Does anyone remember that leaked recording where Mitt Romney said
47% of Americans pay no income taxes. So our message of low taxes doesn't connect. And he'll be out there talking about tax cuts for the rich. I mean that's what they sell every-- every four years.
And-- and so my job is not to worry about those people. I'll never convince them that they should take personal responsibility and care for for their lives.
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My point isn't to bash Mitt Romney but it is to point out that these people don't actually believe the bullshit they say publicly. Mitt Romney really believes that almost half the country are free-loading pieces of shit that know nothing of personal responsibility.
Does anyone really think Sen Fair thinks evolution is bullshit? Seriously even the Pope realizes evolution makes more sense than Genesis, probably because you would have to be brain dead to think the Bible or any scripture can be interpreted literally. No, Mr. Fair only says this shit to get Cleatus and Maud all hot and bothered and voting for him. It's a distraction from real issues, like that Mr. Fair would gladly help ship Cleatus' job to China if it means he gets a campaign contribution. It's not an (R) thing and its not a (D) thing, it's a political thing. Politicians realized that there are a lot of single issue voters out there, it would be stupid to ignore them.
So whats the solution I would propose? Don't get mad at them for playing the game. Change the game: Fix primaries. Fix gerrymandering. Restore a free and critical press. Mandate public financing of campaigns. If you remove all the bullshit and Cleatus and Maud still really really want evolution removed from the school curriculum, fine. Thats OK, but the way things are now there really is no choice, just the facade of one.
Haha. Hiring anyone is a lottery. You're actually better off hiring someone with 0 years of experience* as an intern or co-op for a 3 to 6 month period then hiring them on full time if they work out.
* Who really has 0 years of experience besides people that really don't deserve jobs? Anyone can get relevant job experience through volunteering, clubs, research projects, tech support gigs, craigslist, internships. Someone who has 0 experience isn't being hired because of their lack of job experience, they aren't being hired because of their lack of effort in getting job experience.
I live in a decently sized city and I still have to fight with the taxi drivers to get them to accept my credit card. Even though they have swipers and signs that say they accept cards they pretend the machine is broken, make up some minimum charge, or just flat out refuse to accept your credit card. Now we're going to tell them they have to upgrade the machines they resisted getting in the first place?
We all know this is every HR drone's wet dream. They probably buy the graduation list right from the coding academy and make low ball offers to these obviously desperate coders.
I just think this is sad. When I become worm food I hope people find solace in their memories of me, the good times we had together, the adventures we went on. My life is defined by what I do in meatspace, not what digital excrement is left over in cyberspace. So many people are living more and more of their lives online, if your legacy is chat logs and facebook posts god dammit did you really live? Facebook isn't you, it is a digital representation of what you want other people to think you are
The summary tries to paint the picture that Google's acquisition and sale of Motorola was somehow not quite what Google had hoped for. When Google announced that they would buy Motorola Mobility on Aug 15 2011 Google closed at: $557.23. Today Google is at $1140. Between yesterday and today Google jumped > 3%. Obviously Google's stock price is influenced by many factors but the acquisition of Motorola has not seemed to deter the massive gains Google has experienced over the past 2 or 3 years.
$12 Billion sitting in a bank account really doesn't do anything for Google, and it makes investors upset. So they bought talent and patents, took what they wanted from Motorola and are now selling the left over parts. They are not taking a loss. This isn't MySpace being bought for $500 million and being sold for $35 million, it is idiotic to suggest this was a stinging defeat. It was a shrewd business decision.
The Greatest Generation was immensely proud that only the Bad Guys spied on their citizens. Communists, Nazis, and their filthy ilk.
The main reason that the surviving members of that group haven't risen up and championed Snowden is that they cannot really believe that their shining ideal has become so tarnished.
The Greatest Generation was immensely ignorant of the fact that their own government spied on its own citizens. They were brainwashed too, it just so happens that their side won.
Great, it should apply to everyone. Government officials, corporate execs, and the music industry itself.
The problem (besides jail time being a disproportionate punishment for copyright infringement) is that when someone in the government is found to have stolen an image or text from the internet, nothing happens. When a politician illegally uses a song for a campaign rally and the band finds out, all the politician has to do is release some press statement saying an aide made a mistake. When corporations infringe on copyrights nothing happens. When the music industry is found to have infringed on copyrights nothing happens. The only people subject to punishment are the commoner.
