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Comment Re:Just block China already. (Score 3, Insightful) 101

So protecting your data and your intellectual property is racist? That's a new play on the race card. It's not about blocking the Chinese people from accessing information, shit their own government does a pretty good job of that already. It's about blocking concerted, direct espionage against US companies, educational institutions and the government. It's not some pimple faced teenager trying to break in for fun, it's about the theft of our technology. Sure, technology leaks and history is replete with examples but this wholesale theft needs to be curtailed and if necessary start blocking IP address ranges; better yet we need a great firewall of China for traffic going to/from China.

Comment Re:Not really about lie detectors per se (Score 1) 246

Selling information on how to cheat isn't the same as cheating. In the case of those who used his information, those individuals should be subject to sanction. for example, I can tell you how to hotwire a car. I can even demonstrate it on my own vehicle and provide teaching aids that can allow you to be able to do it yourself. However if you steal a car using the methods I teach, you're committing the crime. I realize that free speech only goes so far such as yelling "fire" in a crowded theater but he wasn't creating panic, just offering methods to overcome pseudo science that's all about intimidating the person taking the test.

In his secret testimony before the Warren Commission in 1964, J. Edgar Hoover, said that the "polygraph, often referred to as a lie detector, is not in fact such a device." He explained that its value to law enforcement agents was as a tool of intimidation: if a subject believed the central deception that the machine could detect lies, he would have an incentive not to lie when strapped in the machine.

Comment Re:It still amazes me that we treat labor as pawns (Score 2) 84

non-solicits/non-competes should be illegal, period. If a company wants to raid, let them. This is part of the problem when you talk about tech talent that nobody likes to acknowledge. Because of soft handcuffs, you're not truly mobile depending on who your work for or who you'd like to transition to. I've had it happen twice in my career and it's bullshit. These employees didn't agree to indentured servitude and I doubt that A123 had them under contract.

Comment It still amazes me that we treat labor as pawns (Score 1) 84

It's obvious that the A123 employees left of their own accord. A123 doesn't hold any exclusive rights to those folks unless their under contract. If these folks were "at will" employees then by all means if a new deal comes along they should go. All of this begs the point that Apple shouldn't be paying a dime to A123 in this case. Employees are not slaves and it's time to get out of the mindset that they are pawns that can be traded or kept at the whim of some task master.

Comment I use them all the time (Score 3, Insightful) 461

In my role as a professional phisherman and spammer, I find that using AOL and Yahoo e-mails enhances my target audience responses by 90%.

Besides, it's free and I can create hundreds every hour.

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