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Comment Re: "How dare adults have some fun" (Score 1) 353

Especially ironic because âoeValley Girl (1983) actors and their ilk are now over 50. Thank the maker that Next Gen, Millennials, etc. have helped bring down the likes of fast fashionâ(TM)s soul and body crushing manufacturers who sold their trash to the likes of Forever 21 and others.

Comment Re:Government guilty! (Score 1) 422

"The kid was criminally stupid in not reporting the vulnerability through the responsible disclosure contact"
Neither he, you nor I are under any such obligation and how he accessed the data was neither vulnerability nor crime.
"The kid was criminally stupid in archiving the data instead of working towards fixing the problem"
The problem is not his to "fix" and archiving the data is not a crime which could have been done by any number of spiders and bots incl The Wayback Machine.

Stop being an apologist for the criminally stupid authorities and their heavyhanded overreach

It sounds like many people knew of this vulnerability generally. Therefore, that IT group should have known it was an issue from the start. Sounds like this fellow is a collector like the poor sod who glommed the articles from JSTOR (prosecuted under Computer Fraud and Abuse Act of 1986 (CFAA) U.S. vs. Swarz.) He eventually committed suicide, I believe. JStor ended up releasing its archives to the public, and MIT (as much as corporately and humanly possible) did some heavy duty "soul-searching." see: https://www.theawl.com/2011/08/was-aaron-swartz-stealing/

Comment Re: Any baseball player or fan could tell you that (Score 1) 131

Nuns never hit my hands with a ruler or other object during high school the 70s (the either had given up or the order was more progressive). Neither did my grade school public school teachers harm me in the 60s. But, my dad said his left-handed brother (b. 1927) had his left arm tied behind him to prevent him from writing with his sinister hand. That didn't work and only made him more stubborn. Tending to play ambidextrously (left-handed mits were hard to find so I threw right-handed), I batted left. Ironically, left-handed pitchers always threw me off when playing city league girls fast-pitch softball. But, had no problem hitting of right-handed pitchers.

Comment Re: Obvious Reason (Score 1) 579

Speaking as a woman who has designed and managed content for corporate and personal websites, it is not the pedantic bs, or the "nice things" snark that are the issue to making changes or additions to the Wikipendium as we do maintain WordPress, Blogger, Drupal, and Tumblr sites (and do compose their pages and sites from scratch or modify existing templates). No, you said it in your first sentence before sinking into the low-hanging fruit of female bashing, kidding, or whatever you call it. Simply put, the interface is a fucking nightmare even to make a simple change or addition. And if you must, it's FUGLY too.

Submission + - Anti-surveillance clothing becoming fashionable 1

Earthquake Retrofit writes: The New York Times reports: Flying surveillance cameras, also known as drones, are increasingly in the news. So are advances in facial-recognition technology. And wearable devices like Google Glass — which can be used to take photographs and videos and upload them to the Internet within seconds — are adding to the fervor. Then there are the disclosures of Edward Snowden, the fugitive former government contractor, about clandestine government surveillance. It’s enough to make countersurveillance fashion as timely and pertinent as any seasonal trend, like midriff tops or wedge sneakers.
Tinfoil hats are so passe'.

Submission + - Australia Air Force uses math puzzle for job ad that was unsolvable (nydailynews.com) 1

KernelMuncher writes: Australia's Royal Air Force has been left red-faced after a job ad asked applicants to solve a complex math problem was revealed to be unsolvable. The service posted the puzzle in a bid to attract the country's best minds to its ranks. "If you have what it takes to be an engineer in the Air Force call the number below," it read above a complicated formula which candidates had to crack. But there was a slight difficulty. The problem had typos and ended up not giving potential operatives the correct contact information.

Submission + - The Los Angeles Schools buy iPad Trojan Horses for 30,000 students

lpress writes: The Los Angeles Unified School District will spend $30 million over the next two years on iPads for 30,000 students. Coverage of the announcement has focused on Apple winning over other tablets, but that is not the key point. The top three proposals each included an app to deliver Pearson's K-12 Common Core System of Courses along with other third-party educational apps.

The Common Core curriculum is not yet established, but many states are committed to it, starting next year. The new tablets and the new commitment to the Common Core curriculum will arrive around the same time, and busy faculty (and those hired to train them) will adopt the Pearson material. The tablets will be obsolete in a few years and the hardware platform may change, but lock-in to Pearson's default curriculum may last for generations.

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