Man I can't stand those one-size-fits-nobody hospital gowns. Walking in them and feeling self-conscious about somebody looking at my pasty white butt cheeks. That's why I wear the slit to the front instead.
However, you shouldn't have a bias against a product that has absolutely nothing to do with prior products of dubious functionality
You should always hold a bias against the company that makes the products though. No, I don't care if it is different divisions either. Same brand, same company in my eyes.
Learn the difference between sony and sony BMG. The hardware folks, videogame folks, etc had nothing to do with the rootkit, and had no knowledge of it's existence. The hardware folks tend to be very good to any honest, paying consumer.
Then change the fucking brand.
According to you... these are honest hard working folks that participate in the community, have never harmed a single soul, and help little old grandmothers across the street, and never had anything to do with the people that created their brand name.
Well, alrighty then. Perhaps it might not be such a good idea to keep calling themselves the KKK Hitler Baby Killers. Just maybe.
Exactly. The big corps these days talk about "brand recognition" and "proper brand alignment" and even employ *shudder* Chief Brand Officers. They put The Brand and The Image first now; we have to remind them that the best way to build a strong brand and a sterling image is not being an asshole.
Which is why in this day and age of social media, online presences, and viral marketing it is all the more important to take a nice nutty stinky shit on the Sony brand every single opportunity you get everywhere . Never relent. Let it just become an automated response.
To the inevitable question, NO. There is no 2nd (more like 64th) chance for Sony. No parole, no pardon, no quarter. Just death.
Far, far, far from irrational to hate Sony. I don't care about any such distinctions like entertainment or hardware. If Sony is in the name, then they don't get shit from me.
If you really cannot understand why "Sony" is an abhorrent company run by sociopaths that would fuck a consumer out of any dollar, right, etc., then you need to get out more.
It's not like one single event either. If Cisco were to man up and say they made a massive, massive, mistake were there latest router firmware fiasco I think I could get past it.
Sony has been doing stuff far worse on so many occasions for decades. Let's not forgot the little part about their influence on copyright laws either....
So to follow your analogy of killing parents... Sony has been running Auschwitz and is busy building Birkenau as we speak.
I see the traditional long-term monogamous relationship as a bizarre vestigial custom.
A monogamous relationship is a natural result of being in love with another person. Not infatuation, not lust, but sincerely in love. I think for most./'s, despite what they may say, really want that.
Whether or not that monogamous relationship also has non-standard sexual practices, like say, swingers is another story. In the end though, you are still with each other.
How long that lasts varies of course, but I do know people that by all appearances have been in love for decades.
Did those employees have the actual authority to let the guy use the machines this way? Remember, these machines were still owned by Apple, not the employees
There is no such distinction. An employee represents the interests of Apple. If you were to come onto company property and ask a representative of that company if you could perform some action, than it is the company that approves it through the employee.
Otherwise you could never trust anything anybody in a company ever says to anyone. How could vendors operate? According to your logic even a written receipt from an employee is meaningless since you make the distinction between Apple and an employee of Apple, which is tenuous and vague at best.
Apple is not an entity that can speak for itself you know. Some employee somewhere will have to speak on its behalf.
That is why I am confused since according to the article, employees of Apple did indeed allow this to occur and were even complicit in some of the actions. Other Apple employees disagreed with it after the fact, but attempting to act like "Apple" never approved it is false, and then making statements to law enforcement that such approval never existed either is undoubtedly improper.
Also according to the article, the Secret Service never pursued any charges and dropped its investigation which would seem to support that idea that there was no basis for any charges under 18 U.S.C. 1030.
I agree with what you are saying, but also keep in mind that according to the article he actually obtained permission from Apple employees to do what he was doing.
His observations and ideas are quite interesting if you read them. How he went about obtaining the data he needed may have been undesirable from a certain point of view. They were already being recorded on camera, but may not have expected to be recorded on the web cameras themselves.
I absolutely don't like it, but I know that I have no privacy and will be recorded when I walk into pretty much any store that is out there today.
