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Comment Le sigh.... (Score 4, Interesting) 131

And it continues. Even if Huawei earnestly means that they won't collaborate with Beijing, when your engineering security is so lax then it seems reasonable to expect that Beijing will find ways to make use of it (just like any other large government would).

It's just another example of corporate balances not finding a decent center for security versus productivity and profit. We all still have a long way to go.

Comment Well, it depends... (Score 2) 214

If I'm looking to use it to replace a laptop, sure, this review may be spot on. The review tweets seem to be written as that is the tablet's sole purpose.

Disregarding the absolutist blinders, it seems like a pretty powerful and useful tablet. As products go, it is the only Apple product that I have been tempted to buy.

Comment Re:Common Sense calling - Women have babies (Score 1) 238

While I think the women/childbirth argument is a bit debatable, I can see some validity in it. I'm sure someone has data on it somewhere.

However, your counter-argument is making two huge assumptions: career advancement is linear along the entire career and childbirth is as well. I contend that the majority of career advancement (the 'rapid' part) occurs early in the career path (perhaps the first 15 years?) and then takes on a much shallower slope after that. Those would also be the years that someone would most probably consider childbirth. There is definitely room for those items to conflict in that time period.

As to your P.S., you seem to be implying that having two parents would mean that women would go back to work sooner if they have a partner. I'm really not sure if that is true (it runs counter to what I've seen with most families I know) but I would love to see some data one way or another.

Submission + - EPIC Sues FBI Over Biometric Database

Trailrunner7 writes: A major privacy group has filed a lawsuit against the FBI to force the bureau to release all relevant documents about its plan to share a huge amount of biometric information with the Department of Defense.

The lawsuit filed by EPIC (Electronic Privacy Information Center) concerns the FBI’s Next Generation Identification system, which comprises fingerprint, iris scan, and facial recognition data, and the bureau has been using it for several years.

EPIC’s lawsuit asks that the FBI be forced to release records about the plan to share NGI data with the Department of Defense under the Freedom of Information Act. EPIC filed a FOIA request about the plan last year and though the FBI said it has located 35 pages of records that are responsive to the request, it hasn’t released any of those records.

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