I just wish they handled this privately with the parents
You're talking as if he still did something wrong.
He made a "my first EE project" - something he should have been praised for. But instead even the teacher he initially showed it to (a geek like the rest of us) basically said "hide it."
The problem with this is that none of the adults involved in this stupidity outside of the parents and Obama, acted like adults.
And he's right in declaring that he won't bring his own projects to school anymore. They don't deserve to see creativity out of this kid. Because they're douchebags, every last one of them at that school district.
He should GTFO of that school and get home schooled. Better yet, the whole family should get out of Texas and move to Cambridge MA. And the school district should pay for it.
He hasn't "won" anything. He merely has his rights back which were taken away unlawfully.
The FBI won a 11 year silence outta this guy.
Someone up there said that he hoped that whatever it was wasn't *too* embarrassing to the agency so that he wouldn't be "disappeared" before the 90 day clock runs out.
Ya know, if I were me, I would have a deadman-switch on any kind of information that I was forced to keep quiet. If I died, the information would become public. It's easy enough to do, and should be obvious to implement by anyone here.
It sounds like this man's disability has had a negative effect on his life and all you do is shit on him because he's a white man.
Oh blow it out your ass. I posted a whole thing about how he can get fucking benefits for his disability, because it's kinda important and what I actually had to go through *myself* because people don't want to hire a toolmaker that looks like he's going to fall over, even though I can do the fucking job. But I don't bitch and moan about being "disadvantaged" - I got out of the fucking rat-race and do something entirely different. I'm not interested in having/another/ heart attack.
I'm shitting on his comment because it's race-baiting on a fucking tech website. It's fucking off topic. It's fucking off topic and I made a fucking effort to be helpful and informative and he insisted on race-baiting.
Just because they're targeting women, minorities, and former military doesn't mean they're excluding white males. You read that into it. Because you're an ass and want to stir up "reverse racism" discussion on a tech board.
Your post is a troll and offtopic (what the fuck does being white have to do with any of what you said besides nothing?), but I have to chime in here - If you have a legitimate disability that is keeping you from being hired (including things like depression which I will bet you have after dealing with the cerebral palsy and getting nowhere), and you have already been turned down for SSDI, don't give up. They turn down roughly 90 percent or more on the first go to get people to give up. Again, don't give up. Hire a lawyer that specializes in SSDI representation (don't go with your friend or family member who does real estate or ambulance chasing) and has a good rep. Ask your lawyer friends who is good or ask someone who hired a lawyer and got on disability.
I know one lawyer who hired a lawyer for himself for disability insurance, because it's that daunting.
It will be the best $6000 (taken out of the total lump sum given to you back to the diagnosis of the disability minus 6 months) you will ever spend. And yes, it tops out at 6K - they cannot take more than that except for document costs (which since everything is electronic these days and if you help get the records yourself, you'll spend probably less than $200 for that).
It's important that you go to the SSDI adjudication with representation, because no mere mortal knows the magic words - only people steeped in SSDI law know.
And it's called Disability Insurance for a reason - it's not a handout. You paid into it just like you paid into your homeowner's or car insurance. Go get it.
end-to-end encryption that is transparent to the user.
Encryption right now is in a shambles from the user's POV - a bewildering array of tools and standards, and if you want everything encrypted, you have to cobble all this together from different sources. Encryption before transport that is invisible to the user (much like https, but more - email, files, everything) is the key to keeping good intentioned government (on the paved road to hell) and oppressive regimes both from fucking up communications and privacy.
Basically what Bruce Schneier has been preaching for over a decade.
Why do you not believe in the free market? What are you, a communist?
Do you think that Insurance Company A, betting against climate change and having lower premiums and having lower rates would have fewer or more subscribers than Company B betting on climate change and has higher rates?
If you think Company B can raise rates with impunity without driving customers to Company A, you're just nuts and need to take a refresher in Econ 101.
Also: comparing the entire US to individual countries in Europe.
Sorry, but you're talking about smaller populations in individual countries in Europe. If you wanted to compare apples to apples, you'd compare the US to the entirety of Europe since the populations are similar post-War.
The report also compares industrialized countries with non-industrialized countries who are trying like hell to industrialize, like India.
In short, this report does no per-capita analysis/and/ it compares countries that have industrialized with those that haven't gone through that phase fully yet (and lumps the post-1980 industrialization time in china/with/ its previous agrarian economy).
