Ages estimated from usernames correlate strongly with ages entered at registration.
In other words, ages have not been verified. Garbage in. garbage out. People lie about their age (and gender) all the time on the Internet. And people running a sock-puppet account to use cheats for "their" side are certainly going to use a more aggressive-sounding name and lie about their age.
Many of the students were required to continue paying tuition even if they were working for free the entire semester, as a requirement for getting course credit. See the link I posted above.
Maybe because, as in this case, they're reporting what some people in the industry are saying, and why they're saying it. You know, exposing the stupidity for all and sundry to see while maintaining neutrality. It's more evidence of what those making the decisions really think of us - as dumb-as-a-rock, easily manipulated cows. MOO!
Brianna Wu is the embodiment of someone who is so voraciously pushing the SJW shtick because she doesn't want people to ever *dare* question her identity.
"The madame doth protest too much", as it were.
And of course, she's been self-promoting, including with a lot of fake claims (like saying she had been forced out of her place by haters when she in fact had signed up months ago to attend a con that day), and bogus drama (OMG they have the picture of where I live!). Like nobody can use google earth...
Her artwork depicted women as if they had been drawn by an adolescent male (complete with camel toe in one instance which has been removed from the site after I made a bit of a stink about it and her portrayal of women in general).
Fortunately, she does not represent the majority of us. Unfortunately, not everyone will realize that. Even though she won't admit to being trans, she still depends on it to get a free pass from criticism.
Were you always female though? IT has a lot of transgender folk in the field.
Which, I fully support, but there is a remote possibility that the majority of ciswomen are just not that interested.
Hey - I resemble that remark!
Seriously, it's not polite to ask. Do people go around asking you if you were always your current gender? Those of us who have already been publicly outed (raises hand) are probably in the best position to tell people just how rude it is, because we've been through it. Now while it's true that being open about it was a very positive experience overall, it should be up to each person to decide if, when, and how to make that knowledge public.
Just saying, because, you know, it's not polite to ask, especially in public. It puts people on the spot over something that is very personal:-)
These stories are important to people that don't. Maybe.
These articles perpetuate the paternalistic stereotype that men have to help women do what they want to do, and if the women aren't doing it, it's because they're too ignorant to know what's best for them. And that the careers women choose to go into are somehow of lesser value.
One of the premises of the article:
Among the findings, the authors of the report found that in the U.S., 67 percent of men and 77 percent of women said no high school teacher or career counselor ever mentioned the idea of a cyber security career.
... means absolutely nothing. Kids in high school don't get told about the possibility of a career as a veterinarian, underwater welder, garbageman, town councilor or mayor, crop duster, backhoe or hydraulic shovel operator, etc. And yet, there are people working in all these jobs. You're not going to discuss a career in information security with your English teacher, and how many people even talk to a career counselor in high school? Mostly just the ones who are obviously not going on to higher education and will probably drop out of high school.
Yet another study trying to force on women that we can't make our own career choices because we don't know what to do. Statistics say otherwise - more women than men are going into professional careers, just like more women than men are getting degrees.
I've probably done more than you to fight for my rights. Run for office a couple of times, gotten arrested by the riot squad at one protest (and got punched in the face by a cop), led another couple of protests, participated in a few more. Lately? Well, I risked going to jail by refusing to obey a court order in the fight against the illegal methods of a developer that was going to put 100 families in the street, went to court three times to argue about it, got a public apology in the two largest newspapers for that same developer publicly outing me as a transsexual.
I believe that if you don't fight for your rights, you don't really deserve them, and are basically pissing on all the work of the others who have gone before you. .
So, what have YOU done to fight for your rights, Coward?
If they are "quite sympathetic towards ISIS", why are they risking death by running away from them? I'm not buying that millions of refugees are all fleeing the war zones because they want to be ISIS sleeper agents.
Do you really believe they're going to give their home address or real identity? When people go to ISIS for the first time, they don't meet the catfish who suckered them in - ISIS isn't stupid enough not to use a cut-out.
More likely, whatever they "accidentally let slip" isn't an accident.
but the absolute number of people in extreme poverty has dropped.
As many as 1 billion people are homeless, squatters, or living in a refugee shelter - all lacking proper housing. Just search for world homeless population.
