Comment shaneglen65 (Score 1) 16
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Comment Re:Brain Drain is coming (Score 1) 330
My company does power and HVAC systems engineering for buildings. There is and has been a significant shortage of people in this field over the years
Please describe your company's mentorship/training programs to address this shortage...
(it has always paid less than high-tech and finance, and to really succeed you need the same personality and skill sets)
Yeah right, being an HVAC technician requires the exact same skill set as a career in finance and/or high-tech.
Comment Re:the oldest profession (Score 1) 192
Well good for him. I hope they pay him well too. From the name of the hotel -- was it in the states? My comment applied to the states.
Deep Tissue Swedish is a bit of an oxymoron.
Swedish typically uses a lot of effleurage ( rubbing the muscles with long gliding strokes in the direction of blood returning to the heart). It's usually pleasant, shallow, and relaxing.
Deep tissue massage uses firm pressure and slow strokes to reach deeper layers of muscle and fascia.
They are sort of opposite styles tho they can be used in a complementary fashion.
I do trigger point massage based on the work of a man named Clair Davies. It is very good for muscles in permanent spasm (aka a "trigger point").
This is a bit like quibbling over details about about computers in a movie tho. Most massage is good for you.
Comment Re:What the hell bullshit is this? (Score 1) 39
Verizon and co colluded to prevent people from switching from easily changed SIM cards to some electronic system that'd make it harder to switch carriers? Verizon?
And now they're being sued for being anti-competitive?
Is this bizarro world?
You really misunderstood something. In an ESIM device, there is no SIM slot. A generic SIM (or UICC) is permanently embedded into the device. When you activate it on the carrier, that ESIM is programmed with your carrier's data. AT&T and Verizon are being accused of trying to prevent (or just make it harder) for the ESIM to be reprogrammed if you move to another carrier. Essentially locking the entire device to their network after the initial programming.
Comment Circular reasoning? (Score 1) 111
Unless banks deal with the performance issues that AI will cause for ultra-large databases, they will not be able to take the money gained by eliminating positions and spend it on the new services and products they will need in order to stay competitive. . . . Intensive hardware upgrades are often cited as an answer to the problem, but D'Arezzo said that's prohibitively expensive
So banks will switch to AI for all the savings, but there won't be any savings? Then why switch to AI? And if there are savings from switching to AI, then what's the problem? What is this actually saying?
Maybe I can setup an AI that can post AI articles: "Most jobs in the ----- sector will be eliminated in the next 10 years according to AI experts. Companies in the ----- sector must be ready to innovate or they will get left behind. Workers will also need to retrain or be left in the lurch."
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Comment Re:where are these jobs? (Score 1) 330
Be prepared to go bankrupt if you get seriously ill.
As a well-paid senior (20 yrs experience) software engineer he likely has health insurance coverage from his employer, and as such will likely NOT go broke if he gets "seriously ill,"
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Comment Re:It happens (Score 1) 223
You're right, I was wrong - I OVERestimated its age by a factor of 2.
"Although coral reefs have been around for over 500 million years, the Great Barrier Reef is relatively young at 500,000 years, and this most modern form is only 8,000 years old, having developed after the last ice age."
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Comment Yeah... No... (Score 4, Interesting) 111
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Comment Re: And hilarity ensues!!!! (Score 1) 669
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Comment Re:technology outpaced it (Score 1) 271
While that may have been interesting for you, I think we can say reasonably that 99% or more of people generally DON'T CARE.
Most people DON'T WANT TO CODE.
They DON'T CARE ABOUT CODE.
They will never code, even if you forced them to learn how.
It's a marginal activity, interesting to a small segment and able to be done well by an even smaller segment.
Comment Re:First to leave other countries as well. (Score 1) 330
I want to live with people, like those in Canada or the Nordic states that share my opinion.
Please, describe the immigration process for moving to Canada or "the Nordic states" permanently... It doesn't appear you can just "decide" to immigrate to any country you choose.
