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Comment Re:Who's surprised? (Score 2, Informative) 12

Many businesses don't care about the people that work for them because they only view them as liabilities, not as assets.

More accurately, zero businesses care about people who work for them, because businesses are legal fictions, which only exist in the legal system. They don't have brains, hearts, or emotions. People who work for them might care, but as the business increases in size, that becomes decreasingly relevant, and once it becomes publicly traded the shareholders can act to remove officers who don't follow the charter. And while corporations aren't legally obligated to maximize profits by default, the charter pretty much always says something about that, as that's why people invest.

A sole proprietor might care about you, and that might even be relevant...

Comment Re:Graaa! We Must Secure The Code!! (Score 3, Insightful) 54

Maybe there will be software jobs in the future after all?

AI may be what gets the industry to start taking security seriously. Most computer systems are designed with security as an afterthought, tacked on at the end. Performance has been the primary selling point. But now that AI makes it feasible to find holes that previously would have required a lot of manpower to exploit, perhaps we will see the focus shift in that direction.

Comment I don't think so (Score 1, Troll) 72

Maybe if a kid is well off and has parents that can take them to the library constantly and isn't in a deep breath state or half the books have been banned because the letters g, a and y all appeared on the same page at the same time you might have a point but well that's not the world we live in.

As a dumb kid learning to program in basic I hit a wall for some reason on the concept of data statements. The idea that you would have data at the back of your program listing that you would read from the front of your program listing didn't make sense to my dumb kid brain. So I just kind of stopped because if your programming in basic you kind of need data statements to do anything at all cool.

At the time what I needed was something else to explain it to me in a different way but I just didn't have that. Single mom and all that working a lot and very rarely got to go to a library that wasn't the school library and I had already gone through the books they are. And I mean books plural they were like two very bad programming books.

Now if I had known and had the guidance to do so I could have asked the public librarian to get literally any book I want. There is a little library in a rural UK community that had the best collection of 8-bit programming books in the world because one of the old badass bedroom coders just kept asking the librarian for books and they kept getting them. But again it just didn't occur to me.

The internet lets you interact with thousands and thousands of information sources to explain things in different ways and give you different ideas and that's before you start digging into forums. Although thanks to political bots and the Russians you really have to dig the find good forums they are still out there.

Learning basic stuff is still better done on paper but there is no better way to get over a wall then with the help of the internet. And every person is going to hit a wall at some point

Comment Re:Stop the hyperbole. (Score 2, Informative) 72

What about that means disconnecting kids from the internet? What about that is a termination of the program?
Nothing.

It costs money to provide those services, and schools and libraries are already wanting for funding in this post-fact America. What's between your ears? Nothing.

Comment Re:Great value for money (Score 1) 54

They know they cannot scale to sort this out so they have to get the contractors in which is its own bag of issues BUT they are working the problem.

But the problem is that they cannot scale to sort this out. Where you see a commitment to good security, I see that BofA has been punting on security and failing to meet their commitments to their customers, and that culture has now come to a head with the catalyst of AI leaving them no choice but to scramble frantically.

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