>brazil is a carbon creditor
Yeah, but not when you add in the coal mining and rain-forest stripping.
I am all for reducing pollution and carbon footprints. But the fact that we owe anyone for what went on in the past is nuts, especially to countries that have done the same damn thing or are making efforts to do so. We have been making efforts on pollution ever since the creation of the EPA. To say that the US is a big bad bully when it comes to the environment ignores the other countries that have done the same or are going through their own industrialization process.
I know that this is a schoolyard argument "but the other kid did it too!!" but fingerpointing over who is worse never does anyone any good especially when you go down this road because it becomes circular to the point of absurdity.
It's especially bad when you abuse statistics to do it and frame it as "science."
What is worse is that if I can come up with these criticisms in the time I read that article, the think-tanks for the fucking evil RWNJs disclaiming climate change (it's a fact guys, your insurance company and the Pentagon says it's real, and it's coming out of your pocket - you were saying something about fiscal responsibility, asshole?) will take this and run with it to deep-six any further efforts to reduce pollution, convincing people like Joe The (dumb) Plumber that it's all a conspiracy perpetrated by liberals.
After looking at the new Galaxy S6 that my wife just got, and seeing that the weather app (Accuweather) requires the most fine-grained GPS (gps+nearest wifi routers) just to give you the bloody weather(they don't trust you to put in a zip code or city manually), I am all out of fucks to give these "data scientists."
Enough with the data mining and privacy stripping. The optimism I had for ubiquitous computing available to all - giving people access to uncensorable communications - that I had back in the 80s through 90s, is now replaced by the pessimistic vision of Telescreens being installed not by fiat, but for mere consumer convenience.
As for Accuweather: Accuweather is fucking/gone/ and a shortcut to mobile.weather.gov is on the homescreen.
They just don't have the streaming rights anymore.
Then they lost every single one of their customers that are like us: we *don't* have cable TV and never want it and OTA TV is out of the question because this is New Hampshire and there are too many mountains (thus we get WMUR nooz by going to their website).
The only CATV provider where we live is Comcast and their awful bundling choices and shit service. Sorry, no, we're not doing that.
It's more like authoritarians of all stripes, but the conservative authoritarians are the loudest and most numerous. (Left wing authoritarians, the ones that waved Mao's little red book or quoted Trotsky or Lenin aren't much of an issue at all these days). There are those who would have a breathalizer (MADD followers) built into the dash of every car, but they're seen as nutty.
"and they might be able to get away with checking for known cracked exe signatures and deleting them as "malware", but any actual spying will fall foul of data protection laws."
This actually happens if you have Windows Defender set to delete malware automagically. I'm not sure if it's set that way by default in 10, but I've seen at least one person lose hard-to-find 10 year old cracks that Defender labeled as "malware" after an install of 10.
The more I look at this stuff from the relative safety of the Linux universe, the more I want to stay the fuck away.
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Obama did the right thing, IMO. The people who did this need to be embarrassed, personally.
Inviting the kid to the White House immediately shows how fucked up the school district is.
Were I president, I would have done it even if I had to pay out of pocket.
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Its just sad that that payout is gonna come from the taxpayer, NOT the idiots who perpetrated this.
Good. Because the part of the school that sets policy is the fucking school committee, elected by the public.
Elect morons to the school committee which does important things like set the budget and hire administration and you get stupid policies like this.
Stupid should hurt.
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I just wish they handled this privately with the parents
You're talking as if he still did something wrong.
He made a "my first EE project" - something he should have been praised for. But instead even the teacher he initially showed it to (a geek like the rest of us) basically said "hide it."
The problem with this is that none of the adults involved in this stupidity outside of the parents and Obama, acted like adults.
And he's right in declaring that he won't bring his own projects to school anymore. They don't deserve to see creativity out of this kid. Because they're douchebags, every last one of them at that school district.
He should GTFO of that school and get home schooled. Better yet, the whole family should get out of Texas and move to Cambridge MA. And the school district should pay for it.
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Pretty much this.
He hasn't "won" anything. He merely has his rights back which were taken away unlawfully.
The FBI won a 11 year silence outta this guy.
Someone up there said that he hoped that whatever it was wasn't *too* embarrassing to the agency so that he wouldn't be "disappeared" before the 90 day clock runs out.
