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  1. Expect a huge number of Lobbiest. on Ten US Senators Seek Investigation Into the Replacement of US Tech Workers · · Score: 1

    Expect these big IT companies and many others to show up with cash in a hat to hand out to legislators to make this go away.

    Would someone please write a firefox plugin that changes these words so things are easier to read:
    Lobbiest - Handler for Organized Crime
    PAC - Organized crime Front
    H1B - Bonded Servant Program
    Offshoring - Bonded Servant Program that includes nets around the building.

    If people started seeing this in the articles it would be easier to explain.

  2. If they can't show what Diabold Did in 2004 on FTC Creates Office Dedicated To "Algorithmic Transparency" · · Score: 1

    If they can't show what Diabold Did in 2004 in ohio and Florida, then what is the point of this? Perhaps to give someone the ability to game the system?

  3. Re:Systemic and widespread? on The Courage of Bystanders Who Press "Record" · · Score: 1

    Do you think body camera's would help the small percentage of officers that do fall into, the bad apple catagory, restrain themselves from the bad behaviour?

  4. The Library of Congress on ESA Rebukes EFF's Request To Exempt Abandoned Games From Some DMCA Rules · · Score: 4, Interesting

    Just have the Library of Congress step in and ask to have a copy of every game and its backend supporting software for the archives. Have a game assignement number for tracking like a book. We have an institution, it just needs a storage and process upgrade.

  5. Right on Carly Fiorina Calls Apple's Tim Cook a 'Hypocrite' On Gay Rights · · Score: 0

    Fiorina - Yea, because I take my advice from people like this, I mean it worked out so well for HP afterall..

  6. Re:Cue ... on UK Forces Microsoft To Adopt Open Document Standards · · Score: 1

    Expect it to screw all on screen formatting for the rest of its existence. Loading it vs making it look correct are 2 different things.

  7. Re:Why Shouldn't I Work for the NSA? on NSA Worried About Recruitment, Post-Snowden · · Score: 1

    Actually with real oversight and viability most of these problems go away. That is the key people keep forgetting. You shine a bright light into the dark of the NSA, everyone of them will fix it. Right now, we have no oversight and hidden courts. There is 0 accountability to anyone outside and the organization spends a lot of its time attacking its opponents inside the US. I do not think most of the NSA signed up for that, but there they are anyway. If a new president comes in and declares a group inside the US the enemy, they fall in line behind him, 0 oversight.

  8. Re:No flaws in the Obama care web sites! on EFF Questions US Government's Software Flaw Disclosure Policy · · Score: 3, Funny

    Nothing to s[REDACTED].

  9. After along weekend on the town. on Attempted Breach of NSA HQ Checkpoint; One Shot Dead · · Score: 1

    Hmm, last time I saw this it was drunk soldiers coming back to the wrong gate after a night on the town in the 80s.

  10. Re: Not everyone on NSA: We Mulled Ending Phone Program Before Edward Snowden Leaks · · Score: 1

    Follow the Money, this will always find the person pulling the strings.
    Swift Boat to freedom ads can sum up how its done.
    When the dust settles we realize what a lie it all was but it would be after say Diebold changed the election map.

  11. Re:Putin's getting desperate... on NASA Denies New Space Station Partnership With Russia · · Score: 1

    There are no Dunbass Rebels, its Russian troops with Russian Commanders.

  12. Re:Sure on How Professional Russian Trolls Operate · · Score: 1

    Russia gets its quite well. RT is backed up by every remaining news source in the country. Its all 100% controlled from the top down now. Russians are becoming irrelevant as they are almost completely buried in this crap and are scared out of their wits to say anything out of line with it. The Russian church is even on the dole or afraid, they declared the march into Ukraine a holy Crusade. Believe me, Russia does quite get it. The Question is do you.

  13. Re:Parent Post Semantic Content: Null on How Professional Russian Trolls Operate · · Score: 1

    Actually in other stories, if you want links check google, the goal of a Russian Troll is not to stop you, but to distract you or make you pause. When the dust settles. things like Crimea happen, and you go wtf just happened?

  14. This says to me.... on Facebook Successfully Tests Laser Internet Drones · · Score: 2

    Please boost my stock, we are out of useful ideas.......

    Do you think anyone that needs the internet beamed to them in this crap will be a useful paying customer? The cost of a laden swallow, gripping it by the husk, vs energy costs, repair, maintenance, and insurance will certainly make this in the end, what it appears to be now.

  15. Are you telling me...? on Millennial Tech Workers Losing Ground In US · · Score: 2

    Are you telling me America's Best and Brightest do not want to enter a workforce where you can be insourced/outsourced/right to worked/contract only?? WTH, I'd think that average smart americans would love to get a chance at being outsourced for to another country while he has to sell his house at a loss or hope to get a contract somewhere with 85% travel required.

    Perhaps the smartest decided a business degree was simpler, paid more, and had less fail written all over it. I'm certainly not encouraging my kids to get a "I'm a manager degree. " Yea they could probably make more short term in IT for a few years, but having lived through several booms and busts, I'm looking back at the promises and lies. It would have been much easier and cost effective to just take the first management position and work into retirement at the hospital or bank or retail corp or manufacturer or any of the other places I worked at in the past in IT.

