And in the eyes of the hardware manufacturer, you have not purchased a new phone in 4 years, so their income stream has taken a hit.
This begs the question, is it really in the hardware manufacturer's best interest to make a perfect device?
Windows XP Embedded, the latest version of which is Windows Embedded Standard 2009, and Windows XP Professional are more secure because they are easier to update, the software giant says.
Emphasis Mine.
This is the reasoning that has allowed Microsoft to shovel out shitty OS after shitty OS. Once they fix this flawed logic, they can begin actually creating a secure OS.
According to Carl Jung, a pioneer of psychology, every species has a "collective unconscious" which contains natural fears, such as darkness and death.
If you believe in his theories, as many do (myself included), then you would believe that fears are not all cognitive, but some are due to the very nature of our species (as it has evolved over time).
The detective did tell us that if we were to locate any suspicious material "passively" and NOT report it, then we were just as liable as the customer.
The whole difference is "actively" searching (doing a recursive search for all pictures, music, and movies) versus "passively" finding (stumbling across a stockpile of child porn while searching for those "super important pictures that you absolutely must backup but I forget where I saved them")
But yeah, this situation does put the technicians in a pretty difficult spot. Is it wrong to save your customers' data for a set amount of time if they are aware that you are doing so? (in case they screw up their computer again and it is still under warranty etc. etc.) Or should document backup and restoration be a one-time thing that cannot be warrantied due to legal constraints? It is a tough situation.
I used to work as a technician on the side, and have had to turn in computers to the police investigators for kiddie porn. What the investigator told me was that I am not to actively look for child porn on a customer's computer, because then my business would be considered an arm of the law, which would basically label my company as vigilante. If I passively find any suspicious material, I am to report it immediately, etc. etc.
While ethically I think that "going vigilante" and actively searching through files to report kiddie porn wouldn't be terrible... collecting personal documents from your customers is wrong, and should be punished. There is a fine line between "backing up your customers' data" and "collecting your customers' data for your personal amusement/whatever", and absolutely no grey area.
... ink levels were reported accurately.
I, for one, wouldn't have a problem buying ink direct from the manufacturer if my printing program didn't tell me my ink levels were low when I still have 75% of my ink left.
As in, for how much ink costs and the unreliability of ink-level reporting, I will choose printers that do not adopt this technology and continue to purchase third-party "pirated" ink cartridges.
You bring up a good point regarding starving children in Africa, but you didn't even touch on helping other countries to build an infrastructure.
I am sure you will use your same logic (giving has done nothing in the past, so why even try), but I will throw that right back at you. We have "protected" endangered animals before, only for them to go extinct, so why even try?
My whole point that I attempted to make (and apparently failed) was that we should focus our efforts more toward helping humanity than a few species of animals in a remote area of the world.
That is my opinion, maybe I will get trolled for it again.
The animals on the Galapagos Islands are in danger of dying... and I am sure some environmental psychopath society will want to spends loads of money to fix the problem. While that money could be put to better use by feeding starving children in Africa, helping third-world countries develop an infrastructure, or funding a SimCity-clone that will predict how humans will react to propaganda and warfare.
Stupidity gets someone killed (through hunger in this case), and somewhere The Ghost of Darwin's Past is laughing.
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And in the eyes of the hardware manufacturer, you have not purchased a new phone in 4 years, so their income stream has taken a hit. This begs the question, is it really in the hardware manufacturer's best interest to make a perfect device?
Windows XP Embedded, the latest version of which is Windows Embedded Standard 2009, and Windows XP Professional are more secure because they are easier to update, the software giant says.
Emphasis Mine.
This is the reasoning that has allowed Microsoft to shovel out shitty OS after shitty OS. Once they fix this flawed logic, they can begin actually creating a secure OS.
SHUT...
DOWN...
EVERYTHING!
No one likes Meg, so she doesn't matter.
requiring oil in the manufacturing process in one form or another.
This research is still valuable though.
And here I thought this was going to be a book about what happens to women when they grow older...
No?
I am glad I saw Watchmen as well. I thought the story was fantastic. I could have done with less giant smurf penis though...
Perhaps being pathologically addicted to things is a part of being a kid.
Tsar Bomba wasted about 5.4 yottawatts (5.4*10^24 Watts) of power! Now that's what I call 'wasteful'. There, fixed that for you.
Another Doom game! Maybe the Russians can find a way to attach a flashlight to a gun...
I would say one reason that web advertising is successful is that you can better target your ads at your audience.
You can't even see Bush's horns.
Fix your CSS!
I swear, I will car bomb the first towel-wearing psycho I hear yelling "FIREBOLT!" on the streets.
Golden Rule: Jihad onto others before they Jihad onto you.
According to Carl Jung, a pioneer of psychology, every species has a "collective unconscious" which contains natural fears, such as darkness and death.
If you believe in his theories, as many do (myself included), then you would believe that fears are not all cognitive, but some are due to the very nature of our species (as it has evolved over time).
A jar of gypsy tears will always protect you from AIDS.
Why does this post have an insightful score? I thought it was hilarious.
Yes, I actually forgot to mention that, sorry.
The detective did tell us that if we were to locate any suspicious material "passively" and NOT report it, then we were just as liable as the customer.
The whole difference is "actively" searching (doing a recursive search for all pictures, music, and movies) versus "passively" finding (stumbling across a stockpile of child porn while searching for those "super important pictures that you absolutely must backup but I forget where I saved them")
But yeah, this situation does put the technicians in a pretty difficult spot. Is it wrong to save your customers' data for a set amount of time if they are aware that you are doing so? (in case they screw up their computer again and it is still under warranty etc. etc.) Or should document backup and restoration be a one-time thing that cannot be warrantied due to legal constraints? It is a tough situation.
I used to work as a technician on the side, and have had to turn in computers to the police investigators for kiddie porn. What the investigator told me was that I am not to actively look for child porn on a customer's computer, because then my business would be considered an arm of the law, which would basically label my company as vigilante. If I passively find any suspicious material, I am to report it immediately, etc. etc.
While ethically I think that "going vigilante" and actively searching through files to report kiddie porn wouldn't be terrible... collecting personal documents from your customers is wrong, and should be punished. There is a fine line between "backing up your customers' data" and "collecting your customers' data for your personal amusement/whatever", and absolutely no grey area.
... ink levels were reported accurately. I, for one, wouldn't have a problem buying ink direct from the manufacturer if my printing program didn't tell me my ink levels were low when I still have 75% of my ink left. As in, for how much ink costs and the unreliability of ink-level reporting, I will choose printers that do not adopt this technology and continue to purchase third-party "pirated" ink cartridges.
You bring up a good point regarding starving children in Africa, but you didn't even touch on helping other countries to build an infrastructure.
I am sure you will use your same logic (giving has done nothing in the past, so why even try), but I will throw that right back at you. We have "protected" endangered animals before, only for them to go extinct, so why even try?
My whole point that I attempted to make (and apparently failed) was that we should focus our efforts more toward helping humanity than a few species of animals in a remote area of the world.
That is my opinion, maybe I will get trolled for it again.
Who cares?
The animals on the Galapagos Islands are in danger of dying... and I am sure some environmental psychopath society will want to spends loads of money to fix the problem. While that money could be put to better use by feeding starving children in Africa, helping third-world countries develop an infrastructure, or funding a SimCity-clone that will predict how humans will react to propaganda and warfare.
Stupidity gets someone killed (through hunger in this case), and somewhere The Ghost of Darwin's Past is laughing.
Step 1: Load SimCity
Step 2:
Step 3: Military Intelligence