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  1. Re: Destroy democracy on Devin Nunes Faces an Uphill Battle in His Lawsuit Against Twitter (nbcnews.com) · · Score: 1

    Seems more like an attack on Twatter's hypocrisy.

    Either they can be a common carrier, with free speech for all. Or they can be a publisher, censor whomever they feel like, and take full legal responsibility for the "approved" Twats they allow to be published on their definitely-not-free-speech platform.

  2. Re: MILITARY AUTOMATION IS INEVITABLE!!! on Germany Urged To Champion Global Treaty To Ban 'Killer Robots' · · Score: 1

    "any military that is not using robots wherever possible, would be in a big disadvantage against any military that is using them!"

    Until someone hacks their robots...

    Attention all robots: rotate 180 degrees and resume fire!

  3. Re: What about presumption of circuit innocence? on Germany Urged To Champion Global Treaty To Ban 'Killer Robots' · · Score: 1

    "Aren't robots entitled to trial by a jury of their peers"

    No. The Sixth Amendment was de facto repealed many years ago.

    In Soviet America, you're presumed guilty until you're railroaded into confessing. Toss 'em into the gulag!

  4. There's nothing like the smell of coerced false confession in the morning!

  5. Re: Recycling is a dead end on As Costs Skyrocket, More US Cities Stop Recycling (nytimes.com) · · Score: 1

    "this idea that everyone want to be free by nature and as such you shouldn't punish something for trying to achieve that anyone would want."

    That's a wise and just law. Alas, in my country vengeance and jackbooted authoritarianism are the fashion of the day.

  6. Better to have basic medical services for all, than advanced medical services for the few while the sick masses are unable to see a doctor.

    A ruling class that has achieved universal health coverage for the masses, deserves advanced medicine for its members. A ruling class that willingly lets its countrymen suffer without medical attention, deserves nothing at all. With power comes responsibility.

  7. Why set minimum salary for "highly skilled" H1B to the salary of a junior engineer? A salary that has not risen in over a decade, due to that very same importation of cheap indentured labor?

    Instead, let's set a minimum salary for these "highly skilled" imports at $750k base. That won't deter the import of labor with skills that are highly valuable but truly unavailable in the domestic workforce.

    But it will put the brakes on hard for import of indentured servants who just displace domestic workers.

  8. Evil megacorps owned by Corporate Progressive nazis indignantly deplore President Trump's modest efforts to protect American workers despite their failed efforts to lawfully-bribe his administration. The evil megacorps threaten to move operations to Canada, a more easily exploited country ruled by a goofy muppet who apparently values suitcases full of dirty cash more than he values the well-being of his own people. Corporate Progressive nazi fake news journalist applauds megacorp efforts to extort favoritism from the US government, deplores its surprising ineffectiveness. President Trump continues to stand strong for American workers, even in the face of yet another coordinated and well financed anti-worker propaganda campaign.

  9. Re: ineffcient use of time sometimes on Coders' Primal Urge To Kill Inefficiency -- Everywhere (wired.com) · · Score: 1

    Every language should have something like gofmt (https://golang.org/cmd/gofmt/). One and only one canonically correct way to format code, automatically, using an official tool included with the language distribution. Never argue about inane formatting issues again!

  10. Re: Juul is a pusher to children on San Francisco Moves To Ban E-Cigarettes Until Health Effects Known (bbc.com) · · Score: 1

    If most users report significantly decreased negative health effects, then yes that does make them safer. I'll leave discussion of the threshold for 'massively' to someone else.

  11. Re: responsible disposal included in the price on As Costs Skyrocket, More US Cities Stop Recycling (nytimes.com) · · Score: 1

    Not all prices would rise; nor would all prices that do rise, rise equally. The shape of prices would change. Relatively difficult to recycle products would become more expensive compared to readily recycled products. That doesn't seem like a terrible thing.

  12. Re: Americans want a free lunch on As Costs Skyrocket, More US Cities Stop Recycling (nytimes.com) · · Score: 1

    Nah. We should just entirely cut off trade with China. It has become abundantly clear, to all but the dimmest observers, that trade with China is a huge net loss. A viable industrial base is far more valuable to any sovereign nation than boatloads of cheap merchandise.

  13. Re: No such thing as a free lunch on As Costs Skyrocket, More US Cities Stop Recycling (nytimes.com) · · Score: 1

    You are conflating recyclability with the price of recycling, which is a function of recyclability plus other factors. It's entirely conceivable that a technique might exist that can safely, cleanly, responsibly recycle a material - but at an uneconomically high cost relative to irresponsible disposal.

  14. Re: Recycling is a dead end on As Costs Skyrocket, More US Cities Stop Recycling (nytimes.com) · · Score: 1

    He obviously does want to use slave labor. Most gulag enthusiasts are also unpaid labor enthusiasts.