Ya know, if I were me, I would have a deadman-switch on any kind of information that I was forced to keep quiet. If I died, the information would become public. It's easy enough to do, and should be obvious to implement by anyone here.
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Yes, both of you /are/ whining.
You are such a pussy, and so is he. Adapt or die, motherfucker.
It's too fucking bad the "foes" list is limited to 100.
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It sounds like this man's disability has had a negative effect on his life and all you do is shit on him because he's a white man.
Oh blow it out your ass. I posted a whole thing about how he can get fucking benefits for his disability, because it's kinda important and what I actually had to go through *myself* because people don't want to hire a toolmaker that looks like he's going to fall over, even though I can do the fucking job. But I don't bitch and moan about being "disadvantaged" - I got out of the fucking rat-race and do something entirely different. I'm not interested in having /another/ heart attack.
I'm shitting on his comment because it's race-baiting on a fucking tech website. It's fucking off topic. It's fucking off topic and I made a fucking effort to be helpful and informative and he insisted on race-baiting.
So Fuck Off.
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Yes it's troll and offtopic.
Just because they're targeting women, minorities, and former military doesn't mean they're excluding white males. You read that into it. Because you're an ass and want to stir up "reverse racism" discussion on a tech board.
Get. Out.
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Your post is a troll and offtopic (what the fuck does being white have to do with any of what you said besides nothing?), but I have to chime in here - If you have a legitimate disability that is keeping you from being hired (including things like depression which I will bet you have after dealing with the cerebral palsy and getting nowhere), and you have already been turned down for SSDI, don't give up. They turn down roughly 90 percent or more on the first go to get people to give up. Again, don't give up. Hire a lawyer that specializes in SSDI representation (don't go with your friend or family member who does real estate or ambulance chasing) and has a good rep. Ask your lawyer friends who is good or ask someone who hired a lawyer and got on disability.
I know one lawyer who hired a lawyer for himself for disability insurance, because it's that daunting.
It will be the best $6000 (taken out of the total lump sum given to you back to the diagnosis of the disability minus 6 months) you will ever spend. And yes, it tops out at 6K - they cannot take more than that except for document costs (which since everything is electronic these days and if you help get the records yourself, you'll spend probably less than $200 for that).
It's important that you go to the SSDI adjudication with representation, because no mere mortal knows the magic words - only people steeped in SSDI law know.
And it's called Disability Insurance for a reason - it's not a handout. You paid into it just like you paid into your homeowner's or car insurance. Go get it.
Good luck.
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end-to-end encryption that is transparent to the user.
Encryption right now is in a shambles from the user's POV - a bewildering array of tools and standards, and if you want everything encrypted, you have to cobble all this together from different sources. Encryption before transport that is invisible to the user (much like https, but more - email, files, everything) is the key to keeping good intentioned government (on the paved road to hell) and oppressive regimes both from fucking up communications and privacy.
Basically what Bruce Schneier has been preaching for over a decade.
Vint should talk to Bruce.
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And btw, how is it fair that they get paid for driving to work and I don't?
Complaining about "that guy over there makes more money than I do for the same job" doesn't mean that guy is being paid too much.
It means you're being paid too little.
And your entire post revolves around the fact that you didn't RTFA.
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>pinheaded
CTRL-F "zippy"
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Yow.
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No, you dolt.
The population density of Europe is also similar.
>overpopulation
Birth rates in industrialized nations have fallen to below population replacement.
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Why do you not believe in the free market? What are you, a communist?
Do you think that Insurance Company A, betting against climate change and having lower premiums and having lower rates would have fewer or more subscribers than Company B betting on climate change and has higher rates?
If you think Company B can raise rates with impunity without driving customers to Company A, you're just nuts and need to take a refresher in Econ 101.
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"Oh, and if you think the EPA has ever lifted a finger to curb any CO2 emissions, then you severely misunderstand how the good ole USA works."
Increased gas mileage==less carbon emissions.
CAFE works when it's not undermined by RWNJs and corporatists that insist everybody drive H-1s.
Your move.
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I've seen some dumb comments on articles like this, but fucking really? You did a "thanks obama" post?
Shut the hell up and let the adults talk.
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Also: comparing the entire US to individual countries in Europe.
