What everyone is ignoring is it doesn't matter if you agree with damore's science. The issue is that it IS science. It's backed by good quality research, even if you prefer some other supposedly better research. If quoting well researched science is now potentially illegal, this opens the floodgates to all manner of abuse.
Posts by xpusostomos
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James Damore's labor complaint went over about as well as his trash diversity manifesto
The Australian Bureau of Statistics has made a hash of the census
hash no good
Hashing achieves nothing much. It would take a computer half an hour to hash every name in Australia. Then having made such an index, you just compare hashes to names, and voila! All your data is suddenly re-identified. It wouldn't even be hard to speculatively hash many names. For example, take the 100 most common first names and surnames, and voila, probably 10% of your leaked data suddenly is re-identified. Expand to the 10,000 most common first names and surnames and you've probably re-acquired 90% of the data. In other words, hash is a fool's paradise.
Australian ISPs agree to three-strikes-plus-court-order anti-piracy plan
Cracking copyright law: How a simian selfie stunt could make a monkey out of Wikipedia
Monkey?
Monkeys are pretty smart. I would not assume that the Monkey did not know what a camera is, and did not deliberately decide to pick up the camera and take a picture, knowing full well what cameras do.
Now there may well be legal impediments to monkeys registering copyrights, but assuming that they don't understand cameras would not be a great argument.
'Apple is terrified of women’s bodies and women’s pleasure' – fresh tech sex storm
Secret Senate software stoush: Greens intervene
I find it completely outrageous that they would attempt to label him vexatious, just because he vigorously pursues the release of one particular FOI request. It's not a case of him lodging 500 requests or something to bog down the system. He just wanted one thing, and wasn't happy with the response. Really outrageous.
Google: Glass goggles are a 'fairly lousy surveillance device'
Seagate brings out 6TB HDD, did not need NO STEENKIN' shingles
NSA gets burned by a sysadmin, decides to burn 90% of its sysadmins
Six nations ask Google for answers on Glass privacy
Kim Dotcom victim of 'largest data MASSACRE in history'
REVEALED: The gizmo leaker Snowden used to smuggle out NSA files
Bjarne Again: Hallelujah for C++
NSA: We COULD track you by your phone ... if we WANTED to
Red Hat to ditch MySQL for MariaDB in RHEL 7
SCO vs. IBM battle resumes over ownership of Unix
Ex-Microsoft man plans brand of consumer marijuana 'fine cigars'
Optus: Australian telcos are RUBBISH
Who did Apple LIE TO: Australia or America?
Yeah it's inconsistent, but I can't for the life of me see what difference it makes. The issue at stake is whether the price is (a) unfair to Australian consumers or (b) involves a wholesale transfer pricing that is unfair to the Australian tax office. Whether the price is set in Australia, Cupertino, Ireland or Timbuktoo hardly matters.
WikiLeaks party flirts with Oz law by taking Bitcoin gifts
World's richest hobo (Apple) has worked 'tax-free' in Ireland since '80s
A backdoor into Skype for the Feds? You're joking...
Budget could mean more paperwork for contractors
Cat ladies turned brand-squatters poke fun at religious right
TomTom brandishes new strap-on in Amsterdam: The wristnav
Java 8 release date slips again, now planned for 2014
Re: A struggling platform
It's not anything like Windows 8. Win 8 being a consumer platform (primarily), time to market is critical to get consumers interested. Java 8 holds nothing interesting for consumers. It's interesting for developers, who are hardly going to jump ship to something else because of a delay.
Tech is the biggest problem facing archiving
Yeah but...
Surely the frantic evolution in technology will slow down and stop sooner rather than later. As long as it is evolving, those upgrades bring benefits of much more data per tape, which presumably is worth the upgrade. But this can't go on forever. Will there really be 20 more generations of tape? Will there even be tape in 20 years? Who knows.
'Australia's so big freight costs are high' claims don't add up
Oz shop slaps browsers with $5 just looking fee
Lightspeed variable say intellectuels français
West Virginia seeks Google Glass driving ban
Ground control calling
Ground control calling the 20th century... people have been using GPS units for a long long time. And who is to say that Google Glass isn't a safer way to access GPS than something stuck to your windscreen? Certainly not this lunatic idiot politician who by his own admission never used Google glass. So because someone COULD watch a cat video, we are going to ban a technology that might actually IMPROVE safety? What a clown.
Sony: Can't beat Apple and Samsung, so let's be the Other Guy
Apple 'insider' explains why vid adapter hides ARM computer
Don't be silly
lightning is WAY better than micro-USB. A good connector OUGHT to be tight. And because of the nature of the uses put to it, often is the main thing holding devices into their cradles. And it works both orientations. Micro USB is extremely fiddly, hard to slot in, and has no holding power. As for speed, lightning is basically USB, so no pros or cons as far as that. Probably lightning will become USB3 at some point.
Yeah, micro-USB is a standard, it has that advantage. But even ignoring Apple's desire to keep it proprietary, its a way better connector for the situation.
Bill Gates: Windows Phone strategy was 'a mistake'
Re: Gates quote
None of these things in your list could, nor ever had a hope of moving the MS stock price up. Sure, MS can from time to time put out solid products. That's all they are: solid, not exciting, not life changing, not enough to make the needle move. If you want to be in charge of the (formerly) world's biggest consumer software company, making a new version of SQL server that doesn't blow up, really is not good enough.
Windows Phone 8 hasn't slowed Microsoft's mobile freefall
A new Mac Pro coming this spring? 'Mais oui!'
Boffins propose satnav tracking for 'KILLER KOALAS'
Netbooks were a GOOD thing and we threw them under a bus
'Gaia' Lovelock: Wind turbines 'may become like Easter Island statues'
Apple confirms 128GB iPad. A hundred bucks for an extra 64GB
Megaupload outed file-sharers to Feds months before Dotcom raid
Dotcom's Mega smacks back: Our crypto's not crap
Stupid critics
1. random() is sketchy IF YOU CAN GUESS THE STARTING SEED. But how would you be able to guess a number on someone else's computer, years after the fact?
2. I fail to see how deduplication is difficult, even accepting Mega doesn't know what the unencrypted data is. And I also fail to see how deduplication "leaks" information about the data.
3. They'll fix this. Not a biggy.
4. That's kinda the point. If Mega COULD restore your password, the critics really WOULD be up in arms!!!! Store your password somewhere else - somewhere it can be recovered if you're worried. 1Password on your iPhone perhaps? The choices are endless.