You must be saying that with a huge amount of sarcasm right?
The law is anything but "black and white". Some laws are deliberately vague to allow wiggle room in their interpretations. In criminal cases it is never about the truth, but what you can convince a jury of, and/or what evidence you can spin your way. Civil cases are even worse, as they are entirely about convincing the jury your version of the "truth" is correct.
We have had laws repealed and rewritten precisely because they are too vague as well.
You almost seem to imply a binary quality to law where a simple equation can determine the outcome. Ironic considering we are talking about robotic lawyers.
I am reminded of Jean Giraudoux:
There's no better way of exercising the imagination than the study of law. No poet ever interpreted nature as freely as a lawyer interprets the truth.
"Lawyers Are": Those who lie, conceal and distort everything and slander everybody
I am sure it had little to do with MySQL software unless it was an injection that got them access to change the site
No, it wasn't anything to do with a SQL injection attack. Levels of Irony that high actually warp space/time and I am sure some scientists would have registered it somewhere and reported it.
As opposed to what? Just teasing the horse? I'm pretty sure if you broke through whatever mental and social barriers there are to blowing a horse you are going to do it to "completion".
That's the way it should be done. Reputation based scoring on a large scale, or a complete bypass, could greatly reduce the amount of resources required to process mail.
This "sweetheart" deal, as you refer to it, is nothing more than Company A recognizing the Company B has its shit together and can be trusted enough to bypass the spam filtering process. Which, is network/IP based anyways.
Spammers could not profit from such information even if they had it. How are they going to impersonate one of those networks? Not likely. It would involve a sophisticated attack on Company B to get access to those networks to send out a massive SPAM campaign. Either Company B will find it out really quickly, or Company A will realize there is a problem when they get a huge spike in reports.
Both companies will react appropriately, and ostensibly, will have communication channels between them. Ever hear of a feedback loop? Those exist for a reason too.
Honestly, I don't see the problem or why the deals should be dissolved at all. It is actually saving a lot of money and not contributing to greater amounts of SPAM in peoples inboxes, so it is a good thing.
Where is the conspiracy and harmed parties here? Sure, you can be jealous and pissed off because you don't qualify for one based on your size and scale, but that hardly justifies asking that nobody gets it.
I don't have a problem with them banning Facebook at all. That is liberty. If the people of Pakistan truly did not like it, they could change their government through revolution, within the framework of their country's legal system, or just leave.
As another poster pointed out, Pakistan is hardly represented by those in power. There is a fairly large non-trivial number of Pakistani people that are more moderate and have no interest in killing another person based on their beliefs at all. Yet, at the same time there is a large number of Pakistani men (generally) that are fanatics and have no problems telling/killing others that don't cooperate with their belief system.
In any case, is it not freedom to allow them to choose?
My only problem comes with the IT people in Pakistan that don't understand routing and take out half the Internet for a few hours propagating some fucked up routing changes.
They have the right to peer and transit with any other network in any fashion they choose to do so. They don't have the right to screw up and affect other networks, which has happened a few times before I think.
This is the same government banning encryption. So I think that they are taking it up a notch and trying to give China a run for its money on how locked down they can make the whole system.
Ultimately, the information will reach the people that want it anyways.....
Guest: Wow. Nice living room. Love the family pictures above the fireplace.... what the fuck.... Family Member: Ohh, that's old Grampa Joe. Guest: He does not look like he is having a lot of fun. Family Member: Don't worry, it did not last that long. Guest: Thank god. Where is he now? Family Member: The urn right next to the photo.
Welllll..... isn't that what illegal immigrants are for? To "take" all the jobs we don't want to do?
Trust me. Whatever job you can come up with, there is somebody willing to take it. Cleaning up excrement is a job that does not even require a high school degree, which means that over a 3rd of our young people already qualify for it, and won't be able to qualify for much more.
Pride does not feed a family. There will be both men and women that will take that job, because at the end of the day and a hot shower, they can feed their children.
P.S - I am being sarcastic about the immigrants. Just a disclaimer for the sarcastically challenged out there.
Depends. Are we talking about the ones from Galaxy Quest that can morph into a chick like Missi Pyle?
Let's face it. Shape shifting aliens probably, at a minimum, doubles the chances for a significant portion of Slashdotters getting some. The rest are just doubling zero.
Although we both know that dude on Galaxy Quest was high as a mother fucker through the whole movie.
Yeah..... my friend keeps telling me that too..... even though in the dark recesses of the bar the rest of my friends and I could see the world class Adam's Apple on this "chick".
I had more than he did, by a large margin, so I don't buy it. However, him finding out was an absolute classic. Good times.
a bunch of people whose only work experience has ben shovelling frozen fries into vats of oil during their summer holidays
Yeah..... my hearts bleeds for those people too.
If they are upset that I was able to find a job like that for awhile and they had to work harder than I did (allegedly) than they should consider two things:
1) Maybe they should not have fucked off in High School like idiots. Most of those people who tormented other students and generally did poorly in school, end up like that. 2) If they knew a small amount of what I know, they could get work as an IT tech making more than you would working at fast food joint. Generally, IT is considered difficult work in the trenches in the beginning. Well does that burger job really prepare you for anything else? IT at least gives you hands on training the whole time and the ability to put past experience into use improving yourself. 3) Are they even prepared mentally to work 20-30-40, or even 50 hours in a row until something gets done right?
