It never seemed stupid to anyone with even a tiny bit of knowledge about history.
Oh come on. I know a guy with that same attitude at work. You're normalizing the situation with this nonsense fantasy that you knew all along. You didn't know all along... you worried about it, you feared for it, but you didn't know Now you do, and you should be surprised... shocked... outraged... But to sit back in your lazyboy, burp, and say "yea, I figured!" is freaking ridiculous. Write you God damned congressman. Get a picket sign. The house is on fire, just because you told the kids not to play with matches doesn't mean you don't need to grab a bucket now.
At the moment, just about every major distribution except Slackware and Gentoo not only supports systemd, but ships with it on by default.
So...what "battle" are we talking about? (Or did this post just fall forward five years from the past?)
Ubuntu is the largest distro I know of and it doesn't support it by default.
But you're right, all the arguments I've read against it boil down to Linus hating on one of the developers on the project and/or "It's too complicated and unmanageable!" I've yet to read something I'd consider a valid argument against it. A bunch of neck beards yelling "Get off my lawn!" is not and argument I can get any value out of.
I think you have a fundamental misunderstanding how EMP's work on electronics, large circuits (Transformers, power lines, generators, etc) are virtually unaffected by EMP's as the additional voltage introduced is insignificant compared to their operating voltage. The issue is very small electronics that are susceptible to even the smallest change in their voltage input. The only way that these larger systems are effected is if they have control systems that utilize computer chips. As long as you shield the IC chips (the chips physically and regulate the voltages being supplied to them) everything else (transistors, resistors, transformers, batteries, etc) usually doesn't need any form of shielding.
Sorry, you've been mus-informed. http://www.nasa.gov/topics/ear... Canada has power outages all the time as a result of Solar Flares (basically natural EMPs) The pulse hits the grid everywhere at once creating a spike in voltage that affects everything attached to the grid. Because Canada is tilted more towards the sun than we are, they are more susceptible.
Is this part of the "man made" global warming thing?
It's both. That's the trouble with climate change... it's a very very complex issue. The earth has its own rythems going on and we're throwing a wrench in them. How much is natural? How much is our fault? It's hard to say. But make no mistake... we're poking a very large... very angry bear. The less poking we do the better. It may wake up on its own but we sure as heck don't need to be helping.
EMP pulse is not hard - we know the basics of shielding.
The entire US electrical power grid is unshielded. Every single one of those wires is a direct conductive link into every electronic device in America. You would need to shield those lines to prevent EMP damage. On top of that, the amount of shielding required to prevent a decent EMP is huge. They tried putting it on Ragens airforce 1 in the 80s and it made the jet so heavy it couldn't take off. I think they eventually figured it out, but the point is, it was not an easy task.
I can see it now... I take my wife out for a romantic dinner. An attractive redhead sits at the table next to us. As our Robotic waiter comes to our table it takes a wide swath around to the other side of the table while repeating in a robotic voice: "Attractive female detected! Target customer preference for this hair color/body type. Avoid line of sight! BEEP Avoid line of sight! BEEP Avoid line of sight! BEEP Avoid line of sight! BEEP! BEEP! BEEP! BEEP! BEEP! May I take your order? Will your companion be returning? And will this angry gentleman be joining you?
> My question is: How did they know what flight Smeadly was on? That right there is the scary bit...
My guess: Sony has a corporate jet just for him. Whenever it goes somewhere, he's on it. All flights are public knowledge. There are even websites dedicated to tracking them in real time.
Nope, he was on an American Airlines flight. Also, I'm now reading that this is not just a DDOS attack. They actually got on the servers and covered them with ISIS flags.
I suspect Youtube and Twitters removal of the material had less to do with politics, terrorism or anything else you mentioned and had more to do with the video being about the most disgusting thing you could possibly imagine being hosted on their site. This is a breach of their terms of service, plain and simple. The political and social ramifications aside, there is no way either site would ever allow this sort of thing on their site. The first time some soccer mom stumbles across this youtubes getting banned in her house and they sure as heck dont want that.
