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Re:The Full Story of the FAA's Hiring Scandal on Wednesday February 05, 2025 @10:43AM (#42950119)
There's a simple fix to removing discrimination in hiring practices that no one seems to notice. Remove all demographic questions from the application. Hide the name and gender and attach a applicant ID. It's as easy as that. Every job should be looking for the most qualified individual regardless of race, nationality, religion, and sex. Demographics in the application are a recipe for disaster on both sides of the isle.
Re:Why Is Warner Brothers Discovery Dumping Old Movies on YouTube? on Wednesday February 05, 2025 @10:31AM (#42949892)
My guess would be offloading storage space while adding monetization revenue.
Re:App Should Have Been a Website (and Probably Your Game Too) on Tuesday December 31, 2024 @04:30PM (#42561985)
there's even a worse option that his article doesnt include. and thats apps that have limited functionality compared to the web app. My bank is one of them. Heres your account and here's your most recent bank statement. You want to see more bank statements or add/remove a auto bill or change your password, you need to go to the website for that. What the f** why do you even have an app?
Re:Microsoft Confirms Password Deletion for 1B Users on Tuesday December 17, 2024 @11:44AM (#42442850)
"Passwords are no longer safe, the future is passkeys. Thus you can log in with face, touch or a PIN"

PIN - a personal identification number (aka a password)

This is one of those times where there is usually an ulterior motive behind this decision. Most cases in the form of power and/or control.

You'd be surprised on how much government has their hands in US big tech companies.
from reading other comments apparently phone calls now generate json web tokens to be authenticated, but loses the jwt when switching over to tdm lines or coming from tdm. So why not just only allow authenticated calls from sip/voip lines to any destination and only allow calls from tdm to tdm. it would rid any unauthenticated sip/voip calls and not allow any spam coming from tdm lines to modern systems.
My job requires me to interact with HHS basically weekly and everyone I talk to has no idea what the heck is going on and constantly sends me over to someone who also knows nothing. And this department is the one who makes the rules for healthcare, scary I know. As for the ratio given you can see it in in the increase of federal workers over the years. Government is the only sector that didnt have a plateau effect with the birth of technology. Now the 5:1 ratio is completely arbitrary but the point still stands.
there's plenty of money there, US govt agencies are completely inept. They cant fire anyone so no one cares if they do their job well or not. You have 5 employees who do what 1 could do, and its always someone else's problem, so the the can is just kicked further down the road. If you think the govt needs more money i encourage to go work for them and see the waste and laziness yourself.
The real question, which is why these issues still persist, is why the heck are people answering AND responding to these robocallers. They're making money somehow or it wouldn't be lucrative to keep doing it.
Re:Hacker in Snowflake Extortions May Be a U.S. Soldier on Wednesday November 27, 2024 @09:37AM (#42256420)
yea but 2 years prior he used the handle cyberphantom. So the switch is most likely him trying to throw people off.
Re:Two Upstart Search Engines Are Teaming Up to Take on Google on Wednesday November 13, 2024 @11:29AM (#42127477)
thats usually the case with companies that spout stupid buzz words like this. You know whats not green? A data warehouse storing all those indexes, but that think they can gain followers with their buzz words.
I get that but thats from the corporatization of clinics. They push for numbers not client well being. They want doctors to meet with x amount of patients a day and doctors dont control their schedule. So typically the execs meet together and say if we schedule every 20 minutes instead of 30 minutes we can generate x amount of more dollars. Which is why doctors just get you in and out as fast as possible because its their head on the chopping block if they dont meet the measures. Best thing you can do is find smaller clinics, which are becoming increasingly rare because the cost it takes to run one.
Re:The EdTech Revolution Has Failed on Tuesday November 12, 2024 @11:04AM (#42116655)
The teachers, the tools, the curriculum are not the problem. The No Child Left Behind Act is the problem. When everyone passes regardless if they learned anything or not, literacy skills are going to go down. You used to stay in a grade until you passed that grades curriculum, now everyone gets a pass. There are no consequences, resulting in no incentive to learn. Repeating 8th grade while all your friends move to high school is a pretty good incentive to get your act together.
100% agree AI will ruin healthcare. I'm an IT director at a rural mental health clinic and I see the push for AI across my state and it's scary what they want. All i can do is push back. Healthcare is a case by case personal connection, something AI can't do. It only reduces humans down to numbers and operates on that. There is no difference between healthcare AI to a web scraper on webmd or mayo clinic.
well now your system doesn't do anything because its stuck in a forever loop checking the time. it's most likely programmed in C so you can remove the OOP as well.
this is what happens when you hire based on checked checkboxes and not qualifications.
It's racist to think blacks are incapable of getting an ID.
The CIA (disguised as Trump supporters to help invalidate half the country) implemented these tests? That's weird.