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  1. Given the amount of conservatives being attacked, this doesn't look like to be the practice.

  2. Another baseless "comparison". on Why So Many Top Hackers Come From Russia (krebsonsecurity.com) · · Score: 1

    If there's an answer, it's not with the education system. It's with the law.

    Given that tests do not control for admission criteria (US having tierless secondary/tertiary, Russia/China having highly rigid tiering), there can be no comparison on educational systems.

    They could try again when they factor that and population size out, but it will favor the US a bit too much for them.

    A more likely case is that Russia & China have lax enforcement - especially on foreign targets. Another factor is the law of large numbers, something also not in the US's favor.

  3. So you favor a failed system - tiering on Why So Many Top Hackers Come From Russia (krebsonsecurity.com) · · Score: 1

    Countries with such systems have less educated people - as they consign people to drudgery if they dont test well or had a bad day.

    In contrast, the US educates about everybody and does well once you factor out admission systems.

  4. Another baseless "comparison" on Why So Many Top Hackers Come From Russia (krebsonsecurity.com) · · Score: 0

    If there's an answer, it's not with the education system.

    Given that tests do not control for admission criteria (US having tierless secondary/tertiary, Russia/China having highly rigid tiering), there can be no comparison on educational systems.

    They could try again when they factor that and population size out, but it will favor the US a bit too much for them.

    A more likely case is that Russia & China have lax enforcement - especially on foreign targets. Another factor is the law of large numbers, something also not in the US's favor.

  5. Yet still with the unfixed USB b/w bug. on Survey Says: Raspberry Pi Still Rules, But X86 SBCs Have Made Gains (linuxgizmos.com) · · Score: 1

    The deal-killer with the r.pi is the still-unfixed USB bandwidth bug that has plagued the platform since the first generation.

  6. s/Illegal/Conservative/ on Germany Cracks Down On Illegal Speech On Social Media. (smh.com.au) · · Score: 2

    Merkel only seeks to silence opposition under the banner of political correctness.

  7. Re:They should be nervous. on Tim Cook Told Trump Tech Employees Are 'Nervous' About Immigration (cnbc.com) · · Score: 1

    Easier to mop up any "accidents". If he's not a US citizen, we don't have to protect him.

  8. Haven't seen it happen in practice on Tim Cook Told Trump Tech Employees Are 'Nervous' About Immigration (cnbc.com) · · Score: 1

    The only thing that has happened is the outflow of work, not the inflow or increase of citizens hired.

    Besides, Apple can be replaced by a more faithful company.

  9. Only if referring to Wipro. on IT Services Company Wipro Forces 600 Employees To Work In Bed Bug Infested Office (11alive.com) · · Score: 1

    Unlike Wipro, Trump actually has acted in favor of regular, non-billionaire US citizens.

  10. They should be nervous. on Tim Cook Told Trump Tech Employees Are 'Nervous' About Immigration (cnbc.com) · · Score: 4, Interesting

    When there's a policy that will favor citizens instead of guest workers, nerves should be a bit frazzled.

    That's how we know Trump has chosen the right policy. Besides, it's time that globalists like Cook show a little heart for citizens - by respecting the law and enforcing it consistently.

  11. Perhaps Sculley was right. on Leaked Recording: Inside Apple's Global War On Leakers (theoutline.com) · · Score: 1

    Apple didn't do so bad when they weren't an intelligence service with a technology company attached to it.

  12. Not going to happen. on Garry Kasparov: The World Should Embrace Artificial Intelligence (bbc.com) · · Score: 1

    I'll happily embrace AI when it has been neutralized.

  13. Re:Take-Two Interactive CEO Strauss Zelnick on GTA V Flooded With Negative Reviews On Steam After OpenIV Modding Tool Shuts Down (kotaku.com) · · Score: 1

    Not so sure that is the case.

  14. They went for too much and will pay. on GTA V Flooded With Negative Reviews On Steam After OpenIV Modding Tool Shuts Down (kotaku.com) · · Score: 1

    Take Two/R* first co-opted modders through GTAForums with some success.

    Unfortunately, they went for too much by trying to kill off modding entirely. Hopefully they reverse course, as they've removed any goodwill.

  15. Offshore outsourcing. on Ask Slashdot: What Are Some 'Best Practices' IT Should Avoid At All Costs? (cio.com) · · Score: 1

    N/T

  16. A good amount of them are Vox's leftists. on Google Searches Show That America Is Full of Racist and Selfish People (vox.com) · · Score: 1

    Scratch a leftist, find a totalitarian wanting to come out - Vox's readership and staff included.

  17. Narrative control API. on The New York Times Is Expanding Comments With the Help of Google's AI (recode.net) · · Score: 1

    All it wants to do is create an echo chamber and easy out - "the AI did it!".

  18. Perspectives from the Echo Chamber. on The New York Times Is Expanding Comments With the Help of Google's AI (recode.net) · · Score: 1

    The NYT is all about the narrative, whether it is the article or the comments.

  19. Top 25 cities for those not already with work? on Real Estate Firm Identifies America's 'Top 25 Tech Cities' (cushmanwakefield.com) · · Score: 1

    It's one thing to be in a top list for jobs, but how many of them are friendly towards those that don't already have work?

  20. The US actually complied w/ Kyoto. on The US Can't Leave The Paris Climate Deal Until 2020 (nytimes.com) · · Score: 1

    The US complied with Kyoto, much to the detriment of its own citizenry (read: the majority not living in the coasts or in environmentalist Colorado).

    As for Paris, someone wanted an uninterruptible gravy train from the US to some BFE country, even at the cost of entire US regions. Americans got their choice through representation, and the US exited it, despite the claims from the MSM to the contrary.

  21. Trouble is, AGW's not real. on The US Can't Leave The Paris Climate Deal Until 2020 (nytimes.com) · · Score: 1

    Fine and dandy to believe the Sierra Club and some highly-politicized "scientists", but AGW (unlike the natural change in climate over geologic timespans) largely DNE. But that's science that /. won't accept.

  22. Re:Thank the environmental zealotry for that. on The US Can't Leave The Paris Climate Deal Until 2020 (nytimes.com) · · Score: 1

    It might be more believable if environmentalists weren't trying to force people (by lack of meaningfully different choice) to adopt lower-tier solutions, while the policy-making nomenklatura is spared any pain.

  23. Re:Trouble is, AGW's not real. on The US Can't Leave The Paris Climate Deal Until 2020 (nytimes.com) · · Score: 1

    These are models that try to extrapolate geologic spans from relatively small datasets. Of course they don't know.

  24. The Church of Al Gore? on The US Can't Leave The Paris Climate Deal Until 2020 (nytimes.com) · · Score: 1

    Then would Aspen, Colorado be their holy city, with Al Gore's various homes being their version of seminaries?

  25. When will AI be used to place people to jobs? on Ask Slashdot: How Can Programmers Move Into AI Jobs? · · Score: 2

    If AI's supposed to be able to create opportunity, why not use it to help connect the displaced and long-term jobless?