Once again we have some big sister/brother company/government claiming that they can do the impossible with biometric data. They don't address the primary source of the problems, which you lay out in detail.
Why was security skimped on in the code? Funding.
Why did funding get dropped? So that someone could get a bonus.
Who was the person that had the demo code for security? Canned to save budget.
Can't our Outsource code it? Not in their contract or business statement.
None of those issues are the coders fault, and this is the majority of our "shitty" code today. Piles and piles of shit so that someone in the management chain (or several someones) can get bonuses/raises/justify their existence in a company.
I'll give an alternate method of finding better targets for biometric scanning. Randomly sample executive and management emails. If you can win buzzword bingo in 2 or less random emails, you have a valid target. Build a "shifty eye" detector into power point, and there ya go!
Except that Smallpox is not a WMD, so "weaponized" smallpox is not a deadly disease if the person who contracted it receives very _basic_ medical treatment.
As an educated guess, the study into smallpox has been to figure out out why it is so contagious so that we can build our own great contagion. Merge the contagious properties of smallpox with the payload of Ebola and then you have a weapon.
Sad that we spend so much money learning how to kill each other instead of figuring out how to advance society, but this is the reality that people continue to buy in to.
If you do not sign an agreement when hired, is it legal for Microsoft to bar employment after termination? While it's surely possible that MS makes many sign such an agreement at hire time, for those that don't I'd be contacting a Lawyer for a class action lawsuit.
*Sigh* nothing like selective reading. You simply extrapolated on something I mentioned so that I was not writing a thesis, and pretended that I did not mention it. Remember that the cost of a PC is not just in capital, but a support structure
Most apartments in China are not the variety you are mentioning that are former Government apartments.
Partial truth, but nobody has mentioned the most obvious reason for this to be true in China. Money! PCs in the US and Europe are pretty cheap, but not in China. Remember that the cost of a PC is not just in capital, but a support structure. Houses in China are rare, apartments dominate the landscape so the few that can afford them may not have a place to put them. Remember that these are not large apartments. If you have very little disposable income, you are going to purchase _either_ a phone phone or a PC. Not both. You also need to pay for support for the hardware, operating system, and purchase applications (rare in China I agree, but the Government there does have some rules it can choose to enforce). This is why computer boutiques are common in all over Asia, not just China. PCs are expensive, phones are cheap.
I agreed in part because phones are the future landscape for Internet use by consumers. In fact that "future" is already prevalent. In business, absolutely not with current technology. Anyone actually working in IT today requires fast processing and multiple displays. Tablets are not powerful enough for a developer today, which pushes phones further out. If phones are ever developed enough to take over business space, they won't be considered phones any longer. Angry birds works fine on a Phone, running a large mysql query and working with the data not so much (let alone trying to compile a client that does this, or running a mysql server for more than a few clients).
You chose to selectively read instead of consuming the whole message. If you are going to be programming for scientific purposes, math is essential for doing that type of programming.
The reason math helps a whole lot in programming is that it teaches essential critical thinking skills. Some people are good at critical thinking skills without taking math. The _majority_,however, require some type of education to help mold their methods of thinking. Many, even with a whole lot of training do poorly with critical thinking skills.
Claiming that you have never used math in programming simply demonstrates that you are not programming for scientific purposes (writing a GUI for a CAD program is not the same as writing the underlying math structures). That's fine, and most surely is not intended as an insult. As with above, you are not everyone, and math has many benefits.
I say this as a person who has a degree in Math, and took everything possible in College for math (hated statistical math, but diff-eq was great). I don't sit and run differential equations all day, but do very well helping Engineers and Scientists that _do_ run heavy mathematical models. Hell, when I was in college the only way to learn computers was by being in a math program.
