just posted some technical questions on it recently and got them answered...that particular page is gone, and the site has radically changed over the last decade, but it's still a useful site.

  25. If he wants to head-first down memory lane, he could always go here to quux.org's gopher server. I'm sure it's full of useful, up-to-date information. For some other, you can grab a copy of Linux 1.0 there, and a copy of Zork!