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by mentat 15y ago
Actually I'd say Steve Jobs was very empathetic in terms of his ability to see what regular people would want to use and what would be confusing to them. From what I read he chose not to use those skills with coworkers, employees, etc. None
842.
by mentat 15y ago
They have an iPhone app. If that can pull GPS coordinates then they can know where at least one person is.
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by mentat 15y ago
Easier meaning more simple not easier in terms of effort. Dealing with the complexities and ambiguities of human behavior is more difficult in terms of the processing, both mental and emotional, that must happen. It's easier to say "it's al
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by mentat 15y ago
The empathy necessary to imagine the state of mind of someone who has just lost someone that they looked up to is not really that deep. You're laying out a straw man here. I'm not saying that people are required to have empathy with everyon
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by mentat 15y ago
I wasn't making a judgment about the causes for the lack of empathy but rather what its effects tend to be. Someone who doesn't see people as people is capable of things that others are not. Some of those things are good, other are scary.
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by mentat 15y ago
It's easier to hold onto principles than to deal with people. If there's anything that makes "tech people" in general outcast it's that. Ironically there's also a tendency to reject other people who strongly hold on to opposing principles,
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by mentat 15y ago
In other words he doesn't feel empathy. Smart people tend to flip the bozo bit on the world. Put simply, that's very dangerous because when your principles are more important than anything else and when you can't see the pain you cause to o
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by mentat 15y ago
Very nice. I always forget to get the Google scale of these sorts of issues.
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by mentat 15y ago
It seems that the larger the company, the harder the expense report is to fill out. Given the amount of time people spend filling out expense reports you would think that companies would want them to be easier, but I suspect that if expense
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by mentat 15y ago
Because people disagree with whether your approach is acceptable in any case. It's not that hard to understand.
851.
by mentat 15y ago
No, it was just "plug and play" not auth necessary as far as I could extract from him. Plain "check box" encryption.
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by mentat 15y ago
So smart necessarily means socially incapable? Haven't we had enough of this generalization yet?
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by mentat 15y ago
Seriously? Have you ever worked on a PCIe bus device? They are hard to design, hard to test, and in general quite expensive. You're not going to build PCIe keyboards and mice that cost 10,000x COTS. That would at the very least cost someone
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by mentat 15y ago
The Social Engineering Toolkit's keyboard based malware deployment engine for Teensy could be repurposed for use on other USB devices.
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by mentat 15y ago
I was talking to a guy who makes "encrypted" USB drives at the NSA TCC recently. It sounded scarily hand wavy to me. I was asking, "but where is the key stored" and he tells me with a straight face, "right on the drive".
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by mentat 15y ago
The "problem" is that people want to actually get stuff done. Security vs. availability is always the conflict. Perhaps the USB is being used to bring in the latest maps, perhaps it's being used to bring in mission orders, who knows. Unless
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by mentat 15y ago
To "try them out" you have to teach them enough about your process and code base to be useful. That still can take significant amounts of time. The primary investment isn't money, it's time.
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by mentat 15y ago
That certainly seems to indicate willfulness to me. For judges, you can't take the law "too seriously".
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by mentat 15y ago
Yes, it would be good to have clarity on that. Though I remember reading in a different article that it was possible for a judge to call their own witness so perhaps the rules aren't the same as what courtroom drama shows.
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by mentat 15y ago
Training is expensive and time consuming for the team as a whole. "Trying someone out" is usually not efficient.
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by mentat 15y ago
I similar version to that would not show willfulness in infringement, just not active investigation of whether one was or not. The criticisms of the system would not in themselves create evidence of willfulness. Given I haven't read the CEO
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by mentat 15y ago
If that's all you got out of it, I suggest you reread. The CEO provided new evidence, which is indeed a valid input, that showed that future infringement would be willful. This is simple reasoning.
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by mentat 15y ago
The Scrolls game hasn't been release. You can't argue that it's been "successful" and that's why they're being sued.
864.
by mentat 15y ago
Doesn't seem to be appropriate to tie your post to a competitor's. All job posts should be top level.
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by mentat 15y ago
"for free at their library" really means paid for by a perhaps non-trivial portion of their tuition
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by mentat 15y ago
Google probably didn't do it for fun but rather because it was being exploited in the wild and they were unwilling to delay protection for their users. As a user I appreciate this. Adobe needs to get their patch cycle and updating to Google
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by mentat 15y ago
Thank you!
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by mentat 15y ago
What needs to go into trusted_keys?
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by mentat 15y ago
And the meme you're executing that all religions are merely about influence, what makes it different from his meme?
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by mentat 15y ago
I've had people refuse to recognize that I was a technology person if I was wearing a suit since "only business people wear suits." That could be a issue if your role is to be recognized as a technical expert by people who might not be. It

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