Sorry, but you're talking about smaller populations in individual countries in Europe. If you wanted to compare apples to apples, you'd compare the US to the entirety of Europe since the populations are similar post-War.
The report also compares industrialized countries with non-industrialized countries who are trying like hell to industrialize, like India.
In short, this report does no per-capita analysis /and/ it compares countries that have industrialized with those that haven't gone through that phase fully yet (and lumps the post-1980 industrialization time in china /with/ its previous agrarian economy).
>brazil is a carbon creditor
Yeah, but not when you add in the coal mining and rain-forest stripping.
I am all for reducing pollution and carbon footprints. But the fact that we owe anyone for what went on in the past is nuts, especially to countries that have done the same damn thing or are making efforts to do so. We have been making efforts on pollution ever since the creation of the EPA. To say that the US is a big bad bully when it comes to the environment ignores the other countries that have done the same or are going through their own industrialization process.
I know that this is a schoolyard argument "but the other kid did it too!!" but fingerpointing over who is worse never does anyone any good especially when you go down this road because it becomes circular to the point of absurdity.
It's especially bad when you abuse statistics to do it and frame it as "science."
What is worse is that if I can come up with these criticisms in the time I read that article, the think-tanks for the fucking evil RWNJs disclaiming climate change (it's a fact guys, your insurance company and the Pentagon says it's real, and it's coming out of your pocket - you were saying something about fiscal responsibility, asshole?) will take this and run with it to deep-six any further efforts to reduce pollution, convincing people like Joe The (dumb) Plumber that it's all a conspiracy perpetrated by liberals.
This report is barely worth lining a bird-cage.
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Privacy is bad?
After looking at the new Galaxy S6 that my wife just got, and seeing that the weather app (Accuweather) requires the most fine-grained GPS (gps+nearest wifi routers) just to give you the bloody weather(they don't trust you to put in a zip code or city manually), I am all out of fucks to give these "data scientists."
Enough with the data mining and privacy stripping. The optimism I had for ubiquitous computing available to all - giving people access to uncensorable communications - that I had back in the 80s through 90s, is now replaced by the pessimistic vision of Telescreens being installed not by fiat, but for mere consumer convenience.
As for Accuweather: Accuweather is fucking /gone/ and a shortcut to mobile.weather.gov is on the homescreen.
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They just don't have the streaming rights anymore.
Then they lost every single one of their customers that are like us: we *don't* have cable TV and never want it and OTA TV is out of the question because this is New Hampshire and there are too many mountains (thus we get WMUR nooz by going to their website).
The only CATV provider where we live is Comcast and their awful bundling choices and shit service. Sorry, no, we're not doing that.
Back to torrenting. Fuck'em. Not kidding.
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https://www.microsoft.com/en-u...
Forgot to put in the web page.
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If it's proprietary, there are implied warranties on it
Since when?
Microsoft excludes all implied warranties and conditions, including those of merchantability, fitness for a particular purpose, and non-infringement.
Bolded in the eula itself.
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It's with the conservative authoritarians
It's more like authoritarians of all stripes, but the conservative authoritarians are the loudest and most numerous. (Left wing authoritarians, the ones that waved Mao's little red book or quoted Trotsky or Lenin aren't much of an issue at all these days). There are those who would have a breathalizer (MADD followers) built into the dash of every car, but they're seen as nutty.
Dr. Bob has a nice paper about this stuff:
http://home.cc.umanitoba.ca/~a...
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"and they might be able to get away with checking for known cracked exe signatures and deleting them as "malware", but any actual spying will fall foul of data protection laws."
This actually happens if you have Windows Defender set to delete malware automagically. I'm not sure if it's set that way by default in 10, but I've seen at least one person lose hard-to-find 10 year old cracks that Defender labeled as "malware" after an install of 10.
The more I look at this stuff from the relative safety of the Linux universe, the more I want to stay the fuck away.
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I'm Polish. Only the scots are more obstinate. So, yes.
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I disagree.
The specific intent is to do harm regardless of what's right.
It's not like the lawyers that work for these companies didn't go to school to learn about this region of the law specifically.
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but it isn't based on specific intent.
You're kidding, right?
Copyright trolls and the publishers that love the concept know exactly what they're doing.
There is no punishment for even malicious DMCA takedowns. It's "kill them all and let God sort them out" behavior.
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