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  1. Re:Why is it so hard to admit? on In Response To Anti-diversity Memo, YouTube CEO Says Sexism in Tech is 'Pervasive' (theverge.com) · · Score: 4, Informative

    Lack of equality of outcome (50% or higher females in STEM) does not rampant sexism in technology make.

  2. Re:Woman dominated professions? on In Response To Anti-diversity Memo, YouTube CEO Says Sexism in Tech is 'Pervasive' (theverge.com) · · Score: 1

    ...and women tell you that you're not "biologically suited to the job", or you go into meetings with women and the senior women ignore you, talk over you and when you do get to make a comment, only accept it when another woman parrots it back, THEN you can whine about how you've been mistreated.

    My wife and her friends already do this to me.

  3. The cult of Equality of Outcome for STEM occupations and various high paying jobs, irrespective of ability, interest, desire to work, or other factors, is a noxious beast. Just like the cult of Identity Politics Victimhood

    We're getting wise to you though. Each time you push a regressive campaign against science, or discriminate against merit in favor of identity, we see evidence. When you push Feelz not Realz speech codes and protest again truth, we see machinations.

    Please, keep it up.

  4. Dear Google team members on Google's Other Ugly Secret: Some Managers Keep Blacklists (inc.com) · · Score: 2

    We are making regular additions to Sundar's List for all collective CrimeThinkers: Classical Liberals, Meritocratic Libertarians, Republicans, Christians, Moderates, associated FreeThinkers, Heteronormatives, Cis gender caucasian-males, Leftists refusing to toe the line, as well as scientists discussing inconvenient biological facts. We read your contacts, your email, your queries, your financial transactions, and shortly, your thoughts.

    Dissent will not be tolerated

    DoublePlus Love,

    Danielle Brown
    Commissar of GoodThink
    ThinkPol, Google Corp

    P.S. Support our Hillary2020 Campaign

  5. The VP for Diversity had no part in this video on Google Grapples With Fallout After Employee Slams Diversity Efforts (npr.org) · · Score: 1
  6. "They are all old and well debunked, so it seems unlikely that he has found some new well of insight to draw from" Thanks for telling us how to think. I appreciate that, truly.

  7. Re:the system always wins on Google Grapples With Fallout After Employee Slams Diversity Efforts (npr.org) · · Score: 1

    She's one of the PC nuts pushing Ingsoc Codes of Conduct while supporting the blatantly racist attacks on white males.

    What a f'ing HYPOCRITE

  8. Re:Shaming... on Google Grapples With Fallout After Employee Slams Diversity Efforts (npr.org) · · Score: 3, Informative

    Almost all of his post from within Google has been completely altered for posting in the Media. References removed, no support for arguments, etc. I'm not sure we can say what is showing up in the media is even his arguments, since all the support material has been amputated.

    This is hardly an open discussion.

  9. Re: men more driven by status, etc. on Google Grapples With Fallout After Employee Slams Diversity Efforts (npr.org) · · Score: 1

    Diversity by Meritocracy is simply not popular with Silicon Valley. Rather than let the best people get the jobs, regardless of sex, gender, preferences, religion, ideology, or some other attribute, they are intent on equality of outcome regardless of talent and skills, which is discriminatory. The Left has turned full circle into the ideological KKK, and shortly, they'll be sending around death threats, doxxing people, or making up lies to get them fired.

    We can fully expect to see McCarthyist Blacklists and political purity tests next.

    https://www.youtube.com/watch?...

  10. Re:What is google going to do to fix this? on Google Grapples With Fallout After Employee Slams Diversity Efforts (npr.org) · · Score: 1

    Ad Hominem attacks are a constructive way to win debates

  11. as opposed to your brilliant opinions?

  12. Re:First Be Evil on Google Grapples With Fallout After Employee Slams Diversity Efforts (npr.org) · · Score: 5, Informative

    It isn't like Google is:

    Conspiring with autocratic nation's Great Firewalls
    Doxxing internal critics
    Fighting against free speech
    Hiding important content
    Getting in bed with corrupt political candidates
    Trying to subvert the political process
    Enforcing ThoughtCrime
    Demonetizing any Youtube performers on the Right
    Rewriting queries to favor their own services
    Manipulated searches to hide politicians' dark deeds
    Coming up with exotic Tax avoidance schemes
    Supporting Terrorists' information sharing

    Do no evil, right?