It was John Smedley, CEO of SOE, according to his Twitter account. His American Airlines flight was diverted from San Diego to Phoenix.
If it was anyone else besides Smedley, I'd be mad at them. Like Dick Cheney, Stalin, Hitler... but Smedley? Yes, make him miserable. On the bright side, at least the jerk doesn't have a private jet.
The article summary is completely wrong -- it mentions "while you're in coverage", to mean that you can leave the device connected to the network.
But from TFA: "Plane passengers will be allowed to use electronic devices weighing less than a kilogram in offline mode from gate to gate without needing to turn them off. The devices will need to remain in flight mode and cannot be used for calls, text or data, however."
So, all this really does is confirm the findings that the FAA had -- small devices are reasonable to use in airplane mode in all phases of flight.
Despite the fact everyone on the plane already has their damned phone on, they are totally safe in call mode as well. If a cellphone can screw up the instrumentation of your aircraft, there's something wrong with the aircraft, not the passengers.
it would be if someone dropped a new icecube into the water.
If a glacier melts, it's irrelevant where it came from. When it melts, it flows into the ocean where its weight AND mass get distributed over the entire Globe because it's now a fluid. The entire weight of the glacier is not removed from that tectonic plate, but the majority of it certainly is.
It is also a public company (Nasdaq:NWS) and, as such, is required to publicly disclose financials. Hiding financial information, and misleading investors, is illegal.
There are very specific rules they have to follow and simply claiming they need to reveal all financial information to the public is pretty much false. I'm not going to disagree with the idea that news corp isn't really news... they're an entertainment company that tells a certain group of people what they want to hear... and makes a lot of money doing it. But this whole notion that they're some sort of evil empire secretly controlling peoples minds? It's a joke... they don't need to convince their viewers of what they're showing them... that's how those viewers already saw the world and Newscorp is playing to that crowd.
All people, everywhere, no matter what political view they have, will search out information that re-enforces their own world view. And make no mistake, we are all wrong. Every single one of us. I've heard just as much ridiculous misguided nonsense come out of left as I've heard come out of the right.
That being said, ask me about this while my wife is around and they are the same damned thing, she spends all day "Gaming" so I should be able to play as much RoboCraft as I want to. (a plug for my current favorite game: http://robocraftgame.com/ )
I went to the page, first the page was covered by a "must have javascript to function" text. After enabling it for the page it also want to pull in javascript from facebook, amazonaws and google-analytics. It also have a register button covering half the page but registering doesn't appear to work unless you enable javascript for third party pages. As someone who is reluctant to register on pages at all I pretty much said nope there.
Huh? It's a steam game, just search for "Robocraft" To be honest, I just play it and don't care what the website looks like. You build robots out of what are basically legos and then put lasers on them and fight. It's free, they make their money because you can buy pre-built robots or pay to level faster.
Reading, it sounds like it is able to replicate various mag-stripes, and therefore can replicate various credit-cards.
This, in a world where credit-card issuers are trying real hard to get away from mag-stripes and over to chip-only operation, makes no sense. Personally, I've seen a LOT of stores over the last 4-5 years, where the mag-reader has been taped over (or a standard cardboard thing inserted), so the only option is to use the card-chip; likewise, several new portable readers (in restaurants, taxis), that only read chips and not mag-strips.
Sooo.. what is it about this product, that makes it worth however little money it may cost??
You must not be in the US. I've never had a card with a chip. Mine doesn't even have raised letters, the only option is the magnetic strip. I suspect the US is the target audience for this.
All the major credit card companies will be rolling out soon-to-be-mandatory chip systems for their credit cards. The point of this chip is specifically to prevent copying of credit cards. Coin is dead in the water.
Beyond this, how many register monkeys will decline the transaction because it's not the original card? I was trained at my old retail job by an actual Mastercard representative never to allow use of a credit card without a signed back, much less a card that's literally a personal copy.
When I worked retail as a teenager for minimum wage, I could not have cared less. You could have handed me an unripened Banana and if it made the register beep and the display said you paid, I was done. One employee chased a shoplifter out of the store once and caught them. Later the rest of us were laughing at him. I didn't get paid enough to run, much less after potentially armed criminals.