If laws applied to us all equally then lawmakers would stop passing asinine laws.
I have done large scale POS stuff. Probably at least the same scale or bigger than target. This was done by someone who knows target's system. Not necessarily someone on the inside but someone who knows inside information. Nothing top secret, just general info on how stuff works.
And there are hundreds of people who know this information. Hundreds of people who are no longer with target. If target is anything like the place I worked, they use a lot of contractors (temps). They treat these temps like shit. It's not just devs who know the dirty on target's system, its QA people, network people, support people, ops people.
The cat is out of the bag. Censoring websites isn't going to help target. The info has already spread to places target can't censor. They should focus on fixing their shit. It's going to be expensive.
... that caring about issue A is somehow insupportable.
I never said caring about the dolphins is insupportable. I'm questioning why people seem to care about the impending slaughter of 200 dolphins more than Syrians or any other conflict with ridiculous numbers of pointless human casualties.
Yes we need it. That shouldn't even be a question. Did we need transistors? Did we need the keyboard, the mouse, the gui, the network, the Internet, modern web browsers, tablets, cell phones?
Are we ready? No. I do not believe so.
We are not ready for google glass on at least two fronts: privacy and self control.
Are you mad about google+ integration? Ok, then do you really think google glass will continue the trend of the ever watching google or will it reverse the trend?
Would you be ok with Google mining your "anonymized" glass data to build a better profile on you? Would you be ok with Google mining someone elses "anonymized" glass data to build a profile on you?
What about when glass data becomes part of what law enforcement / the government can subpoena?
Are you upset when you try to install a flashlight app and it tells you it needs full access to all your contacts, current calls, and the network? Wanna bet that all google glass apps are going to want full access to your current location, your vision, your hearing, what you say, and who you are with?
We aren't ready to deal with that yet, because as a society we still haven't found a current level of privacy and usefulness that strikes a balance. I think that there is a balance, but as users of the devices/services we just don't have enough power or information.
On top of privacy, we just don't have the self control and awareness to not do stupid things online. It will only get worse if we start using always-on, internet connected wearable devices. And I'm not referring to anyone who uses social media and the internet responsibly, I'm referring to the people who aren't informed and aware of the implications of uploading something to social media or posting it online.
How often do we hear about some highschooler suspended/expelled because he/she said or posted something stupid on facebook. Something completely harmless but since it is out of context for all the world to see, there are consequences. Furthermore, revenge porn is now getting into the courts, and its not just an angry ex leaking a sextape that two adults made, there are tons of people that don't realize that chatting naked with a stranger on the internet is a really good way to have that video posted to every shady corner of the web. For ever. Videos and pics of drunk college parties are preventing people from getting jobs upon graduation because they never realized that posting that time you pissed off the balcony at your frat house would show up on some HR person's search of you.
We just haven't caught up yet as a society. That doesn't mean there are completely responsible informed people who would use google glass in positive ways, it means there are a lot of idiots who are going to do something stupid then cry when their life is fucked up because of something stupid they didn't mean to have broadcast to the world.
I don't think that means we shouldn't move forward with google glass, I just don't think we ready as a society to use wearable computing devices responsibly.
Visa first warned about these types of attacks targeting grocery merchants, but said merchant segment is vulnerable. According to Visa, these types memory parser malware attacks have been found only targeting Windows-based operating systems.
This one is my favorite. Why any retailer is running Windows on a POS PC is beyond anyone that knows how computers work. It should be illegal.
Um...everyone uses Windows on POS PCs. Usually a customized WinXP embedded install. Windows devs are cheap, and a lot of the POS app work is outsourced to places it seems are more comfortable with windows.
Retailers aren't tech companies. There is usually a small group of IT people who are part POS engineers, part vendor management. Most retailers rely on vendors or other companies to provide them with complete systems and support/installation services.
PCI-DSS was created to hold merchants to some kind of security standards. There are huge fines if your payment processing system isn't compliant.