The two hour a day job is rare, and takes a lot work to create. Anybody that truly has one of those deserves it, since whatever you are doing in that two hours keeps something else doing its job that is easily worth a hell of a lot more than your salary.
Verizon/AT&T probably do not keep historical data, even if they can pinpoint my location at law enforcement's request.
There was a posted article about this awhile ago. Verizon most certainly does keep historical data. Law enforcement was trying to get access to it without a warrant for a specific ~150 day period. They did not even specify what period it was, implying that Verizon has access to even longer historical logs than we thought, or is even implied.
If Verizon did not maintain the data why:
1) Was law enforcement requesting it? 2) Why did Verizon not immediately state that compliance was impossible since they did not possess it? 3) That articles about either 1 or 2 have not been making the rounds yet? 4) The original article did not already contain Verizon's response to the court?
1) The electric company cannot shut off my refrigerator. They can only shut off *everything* in my house. It is a blunt dull instrument, not a precision tool. 2) I was referring to an extension of the levels of control that electric companies are trying to do right now, most notably with air conditioning. That does not have to be limited to that with a smart grid, and smart monitors/outlets in the house.
The electric company would be far less nefarious of course. Ostensibly, it is to rate throttle, prevent brownouts, and increase efficiency. All good green initiatives if you want to cooperate. I would not give them control over any of it, because I don't trust them to do it correctly. That, and at any one time, a refrigerator probably has at least $75 worth of food in it. Too risky. My beer might get warm.
1) The electric company cannot shut off my refrigerator. They can only shut off *everything* in my house. It is a blunt dull instrument, not a precision tool. 2) I was referring to an extension of the levels of control that electric companies are trying to do right now, most notably with air conditioning. That does not have to be limited to that with a smart grid, and smart monitors/outlets in the house.
The electric company would be far less nefarious of course. Ostensibly, it is to rate throttle, prevent brownouts, and increase efficiency. All good green initiatives if you want to cooperate. I would not give them control over any of it, because I don't trust them to do it correctly. That, and at any one time, a refrigerator probably has at least $75 worth of food in it. Too risky. My beer might get warm.
Do you trust such companies with unfettered access to the entire GPS history of your vehicle?
Of course I don't. I don't own a vehicle that has the ability to be shut off remotely either, because I don't trust a company or the systems with something that important. I would not trust the electric company with my refrigerator either. The very fact the control exists with a 3rd party is unacceptable.
If you are worried about being tracked, OnStar is the least of your concerns. It applies to a single source of data that is not always with you.
Anybody that really cares about this should wonder what data is being collected with your smart phones, etc. Verizon can track you better than OnStar ever could.
All of your devices with their own dedicated data connections also track you far better. Sprint HotSpot? Those things can track you just like a cell phone too.
The only thing surprising about this is that OnStar tried slipping it into the TOS, except just selling the data anyways with some legal sleight of hand.
They are going down and will continue to do so. They will be lucky to find a balance and just stay alive.
People are buying laptops and desktops, and for the vast percentage, it is a MS operating system. Apple gained market share and MS went down. That might not last forever, especially if Google actually does something with an OS that takes off. Windows 8 really really needs to be good here.
Now the whole new thing is tablets. MS is not exactly very strong here. They are just starting out with their new standardized platform strategy with Windows 8. It will be awhile before they can start gaining market share with tablets. That is not nearly as much a lock in like laptops and PCs were for them either. I think large tablets will start replacing desktops and laptops. Connect a tablet to a dock, have an external monitor, keyboard, and mouse and you have something. Even better if the tablet itself turns into a user interface for multiple standard screens. We might see the demise of the laptop and desktop within the next 10 years. Is MS prepared for that? Really prepared or even thinking about it?
Their real big claim to fame here is the business and server offerings. That has nowhere to go but down too. I know of at least one stock exchange that had enough and switched out. MS is not primarily used for web hosting either. That is dominated by Apache/Linux. They are still going down on that. Most of the internal corporate websites may be run on MS, because you already have the server and infrastructure, but for businesses that just need to create and manage web portals MS has been losing ground to Linux for quite some time now. I have not even touched IIS to run a public website in a decade. It does not help that every site I see is complete utter shit too. SQL injection attacks, proprietary crap that makes you run the whole site in IE, because it cannot do it any other web browser. Not impressed. I think there is one MS site that actually works really well in multiple browsers that I visited and used, but other than that.....
Their conversion rate on XP to Vista/7 has been a train wreck in corporations. I don't even know of a single corporation that deliberately upgraded past XP. Not a single one. They eventually did, but that was through the purchase of all new hardware. Thin clients are making a come back too, which really eats MS lunch. Unless you actually get one with embedded Windows 7. You need a reason for that. Dell just came out with a new thin client that already has clients for Citrix and VMWare, as well standard RDP for Remote Desktop. Standard OS on that is not Windows embedded. Windows does not get a license fee for each one sold. When most of the work an employee needs to do can be done through a web portal, or controlled in a virtual environment like virtual desktops and terminal servers, the days of big fat desktops with big fat OS license fees are coming to an end.