Mental hurdle aside, the reality is that anyone who plays games, regardless of the platform, is a gamer.
is obviously not true.
"Gamer" is associated with people who spend most of their time playing games inside their mancave. People who play a bit of casual gaming on the go from time to time are not gamers.
Right... the basis of this article seems to be "We changed the definition of the word, but ignore that and look at our crazy numbers!!" Women used to read magazines at the doctors office, but those are always 3yrs out of date so they switched to facebook. That's gotten boring over the years so now there's Candy Crush, which is a slightly more sophisticated version of the old pocket poker or pocket baseball games of the 80s. Not to demean the activity, but comparing that to what Teenagers are doing with a PC or console is a bit of a joke.
That being said, ask me about this while my wife is around and they are the same damned thing, she spends all day "Gaming" so I should be able to play as much RoboCraft as I want to. (a plug for my current favorite game: http://robocraftgame.com/ )
"The purpose of the site was not to let fans discuss their favourite episodes, it was to store and distribute copyrighted material without licence. This is precisely what copyright laws were designed to tackle. This isn't news, this isn't relevant to any serious discussion about copyright reform, this is the system working as intended."
You are completely full of shit and I would like to know why you feel it is okay to come in here and just lie? They did not "store and distribute copyrighted material without licence".
I'm going to hazard a guess that they were hosting links to torrent files of the episodes. Which should be legal but for some insane reason isn't.
I don't know if Oregon's suit has merit or not, but that sure sounds like my employer's experience with Oracle.
Mine as well. We have contracts with hundreds of IT companies, and Oracle is by far the worst I've ever dealt with. A list of things I've witnessed oracle do first hand that make me hate them: 1. Relegate "Bugs" to a "Bug list" that is so long you actually have an account you use to log into it and see the endless list of things wrong with their software they haven't gotten around to fixing yet. 2. Support that's so poor, if you cannot provide them with step by step instructions of exactly how to reproduce it as well as an actual solution to the problem in many cases they will promptly close the ticket and tell you "We were unable to reproduce your issue" I've received that response sometimes within minutes... suggesting they made no attempt at all to look for it. Your local cable company provides better support than oracle. 3. They intentionally deprecate features to try and prevent you from migrating to other systems. APIs, ODBC access, etc... Then offer to export the data for you for insane amounts of money (hundreds of thousands of dollars) 4. They actually sent a trainer to us to train us on how to manipulate their own support organization to work tickets. Seriously, 6hrs on how to get support to work your ticket... 5. With some products they patch, without notice, without testing. I walk in on Monday and find out a patch happened over the weekend I had no idea was going to happen, it brought several applications down. Then, when questioned about it postmortem, they actually said "Why would we notify you of these patches? There is no way they can cause a problem." When I pointed out that they just did, in fact, cause a problem, and that's why we were having this meeting, they said "Well this was a unique situation" 6. The few applications we have that aren't Oracle, keep getting bought by Oracle. Who then fires everyone, sticks their own, horrendous staff in their place and ruins a product we're locked into a 3yr contract for. 7. They have breached our contractually and legal obligated security policies no less than 7 times in the past 2 years. Not minor breaches, major ones. In one case access to hosted services they had was controlled by a whitelist. They decided, again without notice, to introduce a 2nd whitelist of API access, and default it to allow all. As a result access to the API for the service was wide open to the entire internet for months before we found out by accident what they had done. They pointed out that they had made the change public by creating a new webpage documenting the new setting, but no, they hadn't actually informed any customers the page existed and the patch that had been applied to implement the setting had been done so without any notifications being sent to anyone.
I could go on and on... but suffice it to say Oracle is the devil, they hate their customers, want to steel their money and are by far the worst Tech company I've ever dealt with. Burn in hell Oracle.
I'll never understand these idiotic mistakes made by space agencies.
Remember when the spirit rover mission almost failed because they never did a real test of the OS's file system? http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/S...
After I heard about that, all I could think of was "Why would you spend billions of dollars on something, send it to mars, and never simulate the trip to see if the OS would have a problem?"
