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Comment Re:Lots of legacy stuff will be taken down (Score 1) 54

Amen to all of that.

Part of the reason I write my own frameworks is because they are all incomprehensible (and therefore un-securable) shitshows. I can write my own much smaller, simpler, and more understandable shitshow and get better performance & security in the process.

Comment Re:Two more years (Score 1) 152

This is obviously a political case. This raid would not have happened if the president had not ordered it.

If we have a member of Congress who has even a whiff of an issue with their citizenship, y'all should all stop with the partisan bullshit and agree to get to the bottom of it and pronto. There is a problem with the publicly known facts here, and it needs to be laid to rest one way or the other. If you can't get on that bandwagon, then you and your partisan hackery are are the problem.

Comment Re:I don't think so (Score 1) 152

I started on a TRS-80 Model 1 in early 1978.

Regulating drugs has worked so well that you want to apply the same techniques to equally addictive online tech? How would you go about such a thing, anyway? The solution is worse than the problem.

But that's a red herring: I never said anything about screen use outside of school. You ought to talk to some actual teachers if you want to know the nature and scope of the problem in school. The solution I imagine is the solution most teachers would like to see and which is in fact being implemented in a lot of places, namely the ban of phones and other internet-connected devices in primary and secondary schools.

Comment Re: Two more years (Score 0) 152

Those links don't say what you want them to say, unfortunately, especially in the context of a specific administration. If you were screaming about this four years ago, ten years ago, twelve years ago, and twenty years ago, then I'll credit you with consistency and march alongside you against the weaponization of law enforcement. But you seem to be making a case that this a Trump problem, and that's nonsense.

In the present case, Omar has some explaining to do. This isn't some absurd birtherism: the publicly known facts don't add up, and it matters quite a lot that this kind of thing is done scrupulously.

I'm a recovering Bernie Bro and revere the likes of Russ Feingold and Jerry Brown. I voted Green in the last two presidential elections. This isn't about partisanship.

Comment Re: Two more years (Score -1) 152

So you're backing away from the plural victims ("users", "people") in your original claim and hanging this existential fear on one case that may include doxing? (I can't find the verbatim posts, but even the sources favorable to the person--as I also am in such cases--have given summaries that don't seem cut and dried).

Comment Re:Two more years (Score -1) 152

Omar could make all this blow up in the faces of the Trump administration by allowing a FOIA request for her naturalization records to go through. It's what I would do ... unless there was a problem.

Politics aside, this legal analysis when compared with the known dates is cause for concern. The further set of patterns that seem to point to a coverup add to this picture:

After 5 years of permanent residency within the U.S. adult refugees may apply for U.S. citizenship status through a process called naturalization. Naturalization includes English proficiency, a U.S. history and civics exam, and swearing an ‘Oath of Allegiance’ to the United States.

There are three paths a foreign-born child may obtain U.S. citizenship through their parents:

  • Acquisition of citizenship
  • Derivation of citizenship
  • Application for citizenship under Section 322 of the Immigration and Naturalization Act

Acquisition of citizenship for Ilhan Omar would not apply because one or both parents must have been U.S. citizens at the time of her birth in Somalia.

Citizenship by derivation requires that foreign-born children who turned 18 years old on or after February 27, 2001, are eligible to gain citizenship through their parents. Ilhan Omar’s widely published birth date of October 4, 1981 means she turned 18 in 1999 and 19 in 2000, and therefore, was ineligible to gain citizenship by derivation.

And finally, Certificate of Citizenship under I.N.A. Section 322 would require Ilhan Omar’s father having already obtained U.S. citizenship before she turned 18 years of age. But given the Omar family arrived in the U.S. in 1995, and adult refugees having a five-year waiting period, means Ilhan’s father could not have applied for naturalization until the year 2000—when Ilhan was an adult. Ilhan Omar could not have gained citizenship through her father under I.N.A. Section 322.

Source: https://www.ajkern.com/

This isn't something that can be swept under the rug, as her Congressional staff seems to have attempted. I'm kind of neutral on her as a politician--populist gonna populist--so this isn't a partisan thing for me.

Comment Re:Does it matter if the FCC has the power to end? (Score 1, Informative) 152

Education policy is decentralized to the state level here. The federal government has some leverage through conditional funding, but they can't force policy in most cases.

Keep in mind that many of our states are comparable to entire countries elsewhere in the world, so this is probably the only workable arrangement unless we adopt some kind of Soviet-style national bureaucracy.

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