Then you have all the open source alternatives to the expensive platforms that MS has. Exchange/Sharepoint/SQL is not cheap. Server licensing is not cheap. The ridiculous costs of the CALS don't help.
Basically, they are creating an environment where corporations are looking for an alternative. Progressively, those alternatives are being made.
SAAS is springing up all over the place to replace costly in house systems. For the most part, those are being run on platforms with Linux.
Microsoft does not have the luxury of just sitting back here with their captive audience and IT heads that love MS and deploy it preferentially everywhere. Regardless of the debates, money speaks at the end of the day.
There is no up for Microsoft anymore. Not in their current markets with the exception of Bing. That can only go up.
More and more competition to Microsoft is being created each and every day in the business sectors that MS depends on. I honestly have a hard time seeing somebody stick with the huge expense of running server clusters, in house developm
Most people don't even know what ADA compliant even means. Furthermore, what the heck does a client-side language have to do with disabled people? How does javascript inherently prevent a disabled person from interacting with a website?
I don't have a single website that does not use javascript via JQuery. It just works.
NoScript? Fine. As a default that is. You will run into more sites that require javascript to do something, than ones that do not. We just redirect to a page that asks you to turn on javascript. If you don't trust enough to turn it on, but trust us enough to allow us to do recurring billing, than there is something wrong.
Unless you want a whole lot of forms and page refreshes, you need AJAX and the ability to rewrite the DOM client side for cleaner looking websites that don't require an entire page refresh, or a redirect to a working page, than a redirect back to the original page with the new data. Javascript simplifies things a lot more than Flash or Silverlight. That's for damn sure.
Of course, there is another article about TLS being broken. With javascript you can add your own layered encryption to the AJAX calls making it a little more secure. Cannot do that passing back data in forms.
Javascript is only an issue with websites that you don't trust. I find it invaluable for so many reasons as a developer and don't really care if you don't want to use it.
For landing pages and home pages we don't use any javascript at all, but is it really required on a home page?
I will ask again, how the heck does javascript inherently "violate" ADA compliance? Which for the record, is a bunch of BS for 90% of all websites. If you can't see, then some websites are just not for you. It would be too hard, and in some cases not even feasible, to translate the visual impact to auditory data. Additionally, javascript would actually be perfect client side to provide a data object that a braille reader could interpret. The client side applications to do so should not be the responsibility of the website owners and developers. All we should need to do is provide a standardized document format, or heavens no, have the ADA supported open source braille reader be able to interpret a DOM in real time and notify the person audibly that a change has occurred and how.
The deaf? Not all that much data on websites is auditory in the first place. Only real place to apply it would be lyrics to music, and then you would draw the wrath of the mentally challenged. Not any mentally challenged person the ADA would support either. I am speaking about all the execs and lawyers in Big Content.
Sure they do. It is not explicitly stated though. What is stated is that you meet your goals on a day-to-day basis and the system keeps functioning.
If that takes you 12 hours per day, than it is 12 hours. 15 minutes per day, than it is 15 minutes. Your pay is linked to performance and stability of the system you are retained to make work.
So you might go a few weeks just watching a big screen for alerts and events while playing Halo and watching porn. Then something happens and you work 30 hours in a row to fix it, or implement some idea that does something that will magically do another something that some executive saw in some magazine.
Basically, if you are in the right place at the right time, with the right credentials, and the right environment (that you create with some hard work initially) you can easily work two hours per day and get paid very very well for it.
Then get 3 of those, save up money, and retire with your hollowed out magma lair. Pretty standard stuff really. If you have the means, I highly recommend it.
Please *note* however, that forgetting to put clothes on (some us don't wear pajamas) for an impromptu video conference could cause you to get your telecommuting status revoked and sent back to the office. You still only work 2 hours per day, but aggro is lot more dangerous when the person you are humiliating online is one floor down and a sneaky conniving bastard that will lock you into a bathroom with the lights off right in the middle of pinching a monster loaf. Just my two cents....
Interesting. Is that similar to how there are Donuts and Donut "Holes"? However, an electron is in itself a spherical particle, which already makes it the Donut Hole.
with the exception of fantasy making better escapist fare for when you want to turn off your brain for a few hours.
Well..... I read the article. I know, I did not mean to do so. However, Shatner did not disappoint me.
His idea to merge the universes was him running of with Princess Leia (shirtless of course with her in the bikini) being pursued by a raging Chewy.
I could think of worse ways to merge the two universes. I think we should let Shatner star and direct on this one. It would be a train wreck and disaster, but is that not the entire basis for watching NASCAR anyways?
Wow. I think we all see that Netflix effectively has end stage terminal cancer here.
To me the lack of communication between websites even more stupid than that. Having gone "plaid" just does not do it here.
I don't have a Facebook account, but that damned website is integrated *everywhere*. I have to use Skype for business and it nags the crap out of me for Facebook. So do a lot of other websites.
Two bills? You're fucking with me right? Does your ISP give you three different bills for Internet, TV, and Phone? No. One itemized bill. Fine, they are really making two completely different companies and it has to billed as such. Fine. Probably a bunch of lawyers and accountants told them that.
