Hezbollah are Iran's pet terrorists because they do things like blow up civilian airliners, attack international embassies, launch rockets into neighborhoods and bomb buses in civilian neighborhoods. The list of terrorist acts that Iran has committed through their Hezbollah proxy is thousands of items long.
That you could possibly say they are anything other than a terrorist organization leads me to believe your either a troll, Iranian government agent, the most ignorant person I have ever met on the Internet or so deluded as to need checking into a mental hospital.
When you decline to install something you expect that it doesn't get installed. Parallels is going to burn a lot of trust by pulling this stunt. The cost of acquiring their customers has certainly got to exceed the profit from people who decide that they will change their mind and want to run this software anyways.
At a bare minimum they need to start by building a package that will remove all traces post haste for the anyone that wants it. For people that don't want to run the package explicit instructions need to be made available about how to completely remove this. Any number of companies have screwed up royally before this, those that are still respected are the ones that instituted proper damage control.
Get real, Iran has a history of openly supporting terrorism that goes back for decades. Iran has used proxies to attack the United States and Israel for years in any number of environments. This is exactly the kind of thing that Iran has done and would do. You sound like the person claiming the neighborhood bully might not have beaten the class nerd, even though they have done so the last 78 times.
They only gave away 10,000 of them and the rest were being dumped for $199 each. That still leaves them with a few million unsold Surface tablets by all accounts.
The more interesting question is where is the graveyard holding millions of unsold original Surface tablets? Were they dismantled in Asia? Were they buried next to ET? Were they lost in a warehouse and locked up only to be discovered in 2021? Have they been lost at sea along with the cargo ship necessary to hold them all?
I find this question far more interesting than a new kickstand on a product that has failed before ever getting released.
Ignoring your users is the new in thing for corporations. From Microsoft cancelling Technet to their lack of Start Menu to Apple's upcoming flattening of IOS to Mechwarrior's ignoring users being pissed about changes or Digg's substantial drop in users with their new version a while back.
The attitude seems to be "it doesn't matter how many users we lose or alienate, were right and your wrong". Once upon a time marketing departments measured their success by number of new users gained. Nowadays UI departments seem to measure their success by number of users they lose.
The problem with storing data in the cloud with encryption from the providers standpoint is that you can't use dedupe on it. Dedupe can make an extremely large difference in the amount of storage that you have to buy and run. From an operational costs standpoint the difference between running a data repository with and without dedupe could easily be the difference between running at a profit or a loss.
The service provider has a very strong financial incentive to use dedupe technology. The problem is that there is no way to run dedupe on crypto without having the key and being susceptible to having your data be accessed by third parties. If you don't have the key than you can honestly say that you have no idea what is in a users data set or ability to decrypt it, but you then lose the ability to dedupe the data and save a fortune on operational costs.
In a nutshell what you really need is a cloud provider that offers dedupe free storage. Their costs (read your costs) would be higher to offer this of course, but for many people that's more than reasonable when your asking them to incur additional expenses to actually keep your data private. I can't speak for Mega of course, but the dedupe question is one that could nail this down one way or another.
Perhaps you missed the part where I criticized what happens with evolution? My comment has to do with political correctness taking over education and jack to do with Republicans or Democrats.
Educational standards are a mess because you have trends that are butting heads. Today's educational standards are largely dictated by political correctness, politics and avoiding anything that could be considered a legacy way of doing things. The result is that educators are loathe to take anything away from teaching their politically correct platforms. The second trend is standardized testing, intended to make sure that kids are actually being taught real world skills like reading, writing and arithmetic.
The result is an epic multi-billion dollar pissing contest between political correctness and having students prepared for the real world. Neither side will give an inch and to make matters worse where you live (California, Texas etc) largely dictates what your taught. Absent a miracle of a rational national standardized education platform of some kind that largely removes politics the situation isn't going to get any better.
Too lazy to google for examples right now, but you can easily find many examples of prominent historical figures being given only a single paragraph in a history book or evolution being taught as a hypotheses and so on.
Too many parents refuse to parent and let the media do their work for them. For those parents that have raised snowflakes this would be the perfect passive aggressive way to handle things.
Sorry snowflake, the phone says you can't send text messages at dinner time, don't be upset with me!
