The changes to the law / interpretation is part of the mechanisms of how the pendulum swings as the swinging is a human thing, so it happens on longer time scales. But it can definitely feel like it's over. (But each swing is different.)

Don't do this because of this, you will be a pawn being told to do something with a potentially massive cost to yourself and very little gain / loss on either side, not to mention other than the owning corporation what does source control have to do with operating systems. It doesn't send the right message of a boycott. It would hardly register on Microsoft charts.

Look a new endpoint to guard with your life.

It's borderline if it's too good to be true... I wonder about the long term stability of signal. I guess if it does disappear it does leave the protocol. However I would have wished for some means of integration between the signal compatible providers. (Perhaps it exists and I'm not aware?)

If amazon can pull of people paying for this, this opens the doors to many more companies with different philosophies producing devices, perhaps even reverse engineering the existing devices including open source. If not, e-waste.

Some people want to get rid of daylight savings time. Others want to keep doing this "spring forward" thing. I propose a compromise that should work for everyone.

We keep doing the "skip an hour ahead" thing, but not in the middle of the night on a Sunday. Instead, we switch to a Friday afternoon.

We jump ahead from 3:00 Friday afternoon to 4:00 PM Friday, making the weekend one hour closer.

> Humans, you may Exit.. Stage Left. Meatsack department is down the stairs in the basement.

You understand you folks have been saying that since the 1800s, since the moment someone connected a plow to a tractor. The cotton gin, the automatic loom - goodbye humans.

Once upon a time, writers used pencils and WROTE the words, forming each letter. Then came typewriters. Authors stopped writing and started just typing.

They would cut and paste sections - with scissors and *paste*.

Soon came word processors and grammarly. Most authors alive today have never cut and pasted anything. A machine, a tool, does it for them.

Yet, we're intelligent enough to understand that when you use a tool to create something, you've created something. Using a tool, whether the tool is a pencil or a program, doesn't mean you didn't make the thing.

> the strong of-course do as they will, and the weak do as they must.

Just to get maximum clarity, do you think that's good, or bad?

Anyone else notice the very last line states that the bold headline is bullshit? That seems to be pretty standard on Slashdot, and a lot of media generally.

Absolutely false headline, which is all most people ever see. Then at the bottom of the story they mention the reality so the author can claim they weren't full of shit.

It's mostly not about reciting memorized facts.

Education isn't just reciting memorized facts. A good education teaches one thinking strategies. How to figure things out. The ability to figure things out is kinda what IQ is all about.

One examples is learning to start by picking out relevant vs irrelevant information, such as in word problems. My daughter gets a lot of that in third grade and has become quite good at it *through practice*.

She's learning to check whether the answer she comes up with is reasonable, then think back and try again if her first thought doesn't render a reasonable answer.

She's learning, through schooling, that when presented with a question she doesn't know the answer to, she can think through what she DOES know and use that to estimate an answer. For example, she didn't know how long it takes to drive fly from Dallas to California. But she DID know California is a distant state. She also knows Florida is a distant state and was a three-hour flight. So she can reason that it "three hours" would be a reasonable answer to how long it takes to fly to California - more reasonable than 30 hours or 1/3 hour. She learned this strategy through education.

The study covers tests taken 2006 to 2018, by people of all ages. So not COVID related.

There HAS been a change in the US education system over the past few decades. A change of focus from teaching thinking skills to teaching feelings, and of course certain feelings in particular.

 

I'm sure you have fun saying that. But no, different things are actually different.
China is run by the Chinese Communist Party. The law in China is all businesses of any kind must assist whenever requested by government or party officials. That's the law. Remember, on paper it's communist - the businesses are nominally instruments of "the public" via the government officials.

"Get a warrant" isn't a thing in China. That's the United States. Fourth amendment and all that - you may have heard of it.

The US government DOES have agents. FBI agents, CIA agents, Fish and Wildlife agents. Anyone who isn't a government agent - isn't. Which is very different from China, where every business is *by law* an agent of the government.

I worked at a company that did this and it worked much better and easier than I would have expected. You mentioned expensive engineer time. We didn't spend any time on arranging it. We were all what the IRS calls "highly compensated employees".

Some people worked in the office M-W-F, some on Tuesdays and Thursdays. Everyone has a laptop, and every desk has a USB3 docking station. When you get hired, you just choose a desk that is available. Every desk has pens, a pad of paper, etc - ready to work. Sit down, plug your laptop in with one cable, and there ya go. Yeah someone else will be there when you're not.

The one difference is that you wouldn't leave a lot of personal stuff in the desk. Rather, a lot of people brought a backpack to work that contained their snacks or whatever.

I think maybe twice I showed up and saw someone sitting at the desk I normally used. So I just used another one nearby. A couple times I picked a desk in the section used by a team I was working with that day, rather than my normal desk by the CISO. I'd work with different development teams and if I was going to be working with one team all day I may as well sit with them for the day.

You're almost on the right track, but just got it backwards. Bigger companies like Microsoft actually make MORE money for the investors than do small companies, like your local convenience store. *GROWING* your business is how you pad your pockets.

Going out of business, or partially going out of business (shutting down departments etc) is how you make less.

You make more money by selling more products.
The greedy fuckers (like people who want to retire eventually) really want to hire MORE people at $150K who produce $200K. That $50K difference is what we call "profit".

Surprisingly though, when you intentionally make it difficult and expensive for businesses to operate in your state or city, people start to give up on trying to operate businesses there. When you make sure the California office will lose money, they shut down the California office. They'd certainly prefer to make MORE money by making and selling more stuff, which requires a bigger staff.