The moderation system is only meant to rate POSTS directly, not users. Even if he IS a shill, his first post is useful and relevant to this thread and your replies are annoying. Let the Karma system do its job and stop spamming up the place.
Don't worry. They'll realize their mistake soon and go to their back-up method: storing our private info on paper print-outs stored in a built-in plastic tub with a window so ATM maintenance will know when to go empty the paper into the nearest garbage bin.
I don't know much about how any of this works, but why would ticket prices go up at all in this case then? As a movie theater owner, wouldn't I make the most money in this case by making tickets cost $5 and being able to sell tons of concessions?
A perfect human ear still has a range of sounds it can hear, and it still has a threshold where a sound is too quiet to hear and steps in volume that it can't distinguish between. There is a point where a digital signal contains all the information a human ear can perceive, and it's not actually that much by today's standards. A perfect human ear is not an alien ear.
And your statement about the scope is not correct either. A good analog scope won't have an error that matters to our ears because of physiological limits. It would be like claiming if our eyes were perfect we could see molecules and electrons: it's simply not true.
You go to and pay for a high-end restaurant knowing that you can expect better treatment and ambiance. That is what you pay for. You're might also be paying to treat someone special. This is all well-known and advertised. You aren't JUST paying for better food when you go to a more expensive restaurant, and you aren't paying for a generic "enjoyment."
There is no such equivalent for a $1,000 cable. These are only advertised to transmit bits with great fidelity and to be well constructed. The do not purport to add to the general enjoyment of video, and they certainly don't do anything for the people not paying for it. If BB is serious about the price, they deserve the mocking they get.
The problem is that people have warned companies repeatedly that this is no way to treat OTHER PEOPLE's sensitive information, but nothing besides bad press seems to get them off their asses. No, Anonymous obvioiusly did not use a legal and guilt-free way to do it, but friendly advice has proven ineffective.
Barring the threat of extremely high fines or other strong repercussions for keeping our credit card information, these high-profile hacking events might end up being the most effective impetus for people to get their act together. Some companies and government agencies have actually taken computer security seriously, but not many. As a victim of both my passwords and SSN compromised by trivial hacking attempts, I do blame the organizations who held my information without securing it properly.
You know that not every hacking incident is on the same scale as a serious Windows virus? Billions of dollars is also non-equivalent to lives lost and creating (or trying to creating) a sense of constant fear for your own safety that occurs due to a violent terrorist attack. If you think they're the same, then you have never had to fear for your life.
This is a new grey zone. You get achievements and badges and decals for the single-player game that affect the multi-player. It would be nice to have built-in cheats that disable any achievements, but for other games, you start also getting items that are more than cosmetic in multiplayer. It's not the game maker's job to determine the purpose and capabilities of the third-party programs involved.
You example is in a single-player game. His question applies to a multi-player game, and your justification for using the glitch is that "it is a victimless crime that increases enjoyment," which is completely valid, but not equivalent nor relevant to the example of using a bot to grind in WoW.
In fact, what you are using may be considered a completely separate form of cheating than the one pertinent to this/. article: it only affects you, and is effectively a mod of your game. It would be similar to changing the colors of in-game sprites or using a difficulty setting.
I agree. This isn't about bringing in your ergonomic mouse and keyboard. It's sticking devices on your network, and other, more intelligent, IT blogs have covered this issue with a more informed and less biased view.
The employee might be willing to sign that, and might even be willing to take the flak for a major screw-up, but that doesn't mean the company would be okay with that. A screw-up can cost a lot more than the employee can fix or repay, and you can't un-lose confidential data.
You think if the PSN was hacked because someone brought in their personal laptop that Sony can fix everything by taking away that employee's laptop and firing them?
This is the problem with users. They think their own few minutes of waiting to set up their personal phone are more important than the IT's few minutes for their smoke break. Never mind almost every IT worker is overworked and there are dozens users per It guy. No, because YOU decide that this problem is so simple, despite your not knowing how to fix it/google it yourself, it has to be done immediately.
This sort of selfish sentiment really pisses me off. You think you would fix it for a coworker, but you aren't bombarded with requests. And even if you were, the IT guy is perfectly justified in deciding NOT to help you set up your personal device, and it's extremely rude of you to believe you are somehow entitled to his help to make your life more convenient. It is clear from your statement that you have no idea why an IT worker might be very busy, and have no interest in finding out why. "They're probably just a lazy bum on a smoke break instead of doing their job," right?