The scientific community needs to rally to his cause. Polygraphs are junk science and haven't been admissible to a court of law in many years. Teaching someone how to beat a Polygraph is no more morally wrong than teaching someone how to beat any other form of junk science. Science should be revered for what it is, and attempts to pass junk off should be demonized. What's next, jailing someone for teaching you how to fool an Astrologist?
I have no problem with the government conducting proper background checks (ala Snowden etc), but relying on junk science like the polygraph hasn't helped them on actual real spies like Ames etc..
You need to hire some of these "brilliant" people so that you don't get snowed by a Snowden. By all accounts he accomplished what he did by having incompetent management above him. This was a management problem, and one that you knew better about, or should have known better about - if you had some of those brilliant people who knew what they were doing in management!
Who would have thought that giving kids a safe environment to get their aggression out would have beneficial side effects? The said thing is that this study ever had to be conducted in the first place.
I remember when D&D was blamed for suicides, goths were blamed for school shootings, movies were blamed for just about everything and so on. At some point the idiot brigade needs to quit blaming everyone else and go back to being parents instead of outsourcing the job to the media./rant off
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I'm out of mod points or I would mod you up. One of the truest things I've seen on slashdot in a long time. Too many people are ignorant of how technology development actually works.
Nobody here is arguing that they are doing billions in business. The issue is that they should be doing many billions in business more than they are. In the words often attributed to Senator Dirksen "A billion here, a billion there, and pretty soon you're talking real money."
This is an industry in which incumbent multibillion giants fall, events that many Slashdot saw or experienced first hand. Fundamentals are fundamentals and any company the starts to consistently make the same mistakes that the previous multibillion dollar companies made is likely to have a repeat of the same consequences.
Microsoft treats it's customers (e.g. Windows 8.1 Start Button instead of Menu), manufacturing partners (8.0/8.1 & the Surface), professional advocates (ending Technet) and it's own employees (stacked ranking) with contempt. When your busy pissing off the very people that you need to stay in business you lose their good will. When you lose their good will they start to make fundamental decisions to go with competitors products. The market reflects these changes everywhere from the rise of alternative office suites to failure of Windows phone to the largest consecutive set of multibillion dollar losses the PC market has ever seen.
The giants can and will fall, nobody is entitled to an empire. Unless Microsoft stops treating the very people it needs as the enemy and starts listening to what people keep telling them that they want they will continue to lose their empire. Start by reading this excellent piece from Vanity Fair on Microsoft's Stacked ranking system for their employees.
It was a joke, going back to the days of old Atari games. Many of today's scientists at NASA grew up playing these games. I'm well aware of the actual scientific value.
This article, as well as the source articles are all nothing but professional trolls written for the express purpose of generating page views. What's next, links to articles on Jezebel asking if the average man beats his wife before or after raping her?
Look, I know we all like growing up and making our favorite tech from video games or movies happen in real life. That being said I'm not sure if a real life version of Asteroid or Space Invaders is a good idea. I know they have some really nifty lasers they also want to test, but somehow this could all going quite badly...
Please rewrite headline, it is misleading. There is a world of difference between the Start "Menu" and the Start "Button". 8.1 forces you back into metro through the Start Button and doesn't resolve people issues in the slightest. Metro is still forced on you and it is still wholly unsuitable to the enterprise. While Microsoft at least listened to people about boot to desktop, they showed continued contempt for their customer base by refusing to replace the Start Menu.
Fix the headline and stop propagating Microsoft's spin, this is a band-aid on sucking chest wound and nothing more.
Sorry, but Mission Impossible is an entirely different series, not based in space at all.
The problem is that with the advent of millions of fans and the Internet every little flaw, tick and tock is well known. There is no true canon as such as there are too many inconsistencies in the series.
You see to get a Star Trek series that was canon compliant you would have to start by axing every single series after the original. Even if you did that and stuck with the movies you would have to draw the line at a certain movie without voiding canon. By the time you were done taking an axe to everything in the name of purity you wouldn't have much left to work with. The younger fans know the newer series and you would alienate them by saying their favorites simply didn't exist.
You can't even really say that Star Trek is an idea, as the very idea of what Star Trek means has changed quite a bit over the years. If you did go with the canon of the original ideas you would end being accused of being politically incorrect (why do the women wear miniskirts and why is the Captain banging all the aliens?). The bottom line is that you can't take a series made back in the spirit of the 1960's and make it again today. Society, the series, the actors, the story and just about every other thing about the show has changed.