Are you telling me that all the developers between the two websites could *not* figure out how to allow you to link your Netflix account with your Qwikster account? It would be as simple as a couple of API calls between websites. I do it all the time with our projects and clients. You might be on a single website, but it is making calls back and forth between multiple companies to get all the information you want. Facebook and YouTube can do it. You can be on my website, provide me with the credentials for YouTube, and from my website I can manage your channel, upload videos, remove videos, etc.
Integration is still possible here, even with two wholly different companies. You figure they would want to keep that straight out the gate.
There is no excuse for this. I absolutely know that the the CTO and the development team over there must have been in a state of shock listening to the stream of retarded bullshit coming from this CEO's mouth the last couple of weeks. You want us to do what? Ummm okay..... wait.... no integration? That really is not a great idea... We can do this you know right? Still no on the integration huh?
I refuse to believe that anybody on the IT side of things over there was going along with this singing a happy tune. More likely, they were quietly polishing up their resumes and getting ready to find jobs elsewhere.
*sigh*
I knew Netflix was going to die, but that was only because nobody else wanted it to live. It was basically terrorism from Big Content and its many bitches out there. You don't fuck with the lucrative rental revenue of the Cable Providers and Big Content, which in some cases are the same content, and expect no resistance. Especially, when those same companies have to absorb the impact of all of Netflix's streaming on their revenue as an ISP. It tickles me ohhh so much to know how much that messes with their oversell. Oh sooooo much. Same thing. Netflix poked the bear, and it seems finally the bear figured out a way to fight back.
Going to cancel the DVD service for sure. I have no patience for it. Spending 20 minutes looking around and adding shit to queues is all fine, but when I cannot add it to my Instant Watch queue when it is available instead of waiting for it.... that just is too stupid to participate in. My time is way too valuable to be having to different websites up on two different screens and cross referencing the shit between them with cut and paste. I would be the *best* at it too. Somebody like myself could operate very fast, because I do it in my job all fucking day long.
I don't want Netflix and Qwickster to be a job . The whole point is to provide me with some relief and enjoyment. Hence, why Angry Birds is damned addictive. It's easy. They are no longer easy, even for somebody like me.
Besides, it basically is about 7-8 Redbox rentals per month. Guess I will be using Redbox a lot more now.
I will stay with the streaming as long as it under $20 and still offers some decent content. Other than that, Netflix, you were great while you lasted.
One can only hope that too much exposure doesn't result in people becoming sexually aroused by cruelty to animals. I really think that PETA should have thought this through a little bit more.
Dude. Dude. STFU.
We are talking about them using their mental influence on hot celebrity chicks, like Eva Mendes, to do porn.
Obviously you have absolutely no understanding of the definitions of piracy, by extension theft, and what infringement actually means.
The contemporary meaning of the word piracy has always been associated with violent acts, theft, murder, and debauchery. Even today, true piracy, exists everywhere, but not even in the remotest sense, intellectual property.
The word piracy, as it is intended to be used in this context, is as a colorful a description of an act of theft that you can get. It associates the ascribed act as one of utter disregard for the welfare of others, sociopathic behavior, and acts of brutality, the least of which is theft. It usage is a deliberate act of mental manipulation.
The word infringement on the other hand, specifically means the violation of a right or privilege granted to another either through law or lawful contract. It has nothing to do with anything physical. It is an abstraction. As such, it is logically impossible to anyone with basic intelligence and a rudimentary understanding of logic, to ascribe the act of unlawful theft to said abstraction.
These are facts, not opinions.
I am not a pirate that performs acts of theft. The only possibility that exists is that I am guilty of infringement, which is a civil matter between two citizens. I would have violated the legal entitlements that the government, via The People, granted this other person.
You also obviously, have no understanding of the purpose of intellectual property regardless of your agreement that it should exist. At least anarchists, communists, etc. are upfront about it. They refuse to participate in a legal system and society that follows the tenants and philosophy that allow intellectual property to exist to perform its intended function .
The intended function?
To foster innovation and creativity by rewarding it with temporary legal entitlements that allow the creators to survive, prosper, and in some cases become quite wealthy and live lives that inspire the rest to do the same. At the same time, it provides a crucial function to society which is to create a wealth of ideas, art, technology, etc. that enrich all of us and allow further innovation and creativity benefiting from the work of previous generations.
If you understood any of this, and had rudimentary logic skills, you would realize that is impossible to steal, and impossible to infringe upon intellectual property that is delivered to me for free, with no effort or interactivity required on my part.
You don't. Which is why your reply is four words. If you can't bring logical and well reasoned arguments and positions to a discussion, I suggest you just sit back and let the rest of us mess around with intellectual property, activism, and fighting for the well being of society.
In short, you're in the way. Please step aside and let those that can understand what I am talking about have intelligent conversations that might lead to some positive results.
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You must be saying that with a huge amount of sarcasm right?
The law is anything but "black and white". Some laws are deliberately vague to allow wiggle room in their interpretations. In criminal cases it is never about the truth, but what you can convince a jury of, and/or what evidence you can spin your way. Civil cases are even worse, as they are entirely about convincing the jury your version of the "truth" is correct.
We have had laws repealed and rewritten precisely because they are too vague as well.
You almost seem to imply a binary quality to law where a simple equation can determine the outcome. Ironic considering we are talking about robotic lawyers.