Comment Mariner laughs (Score 2) 111
Bajau takes free diving to the extreme, staying underwater for as long as 13 minutes at depths of around 200 feet.
Kevin Costner scoffs at the Bajau pathetic diving abilities.
Comment Re: And hilarity ensues!!!! (Score 1) 669
Which begs the obvious question, do you have the slightest bit of credible evidence that non U.S. Citizens voting in significant numbers is a problem?
That's a cute bit of sleight of hand: allow people to vote without letting anyone ask them for proof of citizenship, then complain that there's no proof that non-citizens are voting.
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Comment Those same "conservatives" had no trouble (Score 3, Insightful) 111
We're about to head into another industrial revolution. The last few had decades of unemployment, wars and social strife before tech (and the New Deal) caught up and people were employed again. If you're going to do something to avert the next upheaval now's the time to start voting people into office that'll address the problem with something other than more "conservative" tax cuts for bank executives.
Or don't. I'm getting up there in the years and won't make it past 55 with my health problems (and I'm a
Comment Re:But... (Score 1) 330
Both sides of can play the same game
Comment Re:Germans (Score 4, Insightful) 111
The world record holder for underwater breath-holding is German.
Maybe the Bajau are under-represented entrants in the contest.
Comment Re:Germans (Score 2) 111
The world record holder for underwater breath-holding is German. I guess they have these spleens too. Who knew?
He did it by breathing pure oxygen for 20 minutes before his attempt.
The longest known breath-hold without supplemental O2 is about 11 minutes. That was someone passively holding their breath. Someone actively consuming oxygen by swimming deep would have less time. So the 13 minutes claimed in TFA is likely BS.
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Comment Merit-based Immigration (Score 3, Interesting) 330
In 1967, Canada became the first country to adopt a points-based immigration system.
So fifty years after Canada implements a merit-based (AKA points-based) immigration policy America-hating Americans attack President Trump and his administration as being anti-immigrant by proposing a similar immigration program. (Apparently the only good immigration program is one that increases the absolute number of immigrants admitted into the country annually...)
Comment First humans known to be genetically adapted to xx (Score 2) 111
Comment Re:Possibly related to ZTE? (Score 1) 31
Can't think of any non Qualcomm mobile phone. Each Qualcomm chip not sold in a ZTE will be a Qualcomm sold by any other brand.
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Comment Re:Evolution Continues (Score 4, Insightful) 111
Maybe after a few thousands years of living in space in the future, our species evolves the mutations necessary to combat the ill effects of micro gravity and radiation.
I don't think so. Genetic engineering is making rapid progress. Future changes to humanity will be by design, not through random mutations.
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Comment "The Brain Center at Whipple's" (Score 1) 111
Rod Sterling saw this in a different form half a century ago.
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Comment Passed QA phase, on to production? (Score 1) 249
Uh, maybe that isn't good news...
Comment Re:RCS also means Revision Control System (Score 1) 146
In my case, I am old enough, and and active enough, to be part of computer history. RCS, the source control software, is still useful in very old or extremely tiny environments which have individual files requiring source control. It's also sometimes useful put local files in local source control, in parallel with what Subversion or or CVS or Perforce do, and save local working changes without committing them upstream during local development. Ideally one configures the parallel source control to ignore anything named "*,v" or "RCS"
I demonstrated this a few days ago to someone faced with editing local configuration files whose default contents were in a central source control system. I've found that old tool to be _very_ useful.
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Comment Bull... (Score 1) 111
"...we're good at judging people and detecting if someone is telling the truth."
No we're not. How do you think so many scammers, con-artists, and ponzy-schemes do so well? It's precisely because we're so bad at judging people and detecting if someone is telling the truth.