No different than having to replace the entire unit if you break your chromebit (or more likely use it if you're carrying it around from place to place), so what's your point?
Just buy a cheap tablet - you get all that the chromebit offers, plus a touch screen and portability, for $50 bucks.
Multiplication is repetitive addition. Learn some basic math theory. Your argument is also very stupid. People would generally agree that a gold watch has value, but the study is probably worth less than zero because it's a useless distraction. Same as your arguments:-)
By the time you buy a keyboard, webcam, audio in/out, bluetooth, sd card storage adapter, a usb hub, and a screen, it's way more expensive than just buying a chromebook (and you don't need to drag those extra things around when you go to the restaurant).
You can buy a chromebook for $159.99. That includes a screen, touchpad, keyboard, wifi, and power supply (battery) that doubles as a UPS, bluetooth, 2 usb ports, hdmi port, audio in/out, takes micro sd cards for extra storage, webcam. In terms of both value for money and usability, the chromebit fails.
Have fun using the chromebit stick at school, work, or someone else's house - it's not like many people are going to want you to fiddle with their TVs or have monitors just sitting around ready for you to plug in (nobody's going to go into the garage to dig out that old lcd or tube screen for you unless you agree to take it with you when you leave).
Unfortunately, much of the world still doesn't have a clue - they don't want to take in refugees who are fleeing ISIS because "terr'rists." Look o further than Chris Christie saying that he wouldn't even let in an orphaned toddler. That's beyond messed up.
We already know that they got hundreds of millions by robbing an Iraqi bank. Then there's the black market oil they sell, the contributions from Arabs living elsewhere, hostage ransoms, taxing those inhabitants who are still living there...
Heck, they even pay pensions to the wives of fighters KIA.
and why intelligence agencies haven't done anything about them, if they're so easy to find.
One likes to think they are finding and tracking whoever logs in to them, and sorting the hot air people from the real networked folks.
In that case, it's clearly not working. Twitter and Facebook (and youtube) are propaganda. It's the easy way for them to find people who are disillusioned, depressed, prey to dogma, as well as build up their "brand."
So at what point does the "smart cop" decide to stop them? After they've killed 129 people?
That's always the tough call to make when receiving intelligence from sources. For instance during WW2 the British received information about German bombing raids in advance through agents but sometimes had to choose not to evacuate civilians near the targets so that the source would not be compromised and could continue to provide intelligence. Hindsight is 20/20 and we don't know what Western intelligence agencies knew before the Paris attacks.
A senior Turkish official provided background information to Al Jazeera on Monday about one of the attackers, 29-year-old Paris native Omar Ismail Mostefai, who died in the attack on the Bataclan concert hall on Friday night.
The official said Mostefai entered Turkey in 2013, and that there was no record of him ever leaving.
In October 2014, France asked for information from Turkish intelligence about four "terror suspects", the official said, adding that during their investigation, Turkish authorities identified Mostefai as a fifth suspect.
Turkish authorities "notified their French counterparts twice - in December 2014 and June 2015 [about Mostefai]," the official said.
"We have, however, not heard back from France on the matter. It was only after the Paris attacks that the Turkish authorities received an information request about Omar Ismail Mostefai from Turkey."
To quote from Cool Hand Luke, "What we have here is a failure to com-mu-ni-cate".
The governments have already said that their best intelligence is from people, not the internet. You've got to figure that the flow of refugees who have no love of ISIS are going to be primed to give up whatever they know.
It's disruptive to their Internet-based propaganda and radicalization/recruiting operations, and hopefully it's making them an embarassment to anyone who is witnessing them being outed and shut down.
Unfortunately in their enthusiasm to do as much damage as possible, they may be disrupting government intelligence operations, that might have been monitoring some of those accounts for intel on ISIL operations. That's something I didn't consider until someone else mentioned it to me.
It's not like the government can use the IP address to go knock on their door with a search warrant. Letting them continue isn't going to be useful if you can't connect the fake account to a real person, and a real location. Have the good guys shut down the account and immediately replace it with a fake new account that imitates ISIS, just to sow confusion. Then shut down the new account, to fuel paranoia.
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Ages estimated from usernames correlate strongly with ages entered at registration.