This is why franchises get rebooted, it all gets too messy, and there far too many fan-boys and fan-girls to appease with far too little benefit for the cost of being canon compliant. It's not an accident that they just rebooted Star Trek with the 2009 movie.
The only purpose of the gap was to wait out the DOJ decree requiring oversight of any released operating systems. It's been a while, however as memory serves Vista was released within months of the DOJ decree expiring.
The question isn't if he should have been let go years ago, the questions are when he should have been let and what the hell took so long? Defenders like to point out that Microsoft has become more profitable and larger under Steve Ballmer. Ballmer had disaster after disaster at the helm of Microsoft, imagine what the stock would have done/without/ all the disasters the Ballmer created?
Personally I'm of the opinion he should have been let go after the fiasco that was Vista.
This will be the best thing to happen to Microsoft in many years. Ballmer alienated customers, the public, the press, their employees, the enterprise and those who made their career out of Microsoft's products. 8.1's start button instead of start menu was the nail in the coffin for many, many people from a sheer contempt standpoint. Getting rid of technet and a hundred other things that showed their customers were viewed with contempt as the the enemy can all be cited as examples of why he had to go.
The recent proposed changes to the DSM 5 are not yet fully vetted from what I understand. I suppose if you were splitting hairs finely enough you could make your argument, you just have to ignore the previous several decades of medical science. Of course there are those who are quite opposed to changing it from a mental illness to a disorder as their are legal implications.
That being said, unless your a psychiatrist or transgender yourself, your really probably just talking out of your ass with no clue in the world. I've wasted too much of my time with you already.
Good friend of mine is transgender, this should never even make the news. Transgender is a mental disease that should first of all never take away from the person, and second of all never be used as an excuse to justify someone's behavior.
Bradley Meaning's behavior had jack to do with being Transgender and bringing his mental illness into this is a shows a refusal to take responsibility and will only further alienate society from people who are transgender and have not committed Bradley Manning's crimes.
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Hezbollah are Iran's pet terrorists because they do things like blow up civilian airliners, attack international embassies, launch rockets into neighborhoods and bomb buses in civilian neighborhoods. The list of terrorist acts that Iran has committed through their Hezbollah proxy is thousands of items long.
That you could possibly say they are anything other than a terrorist organization leads me to believe your either a troll, Iranian government agent, the most ignorant person I have ever met on the Internet or so deluded as to need checking into a mental hospital.
When you decline to install something you expect that it doesn't get installed. Parallels is going to burn a lot of trust by pulling this stunt. The cost of acquiring their customers has certainly got to exceed the profit from people who decide that they will change their mind and want to run this software anyways.
At a bare minimum they need to start by building a package that will remove all traces post haste for the anyone that wants it. For people that don't want to run the package explicit instructions need to be made available about how to completely remove this. Any number of companies have screwed up royally before this, those that are still respected are the ones that instituted proper damage control.
Get real, Iran has a history of openly supporting terrorism that goes back for decades. Iran has used proxies to attack the United States and Israel for years in any number of environments. This is exactly the kind of thing that Iran has done and would do. You sound like the person claiming the neighborhood bully might not have beaten the class nerd, even though they have done so the last 78 times.
They only gave away 10,000 of them and the rest were being dumped for $199 each. That still leaves them with a few million unsold Surface tablets by all accounts.
The more interesting question is where is the graveyard holding millions of unsold original Surface tablets? Were they dismantled in Asia? Were they buried next to ET? Were they lost in a warehouse and locked up only to be discovered in 2021? Have they been lost at sea along with the cargo ship necessary to hold them all?
I find this question far more interesting than a new kickstand on a product that has failed before ever getting released.
Ignoring your users is the new in thing for corporations. From Microsoft cancelling Technet to their lack of Start Menu to Apple's upcoming flattening of IOS to Mechwarrior's ignoring users being pissed about changes or Digg's substantial drop in users with their new version a while back.
The attitude seems to be "it doesn't matter how many users we lose or alienate, were right and your wrong". Once upon a time marketing departments measured their success by number of new users gained. Nowadays UI departments seem to measure their success by number of users they lose.
