It's you who are taking it out of context, not SCOTUS. The courts usually weighs rights against other rights. For example, it has long been held that conspiracy to commit a crime is not protected speech, that slander and libel are not protected speech, that commercial speech has certain restrictions, like telling the truth and disclosing ingredients. In this case, your right to know trumps the speakers right to anonymity, according to the courts.
The right to anonymity is considered by many to be essential to the right to freedom of speech. It's a contentious issue of debate, and I lean towards that opinion. But the courts almost never consider any single right to be absolute, and will weigh one right against other rights and against potential consequences; e.g. conspiracy to commit a crime is not protected speech. As pointed out above, courts have ruled that your right to know who is supporting a political candidate is greater than the right of that person, corporation, or political entity to be anonymous. The same does not hold for paid speech advocating a policy rather than a candidate, so there's a lot of grey area in the law.
IANAL, YMMV, etc.
The thing is, we already have a "National ID", and it's the SSN.
The thing is, the SSN is not a national ID in the sense of authenticating a person's identity, and it never has been, yet, that's what it is commonly used for. The SSN is essentially a publicly known identifier for getting records from the SSA's database, so authentication of a person's identity needs to be done by another means.
Actually, that is not the problem that needs to be fixed. The problem is thinking that having a Social Security Number is the same as knowing who the person is that claims that number is theirs. SSNs were never intended to be secret, and were never intended to serve as identification. They were meant to be unique keys into the SSA's "database" (likely paper folders in steel filing cabinets at the time they started using the numbers).
When I first got my SS card (a long, long time ago), it said right on it that it should not be used for identification.
SS number should be treated like a publicly known database key for the Social Security Administration's use. It should not be treated as an ID nor for authorization. Those should be independent of the SSN.
Can probably count a good number of the Nobel Piece [sic] Prizes in the junk category.
Despite sharing the name Nobel, the organization that gives the "Peace" prizes out is separate from the one that awards the scientific / mathematical prizes.
If you just created a test that detected cancer earlier than 5 years before death, it would have a 100% survival rate. That makes all the numbers they throw out meaningless.
Except that the mortality statistics cited in the study are for deaths caused by breast cancer per 100,000 females in the overall population, not deaths per 100,000 diagnosed patients. The incidence of in situ and invasive breast cancer diagnoses has flattened out in recent years but still has an upward trend, while mortality rates have gone down.
We've hardly advanced at all with treating or curing cancer; we've just started looking for it earlier.
We still can't "cure" most breast cancer patients, but we are definitely better at prolonging the life of a breast cancer patient past 5 years, even when comparisons account for detection at earlier stages.
You're wrong in thinking that politicians like Trump are on your side. (Before I get jumped on by partisans, note that I would say the same thing about most politicians, regardless of party.)
You think healthcare is expensive in the US now? Imagine how much it would cost if you insisted it took 12 years of education to put in an IV.
I've got news for you. It takes 12 years just to get a HS diploma. Only then can you get into nursing school and spend more time being educated in order to become professionally qualified to put in an I.V.
This guy's priced at $500! And he's wearing this expensive gold watch, what does he do
My old boss (we were mechanical engineering consultants) used to say: "To make a good impression on the client, you need to drive a nice car, but never nicer than the client's."
Last time I used the CPS website for contractors/consultants/construction it was a big messy pile of Oracle Primavera. A painfully user-unfriendly way of managing construction projects. I let my login expire and try to get the more junior co-workers to do the actual input on the website.
If that's part of what they're talking about, they need to, preferably, get rid of the Oracle crappy framework and then, possibly, fire all the offshored programmers that "customize" it.
It does happen and because the lgbqt lobby along with the medias sympathy for them is so strong now, negative stories are suppressed.
No, the most common, but still under 1%, sexual surgery for children is for those born with genital anomalies. I'd wager that almost none of the doctors recommending that surgery and parents approving it were part of the LGBT community.
In modern America, not endorsing forced unnecessary surgery on children is narrow-minded and backwards!
Nobody, except maybe some horror-thriller movie character types, is forcing sex-assignment surgery on their child. It's usually the other way around, with the parents refusing to support their transgender children's decisions even after they reach adulthood.
