kumbasha
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12 years ago
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on: Don’t Blame Big Cable. It’s Local Governments That Choke Broadband Competition
How can you eliminate competition that does not exist? By definition, what the cable companies are doing now is eliminating competition, because there is none. Any change is an improvement.
kumbasha
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12 years ago
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on: FCC approves plan to consider paid priority on Internet
Google is generally capable of thinking long term. The major broadband providers in America are incapable of thinking beyond the next few quarterly statements--otherwise they would not have gotten themselves into this mess.
kumbasha
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12 years ago
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on: Stop the Slow Lane
You don't just let the Japanese get away with bombing Pearl Harbor, because that sends a message in and of itself.
kumbasha
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12 years ago
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on: Job hunting is a matter of Big Data, not how you perform at an interview
Oh, joy-a fully automated caste system.
kumbasha
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12 years ago
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on: Protecting Net Neutrality and the Open Internet
Please tell me exactly what the person streaming Netflix is taking away from the little old lady checking Facebook.
kumbasha
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12 years ago
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on: How to throttle the FCC to dial up modem speeds
As long as all actions are logged and reviewed by an independent ethics committee (with anonymized data if needed), I like it. It couldn't possibly be worse than the way we do things now.
kumbasha
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12 years ago
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on: How to throttle the FCC to dial up modem speeds
Ah, right, we wouldn't want Atlas to Shrug now would we.
kumbasha
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12 years ago
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on: How to throttle the FCC to dial up modem speeds
Come on, if Target can predict when a teenager is going to get pregnant, then we can easily keep track of politician's financial lives in however much detail we want. If you want to make a law that says no politician can exceed the median American salary per year, for their entire lives; we can do that. It's just that it won't happen as long as money=power=speech.
kumbasha
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12 years ago
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on: How to throttle the FCC to dial up modem speeds
Lots of executives around the world make huge profits for their companies and employees, without collecting multimillion dollar salaries for themselves. Since being a millionaire is empirically not required for CEOs, their multimillion dollar salaries could be better used elsewhere.
kumbasha
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12 years ago
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on: How to throttle the FCC to dial up modem speeds
I can't imagine the government needs anything more than HTML 1.0.
kumbasha
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12 years ago
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on: Programming Is a Dead End Job
It's true. Once an email hits a certain point where managers get CC'd--that's usually the point where creativity shuts down.
kumbasha
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12 years ago
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on: Programming Is a Dead End Job
Not useless, just not deserving of more pay than the engineers. Same goes for the executives.
kumbasha
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12 years ago
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on: Programming Is a Dead End Job
Then the samurai should behead the king and redistribute all of the fine luxuries that the samurai earned for the king to his samurai buddies. Then simply find a clerk to do the king's old job.
kumbasha
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12 years ago
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on: Programming Is a Dead End Job
On the other hand, without all of the actual programmers you would have no product and no profits at all. Neither group can function without the other, and pay should reflect that rather than the ridiculously unequal spread we just automatically accept as normal.
kumbasha
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12 years ago
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on: In Surveillance Debate, White House Turns Its Focus to Silicon Valley
How can you possibly believe that? The NSA will just go to the private company and subpeona all the data that it's illegal for them to collect. They can and have done this. Citizens need protection from private corporations just as much as they need protection from the government because there is no meaningful distinction anymore.
kumbasha
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12 years ago
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on: Why I won’t work for Google
Blame yourself? No, I'll blame the people who have more than 1/360,000,000th of a unit of political power in the country, i.e. the actual rich people and politicians who actually do these things that we hate. I will take 1/360,000,000th of the share of the blame, and nothing more.
kumbasha
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12 years ago
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on: Why I won’t work for Google
What about the fact that they colluded with Apple and other companies to keep their engineer salaries as low as possible?
kumbasha
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12 years ago
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on: Why I won’t work for Google
What agenda? Google sucks, NDAs suck, etc?
kumbasha
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12 years ago
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on: The Control Group Is Out of Control
After reading that article, I actually came away with a very positive view of the field of parapsychology in general. Of course psychics aren't real, but the Flying Spaghetti Monster can be used to make legitimate points about the study of religion, to use an analogy.
kumbasha
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12 years ago
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on: Sweden: The New Laboratory for a Six-Hour Work Day
My friend, if you do not consult the mystical Tomes of Economycs on Wikipedia, then the ghostly Vapours will consume you with the aspyct of Mercury.
