"There is no mention in there of him losing any data either (or having even checked to see if any data was lost)"
"The upgrade deleted the cached, or backup, version of Windows 7."
That is his (previous) operating system. He should not have any of his own personal data in the operating system itself. Yeah, he paid for it and should be able to get it back but it's still just his previous OS. Did he lose his tax information, his email, his contacts, or anything else that was his own? There is no shortage of people selling new licenses for Windows 7 on ebay (and many other places), he can replace it if he wants. Did he have data on there though that he forgot to back up that he can no longer get to?
Even if the system is completely bricked that doesn't mean that the files on the HD cannot be accessed.
$600 million is a little high, but doesn't seem like an unreasonable starting point for punitive awards against a company the size of Microsoft.
Are you suggesting then that this is an OK award to pursue against a large company, but not against a small one? What if the product had been BeOS? Or Duke Nukem Forever? Or Big Rigs Over the Road Racing? Those companies are much smaller (or extinct). The award that the plaintiff seeks should have some sort of reflection on the actual damages. If the laptop had burst into flames and burned down his house, I could see a settlement of a few million for the house and all its contents (though proving it to be linked to the OS update would be a challenge at the very least), or more if there were lives lost. There hasn't even been a claim of lost data yet.
The angry plaintiff wants a judge to force Microsoft to comply with his request in 30 days or pay up $600 million in damagesâ" albeit the judge may interpret the damages as $6 billion due to a redaction error, as the complaint reads "$6,000,000,000.00 (six hundred million dollars)."
I'd love to know how he came up with either of those numbers as being somehow reasonable. I'm not inclined to defend Microsoft in any situation, but that's a lot of money for a laptop that was bricked by an OS upgrade. There is no mention in there of him losing any data either (or having even checked to see if any data was lost). Yeah it's a massive inconvenience but I have never met anyone who uses an ASUS laptop who will do $600,000,000 worth of work in their lifetimes.
The summary suggests people are also walking into glass that is inside the building (not just the window panes). There are times however when floor-to-ceiling glass inside a building can be very hard to see, especially if the framing of it was intentionally hidden to prevent it from detracting from the ambiance. I've seen people who were not distracted by anything walk right into glass of that sort simply because they didn't know it was there.
himself couldn't turn a profit on Atlantic City casinos, so surely it would be impossible for Atari geniuses to do it, right?
And yes I know this comment will be moderated down into oblivion for daring to call out the failure in chief (and being slightly off topic). Go ahead, bring it.
Indeed they do but the Ubuntu folks decide which version of CUPS to ship with a given version of Ubuntu. Some versions work better than others (obviously); they happened to choose poorly this time. Hopefully 18.04 ships with a CUPS version that is better tested for Ubuntu.
I've been waiting for the next LTS release (which should be 18.04) before upgrading from 16.04. Unfortunately there is a bug in CUPS in the 16.04 LTS release that nobody cares about that causes CUPS to randomly die without warning or logging. I resolved this by having cron restart it every 5 minutes, but that is a bit sub-optimal.
The content doesn't matter. It's the funding source. They'll tag the government as propaganda, but not the advertisers
If that's the case then why is media that is funded by the government "propaganda" but other things funded by the government not? Are roads not propaganda in the same way? How about National Parks? Or the military? How about public libraries?
I've seen more politics on HGTV than I have seen on PBS. It's rather preposterous to claim that PBS is pushing some sort of political agenda. Their news coverage is arguably the least politically biased of any network that you can watch in the US.
If your business is so great and so critical to society then why can't it handle paying the taxes that help bring customers to it? You're located on a road that is maintained by the state, are you not? You located your business where you can access skilled workers who were educated by the state, did you not? You're taking advantage of utilities and infrastructure that are maintained and regulated for safety by the government, are you not?
If none of that matters, I'm quite sure there are no laws preventing you from packing up your business and moving it to a libertarian paradise like Somalia or Afghanistan and attempting to run it there. Feel free to tap into their labor markets instead. If you're product is so awesome you should still be able to sell it back here from there without a problem, and you can then enjoy the benefits of your relocation.