Details aren't really that clear, but do we know if Target was in violation of the requirements? Or is this a case of PCI-DSS compliance not guaranteeing security? From what I remember of PCI-DSS, it was a good start but not comprehensive. It seemed more focused on preventing someone from swapping out a legitimate credit card processing device with a compromised one, preventing snooping on the local network, and avoiding having normal unsecured POS devices do credit processing. This attack was at Target's corporate processing core it seems so I don't even know if PCI-DSS applies.
When contractors raised concerns, CMS told them that "failure is not an option" and that everything has to work october 1.
From the article linked in the summary:
Late last summer, CGI executives had expressed confidence to CMS that they could deliver a functioning, scaled-back version of the marketplace by the Oct. 1 start day. But a week before the launch, the company had failed to deliver on 45 percent of those tasks, according to documents obtained by The Washington Post.
I'm sure it was both. CMS said failure isn't an option and CGI and the rest of the contractors made really optimistic project plans.
Rest assured that no one at CMS will be disciplined or fired over this.
Who cares if they get dismissed a few weeks before their contract expired. Do they still get paid for the steaming pile of shit they created? Absolutely. Will they continue to get government contracts after this blows over? Absolutely.
Seriously will./ try to slant anything to make Google look bad? Co-Opt a boat? Did Google storm the boat by force and take it over like nerdy pirates? Or did Google negotiate a contract with a company to use one of their boats? If whale watching is in such crazy demand that Google using a boat for 30 days is ruining the season then it sounds like there is a great business opportunity for someone to start another whale watching tour company.
Why isn't anyone bitching about the owners of the boat letting Google use it? Becuase that wouldn't get./'s pantys in a knot. Thats why.
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In this scenario the Law worked perfectly.
Government sets rules on what you can and cannot do,
Government interprets those rules,
Government imposes punishments based on those interpretations.
You piss off the government, they use the laws to make your life hell.
47% of Americans pay no income taxes. So our message of low taxes doesn't connect. And he'll be out there talking about tax cuts for the rich. I mean that's what they sell every-- every four years. And-- and so my job is not to worry about those people. I'll never convince them that they should take personal responsibility and care for for their lives.
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My point isn't to bash Mitt Romney but it is to point out that these people don't actually believe the bullshit they say publicly. Mitt Romney really believes that almost half the country are free-loading pieces of shit that know nothing of personal responsibility.
Does anyone really think Sen Fair thinks evolution is bullshit? Seriously even the Pope realizes evolution makes more sense than Genesis, probably because you would have to be brain dead to think the Bible or any scripture can be interpreted literally. No, Mr. Fair only says this shit to get Cleatus and Maud all hot and bothered and voting for him. It's a distraction from real issues, like that Mr. Fair would gladly help ship Cleatus' job to China if it means he gets a campaign contribution. It's not an (R) thing and its not a (D) thing, it's a political thing. Politicians realized that there are a lot of single issue voters out there, it would be stupid to ignore them.
So whats the solution I would propose? Don't get mad at them for playing the game. Change the game: Fix primaries. Fix gerrymandering. Restore a free and critical press. Mandate public financing of campaigns. If you remove all the bullshit and Cleatus and Maud still really really want evolution removed from the school curriculum, fine. Thats OK, but the way things are now there really is no choice, just the facade of one.
Haha. Hiring anyone is a lottery. You're actually better off hiring someone with 0 years of experience* as an intern or co-op for a 3 to 6 month period then hiring them on full time if they work out.
* Who really has 0 years of experience besides people that really don't deserve jobs? Anyone can get relevant job experience through volunteering, clubs, research projects, tech support gigs, craigslist, internships. Someone who has 0 experience isn't being hired because of their lack of job experience, they aren't being hired because of their lack of effort in getting job experience.
I live in a decently sized city and I still have to fight with the taxi drivers to get them to accept my credit card. Even though they have swipers and signs that say they accept cards they pretend the machine is broken, make up some minimum charge, or just flat out refuse to accept your credit card. Now we're going to tell them they have to upgrade the machines they resisted getting in the first place?
Wow Jim tell us how you really feel.
We all know this is every HR drone's wet dream. They probably buy the graduation list right from the coding academy and make low ball offers to these obviously desperate coders.
ISPs say that they don't have enough bandwidth for everything, and that they must throttle traffic.
Then, ISPs say they want to have your residential AP also broadcast a public wifi hotspot.