  13. Notification on Google Engineer's Leaked 'Gender Diversity' Essay Draws Massive Response (medium.com) · · Score: 4, Funny

    To circulate, agree with, or repeat crimethink is volunteering to unperson

    DoublePlus Love,

    Danielle Brown
    Commissar of GoodThink
    ThinkPol, Google Corp

  14. Is Yelp shit? on Yelp's Six-Year Grudge Against Google (nytimes.com) · · Score: 3, Interesting

    Many dubious reviews
    Allegations of "Payola"
    Allegations of business shakedowns
    Too many novices rate everything 5 stars, or 1 star

    In the grander scheme of things I'm not sure we should take Company B's advice that Company A is wrong and should be penalized, merely because Company B writes op-eds and sweet talks regulators. AKA ~ Regulatory Capture.

    Yelp is just out to destroy Google since they are the competition. I'm not defending Google either though.

  15. The UK has been doing "creative accounting" to lie about the amounts they are putting into defense.

    At the same time, China is massively increasing their defense spending with both official numbers, and much larger unofficial numbers...

  16. Re:Pricing for Abusers, or Abusive Pricing on Frontier Has No Plans For Data Caps As They're Not Necessary, Says CEO (consumerist.com) · · Score: 1

    According to the article, he was using dual 150mb connections, and later, a single 300mb connection.

    Considering the vast amount of bandwidth he has, 70 some terabytes is not that much traffic.

  17. Carly Fiorina is... on With Carly Fiorina As Running Mate, Cruz's H-1B Stance Now In Question (computerworld.com) · · Score: 4, Interesting

    a bad business person.

    Like many other CEOs, she thought short-term without considering the long-term implications of her actions.

    She pushed outsourcing to the detriment of American workers
    She eroded the previous HP quality
    She bought a horrible company in Compaq
    She failed to properly integrate Compaq into HP
    She failed to leverage a crown jewel in the DEC Alpha, and contributed to its cancellation after the acquisition
    She destroyed the value of the overall business of HP

    I don't need to say she is anti-American, though she may be. Definitely a business failure though, despite the golden parachute.

  18. A better solution on Comcast Is Raising Its Data Caps From 300GB To 1TB (arstechnica.com) · · Score: 2

    Comcast needs to have its own service, Stream TV, imputed against Comcast's own data caps. This will ensure that Comcast does not gain a corporate advantage via exploiting data caps in a monopolistic fashion.

    Then, every other ISP needs to have the same thing occur to prevent the same malfeasance by Comcast from spreading further.

    However, fundamentally, I think the definition of wired broadband need to change to assume the following.

    Wired bandwidth you are provided is a constant stream.

  19. Hmm, a 50% tax on Apple Should Pay More Tax, Says Co-Founder Wozniak (bbc.com) · · Score: 1

    Is this a 50% tax on profits, or gross revenues?

    In either case, I think a 50% tax makes many businesses not viable. Across the US we have huge unemployment issues, and many young people are unemployed. This is a negative situation, and is putting the social safety net at risk. Companies move where the taxes are lowest.

    It appears that many small businesses pay much more in taxes than do the large multinationals employing the double irish with a dutch sandwich

    Furthermore, the US already has worldwide taxation that leads to double taxation, whereas most countries utilize a territorial taxation system. Worldwide taxation leads to companies keeping their earnings abroad to mitigate the double tax when they return them to the US

    High taxes, unemployment, and high welfare can create perverse incentives for people needing income.

    I don't think a 50% tax is going to solve any of those problems.

    In summary:
    We need tax reform
    We need territorial taxation
    We need to address taxation for smaller businesses
    We need something like basic income that is more equitable

  20. Found on another site... on Intel Confirms Major Layoff: 12,000 Worldwide, 11 Percent of Workforce (ieee.org) · · Score: 0, Troll

    In other News, Intel announced 12,000 H-1B visa openings at Intel headquarters, most of which will be retained through subcontractors Tata Consultancy Services (TCS), Infosys, Wipro, and Tech Mahindra.

  21. Your story is short of facts on Why ISIS Is Winning The Online Propaganda War (dailydot.com) · · Score: 4, Informative
  22. A response on Can NASA's Gryphon-X Project Save America? (thestack.com) · · Score: 1

    This sounds like a big moneypit for Ames. Furthermore, Ames has not been able to retain their government staff, since they are quickly poached to nearby Silicon Valley.

