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Comment Here's a weird thought (Score 2) 34

What happens if/when the Indian IT outsourcing machine collapses?
What are the unforeseen consequences?

In theory, Americans get those jobs, but do they? Where, and what do those Indian works end up involved in?

We already have large Indian-based "scam" operations. Will that expand? To what effect?

Inquiring minds want to know

Comment Let's see if I got this right... (Score 1) 97

"... he and Allen "hunched over the PDP-10 in Harvard's computer lab, writing the code that would become the first product of our new company." A resource neither of them owned... (in today's world that work product would belong to Harvard). And then bitched when people shared it?

Yes, he does do some good now. But he is and was a nasty man

Comment During WW II, the germans dispatched a submarine (Score 1) 83

It was sent to the east coast and offloaded a group of largely incompetent spies/saboteurs.

I *think* all were caught post-hasty, but my recall is fuzzy... Some may have faded into the woodwork.

It seems Putins' Russia has declared war on the world. We just haven't acknowledged it yet.
 

Comment Ah yes! (Score 1) 151

Remember how the Boston marathon bomber was "identified" by the mob and hounded? This is simply the next iteration.

So, yes, Yale CAN be sued for acting on this.
They will certainly lose, in time.

I can only hope the loss will be large enough to make them think before acting on unverified, anonymous reporting.

Comment there has long been a debate on higher education (Score 2) 241

Are you there to develop skills or to build a network of connections?
In a Cambridge-style debate, I heard on NPR 20 years ago the proponents of the later proposition carried the debate.
This seems to show that this has become the majority view.
The problem is that the students and the instructors don't agree on the goals

Comment after seeing a few of these articles (Score 1) 149

... and digging a bit, I've seen that the prompt for the task, actually included the instruction to perform in this way.

This isn't particularly frightening. It's a computer program performing as instructed.

The articles that imply the program did things like this on it's own ARE frightening... Why was that decision made?

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