First, they've been following Microsoft in playing hide-and-seek with "Fill... Right" in the spreadsheet application. It used to be in the edit menu, then it moved to the insert menu, now it's buried deeply in the data menu. I can do Ctrl-D for "Fill... Down" but Crtl-R is already mapped to something else. My fingers want to just do Alt-E, I, R, but that doesn't work any more.
Second, I really really wish they would abandon the ribbon-like interface. It's a fucking travesty and possibly a crime against humanity. Just let me see my fucking menus the way they are supposed to be shown instead of making them go away and reappear when they think I need them.
The majority of the health insurance companies in the country are led by CEOs who are either billionaires on their own or will be by the time they cash in their retirements. Many of them decline $30B worth of claims - or tell providers to eat $30B worth of billable service - in a week without thinking twice about it.
On top of that, the health insurance industry bought Washington DC years ago. They got most of their ROI in the form of the ACA back when Obama was president; they know where to turn if they need another bailout.
You have that exactly backwards. The alphagram theory is very hard to disprove - even if it is also very hard to prove. There is no shortage of ways that one can redefine the concepts of "letters" and "words" to make them fit into the alphagram and to account for variations in it. Does our concept of a "letter" even mean much when we look at the script of the Voynich Manuscript? How do we define a "letter" for it, and how do we associate that concept of a letter with a "letter" in Hebrew of the time (and for that matter how do we decide on how to define Hebrew for the time when we're not exactly sure how old it is)?
In other words they've come up with a great moving target for themselves here.
... is that people who are procuring illegal (in particular, kiddie) porn could then hide behind the response of "I thought it was fake". If it went the other way though and actually destroyed the child and exploitative porn market then it would be mostly for the better.
The fact that it is still called "vaping" by people who should know better (ie, anyone over the age of 16) doesn't help either. The alternate name helps to perpetuate the mythology of it somehow being safe, or safer than smoking. Call a spade a spade, and call electronic smoking smoking. More so, call electronic smoking unsafe.
Why would they be sold if they didn't offer a chance of addiction? Otherwise the kids who buy them would try them once, realize it is a colossal waste of money, and then go back to smoking regular weed like the rest of us. The market is taking advantage of the fact that there are almost zero regulations pertaining to them right now and flooding every head shop and gas station with all kinds of random crap sold under all kinds of illogical names and claims.
Maybe he's counting the extra height of his hairpiece?
I think it's more likely that the nurses are allowing him to self-report his height and he is telling them how tall he wants to be perceived to be (with his elevator shoes on, of course). He's a moron, but he does likely know that taller men are often perceived to be better looking, more successful, more intelligent, and more aggressive - all traits that he wants to be associated with.
Except he is not 6'3". He admitted to being 6'2" 6 years ago when he was 65 years old. If he grew an inch since then, he has a serious underlying health problem that all his doctors have missed. If we look a pictures of him standing next to Obama - who is an honest 6'1" - there is not a single picture where Trump appears to be in any way taller than Obama.
This puts Trump squarely into the category of obesity. And it also means he has repeatedly and knowingly provided the nation with inaccurate information when sworn to provide honest and accurate information.
I feel bad for the people who were impacted by his choice to end his own life. I feel bad for him for having not sought out or found the mental health support that he needed. I don't feel bad for him for having made such an idiotic choice of method for getting the papers out to the public. If he'd have stayed at his desk instead of breaking into the library closet the papers would have still gotten out, he could have still made his point, he'd still be alive, and we wouldn't be having this discussion.
Swartz's ideals were right but his methods were pure idiocy. He could have downloaded all those papers at his desk and released them and he would not have faced anywhere near as much trouble. Instead he entered a wiring closet at the university library without permission and did his downloads there. Being as his office was already on the school's wired network it is unlikely he would have obtained the papers much slower from his office than from the wiring closet that he unlawfully entered.
He then made himself into a martyr by taking the coward's way out of the charges that were being brought against him.