I am reminded of Jean Giraudoux:
There's no better way of exercising the imagination than the study of law. No poet ever interpreted nature as freely as a lawyer interprets the truth.
"Lawyers Are": Those who lie, conceal and distort everything and slander everybody
I am sure it had little to do with MySQL software unless it was an injection that got them access to change the site
No, it wasn't anything to do with a SQL injection attack. Levels of Irony that high actually warp space/time and I am sure some scientists would have registered it somewhere and reported it.
You could give a horse a blowjob to completion
LOL.
As opposed to what? Just teasing the horse? I'm pretty sure if you broke through whatever mental and social barriers there are to blowing a horse you are going to do it to "completion".
What on Earth is wrong with sweetheart deals?
That's the way it should be done. Reputation based scoring on a large scale, or a complete bypass, could greatly reduce the amount of resources required to process mail.
This "sweetheart" deal, as you refer to it, is nothing more than Company A recognizing the Company B has its shit together and can be trusted enough to bypass the spam filtering process. Which, is network/IP based anyways.
Spammers could not profit from such information even if they had it. How are they going to impersonate one of those networks? Not likely. It would involve a sophisticated attack on Company B to get access to those networks to send out a massive SPAM campaign. Either Company B will find it out really quickly, or Company A will realize there is a problem when they get a huge spike in reports.
Both companies will react appropriately, and ostensibly, will have communication channels between them. Ever hear of a feedback loop? Those exist for a reason too.
Honestly, I don't see the problem or why the deals should be dissolved at all. It is actually saving a lot of money and not contributing to greater amounts of SPAM in peoples inboxes, so it is a good thing.
Where is the conspiracy and harmed parties here? Sure, you can be jealous and pissed off because you don't qualify for one based on your size and scale, but that hardly justifies asking that nobody gets it.
good editing to make ten thousand people look like fifty
That's without even resorting to photoshopping
"photoshopping" refers to something that does not explicitly include Adobe.
Without a similar program, just how do you make then thousand people look like fifty?
I don't have a problem with them banning Facebook at all. That is liberty. If the people of Pakistan truly did not like it, they could change their government through revolution, within the framework of their country's legal system, or just leave.
As another poster pointed out, Pakistan is hardly represented by those in power. There is a fairly large non-trivial number of Pakistani people that are more moderate and have no interest in killing another person based on their beliefs at all. Yet, at the same time there is a large number of Pakistani men (generally) that are fanatics and have no problems telling/killing others that don't cooperate with their belief system.
In any case, is it not freedom to allow them to choose?
My only problem comes with the IT people in Pakistan that don't understand routing and take out half the Internet for a few hours propagating some fucked up routing changes.
They have the right to peer and transit with any other network in any fashion they choose to do so. They don't have the right to screw up and affect other networks, which has happened a few times before I think.
This is the same government banning encryption. So I think that they are taking it up a notch and trying to give China a run for its money on how locked down they can make the whole system.
Ultimately, the information will reach the people that want it anyways.....
LOL. That would be perfect.
Guest: Wow. Nice living room. Love the family pictures above the fireplace.... what the fuck....
Family Member: Ohh, that's old Grampa Joe.
Guest: He does not look like he is having a lot of fun.
Family Member: Don't worry, it did not last that long.
Guest: Thank god. Where is he now?
Family Member: The urn right next to the photo.
Welllll..... isn't that what illegal immigrants are for? To "take" all the jobs we don't want to do?
Trust me. Whatever job you can come up with, there is somebody willing to take it. Cleaning up excrement is a job that does not even require a high school degree, which means that over a 3rd of our young people already qualify for it, and won't be able to qualify for much more.
Pride does not feed a family. There will be both men and women that will take that job, because at the end of the day and a hot shower, they can feed their children.
P.S - I am being sarcastic about the immigrants. Just a disclaimer for the sarcastically challenged out there.
Puhleez. I have the cheapest solution... that eventually makes a profit!
Suicide Booth. 50c.
Best part is you can make a ton of them and station them strategically. Like right next to TSA checkpoints, casino entrances, bars, etc.
we should chop people's balls off for euthanasia so that their blood will drain out quickly and they'll have a quick and peaceful death
I'm sure there are plenty of married men that will debate the "quick" and "peaceful death" statements with you.
Depends. Are we talking about the ones from Galaxy Quest that can morph into a chick like Missi Pyle?
Let's face it. Shape shifting aliens probably, at a minimum, doubles the chances for a significant portion of Slashdotters getting some. The rest are just doubling zero.
Although we both know that dude on Galaxy Quest was high as a mother fucker through the whole movie.
Yeah..... my friend keeps telling me that too..... even though in the dark recesses of the bar the rest of my friends and I could see the world class Adam's Apple on this "chick".
I had more than he did, by a large margin, so I don't buy it. However, him finding out was an absolute classic. Good times.
a bunch of people whose only work experience has ben shovelling frozen fries into vats of oil during their summer holidays
Yeah..... my hearts bleeds for those people too.
If they are upset that I was able to find a job like that for awhile and they had to work harder than I did (allegedly) than they should consider two things:
1) Maybe they should not have fucked off in High School like idiots. Most of those people who tormented other students and generally did poorly in school, end up like that.