First, you use the same "most" claim without any proof. Second, "most" can be proven by reading court transcripts. Sampling studies have been done, so "most" is surely provable. "Is it worth the time and effort required to go through all court data?" is a valid question, but something you need to ask since you used the same terminology based on some anecdotal information. Lastly, the propagandists are easy to find. Look at who funds particular groups and you will find answers. Their information is also easy to find, read articles submitted to nearly every source, listen to interviews on mass media, etc... This is not rocket science, you refusing to do any work at all.
Now it is true that most sexual harassment is not intended to harass
So you claim that I can't back up my statement of most, then agree with me using the same exact terminology. Hmmm.. You do realize that based on your statement mens rea is not met and is not a crime right? This is precisely why it's not illegal unless you are asked to stop.
"You look nice today." is not an affront on someone's sexuality or position, it is a complement regarding appearance. Yet, this same phrase is repeated by propagandists as an example of sexual harassment.
When you have 5,000 of these trying to get court time, the 1 person that actually said "if you don't you won't get promoted" gets drowned out in the noise.
Most "sexual harassment" today results from a person saying that someone looks nice, not the other way around. This mentality has been pushed past the point of insanity.
When a guy walks up to a woman and says "Hello" and she claims to a Radio Host "A guy comes up and rapes me today." you begin to understand the depth of the problem. I can't find the quote, but this was on Talk 910AM in SF a few months ago. Perhaps you will have better luck looking for transcripts of the Gill Gross show than I did.
Yes, there are surely sexual harassment issues just like there are surely racist issues. Is everything being counted as "sexual harassment" really that? Hell no, just like much of the racist reports are not racism.
Comments like yours and what studies like this report exacerbate problems. It becomes impossible to find the real problems in the massive piles of false claims, so people stop taking any claim seriously.
As a guess, you realize this and simply wish to propagate the nonsense to ensure that nothing can be done to fix the real problems. That guess is based on your post as an AC instead of a real person wishing to hold any type of real dialogue.
The whole promotion seems to resemble everything from IBM PureServers that were introduced about 2 years ago, but of course lacking any type of performance. At least the IBM servers allowed scaling, higher performance CPUs, integrated disks, etc..
When management and marketing design computers, this is what we get. HP has not really been a technical player for a long time, at least in terms of innovation. Superdome was okay, but Sun E class machines made them look like an old mainframe in terms of usability. Itanium flopped and they never put much into the PA RISC chips after that. Omniback and NNM were great, but required manpower and HP has despised T&M billing for as long as I've worked with them which goes back to HP-UX 9 and VUE days. (I contracted for them in Michigan, because they would not hire direct technical people).
We already have laws to protect the innocent under most conditions. Slander, Libel, and defamation did not vanish when the Internet popped up. They are harder to enforce, sure, but they did not go away.
In the case of your 5% innocence (which is as useless as most other statistics in my opinion) any of those people could have sued the source for damages. If found guilty, sources are forced to change or amend content and generally issue public apology.
This "forget me" law does not do anything to address the root problem. How does someone in the US sue someone in German for libel, or visa-versa? They don't, or at least common people could never afford to do so.
The other point to mention is probably more important. This law was never described as a means for individuals to prune their personal history. The law was intended to prevent bad information from remaining prevalent on the Internet. Such as bad science that had been discounted (not just from conspiracy sites, but that was a large portion of the case "for" this law.
The way it has been implemented, it has a gaping loophole allowing abuse by individuals. Laws that suck should not be passed, but, people keep on believing the bullshit bureaucrats tell them.
I'm lost at your quote and your respective comment, what does your fallacy have to do with any of my statements?
or do you still think that US authorities (being government and/or congress) have any control over NSA?
That is plain old idiocy. If they want control they can impeach appointed officers, put criminal acts on trial, and remove funding from the departments.
Not only is this hypocrisy, but they are using a single person as a scapegoat for what is obviously an institutional problem. Sending one guy away when the BND and Bundespost work directly with the NSA will not fix a damn thing.