The real lesson we should learn here is to watch out for signs of mental health disorders in those close to us. Afterwards people came forward and expressed concerns they had for him, though there was no record of him having sought treatment in his final months. It's a shame that he took his own life, but we really should take a look at the entirety of what he did to get himself into trouble (rather than cherry-picking it like some want us to) before we celebrate him.
I really thought we were done mourning and worshiping that kid. More likely than not we will find that their two deaths are not connected.
More so, Swartz is not worthy of being idolized and worshiped the way he is here and so many other places. His ideals were good but his methods were fucking stupid. He intentionally made a really stupid decision - when he literally had a safer option sitting on his own desk - for what reason? Charges were being brought against him because he physically broke in to a wiring closet that he had no business going in to. Had he instead been reasonably intelligent in his methods there would be almost no chance of charges ever having been brought against him; people share copyrighted articles online all the time.
As for Swartz's death? He took his own life. He wasn't pushed out a window or given poison by the government. He couldn't handle the stress that he brought upon himself, and there is reason to believe he had an underlying undiagnosed mental health issue as well. It's a shame that he took the coward's way but that was his own choice. Again, he deserves exactly zero praise for this.
UAW ring any bells? No jobs are endangered here...
The early 1980s called. They would like you to know they ended over 30 years ago. The UAW hasn't had much clout since then.
Besides, if the UAW is so evil and so influential at Ford then how do you explain that they are the only one of the big three that required zero government assistance to stay afloat recently?
I am not a facebook expert but I hear them talking up their API all the time. Would it be possible to write an app under that structure that could accomplish this? The summary mentioned the existence of a third party app to do it with Twitter (which is obviously a completely separate system).
I see a deluge of script kiddies try to ssh in to my home web server from time to time. It is easy enough for morons to do that, why would they bother with trying to get in through an actual web interface when the tools already exist for them to automate ssh attempts? I can also tell you that the data supports them not paying any attention whatsoever to the messages they get when they fail at this, so if they are going to go to the trouble of failing at web logins why would they care what messages they see there?
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"There is no mention in there of him losing any data either (or having even checked to see if any data was lost)"
"The upgrade deleted the cached, or backup, version of Windows 7."
That is his (previous) operating system. He should not have any of his own personal data in the operating system itself. Yeah, he paid for it and should be able to get it back but it's still just his previous OS. Did he lose his tax information, his email, his contacts, or anything else that was his own? There is no shortage of people selling new licenses for Windows 7 on ebay (and many other places), he can replace it if he wants. Did he have data on there though that he forgot to back up that he can no longer get to?
Even if the system is completely bricked that doesn't mean that the files on the HD cannot be accessed.
$600 million is a little high, but doesn't seem like an unreasonable starting point for punitive awards against a company the size of Microsoft.
Are you suggesting then that this is an OK award to pursue against a large company, but not against a small one? What if the product had been BeOS? Or Duke Nukem Forever? Or Big Rigs Over the Road Racing? Those companies are much smaller (or extinct). The award that the plaintiff seeks should have some sort of reflection on the actual damages. If the laptop had burst into flames and burned down his house, I could see a settlement of a few million for the house and all its contents (though proving it to be linked to the OS update would be a challenge at the very least), or more if there were lives lost. There hasn't even been a claim of lost data yet.
The angry plaintiff wants a judge to force Microsoft to comply with his request in 30 days or pay up $600 million in damagesâ" albeit the judge may interpret the damages as $6 billion due to a redaction error, as the complaint reads "$6,000,000,000.00 (six hundred million dollars)."
I'd love to know how he came up with either of those numbers as being somehow reasonable. I'm not inclined to defend Microsoft in any situation, but that's a lot of money for a laptop that was bricked by an OS upgrade. There is no mention in there of him losing any data either (or having even checked to see if any data was lost). Yeah it's a massive inconvenience but I have never met anyone who uses an ASUS laptop who will do $600,000,000 worth of work in their lifetimes.
The summary suggests people are also walking into glass that is inside the building (not just the window panes). There are times however when floor-to-ceiling glass inside a building can be very hard to see, especially if the framing of it was intentionally hidden to prevent it from detracting from the ambiance. I've seen people who were not distracted by anything walk right into glass of that sort simply because they didn't know it was there.
like, super-stable genius
himself couldn't turn a profit on Atlantic City casinos, so surely it would be impossible for Atari geniuses to do it, right?