2) If they knew a small amount of what I know, they could get work as an IT tech making more than you would working at fast food joint. Generally, IT is considered difficult work in the trenches in the beginning. Well does that burger job really prepare you for anything else? IT at least gives you hands on training the whole time and the ability to put past experience into use improving yourself.
3) Are they even prepared mentally to work 20-30-40, or even 50 hours in a row until something gets done right?
The two hour a day job is rare, and takes a lot work to create. Anybody that truly has one of those deserves it, since whatever you are doing in that two hours keeps something else doing its job that is easily worth a hell of a lot more than your salary.
Verizon/AT&T probably do not keep historical data, even if they can pinpoint my location at law enforcement's request.
There was a posted article about this awhile ago. Verizon most certainly does keep historical data. Law enforcement was trying to get access to it without a warrant for a specific ~150 day period. They did not even specify what period it was, implying that Verizon has access to even longer historical logs than we thought, or is even implied.
If Verizon did not maintain the data why:
1) Was law enforcement requesting it?
2) Why did Verizon not immediately state that compliance was impossible since they did not possess it?
3) That articles about either 1 or 2 have not been making the rounds yet?
4) The original article did not already contain Verizon's response to the court?
Copy and paste.. .... and...
Uhhhhhh... okay.
1) The electric company cannot shut off my refrigerator. They can only shut off *everything* in my house. It is a blunt dull instrument, not a precision tool.
2) I was referring to an extension of the levels of control that electric companies are trying to do right now, most notably with air conditioning. That does not have to be limited to that with a smart grid, and smart monitors/outlets in the house.
The electric company would be far less nefarious of course. Ostensibly, it is to rate throttle, prevent brownouts, and increase efficiency. All good green initiatives if you want to cooperate. I would not give them control over any of it, because I don't trust them to do it correctly. That, and at any one time, a refrigerator probably has at least $75 worth of food in it. Too risky. My beer might get warm.
Uhhhhhh... okay.
1) The electric company cannot shut off my refrigerator. They can only shut off *everything* in my house. It is a blunt dull instrument, not a precision tool.
2) I was referring to an extension of the levels of control that electric companies are trying to do right now, most notably with air conditioning. That does not have to be limited to that with a smart grid, and smart monitors/outlets in the house.
The electric company would be far less nefarious of course. Ostensibly, it is to rate throttle, prevent brownouts, and increase efficiency. All good green initiatives if you want to cooperate. I would not give them control over any of it, because I don't trust them to do it correctly. That, and at any one time, a refrigerator probably has at least $75 worth of food in it. Too risky. My beer might get warm.
Do you trust such companies with unfettered access to the entire GPS history of your vehicle?
Of course I don't. I don't own a vehicle that has the ability to be shut off remotely either, because I don't trust a company or the systems with something that important. I would not trust the electric company with my refrigerator either. The very fact the control exists with a 3rd party is unacceptable.
If you are worried about being tracked, OnStar is the least of your concerns. It applies to a single source of data that is not always with you.
Anybody that really cares about this should wonder what data is being collected with your smart phones, etc. Verizon can track you better than OnStar ever could.
All of your devices with their own dedicated data connections also track you far better. Sprint HotSpot? Those things can track you just like a cell phone too.
The only thing surprising about this is that OnStar tried slipping it into the TOS, except just selling the data anyways with some legal sleight of hand.
They are going down and will continue to do so. They will be lucky to find a balance and just stay alive.
People are buying laptops and desktops, and for the vast percentage, it is a MS operating system. Apple gained market share and MS went down. That might not last forever, especially if Google actually does something with an OS that takes off. Windows 8 really really needs to be good here.
Now the whole new thing is tablets. MS is not exactly very strong here. They are just starting out with their new standardized platform strategy with Windows 8. It will be awhile before they can start gaining market share with tablets. That is not nearly as much a lock in like laptops and PCs were for them either. I think large tablets will start replacing desktops and laptops. Connect a tablet to a dock, have an external monitor, keyboard, and mouse and you have something. Even better if the tablet itself turns into a user interface for multiple standard screens. We might see the demise of the laptop and desktop within the next 10 years. Is MS prepared for that? Really prepared or even thinking about it?
Their real big claim to fame here is the business and server offerings. That has nowhere to go but down too. I know of at least one stock exchange that had enough and switched out. MS is not primarily used for web hosting either. That is dominated by Apache/Linux. They are still going down on that. Most of the internal corporate websites may be run on MS, because you already have the server and infrastructure, but for businesses that just need to create and manage web portals MS has been losing ground to Linux for quite some time now. I have not even touched IIS to run a public website in a decade. It does not help that every site I see is complete utter shit too. SQL injection attacks, proprietary crap that makes you run the whole site in IE, because it cannot do it any other web browser. Not impressed. I think there is one MS site that actually works really well in multiple browsers that I visited and used, but other than that.....