I'm having a hard time seeing just what exactly he did wrong here since he did obtain prior permission for at least some of his activity. Apple is not blameless here. Some of their employees participated in these actions and acting like that never happened while involving the authorities is akin to accusations of rape since computer fraud, damage, and unauthorized access never actually happened.
As far as I am concerned they blow, at least in mobile.
Lately I have been looking at high end laptops with docking ports capable of running multiple screens. They are marketed for engineers/CAD, etc. and specifically talk about and show multiple screen setups (docking port required of course). NVidia can't deliver. *Only* AMD delivers the multiple screens.
NVidia can add thousands at the high end to the cost of the laptop as well, and not even add multiple screens. AMD is the bottom offering every time, and can. Go figure.
Why? Some rich bastard created tablets, that the wealthy picked up first, and now I can copy and paste it into a reminder for 5 years from now to check if you were right.
There is a difference between sarcasm and trying to be funny, and actually using an isolated incident of one convicted murderer to disparage an entire field of professionals.
I don't care whether it is open source or closed source. That poster was not trying to be funny or sarcastic and "just failed at it". They were dead serious about it.
I'm not going to shut the fuck up. If Devtech came around and said he was just trying to be funny, then that would be one thing, but further posts only clarified his incredibly offensive and irrational position.
If any of my attempts to be funny have rubbed someone the wrong way, well then I am sorry. However, I sincerely doubt that anybody took those statements as me being serious. Some people can actually tell the difference between sarcasm, humor, and a dead serious indictment of an entire group based on bullshit reasoning.
I don't know if you are trolling, or seriously believe the shit your trying to sell....
Open source versus closed source is not an indication of a trust in a persons professional capacity or ethics. To try to say that this man's mental state is any way indicative of all mental states of open source developers is just offensive and stupid.
As for trust being placed in a high level developer of any software platform, it is actually a benefit when the source is available. You see, it then becomes inherently possible, to actually check the code and verify it independently. When it is closed source, trust is all the more important, because their word is all you are ever going to get.
The very fact you mention Microsoft products being chosen over random open source products takes away any claim to an impartial position. Where are the plethora of closed source software vendors in that statement?
You think closed source is more looked at? Really?
"Real life recursions". Yeah.... Open Source never, ever, does any kind of recursion testing. You got me there.
There are closed source platforms that you can add scripting to do basically anything. Some platforms are designed to be extensible, even while closed.
Who checks the code they run? If you are making any modifications, plenty of people.
Once again.. back to trust. Well Cisco is a closed source provider and they just screwed the pooch big time in the trust department when their users "just trusted them" and allowed automatic updates.
Yeah, if you break out a glass of wine and actually watch the whole thing to give a review on the riveting plot twists and depth of the characters... it might take you some time.
It's like being a tourist or being a Navy Seal that is rapidly inserted into the field of battle to kill them all and let God sort them out later.
I think most men are probably the latter with porn (we got shit to do man) and have seen pretty much all the good parts that would be put in the movie trailer.
I don't think there is anymore free land we can trade glass beads and firewater for
Yes... sometimes White Man gave us beads and firewater for land. Not all the time. Sometimes it was blankets that made us sick, and other times, well... we wished for some beads and firewater instead.
That was many moons ago though. We have protected land and casinos now. That look on White Man's faces when we take all his money and he leaves casino can't be bought with beads and firewater. No Sir. That's priceless.
Taliban are not relevant. At least not to the investigation part into whether or not the crime occurred. Who cares what a possible suspect says anyways when you still can't even establish that.
This isn't just somebody either. It's the WHO. Considering their reputation, I think it's reasonable to assume they were some actual investigation into hospital records, perhaps even direct tests on the girls.
I am admittedly still a little bit skeptical. 32 incidents, and not a single scrap of evidence for poison? No indications in their blood samples? No physical samples in the water? The schools themselves have no chemical traces?
That's amazing to have that many incidents of mass hysteria. Really amazing.
I'm an informed consumer and I sometimes walk into a shop when I am looking for type of product I need, but just want to get a feel for what it out there.