Where are customers supposed to flee to? Many of these companies are de facto monopolies in many areas or at the very least in lock-step with their "competitors." There aren't very many choices for tech companies unless you want to do without, which is unpalatable for many.
And again, they are not monopolies. Why does this myth persist? The guy they're talking about here, Ryan Block, lives in San Fransico. There are 15 pages of ISPs in the area on yelp: http://www.yelp.com/search?cfl...
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More than a few provide phone and television as well.
The poor support works because most people are not Slashdot users, and do not use their internet for anything more than facebook and a game or two. As a result they do not call often, if ever and rarely have a technical issue. So they go for the cheapest service. If 99% of your customers want the cheapest service possible and 1% wants tech support that speaks proper English, which way would you go?
Keep in mind, the US is the only country out of those 3 where the minimum wage means anything. I should also clarify, in the US and Mexico there are large startup costs as well. When you manufacture here or Mexico you need to build a plant, hire management, etc... I wasn't including that in.
Things are different in china. You approach a, usually, government owned manufacturing company and say I need X number of this part... then they quote you. You really think the government follows it's own labor laws? Because they definitely do not.
A government-mandated 11-hour workday was routinely ignored, and factories frequently paid less than the minimum wage or withheld pay for minor infractions. Injuries on the factory floor resulted from safety violations and minimal employee training. Workers might sleep 10 or 15 to a room, with 50 people sharing one bathroom.
This is how all that crap in your house gets made. By slaves, sleeping in dark holes. Don't like it? Stop expecting to pay $200 for a tablet. US Manufacturing companies would like nothing more. They hate this to.
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It never seemed stupid to anyone with even a tiny bit of knowledge about history.
Oh come on. I know a guy with that same attitude at work. You're normalizing the situation with this nonsense fantasy that you knew all along. You didn't know all along... you worried about it, you feared for it, but you didn't know Now you do, and you should be surprised... shocked... outraged... But to sit back in your lazyboy, burp, and say "yea, I figured!" is freaking ridiculous. Write you God damned congressman. Get a picket sign. The house is on fire, just because you told the kids not to play with matches doesn't mean you don't need to grab a bucket now.
http://www.freakingnews.com/pi...
Now give me my kidney!
At the moment, just about every major distribution except Slackware and Gentoo not only supports systemd, but ships with it on by default.
So...what "battle" are we talking about? (Or did this post just fall forward five years from the past?)
Ubuntu is the largest distro I know of and it doesn't support it by default.
But you're right, all the arguments I've read against it boil down to Linus hating on one of the developers on the project and/or "It's too complicated and unmanageable!" I've yet to read something I'd consider a valid argument against it. A bunch of neck beards yelling "Get off my lawn!" is not and argument I can get any value out of.
I think you have a fundamental misunderstanding how EMP's work on electronics, large circuits (Transformers, power lines, generators, etc) are virtually unaffected by EMP's as the additional voltage introduced is insignificant compared to their operating voltage. The issue is very small electronics that are susceptible to even the smallest change in their voltage input. The only way that these larger systems are effected is if they have control systems that utilize computer chips. As long as you shield the IC chips (the chips physically and regulate the voltages being supplied to them) everything else (transistors, resistors, transformers, batteries, etc) usually doesn't need any form of shielding.
Sorry, you've been mus-informed.
http://www.nasa.gov/topics/ear...
Canada has power outages all the time as a result of Solar Flares (basically natural EMPs) The pulse hits the grid everywhere at once creating a spike in voltage that affects everything attached to the grid. Because Canada is tilted more towards the sun than we are, they are more susceptible.
Is this part of the "man made" global warming thing?
It's both. That's the trouble with climate change... it's a very very complex issue. The earth has its own rythems going on and we're throwing a wrench in them. How much is natural? How much is our fault? It's hard to say. But make no mistake... we're poking a very large... very angry bear. The less poking we do the better. It may wake up on its own but we sure as heck don't need to be helping.
EMP pulse is not hard - we know the basics of shielding.