Their conversion rate on XP to Vista/7 has been a train wreck in corporations. I don't even know of a single corporation that deliberately upgraded past XP. Not a single one. They eventually did, but that was through the purchase of all new hardware. Thin clients are making a come back too, which really eats MS lunch. Unless you actually get one with embedded Windows 7. You need a reason for that. Dell just came out with a new thin client that already has clients for Citrix and VMWare, as well standard RDP for Remote Desktop. Standard OS on that is not Windows embedded. Windows does not get a license fee for each one sold. When most of the work an employee needs to do can be done through a web portal, or controlled in a virtual environment like virtual desktops and terminal servers, the days of big fat desktops with big fat OS license fees are coming to an end.
Then you have all the open source alternatives to the expensive platforms that MS has. Exchange/Sharepoint/SQL is not cheap. Server licensing is not cheap. The ridiculous costs of the CALS don't help.
Basically, they are creating an environment where corporations are looking for an alternative. Progressively, those alternatives are being made.
SAAS is springing up all over the place to replace costly in house systems. For the most part, those are being run on platforms with Linux.
Microsoft does not have the luxury of just sitting back here with their captive audience and IT heads that love MS and deploy it preferentially everywhere. Regardless of the debates, money speaks at the end of the day.
There is no up for Microsoft anymore. Not in their current markets with the exception of Bing. That can only go up.
More and more competition to Microsoft is being created each and every day in the business sectors that MS depends on. I honestly have a hard time seeing somebody stick with the huge expense of running server clusters, in house developm
Most people don't even know what ADA compliant even means. Furthermore, what the heck does a client-side language have to do with disabled people? How does javascript inherently prevent a disabled person from interacting with a website?
I don't have a single website that does not use javascript via JQuery. It just works.
NoScript? Fine. As a default that is. You will run into more sites that require javascript to do something, than ones that do not. We just redirect to a page that asks you to turn on javascript. If you don't trust enough to turn it on, but trust us enough to allow us to do recurring billing, than there is something wrong.
Unless you want a whole lot of forms and page refreshes, you need AJAX and the ability to rewrite the DOM client side for cleaner looking websites that don't require an entire page refresh, or a redirect to a working page, than a redirect back to the original page with the new data. Javascript simplifies things a lot more than Flash or Silverlight. That's for damn sure.
Of course, there is another article about TLS being broken. With javascript you can add your own layered encryption to the AJAX calls making it a little more secure. Cannot do that passing back data in forms.
Javascript is only an issue with websites that you don't trust. I find it invaluable for so many reasons as a developer and don't really care if you don't want to use it.
For landing pages and home pages we don't use any javascript at all, but is it really required on a home page?
I will ask again, how the heck does javascript inherently "violate" ADA compliance? Which for the record, is a bunch of BS for 90% of all websites. If you can't see, then some websites are just not for you. It would be too hard, and in some cases not even feasible, to translate the visual impact to auditory data. Additionally, javascript would actually be perfect client side to provide a data object that a braille reader could interpret. The client side applications to do so should not be the responsibility of the website owners and developers. All we should need to do is provide a standardized document format, or heavens no, have the ADA supported open source braille reader be able to interpret a DOM in real time and notify the person audibly that a change has occurred and how.
The deaf? Not all that much data on websites is auditory in the first place. Only real place to apply it would be lyrics to music, and then you would draw the wrath of the mentally challenged. Not any mentally challenged person the ADA would support either. I am speaking about all the execs and lawyers in Big Content.
but no one offers 2 hour per day jobs
Sure they do. It is not explicitly stated though. What is stated is that you meet your goals on a day-to-day basis and the system keeps functioning.
If that takes you 12 hours per day, than it is 12 hours. 15 minutes per day, than it is 15 minutes. Your pay is linked to performance and stability of the system you are retained to make work.
So you might go a few weeks just watching a big screen for alerts and events while playing Halo and watching porn. Then something happens and you work 30 hours in a row to fix it, or implement some idea that does something that will magically do another something that some executive saw in some magazine.
Basically, if you are in the right place at the right time, with the right credentials, and the right environment (that you create with some hard work initially) you can easily work two hours per day and get paid very very well for it.
Then get 3 of those, save up money, and retire with your hollowed out magma lair. Pretty standard stuff really. If you have the means, I highly recommend it.
Please *note* however, that forgetting to put clothes on (some us don't wear pajamas) for an impromptu video conference could cause you to get your telecommuting status revoked and sent back to the office. You still only work 2 hours per day, but aggro is lot more dangerous when the person you are humiliating online is one floor down and a sneaky conniving bastard that will lock you into a bathroom with the lights off right in the middle of pinching a monster loaf. Just my two cents....
rather than electrons (and electron holes)
Interesting. Is that similar to how there are Donuts and Donut "Holes"? However, an electron is in itself a spherical particle, which already makes it the Donut Hole.
Confused here. Please explain.
with the exception of fantasy making better escapist fare for when you want to turn off your brain for a few hours.
Well..... I read the article. I know, I did not mean to do so. However, Shatner did not disappoint me.
His idea to merge the universes was him running of with Princess Leia (shirtless of course with her in the bikini) being pursued by a raging Chewy.
I could think of worse ways to merge the two universes. I think we should let Shatner star and direct on this one. It would be a train wreck and disaster, but is that not the entire basis for watching NASCAR anyways?
Wow. I think we all see that Netflix effectively has end stage terminal cancer here.
To me the lack of communication between websites even more stupid than that. Having gone "plaid" just does not do it here.
