Also I wrote a song called Caves of Steel.

https://soundcloud.com/pudgene...

Hey! I was thinking about you but had no way to get in touch. Ping me somehow!

Sorry I’ll do better next time my bad

I don’t know if she did, and don’t care. She was great and we were sad to see her go.

I left because the company was bought, and the new owners laid off some of its more expensive long-tenured employees, since they were putting the site effectively into maintenance mode, trying to sell if off. They just wanted to keep ThinkGeek and didn’t care to improve the other properties. I was forced out, but I was there a long time, and it was good for me to move on when I did.

So you did not read the story. OK.

So the text contradicts the headline: it is not about climate change, but about criticizing the company in public.

This is a fake news headline. Please fix it.

(I worked with Maren briefly. She was great to work with. I also worked at Slashdot for many years, and this headline is trash.)

>Right now, Slack stores everything you do on its platform by default -- your username and password, every message you've sent //

Ok, everything else is a given, but do they really store passwords? Nothing in the link documents suggested that they actually did? What's Slacks password set up?

Agreed.

What's more every telecoms company around the World buying large swathes of kit from Huawei has presumably done their due diligence and considered that the vulnerabilities weren't sufficient to warrant buying from a different company -- until Trump declared it was anti-USA to do so and started telling other countries who they were allowed to buy their telecoms equipment from (hint: it begins with U and ends in SA).

More than likely it's just to ensure that USA have access and other state actors don't.

Personally I'd rather China was hacking my comms than USA. Take your pick, I guess.

From Wikipedia, https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/...:

> ENIAC was designed by John Mauchly and J. Presper Eckert of the University of Pennsylvania, U.S.[16] The team of design engineers assisting the development included Robert F. Shaw (function tables), Jeffrey Chuan Chu (divider/square-rooter), Thomas Kite Sharpless (master programmer), Frank Mural (master programmer), Arthur Burks (multiplier), Harry Huskey (reader/printer) and Jack Davis (accumulators).[17] In 1946, the researchers resigned from the University of Pennsylvania and formed the Eckert-Mauchly Computer Corporation.

> ENIAC was a modular computer, composed of individual panels to perform different functions. Twenty of these modules were accumulators that could not only add and subtract, but hold a ten-digit decimal number in memory. Numbers were passed between these units across several general-purpose buses (or trays, as they were called). In order to achieve its high speed, the panels had to send and receive numbers, compute, save the answer and trigger the next operation, all without any moving parts. Key to its versatility was the ability to branch; it could trigger different operations, depending on the sign of a computed result.

Are you really telling me that the people that made the machine had no idea how to programme it, not even a system in place to enable that? The OP makes it sounds like the makers just randomly built stuff and it took women (not computer scientists, or mathematicians; but women, if they'd had testicles they'd have been unable ...) to come along, decipher the randomly wired together hardware, realise it could be used as a computer, and then develop programming -- independent of any men mind you, men didn't even sweep the floors.

This whole retconning of past scientific and engineering efforts as solely performed by women is silly.

The Bank don't know who you are, their machine recognises your customer ID and handles moving around the numbers that represent your money. They've no interest in you beyond your ability to make them money; in the past a person at the bank would be able to greet you by name and would probably know your balance and your general banking habits.

The government could probably be turned in to a system that is good for signing people's keys but in the UK at least it's not yet such a thing IMO.

A true believer in ... what?

No, it is not related to capitalism. Many Marxists share the view I am espousing, in fact.

I think it is fine to ban extremely graphic content, including sex and violence, as you described.

I think it is not fine to ban ideas.

So yes, allow cult recruiting, mentally ill people posting, anorexia promotion. All of that. Yes. Absolutely.

There is a potential difference between not-promotion, and censoring. There is definitely an expressed desire among some to censor, ban, block objectionable content like videos promoting pizzagate and other nonsense. I think that is insane.

But refusing to promote some content, that is a potentially different story, depending on how it is done.

I see no problem here (except with some employees who are complaining, who should probably be fired).