I think your logic on the first point is badly broken (developers arent fired when they miss bugs, for example), but it seems pointless to argue with that viewpoint-- its clear we have a fundamentally different view on what a person is responsible for.
As for your list, thats a doozy. Lets take a look....
*Arresting people for recording/photographing public scenes. ---Im not really sure that qualifies as corruption, and youre kind of begging the question by calling them "public scenes"-- thats precisely the issue that theyre contesting.
*Beating citizens harshly (aka committing assault) after they are down and helpless. ---Source? How many, all of them? District commisioners, or just one cop? Generally, this is called "illegal", not "corruption"
*Killing them with tasers ---Tasers are known to be able to kill, but are nevertheless authorized for disabling people. If someone runs, gets nailed with a taser (assuming the taser was used properly), and dies subsequently, it would be as ridiculous to blame the cop as if his gun's barrel exploded and a piece of shrapnel killed a fellow cop.
*Shooting people's pets --- Once again sounds like an individual cop; thats called "illegal", not corruption.
*Breaking down doors without warrants. ---Source? Pretty sure in those scenarios the arrrests would be immediately overturned by a judge.
* Speeding without any legal reason to exceed the limit (and man is *that* ever common.) ---Hypocrisy alert; by my estimates about 90% of drivers on the DC Beltway go significantly over the speed limit. But when cops do it, thats corruption, right?
*Lying under oath. ---Thats called perjury, is already illegal, and is generally punished pretty harshly when theres evidence of it. Have a specific case?
Ill note in none of those did you provide a link or source to a specific case; you just made general accusations with no details, and then suggested that corruption was involved. Thats not terribly impressive.
Sounds like you used to be involved in technology; its not suprising that you would continue to use it for an undeniable advantage as a farmer.
But that really doesnt mean its a crisis if all farmers in a region dont have internet, as a good number still do things as they always have. Just because its a convenience to you, doenst mean you NEED it or that anyone else does in order to do their job.
Modern agriculture and husbandry isn't the world of Beatrix Potter any more.
Funny, I knew a number of them (part of my extended family), and I dont recall internet ever being super important for what they did.
The internet as we know it has been around for about 15 years or so (in terms of consumer access and all the rest). What has happened in that time that makes you think farmers HAVE to have internet in order to grow and sell their crops, or to raise and sell cattle?
It's easy to say that in your cushy broadband filled world. If you lived in the countryside in the UK and couldn't even get 1Mbps internet it would be a crisis for you too.
Not if id never had 1mbps internet, and not by any reasonable definition of the word crisis.
Anyone without high speed internet is definitely being left behind in the ongoing technical revolution.
Meaningless buzz-word alert. What about this technological revolution necessitates my stepfather in the deep south having a broadband connection? Is there any reason he and his family absolutely need internet to continue doing the things theyve done for years?
Yes, it is. Local councils are cutting back on face-to-face services,
Except, obviously, in those places which have poor internet access. I really doubt that the DMV out in some town in Arkansas is pushing an "internet only" initiative.
Does Anon realize that retaliation legitimises the captures of those people?
There really isnt any need to legitimize the capture of Manning. When you get a security clearance, and join the military, you take several oaths, and Im sure they make it crystal clear what happens if you violate them.
Its a really sad day when people try to justify members of the armed forces leaking classified materials and thinking somehow they havent done anything wrong. You know, back in the day, it was termed treason...
Yeah, I'm kinda wondering: if those three emails were the worst they found (true, the first two are kinda bad), then the picture painted is really not all that bad.
The actual content of the article is irrelevant. This is an opportunity for people to rail against authority as they are so eager to do, so they will take it, whether or not their complaints are valid.
Watch for posts that accuse the police of things that arent even on the discussion table, or bring up judges, and bonus points if they make broad sweeping claims that are unsupportable and unbelievably broad ("the entire system is broken", or "americans are sheep").
but he got a virus in the process which he then tried to remove himself and obviously failed because, honestly, anyone that doesn't know how to even pirate a movie safely at this point sure as shit can't remove a virus...
Best and brightest they are not.
Hahah, yea, those idiots, who gets a VIRUS these days (oh yea, more than 50% of computer users)? And who cant remove the advanced bootsector rootkits floating around today? I mean HONESTLY?
Part of my job as a consultant is helpdesk support. For lots of companies. Companies with really smart people, who just arent that computer savvy-- their masters is usually in economics, or law, or what have you. Theyre also people, and do dumb things some times, and get viruses. Laughing at them just makes you a simpleminded jerk who somehow thinks HIS degree is superior to all others and that if you arent informed in HIS field, your knowledge is worthless.
