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Comment No government surveillance without a warrant (Score 5, Insightful) 114

This company exists for its public surveillance contracts with LEOs nationwide. Thus it is government surveillance prior to a warrant. Does not matter that it is outsourced to a private company, for-profit or not. I believe any warrant for such data should exclude any data gathered before the warrant was signed by a judge. The Flock company is in damage-control mode. The ones charged were probably just sacrificial for the purpose of building the illusion of accountability with the public.

Comment Replace Sponsorship with Candidate Portal Auction (Score 5, Interesting) 162

Break company sponsorship of H1B visa recipient. Put all candidates and their skills in a sort of portal. Let US companies bid on them and have the pay verifiably go through a department, perhaps commerce or labor. If the bids do not reach 175% of the level of what US citizens with similar experience are getting for those skills, no visa for that candidate. Visa holders can be bid on every 3 months, for their skills matrix. This ends the indentured servant portion, and ends the secret $8/hour actual wages facade.

Comment Re:40% better (Score 2) 207

"Better" means releasing more value per iteration, even though we don't tell you what value is produced by the feature requests. So we'll size everything a 1. Oh it's not a 1? Must break it down so it can be completed in one day. Let's create a definition of ready. Fully-spec'd. Have as many meetings as necessary until it is fully defined. You can't start on it until previous phase is done. Once you complete your phase, it goes to the next. There's no backwards movement. Why are you moaning "waterfall"? What does that even mean?

Comment Security vs Flow (Score 1) 18

Security and value delivery are always at odds. Never been somewhere security accepted the challenge and responsibility of making sure employees in the value pipeline are not slowed down. Everyone here has endless stories of the same. I use 3 AIs at work, none are authorized. They're a paradigm shift, but just tools. Fortunately work for great company with a lot of smart insightful tech leaders who get it.

Comment Pulling away from gate should be a delay (Score 2) 77

Also stop allowing airlines to count pulling away from the gate as a timely departure. Too many times have been held captive for hours in the plane within sight of the gate I just left. Some of those times they would take my half-full plane and a couple hours into waiting, lots more passengers would walk in and fill it up. Suddenly the delay would end and we would take off.

Comment Re:My favorite part (Score 1) 64

It seems impossible to have no documentation because none was created. Never worked for them but did avionics in US Navy. Separate paperwork for several different steps, including the tech doing the work and the senior tech doing the QA, and supervisor signoff on both. Now for documentation to 'go missing', while more plausible, seems like it would be significantly more criminal and require even more collaboration.

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