I truly hope that German citizens keep up the pressure to force a real change and don't accept this token arrangement as a "fix" to the institutional problems. Fortunately Germans are more aware of politics and games than Americans.
I'm not sure what ignorance you're talking about here.
The same ignorance you claimed was responsible for high birth rates in impoverished areas. How does a chip give them more knowledge? That was a rhetorical question, the answer is that it does not.
How are people going to be unaware that they've had a chip implanted under their skin that stops them from getting pregnant?
Straw man, it has nothing to do with the points, which is that this technology puts the option for birth control in the hands of a person other than the recipient of the birth control.
I don't understand why you're more worried weird hypothetical dystopias than the kinds of evil that are already happening.
Yet another straw man, and a false accusation. The "evil that are already happening" gains more power with this type of technology.
Save your next fabrication and fallacy, I'm not interested.
I did not miss your point, I simply discredited your point. Claiming that ignorance can be fixed by continued ignorance from a different party is a fools prospect.
There are simply too many nefarious purposes for this type of technology. If some dystopia decides that fertility is a reward, this technology allows that very easily. If another dystopia decides that soldiers should rape women but don't want pregnancy as a result, well, this allows that as well.
Nearly every technology has both good and evil potential. It is yet another fools prospect to believe that humans won't use it for evil, we have too much evidence that shows that thought process to be absolutely false.
Campaign contributions and other favors funneled through third parties by the Saudis and other middle eastern individuals and entities have created a US government that is more or less foreign controlled.
I hate to break the news to you, but you are a moron.
That "US politicians are puppets" would be a decent statement to make, but only "decent" because it's not all inclusive. To claim it's Islam, or Jewish, or Satanic, or what ever else people claim is simply a propagated argument to maintain the puppet show and keep everyone bickering instead of fixing the problem.
Instead of playing the blame game, work to correct the problem.
Oppression by elites in this context involves keeping women ignorant and afraid so they don't question traditional, patriarchal ideas.
You claim that elitists keep women ignorant to oppress them, why do you ignore the obvious ignorance this "tech" is associated with? It's doing nothing to educate anyone, it gives the same elitists "MORE" control.
"Family planning" is a euphemism for sex education and contraceptive access.
Anyone claiming that education is the same as technology allowing forced anything is either daft or a shill. How many educators could have been paid to educate people with the same amount of money they have spent so far inventing this device? How many languages could you write books in with the same amount of money and use it to educate people? Come now, you really shouldn't be that blind.
I wonder if your post history would show you as one of the people claiming that the NSA spying on everyone in the US was just paranoia, or that PRISM and Parallel construction were just delusion.
When these things were found to be true, many of those on that bandwagon changed sides.
An international coalition of governments, companies, philanthropies, and nonprofits recently committed to providing family planning to 120 million more women in the world by 2020.
Of course those Governments, companies, and philanthropists know best how you should plan a family. Considering how the top.01% of the population (which includes those Philanthropists) control the majority of the wealth, they only have societies best interests in mind right?
Good grief, it's tech news that can easily be used for malicious purposes which is why it makes it on Slashdot. You can dismiss it if you choose, but don't claim it's everyone else that's delusional. I've been able to say "told ya so" more often than you!
Not only are you ignorant to technology we have had in Virtual Reality for nearly 2 decades, you chose not to read (or ignored) my 2nd paragraph. No, the thimble is not better than motion tracking in VR space. It can cheaply track 1 point, but for HFE that is not very useful. Even a thimble on every finger won't be able to track the elbow, head, foot, knee, etc... so has no benefits for VR over anything we already have.
With all due respect don't accuse me of not understanding a word because you failed to read! Go back and read what I stated regarding motion tracking. My comment was not limited, you chose to ignore content.
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Is there any company on earth that treats its customers with more contempt than Microsoft?
Comcast? AT&T? Anyone associated with the MPAA/RIAA?
Once again we have some big sister/brother company/government claiming that they can do the impossible with biometric data. They don't address the primary source of the problems, which you lay out in detail.