I don't have a Facebook account, but that damned website is integrated *everywhere*. I have to use Skype for business and it nags the crap out of me for Facebook. So do a lot of other websites.
Two bills? You're fucking with me right? Does your ISP give you three different bills for Internet, TV, and Phone? No. One itemized bill. Fine, they are really making two completely different companies and it has to billed as such. Fine. Probably a bunch of lawyers and accountants told them that.
Are you telling me that all the developers between the two websites could *not* figure out how to allow you to link your Netflix account with your Qwikster account? It would be as simple as a couple of API calls between websites. I do it all the time with our projects and clients. You might be on a single website, but it is making calls back and forth between multiple companies to get all the information you want. Facebook and YouTube can do it. You can be on my website, provide me with the credentials for YouTube, and from my website I can manage your channel, upload videos, remove videos, etc.
Integration is still possible here, even with two wholly different companies. You figure they would want to keep that straight out the gate.
There is no excuse for this. I absolutely know that the the CTO and the development team over there must have been in a state of shock listening to the stream of retarded bullshit coming from this CEO's mouth the last couple of weeks. You want us to do what? Ummm okay..... wait.... no integration? That really is not a great idea... We can do this you know right? Still no on the integration huh?
I refuse to believe that anybody on the IT side of things over there was going along with this singing a happy tune. More likely, they were quietly polishing up their resumes and getting ready to find jobs elsewhere.
*sigh*
I knew Netflix was going to die, but that was only because nobody else wanted it to live. It was basically terrorism from Big Content and its many bitches out there. You don't fuck with the lucrative rental revenue of the Cable Providers and Big Content, which in some cases are the same content, and expect no resistance. Especially, when those same companies have to absorb the impact of all of Netflix's streaming on their revenue as an ISP. It tickles me ohhh so much to know how much that messes with their oversell. Oh sooooo much. Same thing. Netflix poked the bear, and it seems finally the bear figured out a way to fight back.
Going to cancel the DVD service for sure. I have no patience for it. Spending 20 minutes looking around and adding shit to queues is all fine, but when I cannot add it to my Instant Watch queue when it is available instead of waiting for it.... that just is too stupid to participate in. My time is way too valuable to be having to different websites up on two different screens and cross referencing the shit between them with cut and paste. I would be the *best* at it too. Somebody like myself could operate very fast, because I do it in my job all fucking day long.
I don't want Netflix and Qwickster to be a job . The whole point is to provide me with some relief and enjoyment. Hence, why Angry Birds is damned addictive. It's easy. They are no longer easy, even for somebody like me.
Besides, it basically is about 7-8 Redbox rentals per month. Guess I will be using Redbox a lot more now.
I will stay with the streaming as long as it under $20 and still offers some decent content. Other than that, Netflix, you were great while you lasted.
R.I.P.
One can only hope that too much exposure doesn't result in people becoming sexually aroused by cruelty to animals. I really think that PETA should have thought this through a little bit more.
Dude. Dude. STFU.
We are talking about them using their mental influence on hot celebrity chicks, like Eva Mendes, to do porn.
Priorities. Get Some.
Obviously you have absolutely no understanding of the definitions of piracy, by extension theft, and what infringement actually means.
The contemporary meaning of the word piracy has always been associated with violent acts, theft, murder, and debauchery. Even today, true piracy, exists everywhere, but not even in the remotest sense, intellectual property.
The word piracy, as it is intended to be used in this context, is as a colorful a description of an act of theft that you can get. It associates the ascribed act as one of utter disregard for the welfare of others, sociopathic behavior, and acts of brutality, the least of which is theft. It usage is a deliberate act of mental manipulation.
The word infringement on the other hand, specifically means the violation of a right or privilege granted to another either through law or lawful contract. It has nothing to do with anything physical. It is an abstraction . As such, it is logically impossible to anyone with basic intelligence and a rudimentary understanding of logic, to ascribe the act of unlawful theft to said abstraction.
These are facts, not opinions.
I am not a pirate that performs acts of theft. The only possibility that exists is that I am guilty of infringement, which is a civil matter between two citizens. I would have violated the legal entitlements that the government, via The People, granted this other person.
You also obviously, have no understanding of the purpose of intellectual property regardless of your agreement that it should exist. At least anarchists, communists, etc. are upfront about it. They refuse to participate in a legal system and society that follows the tenants and philosophy that allow intellectual property to exist to perform its intended function .
The intended function?
To foster innovation and creativity by rewarding it with temporary legal entitlements that allow the creators to survive, prosper, and in some cases become quite wealthy and live lives that inspire the rest to do the same. At the same time, it provides a crucial function to society which is to create a wealth of ideas, art, technology, etc. that enrich all of us and allow further innovation and creativity benefiting from the work of previous generations.
If you understood any of this, and had rudimentary logic skills, you would realize that is impossible to steal, and impossible to infringe upon intellectual property that is delivered to me for free, with no effort or interactivity required on my part.
You don't. Which is why your reply is four words. If you can't bring logical and well reasoned arguments and positions to a discussion, I suggest you just sit back and let the rest of us mess around with intellectual property, activism, and fighting for the well being of society.
In short, you're in the way. Please step aside and let those that can understand what I am talking about have intelligent conversations that might lead to some positive results.