The entire US electrical power grid is unshielded. Every single one of those wires is a direct conductive link into every electronic device in America. You would need to shield those lines to prevent EMP damage. On top of that, the amount of shielding required to prevent a decent EMP is huge. They tried putting it on Ragens airforce 1 in the 80s and it made the jet so heavy it couldn't take off. I think they eventually figured it out, but the point is, it was not an easy task.
I can see it now... I take my wife out for a romantic dinner. An attractive redhead sits at the table next to us. As our Robotic waiter comes to our table it takes a wide swath around to the other side of the table while repeating in a robotic voice:
"Attractive female detected! Target customer preference for this hair color/body type. Avoid line of sight! BEEP Avoid line of sight! BEEP Avoid line of sight! BEEP Avoid line of sight! BEEP! BEEP! BEEP! BEEP! BEEP!
May I take your order? Will your companion be returning? And will this angry gentleman be joining you?
> My question is: How did they know what flight Smeadly was on? That right there is the scary bit...
My guess: Sony has a corporate jet just for him. Whenever it goes somewhere, he's on it. All flights are public knowledge. There are even websites dedicated to tracking them in real time.
Nope, he was on an American Airlines flight.
Also, I'm now reading that this is not just a DDOS attack. They actually got on the servers and covered them with ISIS flags.
I suspect Youtube and Twitters removal of the material had less to do with politics, terrorism or anything else you mentioned and had more to do with the video being about the most disgusting thing you could possibly imagine being hosted on their site. This is a breach of their terms of service, plain and simple. The political and social ramifications aside, there is no way either site would ever allow this sort of thing on their site. The first time some soccer mom stumbles across this youtubes getting banned in her house and they sure as heck dont want that.
Everyone seems to think this was no big deal... it was just a DDOS and the use of a phone! etc...
My question is: How did they know what flight Smeadly was on? That right there is the scary bit...
It was John Smedley, CEO of SOE, according to his Twitter account. His American Airlines flight was diverted from San Diego to Phoenix.
If it was anyone else besides Smedley, I'd be mad at them. Like Dick Cheney, Stalin, Hitler... but Smedley? Yes, make him miserable. On the bright side, at least the jerk doesn't have a private jet.
The article summary is completely wrong -- it mentions "while you're in coverage", to mean that you can leave the device connected to the network.
But from TFA: "Plane passengers will be allowed to use electronic devices weighing less than a kilogram in offline mode from gate to gate without needing to turn them off. The devices will need to remain in flight mode and cannot be used for calls, text or data, however."
So, all this really does is confirm the findings that the FAA had -- small devices are reasonable to use in airplane mode in all phases of flight.
Despite the fact everyone on the plane already has their damned phone on, they are totally safe in call mode as well. If a cellphone can screw up the instrumentation of your aircraft, there's something wrong with the aircraft, not the passengers.
According to the federal government, Cannabis and Hallucinogens are in fact addictive.
http://www.justice.gov/dea/doc...
It's all lies to keep the war on drugs alive and well... but hey, when did the truth matter?
it would be if someone dropped a new icecube into the water.
If a glacier melts, it's irrelevant where it came from. When it melts, it flows into the ocean where its weight AND mass get distributed over the entire Globe because it's now a fluid. The entire weight of the glacier is not removed from that tectonic plate, but the majority of it certainly is.
News Corp is a corrupt corporation.
It is also a public company (Nasdaq:NWS) and, as such, is required to publicly disclose financials. Hiding financial information, and misleading investors, is illegal.
There are very specific rules they have to follow and simply claiming they need to reveal all financial information to the public is pretty much false. I'm not going to disagree with the idea that news corp isn't really news... they're an entertainment company that tells a certain group of people what they want to hear... and makes a lot of money doing it. But this whole notion that they're some sort of evil empire secretly controlling peoples minds? It's a joke... they don't need to convince their viewers of what they're showing them... that's how those viewers already saw the world and Newscorp is playing to that crowd.
All people, everywhere, no matter what political view they have, will search out information that re-enforces their own world view. And make no mistake, we are all wrong. Every single one of us. I've heard just as much ridiculous misguided nonsense come out of left as I've heard come out of the right.
