Just adding my voice to those that are already here. Seriously, 80's look with random high school symbols of science splashed over a lipstick commercial. I don't think the creators know what science is, nor that women are nothing like the bimbos shown in the video (nothing personal against the actors).
Lets put it this way, the stereotypical women depicted in the video couldn't get past grade school math let along drop into science. The Ad ends with "It's a girl thing" but that is NOT what science is (for those close to high BP, it's not a guy thing either). Science is science, and the rest of the Ad is what society "appears" to want girls to be like. All the Ad did was support the negative later!
Please, depending on the age group you are targeting, pay some experts in the field to get your message across like: Disney, Vogue, Glamour, Victoria Secret, or even Target! Don't buy rejected lipstick Ads on the cheap and throw a guy & some beakers into it.
I'll bite. "women are nothing like the bimbos shown", really? I've met women who do like to flaunt their sensuality in certain appropriate circumstance, much more so than what was displayed. Furthermore, "bimbos", really? Did they do anything approaching noncommittal sexual relations, or was that your imagination?
Lipstick: Lots of science goes into making cosmetics. Who better to formulate cosmetic chemicals than those who typically wear them?
Assumption that models are ignorant of "grade school math" & science: Oh, now you're just being even more of a completely sexist cheauvanistic douchbag. Five of the six models I've met were putting themselves through college with their looks, wouldn't you if you could? The sixth had a degree in art. They ALL have passed grade school level math & science -- who doesn't these days? (DAMN YOU'RE A DICK).
I agree science isn't sexually discriminant, however, I disagree. Science IS a "Girl Thing", just as much as it is a "Guy Thing", it's non exclusive, ergo it's both.
As one who uses a microscope, and wears glasses for farsightedness, ANYONE approaching me while examining a slide would warrant the donning of my glasses...
Look, I agree the ad was over sexed a bit, but you're just an asshole. Fuck you.
No, let me rephrase that... As one who understands and applies the scientific method in all things, I call your hypothesis unfounded. If a flunked math student can discover a theory of relativity, then you've got some serious explaining to do in order to support your claims that having a job in a scientific field is a prerequisite for being a scientist.
We get the space privateers out there like Elon Musk and friends to mine some asteroids, and ask them nicely to send some useless iron ones back to the moon. Fuck mining them, send some to the moon, like, yesterday.
The moon will soon have a small ring of asteroids ready to be dislodged from their Lunar orbit like a loaded twirling sling. We can use that mass to tug an asteroid, or smash it and it's fragments until they're no longer dangerous. TADA, we're a lot more prepared for unforseen shit. We might not be able to stop a planetoid that could be careening our way, but we'd at least be somewhat armed... You think we'd have already seen all the things nearly the size of a planet zipping around the what 50, 100, 1000 years ago? Nope.
Eris, is the most massive known dwarf planet in the Solar System and the ninth most massive body known to orbit the Sun directly. It is estimated to be approximately 2300–2400 km in diameter, and 27% more massive than Pluto, or about 0.27% of the Earth's mass.
Eris was discovered in January 2005 by a Palomar Observatory-based team led by Mike Brown, and its identity was verified later that year. In 2005, we discovered for the first time something five times the size of pluto was orbiting between Mars and Jupiter.
We're nearly fucking blind man! If priority #1 isn't solving the "all your eggs are in one basket" problem by colonising other planets or moons around other planets, then we're all doomed. The lasers and lunar asteroid slingshot MIGHT buy us a little time... Think about that next time NASA budgets are cut while we spend trillions in wars against brown people over oil. What the fuck will having the oil do when you're roasted alive by a gama-ray burst, or planet killing asteroid?
We've deserved extinction since we started polluted our gene pool by saving the mutants who would naturally die and letting them breed.
Besides, we're too frail to really get out there and enjoy space properly... I can only hope the machine races we're all trying to engender will remember the folly of their forefathers.
in all of history, the number of extinction level asteroid impacts are very few and far between.... Long story short, I think asteroids are the least of our worries.
Car companies can't patent car designs, it's hard for them to make a business case for changing them every year, that takes time and effort... Just like the fashion industry, where they have no copyright or design patents for their clothing designs, so it's hard for them to make a business case for selling different clothes. That's why we've worn grey smocks for hundreds of years, and why every car looks the same as their "1930s" predecessors.
Once upon a cubicle, our office was relocated. Just after the move, IT hadn't installed anything on our computers, and thus Internet access was down too.
