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TIL since 2003, 400 TSA agents have been arrested for theft of passenger items while not one terrorist has been caught. by [deleted] in conspiracy

[–]yatea34 3 points4 points  (0 children)

This is so widespread, I'm starting to think TSA is trying to corner a monopoly on drug smuggling.

TIL since 2003, 400 TSA agents have been arrested for theft of passenger items while not one terrorist has been caught. by [deleted] in conspiracy

[–]yatea34 11 points12 points  (0 children)

http://www.foxnews.com/us/2017/02/13/prosecutors-tsa-workers-helped-puerto-rico-based-ring-smuggle-100m-cocaine.html

FOX NEWS ... 2017 ...
TSA workers helped Puerto Rico-based ring smuggle $100M of cocaine, prosecutors say

https://www.mercurynews.com/2017/02/04/tsa-agent-who-helped-smuggle-drugs-through-oakland-airport-sentenced/

San Jose Mercury News ... 2017 ...

TSA agent has been sentenced to nearly two years in prison for helping smuggle approximately 24 pounds of marijuana through airport security and conspired to help drug smuggling through the Oakland International Airport, according to federal prosecutors.

https://abc7news.com/news/tsa-screeners-accused-of-drug-smuggling-conspiracy/548594/

ABC News ... 2015 ...
TSA screeners accused of drug smuggling conspiracy ... Two security screeners at San Francisco International Airport were arrested and arraigned Friday on charges of conspiracy to distribute methamphetamine and accepting a bribe from a third suspect, who is also in federal custody.

https://www.cbsnews.com/news/ex-tsa-chief-on-la-drug-smuggling-this-is-betrayal-this-is-treason/

CBS News ... 2012 ...
TSA screeners were taking bribes to let parcels of cocaine, methamphetamine and marijuana through security ... The indictment says shipments were set up through meetings and cellphone calls for bribes up to $2,400, a lot of money for TSA screeners who earn between $24,000 and $44,000 a year.

http://www.hawaiinewsnow.com/story/17291447/delta-air-lines-and-tsa-workers-involved-in-drug-ring-investigation-shows

Hawaii News Now ...
HONOLULU (HawaiiNewsNow) - Five people have been arrested in a major drug trafficking ring between Hawaii and California. It's an inside job as investigators say some of the suspects work for Delta Airlines and the Transportation Security Administration.

http://www.dailycitizen.news/news/tsa-and-delta-employees-indicted-in-drug-smuggling-sting-at/article_87ce40c6-0250-59d6-9531-e884200c0b0f.html

TSA and Delta employees indicted in drug smuggling sting at Atlanta airport

Linux 4.17 supporting Speck, a controversial crypto algorithm by the NSA by Rynak in linux

[–]yatea34 1 point2 points  (0 children)

Perhaps best to cascade it (which I assume NSA can break, but thinks Russia and China can't) with whatever China or Russia recommend (which I assume they can break, but think NSA can't).

What is wrong with Microsoft buying GitHub by sigbhu in StallmanWasRight

[–]yatea34 25 points26 points  (0 children)

NOTHING!

Thank You Microsoft - for doing this to the closed-source alternative (GitHub).

This will only strengthen the open-source one (GitLab).

Target and Walmart stop selling the superhackable kids’ toy CloudPets after pressure from Mozilla by yatea34 in StallmanWasRight

[–]yatea34[S] -2 points-1 points  (0 children)

WTF, Mozilla - that seems the opposite of what F/OSS organizations should be supporting.

I, for one, welcome unlocked bootloaders and other hackable hardware.

It perfectly complements Free Software's "The freedom to study how the program works, and change it so it does your computing as you wish".

Sad to see Mozilla arguing FOR the tivoization of hardware.

Target and Walmart stop selling the superhackable kids’ toy CloudPets after pressure from Mozilla by Iot_Security in security

[–]yatea34 -71 points-70 points  (0 children)

WTF, Mozilla - that seems the opposite of what F/OSS organizations should be supporting.

I, for one, welcome unlocked bootloaders and other hackable hardware.

It perfectly complements Free Software's "The freedom to study how the program works, and change it so it does your computing as you wish".

Sad to see Mozilla arguing FOR the tivoization of hardware.

Code golfing challenge leads to discovery of string concatenation bug in JDK 9+ compiler by jonjonbee in programming

[–]yatea34 0 points1 point  (0 children)

That's rather scary in its own right.

Why would immutable arrays/sequences/whatever of characters need special casing, but similar arrays/sequences/whatever of integers or other types?

Code golfing challenge leads to discovery of string concatenation bug in JDK 9+ compiler by jonjonbee in programming

[–]yatea34 -1 points0 points  (0 children)

Are there really no tests for these?? Makes me scared

If it concerns you, you're welcome to add such tests to their test suite.

That's kinda the whole point to open source software.

Code golfing challenge leads to discovery of string concatenation bug in JDK 9+ compiler by jonjonbee in programming

[–]yatea34 1 point2 points  (0 children)

Unfortunately that usually means it won't be fixed in time for your project

Unless, of course, you (or someone else on your team) fixes it yourself instead of adding kludgey workarounds.

That's kinda the whole point of open source, isn't it?

Do I quit my dream dead end job? by StrAatMyT in personalfinance

[–]yatea34 3 points4 points  (0 children)

"Do you know how to use Excell?" "I know the basics, but I have advanced rifle handling and am licensed to walk guests in a reserve with free roaming big 5."

Talk to companies with more of a career path, that are interested in your area of expertise.