That being said, ask me about this while my wife is around and they are the same damned thing, she spends all day "Gaming" so I should be able to play as much RoboCraft as I want to. (a plug for my current favorite game: http://robocraftgame.com/ )
I went to the page, first the page was covered by a "must have javascript to function" text.
After enabling it for the page it also want to pull in javascript from facebook, amazonaws and google-analytics.
It also have a register button covering half the page but registering doesn't appear to work unless you enable javascript for third party pages.
As someone who is reluctant to register on pages at all I pretty much said nope there.
Huh? It's a steam game, just search for "Robocraft"
To be honest, I just play it and don't care what the website looks like.
You build robots out of what are basically legos and then put lasers on them and fight.
It's free, they make their money because you can buy pre-built robots or pay to level faster.
Reading, it sounds like it is able to replicate various mag-stripes, and therefore can replicate various credit-cards.
This, in a world where credit-card issuers are trying real hard to get away from mag-stripes and over to chip-only operation, makes no sense.
Personally, I've seen a LOT of stores over the last 4-5 years, where the mag-reader has been taped over (or a standard cardboard thing inserted), so the only option is to use the card-chip; likewise, several new portable readers (in restaurants, taxis), that only read chips and not mag-strips.
Sooo.. what is it about this product, that makes it worth however little money it may cost??
You must not be in the US. I've never had a card with a chip. Mine doesn't even have raised letters, the only option is the magnetic strip. I suspect the US is the target audience for this.
All the major credit card companies will be rolling out soon-to-be-mandatory chip systems for their credit cards. The point of this chip is specifically to prevent copying of credit cards. Coin is dead in the water.
Beyond this, how many register monkeys will decline the transaction because it's not the original card? I was trained at my old retail job by an actual Mastercard representative never to allow use of a credit card without a signed back, much less a card that's literally a personal copy.
When I worked retail as a teenager for minimum wage, I could not have cared less. You could have handed me an unripened Banana and if it made the register beep and the display said you paid, I was done. One employee chased a shoplifter out of the store once and caught them. Later the rest of us were laughing at him. I didn't get paid enough to run, much less after potentially armed criminals.
You idiot. Glaciers are ice. Ice floats. Stupid American on slashdot. Marvel I know.
If you are holding a glass of water, and someone puts an icecube in it, does it weigh more?
What is said at the end of the summary,
is obviously not true.
"Gamer" is associated with people who spend most of their time playing games inside their mancave.
People who play a bit of casual gaming on the go from time to time are not gamers.
Right... the basis of this article seems to be "We changed the definition of the word, but ignore that and look at our crazy numbers!!"
Women used to read magazines at the doctors office, but those are always 3yrs out of date so they switched to facebook. That's gotten boring over the years so now there's Candy Crush, which is a slightly more sophisticated version of the old pocket poker or pocket baseball games of the 80s. Not to demean the activity, but comparing that to what Teenagers are doing with a PC or console is a bit of a joke.
That being said, ask me about this while my wife is around and they are the same damned thing, she spends all day "Gaming" so I should be able to play as much RoboCraft as I want to. (a plug for my current favorite game: http://robocraftgame.com/ )
"The purpose of the site was not to let fans discuss their favourite episodes, it was to store and distribute copyrighted material without licence. This is precisely what copyright laws were designed to tackle. This isn't news, this isn't relevant to any serious discussion about copyright reform, this is the system working as intended."
You are completely full of shit and I would like to know why you feel it is okay to come in here and just lie? They did not "store and distribute copyrighted material without licence".
I'm going to hazard a guess that they were hosting links to torrent files of the episodes. Which should be legal but for some insane reason isn't.
I don't know if Oregon's suit has merit or not, but that sure sounds like my employer's experience with Oracle.
Mine as well. We have contracts with hundreds of IT companies, and Oracle is by far the worst I've ever dealt with.
A list of things I've witnessed oracle do first hand that make me hate them:
1. Relegate "Bugs" to a "Bug list" that is so long you actually have an account you use to log into it and see the endless list of things wrong with their software they haven't gotten around to fixing yet.