A coworker mentioned that one, "couldn't, do anything with just a fresh install of Windows!".
It would be 4 days before the understaffed IT could get to our systems.
In the meantime I made a Snackman game to prove a point, but also to kill time. I added the music and sound effects later, of course.
I haven't finished my the public facing blog yet, but you can also play a Tetris game I made using only the URL bar on my website.
What a nerd will do to win a bet... Yeah, I've posted it a few times before, now you can edit it and see the changes though.
So, I've been down this road. It's doable, but WTF man, don't you have a smartphone? Just use it. That, or fucking quit, that place sounds awful.
P.S. That little paragraph about any creations belonging to the company? I just quietly draw a line through it and initial it. If they ask questions I say: "That's my only hobby. Would you give up TV, Videogames, Movies, Golf, etc. for your job? If you want me to do so, then I'll need a hell of a lot more money."
I agree. Let's ditch the patent system. It's the only rational, logical thing to do. I mean, if you think that the Patent System is good, then I call bullshit until you test the damn hypothesis already. It's not like we can't re-enact whatever crap laws we want.
It's time we did the damned experiment, abolish patents AND copyrights. Times have changed! We're in the INFORMATION AGE now. I fear most people grossly underestimate the power of reverse engineers... Besides: "May the Best Copier Win!" has been the battle cry of life itself for billions of years. Only now we place restrictions on the flow of information? Look, as much as I liked that Planet of the Apes movie, I don't want it to come true.
'We want to make people look at the fabric of storytelling—left to right, top to bottom—and break that fabric,' says Madefire founder Ben Wolstenholme.
Well, first you have to study Elementary Economics 101. Supply & Demand. What's scarce is not your software. What's scarce is your ability to create the software. As long as you're trying to sell a beach bum sand, or ice to Eskimos, then no one can help you.
What you really want to do is get paid for working, right? I mean, that's the disconnect. THAT's the problem. The fact that you've gotten yourself into a situation where no one can pay you to do work until after it's done is the problem. Hey, if you're gonna paint the fence for free, why should I pay you for that work?
You want to work and work and work, and then after it's already done, you expect to get paid... Who the fuck asked you to paint the fence, fool? Why are you working for free if you don't want to work for free? You don't own your actions. I can record you for free while you exert force jogging down the street, watch it as many times as I want. If you don't want to go for a jog, then don't do it unless someone pays you to, and changes your mind. Get a sponsor for the run BEFORE you run, if you want to get paid.
Pitch me an idea, and I'll decide if it's worth funding the development. That's what I do. The people who pay me are funding the development of FLOSS to fix their problems, and when the work is done, it can help the world. Don't you see how much more powerful a force that is? You can't stop it even if you slap a proprietary license fee on it. The force of sharing is just too strong -- Get this into your head, and every damn cell of your body: life IS copying data, you stop the duplication, WE DIE. Everything you see around you is the product of sharing information. Your ideas about proprietary software are contrary to your very existence, I'm not making this shit up. LOOK AROUND.
Guess what? No one gives a damn if you want to scratch your own itches -- Solve OTHER PEOPLE'S actual problems and then we'll talk about reimbursement Don't have any good ideas people will fund? Ah, welcome to real life. Seek out problems that need to be solved, people list them around... we call such things JOBS. We call the people willing to pay for solutions employers.
Kickstarter... (fuck this sentence, you figure it out mr. smarty pants)
Look, if you want to fix the issue, then get to the core of the matter. If you just want to spout drivel on the Internet, then you're not ready for a solution, now are you? You're just looking for a justification for doing what you do the way you do it. YOU WILL HAVE TO CHANGE if you really want to support yourself as a developer in the Age of Information. In the stone age, no one restricted the use of stone tools. Welcome to the Information Age!
You can't keep the other beings from using your invention of fire. It's done, it belongs to posterity. You can't keep other beings from fashioning stone tools exactly like yours. It's done, it belongs to culture. You cant' keep other beings from duplicating the bits you configured or the technology you worked to create. Once it's done, your work belongs to the Universe, Not You!
Get some payment up front, if we like what you're doing we'll keep paying you. Market your ability to arrange the damn bits man!
Charging for the software distribution costs is fine. Charging after the work is done is artificial scarcity, which is unethical.... or are you just "absolutely stupid"?