In other words, ages have not been verified. Garbage in. garbage out. People lie about their age (and gender) all the time on the Internet. And people running a sock-puppet account to use cheats for "their" side are certainly going to use a more aggressive-sounding name and lie about their age.
Ouch :-)
Many of the students were required to continue paying tuition even if they were working for free the entire semester, as a requirement for getting course credit. See the link I posted above.
We should start with Saudi Arabia. But we won't. Because MONEY!
Maybe because, as in this case, they're reporting what some people in the industry are saying, and why they're saying it. You know, exposing the stupidity for all and sundry to see while maintaining neutrality. It's more evidence of what those making the decisions really think of us - as dumb-as-a-rock, easily manipulated cows. MOO!
Sooo...the only employable women are the ones with "pretty face(s)"?
Ask most actresses ...
Brianna Wu is the embodiment of someone who is so voraciously pushing the SJW shtick because she doesn't want people to ever *dare* question her identity.
"The madame doth protest too much", as it were.
And of course, she's been self-promoting, including with a lot of fake claims (like saying she had been forced out of her place by haters when she in fact had signed up months ago to attend a con that day), and bogus drama (OMG they have the picture of where I live!). Like nobody can use google earth ...
Her artwork depicted women as if they had been drawn by an adolescent male (complete with camel toe in one instance which has been removed from the site after I made a bit of a stink about it and her portrayal of women in general).
Fortunately, she does not represent the majority of us. Unfortunately, not everyone will realize that. Even though she won't admit to being trans, she still depends on it to get a free pass from criticism.
Were you always female though? IT has a lot of transgender folk in the field.
Which, I fully support, but there is a remote possibility that the majority of ciswomen are just not that interested.
Hey - I resemble that remark!
Seriously, it's not polite to ask. Do people go around asking you if you were always your current gender? Those of us who have already been publicly outed (raises hand) are probably in the best position to tell people just how rude it is, because we've been through it. Now while it's true that being open about it was a very positive experience overall, it should be up to each person to decide if, when, and how to make that knowledge public.
Just saying, because, you know, it's not polite to ask, especially in public. It puts people on the spot over something that is very personal :-)
Actually, men are more likely to act emotionally than women. Look at all the testosterone-fueled murders - mostly men.
Ah. You must have a penis.
These stories are important to people that don't. Maybe.
These articles perpetuate the paternalistic stereotype that men have to help women do what they want to do, and if the women aren't doing it, it's because they're too ignorant to know what's best for them. And that the careers women choose to go into are somehow of lesser value.
One of the premises of the article:
Among the findings, the authors of the report found that in the U.S., 67 percent of men and 77 percent of women said no high school teacher or career counselor ever mentioned the idea of a cyber security career.
... means absolutely nothing. Kids in high school don't get told about the possibility of a career as a veterinarian, underwater welder, garbageman, town councilor or mayor, crop duster, backhoe or hydraulic shovel operator, etc. And yet, there are people working in all these jobs. You're not going to discuss a career in information security with your English teacher, and how many people even talk to a career counselor in high school? Mostly just the ones who are obviously not going on to higher education and will probably drop out of high school.
Yet another study trying to force on women that we can't make our own career choices because we don't know what to do. Statistics say otherwise - more women than men are going into professional careers, just like more women than men are getting degrees.
They must have been friends of that snake-oil salesman Dr. Oz.
I've probably done more than you to fight for my rights. Run for office a couple of times, gotten arrested by the riot squad at one protest (and got punched in the face by a cop), led another couple of protests, participated in a few more. Lately? Well, I risked going to jail by refusing to obey a court order in the fight against the illegal methods of a developer that was going to put 100 families in the street, went to court three times to argue about it, got a public apology in the two largest newspapers for that same developer publicly outing me as a transsexual.
I believe that if you don't fight for your rights, you don't really deserve them, and are basically pissing on all the work of the others who have gone before you. .
So, what have YOU done to fight for your rights, Coward?
If they are "quite sympathetic towards ISIS", why are they risking death by running away from them? I'm not buying that millions of refugees are all fleeing the war zones because they want to be ISIS sleeper agents.
More likely, whatever they "accidentally let slip" isn't an accident.
but the absolute number of people in extreme poverty has dropped.
As many as 1 billion people are homeless, squatters, or living in a refugee shelter - all lacking proper housing. Just search for world homeless population.