  16. Re:Of course it is ... on $1B TSA Behavioral Screening Program Slammed As "Junk Science" · · Score: 1

    "TSA is a place where money goes to be spent on the premise that spending money on things which do nothing is better than doing nothing, even if the outcomes are the same."

    I love this statement. :)

  17. Re: Why would give them your cc? on Possible Twitch.tv Security Breach · · Score: 1

    Oddly I thought the same until I listened to the successful ones. They are actually comedian's that play video games. Very humorous what others can think of when they get blown up online.

  18. Re: Why would give them your cc? on Possible Twitch.tv Security Breach · · Score: 1

    Gaming teaches complex problem solving, organizational skills, reading, profanity improvement, socializing on several levels more constant, and its better than wasting time on TV. So if the option was TV then yes gaming is a huge improvement in many cases. If the option is exercising and team sport where you socialize, then its not as good because there is no exercise other than the mind.
    Certainly getting a higher level of education trumps all of this, but not everyone is above average.
    I'd rather have people gaming vs Drinking and driving. I'd throw in an requirement they should all have a job of some sort, oddly enough I find most older gamers are disabled or X military. Which means they will probably all grow out of it when they run out of food in the basement.

  19. Re:Training Your Competition on IBM Will Share Tech With China To Help Build IT Industry There · · Score: 2

    Or fix NAFTA and the WTO, and actually penalize incoming products where the servants are bonded and jumping off buildings because they lost all Hope. hmmm..... Nope, lets just give it to china so they can shoot down satellites faster.

  20. Re:Partnerships are the only way on IBM Will Share Tech With China To Help Build IT Industry There · · Score: 1

    Yea NSA did some shit to American Citizens, but its job is to know/spy on other countries. Because every few years Tanks seem to roll west out of some jackass despots country.
    When the crap hits the fan though, I'm sure you will be first in line demanding those same NSA or US gov troops protect you from those Chinese and Russian tanks, troops, sci corp, etc...

  21. Re:Buy american only. on IBM Will Share Tech With China To Help Build IT Industry There · · Score: 1

    If you think trusting the Chinese is a good idea, then you should go back to that school and study up really close what happens in China to average people like yourself.
    We spent years building Democracies and some security so our businesses can sell it to the highest bidder for a short term bonus check. Do not look at the US gov to stop this, its been bought and paid for by big interest groups.

  22. Re:And now why this can not be done in the USofA on Costa Rica Goes 75 Days Powering Itself Using Only Renewable Energy · · Score: 1

    Considering we the West and Asia have collapsed basically every decent fishery, do we need to add every native Fish to the list living in the rivers? CA already has issues like this, we can't kill fish and expect there to be any. Silly how that works.

    In the end its not the power generation that is the issue, we can do that, its the storage of that energy for when its not abundant, such as Night time in the winter months. Wind isn't consistent enough to guarantee this, so figure out the storage issues and we can move along with clean energy.

    Figure out how to transport/store Hydrogen economically and safely. The rest will solve itself.

  23. Re:Retail is dead anyway on Amazon Launches One-Hour Delivery Service In Baltimore and Miami · · Score: 1

    Until you have to return or repair that appliance, you'll be happy enough. I'm batting about 50% on appliances having issues in the first year. But I've only been buying them for 20 years, could be wrong.
    Of course you could have gone to Lowe's and talked to the sales guy and probably got it cheaper with a little haggling and a picture on your smart phone. Free pickup and with delivery install, go figure. If you time your purchase with sales you can get say all the blinds in the house installed for free during a sale.

  24. Re:I don't see how this delivery model can scale.. on Amazon Launches One-Hour Delivery Service In Baltimore and Miami · · Score: 1

    I do not understand how paying someone to drive something in 30 minutes to your location makes them any money on the sale. Unless your paying 30 for the drivers time and the vehicle/fuel/insurance in your purchase somehow. Its not magic they still have to make money or they too will go out of business in this race to the bottom.
    UPS does it by bundling a whole days worth of stuff in a truck and creating an optimized route via server software for that purpose then giving it to the driver. How is Amazon going to do this 30 minutes at a pop in say SF or Boston traffic down town. Drones do not do it, and they wont do it in the rain/wind/snow. Even if Drones somehow become cost effective and not a hype for stock purchasers.

  25. Amiga Clock virus.. on Persistent BIOS Rootkit Implant To Debut At CanSecWest · · Score: 3, Interesting

    This isn't anything new, Amiga in the 90's had a CMOS happy virus that used the battery power to stay in memory. It wasn't in the clock but rewrote that area of the working bios to stay resident. I remember having to take the battery out of my A500 to get rid of it, as it survived reboots and power offs.
    UEFI bio is going to be a real hassle going forward, its going to be much easier to write something for this vs the older bios with all of its limitations. USB controller firmware, Bridge firmware, controller firmware, soon to be memory controller firmware like Power8, ethernet, ssd/hd firmware, and sound card firmware. There are a lot of places if you can inject your version during the download update to the customer where harm can be done.