Feed Techdirt: Democratic National Committee's Lawsuit Against Russians, Wikileaks And Various Trump Associates Full Of Legally Nutty Arguments (techdirt.com)
This morning I saw a lot of excitement and happiness from folks who greatly dislike President Trump over the fact that the Democratic National Committee had filed a giant lawsuit against Russia, the GRU, Guccifier 2, Wikileaks, Julian Assange, the Trump campaign, Donald Trump Jr., Jared Kushner, Paul Manafort, Roger Stone and a few other names you might recognize if you've followed the whole Trump / Russia soap opera over the past year and a half. My first reaction was that this was unlikely to be the kind of thing we'd cover on Techdirt, because it seemed like a typical political thing. But, then I looked at the actual complaint and it's basically a laundry list of the laws that we regularly talk about (especially about how they're abused in litigation). Seriously, look at the complaint. There's a CFAA claim, an SCA claim, a DMCA claim, a "Trade Secrets Act" claim... and everyone's favorite: a RICO claim.
Most of the time when we see these laws used, they're indications of pretty weak lawsuits, and going through this one, that definitely seems to be the case here. Indeed, some of the claims made by the DNC here are so outrageous that they would effectively make some fairly basic reporting illegal. One would have hoped that the DNC wouldn't seek to set a precedent that reporting on leaked documents is against the law -- especially given how reliant the DNC now is on leaks being reported on in their effort to bring down the existing president. I'm not going to go through the whole lawsuit, but let's touch on a few of the more nutty claims here.
The crux of the complaint is that these groups / individuals worked together in a conspiracy to leak DNC emails and documents. And, there's little doubt at this point that the Russians were behind the hack and leak of the documents, and that Wikileaks published them. Similarly there's little doubt that the Trump campaign was happy about these things, and that a few Trump-connected people had some contacts with some Russians. Does that add up to a conspiracy? My gut reaction is to always rely on Ken "Popehat" White's IT'S NOT RICO, DAMMIT line, but I'll leave that analysis to folks who are more familiar with RICO.
But let's look at parts we are familiar with, starting with the DMCA claim, since that's the one that caught my eye first. A DMCA claim? What the hell does copyright have to do with any of this? Well...
Plaintiff's computer networks and files contained information subject to protection under the copyright laws of the United States, including campaign strategy documents and opposition research that were illegally accessed without authorization by Russia and the GRU.
Access to copyrighted material contained on Plaintiff's computer networks and email was controlled by technological measures, including measures restricting remote access, firewalls, and measures restricting acess to users with valid credentials and passwords.
In violation of 17 U.S.C. 1201(a), Russia, the GRU, and GRU Operative #1 circumvented these technological protection measures by stealing credentials from authorized users, condcting a "password dump" to unlawfully obtain passwords to the system controlling access to the DNC's domain, and installing malware on Plaintiff's computer systems.
Holy shit. This is the DNC trying to use DMCA 1201 as a mini-CFAA. They're not supposed to do that. 1201 is the anti-circumvention part of the DMCA and is supposed to be about stopping people from hacking around DRM to free copyright-covered material. Of course, 1201 has been used in all sorts of other ways -- like trying to stop the sale of printer cartridges and garage door openers -- but this seems like a real stretch. Russia hacking into the DNC had literally nothing to do with copyright or DRM. Squeezing a copyright claim in here is just silly and could set an awful precedent about using 1201 as an alternate CFAA (we'll get to the CFAA claims in a moment). If this holds, nearly any computer break-in to copy content would also lead to DMCA claims. That's just silly.
Onto the CFAA part. As we've noted over the years, the Computer Fraud and Abuse Act is quite frequently abused. Written in response to the movie War Games to target "hacking," the law has been used for basically any "this person did something we dislike on a computer" type issues. It's been dubbed "the law that sticks" because in absence of any other claims that one always sticks because of how broad it is.
At least this case does involve actual hacking. I mean, someone hacked into the DNC's network, so it actually feels (amazingly) that this may be one case where the CFAA claims are legit. Those claims are just targeting the Russians, who were the only ones who actually hacked the DNC. So, I'm actually fine with those claims. Other than the fact that they're useless. It's not like the Russian Federation or the GRU is going to show up in court to defend this. And they're certainly not going to agree to discovery. I doubt they'll acknowledge the lawsuit at all, frankly. So... reasonable claims, impossible target.