Why was security skimped on in the code? Funding.
Why did funding get dropped? So that someone could get a bonus.
Who was the person that had the demo code for security? Canned to save budget.
Can't our Outsource code it? Not in their contract or business statement.
None of those issues are the coders fault, and this is the majority of our "shitty" code today. Piles and piles of shit so that someone in the management chain (or several someones) can get bonuses/raises/justify their existence in a company.
I'll give an alternate method of finding better targets for biometric scanning. Randomly sample executive and management emails. If you can win buzzword bingo in 2 or less random emails, you have a valid target. Build a "shifty eye" detector into power point, and there ya go!
Except that Smallpox is not a WMD, so "weaponized" smallpox is not a deadly disease if the person who contracted it receives very _basic_ medical treatment.
As an educated guess, the study into smallpox has been to figure out out why it is so contagious so that we can build our own great contagion. Merge the contagious properties of smallpox with the payload of Ebola and then you have a weapon.
Sad that we spend so much money learning how to kill each other instead of figuring out how to advance society, but this is the reality that people continue to buy in to.
If you do not sign an agreement when hired, is it legal for Microsoft to bar employment after termination? While it's surely possible that MS makes many sign such an agreement at hire time, for those that don't I'd be contacting a Lawyer for a class action lawsuit.
*Sigh* nothing like selective reading. You simply extrapolated on something I mentioned so that I was not writing a thesis, and pretended that I did not mention it. Remember that the cost of a PC is not just in capital, but a support structure
Most apartments in China are not the variety you are mentioning that are former Government apartments.
Partial truth, but nobody has mentioned the most obvious reason for this to be true in China. Money! PCs in the US and Europe are pretty cheap, but not in China. Remember that the cost of a PC is not just in capital, but a support structure. Houses in China are rare, apartments dominate the landscape so the few that can afford them may not have a place to put them. Remember that these are not large apartments. If you have very little disposable income, you are going to purchase _either_ a phone phone or a PC. Not both. You also need to pay for support for the hardware, operating system, and purchase applications (rare in China I agree, but the Government there does have some rules it can choose to enforce). This is why computer boutiques are common in all over Asia, not just China. PCs are expensive, phones are cheap.
I agreed in part because phones are the future landscape for Internet use by consumers. In fact that "future" is already prevalent. In business, absolutely not with current technology. Anyone actually working in IT today requires fast processing and multiple displays. Tablets are not powerful enough for a developer today, which pushes phones further out. If phones are ever developed enough to take over business space, they won't be considered phones any longer. Angry birds works fine on a Phone, running a large mysql query and working with the data not so much (let alone trying to compile a client that does this, or running a mysql server for more than a few clients).
You chose to selectively read instead of consuming the whole message. If you are going to be programming for scientific purposes, math is essential for doing that type of programming.
The reason math helps a whole lot in programming is that it teaches essential critical thinking skills. Some people are good at critical thinking skills without taking math. The _majority_ ,however, require some type of education to help mold their methods of thinking. Many, even with a whole lot of training do poorly with critical thinking skills.
Claiming that you have never used math in programming simply demonstrates that you are not programming for scientific purposes (writing a GUI for a CAD program is not the same as writing the underlying math structures). That's fine, and most surely is not intended as an insult. As with above, you are not everyone, and math has many benefits.
I say this as a person who has a degree in Math, and took everything possible in College for math (hated statistical math, but diff-eq was great). I don't sit and run differential equations all day, but do very well helping Engineers and Scientists that _do_ run heavy mathematical models. Hell, when I was in college the only way to learn computers was by being in a math program.
yeah yeah, get off my lawn!
