- every company ever, when announcing their new product
Then perhaps we need a new kind of universal programming language like htmlx, where the application runs like a browser, and controls compatible htmlx appliances. Lets not have every damned appliance having a different unique programming interface.
A government body gets the whole key and then has it stolen from them and we're all left with our trousers down in a changing room made of glass.
No. If there is an EASY way to decrypt information, then that data is NOT SAFE and the encryption is useless.
I think that they should get the encryption algorithm, but the actual key, speak to the individual party, and to a judge that would authorize a search warrant.
Imagine that each subscriber gets to choose his encryption key, and a vigenere string to salt the encrypted result.
Just send your data out of the country, say to the north, where crime is low, and where houses and buildings are constructed with much stricter building codes related to fire, flooding and hurricanes. (Actually, can count on 1 hand the number of hurricanes to hit Canada in the past 5 years.
Please don't vote for Hillary just because she is a woman. We can't continue the oligarchy that is the US government leadership.
I am an outsider, watching American partisan politics. The democrats are the best thing that has happened to America since Bill Clinton. You guys who are inside the box can't see how the Bush administration really destroyed the USA outside in the real world. You have a decent honest president in Obama, a man who cares.
The democrats will act as a check against one sided government. Hopefully the democrats can reverse some laws that allow billions of dollars to be given to candidates to bias results. And the gerrymandering by the Republicans to avoid the representation by population rules.
Yes, she will make a fantastic president.
Interesting that this part of the "social contract" only applies to bans and prohibitions in the minds of the right but they suddenly become very vocal on "self reliance" and "personal responsibilities" when it comes to funding for college educations for underprivileged students.
Whats the difference between beer and cannibus, if beer becomes illegal?
That doesn't make him less dangerous.
What makes him dangerous is filling his head with dangerous thoughts. The vast majority, if not all, of the people whom the FBI have entrapped in the past are some of the more vulnerable members of society: people without a strong social support structure, part of a marginalised community, often poor, often unemployed, and so on.
It's a fundamental axiom of modern policing that the best way to stop crime is to stop people from becoming criminals in the first place. If someone is at risk of becoming a criminal, the best thing you can do is divert them away from that as early as possible. For the FBI to turn a non-criminal into a criminal is not just a failure, it's sociopathic.
What you say is not the American way. Why is it not? Well, the prison system has to expand, otherwise the law enforcement system would not be doing their jobs and there might be job cuts.
Unlike the Danish, which work to rehabilitate, the American system works to incarcerate.
try uttering such common sense in the usa
why are so many americans such fucking morons when it comes to the simple undeniable truth: more easy guns = more senseless death, not protection
As a non-American I always assume it is connected with the mythology of the Wild West or Frontiersman type of rugged individualism, which to be fair is fairly recent history (in European terms). Personally, I prefer civilization, but the "one-man-and-his-gun against the world" idea clearly appeals to many modern US citizens, even if they're living in a city apartment block and working in IT.
Guns were allowed in order to kill the Indians whose land the whiteman was stealing.
"Intel has been selling its Xeon chips to Chinese supercomputers for years, so the ban represents a..." pile of knee jerk ridiculous bullshit?
What it will do is get the Chinese to develop their own CPU chip. With what is known today, it wont take them that long to do. And if they hire away top Intel Engineers, that would development woul go even even faster. I bet that if the Chinese go that way, because computer chips are strategic, their design might be an 80 bit chip that runs at half the wattage of Intel designs. 80 bits vs 64 bits means a very huge address space, managed with basic addressing controller design.
Soon the world will be clamoring for these 80bit chips.
I read the stats
It's in plain view
If you're over 50
No job for YOU!
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All Ellen Pao is doing here is guaranteeing overpayment for mediocre workers. Think about it. To get the best talent she'll have to pay top dollar. But that doesn't guarantee everyone hired is top talent.
If you read the summary carefully, they are not stating a salary value for a job in advance of making a offer to someone.
They are interviewing and then making an offer they feel is appropriate for that interviewee, that means that they can still adjust the offer based on the person in front of them (and who is to say the hiring managers don't offer less to women?). All thats changed is that the offer is set in stone, the interviewee either takes it or leaves it.
