redspectre

I found your assessment out of context. The context of this article was essentially: "Should we force hackers to come work for us via selective service, even if they are older than the current cutoff age? Should we change the cutoff age to make this legal?"

Yes, the military might be doing "impressive" things with people who VOLUNTARILY join, but I can assure you, if you draft hackers to work for the military in the same way you draft truck drivers and infantryman back in the 60s, you will get few if any good hackers. I know exactly zero hackers who think joining the Marines is an appealing venture. That was the essence of my comment.

Nice try though, appreciate the propaganda about using 3D printers to waste less money killing people in other countries that never attacked us though. Thank god we are saving big money doing that.

These attacks are not interesting. They require superuser functionality. Can't believe this wasn't mentioned. If someone has superuser access on your database, it's game over.

The real solution is not to go around making DBAs' lives harder by disabling all this stuff. The real solution is to not give attackers on the internet superuser access on your database!!! Why is the database exposed to the public internet to begin with?

The problem is, USD is the only legal tender. When I sell Intel stock, that where I made profit in USD. I pay tax on that. But if I trade BTC for DOGE, I haven't made any money. All I have done is swap tokens. And just because someone would pay X dollars for tokens, doesn't mean I made any money.

I mean where does it end? If I tell you I'll pay you 10000 dollars for the pocket lint in your pocket, did you just make a gain of 10k? Do you now owe the IRS 10k? If you haven't actually made any legal tender, how can you be taxed on a trade at all? The value of something is completely relative, speculative, and ever-changing.

The military is the antithesis of hacking culture: - Play by the rules, even if they don't make sense, because I said so. - Listen to people above your paygrade, even if they are clueless, because that's the way we do things around here. - There's a simple rulebook and checklists to follow to complete your task, and if you don't follow the rules you get punished. - Low pay for extraordinary work. - Endless meetings and powerpoint slides.

I know a lot of security folk, and none of them like any of these things. I don't know a single one who would enjoy making 40k a year while shining their boots for some drill instructor.

What a total joke. You want to get good hackers? You gotta pay up and stay the out of their way. This is not a problem you can throw bodies at, and you can't coerce people to be good at hacking.

>But I don't and trying to remedy that is proving to be a huge uphill battle. I have six years of college. I worked at a Fortune 200 company at one time. I was one of the top students of my state.

You're right, none of this insulates you against poverty. The only thing that does that is creating value. You can be the most educated person on the planet, but if you don't actually make anything with all that education, you won't gain money. You're whining that no one has given you any money, even though you have all these credentials. Being educated or a good student != producing value. Sorry if someone misled you during your education.

Generally, airports are out of the way from the usual populations that commit these crimes and don't see a lot of traffic from them.

"... has challenged the widely-held assumption that diamond prices could only go up."

Did people really believe this? Sounds like these people are as delusional as cryptocurrency folks. No bubble lasts forever. When will people learn. Nothing can go up forever.

I don't understand how the stellar case and the bitcoin case differ in a network partition. You said "if Stellar fell apart and became partitioned, you would stay on DB's side."

How is that different from a network fork happening, and DB saying "We only accept tokens from ETH and not ETH classic".

At the end of the day, DB is deciding on a network partition to support, and you either support the network partition DB is supporting, or you don't do business with the DB tokens.

If you really need to collaborate on the same file, can't you just share a session in tmux?

There's no free lunch. You're paying for it.

Isn't it sad that we can't have an exciting new technology because the threat that some outsider will blow themselves up? Is there really nothing we can do about this, either now, or in the future?

I mentor plenty of people, women included, thank you very much. I am always willing to help.

What I am not willing to do is stick my and my families' neck on the line and take unnecessary career risks. I don't run in fear of women, I just take necessary precautions when dealing with a hazard.

I didn't create this environment where males, especially white middle-class males, are morally wrong for simply existing. And where any comment you say could be posted on twitter and you have a mob of people who say such nice things as "kill white people" are ready to harass you until you lose your job and everything you worked for. I am just reacting to it in a way that prevents me from falling victim to what I see as a threat to my career and protects my livelyhood and family.

Twenty years ago, I never felt like being alone with a woman in the office was a danger. Now, I feel like if I am not taking active measures, I could be crucified by HR, females, and the twitter / internet mob in the blink of an eye for simply making a comment that was taken the wrong way.

I'm a male at a tech company, and since the #METOO incident, I have taken defensive steps to ensure I am not embroiled in any career-ending accusations of sexual harassment.

I have: - avoided directly talking to female coworkers other than "hello, top of the morning to you"-style greetings, unless I am forced to during meetings. I do not want anything I say to be taken out of context, whether it be a joke, a comment, or a discussion. It may seem cold, but this is my career and livelyhood on the line. To me, having female friends at work is not worth the risk of potentially losing my career. - Never be caught alone with a female coworker unless the situation is being recorded, at least via audio. I record on my phone every conversation that is not exchanging pleasantries for my protection. My state is a one-party wiretapping law state, so I am covered legally. - If I am forced to be alone with a female coworker during business travel, I bring a handheld recorder with battery life measured in days and record every minute of our time together. - I do not offer help to female coworkers unless asked via chat or email.

These may seem like extreme measures, but even just the accusation of sexual harassment can cause the end of a career. I love my job too much to sacrifice it for the minor benefit of being friends with females at work.

I also find it interesting how I am supposed to be the one to #mentorher, when I am the only one set to lose anything in this exchange. I can lose my time, my job, or even my career in the blink of an eye. For what? So I can earn feel-good points from people who don't give a hoot about me and would surely mock me behind my back, were a female I was trying to mentor make a false accusation? Maybe I will have a brigade of people on social media release my private info to the internet, as has happened in some cases.

So no, Mrs. Sandberg, I will not #mentorher. I will not take all the risk for the marginal benefit of making female friends at work. It's just too dangerous of a position to take. As a non-rich white male, working in the tech industry, I can say I already feel hated for just existing. So honestly, just shove off, don't ask me to do any extra work while risking my career, and leave me alone to program in peace.