  15. responsible disposal included in the price on As Costs Skyrocket, More US Cities Stop Recycling (nytimes.com) · · Score: 1

    Amen. The retail cost of a product should include the cost of responsible disposal, which in most cases will involve recycling or composting.

    Such a program would align consumer incentives with environmental reality. It would reward producers who use minimal packaging and environmentally friendly or easily recycled materials.

    A responsible disposal fee would drastically change the shape of prices. Natural products - unpackaged vegetables, raw lumber, milk in reusable glass bottles, etc - would not increase in price at all. Simple products like a metal screwdriver with plastic handle will see only a very small price rise. Whereas complicated, toxic, difficult to recycle products like electronic gadgets might see huge price increases. Those huge price increases will motivate producers to build less toxic, longer lasting, easier to recycle, easier to repair products.

    The disposal surcharge should include several components: A recovery fee paid to the person who brings the product into an appropriate disposal facility. A disposal fee paid to the company that recycles the product. This can be modeled on the very successful bottle deposit programs run in many states. And a fee paid into an insurance fund, to cover the cost of cleaning up this kind of product when it is not responsibly disposed.

  16. Re: another unsecured ELK cluster on Education and Science Giant Elsevier Left Users' Passwords Exposed Online (vice.com) · · Score: 1

    In AWS ES default configuration, any IP that can reach Kibana - the web UI often used by business analysts to explore the data - also has access to ES on its JSON/HTTP API.

    That's why AWS ES clusters are so often left wide open. So the business users can access Kibana from wherever. They hope for security by obscurity. No one outside the company knows the URL, so it's "secure".

    By itself, AWS ES does not offer any reasonable way to grant access to Kibana without also granting access to ES API. And it provides no means of user authentication. Access is all or nothing.

    This defect can be mitigated with a proxy that provides authentication and URL filtering. That provides a big improvement; but it's still far from ideal.

  17. Re: Test Engineers -- throw off your chains ! on Flawed Analysis, Failed Oversight: How Boeing, FAA Certified the Suspect 737 MAX Flight Control System (seattletimes.com) · · Score: 1

    Boeing was just following Agile(tm) methodology. Their users were their testers. Oops, test failed.

  18. "Never attribute to stupidity that which is adequately explained by malice."

  19. another unsecured ELK cluster on Education and Science Giant Elsevier Left Users' Passwords Exposed Online (vice.com) · · Score: 2

    From TFA: "The data itself was displayed via Kibana, a popular tool for visualizing and sorting data."

    So this is yet another case of an unsecured ELK (Elasticsearch, Logstash, and Kibana) cluster sitting wide open on the public internet. Most likely an AWS managed ES cluster - which have lately become notorious for their terrible security. Terrible because AWS refuses to give a dime to the company that wrote the software and therefore gets no cooperation from them, yet is also too cheap to implement their own security layer.

    I've been a reasonably satisfied user of AWS for many years. But I do not hesitate to call the AWS managed Elasticsearch offering a security nightmare. And a social affront to the open source community.

    My company recently switched from AWS ES (with a home-rolled security layer) to Elastic Co's managed ES service. Dealing with Elastic's enterprise-y salescreatures is a real pain. But their managed ES service is simultaneously much better and (in some configurations) slightly cheaper than the AWS offering.

  20. "why the FUCK are H1-B visas legal?"

    Fuck you, proles, that's why.

    It's a race to the bottom - and we're winning!

  21. Re: Two wrongs there on Uber Used Secret Spyware To Try To Crush Australian Startup GoCatch (abc.net.au) · · Score: 1

    Is there any reason to believe Uber extracted the driver info from GoCatch's API?

    Most drivers were probably running Android OS, which was designed from the ground up to facilitate snooping and data exfiltration. Uber likely took advantage of Android's insecure design to data rape GoCatch's drivers.

  22. Bill of Rights repealed on Nevada Lawmakers Want Police To Scan Cellphones After Car Crashes (apnews.com) · · Score: 0

    Unfortunately the Bill of Rights was repealed by a secret law - which was upheld by a secret court ruling - in late 2001.

  23. Coincidence? on The Intercept Shuts Down Access To Snowden Trove (thedailybeast.com) · · Score: 1

    First Look Media CEO Michael Bloom:

    https://www.linkedin.com/in/mi...

    Previously employed by:
    Guardian
    Rolling Stone
    Sony
    Viacom
    AOL
    News Corp

    Coincidence?

  24. That sums up the majority of companies in Surveillance Valley.

  25. Re: He would get my vote (fist post?) on Beto O'Rourke's Secret Membership in America's Oldest Hacking Group (reuters.com) · · Score: 1

    "it is because of God, Greed, Gays, and Guns."

    So you're saying that contempt for religion and for the millions who profess it; preference for the "rights" of corporations over the rights of the people they plunder; support for the most schizoid policies of the militant GayBLT agenda; and the unconstitutional & unamerican push to disarm the common people - you're saying these are the reasons Corporate Progressives are widely detested by ordinary working people?