No. You can't back up the claim that "most"
First, you use the same "most" claim without any proof. Second, "most" can be proven by reading court transcripts. Sampling studies have been done, so "most" is surely provable. "Is it worth the time and effort required to go through all court data?" is a valid question, but something you need to ask since you used the same terminology based on some anecdotal information. Lastly, the propagandists are easy to find. Look at who funds particular groups and you will find answers. Their information is also easy to find, read articles submitted to nearly every source, listen to interviews on mass media, etc... This is not rocket science, you refusing to do any work at all.
Now it is true that most sexual harassment is not intended to harass
So you claim that I can't back up my statement of most, then agree with me using the same exact terminology. Hmmm.. You do realize that based on your statement mens rea is not met and is not a crime right? This is precisely why it's not illegal unless you are asked to stop.
"You look nice today." is not an affront on someone's sexuality or position, it is a complement regarding appearance. Yet, this same phrase is repeated by propagandists as an example of sexual harassment.
When you have 5,000 of these trying to get court time, the 1 person that actually said "if you don't you won't get promoted" gets drowned out in the noise.
Most "sexual harassment" today results from a person saying that someone looks nice, not the other way around. This mentality has been pushed past the point of insanity.
When a guy walks up to a woman and says "Hello" and she claims to a Radio Host "A guy comes up and rapes me today." you begin to understand the depth of the problem. I can't find the quote, but this was on Talk 910AM in SF a few months ago. Perhaps you will have better luck looking for transcripts of the Gill Gross show than I did.
Yes, there are surely sexual harassment issues just like there are surely racist issues. Is everything being counted as "sexual harassment" really that? Hell no, just like much of the racist reports are not racism.
Comments like yours and what studies like this report exacerbate problems. It becomes impossible to find the real problems in the massive piles of false claims, so people stop taking any claim seriously.
As a guess, you realize this and simply wish to propagate the nonsense to ensure that nothing can be done to fix the real problems. That guess is based on your post as an AC instead of a real person wishing to hold any type of real dialogue.
The whole promotion seems to resemble everything from IBM PureServers that were introduced about 2 years ago, but of course lacking any type of performance. At least the IBM servers allowed scaling, higher performance CPUs, integrated disks, etc..
When management and marketing design computers, this is what we get. HP has not really been a technical player for a long time, at least in terms of innovation. Superdome was okay, but Sun E class machines made them look like an old mainframe in terms of usability. Itanium flopped and they never put much into the PA RISC chips after that. Omniback and NNM were great, but required manpower and HP has despised T&M billing for as long as I've worked with them which goes back to HP-UX 9 and VUE days. (I contracted for them in Michigan, because they would not hire direct technical people).
We already have laws to protect the innocent under most conditions. Slander, Libel, and defamation did not vanish when the Internet popped up. They are harder to enforce, sure, but they did not go away.
In the case of your 5% innocence (which is as useless as most other statistics in my opinion) any of those people could have sued the source for damages. If found guilty, sources are forced to change or amend content and generally issue public apology.
This "forget me" law does not do anything to address the root problem. How does someone in the US sue someone in German for libel, or visa-versa? They don't, or at least common people could never afford to do so.
The other point to mention is probably more important. This law was never described as a means for individuals to prune their personal history. The law was intended to prevent bad information from remaining prevalent on the Internet. Such as bad science that had been discounted (not just from conspiracy sites, but that was a large portion of the case "for" this law.
The way it has been implemented, it has a gaping loophole allowing abuse by individuals. Laws that suck should not be passed, but, people keep on believing the bullshit bureaucrats tell them.
I'm lost at your quote and your respective comment, what does your fallacy have to do with any of my statements?
or do you still think that US authorities (being government and/or congress) have any control over NSA?
That is plain old idiocy. If they want control they can impeach appointed officers, put criminal acts on trial, and remove funding from the departments.
It is not violating my principle, you are choosing to ignore the definition of "expect". Hint: "Do not expect" is not a refusal.
Not only is this hypocrisy, but they are using a single person as a scapegoat for what is obviously an institutional problem. Sending one guy away when the BND and Bundespost work directly with the NSA will not fix a damn thing.
