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  1. Re:African-American sounding names? on It's Harder To Get an Uber or Lyft If You're Black, Study Says (time.com) · · Score: 1

    Yup. "Misty Dawn" and "Bubba Joe" haven't been tested against "LeJuan" and "Shwanika". But low-class Black names have been tested against popular names (not upper class, just popular).

  2. Re:African-American sounding names? on It's Harder To Get an Uber or Lyft If You're Black, Study Says (time.com) · · Score: 1

    You might be wrong sometimes, but you'd be right more often than wrong. You can assume lots from a name. That doesn't mean it's correct, or fair to do so.

  3. Re:African-American sounding names? on It's Harder To Get an Uber or Lyft If You're Black, Study Says (time.com) · · Score: 1

    So you'd assume Shawanika would be a white girl?

  4. Re:It's the rational decision on It's Harder To Get an Uber or Lyft If You're Black, Study Says (time.com) · · Score: 2, Insightful

    They don't. But that doesn't stop the perception that they do, which perpetuates the myth (and turns into a correlation).

    The statistics are clear, a never-accused white is more likely to commit a crime than a never-accused Black. But Blacks are much more likely to be falsely accused, and end up in jail (or dead, like Trevon Martin) for some false accusation by someone. And once they've been through the prison system, they have recidivism similar to everyone else, and end up re-offenders.

    If we stopped throwing innocent Blacks in jail, they'd offend less than whites. If we stopped the prisons from being training/breeding grounds for hardened criminals, Blacks would offend less than whites. Blacks in the US are less violent and criminal than whites (when you correct for recidivism).

    It's mainly the perception and the perpetuation of the perception that exists.

    But my question is, who cares if they are discriminated against for a cab? Trump discriminates openly against Blacks looking for homes, and he's praised for it. Blacks are screened out for jobs for "ethnic" names, or other demographic information that identifies them as minority. So if you can't get a job, and can't get a place to live, why would you care about a cab? Oh, wait. "Uber" gets the front page, even if irrelevant.

  5. Re:Ugh, time to start shopping for a new ISP on CenturyLink To Buy Level 3 For $34 Billion, Create a More Formidable Competitor To AT&T (bloomberg.com) · · Score: 1

    As someone who has priced and engineered these services from the carrier side, what you have to do is request maps.

    When the CIOs buying it don't read maps and sign contracts before anyone technical has even looked at it, maps don't help. They only help if you are doing it right. In which case, we generally don't look at maps, but instead outline in the contract that the diverse paths may never cross, and must always be at least 40 meters apart (or some distance such they they aren't buried on different sides of the same road). Though the only choice here will sell you "diversity" but doesn't guarantee diversity, as a cable failure may require a re-route to a non-diverse path. If you want diversity, you need to pay for a path audit on whatever schedule you find convenient and affordable.

  6. Re:We need more competition, not less. on CenturyLink To Buy Level 3 For $34 Billion, Create a More Formidable Competitor To AT&T (bloomberg.com) · · Score: 1

    Then the bottom feeders like Global Crossing came out, buying up bankrupt parts of companies, and selling capacity at a loss and trying to make up for it with volume.

  7. Re:Neel Mehta is a real crumbum on Google Discloses Exploited Windows Vulnerability 10 Days After Telling Microsoft (venturebeat.com) · · Score: 5, Insightful

    With no exploit in the wild, Google should quietly inform MS. With an exploit in the wild, it has already been publicly disclosed, but to a limited audience, so Google should disclose widely, so everyone is informed of the exploits.

    What in that behavior do you find unethical?

  8. Re:CenturyLink bought Baby Bell Qwest on CenturyLink To Buy Level 3 For $34 Billion, Create a More Formidable Competitor To AT&T (bloomberg.com) · · Score: 1

    SBC "excellent service"? I was an old DSL subscriber. Got a DHCP connection (back before PPPoE was in wide use). Then I moved houses. They didn't let me keep my grandfathered service. Turns out the area also had line issues. 6 months of at least 1 hour down per day, and I gave up, sent a letter to the FCC (copying SBC, and their DSL arm that had a different business name I don't remember), and what they had been telling me for 6 months was "impossible" was done in 48 hours of putting the letter in the mailbox. That's the big Fuck You I got from SBC, and I hated them for the fight they put up from someone just wanting DSL to work.

  9. Re:Ugh, time to start shopping for a new ISP on CenturyLink To Buy Level 3 For $34 Billion, Create a More Formidable Competitor To AT&T (bloomberg.com) · · Score: 3, Interesting

    I've had them terminate in different exchanges, only to find out that the second exchange was daisy chained off the first. The idiot who bough the circuit even specified (And paid for) diverse penetration for a line that laid in the same trench. And the companies saw that CIOs were idiots, and banked on it.

  10. Re:We need more competition, not less. on CenturyLink To Buy Level 3 For $34 Billion, Create a More Formidable Competitor To AT&T (bloomberg.com) · · Score: 1

    I remember when the path hops dropped. It wasn't from merges. It was from common POPs in large areas. The backbone was UUNET, and your local ISP got to them, and the other end's local ISP got to them from the other side. 3 carriers was common (unless one was AT&T, evil company would hand off traffic that was on-net). It was the consolidation and expansion of POPs that improved the Internet, not the reduction of carriers. MCI buying UUNET was one of the worst acts ever done to the growth of the Internet (and damaged both companies, as MCI drove everything into the ground, once their toll-bypass business was outlawed). Consolidation has held us back, and never helped us.

