It's like they're allergic to using actual professional-grade tools. I'd suppose deliberate incompetence, but tell me this first: do they use those tools on their ATMs, when there's actual money at stake?
I don't understand why foreigners would want to come visit here, with all the bullshit customs and airport "security" stuff, and the possibility of being mistaken for someone else and getting sent off to be tortured in Syria.
Yeah, we used to have a cheap little box like that that went from our Atari 2600 to the TV's antenna leads; it had a switch on it that IIRC determined if the Atari's signal got to the TV or not.
The NES and SNES had something like that as well, but there wasn't any switch and it plugged into the CATV port.
We are making changes. Starting in August, if the sysadmins in their wisdom haven't changed things again, the students will be forced to use a uni-branded version of Gmail for all official communications. The spam situation was probably the biggest driver for this.
Yep. My university kept getting flagged as spammers by Hotmail et al because dumbass students (but I repeat myself) didn't want to get certain emails from us and instead of deleting them or unsubscribing, they flagged the mail as spam. Result: we're known as spammers not just to Hotmail but to users of big antispam lists, and lots of legit emails can't get out.
Great, if we can get the dipshit editors to post things in the right category. They aren't all that good about this. For example, when was the last Ask Slashdot posted as "Ask Slashdot" instead of something else, all the random things posted as "Your Rights Online", etc.
You assume that another country would have a number of random Americans come live there. ISTR that Canada, for example, requires that you have a job there waiting & that the employer has to certify that no Canadian can do the job.
I'm also thinking of those people who, for whatever reason, think that authoritarianism is good and following the direction of those above you is natural. The ones who love the Decider because he's a "strong leader".
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Oh, quit trolling. Not subtle, but apparently it escapes the others who replied to you.
SNERK! You come to *Slashdot* for intelligent discussion? Do you only see the +5 comments? -6 anything modded Funny?
He'll send you on a one-way DC-8 trip!
The kid isn't rich enough to buy some congressweasels.
I'll volunteer for the firing squad, and bring my own rifle and ammunition.
It's like they're allergic to using actual professional-grade tools. I'd suppose deliberate incompetence, but tell me this first: do they use those tools on their ATMs, when there's actual money at stake?
You missed the subject "antivirus software", dipshit. A decent embedded appliance doesn't need to worry about viruses or shitty antivirus programs.
This looks more and more like Diebold were deliberately incompetent in order to have plausible deniability.
Hangings. This country needs some hanged politicians.
Oh, this will be partisanized. In modern American politics, it's not about being right so much as it is about winning, about defeating the other team.
If it turns out that this benefited one party, the other will attack and the benefiting party will stonewall.
Who was fuckwitted enough to think using Windows on voting machines was a good idea? Nothing wrong with using an embedded appliance.
I don't understand why foreigners would want to come visit here, with all the bullshit customs and airport "security" stuff, and the possibility of being mistaken for someone else and getting sent off to be tortured in Syria.
As Bullwinkle would say, "this time for sure!".
On Slashdot? Never!
Yeah, we used to have a cheap little box like that that went from our Atari 2600 to the TV's antenna leads; it had a switch on it that IIRC determined if the Atari's signal got to the TV or not.
The NES and SNES had something like that as well, but there wasn't any switch and it plugged into the CATV port.
If you could get the damned Catholic Church to quit opposing contraception, that'd help quite a bit as well.
We are making changes. Starting in August, if the sysadmins in their wisdom haven't changed things again, the students will be forced to use a uni-branded version of Gmail for all official communications. The spam situation was probably the biggest driver for this.
Yep. My university kept getting flagged as spammers by Hotmail et al because dumbass students (but I repeat myself) didn't want to get certain emails from us and instead of deleting them or unsubscribing, they flagged the mail as spam. Result: we're known as spammers not just to Hotmail but to users of big antispam lists, and lots of legit emails can't get out.
That took a couple days to clear up.
That reminds me of a troll on k5 whose nick was "bloody vagina uncle".
Great, if we can get the dipshit editors to post things in the right category. They aren't all that good about this. For example, when was the last Ask Slashdot posted as "Ask Slashdot" instead of something else, all the random things posted as "Your Rights Online", etc.
I wish I could disagree, but I can't. Well played, bin Laden, well played.
You assume that another country would have a number of random Americans come live there. ISTR that Canada, for example, requires that you have a job there waiting & that the employer has to certify that no Canadian can do the job.
LOL. You expect the airline industry to do something to make flying less annoying?
No, because we use VPN. I have had to explain to my lusers how to connect to wireless on a foreign network, though. That's a lot of fun.
The Constitution makes no distinctions between the rights of citizens and the rights of "the people", except for obvious things like voting.
I'm also thinking of those people who, for whatever reason, think that authoritarianism is good and following the direction of those above you is natural. The ones who love the Decider because he's a "strong leader".