And yes I know this comment will be moderated down into oblivion for daring to call out the failure in chief (and being slightly off topic). Go ahead, bring it.
Complain to Apple who owns CUPS
Indeed they do but the Ubuntu folks decide which version of CUPS to ship with a given version of Ubuntu. Some versions work better than others (obviously); they happened to choose poorly this time. Hopefully 18.04 ships with a CUPS version that is better tested for Ubuntu.
I've been waiting for the next LTS release (which should be 18.04) before upgrading from 16.04. Unfortunately there is a bug in CUPS in the 16.04 LTS release that nobody cares about that causes CUPS to randomly die without warning or logging. I resolved this by having cron restart it every 5 minutes, but that is a bit sub-optimal.
The content doesn't matter. It's the funding source. They'll tag the government as propaganda, but not the advertisers
If that's the case then why is media that is funded by the government "propaganda" but other things funded by the government not? Are roads not propaganda in the same way? How about National Parks? Or the military? How about public libraries?
I've seen more politics on HGTV than I have seen on PBS. It's rather preposterous to claim that PBS is pushing some sort of political agenda. Their news coverage is arguably the least politically biased of any network that you can watch in the US.
If your business is so great and so critical to society then why can't it handle paying the taxes that help bring customers to it? You're located on a road that is maintained by the state, are you not? You located your business where you can access skilled workers who were educated by the state, did you not? You're taking advantage of utilities and infrastructure that are maintained and regulated for safety by the government, are you not?
If none of that matters, I'm quite sure there are no laws preventing you from packing up your business and moving it to a libertarian paradise like Somalia or Afghanistan and attempting to run it there. Feel free to tap into their labor markets instead. If you're product is so awesome you should still be able to sell it back here from there without a problem, and you can then enjoy the benefits of your relocation.
First, they've been following Microsoft in playing hide-and-seek with "Fill ... Right" in the spreadsheet application. It used to be in the edit menu, then it moved to the insert menu, now it's buried deeply in the data menu. I can do Ctrl-D for "Fill ... Down" but Crtl-R is already mapped to something else. My fingers want to just do Alt-E, I, R, but that doesn't work any more.
Second, I really really wish they would abandon the ribbon-like interface. It's a fucking travesty and possibly a crime against humanity. Just let me see my fucking menus the way they are supposed to be shown instead of making them go away and reappear when they think I need them.
The majority of the health insurance companies in the country are led by CEOs who are either billionaires on their own or will be by the time they cash in their retirements. Many of them decline $30B worth of claims - or tell providers to eat $30B worth of billable service - in a week without thinking twice about it.
On top of that, the health insurance industry bought Washington DC years ago. They got most of their ROI in the form of the ACA back when Obama was president; they know where to turn if they need another bailout.
You have that exactly backwards. The alphagram theory is very hard to disprove - even if it is also very hard to prove. There is no shortage of ways that one can redefine the concepts of "letters" and "words" to make them fit into the alphagram and to account for variations in it. Does our concept of a "letter" even mean much when we look at the script of the Voynich Manuscript? How do we define a "letter" for it, and how do we associate that concept of a letter with a "letter" in Hebrew of the time (and for that matter how do we decide on how to define Hebrew for the time when we're not exactly sure how old it is)?
In other words they've come up with a great moving target for themselves here.
... is that people who are procuring illegal (in particular, kiddie) porn could then hide behind the response of "I thought it was fake". If it went the other way though and actually destroyed the child and exploitative porn market then it would be mostly for the better.
The fact that it is still called "vaping" by people who should know better (ie, anyone over the age of 16) doesn't help either. The alternate name helps to perpetuate the mythology of it somehow being safe, or safer than smoking. Call a spade a spade, and call electronic smoking smoking. More so, call electronic smoking unsafe.
