What you start to describe is the commercialization of free speech, which cannot be a good thing for us plebes: they've fully incentivized our race to the bottom, to making speech meaningless.

We also have what Trump says, which while it may be allowed due to "free speech", should not be allowed due to lack of accuracy, incitement, lacking an ounce of morality or dignity, etc.

Alternatively, places like Groklaw shut themselves down before the U.S. government took action, ie. ACTUAL INFORMATION AND INFORMED DISCUSSION about things currently happening in the world.

R.I.P. freedom of information and communication.

I had exactly the same problem with Target a year ago - though not with a car battery. Damaged product at pick-up, no way for a refund because they're different businesses, etc. Only by the grace of the cashier did she let me leave the product there!

Never going to use Target.com again!

> First, I see no indication that access to the pods is end-to-end encrypted. So, if your pod is stored on a server that is not your own, they definitely have access to your data.

Could it work if the data was stored encrypted? That IS the only way data can be secured, right?

If he is in fact going for fully self-controlled data, and everything is at a unique URL, then you private-key-encrypt the data before sending it to the server (also guaranteeing(?possible?) it came from you/your.. app?) and... selectively give your public key to those you give permission to to read your data? Maybe you have a data PGP and a read-requests PGP to control both those aspects separately, only working with trusted request Public keys to give/encrypt your data public key to them...

Of course then the Google(tm) browser can still build a shadow-internet of all unencrypted data, but...

> Second, I don't see provisions to stop apps from taking the data and writing it somewhere else.

Oh, right. There you go. Or worse, depending on how these apps are supposed to work.

Which part(s) of code run elsewhere can be trusted, even if open source/readily auditable?

> I happen to know most of that year is spent playing Clash of Clams

Smash Puss!!

- sorry, I had to!

I felt good afterward, then felt pretty crappy when the 7970 GPU kept stuttering - apparently because of overheating in the quieter case I needed for my own sanity. (Card warranty replacement failed to help)

I'm also always wary of the front-bezel connectors - not just the connectors' quality themselves, but also how they do/don't work with various motherboards' pins and add-on boards... I wish there was some good test equipment to verify all of them.

We're out there. Where are your jobs listed?

Between the pure job sites and the social sites and the tech sites and and and... Where is a person supposed to look for your job?

Do you only post yours on your company's contact page? I have no idea if I'm typical, but I'd never see it unless your company had an extremely positive reputation in a hobby I enjoy. Otherwise I never check out a company's website for posted positions - because most of them don't put them there.

Or does your company require applicants to use Taleo, Brassring, or some other job application provider which is not only obtuse and anti-user-friendly, but requires a person to type in EXACTLY THE SAME THING in all the blanks as they did for the previous company they applied to using the same website? And give no way to report a bug or other significant problem?

Whether or not you use an outside website or recruiting firm to screen or locate clients, do you ever give applicants feedback?

I'm with the AC above (http://it.slashdot.org/comments.pl?sid=8314383&cid=50910581) - "Excellent Benefits Package" is a slur in the industry meaning "exactly the same POS as anywhere else".

The U.S. political system would have to be completely overhauled in order for one person to make a difference. Especially as President. If someone actually did a study on the mechanics of our 3 branches of government and the usefulness of them, I'd guess every positive change is matched by at least 10 parts obvious corruption, and who knows how much unadvertised corruption.

I don't want Lessig to waste his time in that clusterfuck because I think he's too good of a guy and doing too much good from an outside perspective. I think the best thing for the Republicans is that the Dems make him the president - and absolutely nothing would get done for 4 years, at least until there was an anti-American impeachment hearing. The only thing he might have direct influence over *might* be Executive Directives, and they'd get put right back in after they shoved him out (if anyone ever stopped following the current ones).

In "The Day the Earth Stood Still" (2008) Jennifer Connelly's character said (approx): "Leaders? [The President and the UN] aren't our leaders - I'll take you to one" and she takes him to a Nobel Prize winner in "cooperative biology" - a brilliant, thoughtful person.

Exactly.

Lessig is more than just a thoughtful person, and rather than seeing him get beat down by the political system - ESPECIALLY if he were to win the Presidency! - I hope he continues making more and more of a difference as a professor, private citizen, and activist.

Best of everything to you, sir!

What if we went the other direction: instead of giving people money, which can be stolen, etc., could we instead give people the basic necessities?

* everyone gets their own basic apt/condo for free - not great, but near public transit, walk-to shopping etc. including
* a basic store where essential groceries and maybe other items are free
* a clinic where you can go for checkups, etc.
* a library with all the standard stuff including available computers, an extensive help desk and some classes every day

There is still some essential parts open to corruption, but can we work those out?

Sir, I'd like to subscribe to your newsletter.

And the unfortunate part is that rarely does an app, API, or upgrade fix that which was broken. So why would we trust your new features?

I'd like to subscribe to your newsletter

Last week was the first time I saw a Tesla in person - driving next to me on city roads it sounded like a small jet engine when the driver hit the gas! Not as bad a motorcycles, but yeeesh!

erm... Your first-order estimate is fine. Now look at the second-order equation:

What do people do when they are on a fixed salary? They look for extra income, especially when they have an inflated sense of self-importance. Whether doctors, politicians, or other government officials - they get bribed by whomever can benefit: namely drug manufacturers (doctors, dentists, health workers of all ilk), lobbyists and big businesses.

There's also the fixed salary but then putting doctors onto fixed schedules where they have to see 1 person every 15 minutes. Or 10. Or whatever the performance standards are nowadays for your health facility of choice (really the health 'provider' which is the insurance company, not the facility itself).

You cannot create a system which cannot be gamed.

This world continues its downward spiral into insanity.

Show us your code.

Otherwise shut the FU

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