I'm using "vote against" in the everyday-language sense: I 'm not suggesting that these were votes in the electoral sense. If 100,000 people send in identical comments against NN, it would still count as one comment. If you didn't remove duplicates, it would count as roughly 10% against, which is the kind of number one would expect in the absence of form-letters and petitions.
It's after removing duplicates, so if there was an anti-NN campaign with 100,000 signatories, it would still count as a single vote against.
800,000+ raw comments yeilded 646,041 unique ones, filtering out 154,000 duplicates. If all the dups were pro-NN, the numbers wouldn't change. If they were all anti-NN, the anti-NN percentage would be 19%.
My wild-ass guess? There were about 10% anti-NN messages, mostly people clicking "OK" on a site. Ditto pro-NN folks doing the same thing.
They're running as fast as they can to do tasks that require centralized, warehouse-scale computers before the technology advances make my phone and laptop capable of joining a distributed cloud of machines that can do the same tasks. If they don't hurry and make a lot of money, they won't get to buy into the next big thing.
"Quick! Use the money to buy into something else amazing!"
, In that case, the action was taken under Canada’s Anti-Spam Law using section 8 of the Act, which prohibits the installation of software without consent, including malware.
There are at least two class actions waiting for the proclamation of a section which allows American-style suits in additional to prosecution. Guess who they target?
I'm mildly familiar with the power routing and balancing problem, and it's horrible, far worse than problems like finding a valid dependency tree for libraries *. (It's due for another look, preferably by our AI overlords, as humans find it hard (;-))
Over and above being supervised to death, they have the normal diseconomies of scale that big companies have, such as the late delivery of software to do their billing.
What they don't do is negligently threaten people's lives and elections. It's a trade-off.
Ontario Hydro (the electricity monopoly in, well, Ontario) is limited to doing one of three things: generating (one company), long lines (another) and delivery (a third, sometimes replaced by a local monopoly like Toronto Hydro).
It can't sell you kettles and refrigerators anymore: the old Hydro Store is no more.
Its still something of a pain, due to diseconomies of scale, but it's not actually going to change an election or get you swatted (;-))
I read it as an honest statement of belief, based on traditional beliefs about sexual dimorphism. My own opinion? He's assuming some specific human social traditions, rather than "Mrs. Bear has the same job description as Mr. Bear. Find lunch!"
The cited discussions suggest that the majority, and even the management, was against political bias. I'm constantly surprised that companies (like mine!) succeed in actually discussing both sides of questions instead of jumping in on one side and firing anyone who disagrees.
I once had an ex-CTO that wanted to do evil as a matter of policy. He still gives me nightmares (;-))
If you allow people the bigots and Nazis hate to compete, you'll get more good code to choose from than if you limit prospective contributors to, well, people the bigots and Nazis approve of.
Or you can have a walled garden, with less good code because you've excluded a huge class of people who can write code, from whom to choose the good writers. Just like Microsoft or Apple, who need Linux these days, because they can't do the job...
Worked in Bulgaria, which used to be owned by Russia. Basically, anywhere that possess the rule of law. Russia no, but most other countries, even the U.S.
Canada has a (slow, but effective) do-not-call process, similar to our anti-spam law. Once the sponsor has been identified, such as a certain company selling cruises, they are charged in court, fail to successfully defend themselves, if at all, and are fined out of existence.
The existing defense-oriented government data centres can easily support a really large open stack instance, which provides a more secure option that trusting a single vendor.
(In previous lives, I've worked with both Open Stack and with the Solaris side of the U.S. Defense Department's server farms: what I propose is child's play for them. Other departments? Maybe so, maybe not.)
"If you don't sign us with us, you'll lose gazillions of dollars"
My local cable company encrypts and DRMs public domain programs, so you have to buy their PVR. Amazon PVRs provide them an "offer they can't refuse", much like the mafia does.
If you try to adhere to every country's laws, you won't be able to offer a product.
Geac wasn't trying to obey everyone's law, we wanted to obey the best law.
In fact, common adoption of other country's laws is how we created both "commercial law" and "international law". The Hanseatic League made what was snarkily called "german village law" into a norm from what is now St Petersburg in Russia, through the Baltic States, Germany, Scandinavia to a certain well-known city now called the City of London.
Various countries asked Geac to make library systems that would report who borrowed, for example, "Lady Chatterley's Lover". Our answer? "That would be illegal in Germany, so we can't do that".
Not MAC as in addresses, but rather Mandatory Access Control rules, part of SE Linux. They were invented to prevent exactly this kind of confidentiality leak.
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Hint: we used to call this "vice-president wars". If you worked for the wrong VP in some companies, it could be a career-ending move.
I'm using "vote against" in the everyday-language sense: I 'm not suggesting that these were votes in the electoral sense. If 100,000 people send in identical comments against NN, it would still count as one comment. If you didn't remove duplicates, it would count as roughly 10% against, which is the kind of number one would expect in the absence of form-letters and petitions.
It's after removing duplicates, so if there was an anti-NN campaign with 100,000 signatories, it would still count as a single vote against.
