theWatcher37

But maybe death is preferable to living with your anime collection out there.

Reddit also has some absolutely fascist mods. For example, it's well-known that if you post anything that is against illegal immigration (and it gets too many upvotes!) /r/worldnews mods will go through and ban you after the thread dies down.

I was once banned there 48h after a polite discussion on the economic costs (citing various sources) for "hate speech". I got too many upvotes so it was noticed. Appealing to a mod resulted in him "examining my posts on other subs, and given who you voted for the ban will be permanent".

Actual hate speech is one thing, but far-left mods of major subs are using the banner of hate speech to silence well-informed opposing views.

This study is hilariously flawed, because most users made Alts for these subs.

There are entire communities on Reddit which pride themselves in only posting to their "bad" sub on accounts strictly for that purpose.

I can use the incorrect finger under duress and lock the device out.

I can't change my face. Faces are not passwords.

FaceID sounds like a security nightmare. I still can't believe they opted to totally remove the fingerprint sensor.

Does this apply to twitters full-page sign up pop up?

So what does that say about the wisdom of port scanning a machine your life is currently depending on?

Then the government should do its freaking job and host a trial. This isn't a game.

Here's a twist:

By making what you made, you've made it possible for LEA to categorize and fingerprint malware/open source anonymous software etc etc.

This will go unnoticed for many years, until the first big player gets busted by it (publically, because many more were busted before in secret).

Once that happens, it will become the standard practice to fuzz your source code with random methods to obscure the author.

In a sense, someone will have to make something that turns "regular" code into unreadable gibberish before compiling... because of what you wrote

HRC is the farthest from an engineer you will ever see. I'm not sure how anyone with a professional background in engineering could suggest this.

I'll take a stab at it.

Internet search has evolved past that of a free market entity; search is now a public utility as much as power and water.

You can't imagine a neighborhood without power and water. You can't imagine the internet without search. Google today is like the AT&T of old. When we bust it up the goal should be power-utility-like entities (bland, unbiased, purely functional entities with mostly technical oversight and immunity from liability)

Damn straight. Their DNS is yet another ingress point for their spyware empire.

The only ethical thing to do is technically (and morally) divest from google infrastructure.

Ok? And there's "a lot" of people in wheelchairs who mountainclimb... from the perspective of the 5 people who do.

It's immature word games at best, and insecure egoism at worst, to act this way in the face of overwhelming rhetorical truth. The vast majority of "old" people had zero use for the tech as we know it in their daily lives for most of their lives. As such, most of them have no idea what is going on.

This is common sense, well understood fact.

Surely you realize you're the exception, not the rule.

Well, I always wanted to be famous!

1. Create culture where anyone who steps outside the political or moral norm is fired/career limited.

2. Sneer about no "professional sources" for positions, since few people value ideas over employment/tenure. Only people with nothing to lose publically air those opinions, those with things to lose keep them to themselves.

3. Imply that anyone who thinks in the non-approved way must be like those people/undesirables with nothing to lose, despite the silent ones having a lot to lose.

You can say this is all tinfoil, but my engineering ethics professor told the entire class he's had to make choices between "speaking truth to power" and his career and that in the interest of full disclosure he chose his career + funding. 250+ people in that room at the time.

For every time people pat themselves on the back about getting some nazi fired, consider there's others where the mob gets it wrong (see: Reddit and the Boston bombers).

This stuff is dangerous.

This type of behavior + AMP has pushed me off google completely.

I'm determined to cut them out of my technical life entirely, I've even switched myself and everyone I know/support off their DNS.

I can't support their shady practices anymore.

What's morally reprehensible is that you think you have any right, or beyond that an obligation, to steer technology in such a way as to control others in accordance with your pseudo-moral code.

Someone took DARE a little too seriously huh?

What an extremely hostile and accusatory post. Mods, is this the kind of behavior we want here?

I have less free time than most here and somehow I find a way.

"Maintaining" a PC is super easy...

I always see comparisons for gas consumption vs construction of electric vehicles but they never include the CO2 emissions related to producing ICEs and transmissions.

VP Biden said Romney would put the black community back in chains.

Romeney had the intimidation factor of a house plant.

This is a rediculous assertion

Who's "we"? I see plenty of people blaming capitalism, especially on left leaning hubs like Reddit. Pretty much anytime there's a major corporate scandal criticism of capitalism is towards the top.

Which is fine, at least under capitalism you're allowed to criticize it.

Ah, the no-true-socialist fallacy.

You can't just say their political system wasn't responsible for this, especially when it's how these types of governments always end up.

My apologies, I mean that yes their press is non-existent but they're printing money, 2 of which with zero fundraising and 1 who recently passed $1 mil on only $100k investment. They're doing great, GT has several major incubators competing with each other over all the companies being formed by GT's (seemingly recent) push towards startup culture.

I can assure you there are plenty of engineers making north of $100k in midtown

Atlanta has GT though, which is exploding with both startups and major players investing in on-sight "innovation-centric" locations.

That, and there's some really cool startups in stealth mode I've yet to see mentioned here, some breaking $10m in revenue and others getting funded left and right.

Atlanta is on the rise.