Why would they be sold if they didn't offer a chance of addiction? Otherwise the kids who buy them would try them once, realize it is a colossal waste of money, and then go back to smoking regular weed like the rest of us. The market is taking advantage of the fact that there are almost zero regulations pertaining to them right now and flooding every head shop and gas station with all kinds of random crap sold under all kinds of illogical names and claims.
It's just more proof he's a habitual liar who has an issue with vanity.
Precisely. Trump's entire fucking existence is a lie, right down to his famous last name. He makes ordinary politicians look like boy scouts.
Maybe he's counting the extra height of his hairpiece?
I think it's more likely that the nurses are allowing him to self-report his height and he is telling them how tall he wants to be perceived to be (with his elevator shoes on, of course). He's a moron, but he does likely know that taller men are often perceived to be better looking, more successful, more intelligent, and more aggressive - all traits that he wants to be associated with.
Except he is not 6'3". He admitted to being 6'2" 6 years ago when he was 65 years old. If he grew an inch since then, he has a serious underlying health problem that all his doctors have missed. If we look a pictures of him standing next to Obama - who is an honest 6'1" - there is not a single picture where Trump appears to be in any way taller than Obama.
This puts Trump squarely into the category of obesity. And it also means he has repeatedly and knowingly provided the nation with inaccurate information when sworn to provide honest and accurate information.
I feel bad for the people who were impacted by his choice to end his own life. I feel bad for him for having not sought out or found the mental health support that he needed. I don't feel bad for him for having made such an idiotic choice of method for getting the papers out to the public. If he'd have stayed at his desk instead of breaking into the library closet the papers would have still gotten out, he could have still made his point, he'd still be alive, and we wouldn't be having this discussion.
Swartz's ideals were right but his methods were pure idiocy. He could have downloaded all those papers at his desk and released them and he would not have faced anywhere near as much trouble. Instead he entered a wiring closet at the university library without permission and did his downloads there. Being as his office was already on the school's wired network it is unlikely he would have obtained the papers much slower from his office than from the wiring closet that he unlawfully entered.
He then made himself into a martyr by taking the coward's way out of the charges that were being brought against him.
The real lesson we should learn here is to watch out for signs of mental health disorders in those close to us. Afterwards people came forward and expressed concerns they had for him, though there was no record of him having sought treatment in his final months. It's a shame that he took his own life, but we really should take a look at the entirety of what he did to get himself into trouble (rather than cherry-picking it like some want us to) before we celebrate him.
I really thought we were done mourning and worshiping that kid. More likely than not we will find that their two deaths are not connected.
More so, Swartz is not worthy of being idolized and worshiped the way he is here and so many other places. His ideals were good but his methods were fucking stupid. He intentionally made a really stupid decision - when he literally had a safer option sitting on his own desk - for what reason? Charges were being brought against him because he physically broke in to a wiring closet that he had no business going in to. Had he instead been reasonably intelligent in his methods there would be almost no chance of charges ever having been brought against him; people share copyrighted articles online all the time.
As for Swartz's death? He took his own life. He wasn't pushed out a window or given poison by the government. He couldn't handle the stress that he brought upon himself, and there is reason to believe he had an underlying undiagnosed mental health issue as well. It's a shame that he took the coward's way but that was his own choice. Again, he deserves exactly zero praise for this.
UAW ring any bells? No jobs are endangered here...
The early 1980s called. They would like you to know they ended over 30 years ago. The UAW hasn't had much clout since then.
Besides, if the UAW is so evil and so influential at Ford then how do you explain that they are the only one of the big three that required zero government assistance to stay afloat recently?
I am not a facebook expert but I hear them talking up their API all the time. Would it be possible to write an app under that structure that could accomplish this? The summary mentioned the existence of a third party app to do it with Twitter (which is obviously a completely separate system).
I see a deluge of script kiddies try to ssh in to my home web server from time to time. It is easy enough for morons to do that, why would they bother with trying to get in through an actual web interface when the tools already exist for them to automate ssh attempts? I can also tell you that the data supports them not paying any attention whatsoever to the messages they get when they fail at this, so if they are going to go to the trouble of failing at web logins why would they care what messages they see there?