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  1. Re:Double edged sword on Bill Introduced To Require ID When Purchasing "Burner Phones" (house.gov) · · Score: 1

    Trivial with p2p technology. Connect to a busy, public tracker, put up your public key encrypted packet, eventually both hookup with sweet AES encryption. It probably should be done now, just to get around the metadata collection.

  2. Re:Double edged sword on Bill Introduced To Require ID When Purchasing "Burner Phones" (house.gov) · · Score: 1

    Trivial. They'll get burners issued by their agency/company. To keep liability down, they'd probably require its return after the conference.

  3. Re:last month on Bill Introduced To Require ID When Purchasing "Burner Phones" (house.gov) · · Score: 1

    There was the MOVE bombing in Philadelphia, 1985. Out of the 11 dead, were 5 children. But it was conducted by the city police force, so I guess it doesn't count... 65 residences burned down because of the bomb. But poor black people lived there, so I guess it didn't matter...

  4. Re:The FBI will also track you... on Have a Political Bumper Sticker? The FBI Might Be Snapping Photos of You (muckrock.com) · · Score: 2

    Americans are so clueless, they don't even realize that any political "protest" movement has the FBI putting in CIs & undercovers to research the protest organizers as if they were terrorists. Its de riguer, and its been going on before 9/11. (Why the fuck would FBI need to send undercovers to monitor Quaker meetings to protest the Iraq invasion???)

    As for the PATRIOT act, the gov't was breaking the laws the PATRIOT act suspended before the act was drafted.

  5. Re:The FBI will also track you... on Have a Political Bumper Sticker? The FBI Might Be Snapping Photos of You (muckrock.com) · · Score: 4, Insightful

    COINTELPRO, look it up.

    Just realize that the managers at all these agencies don't work for the American people. The American people didn't give their okay to be spied upon. Cabinet members and agency directors answer to the people who handle their next lucrative assignment.

  6. Re:Compilers and "High level" languages on Jason Bradbury Believes Coding Lessons In Schools Are a Waste of Time (trustedreviews.com) · · Score: 1

    You're making a joke, but this is going to be the future, at some point in this century.

  7. Re:Coding is not important on Jason Bradbury Believes Coding Lessons In Schools Are a Waste of Time (trustedreviews.com) · · Score: 1

    that way you can try to analyse why the machine you're working on is failing...

    And learning the techniques for that skill which will be obsolete and irrelevant when AI is catching all that stuff. Its the same reason I don't bother with including archaic reference counting while debugging a C program. While I agree that programming develops a useful mental skill in resolving computer-like problems, not all problems are computer like. There's no point in making everyone learn to churn their own butter.

  8. Re:Teach Problem Solving on Jason Bradbury Believes Coding Lessons In Schools Are a Waste of Time (trustedreviews.com) · · Score: 1

    Until college school needs to be about [...]

    You're wrong. For a college (of quality), its about basic preparation of candidates for a career in academia. What is the point in correcting what primary education should be, and not realize your perception of secondary eduction is just as flawed.

  9. Re:Teach Problem Solving on Jason Bradbury Believes Coding Lessons In Schools Are a Waste of Time (trustedreviews.com) · · Score: 1

    The best teacher should be the parents. I guess your kid is doomed.

    but wishing I had stayed on a computer science path.

    You're mistaken about what you think a grunt level position in the STEM field offers. No point in regrets about something you're mistaken about anyway.

  10. Re:Teach Problem Solving on Jason Bradbury Believes Coding Lessons In Schools Are a Waste of Time (trustedreviews.com) · · Score: 1

    There is no skill that is safe from AI.

    There is not much point in worrying about what we may see that's beyond our (conceptual) horizon. The point is to maximize your child's cognitive skills, not train them to be optimal wage slaves in an economy that may not exist in twenty years.

  11. No one gives a shit what you think.

  12. Why even look at it from the "promotion" point of view? In this economy, advancement can come by maximizing your free agent potential. Why "hope" that you are unique and valuable enough to be "kept" at your job, and that you'll achieve riches and advancement staying at the same company because loyalty is "valued"?

  13. Damn. Kudos for the sig.

  14. The only rationale behind the "everybody needs to learn to code" is to further lower wages and that's why nobody in their right mind would touch programming with a barge pole.

    Welcome to the aerospace industry in the early 1980's. Except automation is going to hit all areas of employment in twenty years. It makes as much sense to avoid programming as it does advanced math; "you'll never use it...". And yet, perhaps, listening to the knee jerk isn't the smartest move after all.

  15. Well, if you were a competent software engineer, you would have realized this a few years ago. While I have nothing but compassion for the medical profession and software engineers who entered the industry in the last decade, the writing is on the wall now. Todays kids need to be raised to be champion entrepreneurs, utterly able to deal with uncertain, near future job trends. Or be good at not getting caught, in a Mad Max dystopia.