Then there's the Stored Communications Act (SCA), which is a part of ECPA, the Electronic Communications Privacy Act, which we've written about a ton and it does have lots of its own problems. These claims are also just against Russia, the GRU and Guccifer 2.0, and like the DMCA claims appear to be highly repetitive with the CFAA claims. Instead of just unauthorized access, it's now unauthorized access... to communications.
It's then when we get into the trade secrets part where things get... much more problematic. These claims are brought against not just the Russians, but also Wikileaks and Julian Assange. Even if you absolutely hate and / or distrust Assange, these claims are incredibly problematic against Wikileaks.
Defendants Russia, the GRU, GRU Operative #1, WikiLeaks, and Assange disclosed Plaintiff's trade secrets without consent, on multiple dates, discussed herein, knowing or having reason to know that trade secrets were acquired by improper means.
If that violates the law, then the law is unconstitutional. The press regularly publishes trade secrets that may have been acquired by improper means by others and handed to the press (as is the case with this content being handed to Wikileaks). Saying that merely disclosing the information is a violation of the law raises serious First Amendment issues for the press.
I mean, what's to stop President Trump from using the very same argument against the press for revealing, say, his tax returns? Or reports about business deals gone bad, or the details of secretive contracts? These could all be considered "trade secrets" and if the press can't publish them that would be a huge, huge problem.
In a later claim (under DC's specific trade secrets laws), the claims are extended to all defendants, which again raises serious First Amendment issues. Donald Trump Jr. may be a jerk, but it's not a violation of trade secrets if someone handed him secret DNC docs and he tweeted them or emailed them around.
There are also claims under Virginia's version of the CFAA. The claims against the Russians may make sense, but the complaint also makes claims against everyone else by claiming they "knowingly aided, abetted, encouraged, induced, instigated, contributed to and assisted Russia." Those seem like fairly extreme claims for many of the defendants, and again feel like the DNC very, very broadly interpreting a law to go way beyond what it should cover.
As noted above, there are some potentially legit claims in here around Russia hacking into the DNC's network (though, again, it's a useless defendant). But some of these other claims seem like incredible stretches, twisting laws like the DMCA for ridiculous purposes. And the trade secret claims against the non-Russians is highly suspect and almost certainly not a reasonable interpretation of the law under the First Amendment.
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Comment Re:leaving California too (Score 4, Interesting) 330
Not really, foreign immigration makes up for the Americans that can't cut it in CA and leave for red states
:D
With one of the highest rates of income inequality and poverty in the nation, it looks like California is becoming a state of ultra-wealthy tech overlords and their foreign slave labor. Yeah, anybody with a choice doesn't want to be part of such a dysfunctional social structure. And the irony is that these people still blame conservatives for the massive inequality, racism, and poverty in California.
Comment Germans (Score 1) 111
Comment Re:First to leave other countries as well. (Score 2) 330
Everyone is looking to move up to do the best for their family. Indians to America. Syrians to Europe. Americas to Canada. Americans to Europe. The people first to move are the well educated with the capital to make such a move.
Meh, that's a load of bullshit. They're extremely disproportionally young males allegedly under 18, the expendables of the family and not really educated for anything. Their mission is to anchor themselves as "children", get some menial work to send money back to their family and apply for family reunification. They might be doing it for the family's good but they're almost all a huge money sink on the receiving nation. Only those truly blinded by ideology manage to think otherwise.
Comment Why the spleen matters (Score 5, Informative) 111
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Comment Re:But how many jobs will this AI create? (Score 1) 111
If you trust your money with BOA, you are a fool. They're full blown criminals who enjoy toying with their clients money and trust. When they're caught they figure the fine was cheap enough... rinse, dry and repeat.
Comment Re:mermaids? (Score 2) 111
Comment Re:You can all thank Trump (Score -1, Troll) 249
Why to clean up Clinton's mess.
Yet another Trump success.