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Comment The beauty of this is (Score 2) 292

the lower the response rate the more you can skew the results with bogus answers. Rather than hang up embrace the opportunity to shape the future positions of our government by creatively staking out you position. Don't think of it as a nuisance to be avoid but rather a chance to screw with politicians.

Comment Re:Bill Hadley is going to be disappointed (Score 1) 233

Accusing someone of molesting children is political speech now? Sure...

Isn't it right that people are careful what they say about other people?

I am a firm believer in free speech. The cure for bad speech (as the accusation apparently was) is not less bad speech but more good speech. If I were accused, anonymously, of pedophilia, I would not try to use the courts to find my accuser. Instead I would ignore the accusation unless it was repeated by an identifiable person, such as a reporter asking if it were true. I would answer the reporter by saying it was not, and offering to cooperate with the reporter's investigation into whether or not I was a podophile if he felt the accusation was credible enough to be worth the effort.

Free speech does not imply freedom from the consequences of your speech. If you make untrue accusations about someone you can be held accountable for your actions. The government is not stopping you from speaking, which would infringe your free speech rights. if you do it anonymously then it is not ureasonable for someone to want to pierce the veil of anonymity.

Comment Tools are not the problem (Score 1) 255

and switching to some other tool whether is proprietary or open source, is not the solution. You need to learn how the tool contributes to the end goal, and not just how to use its features. For example, if you learn the tenants of good design you are to limited to a single tool. You may use that tool and be most comfortable because it is and industry standard, but you could go back to pencil and paper and still turn out great designs. Similarly in business, you need to understand how to do financial analysis and may use Excel because that's what's installed on your computer but you could still do it the old fashioned way with a pencil, paper, and 11c. Knowledge outlasts tools. As my mechanic dad said "I started out tuning cars with a quarter and a wrench, later went to timing lights and now computers; but in the end it's still air spark and fuel..."

In the end, don't confuse with learning how to do something and how to use a tool.

Comment Here's the deal (Score 1) 273

If you are an elite 100k flyer the airlines won't screw with you; as long as you aren't trying to drag a hugh bag on they will give you a pass because you are their best customers. The casual flyer will get screwed because the airlines can but they'll bend over backwards for the top tier flyers. Of course, beyond the few dicks most frequent flyers know the drill and just want get to their destination with their stuff with minimal hassle for all involved.

Comment Re:From the TFA (Score 1) 389

These people are currently doing it to apparel businesses. You can't put a greek symbol on a shirt without lollygagging into their crosshairs, and with the internets, it's pretty convenient for them to troll around for potential offenders.

And some wonder why lawyers have a bad name.

No, you can't put copyrighted greek symbols on a product. You can still put any greek symbols on you want, but toucan't use the crest of ZTA or Farmhouse or whomever without licensing it.

Comment Re:Poor guy never answered the complaint (Score 1) 389

>>> “I don’t talk to the judges. I don’t talk to anybody. I just don’t want to talk to any of these people, because it’s illegal to try and take money from people,” he insists.

I wish there were more people like him. I hope they spend tons of money trying to get him to pay up, and fail.

Nah, they'll just a lean on his restaurant.

Comment Who is letting it happen? (Score 3, Interesting) 78

The article wonders why the Cuban government is letting this happen and then goes on to say it makes $5 million a month and no one knows who is running it. At $5 mill a month a lot of government types can make a nice tidy profit while still controlling and observing what goes int El Paquete. As long as nothing that think will cause problems is in it why not run a lucrative media empire? One that is protected from competition, because well, you and your police can easily take care of the competition; besides if you are already bringing it in their is less incentive for someone else to do so and that saves you the expense of tracking them down. If things go south you can always leave and live off your earnings. Just because you are a good socialist doesn't mean you don't appreciate what capitalism can offer you.

Comment Re: GOOD (Score 1) 173

That's the whole point of self reporting. If they know about it you can't be blackmailed because, well you already reported it. The real value is now you can plan how to approach and try to compromise someone. What will be important is ensuring people report attempts to use the data against them, i. e. traditional counter-intel.

Comment Re: FMEA (Score 1) 253

I expect every engineer to assume human error is guaranteed to happen.

We do\/P>

Except we hide the real problem

.by deeply bring it in bulleted text that is so dense

and full of DOPO between the JIC and JAC

that is so obfuscated and lost in the dense text in 8 point type that things are

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Comment Re:Truck Drivers, Obviously... (Score 1) 385

Yes, we have moved far afield and I agree the changes I think are coming will not be easy, quick, nor may they all come to pass. My thought on the computer replacing the specialist as being harder is that the specialist is often looking for the cause of a problem and how to treat it beyond just looking a test results. The computer may be very good at pointing out anomalies and suggesting courses of action but not that good and drawing inferences and conclusions from them and other information that may not be readily quantified by a test result. they're real good at the routine and predictable but not very good when unfamiliar or complicating factors occur. As for an easier job, given most problems seen by GPs respond to treating the symptoms without determining the underlying cause; i.e. you have an infection, infections generally respond to X so i will prescribe X and the problem will go away even if I do not know what the case is you will be cured, so a computer could easily be designed to provide common treatment based on symptoms, IMHO.

I see your points but I guess we will just have to disagree on which areas of medicine may be most impacted by computers in terms of replacing a doctor.

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