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Comment Re: Next step (Score 0) 35

It isn't a joking matter. We should act now to ensure it doesn't happen here. It is still possible to cover your tracks in the west. When I grew up in East-Germany, we did not take such ducts for communication for granted. If you were ratted out for a non-approved opinion, life mysteriously became much harder.

Comment Re:Sexist (Score 2, Insightful) 161

Back when we were all living in tribes on the plain or the jungle the men would all go out and hunt. The skills needed were to track, stalk, and attack to kill.

The women would stay behind and take care the children and the camp. The skills needed were communication and empathy and interest in social interaction.

This social model was successful enough that over generations the best reproducers were those that supported it. And so we evolved.

I thought this was all pretty much consensus way back before The Naked Ape was published. A half century or more. But apparently people are still surprised by this sort of "revelation."

Comment Re: Orrin Hatch is a Fool! (Score 1) 159

Remember, this is the same Orrin Hatch who fantasized about destroying the computers of "pirates" while at the same time having a website based on stolen code.

During a discussion of methods to frustrate computer users who illegally exchange music and movie files over the Internet, Hatch asked technology executives about ways to damage computers involved in such file trading. Legal experts have said any such attack would violate federal anti-hacking laws.

"No one is interested in destroying anyone's computer," replied Randy Saaf of MediaDefender Inc., a secretive Los Angeles company that builds technology to deliberately download pirated material very slowly so other users can't.

"I'm interested," Hatch interrupted. He said damaging someone's computer "may be the only way you can teach somebody about copyrights."

(source)

On Facebook: “So, how do you sustain a business model in which users don’t pay for your service?” (April 2018)

This guy is another dinosaur that his constituents keep putting in because they have no idea how to vote for anyone else and doing so would require thought or energy which are scarce resources for the average American. At least this guy has the decency to retire! Just a few months ago, McCain was incapacitated and refused to step down unless the governor agreed to appoint his wife to take his place.

Putting the CON in Congress! :)

Comment Re: Really? (Score -1, Troll) 190

What thousands of kids are you referring to? The ones who are getting thrice the amount of inoculations in their first days as you did as a child? There is substance to that part of the argument as well as the one for children who have a family history of autoimmune disorders. I have one friend who was paralyzed from a flu shot. Her mother and aunts had fibromyalgia.

And that bobble-headed bleach blond did not make the decisions. The parents did.

Comment FCC (Score 1) 94

Now thirty years later, have they added essential things to make these units compliant? There are much more stringent regulations that have to be met now.

UL (kind of)
ETL
CE
FCC

It isn't cheap to sell consumer electronics anymore. Everyone wants a piece of the pie, and you'll be sued out of existence in some countries and not allowed to enter the market in others if you manage to survive the first round of development.

Comment Re:What? (Score 3, Insightful) 223

Is this what we can come to expect from an editor?

Take advice from a gentleman who has been embedded in Silicon Valley culture for decades. It is an oligopoly run by a big club of people always high-fiving each other. Everyone's money is forced into the stock market as it's the about the only accessible thing that "grows," and all the people in the Fortune 500 companies take as much off the top as they can get.

Comment Re: Zombies? (Score 1) 180

Recall, from another Defense One article, the Russians are using every trick possible to gain ground in cyber warfare. One of their biggest fronts is finding and not disclosing software vulnerabilities. This means that you don't even have to actively install Russian software for them to potentially be able to get into your computer.

I am a security analyst and recently took a trip to Russia. There are a lot of jobs out there. And they pay well. The Russians are looking for every way to "hook" into American systems through social engineering. And they pay REALLY well once you have been working for them for a few years, you gain their trust, and they put you on "assignments" frequently involving US government contracts. I had a few offers when I was in Vladivostok. They knew who I was and still tried even though they knew I wouldn't budge.

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