Posts like this really make me ashamed to tell people what I do for fear theyll think I have some superiority complex. It really seems rampant thru the tech world, and its incredibly obnoxious.
And if they're ignorant of those misdeeds... they aren't smart enough to be cops.
Pop quiz, if one of the employees in your company (not necessarily your division) was embezzling, and caught, should you be held liable too? Since obviously you should have known, and if you didnt, obviously youre inept and not smart enough for your job?
Yea, thats really the kind of policies we want in place. Be aware of all misdeeds, or youre inept.
The whole structure is corrupt, top to bottom.
Thats a bold statement, with vague accusations. What type of corruption? Bribes? Who is being bribed?
Care to clarify and give some substance to your rather vague accusation? A source would be nice, too.
But arent "crises" usually time-sensitive issues which generally have gotten worse? Seems a bit much to call "some people continue to be without internet" a crisis.
Sorry, but language "inflation" bothers me, it devalues words.
Then they were using XP pre-SP3 (and possibly pre sp2). Otherwise it will pop up at LEAST 1-2 dialog boxes confirming that yes, you really do want to do this. If you use Internet explorer, more than that.
Certainly it does NOT happen on any version/servicepack of windows released in the last 6 years.
If you're throwing modern PCs out after 4 years, you're a fool.
Er, Im not. I was specifically saying "if the motherboard dies after 4 years because it was only $65, you recycle it and get a new one".
I certainly dont think it makes sense to spend $1300 to get top end parts to try to squeeze 8-9 years out of it rather than just getting a $450 pc and hoping for 6-7.
The lawsuit was for laptops that broke because of heat damage. I have one of the busted laptops in my house. The thing powers on for 10 minutes before overheating and losing video.
You already DONT have a working laptop in that case, and given that most laptops crap out after 3 years ANYWAYS, getting a completely free replacement outside of the warranty period is a great deal.
Yes, the real winners are the lawyers, but what do you really expect with a class action suit? nVidia still had to pay for a large number of laptops, THEY certainly werent the winners no matter how you look at it.
They still got a free laptop, which, considering it was a CLASS ACTION SUIT, is pretty darn amazing. And I think the entire thing is overblown-- theyre still getting a brand new tablet convertible laptop, its still got a dual core processor, and they still got at least a few years of service out of the original part.
Arguing that nVidia WON is ridiculous; most customers didnt have to lift a finger, and are getting a brand new laptop, with no legal risk-- and in todays litigious society thats pretty big.
You send it to a recycling center. Apple will take care of it for free, i believe. And replacing a mobo every 4 years really isnt that bad, nor do I think it to be the "average case" with $65 mobos. You can get mobos @ $65 that have NO capacitor issues whatsoever, thats just about the only big issue you MIGHT run into with a cheap unit (other than insufficient cooling, which is easy to fix).
And asking me to pay 4x as much on some theory that "more expensive means more reliable" despite no real evidence to that is a little bit much. Sometimes they just go with a value package of 1-generation older chipsets etc, which really just means that you have "tried and true" parts with all the errata known.
Cell tower tracking can get you your correct location-- you dont need GPS for that, and Google maps (at least on blackberry-- which has gps) uses cell tower triangulation.
Um, what do you think one of the MAJOR arguments against leaking diplomatic cables is? If diplomacy cant be relied upon because all parties involved dont think they can trust the privacy of their talks, do you think the world will become a BETTER place?
I suppose that is the most reasonable criticism offered so far, and that does sound right-- though Im not sure ive seen many apps that dont abide by that policy. To be clear tho, the argument originally made was that Windows did not have a notion of "no execution allowed", which is patently false and has been since Windows NT.
It is true that by default most things have execute in windows, but there are both pros and cons to it. If someone really wants to download executable content-- like, say, a log-me-in session launcher-- does the OS really want to take the stance (as Ubuntu 9.10 did when it started blocking.desktop file execution) that it cant trust its user, and unless the user is smart enough to know chmod-fu, they simply cant run their program?
I mean if the user truly is determined to screw their system up, the OS really isnt going to be able to prevent them if they have the rights to do so, and if they really want to run arbitrary content from the internet, thats kind of their business. I guess it kind of depends on what use-case you have. In a better computer world, we would have prompts for running content that the computer truly thought to be risky, and we would have people who knew how to interpret those prompts and were not trained to ignore them.
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I think your logic on the first point is badly broken (developers arent fired when they miss bugs, for example), but it seems pointless to argue with that viewpoint-- its clear we have a fundamentally different view on what a person is responsible for.
As for your list, thats a doozy. Lets take a look....
*Arresting people for recording/photographing public scenes.
---Im not really sure that qualifies as corruption, and youre kind of begging the question by calling them "public scenes"-- thats precisely the issue that theyre contesting.