I truly hope that German citizens keep up the pressure to force a real change and don't accept this token arrangement as a "fix" to the institutional problems. Fortunately Germans are more aware of politics and games than Americans.
I'm not sure what ignorance you're talking about here.
The same ignorance you claimed was responsible for high birth rates in impoverished areas. How does a chip give them more knowledge? That was a rhetorical question, the answer is that it does not.
How are people going to be unaware that they've had a chip implanted under their skin that stops them from getting pregnant?
Straw man, it has nothing to do with the points, which is that this technology puts the option for birth control in the hands of a person other than the recipient of the birth control.
I don't understand why you're more worried weird hypothetical dystopias than the kinds of evil that are already happening.
Yet another straw man, and a false accusation. The "evil that are already happening" gains more power with this type of technology.
Save your next fabrication and fallacy, I'm not interested.
On our current trajectory, it will only happen if your dystopian overlords want it to happen.
I did not miss your point, I simply discredited your point. Claiming that ignorance can be fixed by continued ignorance from a different party is a fools prospect.
There are simply too many nefarious purposes for this type of technology. If some dystopia decides that fertility is a reward, this technology allows that very easily. If another dystopia decides that soldiers should rape women but don't want pregnancy as a result, well, this allows that as well.
Nearly every technology has both good and evil potential. It is yet another fools prospect to believe that humans won't use it for evil, we have too much evidence that shows that thought process to be absolutely false.
Campaign contributions and other favors funneled through third parties by the Saudis and other middle eastern individuals and entities have created a US government that is more or less foreign controlled.
I hate to break the news to you, but you are a moron.
That "US politicians are puppets" would be a decent statement to make, but only "decent" because it's not all inclusive. To claim it's Islam, or Jewish, or Satanic, or what ever else people claim is simply a propagated argument to maintain the puppet show and keep everyone bickering instead of fixing the problem.
Instead of playing the blame game, work to correct the problem.
Quoting you in reverse order intentionally.
Oppression by elites in this context involves keeping women ignorant and afraid so they don't question traditional, patriarchal ideas.
You claim that elitists keep women ignorant to oppress them, why do you ignore the obvious ignorance this "tech" is associated with? It's doing nothing to educate anyone, it gives the same elitists "MORE" control.
"Family planning" is a euphemism for sex education and contraceptive access.
Anyone claiming that education is the same as technology allowing forced anything is either daft or a shill. How many educators could have been paid to educate people with the same amount of money they have spent so far inventing this device? How many languages could you write books in with the same amount of money and use it to educate people? Come now, you really shouldn't be that blind.
I wonder if your post history would show you as one of the people claiming that the NSA spying on everyone in the US was just paranoia, or that PRISM and Parallel construction were just delusion.
When these things were found to be true, many of those on that bandwagon changed sides.
An international coalition of governments, companies, philanthropies, and nonprofits recently committed to providing family planning to 120 million more women in the world by 2020.
Of course those Governments, companies, and philanthropists know best how you should plan a family. Considering how the top .01% of the population (which includes those Philanthropists) control the majority of the wealth, they only have societies best interests in mind right?
Good grief, it's tech news that can easily be used for malicious purposes which is why it makes it on Slashdot. You can dismiss it if you choose, but don't claim it's everyone else that's delusional. I've been able to say "told ya so" more often than you!
Not only are you ignorant to technology we have had in Virtual Reality for nearly 2 decades, you chose not to read (or ignored) my 2nd paragraph. No, the thimble is not better than motion tracking in VR space. It can cheaply track 1 point, but for HFE that is not very useful. Even a thimble on every finger won't be able to track the elbow, head, foot, knee, etc... so has no benefits for VR over anything we already have.
With all due respect don't accuse me of not understanding a word because you failed to read! Go back and read what I stated regarding motion tracking. My comment was not limited, you chose to ignore content.
Well, no. The first responsibility of a country is to it's own citizens.