The problem with storing data in the cloud with encryption from the providers standpoint is that you can't use dedupe on it. Dedupe can make an extremely large difference in the amount of storage that you have to buy and run. From an operational costs standpoint the difference between running a data repository with and without dedupe could easily be the difference between running at a profit or a loss.
The service provider has a very strong financial incentive to use dedupe technology. The problem is that there is no way to run dedupe on crypto without having the key and being susceptible to having your data be accessed by third parties. If you don't have the key than you can honestly say that you have no idea what is in a users data set or ability to decrypt it, but you then lose the ability to dedupe the data and save a fortune on operational costs.
In a nutshell what you really need is a cloud provider that offers dedupe free storage. Their costs (read your costs) would be higher to offer this of course, but for many people that's more than reasonable when your asking them to incur additional expenses to actually keep your data private. I can't speak for Mega of course, but the dedupe question is one that could nail this down one way or another.
Perhaps you missed the part where I criticized what happens with evolution? My comment has to do with political correctness taking over education and jack to do with Republicans or Democrats.
Educational standards are a mess because you have trends that are butting heads. Today's educational standards are largely dictated by political correctness, politics and avoiding anything that could be considered a legacy way of doing things. The result is that educators are loathe to take anything away from teaching their politically correct platforms. The second trend is standardized testing, intended to make sure that kids are actually being taught real world skills like reading, writing and arithmetic.
The result is an epic multi-billion dollar pissing contest between political correctness and having students prepared for the real world. Neither side will give an inch and to make matters worse where you live (California, Texas etc) largely dictates what your taught. Absent a miracle of a rational national standardized education platform of some kind that largely removes politics the situation isn't going to get any better.
Too lazy to google for examples right now, but you can easily find many examples of prominent historical figures being given only a single paragraph in a history book or evolution being taught as a hypotheses and so on.
Too many parents refuse to parent and let the media do their work for them. For those parents that have raised snowflakes this would be the perfect passive aggressive way to handle things.
Sorry snowflake, the phone says you can't send text messages at dinner time, don't be upset with me!
The scientific community needs to rally to his cause. Polygraphs are junk science and haven't been admissible to a court of law in many years. Teaching someone how to beat a Polygraph is no more morally wrong than teaching someone how to beat any other form of junk science. Science should be revered for what it is, and attempts to pass junk off should be demonized. What's next, jailing someone for teaching you how to fool an Astrologist?
I have no problem with the government conducting proper background checks (ala Snowden etc), but relying on junk science like the polygraph hasn't helped them on actual real spies like Ames etc..
You need to hire some of these "brilliant" people so that you don't get snowed by a Snowden. By all accounts he accomplished what he did by having incompetent management above him. This was a management problem, and one that you knew better about, or should have known better about - if you had some of those brilliant people who knew what they were doing in management!
Who would have thought that giving kids a safe environment to get their aggression out would have beneficial side effects? The said thing is that this study ever had to be conducted in the first place.
I remember when D&D was blamed for suicides, goths were blamed for school shootings, movies were blamed for just about everything and so on. At some point the idiot brigade needs to quit blaming everyone else and go back to being parents instead of outsourcing the job to the media. /rant off
I'm out of mod points or I would mod you up. One of the truest things I've seen on slashdot in a long time. Too many people are ignorant of how technology development actually works.
Nobody here is arguing that they are doing billions in business. The issue is that they should be doing many billions in business more than they are. In the words often attributed to Senator Dirksen "A billion here, a billion there, and pretty soon you're talking real money."
This is an industry in which incumbent multibillion giants fall, events that many Slashdot saw or experienced first hand. Fundamentals are fundamentals and any company the starts to consistently make the same mistakes that the previous multibillion dollar companies made is likely to have a repeat of the same consequences.
Microsoft treats it's customers (e.g. Windows 8.1 Start Button instead of Menu), manufacturing partners (8.0/8.1 & the Surface), professional advocates (ending Technet) and it's own employees (stacked ranking) with contempt. When your busy pissing off the very people that you need to stay in business you lose their good will. When you lose their good will they start to make fundamental decisions to go with competitors products. The market reflects these changes everywhere from the rise of alternative office suites to failure of Windows phone to the largest consecutive set of multibillion dollar losses the PC market has ever seen.
