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Comment Re:How do you patent... (Score 2) 64

There is a bigger security impact here. If say John, who works for the CIA, files a patent for cool new thing-a-majig that will revolutionize the US's ability to spy on say spy satellite communications. That fact that John works for the CIA and he filed this patent, the foriegn governments will be able to put 2 and 2 together and know that there is a possibility that their satellite communications security has been compromised. Who is running these ideas for this new incentivization through risk analysis/security review?
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Remote City Council Meeting Interrupted By Pornographic Videos (mercurynews.com) 37

Friday's first-ever remote meeting for the Los Angeles City Council had to shut down for 20 minutes because of pranksters posting "pornographic videos".

The Los Angeles Daily News has the story: Council President Nury Martinez called a recess about an hour into the meeting, which is centered around a Los Angeles-centric relief package for workers, renters and homeless people during the public health crisis. She said there were "inappropriate videos" being posted. Soon afterward, city officials' voices could be heard discussing turning peoples' video capabilities off on the channel.
The reporter posted on Twitter that the meeting faced other challenges. "Councilman Joe Buscaino just yelled at his kids to be quiet." ("Maybe it's past Joe's bedtime," joked an assistant news editor.) The meeting ran on for nearly 11 hours, and by the end just six people remained in Zoom's meeting room.

"Seven people on the 15-member City Council voted to ban all evictions in Los Angeles, with 6 against. But that was not enough to pass the ban. They needed 8 votes."

Comment Ah the good o'days (Score 4, Insightful) 231

To answer the question, yes, the passion was different then and not just in the developers, but with the users/clients. The users/clients were excited about the new techologies promises and look to the developers to lead them to the promised land. The developers were there because they wanted to be, not just because of the promises of riches or there high school counselor said CS would be a good job. Many of the people I worked with in the 80s and 90s were self taught even before getting into college. The passion was organic and the exicitment of the new computer paradym feed that passion.

Comment Money, its all about making money! (Score 2) 47

Please understand that money is the reason that companies make this devices. When security concerns raise their ugly head, they get slapped down. Ego, we have devices that are open for exploitation. Security will also be ignored when $$$ are you objective. If customers stop buying these devices because they are insecure then, and only then will manufactures add the cost of security into the price of these devices.

Comment A company pays $100/hour to a contracting company (Score 4, Interesting) 111

An the pour worker gets $40/hour. This is a story I see more and more often. An authorize contracting company will supply us a candidate. We hire the candidate at the agreed upon rate of $100/hour. We find out later after he is on board that he has a second contracting company who is his prime contracting agency. This prime agency is not an authorize company to deal with my company. The resulting pay per hour after the authorized contracting company takes their 30-40% and the prime contracting company takes their 30-40% is that pour worker gets $40-$50 per hour. It gets worse, after the period of time that the worker has performed well and we wanted to hire them and transfer the H1-B to my company, the prime contracting company says that if he does this they will report to the government that he didn't actually work in the US. We found out later that they were paying them in Rupee in India. Loopholes are for the dishonest and greedy.

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