Granted, most times I already have a product in mind and know that Best Buy carries it.
You hit on something with the price checking. That is why I don't think Best Buy is being honest when they say they dislike being the "Internet showroom". What they dislike more than anything is the fact they have to price match so often, and are forced to lower their margins in order to get people to come to the store. If they didn't do it, they would go to Office Depot, etc. instead.
When you have a consumer walking around with a device that scan barcodes and look up the competition's price in a few moments it makes it really difficult to maintain high retail prices and practically requires an ongoing price war.
Best Buy will not match the price of an online store, but I have noticed that the lowest brick-and-mortar store price is not really that much higher than the cheapest *legitimate* online price.
My last experience was a price match against Staple's for $15 dollars off a keyboard. That's what pisses them off. How easy it was for me to find a lower price.
While I agree with your sentiment...... come on.... do you really think game patches and an odd Linux download is going to match pre-blocking levels of traffic?
Bittorrent is just a technology, and a neutral one at that. It is not disingenuous to the conversation though to point out that the majority of it currently is copyright infringing activity.
Vilifying a communications protocol is hilarious though. We might as well be doing the same thing with zip lock bags because they contain weed as well as sandwiches.
I don't think you need to decode a signal to determine that it is not of natural origin.
Let's say that the alien broadcast was repeated 10 times. We may not decode it, but the fact it happened 10 times is an indicator of something.
I certainly get your point, but I think even with proprietary encoding known only to the aliens that it could still show up as not natural, and not just pure random noise.
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Man I can't stand those one-size-fits-nobody hospital gowns. Walking in them and feeling self-conscious about somebody looking at my pasty white butt cheeks. That's why I wear the slit to the front instead.
However, you shouldn't have a bias against a product that has absolutely nothing to do with prior products of dubious functionality
You should always hold a bias against the company that makes the products though. No, I don't care if it is different divisions either. Same brand, same company in my eyes.
Learn the difference between sony and sony BMG. The hardware folks, videogame folks, etc had nothing to do with the rootkit, and had no knowledge of it's existence. The hardware folks tend to be very good to any honest, paying consumer.
Then change the fucking brand.
According to you... these are honest hard working folks that participate in the community, have never harmed a single soul, and help little old grandmothers across the street, and never had anything to do with the people that created their brand name.
Well, alrighty then. Perhaps it might not be such a good idea to keep calling themselves the KKK Hitler Baby Killers. Just maybe.
Exactly. The big corps these days talk about "brand recognition" and "proper brand alignment" and even employ *shudder* Chief Brand Officers. They put The Brand and The Image first now; we have to remind them that the best way to build a strong brand and a sterling image is not being an asshole.
Which is why in this day and age of social media, online presences, and viral marketing it is all the more important to take a nice nutty stinky shit on the Sony brand every single opportunity you get everywhere . Never relent. Let it just become an automated response.
To the inevitable question, NO. There is no 2nd (more like 64th) chance for Sony. No parole, no pardon, no quarter. Just death.
Death to Sony.
Far, far, far from irrational to hate Sony. I don't care about any such distinctions like entertainment or hardware. If Sony is in the name, then they don't get shit from me.
If you really cannot understand why "Sony" is an abhorrent company run by sociopaths that would fuck a consumer out of any dollar, right, etc., then you need to get out more.
It's not like one single event either. If Cisco were to man up and say they made a massive, massive, mistake were there latest router firmware fiasco I think I could get past it.
Sony has been doing stuff far worse on so many occasions for decades. Let's not forgot the little part about their influence on copyright laws either....
So to follow your analogy of killing parents... Sony has been running Auschwitz and is busy building Birkenau as we speak.
I see the traditional long-term monogamous relationship as a bizarre vestigial custom.
A monogamous relationship is a natural result of being in love with another person. Not infatuation, not lust, but sincerely in love. I think for most ./'s, despite what they may say, really want that.
Whether or not that monogamous relationship also has non-standard sexual practices, like say, swingers is another story. In the end though, you are still with each other.