No different than having to replace the entire unit if you break your chromebit (or more likely use it if you're carrying it around from place to place), so what's your point?
Just buy a cheap tablet - you get all that the chromebit offers, plus a touch screen and portability, for $50 bucks.
Multiplication is repetitive addition. Learn some basic math theory. Your argument is also very stupid. People would generally agree that a gold watch has value, but the study is probably worth less than zero because it's a useless distraction. Same as your arguments :-)
By the time you buy a keyboard, webcam, audio in/out, bluetooth, sd card storage adapter, a usb hub, and a screen, it's way more expensive than just buying a chromebook (and you don't need to drag those extra things around when you go to the restaurant).
You can buy a chromebook for $159.99. That includes a screen, touchpad, keyboard, wifi, and power supply (battery) that doubles as a UPS, bluetooth, 2 usb ports, hdmi port, audio in/out, takes micro sd cards for extra storage, webcam. In terms of both value for money and usability, the chromebit fails.
Have fun using the chromebit stick at school, work, or someone else's house - it's not like many people are going to want you to fiddle with their TVs or have monitors just sitting around ready for you to plug in (nobody's going to go into the garage to dig out that old lcd or tube screen for you unless you agree to take it with you when you leave).
Unfortunately, much of the world still doesn't have a clue - they don't want to take in refugees who are fleeing ISIS because "terr'rists." Look o further than Chris Christie saying that he wouldn't even let in an orphaned toddler. That's beyond messed up.
We already know that they got hundreds of millions by robbing an Iraqi bank. Then there's the black market oil they sell, the contributions from Arabs living elsewhere, hostage ransoms, taxing those inhabitants who are still living there ...
Heck, they even pay pensions to the wives of fighters KIA.
and why intelligence agencies haven't done anything about them, if they're so easy to find.
One likes to think they are finding and tracking whoever logs in to them, and sorting the hot air people from the real networked folks.
In that case, it's clearly not working. Twitter and Facebook (and youtube) are propaganda. It's the easy way for them to find people who are disillusioned, depressed, prey to dogma, as well as build up their "brand."
So at what point does the "smart cop" decide to stop them? After they've killed 129 people?
That's always the tough call to make when receiving intelligence from sources. For instance during WW2 the British received information about German bombing raids in advance through agents but sometimes had to choose not to evacuate civilians near the targets so that the source would not be compromised and could continue to provide intelligence. Hindsight is 20/20 and we don't know what Western intelligence agencies knew before the Paris attacks.
Bullcrap. Turkey warned about one of the Paris attackers by name:
A senior Turkish official provided background information to Al Jazeera on Monday about one of the attackers, 29-year-old Paris native Omar Ismail Mostefai, who died in the attack on the Bataclan concert hall on Friday night.
The official said Mostefai entered Turkey in 2013, and that there was no record of him ever leaving.
In October 2014, France asked for information from Turkish intelligence about four "terror suspects", the official said, adding that during their investigation, Turkish authorities identified Mostefai as a fifth suspect.
Turkish authorities "notified their French counterparts twice - in December 2014 and June 2015 [about Mostefai]," the official said.
"We have, however, not heard back from France on the matter. It was only after the Paris attacks that the Turkish authorities received an information request about Omar Ismail Mostefai from Turkey."
To quote from Cool Hand Luke, "What we have here is a failure to com-mu-ni-cate".
The governments have already said that their best intelligence is from people, not the internet. You've got to figure that the flow of refugees who have no love of ISIS are going to be primed to give up whatever they know.
What good would this do ?
It's disruptive to their Internet-based propaganda and radicalization/recruiting operations, and hopefully it's making them an embarassment to anyone who is witnessing them being outed and shut down. Unfortunately in their enthusiasm to do as much damage as possible, they may be disrupting government intelligence operations, that might have been monitoring some of those accounts for intel on ISIL operations. That's something I didn't consider until someone else mentioned it to me.
It's not like the government can use the IP address to go knock on their door with a search warrant. Letting them continue isn't going to be useful if you can't connect the fake account to a real person, and a real location. Have the good guys shut down the account and immediately replace it with a fake new account that imitates ISIS, just to sow confusion. Then shut down the new account, to fuel paranoia.