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Comment: Re:Not the only reason (Score 1) 485

by iamacat (#43769869) Attached to: Larry Page: You Worry Too Much About Medical Privacy

Whatever makes you think "them" will be forthcoming on why they haven't hired you? There is no requirement for prospective employers to give a reason for rejection, or keep documentation internally. Successful lawsuits are mostly based on unfair layoffs, pay or promotions when you actually worked in the place and have a paper trail of performance reviews.

Comment: Not the only reason (Score 1) 485

by iamacat (#43748823) Attached to: Larry Page: You Worry Too Much About Medical Privacy

Employers may not hire you if they think you will be sick a lot or may not survive long enough to pay for your training. Random people will shun you if they know you are HIV positive or schizophrenic even if there is no rational reason for their behavior. Few people will knowingly dance with a transsexual at a party. I say Larry Page is overstating how much we should worry about Google's business model. Opt- in web crawling by at least the big search engines visited by most people would do both individuals and content-based businesses lots of good.

Comment: Re:Corpiragation (Score 1) 284

by iamacat (#42953185) Attached to: Monsanto's 'Terminator' Seeds Set To Make a Comeback

Well one thing wrong is that humans have been eating non-engineered plants for thousands of years with no ill effects, and where there have been ill effects either plants or sensitive humans involved have been purged from gene pool.

The same can not be said for a newly engineered plant enhanced with genes from harmful bacteria to kill insects that are trying to munch them.

Comment: And what exactly is the downside? (Score 1) 284

by iamacat (#42953139) Attached to: Monsanto's 'Terminator' Seeds Set To Make a Comeback

Monsanto will have no more claims against farmers who want to save and replant seeds as their product by definition is not capable of doing that. Organic farmers and wild plants are protected from contamination. And anyone who wants to plant commercial seeds and play by the rules doesn't lose anything.

I say mandate that bioengineered plants be made sterile.

Comment: xterm (Score 1) 311

by iamacat (#42837309) Attached to: Moving the Linux Kernel Console To User-Space

Most end users can safely disable kernel console, as they will not have skills to debug problems that prevent basic GUI from coming up. On the other hand, for developers debugging such problems, its hard to argue against a fail safe kernel console. How are the developers of this replacement user space terminal planning to debug their code?

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