    Most of NASA's critical infrastructure is located on JSC, GSFC, KSC, MSFC and JPL. We'd be much better off utilizing those locations, rather than ARC. Although ARC has proximity to startups, GSFC has proximity to the world's largest concentration of human security talent, along with DISA and NSA being next door. JPL has some great SCADA security talent too, and both JSC and KSC have huge room for physical growth, and lower labor rates. The SCADA infrastructure most pertinent to the health & safety of the U.S. public is actually the NASA-NOAA relationship around data feeds from satellite ground system ICS/SCADA which feeds NOAA's weather forecasting capability, and is directly, and indirectly, the foremost source of information for meteorology.

    As far as NASA fixing all SCADA infrastructure this sounds crazy. There are too many separate SCADA/ICS domains that should be handled separately, particularly as IoT grows

  23. Re:My take on Reason Excoriates Paper On "Glaciers, Gender, and Science" (reason.com) · · Score: 3, Informative

    Paul Weyrich created it I think, but it is now very popular with libertarians, and the libertarian left

    The term has come up a bit with the gamergate vs anti-GG crowd, and discussions on the "regressive left"

  24. My take on Reason Excoriates Paper On "Glaciers, Gender, and Science" (reason.com) · · Score: 4, Informative

    SJW agitprop masquerading as science.

    They don't call it cultural marxism for nothing!

  25. A response on Apple's iPhone Already Has a Backdoor · · Score: 5, Informative

    This is all distraction, as operating system configuration and patching is not a "backdoor'.

    The best response to the FBI's request I've read thus far comes from the noted IOS forensics security guru, Jonathan Zdziarski where he wrote the following

    An instrument is the term used in the courts to describe anything from a breathalyzer device to a forensics tool, and in order to get judicial notice of a new instrument, it must be established that it is validated, peer reviewed, and accepted in the scientific community. It is also held to strict requirements of reproducibility and predictability, requiring third parties (such as defense experts) to have access to it. I've often heard Cellebrite referred to, for example, as the Cellebrite instrument in courts. Instruments are treated very differently from a simple lab service, like dumping a phone. I've done both of these for law enforcement in the past: provided services, and developed a forensics tool. Providing a simple dump of a disk image only involves my giving testimony of my technique. My forensics tools, however, required a much thorough process that took significant resources, and they would for Apple too.

    The tool must be designed and developed under much more stringent practices that involve reproducible, predictable results, extensive error checking, documentation, adequate logging of errors, and so on. The tool must be forensically sound and not change anything on the target, or document every change that it makes / is made in the process. Full documentation must be written that explains the methods and techniques used to disable Apple's own security features. The tool cannot simply be some throw-together to break a PIN; it must be designed in a manner in which its function can be explained, and its methodology could be reproduced by independent third parties. Since FBI is supposedly the ones to provide the PIN codes to try, Apple must also design and develop an interface / harness to communicate PINs into the tool, which means added engineering for input validation, protocol design, more logging, error handling, and so on. FBI has asked to do this wirelessly (possibly remotely), which also means transit encryption, validation, certificate revocation, and so on.

    Once the tool itself is designed, it must be tested internally on a number of devices with exactly matching versions of hardware and operating system, and peer reviewed internally to establish a pool of peer-review experts that can vouch for the technology. In my case, it was a bunch of scientists from various government agencies doing the peer-review for me. The test devices will be imaged before and after, and their disk images compared to ensure that no bits were changed; changes that do occur from the operating system unlocking, logging, etc., will need to be documented so they can be explained to the courts. Bugs must be addressed. The user interface must be simplified and robust in its error handling so that it can be used by third parties.

    Once the tool is ready, it must be tested and validated by a third party. In this case, it would be NIST/NIJ (which is where my own tools were validated). NIST has a mobile forensics testing and validation process by which Apple would need to provide a copy of the tool (which would have to work on all of their test devices) for NIST to verify. NIST checks to ensure that all of the data on the test devices is recovered. Any time the software is updated, it should go back through the validation process. Once NIST tests and validates the device, it would be clear for the FBI to use on the device. Here is an example of what my tools validation from NIJ looks like: https://www.ncjrs.gov/pdffiles...

    During trial, the court will want to see what kind of scientific peer review the tool has had; if it is not validated by NIST or some other third party, or has no acceptance in the scientific community,