I'm not surprised you've been moderated as troll, but you're absolutely right. The idea of the carrot being preferable to the stick and the law of unintended consequences are concepts that seem to consistently elude Democrats... not to mention that their schemes are usually poorly conceived. Regardless:

Here's some food for thought: If I, for some reason, were in this situation I'd find a cheap group flophouse (perhaps even the office!) for two nights per week to put in my face time days. I'd then shuttle back to Reno or wherever for the rest of the week to telecommute the rest of my time while enjoying lower taxes and housing costs.

Think about *that* tax bite, CA. I now pay no property tax... no motel tax... less sales tax... further devaluation of the housing market... CA gas tax is currently 50.5 cents/gal, NV is 33.8, not to mention that gas simply costs more in CA as a result of their anti- business practices.

A 16 gallon fuel cell installed in a car will set you back $250... a Peltier fridge for $40, both quickly recouped. I'd make it my mission in life to never pay a goddamn non-compulsory cent to CA.

I've been watching a lot of WWII movies as a reminder of our shared history and what a raging CF things have become today. Watching these men and women accomplish what they did contrasted with the "safe space" crowd makes me want to vomit. Saving Private Ryan, Dunkirk, 1917, Greyhound, and some of the classics like The Dirty Dozen, etc. etc.

That and the John Wick trilogy. Completely brainless, but well done double-tappin' fun.

I am disappointed they've done this.

I use Yahoo finance a LOT because they have some features other financial sites don't. I've also been using it for a while and I'm used to it.

The comments sections (anywhere, really) have their share of loons, but there is some seriously good stuff in there. Alternative (cited) arguments, differing views, etc. Good pointers for additional research if you're so inclined.

As a financial resource, predictably, the comments will lean to the right. Draw from this what conclusions you will. The question was "Do you support it?" I don't.

(I say this with no political agenda.)

Yeah, the carriers refuse to do fuck-all squat about robocalls and roboSMS, but suddenly they'll drop one particular candidate's robo-SMS-spam.

You'll forgive me if I find this a little suspicious.

I do remote access (among other things) for a living. Using one of the many "no log" pay facilities (although there was that story on /. yesterday about that Chinese provider and that log thing...) the source and destination IPs are NATted, one on each side of the VPN facility. The data in motion is encrypted, thus rendering the hashes useless on the wire.

Barring LEO control of one of the endpoints or the VPN facility or compromise of the crypto, I fail to see how the VPN is compromised. The only thing I can come up with is correlation of VPN in/out traffic in some fashion on a mostly idle VPN- but even that's just the addresses, and maybe a guess at the file size.

IPSec is used for a lot of SBU traffic in my world- if there's something here I'd love to hear about it.

Oops... I see /. doesn't like "less than" symbols. That should read "Y less than X years".

...as the ongoing war between the dipshits in HR and technical people continues.

I seem to recall this coming up on Slashdot in the dot-com days- companies asking for X years experience with Java when it had only been around YX years.

As someone else mentioned, it's still a surveillance state, just by someone other than the police.

But worse: Who will have access? Who, if anyone, will arbitrate that access? Everyone who's ever dealt with an HOA (especially in batshit crazy CA) is familiar with the issues surrounding a body having quasi-govenmental powers without the necessary legal checks and balances.

Just to make things a little worse, I predict that- like HOAs- most of the "officials" will be vindictive busybody types that have plenty of free time and nothing better to do than look for who isn't cleaning up after their dog. And God help you if you do anything that even *looks* like you might be having an affair, or sexual orientation on the DL, etc. etc. etc.

Ok, you've gotten your dig in at Trump and deplorables in general. However:

I work daily with Engineers and Physicists (CS, myself) and have in various places for about 30 years now. I can say without a doubt that technical people- Silly Valley notwithstanding- are overwhelmingly right of center. This is even here in deep Blue MD. Technical people are trained to be analytical, objective, and are very good at Math.

Are they Trump supporters? Not really, similar to myself. However, they see the sheer idiocy, lunacy, and stunning financial incompetence displayed by the Left and the Democratic party. Will they grit their teeth and pull the lever for Trump? Probably, as will I- because the alternative is worse. Also, just to put this out there- I watched the Chinese RAM dumping in the 80s destroy US semiconductor manufacturers, and many other examples through the years. Trump is the first one that has had the (albeit hamhanded) balls to even speak of Chinese economic predation.

But, if it makes you feel any better, my vote won't matter because I'm in deep Blue MD. Nobody gets to complain to me about being disenfranchised.

Perhaps there are others- I've heard that Asimov is considered to be similar, but I always found his writing stilted and dreadful. RAH used hard sci-fi as the backdrop for and setup to his personal philosophies about government/military, personal responsibility, and problem solving.

I don't agree with everything he said, of course, but boy did he give the reader a lot to think about. I still find myself thinking about Robert A when I hear some twit postulating about some issue knowing that they clearly have no idea about the math behind the situation or polls, or risk mitigation, and besides, they can't even change a spark plug, so why is their opinion given any weight at all?

Sadly, we have become a nation of idiots. Hmm, I wonder if any of RAHs stuff has been banned yet...

I read the following in a 2nd Amendment debate thread elsewhere, It struck a chord, and I think it applies here as well: We anticipate and accept a certain amount of chaos as part of a free society. There will always be the misbehaved, and those that take advantage, but we realized long ago that the alternative is far too repugnant.

We (I'm pretty centrist) roll our eyes at the Nazi/etc. websites and rallies, but recognize that it could all too easily be ours or someone's grey area opinions about, I don't know, fetal tissue research up there on the chopping block.

How we have managed to create a population that seems to be so certain that they're absolutely The One True Correct Way is beyond me... but we read about it every day. The arrogance of the Left is astonishing. How many people have lost their jobs because they dared to assert that there are only two genders? (Yeah, yeah, YY males and other defects don't count). It's fundamental science, but they insist in living in a fantasy world. Why are they given the power they have managed to accumulate?

This struck a chord in me... I spent 3 years in EE and finally got sick of the math and the "put the damn square peg into the damn square hole" mentality. That, and subpar professors trying to convince us they were neckbeards and that being an Engineer was something beyond the reach of mere mortals. It really is a plug-and-chug education with very little emphasis placed on innovative thought.

By this time, I also realized that CS was much more to my liking, and switched. I lost about a year, but fortunately most coursework transferred, but I remember being amazed at the CS attitude of "Here's how to program in C. Here's a problem. Here's some example algorithms you may find helpful. Do your worst." Some professors regularly gave bonus points for doing something wacky (if it worked, of course) like doing two effective calculations with a single opcode... sigh, back when efficiency was respected.

I know a very few truly thoughtful engineers... but far more that if presented with something other than a square peg, well... good luck.

Yeah. There's a few sentences about this in the book that came out in '77, ghost written by God knows who and likely just to take advantage of the furor, but good enough nonetheless in the pre-vcr days. Notice how everyone glances over, sees Greedo's blaster on the table, and goes back to their drinks? If you point a gun at someone, this may be the outcome. He fought and he lost.

Personally, I find the revisionism distasteful in and of itself, but the most annoying thing- stated by others far more eloquently than I- is that it cements Han's character at that point as a mercenary badass who is not to be trifled with.

Watched it just a couple of weeks ago, Jack & Coke(s) in hand, as I do every year on the flight to DEFCON.

Absolutely rocks.

A word to the wise: try to get a job in the DoD arena. (Contractor or Fed). Most of those jobs *can't* be outsourced because of NOFORN restrictions.

And if you can work your way into a clearance, well, that's a nice premium on your expected salary and even more job security.