To me, those two things are in contradiction. If there isn't enough bandwidth then why are they adding public hotspots to residential plans?
I just think this is sad. When I become worm food I hope people find solace in their memories of me, the good times we had together, the adventures we went on. My life is defined by what I do in meatspace, not what digital excrement is left over in cyberspace. So many people are living more and more of their lives online, if your legacy is chat logs and facebook posts god dammit did you really live? Facebook isn't you, it is a digital representation of what you want other people to think you are
The summary tries to paint the picture that Google's acquisition and sale of Motorola was somehow not quite what Google had hoped for. When Google announced that they would buy Motorola Mobility on Aug 15 2011 Google closed at: $557.23. Today Google is at $1140. Between yesterday and today Google jumped > 3%. Obviously Google's stock price is influenced by many factors but the acquisition of Motorola has not seemed to deter the massive gains Google has experienced over the past 2 or 3 years.
$12 Billion sitting in a bank account really doesn't do anything for Google, and it makes investors upset. So they bought talent and patents, took what they wanted from Motorola and are now selling the left over parts. They are not taking a loss. This isn't MySpace being bought for $500 million and being sold for $35 million, it is idiotic to suggest this was a stinging defeat. It was a shrewd business decision.
The Greatest Generation was immensely proud that only the Bad Guys spied on their citizens. Communists, Nazis, and their filthy ilk.
The main reason that the surviving members of that group haven't risen up and championed Snowden is that they cannot really believe that their shining ideal has become so tarnished.
The Greatest Generation was immensely ignorant of the fact that their own government spied on its own citizens. They were brainwashed too, it just so happens that their side won.
Great, it should apply to everyone. Government officials, corporate execs, and the music industry itself.
The problem (besides jail time being a disproportionate punishment for copyright infringement) is that when someone in the government is found to have stolen an image or text from the internet, nothing happens. When a politician illegally uses a song for a campaign rally and the band finds out, all the politician has to do is release some press statement saying an aide made a mistake. When corporations infringe on copyrights nothing happens. When the music industry is found to have infringed on copyrights nothing happens. The only people subject to punishment are the commoner.
If laws applied to us all equally then lawmakers would stop passing asinine laws.
I have done large scale POS stuff. Probably at least the same scale or bigger than target. This was done by someone who knows target's system. Not necessarily someone on the inside but someone who knows inside information. Nothing top secret, just general info on how stuff works.
And there are hundreds of people who know this information. Hundreds of people who are no longer with target. If target is anything like the place I worked, they use a lot of contractors (temps). They treat these temps like shit. It's not just devs who know the dirty on target's system, its QA people, network people, support people, ops people.
The cat is out of the bag. Censoring websites isn't going to help target. The info has already spread to places target can't censor. They should focus on fixing their shit. It's going to be expensive.
... that caring about issue A is somehow insupportable.
I never said caring about the dolphins is insupportable. I'm questioning why people seem to care about the impending slaughter of 200 dolphins more than Syrians or any other conflict with ridiculous numbers of pointless human casualties.
Why is it that some people seem to care more about the death of 200 dolphins than the death of 200,000 Syrians?
Why is it that some people care more about the death of 200,000 Syrians than the death of over a million jews during WWII?
See? I can find a bigger problem too.
It might have something to do with WWII ending in the 1940's while the dolphin 'slaughter' and the Syrian conflict are current.
Why is it that some people seem to care more about the death of 200 dolphins than the death of 200,000 Syrians?
How about U.S. citizens can query the database and receive a report on what data the NSA has collected?
I think you illustrate perfectly why I don't think society is ready for consumer wearable tech.
Yes we need it. That shouldn't even be a question. Did we need transistors? Did we need the keyboard, the mouse, the gui, the network, the Internet, modern web browsers, tablets, cell phones?
Are we ready? No. I do not believe so.
We are not ready for google glass on at least two fronts: privacy and self control.
Are you mad about google+ integration? Ok, then do you really think google glass will continue the trend of the ever watching google or will it reverse the trend?
Would you be ok with Google mining your "anonymized" glass data to build a better profile on you? Would you be ok with Google mining someone elses "anonymized" glass data to build a profile on you?
What about when glass data becomes part of what law enforcement / the government can subpoena?