It is up to the user to decide whether they want to breathe clean air or not, if users decided they didn't want to smoke cigarettes, the market for cigarettes would disappear, nobody would be able to sell them.
Since the users are not making that decision, the market for cigarettes thrives actually, which makes this argument irrelevant.
You see.... that's the crux of the problem, you dodged the vendor lock-in addiction issue by ignoring that the vendors don't reveal the true risks. Many users want to quit smoking cigarettes, but are helplessly trapped by their need. The Proprietary Tobacco Industry doesn't care what sort of harm they're causing as long as users keep buying product.
accept it, you can't have total control over stuff that you didn't make yourself. and you can't make everything yourself.
You know this. I know this. However, good luck explaining how NOTHING found on your computer can be trusted as evidence to a judge / jury.
Scratch my back, I'll scratch yours. Solve that little issue right there and I'll CONSIDER the possibility of running non-free software. Do you wear a seat-belt when you drive? Why? You can still die in a wreck anyway! I use FLOSS for the same reason you wear a safety belt. Take your absolutist mentality elsewhere.
Actually, using C# (.Net) you can share a lot of the same codebase for all of the above platforms. There are some UI differences, but most of the underlying libraries/code is the same.
Interesting... That's EXACTLY the same thing I said about using GCC instead of MS VC. C FTW!
But somehow it's fashionable only to slag Microsoft on here and ignore the elephant in the room with the lion's share of devices and profits.
Well, two things:
0. I guess that depends on who "they" refers to, now doesn't it? Or are you saying that Microsoft IS Apple?
1. Who really gives a crap who came for what first? Focus on the solution. What matters is if we can use this SNAFU to keep them from taking more stuff now.
But it's possession of illegal material. There are many good reasons why possession of certain stuff can be considered a crime. Toxic/dangerous stuff without a license.
You may disagree that CP should be considered illegal material, but good luck convincing lots of people otherwise.
On any website there could be this:
<iframe src="http://pedo.example.com/illegal-porn.jpg" style="width:1px; height:1px; border:none" ></iframe>
Cross site scripting and/or SQL injection could easily plant that stuff on any website, unseen. Your browser will happily and automatically download the image and put the "illegal material" in your possession.
We don't need "good luck convincing lots of people" that this can happen to them, all we need are script-kiddies like Anonymous who'd love nothing more than to get a bunch of people wrongfully convicted of child porn possessions esp. if it means making a point about how retarded the law is.
This stuff isn't dangerous or toxic sitting in your Internet cache unseen and unknown to anyone. It's only dangerous to have the configuration of bits on your drive because the laws have deemed it to be so. Protip: this script kiddie scenario isn't hypothetical... delete your caches regularly.
Black markets form when there exists a market that is not being serviced through legal channels. By not competing with the sea faring rapists & murderers by addressing the desires of the populous, the content companies are actually encouraging maritime rape & murderer. Listen up content providers. We want use our content when, where, and how we want it all at a reasonable price. Yes, there are those that rape, murder and pillage because they don't want to pay but most of us are willing to pay but can't without going through major headaches...
This is what you sound like to me. Protip: it's called Copyright Infringement. If you dislike their actions, why are you using the derogatory terms they invented?
Since the DNT: 1 shit is so fuckin' popular, why the hell don't we just send a bitchin' new HTTP Response header to indicate to these sons of bitches when the gods damned content may contain pussies, dicks, assholes, and other material you wouldn't want to be caught wanking over at work?
Rather than ordering more sophisticated attacks, why not just order more effective attacks?
By ordering more sophisticated attacks, they're ensuring that our enemies will also create more sophisticated cyber defences and attacks of their own... The hope is that this process will accelerate exponentially in sophistication resulting not only in Sentient Machine Intelligence, but prior to this, also The Year of Desktop Linux!
Or just complain about the support issues frequently. Problem is, for all the zeal we Lusers have, we're not really the complaining type (at least not via the proper channels), I mean, you complain in front of your zealous friends, but what of the actual user support tickets?
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Just adding my voice to those that are already here. Seriously, 80's look with random high school symbols of science splashed over a lipstick commercial. I don't think the creators know what science is, nor that women are nothing like the bimbos shown in the video (nothing personal against the actors).
Lets put it this way, the stereotypical women depicted in the video couldn't get past grade school math let along drop into science. The Ad ends with "It's a girl thing" but that is NOT what science is (for those close to high BP, it's not a guy thing either). Science is science, and the rest of the Ad is what society "appears" to want girls to be like. All the Ad did was support the negative later!