This scheme will live or die on how well they predict the job market for the roles they are hiring for but I don't see how it really addresses the stated goal of equalizing pay ranges between genders.
This scheme doesn't work too well anyway - I won't go for the interview without an upfront statement wrt the salary. I don't think I've ever gone for an interview which did not have a salary range stated upfront. As recently as Monday I've told a slave-trader that the job-spec he sent me neglected to mention a salary range. He came back with "They offer competitive market rates" and I replied with "I don't interview for people who cannot afford me". I will not be going on any interview soon (mostly 'cos I'm happy where I am, but regardless).
It's actually quite simple - if they cannot afford me then they should waste my time. If I'm unable to adjust my expectations downwards then I won't waste theirs. There is no "Well, we'll offer you competitive market rates for your skills after we interview you," there is only "don't enter the fitting room if you can't afford to buy!"
The deal is with hiring/starting salaries. And please realize, all large organizations have an HR department that knows or has access to the cost of living by city. Subtract that cost of living from the formula, and you have a salary range, based on what you sell as years of productive technical deliveries. Negotiations are essentially showing that you are worth your hired starting salary.
Most employees are fully replaceable, which means that if you believe your self to be worth more than the ceiling in the salary range for your corporate knowledge and your years of experience, you won't get that increase, or you go elsewhere. you might however, get an annual bonus, but the salary range stays intact.
You can't continue to have that patriotism in view of the observable facts - your government is by the few, for the few, and the people be damned. I agree that it's great that a government was founded with these ideals - but as laid out in the constitution, the time would seem to have come to throw what you have away and replace it with a government for the people again.
True patriotism would be revolution.
I second your statement
Makes sense, right?
Students go to school to learn.
I always did better with personal access to my teachers and I never knew more than the teacher/instructor/professor (that is, Not Graduate "Assistants").
I always did better with personal attention. Some concepts are not easy to grasp.
But Standford, refusing to hire more "Educational Helpers" gets the students to teach each other.
And they wrap this dismal plan in teaching the student how to work together. (I always liked linking my fate to ignorant classmates.)
More money for less education.
Bunch of turds.
As a Canadian living in Montreal, I was shocked at the $44,000 per year fee for an undergrad student. Here in my fine province, a one semester (Sept to May) course is around $400-500 plus text books. With 5 courses per year, even with half semester being Sept to December, the student would be out of pocket not more than $3000.00 That is the fee for residents of the province. What does the $3000 give you? a bachelor, masters or doctorate degree equivalent to any from Harvard, MIT, Univ of Chicago, UCLA, and Stanford.
Foreign students (non Canadians) have to pay triple or somewhat more, according to my memory, about $11,000 to $14,000 per year.
There are many student apartments, dorms, etc. Re student apartments, these are three bedroom suites. Three students get together and split the rent, which would be about $450/mo each.
Again, I'm in shock at the high high US$ cost of education. (By the way the Canadian dollar is at $0.78 US). Americans can apply.
We in the cold climate of Canada experience lead-acid car batteries lasting a minimum of 7 years. The batteries are subject to subzero cold and even at that temperature, a 7 year old battery has enough cranking power to start the modern car. If the battery survives the -20C (about -15F), it will work though the summer.
Steve Ballmer warned us that Linux was a cancer. http://www.theregister.co.uk/2...
Now the mothership itself in infected. Open source??? OMG. But really, if real programmers ever got their hands on Windows under a GPL, they would just strip out anything of value and add it to Linux. Really.
Open source does not mean GPL!
The correct balance is probably to allow it for sole proprietorships but not parternships or corporations. That way individuals aren't forced to violate their conscience while groups are required to conform to societal norms. If Joe's lawnmower service center or Sally's cake shop is discriminatory it's probably not a big deal in the grand scheme of things (distasteful as it may be to some), but if you have the same problem with Toro or Albertsons it's a major issue. This makes both sides unhappy, so it's likely the best compromise solution.
Discrimination is discrimination. It can't be half discrimination. The question then too, is drug use discrimination with consequences?
In my view discrimination is insidious. We have likes and dislikes. We choose one grocery store over another because we are more comfortable shopping there. We choose a model of car for the same reason.
Kleeneness is next to Godelness.