2. Support that's so poor, if you cannot provide them with step by step instructions of exactly how to reproduce it as well as an actual solution to the problem in many cases they will promptly close the ticket and tell you "We were unable to reproduce your issue" I've received that response sometimes within minutes... suggesting they made no attempt at all to look for it. Your local cable company provides better support than oracle.
3. They intentionally deprecate features to try and prevent you from migrating to other systems. APIs, ODBC access, etc... Then offer to export the data for you for insane amounts of money (hundreds of thousands of dollars)
4. They actually sent a trainer to us to train us on how to manipulate their own support organization to work tickets. Seriously, 6hrs on how to get support to work your ticket...
5. With some products they patch, without notice, without testing. I walk in on Monday and find out a patch happened over the weekend I had no idea was going to happen, it brought several applications down. Then, when questioned about it postmortem, they actually said "Why would we notify you of these patches? There is no way they can cause a problem." When I pointed out that they just did, in fact, cause a problem, and that's why we were having this meeting, they said "Well this was a unique situation"
6. The few applications we have that aren't Oracle, keep getting bought by Oracle. Who then fires everyone, sticks their own, horrendous staff in their place and ruins a product we're locked into a 3yr contract for.
7. They have breached our contractually and legal obligated security policies no less than 7 times in the past 2 years. Not minor breaches, major ones. In one case access to hosted services they had was controlled by a whitelist. They decided, again without notice, to introduce a 2nd whitelist of API access, and default it to allow all. As a result access to the API for the service was wide open to the entire internet for months before we found out by accident what they had done. They pointed out that they had made the change public by creating a new webpage documenting the new setting, but no, they hadn't actually informed any customers the page existed and the patch that had been applied to implement the setting had been done so without any notifications being sent to anyone.
I could go on and on... but suffice it to say Oracle is the devil, they hate their customers, want to steel their money and are by far the worst Tech company I've ever dealt with. Burn in hell Oracle.
I'll never understand these idiotic mistakes made by space agencies.
Remember when the spirit rover mission almost failed because they never did a real test of the OS's file system?
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/S...
After I heard about that, all I could think of was "Why would you spend billions of dollars on something, send it to mars, and never simulate the trip to see if the OS would have a problem?"
Where are customers supposed to flee to? Many of these companies are de facto monopolies in many areas or at the very least in lock-step with their "competitors." There aren't very many choices for tech companies unless you want to do without, which is unpalatable for many.
And again, they are not monopolies. Why does this myth persist? The guy they're talking about here, Ryan Block, lives in San Fransico. There are 15 pages of ISPs in the area on yelp: http://www.yelp.com/search?cfl...
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More than a few provide phone and television as well.
The poor support works because most people are not Slashdot users, and do not use their internet for anything more than facebook and a game or two. As a result they do not call often, if ever and rarely have a technical issue. So they go for the cheapest service. If 99% of your customers want the cheapest service possible and 1% wants tech support that speaks proper English, which way would you go?
Wrong: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/M...
The minimum wage in China is between 1$ and 2$ depending on region.
According to this: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/L... Mexico is at 60cents and China at 110cents
Keep in mind, the US is the only country out of those 3 where the minimum wage means anything.
I should also clarify, in the US and Mexico there are large startup costs as well. When you manufacture here or Mexico you need to build a plant, hire management, etc... I wasn't including that in.
Things are different in china. You approach a, usually, government owned manufacturing company and say I need X number of this part... then they quote you. You really think the government follows it's own labor laws? Because they definitely do not.
A government-mandated 11-hour workday was routinely ignored, and factories frequently paid less than the minimum wage or withheld pay for minor infractions. Injuries on the factory floor resulted from safety violations and minimal employee training. Workers might sleep 10 or 15 to a room, with 50 people sharing one bathroom.
http://www.cnn.com/2012/09/30/...
This is how all that crap in your house gets made. By slaves, sleeping in dark holes. Don't like it? Stop expecting to pay $200 for a tablet. US Manufacturing companies would like nothing more. They hate this to.