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  1. Re:Competition Is Good - But Sometimes Bad.... on Research Suggests 'CS For All' May Mean Lower Pay For All · · Score: 1

    The Labor movement called this tactic "Whipsawing".
    But we all know professional coders have no need of grubby unionizing and would never soil themselves by acting like any corporate entity to fix prices for adequate ROI, now would they?

  2. As always, the push to simpler coding yields on Research Suggests 'CS For All' May Mean Lower Pay For All · · Score: 1

    lower wages, faster turnover, more offshoring.
    Ask anyone who used to work in gate array / fpga in non-military work in this country
    First the move to standardized HLL such as Verilog, SystemC, VHDL and a few proprietaries.
    Result of standardized code?
    Lower speed, higher prices, longer time to market, cheaper labor
    Cheap labor is the sine qua non of high stock prices.
    But does it really create more product to export?
    Ask the several ten thousand unemployed / former engineers replaced by Chinese and Indian H1-B and offshored labor

  3. People, look at the trees, not just the forest on The Law Is Clear: the FBI Cannot Make Apple Rewrite Its OS (backchannel.com) · · Score: 1
    The battle between security forces and the public is really about ALL security
    Why do you think the NSA has been illegally gathering route and frame data on every call for so long?
    The goal is to make sure there is never another successful revolution after the teagagger one.
    Controlling your access to secrets is how they can put any of you out of business.

    What is really happening is "Herd immunity" to day to day surveillance. If enough people have enough protection, the minor conspiracies we all live with, like underreporting income from gig work, to overreporting the value of donations, will be invisible to the States.
    And you having the same rights as megabankers is just unacceptable.

  4. Re:Scary is a good word on DOJ Threatens To Seize iOS Source Code (idownloadblog.com) · · Score: 1

    Isn't this why Europe went with two factor, user generated, card only authentication?
    THEY understand how acquisitive a repressive, conservative government can be, and made secret-stealing much more difficult.
    Why don't computers have similar root/supervisor/user/transaction codes?
    Because French men are more free than we!

  5. Re:speaking of black boxes... on Obama: Government Can't Let Smartphones Be 'Black Boxes' (bloomberg.com) · · Score: 1

    Good thing to be when dealing with the 70% who loved Bush after 9-11 proved he was incompetent!

  6. Re:I shoveled a fuckton of snow. on This Was America's Warmest Winter On Record (slate.com) · · Score: 2

    A real pity they have proved right, with the last 12 years containing ALL the hottest 10 years on record including the ice core records.

  7. Re:I shoveled a fuckton of snow. on This Was America's Warmest Winter On Record (slate.com) · · Score: -1, Troll

    As opposed to the Kochsuckers paid by Exxon and Shell and BP and Koch?
    Paid, we may add, FAR more Institutionalizing Delay, Drexel University to LIE

  8. Re:I shoveled a fuckton of snow. on This Was America's Warmest Winter On Record (slate.com) · · Score: -1, Troll

    You mean except for the 10 warmest years on record?That "bs"?
    The term for people who play the conspiracy theor is 1 D 10 T

  9. Re:Revert to 1990s control of encryption on New Legislation Would Ban US Government From Purchasing Apple Products (arstechnica.com) · · Score: 1

    Except for all that cop boosting when they shoot an UNARMED citizen, right?

  10. Re:And by that he means on Ted Cruz Proposes Reviving SDI To Counter N. Korean Nuclear Threat (blastingnews.com) · · Score: 1

    Oh sh!t, an honest statement by one who reads! What ARE you doing here?

  11. Re: YES!! on EFF On Why FBI Can't Force Apple To Sign Code (boingboing.net) · · Score: 1

    RIGGGHHHHHTTT!!!
    The 17 million offshored manufacturing jobs would have nothing to do with the poverty that necessitates government intervention, would it?
    Seriously, sheep flock toward the right, didn't you know that?

  12. Re:Right Answer, Wrong Method on EFF On Why FBI Can't Force Apple To Sign Code (boingboing.net) · · Score: 1

    Wish I had some points to upvote you right now. Nothing like a breath of intelligence and analysis into a diatribe.