Are you upset when you try to install a flashlight app and it tells you it needs full access to all your contacts, current calls, and the network? Wanna bet that all google glass apps are going to want full access to your current location, your vision, your hearing, what you say, and who you are with?
We aren't ready to deal with that yet, because as a society we still haven't found a current level of privacy and usefulness that strikes a balance. I think that there is a balance, but as users of the devices/services we just don't have enough power or information.
On top of privacy, we just don't have the self control and awareness to not do stupid things online. It will only get worse if we start using always-on, internet connected wearable devices. And I'm not referring to anyone who uses social media and the internet responsibly, I'm referring to the people who aren't informed and aware of the implications of uploading something to social media or posting it online.
How often do we hear about some highschooler suspended/expelled because he/she said or posted something stupid on facebook. Something completely harmless but since it is out of context for all the world to see, there are consequences. Furthermore, revenge porn is now getting into the courts, and its not just an angry ex leaking a sextape that two adults made, there are tons of people that don't realize that chatting naked with a stranger on the internet is a really good way to have that video posted to every shady corner of the web. For ever. Videos and pics of drunk college parties are preventing people from getting jobs upon graduation because they never realized that posting that time you pissed off the balcony at your frat house would show up on some HR person's search of you.
We just haven't caught up yet as a society. That doesn't mean there are completely responsible informed people who would use google glass in positive ways, it means there are a lot of idiots who are going to do something stupid then cry when their life is fucked up because of something stupid they didn't mean to have broadcast to the world.
I don't think that means we shouldn't move forward with google glass, I just don't think we ready as a society to use wearable computing devices responsibly.
Visa first warned about these types of attacks targeting grocery merchants, but said merchant segment is vulnerable. According to Visa, these types memory parser malware attacks have been found only targeting Windows-based operating systems.
This one is my favorite. Why any retailer is running Windows on a POS PC is beyond anyone that knows how computers work. It should be illegal.
Um...everyone uses Windows on POS PCs. Usually a customized WinXP embedded install. Windows devs are cheap, and a lot of the POS app work is outsourced to places it seems are more comfortable with windows.
Retailers aren't tech companies. There is usually a small group of IT people who are part POS engineers, part vendor management. Most retailers rely on vendors or other companies to provide them with complete systems and support/installation services.
PCI-DSS was created to hold merchants to some kind of security standards. There are huge fines if your payment processing system isn't compliant.
Details aren't really that clear, but do we know if Target was in violation of the requirements? Or is this a case of PCI-DSS compliance not guaranteeing security? From what I remember of PCI-DSS, it was a good start but not comprehensive. It seemed more focused on preventing someone from swapping out a legitimate credit card processing device with a compromised one, preventing snooping on the local network, and avoiding having normal unsecured POS devices do credit processing. This attack was at Target's corporate processing core it seems so I don't even know if PCI-DSS applies.
Is /. really that influential of a place that someone would actually spend time and money trying to smear google with shitty submissions?
When contractors raised concerns, CMS told them that "failure is not an option" and that everything has to work october 1.
From the article linked in the summary:
Late last summer, CGI executives had expressed confidence to CMS that they could deliver a functioning, scaled-back version of the marketplace by the Oct. 1 start day. But a week before the launch, the company had failed to deliver on 45 percent of those tasks, according to documents obtained by The Washington Post.
I'm sure it was both. CMS said failure isn't an option and CGI and the rest of the contractors made really optimistic project plans.
Rest assured that no one at CMS will be disciplined or fired over this.
Resignations don't count?
Who cares if they get dismissed a few weeks before their contract expired. Do they still get paid for the steaming pile of shit they created? Absolutely. Will they continue to get government contracts after this blows over? Absolutely.
This is a PR move.
Seriously will ./ try to slant anything to make Google look bad? Co-Opt a boat? Did Google storm the boat by force and take it over like nerdy pirates? Or did Google negotiate a contract with a company to use one of their boats? If whale watching is in such crazy demand that Google using a boat for 30 days is ruining the season then it sounds like there is a great business opportunity for someone to start another whale watching tour company.
./'s pantys in a knot. Thats why.
Why isn't anyone bitching about the owners of the boat letting Google use it? Becuase that wouldn't get
I read your Sherlock Holmes (A.C.D.) quote in Data's Sherlock Holmes voice.