  11. Re: About These Weekly Climate Panic Articles... on NASA Scientists Suggest We've Been Underestimating Sea Level Rise (vice.com) · · Score: 1

    I've read them. They are all about correlations, and have deep flaws.

    A black child raised by a rich white family from birth has about 80-90% of the mobility of a white. But a black child raised in a poor black family is down at 10-20%. The studies seem to indicate that neighborhood and schools have more impact than race.

    Race may play a part, but the identifiable part is 0% so far, as the confounds overwhelm that hypothesis.

  12. Re: How'd the Trump bots outnumber the Clinton one on 'Armies' of Twitter Bots Bolster Both The Trump And Clinton Campaigns (technewsworld.com) · · Score: 2

    No, you put your income on your tax returns. Are you saying that someone with $0 gross income is "rich"? They are losing money, not making it. And Trump is a loser.

  13. Too bad so many people think they know something but aren't actually audio engineers....

    Yes,we know, yet the ignorant ACs keep posting irrelevant (and wrong) corrections.

  14. Re:what drives automation on Mines May Eliminate More Than Half Their Human Workers Within 10 Years (computerworld.com) · · Score: 1

    Learn some history.

    Your history is so old, it's no longer applicable.

    Progressivism 's central beliefs include eugenics and genocide.

    Not in the modern definition. But then those that hate everyone take the most useless and disused definitions for everything and assert them to be gospel.

  15. Re: How'd the Trump bots outnumber the Clinton one on 'Armies' of Twitter Bots Bolster Both The Trump And Clinton Campaigns (technewsworld.com) · · Score: 0

    Whether or not he's actually rich has no impact on his ability to serve as President.

    That he's a bankrupt loser indicates he's also a massive liar and fraudster who's unfit to hold the office of dogcatcher, let alone President.

    Hillary's health would have an impact if she's actually ill. Where is the independent medical exam?

    She's had one and released it. Like the Birth Certificate, anything that says something Trump doesn't like is a cheat and a fraud. Trump was still lying about Obama's birth certificate years after the matter was settled.

  16. Re:what drives automation on Mines May Eliminate More Than Half Their Human Workers Within 10 Years (computerworld.com) · · Score: 1

    Given the example was a negative right, then why would you assume I'm the opposite? Seems your self-loathing is coloring your view of the world.

  17. Re:what drives automation on Mines May Eliminate More Than Half Their Human Workers Within 10 Years (computerworld.com) · · Score: 1

    Ten years ago, I might have written the same things.

    And so, since you might have written something similar 10 years ago, that means you know everything that's in my head? How old are you anyway? I might even be older than you, which would render your extrapolation quite invalid (it is, but more provably so, since you mind is made up and closed).

  18. Re:what drives automation on Mines May Eliminate More Than Half Their Human Workers Within 10 Years (computerworld.com) · · Score: 1

    I used to be like you.

    What am I like?

    You are so good at putting things in the bins they don't belong, you don't ever stop to think that you might have the wrong bin. I'm a "statist" in that I think the government should defend the rights of the people from itself, other governments, and those who would take them away. That my right to extend my arm ends at your nose apparently makes me a progressive statist. As the state exists to arrest me for assault if I violate your rights (among other things).

  19. Re:Signed Off? on CETA Signed Off As Wallonia Folds Under Pressure (freezenet.ca) · · Score: 1

    Signed off also means "ended" as derived from broadcasts that "sign off" to end the day.

  20. They can pardon themselves when they take office. Or, Obama can pardon Clinton if she wins.

  21. Re: How'd the Trump bots outnumber the Clinton one on 'Armies' of Twitter Bots Bolster Both The Trump And Clinton Campaigns (technewsworld.com) · · Score: 0

    I thought Trump had Billions to self-fund his campaign. Oh, that's right, he's broke, and won't release his tax returns because they'll show he's a complete failure of a businessman. He has nothing but debt, and followers. He stooped to reality TV because it was that or personal bankruptcy.

  22. Re:what drives automation on Mines May Eliminate More Than Half Their Human Workers Within 10 Years (computerworld.com) · · Score: 0

    Ah, you define "progressives" and "anyone I don't like". With a useless definition like that, you'd hold the insane opinions you do.

  23. Re:What? on Serious Hacks Possible Through Inaudible Ultrasound (newscientist.com) · · Score: 3, Insightful

    What happens when these "ultrasound" sounds try to pass through high end speakers with bandfilters? My ribbon tweeters can destroy themselves with ultrasound, so they have low-pass bandfilters (and high-pass bandfilters, where the mids take over). So what speaker is passing these sounds, and why are they getting past my bandfilters? How about the crappy sound system in my car? The speakers are rated to 15 kHz, so how are they passing 20+ kHz sounds?

    The reason this sounds absurd is because it is.

  24. Re:Atomic Controls. on Serious Hacks Possible Through Inaudible Ultrasound (newscientist.com) · · Score: 1

    Doesn't let it run in the background, and that's easily controllable.

  25. Re:what drives automation on Mines May Eliminate More Than Half Their Human Workers Within 10 Years (computerworld.com) · · Score: 0

    anti-progress Democrats and progressives are.

    When you assert progressives are anti-progress, your definition of "progress" and/or "progressive" is wrong.

    The progressives know that the government must lead progress. When progressives worked for sufferage, abolition, and basic worker rights, they were harassed (And sometimes even shot) for advocating progress. When the anti-progress groups are willing to kill to maintain their status quo, the government must be on the side of the progressives, or the conservatives will execute the undesirables.