The giants can and will fall, nobody is entitled to an empire. Unless Microsoft stops treating the very people it needs as the enemy and starts listening to what people keep telling them that they want they will continue to lose their empire. Start by reading this excellent piece from Vanity Fair on Microsoft's Stacked ranking system for their employees.
It was a joke, going back to the days of old Atari games. Many of today's scientists at NASA grew up playing these games. I'm well aware of the actual scientific value.
This article, as well as the source articles are all nothing but professional trolls written for the express purpose of generating page views. What's next, links to articles on Jezebel asking if the average man beats his wife before or after raping her?
Look, I know we all like growing up and making our favorite tech from video games or movies happen in real life. That being said I'm not sure if a real life version of Asteroid or Space Invaders is a good idea. I know they have some really nifty lasers they also want to test, but somehow this could all going quite badly...
Please rewrite headline, it is misleading. There is a world of difference between the Start "Menu" and the Start "Button". 8.1 forces you back into metro through the Start Button and doesn't resolve people issues in the slightest. Metro is still forced on you and it is still wholly unsuitable to the enterprise. While Microsoft at least listened to people about boot to desktop, they showed continued contempt for their customer base by refusing to replace the Start Menu.
Fix the headline and stop propagating Microsoft's spin, this is a band-aid on sucking chest wound and nothing more.
Sorry, but Mission Impossible is an entirely different series, not based in space at all.
The problem is that with the advent of millions of fans and the Internet every little flaw, tick and tock is well known. There is no true canon as such as there are too many inconsistencies in the series.
You see to get a Star Trek series that was canon compliant you would have to start by axing every single series after the original. Even if you did that and stuck with the movies you would have to draw the line at a certain movie without voiding canon. By the time you were done taking an axe to everything in the name of purity you wouldn't have much left to work with. The younger fans know the newer series and you would alienate them by saying their favorites simply didn't exist.
You can't even really say that Star Trek is an idea, as the very idea of what Star Trek means has changed quite a bit over the years. If you did go with the canon of the original ideas you would end being accused of being politically incorrect (why do the women wear miniskirts and why is the Captain banging all the aliens?). The bottom line is that you can't take a series made back in the spirit of the 1960's and make it again today. Society, the series, the actors, the story and just about every other thing about the show has changed.
This is why franchises get rebooted, it all gets too messy, and there far too many fan-boys and fan-girls to appease with far too little benefit for the cost of being canon compliant. It's not an accident that they just rebooted Star Trek with the 2009 movie.
The only purpose of the gap was to wait out the DOJ decree requiring oversight of any released operating systems. It's been a while, however as memory serves Vista was released within months of the DOJ decree expiring.
The question isn't if he should have been let go years ago, the questions are when he should have been let and what the hell took so long? Defenders like to point out that Microsoft has become more profitable and larger under Steve Ballmer. Ballmer had disaster after disaster at the helm of Microsoft, imagine what the stock would have done /without/ all the disasters the Ballmer created?
Personally I'm of the opinion he should have been let go after the fiasco that was Vista.
This will be the best thing to happen to Microsoft in many years. Ballmer alienated customers, the public, the press, their employees, the enterprise and those who made their career out of Microsoft's products. 8.1's start button instead of start menu was the nail in the coffin for many, many people from a sheer contempt standpoint. Getting rid of technet and a hundred other things that showed their customers were viewed with contempt as the the enemy can all be cited as examples of why he had to go.
http://psychcentral.com/disorders/gender-dysphoria-symptoms/
The recent proposed changes to the DSM 5 are not yet fully vetted from what I understand. I suppose if you were splitting hairs finely enough you could make your argument, you just have to ignore the previous several decades of medical science. Of course there are those who are quite opposed to changing it from a mental illness to a disorder as their are legal implications.
That being said, unless your a psychiatrist or transgender yourself, your really probably just talking out of your ass with no clue in the world. I've wasted too much of my time with you already.
Good friend of mine is transgender, this should never even make the news. Transgender is a mental disease that should first of all never take away from the person, and second of all never be used as an excuse to justify someone's behavior.
Bradley Meaning's behavior had jack to do with being Transgender and bringing his mental illness into this is a shows a refusal to take responsibility and will only further alienate society from people who are transgender and have not committed Bradley Manning's crimes.