Please, depending on the age group you are targeting, pay some experts in the field to get your message across like: Disney, Vogue, Glamour, Victoria Secret, or even Target! Don't buy rejected lipstick Ads on the cheap and throw a guy & some beakers into it.
I'll bite. "women are nothing like the bimbos shown", really? I've met women who do like to flaunt their sensuality in certain appropriate circumstance, much more so than what was displayed. Furthermore, "bimbos", really? Did they do anything approaching noncommittal sexual relations, or was that your imagination?
Lipstick: Lots of science goes into making cosmetics. Who better to formulate cosmetic chemicals than those who typically wear them?
Assumption that models are ignorant of "grade school math" & science: Oh, now you're just being even more of a completely sexist cheauvanistic douchbag. Five of the six models I've met were putting themselves through college with their looks, wouldn't you if you could? The sixth had a degree in art. They ALL have passed grade school level math & science -- who doesn't these days? (DAMN YOU'RE A DICK).
I agree science isn't sexually discriminant, however, I disagree. Science IS a "Girl Thing", just as much as it is a "Guy Thing", it's non exclusive, ergo it's both.
As one who uses a microscope, and wears glasses for farsightedness, ANYONE approaching me while examining a slide would warrant the donning of my glasses...
Look, I agree the ad was over sexed a bit, but you're just an asshole. Fuck you.
noting more than an attempt to re-engineer human nature, which isn't really malleable.
Fatties were sexy at the turn of the century. Please explain.
FUCK YOU.
No, let me rephrase that... As one who understands and applies the scientific method in all things, I call your hypothesis unfounded. If a flunked math student can discover a theory of relativity, then you've got some serious explaining to do in order to support your claims that having a job in a scientific field is a prerequisite for being a scientist.
Furthermore PISS OFF RETARD.
We get the space privateers out there like Elon Musk and friends to mine some asteroids, and ask them nicely to send some useless iron ones back to the moon. Fuck mining them, send some to the moon, like, yesterday.
The moon will soon have a small ring of asteroids ready to be dislodged from their Lunar orbit like a loaded twirling sling. We can use that mass to tug an asteroid, or smash it and it's fragments until they're no longer dangerous. TADA, we're a lot more prepared for unforseen shit. We might not be able to stop a planetoid that could be careening our way, but we'd at least be somewhat armed... You think we'd have already seen all the things nearly the size of a planet zipping around the what 50, 100, 1000 years ago? Nope.
Eris, is the most massive known dwarf planet in the Solar System and the ninth most massive body known to orbit the Sun directly. It is estimated to be approximately 2300–2400 km in diameter, and 27% more massive than Pluto, or about 0.27% of the Earth's mass. Eris was discovered in January 2005 by a Palomar Observatory-based team led by Mike Brown, and its identity was verified later that year. In 2005, we discovered for the first time something five times the size of pluto was orbiting between Mars and Jupiter.
We're nearly fucking blind man! If priority #1 isn't solving the "all your eggs are in one basket" problem by colonising other planets or moons around other planets, then we're all doomed. The lasers and lunar asteroid slingshot MIGHT buy us a little time... Think about that next time NASA budgets are cut while we spend trillions in wars against brown people over oil. What the fuck will having the oil do when you're roasted alive by a gama-ray burst, or planet killing asteroid?
We've deserved extinction since we started polluted our gene pool by saving the mutants who would naturally die and letting them breed.
Besides, we're too frail to really get out there and enjoy space properly... I can only hope the machine races we're all trying to engender will remember the folly of their forefathers.
in all of history, the number of extinction level asteroid impacts are very few and far between. ... Long story short, I think asteroids are the least of our worries.
That's what the dinosaurs said.
Car companies can't patent car designs, it's hard for them to make a business case for changing them every year, that takes time and effort... Just like the fashion industry, where they have no copyright or design patents for their clothing designs, so it's hard for them to make a business case for selling different clothes. That's why we've worn grey smocks for hundreds of years, and why every car looks the same as their "1930s" predecessors.
Once upon a cubicle, our office was relocated. Just after the move, IT hadn't installed anything on our computers, and thus Internet access was down too. A coworker mentioned that one, "couldn't, do anything with just a fresh install of Windows!". It would be 4 days before the understaffed IT could get to our systems. In the meantime I made a Snackman game to prove a point, but also to kill time. I added the music and sound effects later, of course.