How long that lasts varies of course, but I do know people that by all appearances have been in love for decades.
Did those employees have the actual authority to let the guy use the machines this way? Remember, these machines were still owned by Apple, not the employees
There is no such distinction. An employee represents the interests of Apple. If you were to come onto company property and ask a representative of that company if you could perform some action, than it is the company that approves it through the employee.
Otherwise you could never trust anything anybody in a company ever says to anyone. How could vendors operate? According to your logic even a written receipt from an employee is meaningless since you make the distinction between Apple and an employee of Apple, which is tenuous and vague at best.
Apple is not an entity that can speak for itself you know. Some employee somewhere will have to speak on its behalf.
That is why I am confused since according to the article, employees of Apple did indeed allow this to occur and were even complicit in some of the actions. Other Apple employees disagreed with it after the fact, but attempting to act like "Apple" never approved it is false, and then making statements to law enforcement that such approval never existed either is undoubtedly improper.
Also according to the article, the Secret Service never pursued any charges and dropped its investigation which would seem to support that idea that there was no basis for any charges under 18 U.S.C. 1030.
I agree with what you are saying, but also keep in mind that according to the article he actually obtained permission from Apple employees to do what he was doing.
His observations and ideas are quite interesting if you read them. How he went about obtaining the data he needed may have been undesirable from a certain point of view. They were already being recorded on camera, but may not have expected to be recorded on the web cameras themselves.
I absolutely don't like it, but I know that I have no privacy and will be recorded when I walk into pretty much any store that is out there today.
I'm having a hard time seeing just what exactly he did wrong here since he did obtain prior permission for at least some of his activity. Apple is not blameless here. Some of their employees participated in these actions and acting like that never happened while involving the authorities is akin to accusations of rape since computer fraud, damage, and unauthorized access never actually happened.
So to bottom line your idea, and pretty much the idea of the whole summary, is that NASA needs red shirts. Got it :)
And they're top when it comes to mobile graphics
As far as I am concerned they blow, at least in mobile.
Lately I have been looking at high end laptops with docking ports capable of running multiple screens. They are marketed for engineers/CAD, etc. and specifically talk about and show multiple screen setups (docking port required of course). NVidia can't deliver. *Only* AMD delivers the multiple screens.
NVidia can add thousands at the high end to the cost of the laptop as well, and not even add multiple screens. AMD is the bottom offering every time, and can. Go figure.
Why? Some rich bastard created tablets, that the wealthy picked up first, and now I can copy and paste it into a reminder for 5 years from now to check if you were right.
There is a difference between sarcasm and trying to be funny, and actually using an isolated incident of one convicted murderer to disparage an entire field of professionals.
I don't care whether it is open source or closed source. That poster was not trying to be funny or sarcastic and "just failed at it". They were dead serious about it.
I'm not going to shut the fuck up. If Devtech came around and said he was just trying to be funny, then that would be one thing, but further posts only clarified his incredibly offensive and irrational position.
If any of my attempts to be funny have rubbed someone the wrong way, well then I am sorry. However, I sincerely doubt that anybody took those statements as me being serious. Some people can actually tell the difference between sarcasm, humor, and a dead serious indictment of an entire group based on bullshit reasoning.
I don't know if you are trolling, or seriously believe the shit your trying to sell....
Open source versus closed source is not an indication of a trust in a persons professional capacity or ethics. To try to say that this man's mental state is any way indicative of all mental states of open source developers is just offensive and stupid.
As for trust being placed in a high level developer of any software platform, it is actually a benefit when the source is available. You see, it then becomes inherently possible, to actually check the code and verify it independently. When it is closed source, trust is all the more important, because their word is all you are ever going to get.
The very fact you mention Microsoft products being chosen over random open source products takes away any claim to an impartial position. Where are the plethora of closed source software vendors in that statement?
You think closed source is more looked at? Really?
"Real life recursions". Yeah.... Open Source never, ever, does any kind of recursion testing. You got me there.