There are, however, a lot of infants (much less than 1%, but still a large absolute number) that receive genital surgery because of genital birth anomalies. That should probably not be done until the child is old enough to decide or unless the gender is otherwise absolutely clear - except where other health issues are involved.
That's the kind of thing a person ought to decide for themselves, making an informed decision when they are an adult, some would say.
That sounds reasonable. But I saw a documentary about transgender people that included a 5-year old child with a penis who self-identified as a 'girl'. Her mother fought for years with the kid to dress the child as a boy and give him boy's toys, etc., but it was a huge struggle; the kid always wanted to dress as a girl and play with dolls, etc. Eventually the mom gave up. When the child was asked about those fights, she innocently said "I thought my mom knew I was a girl."
That and that fact that a lot of people are born with more or less ambiguous genitals, often that requiring surgery either way, makes me think transgender people are a reality, and not just some twisted people with personality disorders.
Outlook is not having problems. Outlook.com is having problems.
This happened to me today. I sent 3 e-mails, then, about 1/2 hour after sending the first one, I noticed they were all stuck in my outbox. When I clicked on "Send All" Outlook.exe froze. I had to ctrl-alt-del to stop Outlook, and when restarted, the e-mails in the Outbox had disappeared - not Sent, not in Drafts, and not in Outbox. So I'd say that Office.exe was having problems too, in that it couldn't recover from the cloudy problems.
So sure, if you made the entire tube with 1/2'' steel, you'd be fine. But the project would also cost like 100 billion dollars to go from SF to San Diego.
A 16" dia. Schedule 40 steel pipe has a wall thickness of 1/2", and it's a very common commodity, so don't think using 1/2" steel is a huge burden.
Nonetheless, I wouldn't be surprised if a hyperloop from SF to SD cost close to 100 billion, since it hasn't been done before, and a regular railroad running through a tunnel can cost more than $100,000,000 per mile.
None of which has to do with qualifications.
In this case, I would say the breaches and some of the practices in place being reported would indicate that seh was unqualified, regardless of how she got the job. (I'm going with knowing the right people, not being a diversity hire)
When the choice is not to collect X taxes and then see jobs increase and thus income, sales, and property tax revenues increase . ..
Citation needed.
IMO, the first government to offer incentives might benefit for a while. But then everyone else tries it and it all just becomes a race to the bottom.
You know, even if you write the code yourself, it's still going to need to be audited.
Or, in most cases, especially if you write the code yourself.
Not everybody is an expert in security.
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Also, force is not power.
Technology is not a category in the same sense physics, chemistry, and physiology are.
It's you who are taking it out of context, not SCOTUS. The courts usually weighs rights against other rights. For example, it has long been held that conspiracy to commit a crime is not protected speech, that slander and libel are not protected speech, that commercial speech has certain restrictions, like telling the truth and disclosing ingredients. In this case, your right to know trumps the speakers right to anonymity, according to the courts.
The right to anonymity is considered by many to be essential to the right to freedom of speech. It's a contentious issue of debate, and I lean towards that opinion. But the courts almost never consider any single right to be absolute, and will weigh one right against other rights and against potential consequences; e.g. conspiracy to commit a crime is not protected speech. As pointed out above, courts have ruled that your right to know who is supporting a political candidate is greater than the right of that person, corporation, or political entity to be anonymous. The same does not hold for paid speech advocating a policy rather than a candidate, so there's a lot of grey area in the law.
IANAL, YMMV, etc.
The thing is, the SSN is not a national ID in the sense of authenticating a person's identity, and it never has been, yet, that's what it is commonly used for. The SSN is essentially a publicly known identifier for getting records from the SSA's database, so authentication of a person's identity needs to be done by another means.
Actually, that is not the problem that needs to be fixed. The problem is thinking that having a Social Security Number is the same as knowing who the person is that claims that number is theirs. SSNs were never intended to be secret, and were never intended to serve as identification. They were meant to be unique keys into the SSA's "database" (likely paper folders in steel filing cabinets at the time they started using the numbers).
When I first got my SS card (a long, long time ago), it said right on it that it should not be used for identification.