I haven't finished my the public facing blog yet, but you can also play a Tetris game I made using only the URL bar on my website.
What a nerd will do to win a bet... Yeah, I've posted it a few times before, now you can edit it and see the changes though.
So, I've been down this road. It's doable, but WTF man, don't you have a smartphone? Just use it. That, or fucking quit, that place sounds awful.
P.S. That little paragraph about any creations belonging to the company? I just quietly draw a line through it and initial it. If they ask questions I say: "That's my only hobby. Would you give up TV, Videogames, Movies, Golf, etc. for your job? If you want me to do so, then I'll need a hell of a lot more money."
I agree. Let's ditch the patent system. It's the only rational, logical thing to do. I mean, if you think that the Patent System is good, then I call bullshit until you test the damn hypothesis already. It's not like we can't re-enact whatever crap laws we want.
I can hear it now: "If you get rid of copyrights and patents NO ONE WILL INNOVATE"... Well, please explain how the fashion and car industries are doing so well without these protections?
FUDsters gonna FUD...
It's time we did the damned experiment, abolish patents AND copyrights. Times have changed! We're in the INFORMATION AGE now. I fear most people grossly underestimate the power of reverse engineers... Besides: "May the Best Copier Win!" has been the battle cry of life itself for billions of years. Only now we place restrictions on the flow of information? Look, as much as I liked that Planet of the Apes movie, I don't want it to come true.
Crap. Forgive the self reply. I've no idea how I let Dark Horse Motion Comics slip my mind.
'We want to make people look at the fabric of storytelling—left to right, top to bottom—and break that fabric,' says Madefire founder Ben Wolstenholme.
Ah, so he wants to make manga?
For a very broad interpretation of "see", yes.
Because I've always known it was true: Everyone else on the Internet is just one big fat guy.
"How exactly do I support myself as a developer?"
Well, first you have to study Elementary Economics 101. Supply & Demand. What's scarce is not your software. What's scarce is your ability to create the software. As long as you're trying to sell a beach bum sand, or ice to Eskimos, then no one can help you.
What you really want to do is get paid for working, right? I mean, that's the disconnect. THAT's the problem. The fact that you've gotten yourself into a situation where no one can pay you to do work until after it's done is the problem. Hey, if you're gonna paint the fence for free, why should I pay you for that work?
You want to work and work and work, and then after it's already done, you expect to get paid... Who the fuck asked you to paint the fence, fool? Why are you working for free if you don't want to work for free? You don't own your actions. I can record you for free while you exert force jogging down the street, watch it as many times as I want. If you don't want to go for a jog, then don't do it unless someone pays you to, and changes your mind. Get a sponsor for the run BEFORE you run, if you want to get paid.
Pitch me an idea, and I'll decide if it's worth funding the development. That's what I do. The people who pay me are funding the development of FLOSS to fix their problems, and when the work is done, it can help the world. Don't you see how much more powerful a force that is? You can't stop it even if you slap a proprietary license fee on it. The force of sharing is just too strong -- Get this into your head, and every damn cell of your body: life IS copying data, you stop the duplication, WE DIE. Everything you see around you is the product of sharing information. Your ideas about proprietary software are contrary to your very existence, I'm not making this shit up. LOOK AROUND.
Guess what? No one gives a damn if you want to scratch your own itches -- Solve OTHER PEOPLE'S actual problems and then we'll talk about reimbursement Don't have any good ideas people will fund? Ah, welcome to real life. Seek out problems that need to be solved, people list them around... we call such things JOBS. We call the people willing to pay for solutions employers.
Kickstarter... (fuck this sentence, you figure it out mr. smarty pants)
Look, if you want to fix the issue, then get to the core of the matter. If you just want to spout drivel on the Internet, then you're not ready for a solution, now are you? You're just looking for a justification for doing what you do the way you do it. YOU WILL HAVE TO CHANGE if you really want to support yourself as a developer in the Age of Information. In the stone age, no one restricted the use of stone tools. Welcome to the Information Age!
You can't keep the other beings from using your invention of fire. It's done, it belongs to posterity. You can't keep other beings from fashioning stone tools exactly like yours. It's done, it belongs to culture. You cant' keep other beings from duplicating the bits you configured or the technology you worked to create. Once it's done, your work belongs to the Universe, Not You!