There are closed source platforms that you can add scripting to do basically anything. Some platforms are designed to be extensible, even while closed.
Who checks the code they run? If you are making any modifications, plenty of people.
Once again.. back to trust. Well Cisco is a closed source provider and they just screwed the pooch big time in the trust department when their users "just trusted them" and allowed automatic updates.
Unbelievable.
Do you have a job, or do they not care if you take long bathroom breaks?
He could be a government worker with an office and a closed door.......
Dinosaurs aren't real, they were just made up to discourage time travelers.
You ever heard of the redneck Olympics?
Not everyone gets discouraged so easily....
Depends on how you watch it.
Yeah, if you break out a glass of wine and actually watch the whole thing to give a review on the riveting plot twists and depth of the characters... it might take you some time.
It's like being a tourist or being a Navy Seal that is rapidly inserted into the field of battle to kill them all and let God sort them out later.
I think most men are probably the latter with porn (we got shit to do man) and have seen pretty much all the good parts that would be put in the movie trailer.
I don't think there is anymore free land we can trade glass beads and firewater for
Yes... sometimes White Man gave us beads and firewater for land. Not all the time. Sometimes it was blankets that made us sick, and other times, well... we wished for some beads and firewater instead.
That was many moons ago though. We have protected land and casinos now. That look on White Man's faces when we take all his money and he leaves casino can't be bought with beads and firewater. No Sir. That's priceless.
mind melding with your partners sex toy
Don't worry about the moderation. 10 years from now it will be meta-modded +5 Psychic.
I remember hearing about several where people swore they smelt something that made them sick but nothing was ever found.
We had that happen at a company I worked for almost 10 years ago. Determined it was a complex chemical reaction between "Steve" and "Del Taco".
Lack of proof is not proof of lack
Did you get that from some TV shows? Like the one where they are always hunting the "Squatch"?
Taliban are not relevant. At least not to the investigation part into whether or not the crime occurred. Who cares what a possible suspect says anyways when you still can't even establish that.
This isn't just somebody either. It's the WHO. Considering their reputation, I think it's reasonable to assume they were some actual investigation into hospital records, perhaps even direct tests on the girls.
I am admittedly still a little bit skeptical. 32 incidents, and not a single scrap of evidence for poison? No indications in their blood samples? No physical samples in the water? The schools themselves have no chemical traces?
That's amazing to have that many incidents of mass hysteria. Really amazing.
I'm an informed consumer and I sometimes walk into a shop when I am looking for type of product I need, but just want to get a feel for what it out there.
Granted, most times I already have a product in mind and know that Best Buy carries it.
You hit on something with the price checking. That is why I don't think Best Buy is being honest when they say they dislike being the "Internet showroom". What they dislike more than anything is the fact they have to price match so often, and are forced to lower their margins in order to get people to come to the store. If they didn't do it, they would go to Office Depot, etc. instead.
When you have a consumer walking around with a device that scan barcodes and look up the competition's price in a few moments it makes it really difficult to maintain high retail prices and practically requires an ongoing price war.
Best Buy will not match the price of an online store, but I have noticed that the lowest brick-and-mortar store price is not really that much higher than the cheapest *legitimate* online price.
My last experience was a price match against Staple's for $15 dollars off a keyboard. That's what pisses them off. How easy it was for me to find a lower price.
While I agree with your sentiment...... come on.... do you really think game patches and an odd Linux download is going to match pre-blocking levels of traffic?
Bittorrent is just a technology, and a neutral one at that. It is not disingenuous to the conversation though to point out that the majority of it currently is copyright infringing activity.
Vilifying a communications protocol is hilarious though. We might as well be doing the same thing with zip lock bags because they contain weed as well as sandwiches.
I don't think you need to decode a signal to determine that it is not of natural origin.
Let's say that the alien broadcast was repeated 10 times. We may not decode it, but the fact it happened 10 times is an indicator of something.
I certainly get your point, but I think even with proprietary encoding known only to the aliens that it could still show up as not natural, and not just pure random noise.
Yeah... okay. How would you know? :)