Have you actually gotten to know your IT worker? Do you know sometimes there will be 4 people managing 400 people, and have you considered that when one of them gets sick when another is on vacation, suddenly you have two completely swamped people working a ton of overtime, and they avoid things that are "extra work" because it wouldn't be humanly possible to keep everything running otherwise? I don't know a single tech guy who isn't perfectly happy to help someone less technical with a reasonable request in their free time; it's the whiny ones that gets on their nerves.
Face it, IT's job is to facilitate the rest of the company's performance of the real purposes of the company. IT doesn't make money for the company it enables the money making areas to make the money. A wise IT dept allows users to add additional tools, but with the caveat that the only fix available is a system wipe and restore to original configuration. The Users are responsible for keeping their data backed up.
If you were IT, would you consider this doing your job? Because management and certainly won't. If all you do is a system restore, and you don't even manage the back-ups or ensure security, then you're not really providing much of a service.
You could have also paid for web hosting or an SSH server online and gotten the same result. Or driven to a starbucks with your laptop. Possibly even reseting your router would have worked. Sure, since you had your phone, that helped, but if you hadn't had your phone, I'm sure you would have figured something else out pretty quickly.
I've fired both a gun and an arrow. I assure you that it's easier to kill someone, on purpose or on accident, with a gun than with a bow an arrow, and that's probably the main problem with something like a hand gun (as opposed to a bow or even a hunting rifle): it's too damn easy to do something bad when you're angry, or when you don't know what you're doing, and when another human gets hit, they're much, much more likely to die.
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I don't think you've been in very many office high-rises.
Seriously. I wish my company would keep me happy and productive.
The moderation system is only meant to rate POSTS directly, not users. Even if he IS a shill, his first post is useful and relevant to this thread and your replies are annoying. Let the Karma system do its job and stop spamming up the place.
Don't worry. They'll realize their mistake soon and go to their back-up method: storing our private info on paper print-outs stored in a built-in plastic tub with a window so ATM maintenance will know when to go empty the paper into the nearest garbage bin.
I'm pretty sure a voting machine's worth of votes is worth more than an ATM filled with money.
I don't know much about how any of this works, but why would ticket prices go up at all in this case then? As a movie theater owner, wouldn't I make the most money in this case by making tickets cost $5 and being able to sell tons of concessions?
Wait. I bet Doctors without Borders uses Windows too! Microsoft must be a saint!
Too bad this breaks the mod system a bit. +Karma to posts that miss the point results in mod points that miss the point.
Yeah, this is not true.
A perfect human ear still has a range of sounds it can hear, and it still has a threshold where a sound is too quiet to hear and steps in volume that it can't distinguish between. There is a point where a digital signal contains all the information a human ear can perceive, and it's not actually that much by today's standards. A perfect human ear is not an alien ear.
And your statement about the scope is not correct either. A good analog scope won't have an error that matters to our ears because of physiological limits. It would be like claiming if our eyes were perfect we could see molecules and electrons: it's simply not true.
While cool, doesn't this mean only work if you purchase something expensive, and that HAS value?
You go to and pay for a high-end restaurant knowing that you can expect better treatment and ambiance. That is what you pay for. You're might also be paying to treat someone special. This is all well-known and advertised. You aren't JUST paying for better food when you go to a more expensive restaurant, and you aren't paying for a generic "enjoyment."
There is no such equivalent for a $1,000 cable. These are only advertised to transmit bits with great fidelity and to be well constructed. The do not purport to add to the general enjoyment of video, and they certainly don't do anything for the people not paying for it. If BB is serious about the price, they deserve the mocking they get.
The problem is that people have warned companies repeatedly that this is no way to treat OTHER PEOPLE's sensitive information, but nothing besides bad press seems to get them off their asses. No, Anonymous obvioiusly did not use a legal and guilt-free way to do it, but friendly advice has proven ineffective.
Barring the threat of extremely high fines or other strong repercussions for keeping our credit card information, these high-profile hacking events might end up being the most effective impetus for people to get their act together. Some companies and government agencies have actually taken computer security seriously, but not many. As a victim of both my passwords and SSN compromised by trivial hacking attempts, I do blame the organizations who held my information without securing it properly.