Get some payment up front, if we like what you're doing we'll keep paying you. Market your ability to arrange the damn bits man! Charging for the software distribution costs is fine. Charging after the work is done is artificial scarcity, which is unethical.... or are you just "absolutely stupid"?
It is up to the user to decide whether they want to breathe clean air or not, if users decided they didn't want to smoke cigarettes, the market for cigarettes would disappear, nobody would be able to sell them.
Since the users are not making that decision, the market for cigarettes thrives actually, which makes this argument irrelevant.
You see.... that's the crux of the problem, you dodged the vendor lock-in addiction issue by ignoring that the vendors don't reveal the true risks. Many users want to quit smoking cigarettes, but are helplessly trapped by their need. The Proprietary Tobacco Industry doesn't care what sort of harm they're causing as long as users keep buying product.
accept it, you can't have total control over stuff that you didn't make yourself. and you can't make everything yourself.
You know this. I know this. However, good luck explaining how NOTHING found on your computer can be trusted as evidence to a judge / jury.
Scratch my back, I'll scratch yours. Solve that little issue right there and I'll CONSIDER the possibility of running non-free software. Do you wear a seat-belt when you drive? Why? You can still die in a wreck anyway! I use FLOSS for the same reason you wear a safety belt. Take your absolutist mentality elsewhere.
Researcher Observes Cloud Interactions, Predicts Lightning
Actually, using C# (.Net) you can share a lot of the same codebase for all of the above platforms. There are some UI differences, but most of the underlying libraries/code is the same.
Interesting... That's EXACTLY the same thing I said about using GCC instead of MS VC. C FTW!
No, first they came for phones and tablets...
But somehow it's fashionable only to slag Microsoft on here and ignore the elephant in the room with the lion's share of devices and profits.
Well, two things:
0. I guess that depends on who "they" refers to, now doesn't it? Or are you saying that Microsoft IS Apple?
1. Who really gives a crap who came for what first? Focus on the solution. What matters is if we can use this SNAFU to keep them from taking more stuff now.
US Warning of Child-Porn Blackmail Ransomware Remains Unheeded
US Gov. to proceed with CISPA anyway.
But it's possession of illegal material. There are many good reasons why possession of certain stuff can be considered a crime. Toxic/dangerous stuff without a license.
You may disagree that CP should be considered illegal material, but good luck convincing lots of people otherwise.
On any website there could be this:
<iframe src="http://pedo.example.com/illegal-porn.jpg" style="width:1px; height:1px; border:none" ></iframe>
Cross site scripting and/or SQL injection could easily plant that stuff on any website, unseen. Your browser will happily and automatically download the image and put the "illegal material" in your possession.
We don't need "good luck convincing lots of people" that this can happen to them, all we need are script-kiddies like Anonymous who'd love nothing more than to get a bunch of people wrongfully convicted of child porn possessions esp. if it means making a point about how retarded the law is.
This stuff isn't dangerous or toxic sitting in your Internet cache unseen and unknown to anyone. It's only dangerous to have the configuration of bits on your drive because the laws have deemed it to be so. Protip: this script kiddie scenario isn't hypothetical... delete your caches regularly.
Black markets form when there exists a market that is not being serviced through legal channels. By not competing with the sea faring rapists & murderers by addressing the desires of the populous, the content companies are actually encouraging maritime rape & murderer. Listen up content providers. We want use our content when, where, and how we want it all at a reasonable price. Yes, there are those that rape, murder and pillage because they don't want to pay but most of us are willing to pay but can't without going through major headaches...
This is what you sound like to me. Protip: it's called Copyright Infringement. If you dislike their actions, why are you using the derogatory terms they invented?
Since the DNT: 1 shit is so fuckin' popular, why the hell don't we just send a bitchin' new HTTP Response header to indicate to these sons of bitches when the gods damned content may contain pussies, dicks, assholes, and other material you wouldn't want to be caught wanking over at work?
Rather than ordering more sophisticated attacks, why not just order more effective attacks?
By ordering more sophisticated attacks, they're ensuring that our enemies will also create more sophisticated cyber defences and attacks of their own... The hope is that this process will accelerate exponentially in sophistication resulting not only in Sentient Machine Intelligence, but prior to this, also The Year of Desktop Linux!
Or just complain about the support issues frequently. Problem is, for all the zeal we Lusers have, we're not really the complaining type (at least not via the proper channels), I mean, you complain in front of your zealous friends, but what of the actual user support tickets?