If you're getting a refund you're doing it wrong. You should owe as much as possible without incurring penalties for lying about shit. And you should pay them no earlier that April 1st.
That's my fucking point. We do fire drills because they are required. And we do the bare fucking minimum, making them useless. An "IT Security Fire Drill" will never be done until it is mandated by law. And when it is, we will do the bare fucking minimum, making them useless.
The point of fire drills is to test if your evacuation procedures are fast enough. If people somehow get out faster in a real fire, well, good for them.
What takes us to this article proposal... What's the point?
Fire drill: Sally: Okay, everyone walk out of the front door and meet at the big tree in the courtyard so Steve can do a head count. Joe: Single file, please. Bob: Did you hear about Kelly? She's cheating on her husband!
Fire: Sally: OH MY GOD I CAN'T SEE ANYTHING WHERE'S THE DOOR?! Joe: It's covered in FIRE! We have to find another way out but I can't see through all this smoke! Bob: I think I found Steve! I see his safety vest over there. Sally: OMG it's just the vest! Where's Steve?!? Is he out today? Kelly: I found him! He's dead!!
And there are a dozen other products out there that don't charge that much.
Those other products don't auto-import from Quickbooks. They also don't auto-import depreciation tables, and carryovers from last year's return. It would take me a lot of time, worth way more $40, to re-enter all that data. So I am locked in.
It wouldn't take a lot of time. Unless you don't know how to use Quickbooks, Excel, or CTRL+C/CTRL+V, I guess. Beyond that, it's not $40. It's $40 now, and at least $40 every year henceforth.
$350 for what? Convenience? It's simply enough to fill in the forms yourself. Programs like TurboTax handled all of this for the brain dead masses just fine, and used to cost an order of magnitude less than the CPA. And no, the market won't bear the change. Hint: This is why this story exists. People are bitching and leaving TurboTax in massive numbers. My own mother dropped it because of this in favor of some other software that does the exact same shit but charges less money.
Just like real fire drills, they're pretty pointless and no one takes them seriously because there's no fire. So you either have a fruitless exercise that costs money because of all the interruptions, or you have a semi-fruitful exercise that costs a lot of money because of the extended interruptions caused by trying to simulate a real event.
The latter will marginally improve the response to an actual incident. Neither will fly, because they cost money and aren't mandated by law.
Google's support policy is no such thing, but Google only sets the policy for the hardware that they sell.
I seriously cannot understand how naive this conversation is. If you buy a product from Company X, you are exchanging money for goods and services from Company X. It is their responsibility to provide you with goods and services.
It is not Google's responsibility to do the development, testing, and support for hardware from Company X for which they were not paid.
Google supports their phones for a very reasonable amount of time. If you want support, I suggest you buy one.
So when Grandma buys a Dell computer, she's goes to Dell to get patches for her operating system?
Code doesn't breakdown, if it works now it will work 100 years from now if the hardware is still running.
You've either never supported someone else's Java application or you're a straight troll. It's rare for a Java application to work 100 days after it was last working with all of the timebombs they build in now.
You could probably flip out a modern system every year for less than the annual support and maintenance contract that the DWP is probably buying.
And you'll still have to pay the annual support and maintenance costs for the software and environment. Hardware and associated cost isn't the issue.
If by "system" you mean hardware and software, then you're a moron. Not only could you not "flip out" a new "system" every year, you sure as fuck wouldn't want to. You wouldn't even be able to get a complete fiscal year done on one system before you toss it out and jerry rig everything onto the new system.
It's not about having PCIe 3.0, it's about having 4 lanes of PCIe 3.0 piped to an M.2 / SATA Express connector. Otherwise you have to buy a flaky adapter and hope it supports the number of lanes (and PCIe revision) you need.
Despite there being no published science about its safety
At this point there is enough evidence to know it's generally safe. Even in the case of this unknown fault, the worst earthquake was 3.0 - and it was only one well corresponding to activation of the fault, the other nearby wells were fine (read the link).
despite evidence that it is actually polluting wells and ground water
What "evidence"? To date all claims have been proved false.
I can't imagine government is going to start reigning in corporations any time soon
People like jobs.
All claims have been "proved" false? Horseshit. Most claims are silenced because the affected families have no choice but to take the hush money settlement. None of them have the means to actually see a court case against a multi billion dollar company through to the end.
Wrong. Science and religion are separate by definition. Even someone within a system discovers how the entire system works, there's always the possibility of an outside actor. From within the system, you cannot prove or disprove the existence of such an outside actor.
Please explain how proxies are more convenient or "free" than a VPN. Neither tend to be free, and VPNs tend to be more convenient than proxies in that many VPNs come with an application that has a handy on/off switch, while proxies typically require you to change your browser proxy settings every time you want to use netflix.
Please explain how proxies and VPNs are different. (Hint: They're not - they're both just routes.)
Slashdot Mirror
Human language may have evolved to help our ancestors describe the feeling of a good bowel movement.
There's as much evidence for my theory as there is for theirs.
Wrong. That black piece of paper would itself be the compilation.
You're assuming CBR is random.
It isn't.
You're assuming the CCD has the resolution to recreate (2 dimensional pictures of) "all of the art ever made".
It doesn't.
You're assuming an infinite time scale.
No one cares now, and no one will care tomorrow.
If you're getting a refund you're doing it wrong.
You should owe as much as possible without incurring penalties for lying about shit. And you should pay them no earlier that April 1st.
That's my fucking point. We do fire drills because they are required. And we do the bare fucking minimum, making them useless.
An "IT Security Fire Drill" will never be done until it is mandated by law. And when it is, we will do the bare fucking minimum, making them useless.