  16. And you think there was voluntary trade, back in 1910? I'm sure you'd be happy as hell signing a mortgage for a house, putting a down payment of 50 percent, and then lose all that money a couple of months later, because someone bought the note, and then demanded payment in full. "But but, it was voluntarily agreed to by both parties. See, its right there in the fine print..."

  17. They sort of are. But it will happen gradually over a few decades. They already sort of have a leg up, because they're pursuing more college and advanced degrees than men. The problem is that we were raised as children to comprehend society and adulthood in comic book terms. Everyone thinks if lawmakers recognize a problem, and implement a solution, the problem magically gets fixed in a couple of years.

  18. Re:"because of a lack of incentive" on Apple's Lack of Bug Bounty Program May Explain Why Hackers Would Help FBI · · Score: 1

    Neither interpretation contradicts one another; they can both be valid. I wasn't addressing the motivation for the FBI to reveal their association with a security consulting firm. On the other hand, I was directly addressing the "snitches get stitches" trope that the OP seems to be suggesting.

  19. Re:"because of a lack of incentive" on Apple's Lack of Bug Bounty Program May Explain Why Hackers Would Help FBI · · Score: 1

    Well companies like Celebrite are being responsible, because they're reporting the exploit to the FBI, and getting paid for it. Pragmatic security researchers then implement a kludge to minimize their exposure.

    This allows them to "make a living" while dedicating their income earning time towards making their community more secure. Its children who think the world works on "right and wrong", and that actions which "reward" behavior labelled as bad should never be conducted. Of course, because they're clueless, they don't realize the consequences of impractical decisions that doesn't correspond to reality. If Apple doesn't offer to pay them to disclose their security holes, and the FBI doesn't offer to pay to disclose security holes, then criminal organizations will pay for those security holes. "Nyah Nyah Nyah, I don't want to listen to the obvious, let me sit in my useless, uncomfortable social justice armor".

  20. Re: Burn those algebras ladies on The Case Against Algebra · · Score: 1

    You're looking at statistics from its mathematical/conceptual foundation, like its calculus. The authors probably just want to teach a functional competence in statistical math for non-mathematicians (be able to understand how basic formulas are applied, and how their results support conclusions expressible in the physical world). A huge amount of risk analysis, scientific/medical breakthroughs, and (especially) public policy is expressed in statistical terms, and we're producing a generation of citizens (always have, in honesty) who cannot really grasp the basis for the conclusions derived by basic application of statistical math.

    No kid being instructed in general high school physics is expected to apply calculus to calculate a trajectory from Earth to Mars and determine time & rocket fuel consumption using Newton's laws of motion. But it can be useful to teach eventual adults how a newfangled invention is a fraud, or how a car is much more deadly hitting you at 50 km/hr rather than 10 km/hr. (What I don't quite understand is how you can skip some topics in algebra II that could be applied in a basic statistics course.)

  21. Management does not replace management. Shareholders replace management.

  22. Re:The Shadow Ninja Strikes Again on Former Disney IT Worker's Complaint To Congress: How Can You Allow This? (computerworld.com) · · Score: 1

    Shut the fuck up, ignorant peasant. He was being candid, and he was not trying to perpetuate the H1-B myth of being an indispensable benefit to the US economy. The market reality is the market reality. US IT workers have to up their game, get out, or start fucking over the political/financial class. That should be the message Bernie Sanders should be delivering.

  23. But by driving down costs to companies by wiping out units of qualified US workers for foreign workers, where is the incentive for a US student to invest money & time into a position which will only be filled by "cheaper" foreign worker?

  24. Overseas, there is a ton of CEO talent that are paid much less than US talent. We should recruit more of that CEO talent, so US companies have better operational leaders, healthier, growing companies, and thus more available jobs, and stop the skyrocketing cost of management compensation for shareholders.

  25. Actually, what the H1-B is supposed to make accessible relatively rare, skilled/qualified workers (PhD level minimum) for jobs that have too many technical requirements to be satisfied by the local employment pool. In theory, this should screw over the natives that slaved to get their PhD, but supposedly the US market reality makes them in such short supply, they wouldn't suffer any drop in salary or job opportunity. H1-Bs would then increase economic activity because more of those "critical" shortage positions filled which would be impossible otherwise. This is similar to the rationale used to allow more foreign doctors to work in the US, back when the AMA was creating an artificial shortage in doctors, and Nazi V-2 rocket engineers to produce ICBMs and a competing space program. Unfortunately, H1-Bs are being hired for systems administration and application coding to drive down the IT salaries.

    Gov't intervention in the market can result in improvement over the status quo. But the politicians that cheat the American public need their careers to be destroyed to order to manage the corruption. I cannot grasp how Rick Snyder & his cronies are still alive, other than the American public is incapable of operating a functioning society.