You know that not every hacking incident is on the same scale as a serious Windows virus? Billions of dollars is also non-equivalent to lives lost and creating (or trying to creating) a sense of constant fear for your own safety that occurs due to a violent terrorist attack. If you think they're the same, then you have never had to fear for your life.
This is a new grey zone. You get achievements and badges and decals for the single-player game that affect the multi-player. It would be nice to have built-in cheats that disable any achievements, but for other games, you start also getting items that are more than cosmetic in multiplayer. It's not the game maker's job to determine the purpose and capabilities of the third-party programs involved.
You example is in a single-player game. His question applies to a multi-player game, and your justification for using the glitch is that "it is a victimless crime that increases enjoyment," which is completely valid, but not equivalent nor relevant to the example of using a bot to grind in WoW.
In fact, what you are using may be considered a completely separate form of cheating than the one pertinent to this /. article: it only affects you, and is effectively a mod of your game. It would be similar to changing the colors of in-game sprites or using a difficulty setting.
I agree. This isn't about bringing in your ergonomic mouse and keyboard. It's sticking devices on your network, and other, more intelligent, IT blogs have covered this issue with a more informed and less biased view.
The employee might be willing to sign that, and might even be willing to take the flak for a major screw-up, but that doesn't mean the company would be okay with that. A screw-up can cost a lot more than the employee can fix or repay, and you can't un-lose confidential data.
You think if the PSN was hacked because someone brought in their personal laptop that Sony can fix everything by taking away that employee's laptop and firing them?
This is the problem with users. They think their own few minutes of waiting to set up their personal phone are more important than the IT's few minutes for their smoke break. Never mind almost every IT worker is overworked and there are dozens users per It guy. No, because YOU decide that this problem is so simple, despite your not knowing how to fix it/google it yourself, it has to be done immediately.
This sort of selfish sentiment really pisses me off. You think you would fix it for a coworker, but you aren't bombarded with requests. And even if you were, the IT guy is perfectly justified in deciding NOT to help you set up your personal device, and it's extremely rude of you to believe you are somehow entitled to his help to make your life more convenient. It is clear from your statement that you have no idea why an IT worker might be very busy, and have no interest in finding out why. "They're probably just a lazy bum on a smoke break instead of doing their job," right?
Have you actually gotten to know your IT worker? Do you know sometimes there will be 4 people managing 400 people, and have you considered that when one of them gets sick when another is on vacation, suddenly you have two completely swamped people working a ton of overtime, and they avoid things that are "extra work" because it wouldn't be humanly possible to keep everything running otherwise? I don't know a single tech guy who isn't perfectly happy to help someone less technical with a reasonable request in their free time; it's the whiny ones that gets on their nerves.
Face it, IT's job is to facilitate the rest of the company's performance of the real purposes of the company. IT doesn't make money for the company it enables the money making areas to make the money. A wise IT dept allows users to add additional tools, but with the caveat that the only fix available is a system wipe and restore to original configuration. The Users are responsible for keeping their data backed up.
If you were IT, would you consider this doing your job? Because management and certainly won't. If all you do is a system restore, and you don't even manage the back-ups or ensure security, then you're not really providing much of a service.
Uh, yeah. That is my point...
Don't blame the bullets.
You could have also paid for web hosting or an SSH server online and gotten the same result. Or driven to a starbucks with your laptop. Possibly even reseting your router would have worked. Sure, since you had your phone, that helped, but if you hadn't had your phone, I'm sure you would have figured something else out pretty quickly.
Actually, you're probably the one forgetting about supply and demand. There's ridiculous supply available. You're only talking demand.
I had a classmate named Harry Mann.
Why stop there? Isn't it more like the oxygen loss to the brain due to blood loss and failure or organs that kills you?
I've fired both a gun and an arrow. I assure you that it's easier to kill someone, on purpose or on accident, with a gun than with a bow an arrow, and that's probably the main problem with something like a hand gun (as opposed to a bow or even a hunting rifle): it's too damn easy to do something bad when you're angry, or when you don't know what you're doing, and when another human gets hit, they're much, much more likely to die.