Your observations are correct, but too narrow, I think.

When we discovered how to preserve fire millions of years ago (experts disagree about the date) we surely burned our encampments and the woods around us until we realized that, while very much desirable, fire was the devil's only friend.

The Internet is so damn useful that the planet grabbed it and ran with it.

The whole goddam Internet is at broken, security-wise, and it's because of early adoption with no vision for the future.

Like fire, we have to revisit and revise until we get it under control.

We have never been 100% successful with fire ...

I think that's a "people" problem.

Anybody who does research needs to do so thoroughly.

Back when I was a kid, George Washington had wooden teeth and chopped down a cheery tree. Later, he was a slave owner.

Things change.

Google can help tell the whole story, from initial falsehood to corrected version (or reverse).

The fact that someone WAS wrongly accused is an important part of the story you cite.

My momma used to say that up in Northeast Texas where we have a lot of both.

Your logic is no more flawed than the crazy thinking of people in charge of the nation's security and can't get it right.

I'll bet you a hundred dollars to a whole in a doughnut that one or both of the following are true:

1.) The nation's computer systems are unpatched

2.) Government employees got phished by email or web link.

What say you?

... you're placing this at the feet of Republicans and Democrats when you don't know bullshit from wild honey.

OPM is not a fucking Super PAC.

It's the government. It's federal employees, managers, administrators, people who, by and large, are not subjected to turnover.

You're not going to solve this with the goddam vote.

Go home.

Boom!

I don't know why this is modded down to 0 (at this writing). It's on point.

This.

Governments and ISPs don't have anything that that users don't have. It's a level playing field except for one important set of parameters:

There are a shitload more people NOT associated with government or ISP, giving those people much higher odds of containing a subset of people MUCH more clever than governments and ISPs.

We all have the same computing hardware and software, and social media provides a push-down path for those of us who are not as gifted to benefit from those who are, even if it means we have cottage industries crop up.

... Big Business gets to sell stuff, girls get opportunities, schools avoid the stigma of discrimination and get some funding, Big Business says, "This proves how badly we nee H!-B visas in the meantime," ....

I don't know it and I don't accept it.

Citation, please.

This.

It's like sending every kid to piano lessons. Some kids will excel at piano. A damn few. The others will suck and fight the waste of time.

That's fine as long as the "Men and women tend to be different" for non-discriminatory differences.

If you don't know what you're talking about, then goddamit don't post.

Is up mods a goal?

I'm a photographer. I have saved my face thousands of times.

Thanks for playing and we have some swell parting gifts for you.