"or the pay for their gender or ethnicity seems off compared to others." This is why the bullshit of "secret pay scales" exist. so management can pay the black guy less than the white guy or the woman less than the men.

I freely tell others what I get paid at work and I'll ask others what they get paid. It should not be a secret.

Problem is you are considered RACIST for suggesting they get a better education and not follow the ghetto culture.

Honestly today you can learn ANYTHING on your own with the internet, yet ask any inner city youth, they are discouraged from learning because it's considered "acting white"

Their own brand of racisim keeps them down.

Awesome, we need to join the plumbers union and start getting $125 an hour then. Thanks for your support!

you can have 256 cores at 500mhz and a 4 core 5ghz system will be a lot snappier and faster. because most of what is used for computing does not scale to multi core easily.

I will take a 2 core 5ghz system over a 4 core 3ghz system any day.

Exactly, yet you will have a TON of people claiming they can tell the difference. In reality they can not.

99% of the people out there sit too far away from their TV to see 1080p Unless they have a 60" or larger and sit within 8 feet of the TV set. The people that have the TV above the fireplace and sit 12 feet away might as well have a standard def TV set.

But the same people that CLAIM they can see 1080p from their TV 10 feet away also claim that their $120 HDMI cables give them a clearer picture.

The purpose of securities regulations is primarily to ensure people know what they're investing in, and secondarily to stop people investing in ways that are likely to lead to them losing their shirts.

Twitter shares are now a publicly traded investment. That means it's reasonable that people should understand what they're investing in when they buy those shares. As Twitter is the only source of reliable information on Twitter, securities regulations compel them to list risks investors should be aware of. A significant percentage of their users not actually being human is absolutely information that could affect the ROI of buying Twitter.

I can't say honestly say I love red-tape laden financial regulations but the spirit of these ones is at least reasonable, even if the implementation might leave a lot to be desired. Listing risks to your company is not the most burdensome part of issuing publicly traded stocks.

Google, if you set up a white listed email system, my friends and family will happily sign up.

They already happily sign up. Gmail is the largest email provider in the world.

BTW the Gmail spam filter, like any good one, does have per-user whitelists. If you reply to mail or mark mail from a sender as not spam, the filter will leave mail from those senders alone (modulo caveats like the sender properly authenticating). Thus the filter spends almost all of its effort on email from senders you haven't interacted with, like, for example, the password reset mail from the website you used 3 years ago and forgot how to log in. You wouldn't want to lose those, would you?

That's not "getting ignored". What did she expect? That she'd show up and immediately have people begging to work with her, just because she was blonde?

If you're a dude and you turn up to a CS class, then you make an effort to initiate conversations if you want to work with people, or make friends. You don't just sit around looking pretty. That's a basic social norm and everyone does it.

My own experience of this is that there's a huge work/expectations gap. It's not just CS that suffers low female enrollment. It's any subject that involves lots of maths and hard work. My own CS class had zero female students in it right from the start - that's rare, but obviously the women weren't deciding not to study it because they got harassed in class. I had plenty of female friends at university and one of them studied maths, one of them studied physics, and the rest all did subjects like history, archaeology or English. I was kind of blown away by how little work these subjects entailed compared to my own.

Has the DEA been sending him a yearly 1099 for taxes? if not, then the IRS needs to audit the DEA.

"The HTML source just has explicit non-breaking spaces in the wrong places."

This really points to the whole website being designed in front page, that was a fingerprint of that horrid horrid program.

What is worse is when you get a teacher that makes you down for not doing it their convoluted and retarded way. Sorry teacher but I can do all that in my head, and you are marking me down because I am not slowing down and driving myself insane with the archaic and backwards way of finding the answer.

Luckily I had parents that would scream at the teachers and principal. we finally went over the their heads to the superintendent where he read off questions, and I typically had the answer before he finished reading did they realize that teaching at pot head speeds did not work for me.

Although I know only a little about CPU design, this sounds like one of the most revolutionary design changes in many years. The question in my mind is how well it will work. The CPU can use information at runtime that a static analyser running on a separate core might not have ahead of time, most obviously branch prediction information. OOO CPU's can speculatively execute multiple branches at once and then discard the version that didn't happen, they can re-order code depending on what it's actually doing including things like self-modifying code and code that's generated on the fly by JITCs. On the other hand, if the external optimiser CPU can do a good job, it stands to reason that the resulting CPU should be faster and use way less power. Very interesting research, even if it doesn't pan out.

This doesn't necessarily invalidate your point, but your recap of the results of the Judge Greene decision and the divestiture of AT&T is a bit off. The original Department of Justice rationale - this suit being pursued under the conservative Reagan administration, which you would have thought wouldn't wanted to do it - for splitting up AT&T was that it was an un-natural combination of heavily regulated industries (local phone service) and largely unregulated industries (long distance). The ultra-conservative DoJ anti-trust bigwig who actually pursued the case did so on the doctrinal belief that you should either be in a regulated business (rates set by a local Public Utility Commission, as local phone services are/were), or in a competitive business (market pricing) but not both since it allowed the competitive business to be subsidized by the regulated business and distort competition.

What was going on was actually the reverse - AT&T made lots of money selling long distance but not much selling local phone service, and in effect it was subsidizing your local phone bill with what expensive long distance service cost. So, while opening up the LD market to lots of competition did in fact drive prices down for consumers, most people's local phone bills went up because the ILECs were no longer being subsidized. Local phone company "innovation" pretty much went into the toilet (remember, they toyed with making modem users buy separate additional phone lines, and their idea of "broadband" in the early '90s was still ISDN). It wasn't until the advent of ADSL as a way to compete with other emerging broadband technologies forced their hand in the late '90s (in concert with the 1996 telecom deregulation act) that there was much innovation or cost savings for customers in play.

So in some ways the Ma Bell breakup was an interesting exemplar of the "law of unintended consequences" and a demonstration of how heavily regulated services can sometimes drive higher prices and lower innovation than ones with a more open market. Competition will always make a company move faster than regulatory bureaucracy - so your "HEAVY regulation" mentioned above would need to not just be regulation per se but the type that also incentivized investment and competition.

By the way, if you're really interested in the Ma Bell divestiture and its consequences, be sure to pick up The Deal of the Century by the Washington Post reporter who covered the trial and its aftermath.

" If a "hacker" gets into your car and shuts down the brake system then it's a whole lot worse than if he's just putting a picture of Goat.se on the dashboard."

For him as well because he would have to be stuffed up under the dashboard to do his hacking, therefore he will probably die in the accident.
All of these stories are dripping with scare tactic bullshit from these "researchers"

Pick one that has not been picked over heavily.

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