*Beating citizens harshly (aka committing assault) after they are down and helpless.
---Source? How many, all of them? District commisioners, or just one cop? Generally, this is called "illegal", not "corruption"
*Killing them with tasers
---Tasers are known to be able to kill, but are nevertheless authorized for disabling people. If someone runs, gets nailed with a taser (assuming the taser was used properly), and dies subsequently, it would be as ridiculous to blame the cop as if his gun's barrel exploded and a piece of shrapnel killed a fellow cop.
*Shooting people's pets
--- Once again sounds like an individual cop; thats called "illegal", not corruption.
*Breaking down doors without warrants.
---Source? Pretty sure in those scenarios the arrrests would be immediately overturned by a judge.
* Speeding without any legal reason to exceed the limit (and man is *that* ever common.)
---Hypocrisy alert; by my estimates about 90% of drivers on the DC Beltway go significantly over the speed limit. But when cops do it, thats corruption, right?
*Lying under oath.
---Thats called perjury, is already illegal, and is generally punished pretty harshly when theres evidence of it. Have a specific case?
Ill note in none of those did you provide a link or source to a specific case; you just made general accusations with no details, and then suggested that corruption was involved. Thats not terribly impressive.
Sounds like you used to be involved in technology; its not suprising that you would continue to use it for an undeniable advantage as a farmer.
But that really doesnt mean its a crisis if all farmers in a region dont have internet, as a good number still do things as they always have. Just because its a convenience to you, doenst mean you NEED it or that anyone else does in order to do their job.
So do I. Quite a few of my family are farmers.
AH, I see, so because they found it necessary to have internet, clearly all farmers must. No way others might get along just fine without it.
Modern agriculture and husbandry isn't the world of Beatrix Potter any more.
Funny, I knew a number of them (part of my extended family), and I dont recall internet ever being super important for what they did.
The internet as we know it has been around for about 15 years or so (in terms of consumer access and all the rest). What has happened in that time that makes you think farmers HAVE to have internet in order to grow and sell their crops, or to raise and sell cattle?
It's easy to say that in your cushy broadband filled world. If you lived in the countryside in the UK and couldn't even get 1Mbps internet it would be a crisis for you too.
Not if id never had 1mbps internet, and not by any reasonable definition of the word crisis.
Anyone without high speed internet is definitely being left behind in the ongoing technical revolution.
Meaningless buzz-word alert. What about this technological revolution necessitates my stepfather in the deep south having a broadband connection? Is there any reason he and his family absolutely need internet to continue doing the things theyve done for years?
Yes, it is. Local councils are cutting back on face-to-face services,
Except, obviously, in those places which have poor internet access. I really doubt that the DMV out in some town in Arkansas is pushing an "internet only" initiative.
Cost of ram right now is about $4 per GB (DDR3 4GB stick for $13 on newegg), so they certainly could have done a large increase for under $10....
Does Anon realize that retaliation legitimises the captures of those people?
There really isnt any need to legitimize the capture of Manning. When you get a security clearance, and join the military, you take several oaths, and Im sure they make it crystal clear what happens if you violate them.
Its a really sad day when people try to justify members of the armed forces leaking classified materials and thinking somehow they havent done anything wrong. You know, back in the day, it was termed treason...
Can anyone give a good explanation for why they went after Nintendo, and Eve Online?
Theyre children with loaded weapons; theres no trying to explain the havok they cause.
Yeah, I'm kinda wondering: if those three emails were the worst they found (true, the first two are kinda bad), then the picture painted is really not all that bad.
The actual content of the article is irrelevant. This is an opportunity for people to rail against authority as they are so eager to do, so they will take it, whether or not their complaints are valid.
Watch for posts that accuse the police of things that arent even on the discussion table, or bring up judges, and bonus points if they make broad sweeping claims that are unsupportable and unbelievably broad ("the entire system is broken", or "americans are sheep").
but he got a virus in the process which he then tried to remove himself and obviously failed because, honestly, anyone that doesn't know how to even pirate a movie safely at this point sure as shit can't remove a virus...
Best and brightest they are not.
Hahah, yea, those idiots, who gets a VIRUS these days (oh yea, more than 50% of computer users)? And who cant remove the advanced bootsector rootkits floating around today? I mean HONESTLY?
Part of my job as a consultant is helpdesk support. For lots of companies. Companies with really smart people, who just arent that computer savvy-- their masters is usually in economics, or law, or what have you. Theyre also people, and do dumb things some times, and get viruses. Laughing at them just makes you a simpleminded jerk who somehow thinks HIS degree is superior to all others and that if you arent informed in HIS field, your knowledge is worthless.
