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  1. Re:The real reason? Officer privacy, not citizens on Police Body Cam Privacy Exploitation · · Score: 1

    You understand that the people on those cop-reality-shows have signed a release, right?

  2. Re:H1B applicants are people too on Labor Department To Destroy H-1B Records · · Score: 4, Informative

    "The obvious explanation" is incorrect.

    The record in question, the Labor Condition Application, does not include personal data. Employers are even required to have them available for public disclosure (see section J of the form).

    So, no personal information. Just records of what the employer claimed the prevailing wage was for the roles it brought in H1B workers to fill.

    It's ETA Form 9035. Look for yourself.

  3. New Pearl Harbor? on U.S. Defense Secretary Warns of a Possible 'Cyber-Pearl Harbor' · · Score: 1

    Is this different than the Electronic Pearl Harbor? That was supposed to happen a while ago. Maybe I missed it.

    Will this one also be in Hawaii? Will Richard Clarke narrate it? He's been pushing for a new Pearl Harbor for a while.

    I guess we'll have to wait. It turns out that these craven bullshit artists *don't* actually know what they're talking about.

  4. "New Rules for Meteorite Hunters Unveiled" on The Great Meteor Grab · · Score: 1

    That's the title of the actual Space.com post. It details how the US Bureau of Land Management has released a notice of how it will regulate the collection of meteorites on public lands. That's it.

    It has nothing to do with asteroid mining. Any inference of how this would map to any asteroid mining is a wild-ass ... inference.

    When people are able to mine asteroids, any "governing body" in a planetary gravity well is not going to be able to enforce early 21st century administrative law on entities that can *deliver product at will*.

  5. Re:Don't believe the propaganda from IBM.com on Computer Science as a Major and as a Career · · Score: 1

    I appreciate "purity of essence". Today, unfortunately, leadership skills (under whatever guise you'd prefer it under) are the important skills. In the corporate environment, the consensus is that you can get by with a thousand monkeys producing a hundred lines of code an hour. The difficult part is determining *what* needs to be done and how to get to that point.

    A "coder" is a replaceable part. The "architect" is not. A good "architect" can ensure that customer deisres are mapped to rteality, and that the people doing the actual lifting have the skills to not only produce the "code", but create something that *works*.

    The soft skills of communication, leadership, and sales are very important in any setting. Don't get blinded by the purity.

  6. Re:Like that's going to happen on Cringely Predicts Apple to Ship OS X for Any PC · · Score: 1

    Who sold it? Considering recent and past experiences with Apple, I'd think with an aggressive enough commitment, *some* accommodation could have been reached.

    If everything was done that could be done, my condolences. Niche markets carry high risk, and this would be a prime example.

  7. Re:So what happens .... on Hacking the RFID Network · · Score: 2, Insightful

    Simple. Once it is ubiquitous, make it illegal to manufacture or sell any device that can interfere. Heck, make it illegal to even tell people how to make such a device.

    Hmm. How likely is that to ever happen?

  8. Good for the toolbox. on ESA Plans Test of Asteroid Defense System · · Score: 2, Insightful

    It's about time our species started putting together and testing serious contingency plans against this sort of catastrophe.