800,000+ raw comments yeilded 646,041 unique ones, filtering out 154,000 duplicates. If all the dups were pro-NN, the numbers wouldn't change. If they were all anti-NN, the anti-NN percentage would be 19%.
My wild-ass guess? There were about 10% anti-NN messages, mostly people clicking "OK" on a site. Ditto pro-NN folks doing the same thing.
IRC, too, is an interruption machine (;-))
They're running as fast as they can to do tasks that require centralized, warehouse-scale computers before the technology advances make my phone and laptop capable of joining a distributed cloud of machines that can do the same tasks. If they don't hurry and make a lot of money, they won't get to buy into the next big thing.
"Quick! Use the money to buy into something else amazing!"
My youngest colleagues detest it. They seem to like voice (;-))
It's like being in a room full of excitable people, all exclaiming OOH, Shiney! all day.
The CRTC has fined companies, for example A $250,000 Reminder that "CASL" is Not Just an Anti-Spam Law
, In that case, the action was taken under Canada’s Anti-Spam Law using section 8 of the Act, which prohibits the installation of software without consent, including malware.
There are at least two class actions waiting for the proclamation of a section which allows American-style suits in additional to prosecution. Guess who they target?
See also https://crtc.gc.ca/eng/interne...
I'm mildly familiar with the power routing and balancing problem, and it's horrible, far worse than problems like finding a valid dependency tree for libraries *. (It's due for another look, preferably by our AI overlords, as humans find it hard (;-))
Over and above being supervised to death, they have the normal diseconomies of scale that big companies have, such as the late delivery of software to do their billing.
What they don't do is negligently threaten people's lives and elections. It's a trade-off.
--dave
[That particular problem is NP-complete]
Ontario Hydro (the electricity monopoly in, well, Ontario) is limited to doing one of three things: generating (one company), long lines (another) and delivery (a third, sometimes replaced by a local monopoly like Toronto Hydro).
It can't sell you kettles and refrigerators anymore: the old Hydro Store is no more.
Its still something of a pain, due to diseconomies of scale, but it's not actually going to change an election or get you swatted (;-))
Please read Mr. Damore's thesis, available at https://web.archive.org/web/20...
I read it as an honest statement of belief, based on traditional beliefs about sexual dimorphism. My own opinion? He's assuming some specific human social traditions, rather than "Mrs. Bear has the same job description as Mr. Bear. Find lunch!"
The cited discussions suggest that the majority, and even the management, was against political bias. I'm constantly surprised that companies (like mine!) succeed in actually discussing both sides of questions instead of jumping in on one side and firing anyone who disagrees.
I once had an ex-CTO that wanted to do evil as a matter of policy. He still gives me nightmares (;-))
If you allow people the bigots and Nazis hate to compete, you'll get more good code to choose from than if you limit prospective contributors to, well, people the bigots and Nazis approve of.
Or you can have a walled garden, with less good code because you've excluded a huge class of people who can write code, from whom to choose the good writers. Just like Microsoft or Apple, who need Linux these days, because they can't do the job...
Worked in Bulgaria, which used to be owned by Russia. Basically, anywhere that possess the rule of law. Russia no, but most other countries, even the U.S.
Canada has a (slow, but effective) do-not-call process, similar to our anti-spam law. Once the sponsor has been identified, such as a certain company selling cruises, they are charged in court, fail to successfully defend themselves, if at all, and are fined out of existence.
Good! Thanks, AC!
If you don't have to also provide a pin as part of the key response, it's "something you have" without "something you know". Ie, 1FA instead of 2FA.
The leading comments here are
If I were trying to disrupt a discussion of a political initiative, I'd generate astroturf in exactly that way...
The existing defense-oriented government data centres can easily support a really large open stack instance, which provides a more secure option that trusting a single vendor.
(In previous lives, I've worked with both Open Stack and with the Solaris side of the U.S. Defense Department's server farms: what I propose is child's play for them. Other departments? Maybe so, maybe not.)
"If you don't sign us with us, you'll lose gazillions of dollars"
My local cable company encrypts and DRMs public domain programs, so you have to buy their PVR. Amazon PVRs provide them an "offer they can't refuse", much like the mafia does.
I know people from that country, and usually recommend they move to Canada. We're not perfect, but it's better than living in a hell-hole.
And in Canada: we specifically prohibit things like inciting to riot.
If you try to adhere to every country's laws, you won't be able to offer a product.
Geac wasn't trying to obey everyone's law, we wanted to obey the best law.
In fact, common adoption of other country's laws is how we created both "commercial law" and "international law". The Hanseatic League made what was snarkily called "german village law" into a norm from what is now St Petersburg in Russia, through the Baltic States, Germany, Scandinavia to a certain well-known city now called the City of London.
Various countries asked Geac to make library systems that would report who borrowed, for example, "Lady Chatterley's Lover". Our answer? "That would be illegal in Germany, so we can't do that".
Not MAC as in addresses, but rather Mandatory Access Control rules, part of SE Linux. They were invented to prevent exactly this kind of confidentiality leak.