The point of fire drills is to test if your evacuation procedures are fast enough. If people somehow get out faster in a real fire, well, good for them.
What takes us to this article proposal... What's the point?
Fire drill:
Sally: Okay, everyone walk out of the front door and meet at the big tree in the courtyard so Steve can do a head count.
Joe: Single file, please.
Bob: Did you hear about Kelly? She's cheating on her husband!
Fire:
Sally: OH MY GOD I CAN'T SEE ANYTHING WHERE'S THE DOOR?!
Joe: It's covered in FIRE! We have to find another way out but I can't see through all this smoke!
Bob: I think I found Steve! I see his safety vest over there.
Sally: OMG it's just the vest! Where's Steve?!? Is he out today?
Kelly: I found him! He's dead!!
Legacy spinning disks will be as dead in 10 years as tape is today.
So, not at all dead? Tape is a live and well, and it is the best medium we have for backups.
The Hue lighting PoC was pretty lame, not a lot of use cases there. I'd rather just use the thing that is always in my pocket (and has a battery) .
The vibrating dildo?
And there are a dozen other products out there that don't charge that much.
Those other products don't auto-import from Quickbooks. They also don't auto-import depreciation tables, and carryovers from last year's return. It would take me a lot of time, worth way more $40, to re-enter all that data. So I am locked in.
It wouldn't take a lot of time. Unless you don't know how to use Quickbooks, Excel, or CTRL+C/CTRL+V, I guess.
Beyond that, it's not $40. It's $40 now, and at least $40 every year henceforth.
$350 for what? Convenience?
It's simply enough to fill in the forms yourself. Programs like TurboTax handled all of this for the brain dead masses just fine, and used to cost an order of magnitude less than the CPA. And no, the market won't bear the change. Hint: This is why this story exists. People are bitching and leaving TurboTax in massive numbers. My own mother dropped it because of this in favor of some other software that does the exact same shit but charges less money.
Just like real fire drills, they're pretty pointless and no one takes them seriously because there's no fire.
So you either have a fruitless exercise that costs money because of all the interruptions, or you have a semi-fruitful exercise that costs a lot of money because of the extended interruptions caused by trying to simulate a real event.
The latter will marginally improve the response to an actual incident. Neither will fly, because they cost money and aren't mandated by law.
Google's support policy is no such thing, but Google only sets the policy for the hardware that they sell.
I seriously cannot understand how naive this conversation is. If you buy a product from Company X, you are exchanging money for goods and services from Company X. It is their responsibility to provide you with goods and services.
It is not Google's responsibility to do the development, testing, and support for hardware from Company X for which they were not paid.
Google supports their phones for a very reasonable amount of time. If you want support, I suggest you buy one.
So when Grandma buys a Dell computer, she's goes to Dell to get patches for her operating system?
I won't touch a GM car with a 10 foot clown pole. (But plenty of other people are still eager to buy them.)
If the Ford Focus / Nissan Leaf / etc. can get similar numbers this year or next, then Tesla's going to have more problems than dealership lobbyists.
Code doesn't breakdown, if it works now it will work 100 years from now if the hardware is still running.
You've either never supported someone else's Java application or you're a straight troll.
It's rare for a Java application to work 100 days after it was last working with all of the timebombs they build in now.
You could probably flip out a modern system every year for less than the annual support and maintenance contract that the DWP is probably buying.
And you'll still have to pay the annual support and maintenance costs for the software and environment.
Hardware and associated cost isn't the issue.
If by "system" you mean hardware and software, then you're a moron. Not only could you not "flip out" a new "system" every year, you sure as fuck wouldn't want to. You wouldn't even be able to get a complete fiscal year done on one system before you toss it out and jerry rig everything onto the new system.
Good news, everyone!
It's not about having PCIe 3.0, it's about having 4 lanes of PCIe 3.0 piped to an M.2 / SATA Express connector.
Otherwise you have to buy a flaky adapter and hope it supports the number of lanes (and PCIe revision) you need.
It doesn't "behave" in any way until you interact with it. It doesn't exist "in two places at the same time".
The discovery is based on the long-known quantum phenomenon in which a single particle can be in two places at the same time.
Wrooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooong.
FBI Wrong
Despite there being no published science about its safety
At this point there is enough evidence to know it's generally safe. Even in the case of this unknown fault, the worst earthquake was 3.0 - and it was only one well corresponding to activation of the fault, the other nearby wells were fine (read the link).
despite evidence that it is actually polluting wells and ground water
What "evidence"? To date all claims have been proved false.
I can't imagine government is going to start reigning in corporations any time soon
People like jobs.
All claims have been "proved" false?
Horseshit. Most claims are silenced because the affected families have no choice but to take the hush money settlement. None of them have the means to actually see a court case against a multi billion dollar company through to the end.
Wrong.
Science and religion are separate by definition. Even someone within a system discovers how the entire system works, there's always the possibility of an outside actor. From within the system, you cannot prove or disprove the existence of such an outside actor.
Universe = system, deity / supernatural force / whatever = outside actor.
Please explain how proxies are more convenient or "free" than a VPN. Neither tend to be free, and VPNs tend to be more convenient than proxies in that many VPNs come with an application that has a handy on/off switch, while proxies typically require you to change your browser proxy settings every time you want to use netflix.
Please explain how proxies and VPNs are different.
(Hint: They're not - they're both just routes.)
The only one you kind of addressed was the AGW issue. There you just declared it irrelevant... Why did you bother?
He wanted to show you what true denialism was all about.
The money is the icing on the cake.
The militarized enforcement and unchecked abuse of power against the populace is the real goal.