Posts like this really make me ashamed to tell people what I do for fear theyll think I have some superiority complex. It really seems rampant thru the tech world, and its incredibly obnoxious.
And if they're ignorant of those misdeeds... they aren't smart enough to be cops.
Pop quiz, if one of the employees in your company (not necessarily your division) was embezzling, and caught, should you be held liable too? Since obviously you should have known, and if you didnt, obviously youre inept and not smart enough for your job?
Yea, thats really the kind of policies we want in place. Be aware of all misdeeds, or youre inept.
The whole structure is corrupt, top to bottom.
Thats a bold statement, with vague accusations. What type of corruption? Bribes? Who is being bribed?
Care to clarify and give some substance to your rather vague accusation? A source would be nice, too.
But arent "crises" usually time-sensitive issues which generally have gotten worse? Seems a bit much to call "some people continue to be without internet" a crisis.
Sorry, but language "inflation" bothers me, it devalues words.
We do it with conventional explosives, why not with nuclear explosions? :P
Then they were using XP pre-SP3 (and possibly pre sp2). Otherwise it will pop up at LEAST 1-2 dialog boxes confirming that yes, you really do want to do this. If you use Internet explorer, more than that.
Certainly it does NOT happen on any version /servicepack of windows released in the last 6 years.
to be clear, the "it" in "recycle it" is the motherboard.
If you're throwing modern PCs out after 4 years, you're a fool.
Er, Im not. I was specifically saying "if the motherboard dies after 4 years because it was only $65, you recycle it and get a new one".
I certainly dont think it makes sense to spend $1300 to get top end parts to try to squeeze 8-9 years out of it rather than just getting a $450 pc and hoping for 6-7.
I was about to say, someone should contact their manager so that they can all be fired for tardiness. Who is their manager, by the way?
The lawsuit was for laptops that broke because of heat damage. I have one of the busted laptops in my house. The thing powers on for 10 minutes before overheating and losing video.
You already DONT have a working laptop in that case, and given that most laptops crap out after 3 years ANYWAYS, getting a completely free replacement outside of the warranty period is a great deal.
Yes, the real winners are the lawyers, but what do you really expect with a class action suit? nVidia still had to pay for a large number of laptops, THEY certainly werent the winners no matter how you look at it.
They still got a free laptop, which, considering it was a CLASS ACTION SUIT, is pretty darn amazing. And I think the entire thing is overblown-- theyre still getting a brand new tablet convertible laptop, its still got a dual core processor, and they still got at least a few years of service out of the original part.
Arguing that nVidia WON is ridiculous; most customers didnt have to lift a finger, and are getting a brand new laptop, with no legal risk-- and in todays litigious society thats pretty big.
You send it to a recycling center. Apple will take care of it for free, i believe. And replacing a mobo every 4 years really isnt that bad, nor do I think it to be the "average case" with $65 mobos. You can get mobos @ $65 that have NO capacitor issues whatsoever, thats just about the only big issue you MIGHT run into with a cheap unit (other than insufficient cooling, which is easy to fix).
And asking me to pay 4x as much on some theory that "more expensive means more reliable" despite no real evidence to that is a little bit much. Sometimes they just go with a value package of 1-generation older chipsets etc, which really just means that you have "tried and true" parts with all the errata known.
Cell tower tracking can get you your correct location-- you dont need GPS for that, and Google maps (at least on blackberry-- which has gps) uses cell tower triangulation.
Um, what do you think one of the MAJOR arguments against leaking diplomatic cables is? If diplomacy cant be relied upon because all parties involved dont think they can trust the privacy of their talks, do you think the world will become a BETTER place?
gpedit.msc is your friend. Lots of things can be set there, think of it as a "security/lockdown" registry. Its pretty brain-dead-simple, too.
I suppose that is the most reasonable criticism offered so far, and that does sound right-- though Im not sure ive seen many apps that dont abide by that policy. To be clear tho, the argument originally made was that Windows did not have a notion of "no execution allowed", which is patently false and has been since Windows NT.
It is true that by default most things have execute in windows, but there are both pros and cons to it. If someone really wants to download executable content-- like, say, a log-me-in session launcher-- does the OS really want to take the stance (as Ubuntu 9.10 did when it started blocking .desktop file execution) that it cant trust its user, and unless the user is smart enough to know chmod-fu, they simply cant run their program?
I mean if the user truly is determined to screw their system up, the OS really isnt going to be able to prevent them if they have the rights to do so, and if they really want to run arbitrary content from the internet, thats kind of their business. I guess it kind of depends on what use-case you have. In a better computer world, we would have prompts for running content that the computer truly thought to be risky, and we would have people who knew how to interpret those prompts and were not trained to ignore them.