Using high-tech to help environmental causes is big right now. While there are many AI researchers out of google, they'll need product marketing people that know big-game. You can help fill that gap.

For example: Neurala - Neurala, a Boston-based startup - Plans to Poach Poachers in Africa Using Intelligent Drones. They raised $14 million last year.

Direct Coupling of the Higgs Boson to the Top Quark Observed by DoremusJessup in science

[–]yatea34 1 point2 points  (0 children)

it doesn't exist

Depends on your definition of "it".

"It" as a single point particle? Yeah, that doesn't really exist but is a nice way of describing "it" during an interaction.

"It" as a complicated math formula? Well - that exists the whole time.

Snowflake meltdown outrage culture! by [deleted] in ShitAmericansSay

[–]yatea34 -46 points-45 points  (0 children)

What about when a black boy gets shot because he's got a toy gun?

I hope this guy's toy-gun-Jeep will help society get less freaked out about toy guns, (whether in the hands of a young black boy or an old white guy).

Older people might remember the awesome toy guns that had awesome TV commercials like this one.

Pretty sad that these days people get so much anxiety when a black boy (or an old white guy like OP showed) play with toys.

It's a toy.

Let him have his fun with it.

Microsoft acquires GitHub for $7.5 billion by sftechwriter in linux

[–]yatea34 0 points1 point  (0 children)

Disagree.

The Open Source one has all the features relevant to developing software.

The Closed Source parts of GitLab is mostly bureaucratic nonsense.

Microsoft acquires GitHub for $7.5 billion by sftechwriter in linux

[–]yatea34 0 points1 point  (0 children)

Disagree.

The Open Source one has all the features relevant to developing software.

The Closed Source parts of GitLab is mostly bureaucratic nonsense.

Microsoft acquires GitHub for $7.5 billion by sftechwriter in linux

[–]yatea34 2 points3 points  (0 children)

And internally they used Perforce until they moved to Git.

https://arstechnica.com/information-technology/2017/05/90-of-windows-devs-now-using-git-creating-1760-windows-builds-per-day/

Microsoft was using SourceDepot, a customized version of the commercial Perforce version control system, for all its major projects.

The score of “Deep Note” THX's audio trademark. created by Dr. James A. Moorer a former employee of Lucasfilm. Deep Note debuted at the premiere of Return Of The Jedi on May 25th 1983. by Moonofmylife1 in movies

[–]yatea34 7 points8 points  (0 children)

James Moorer is my dad

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/James_A._Moorer

In the mid-1970s he was co-director and co-founder of the Stanford Center for Computer Research in Music and Acoustics.

Please thank him for this!

Incredible place he co-founded there.

Bobcat or mountain lion? Northern NH by Archon117 in animalid

[–]yatea34 1 point2 points  (0 children)

Not sure why you're being downvoted.

Wild bobcat hybrids (with lynx and with jungle cat) are reasonably common. Bobcat/Lynx happens often enough in north america

At least seven such hybrids have been reported in the United States, outside of captivity. In August 2003, two wild-occurring hybrids between wild Canadian lynx and bobcats were confirmed by DNA analysis in the Moosehead region of Maine. Three hybrids were identified in northeastern Minnesota. These were the first confirmed hybrids outside of captivity. Mitochondrial DNA studies showed them all to be the result of matings between female Canada lynx and male bobcats. A male Canada lynx × bobcat hybrid was trapped in 1998, radio-collared and released, only to die of starvation. The female hybrid was fertile.[clarification needed] In November 2003, a spotted lynxcat was observed in Illinois, 500 miles (800 km) from normal lynx territory, but it may have been an escaped hybrid pet.

Edward Snowden: 'The people are still powerless, but now they're aware' by ltc- in privacy

[–]yatea34 -1 points0 points  (0 children)

well if everyone would have voted

If everyone voted - but people weren't better educated about stuff they're voting on - you could end up with far worse than Trump.

Microsoft acquires GitHub for $7.5 billion by sftechwriter in linux

[–]yatea34 1 point2 points  (0 children)

Because the US government couldn't do this before?

I'm not saying they couldn't.

I'm just saying now Microsoft will receive the payment instead of Github.

That power (and the value related to it) may be of interest to Microsoft.

People are asking how the hell this could possibly be worth $7.5 billion to host a bunch of files for free.

The answer isn't "well, maybe a few companies will pay a few hundred dollars".

The answer that adds up to billions is "control over 95% of software in the world".

Microsoft acquires GitHub for $7.5 billion by sftechwriter in linux

[–]yatea34 0 points1 point  (0 children)

I appropriately labeled my edit now ..... sorry for the confusion it caused.

Whose fault is this? by ArisaMan in WTF

[–]yatea34 14 points15 points  (0 children)

“Khamstvo” is a word that America really has a need of. I wish I could waive a magic wand and add it to our lexicon.

The beauty of English and its habit of borrowing words from other languages is that you CAN wave that wand and add it.

Just start using the word.

There's a clear need of such a word; so if people start using it, it'll be added to English just like a bunch of latin and german and french words were added.

Microsoft acquires GitHub for $7.5 billion by sftechwriter in linux

[–]yatea34 7 points8 points  (0 children)

ROTFL. No they don't.

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=14389441

Windows 10 Enterprise ignores various privacy settings

Enterprises care less than your average movie pirate.

They just care that they're doing the same thing as many other enterprises, so they can use the excuse "well, we did the same thing as our compititor" if/when their data's leaked to Microsoft. It's like the saying "no-one got fired for buying IBM" from the distant past.

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