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Comment Sooo? (Score 0) 414

This is only a problem if they look up OJ SIMPSON and use guiltyguiltyguilty.com as there reference.

How is using the net any different than reading a newspaper or hearing people talk about it in the subway. They're suppose to pick a juror based on his unbiased disposition, not his tech ability.
Censorship

UK Gov. Clueless About Own Internet Blacklist 203

spge writes "Computer Shopper magazine has interviewed the UK Home Office about its relationship with the Internet Watch Foundation and discovered that the government doesn't actually know what the IWF does, although it still plans to force UK ISPs to subscribe to the IWF's blacklist. The main story makes for interesting reading, but the best bit is the full transcript of the interview. Short version: the IWF investigates suspected child porn websites and adds any it finds to a list that ISPs can use to block these sites; uk.gov wants ISPs to use this list; however, the IWF is not an official government organization, does not appear to have legal permission to view child pornography, and quite possibly is breaking the law by doing so."

Comment Re:USAF (Score 0) 426

Meh, I was in the Air Force as 3C0X2, the actual Computer Programmer.

You're missing the point of the article, in the end you had to get out, because it doesn't make any sense to stay in. When you work hard or have at least half a brain you take your clearance and run.

Funny thing about these career fields, they have terrible retention, so to fix this they offer high reenlistment bonus and low enlistment bonuses. This leads to the ARRRR-tard from the flight line cross training who signed up for his job of "loading bullets into plane" being a manager of a group of IT guys. This leads to micromanaging and doing things for others while they take you're credit. It also leads to an 18 year old kid, being on 24/7 call because others are incompetent.

I used to work at Langley and being part of a Web Team I did some web programming. I didn't do anything real until I transferred to NSA. Now we run everything, switches, cabling, I have several large frame rooms with OPS servers that include Linux, UNIX (9&10), Windows 2003, Citrix Servers, AD, Exchange, to VMware.

As soon as my first enlistment was up, I rolled out and doubled my salary. That alone shows that they military doesn't respect there soldiers. The only person who would reenlist that had half a brain has issues in his life he doesn't want to disclose on the full polygraph the civilians & contractors get. Or he/she is just LAZY, period.

The AF at least is phasing out the actual programmer. They have cross trained most of the friends I had, with the lack of retention they could barely keep anyone in that could take on large projects. The only thing I KNOW programmers still run is the Air Force's website and they do programming on the AWAKS. But I'm sure even a lot of that is contractors.
Cellphones

Map As Metaphor In a Location-Aware Mobile World 178

mattnyc99 writes "Two weeks after the launch of Google Latitude, your inbox is probably full of requests and privacy advocates probably have even more concerns than they did at first. But some tech pundits are already seeing the bigger picture of a digital lifestyle based around the always-on, GPS-based mobile map. The NYTimes's John Markoff has a great piece in today's Science Times about the map as metaphor for a time when 'future systems will probably begin to blur the boundaries between the display and the real world.' Over at Esquire.com's Tech Therapist, Erik Sofge talks to the geek behind Latitude and offers a similar reality check: 'Latitude will be precisely as annoying as e-mail and social networking sites and cell phones themselves — and just as useful. What won't stop Latitude, or the wider rollout of location-based tracking, is bitching about it. These are juggernauts of free, culture-reorienting technology. And you and me, we are but posts on the massive Facebook profile of history.'"

Comment Re:Ahh, true democracy (Score 0) 436

The biggest problem with this is it is on his webpage, if he really wants something like this he has to do it in a public party-generic forum. OH MY GOSH, I wonder why the "American People" want everything the Democratic party stands for at an amazing 5/1. Other than that, I like the idea. Maybe they should use slashdot polls, they are usually very important and I enjoy doing every one! :)

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