TheKidder - Slashdot User

Comment Re:Damn Skippy! (Score 2, Insightful) 565

by TheKidder on Friday July 02, 2010 @02:44PM (#32777624) Attached to: Intel Co-Founder Calls For Tax On Offshored Labor

Global free trade is one of those things that sounds really good in theory, but in practice ends up driving down wages everywhere, decreasing quality of products and services, and gutting the middle class of more prosperous nations.

Wait, what?

Comment Re:Fuck exceptions for religion (Score 1) 615

by TheKidder on Tuesday March 16, 2010 @02:05PM (#31498880) Attached to: Jobcentre Apologizes For Anti-Jedi Discrimination

This is extremely silly, but you're missing the root cause of the problem. What is extremely silly is that there are laws that say I have to wear a motorcycle helmet or that I *can't* discriminate against gays or women.

The ridiculous part is that being part of a specific religion gives you back freedoms you should have had in the first place.

Comment Re:Failed Logic (Score 2, Insightful) 306

by TheKidder on Friday March 05, 2010 @03:30PM (#31374466) Attached to: Vivek Kundra On US Government Inefficiency

I hope you realize the irony of using Orwellian language to preach about the "dangers" of free market capitalism.

Comment Almost as good as stunt helicopter pilots (Score 1) 195

by TheKidder on Monday October 20, 2008 @11:09PM (#25449233) Attached to: Simulation of the Mars Science Laboratory Sky Crane

Remember the last complicated descent method of NASA's that worked so perfectly? The get-caught-by-a-stunt-helicopter-pilot method? Granted, the reason that crashed was fairly mundane, but still...

The Future Has a Kill Switch 284

Posted by Soulskill on Sunday June 29, 2008 @08:50AM from the not-literally-i-hope dept.

palegray.net writes "Bruce Schneier brings us his perspective on a future filled with kill switches; from OnStar-equipped automobiles and city buses that can be remotely disabled by police to Microsoft's patent-pending ideas regarding so-called Digital Manners Policies. In Schneier's view, these capabilities aren't exactly high points of our potential future. From the article: 'Once we go down this path — giving one device authority over other devices — the security problems start piling up. Who has the authority to limit functionality of my devices, and how do they get that authority? What prevents them from abusing that power? Do I get the ability to override their limitations? In what circumstances, and how? Can they override my override?' We recently discussed the Pentagon's interest in kill switches for airplanes. At what point does centralizing and/or delegating operational authority over so much of our lives become a dangerous practice of its own?"

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