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Comment Cite your source? (Score 1) 1081

> The USA is the only G7 country that still executes people and they don't care if it's a woman, a juvenile, or someone with autism.

Why should a woman not be receive the same justice as man?

When was a juvenile sentenced to execution?

When was someone with autism sentenced to execution?

Comment Re:this is awesome I just hope they stick to the l (Score 1) 114

> basically the law says you don't need peoples consent to take their photos. you can take their photos on the streets and in public areas.

I am not sure if that's true.

Years ago, I took some undergraduate law classes. According to what I was taught at the time: "if it's public, you can't call it private." Anything out the public was fair game.

Today, I think there are laws about photographing police, even laws about photographing national monuments.

Submission + - Here's Why Patents Are Innovation's Worst Enemy (singularityhub.com)

walterbyrd writes: Patents did serve an important purpose during the days when technology advances happened over decades or centuries. In today’s era of exponentially advancing technologies, however, patents have become the greatest inhibitor to innovation and are holding the United States back. The only way of staying ahead is to out-innovate a competitor; speed to market and constant reinvention are critical. Patents do the reverse; they create disincentives to innovate and slow down innovators by allowing technology laggards and extortionists to sue them.

Submission + - Behind the White House's claim of 545,000 unfilled IT jobs (computerworld.com)

walterbyrd writes: The data comes from Burning Glass Technologies, which analyzes help-wanted ads.

This means that the administration's 545,000 unfilled IT jobs figure is based on the Burning Glass analysis. It arrived at this by counting the number of jobs over a 90-day period leading up to President Barack Obama's State of the Union address on Jan. 20, according to Dan Restuccia, chief analytics officer at Burning Glass.

Burning Glass's approach draws concerns from Hal Salzman, a professor of planning and public policy at Rutgers University, who studies the science and engineering workforce. "They claim they deduplicate, but they don't publish their methodology; there is no external verification," he said.

Comment Re:As if SMTP were ever secure... (Score 1) 609

> Right wingers seem to see this as some vast conspiracy where she was intentionally trying to hide documents.

I am no right winger, but obviously Hillary was trying to hide embarrassing, or incriminating documents.

> I think she was just lazy. She had an email address that worked and it would have been a pain in the ass to her to use something different.

What total bullshit. If she was just lazy she would have used the email account she was given, and not have gone though the trouble of having a secret email server built.

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