  13. Re: YES!! on EFF On Why FBI Can't Force Apple To Sign Code (boingboing.net) · · Score: 1, Offtopic

    "Progressivism (aka US 'Liberalism'): Ideas so good they need a police/surveillance-state to enforce."
    Then why does Conservanazism always want more prison money?

  14. Re:Donald Trump on Crypto Gurus Diffie, Hellman Win 2015 Turing Award (networkworld.com) · · Score: 1

    He won't break 28%.
    Absent the teagaggers he wouldn't break 3%

  15. Wait, "Trump is for Americans"? on Laid-Off Disney IT Workers Decry Offshoring At Trump Rally (computerworld.com) · · Score: 1

    Not when he staffed Trump Casino with foreign and / or undocumented workers.
    Come on, white bread, what is WRONG with you?
    Vote republican, vote for the party of MORE H1-B

  16. CEO pay + Shares + Bonus + Insider trades on Are CEOs Overpaid? Not Compared With College Presidents (cbsnews.com) · · Score: 2

    All the above are Executive Compensation.
    How many shares in Princeton are traded? Oh, wait, zero
    Yet another example of selective citation by a rightwinger

  17. Re:The duck quacked on DoJ Wants Apple To Decrypt 12 More iPhones (macrumors.com) · · Score: 1

    Forgive me. I have to assume most people remember when FBI director Hoover kept detailed files on the pecadillos, crimes and compatriots of Congressmen, trading on his information in return for a lifetime reappointment to America's Secret Police.
    Now we have other 3 lettered agencies expanding the databases to everyone.
    Power corrupts.

  18. Re:The duck quacked on DoJ Wants Apple To Decrypt 12 More iPhones (macrumors.com) · · Score: 1

    The question is, how many Republican Congressmen does the DEA, FBI, BATF, IRS and Child Protective services already own?
    Might explain the reluctance of Republicans to move toward more of the freedom they claim we are losing with votes to defund those ever growing domestic spy services.

  19. Paid comments anyone? on Last January Was the Hottest Global Temperature Anomaly In Recorded History · · Score: 1

    As usual, the libertarian Climate Denialists are out in force.
    Do the Koch bothers pay in shares for this stuff?

  20. Re:last chance to buy quality Sharp products on Foxconn Set To Acquire Sharp Corporation For $5.6 Billion (appleinsider.com) · · Score: 0

    Amazing how anyone who supports a factual rendition of history gets the "Flamebait" treatment, while the liar is upgraded.

  21. Re: The wall will be built on Why Does Twitter Refuse To Shut Down Donald Trump? (vortex.com) · · Score: 1

    I did. My bad. ZERO voted for conviction, and 5 republicans voted against, leaving 45-55 for acquittal. Failed Impeachment
    If you don't remove him, you failed.

  22. Re:last chance to buy quality Sharp products on Foxconn Set To Acquire Sharp Corporation For $5.6 Billion (appleinsider.com) · · Score: 0

    There were none

  23. Re:last chance to buy quality Sharp products on Foxconn Set To Acquire Sharp Corporation For $5.6 Billion (appleinsider.com) · · Score: -1, Flamebait

    Re: your tagline "I'm an American. I love this country and the freedoms that we used to have." what freedoms have you lost, outside of those NSA Patriot Act thefts that occurred on Bush's watch?

  24. Protecting that which can not be protected on K-12 CS Framework Draft: Kids Taught To 'Protect Original Ideas' In Early Grades · · Score: 1

    And, of course, IDEAS can not be patented nor copyrighted, only the implementation
    So why teach kids not to use that which is lawful use?
    because Mickey is an IDEA (says Disney)

  25. Re: The wall will be built on Why Does Twitter Refuse To Shut Down Donald Trump? (vortex.com) · · Score: 1

    No, there were NOT five Democratic Senators who voted for conviction. Nice trick, conflating ACCUSATION with conviction when the subject is conviction.