SS number should be treated like a publicly known database key for the Social Security Administration's use. It should not be treated as an ID nor for authorization. Those should be independent of the SSN.
Despite sharing the name Nobel, the organization that gives the "Peace" prizes out is separate from the one that awards the scientific / mathematical prizes.
Except that the mortality statistics cited in the study are for deaths caused by breast cancer per 100,000 females in the overall population, not deaths per 100,000 diagnosed patients. The incidence of in situ and invasive breast cancer diagnoses has flattened out in recent years but still has an upward trend, while mortality rates have gone down.
We still can't "cure" most breast cancer patients, but we are definitely better at prolonging the life of a breast cancer patient past 5 years, even when comparisons account for detection at earlier stages.
1871?
You're wrong in thinking that politicians like Trump are on your side. (Before I get jumped on by partisans, note that I would say the same thing about most politicians, regardless of party.)
I've got news for you. It takes 12 years just to get a HS diploma. Only then can you get into nursing school and spend more time being educated in order to become professionally qualified to put in an I.V.
My old boss (we were mechanical engineering consultants) used to say: "To make a good impression on the client, you need to drive a nice car, but never nicer than the client's."
Last time I used the CPS website for contractors/consultants/construction it was a big messy pile of Oracle Primavera. A painfully user-unfriendly way of managing construction projects. I let my login expire and try to get the more junior co-workers to do the actual input on the website.
If that's part of what they're talking about, they need to, preferably, get rid of the Oracle crappy framework and then, possibly, fire all the offshored programmers that "customize" it.
No, rape & mass murder don't happen, they are actions done by people. Being born as you are happens, you have no control over it, you don't do it.
No, the most common, but still under 1%, sexual surgery for children is for those born with genital anomalies. I'd wager that almost none of the doctors recommending that surgery and parents approving it were part of the LGBT community.
Nobody, except maybe some horror-thriller movie character types, is forcing sex-assignment surgery on their child. It's usually the other way around, with the parents refusing to support their transgender children's decisions even after they reach adulthood.
There are, however, a lot of infants (much less than 1%, but still a large absolute number) that receive genital surgery because of genital birth anomalies. That should probably not be done until the child is old enough to decide or unless the gender is otherwise absolutely clear - except where other health issues are involved.
That sounds reasonable. But I saw a documentary about transgender people that included a 5-year old child with a penis who self-identified as a 'girl'. Her mother fought for years with the kid to dress the child as a boy and give him boy's toys, etc., but it was a huge struggle; the kid always wanted to dress as a girl and play with dolls, etc. Eventually the mom gave up. When the child was asked about those fights, she innocently said "I thought my mom knew I was a girl."
That and that fact that a lot of people are born with more or less ambiguous genitals, often that requiring surgery either way, makes me think transgender people are a reality, and not just some twisted people with personality disorders.
This happened to me today. I sent 3 e-mails, then, about 1/2 hour after sending the first one, I noticed they were all stuck in my outbox. When I clicked on "Send All" Outlook.exe froze. I had to ctrl-alt-del to stop Outlook, and when restarted, the e-mails in the Outbox had disappeared - not Sent, not in Drafts, and not in Outbox. So I'd say that Office.exe was having problems too, in that it couldn't recover from the cloudy problems.
A 16" dia. Schedule 40 steel pipe has a wall thickness of 1/2", and it's a very common commodity, so don't think using 1/2" steel is a huge burden.
Nonetheless, I wouldn't be surprised if a hyperloop from SF to SD cost close to 100 billion, since it hasn't been done before, and a regular railroad running through a tunnel can cost more than $100,000,000 per mile.
So you don't believe in consciousness? Then how can you be responding to comments on Slashdot? Are you a bot?
None of which has to do with qualifications.
In this case, I would say the breaches and some of the practices in place being reported would indicate that seh was unqualified, regardless of how she got the job. (I'm going with knowing the right people, not being a diversity hire)
Citation needed.
IMO, the first government to offer incentives might benefit for a while. But then everyone else tries it and it all just becomes a race to the bottom.
You know, even if you write the code yourself, it's still going to need to be audited.
Or, in most cases, especially if you write the code yourself.
Not everybody is an expert in security.