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Comment Re:Not suprising (Score 1) 138

We're in an age where social media is the norm, and schools are still grappling with the idea that cyber bullying on social media is a school phenomenon but does not actually occur on campus. From a policy perspective most schools are used to the idea of managing the physical space of the school and the community of children there, but has no idea how to handle cyber bullying despite a reported 21.6% of high schoolers face cyber bullying from their peers, much of it happening on campus and off.

Do you really want schools to be policing your children's Internet use off campus?

Comment Re:So... (Score 1) 214

How many rights do you really think minors should have?

This isn't about minors' rights. This is about the rights of any individual of any age who wishes to participate in online discussions without revealing their real name. There are many legitimate reasons for this: LGTBQ+ people who want support but aren't out of the closet yet, drug addicts seeking advice on how to find treatment, whistleblowers who are afraid of repercussions at their place of employment, people discussing political or religious views that might be unpopular or politically incorrect, etc. The list goes on and on. In today's cancel culture, the right to anonymous speech is more important than ever.

Comment Re:Computer programming is not for everyone (Score 1) 159

How many of us get past being able to play Itsy Bitsy Spider on the piano to playing Mozart's 5th by memory?

Mozart's 5th? His 5th what? Symphony? If so, that is a very early work no one knows and would not be played on a piano or any other single instrument anyway. Could you be talking about Beethoven's 5th Symphony? That is indeed a masterpiece for full orchestra.

Comment Re:Let me get this straight. (Score 1) 149

No, not the reason. Apple is pulling out because they don't want to comply with the law that forbids anti-competitive behavior. Ie, the law requires interoperability, and Apple does not want that. This is not a money extraction from the EU, instead, unlike the USA, EU wants competition, and EU wants corporations to serve the public instead of vice versa.

By your logic, if I choose not to drive my car cause I don't want to comply with traffic laws, I should be fined. Yeah, that makes sense!

Comment Cliff Stoll is a fascinating guy. (Score 4, Interesting) 47

Many have correctly pointed out that Klein bottles are nothing new and glass blowers have been making them for some time. The headline is therefore misleading. Also, these aren't even real Klein bottles as a true Klein bottle can't exist in a three dimensional space.

All that being said, don't blame Cliff for the misleading headline. He didn't post it. He is, in fact, a really interesting guy. He's a frequent contributor to the Numberphile channel on YouTube and his videos are always interesting to watch. He's a real engineering nerd and in one video he shows how he stores all his Klein bottles in a crawlspace under his house and he built a robot that can drive around in said space to store and fetch these bottles. You should really check out some of his videos: he's a really entertaining and informative guy.

Comment Re: Pre-crime division goes to Canada (Score 1) 200

This one?

https://ancillary-proxy.atarimworker.io?url=https%3A%2F%2Fbc.ctvnews.ca%2Fb-c-dad-...

As the article notes, it wasn't misgendering he was locked up for. It was the fact that the court issued and order for him to stop publishing the child's medical history, and he then went on YouTube and not only revealed it, but spoke openly about how there was a court order in place and he knew he was breaking it.

Contempt of court is pretty serious, and if you disagree with the order you challenge it through the legal system, not on YouTube.

I saw many of the Youtube videos in question. He did not publish his child's medical history nor did he even mention his child's name. His purpose was mainly to describe the dystopian legal process he and his family had been put through. The court did order that he not do so and that he was not allowed to use his own name. I do think that one in general should obey court orders, but when a court imposes extreme and draconian restrictions on someone and then orders that person not to even discuss such draconian restrictions then the court has crossed the line from being a guardian of justice to being an instrument of a totalitarian state. This man was engaging in civil disobedience to shed some light on this frightening and dystopian system in order to spark some public debate. He is a hero in my opinion, but yours might differ. I do suggest you watch some of these videos and make up your own mind.

Comment Re:I really want to support Boeing but (Score 1) 64

It seems like they’re just plain getting sloppy. Which is fine if you’re manufacturing toilet paper or mousepads. It’s a slightly bigger issue if you’re making, oh, say, commercial jets.

No I would not say it's fine if you're manufacturing toilet paper, but I take your general point.

Comment Re:Who wrote this tripe? Were they a teenager in ' (Score 1) 69

It's the year 1991. You're a teenage computer geek.

You've just upgraded to an Apple IIgs,

Weird: it was released in 1986 and discontinued in 1992. Thatâ(TM)s a teenage geek pretty late to the game. As I remember it, the Commodore Amiga or Atari ST were considered much better value by us teenagers at the tlme, than a PC or Apple. Especially the Amiga, which had the best games as well as other audio and graphical software.

Yeah. I remember getting a 486 in 1991 and that was a 32 bit machine.

Comment Re:That will work (Score 1) 79

A VPN has nothing to do with this. E2EE protects the path from sender to recipient, disallowing access to the mediator service. Without E2EE you still have client to server encryption with or without a VPN.

I think the purpose in using a VPN here is to change your perceived location. As this law applies only in Nevada, young people in Nevada can use a VPN to mask their location and not face the E2EE age restrictions.

Comment Re:Why not use digital signatures? (Score 1) 108

All GPS receivers do is measure the time of flight of signals they receive.

That's what current GPS receivers do. I'm suggesting that those in mission critical applications have anti-spoofing checks built in. They would look for synchronization errors between their internal clock (which would be set when synced on a true signal, as I mentioned) and those coming from the GPS signal. If someone attempted to replay a true signal at a later time, they clocks would not sync up and the unit would know the signal was spoofed. Digital signatures could prevent altering the time or spatial data to fool receivers.

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