This probably created perverse incentives. If HR consultant wouldn't recommend to fire anyone they would have ended up looking ineffectual. Yet making any real decision instead of firing people who are active on a meeting would require actual domain knowledge..
Even if they're not producing anything useful they still are producing profit for the prison, be it from government funding or overpriced shitty services OP is about. And from point of view of American profit cargo cult this is all that matters.
On the other hand better development of third party repair shops would reduce workload for company's own repair facilities. The only reason companies can get away with such ineffective labor distribution is because all other companies do it. Trashing perfectly working devices because cost of repair is higher than cost of a new one(most likely due to authorized repair facilities having inadequate capacity due to monopoly privileges allowing for very few of them) is ridiculous and economically inefficient and if market forces aren't working to prevent it then it's yet another example of market failure.
Putin is just a figurehead rubberstamping all this insanity. Only dumb people need one, particular person to rally against, thus any anti-Putin propaganda is by definition exists to manipulate dumb people. Nobody with good intentions would ever use dumb and misinformed people as agent of change. It only creates more chaos. As such anti-Putin rhetoric can't be used for promoting net freedom in Russia. People who would buy it would by definition not care about Internet and other nerdery like that.
So basically Stardock confused trademark and copyright. Or were hoping that court will confuse. Still even them owning Star Control trademark goes against rationale for trademark, namely to avoid consumer confusion. Any star control title not done by Ford and Reiche would exactly lead to such confusion.
This commission existed exactly for that: to ensure sustainable and non-cruel hunting of whales. But it got captured by countries not dependent on whaling industry so they used it to shut down commercial whaling to gain an economic advantage. But this failed because it's not based on legally binding international agreements and countries are free to leave. So Japan and other countries with whaling industry have no other choice than to abscond from this commission and make a new one.
The whole idea of "selling software" is nonsensical. Software as a good itself has natural market value of 0 since it can be copied with nearly no effort. So any non-zero prices are possible only by violating principles of free market, If no monopolies are established then the hand of market will push the price to 0 nearly immediately. Even with government backed monopolies such as copyright it still manages to do some pushing which can be seen in even Microsoft moving away from software sales and in selling services instead. So it's pretty natural that making software is a side effect of other pursuit. If you do software as business you can meaningfully only sell development effort or support services.
Wasting half million dollars on a project not related to his core business sounds like weird decision. He should have at least spun off those employees as a subsidiary and wrote all R&D costs as subsidiary's debts. That way even if they decided to go their own way they would still have to repay any costs incurred. NCA isn't the best solution really, properly organized subsidiary companies and well thought out contracts are.
Entire gravity is one big phenomenon that we can't explain. Negative mass fluid sounds like the same as Luminiferous Aether, something we made up on analogy with our lower level phenomena. Occam's razor suggests that it's better to expect an explanation for metric expansion of space in future improved versions of existing theories. Perhaps quantization of gravity will help?
In this case "open" means "unrestricted" in sense that sci-hub itself doesn't attempt to restrict access to it based on social class like Springer does.
There is no need for ballot stuffing. Any elections of such scale are merely publicity circus, and this applies to all countries, not only Russia. People don't have enough information on who to vote for, and have no say over which choices end up in ballots in the first place. Media decide what information they will have and consequently how will they vote and pretty much all media in Russia is US-controlled or -influenced.
Putin is Yeltsin's chosen heir and Yeltsin was elected using heavy US PR support. There is no way he could actually be in any way anti-democratic(that is anti-US), those corrupt US politicians just used Putin as a fall guy for their failure to execute the decision to make Hilary the President. It would work just fine if some Bernie Sanders supporters didn't vote Trump in protest. Election outcome doesn't matter much because relative outsiders like Bernie can be kept out via party decision and nobody will vote non-libdem, but illusion of democracy must be kept for propriety's sake.
There are many humans and they want to "tell" computer contradicting things. Different people disagree about how workflow should be distributed, and agreement on this most definitely shouldn't come from programmers alone. If you actually read TFA you'll find that the software system(probably unwittingly) ended up influencing doctor's own workflows saddling them with some extra work that doesn't serve patients' welfare. So it's obvious that both doctors and the system do what they were told. The problem is that this ends up being inefficient, begging for liberal application of KISS principle. But it's really hard to apply this principle post factum.
The thing is there is no such thing as "video game addiction". People really tend to get bored with games, not something you'd expect to happen with proper,real addiction. It's just bad time management skills, they can lead to conflicts. Games is just one of millions of things over which a neglected child would make a tantrum over.
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This probably created perverse incentives. If HR consultant wouldn't recommend to fire anyone they would have ended up looking ineffectual. Yet making any real decision instead of firing people who are active on a meeting would require actual domain knowledge..
US would prefer for him to end up in Russia to harness russophoby in order to contravene any embarrassing discoveries wikileaks might bring.
Even if they're not producing anything useful they still are producing profit for the prison, be it from government funding or overpriced shitty services OP is about. And from point of view of American profit cargo cult this is all that matters.
On the other hand better development of third party repair shops would reduce workload for company's own repair facilities. The only reason companies can get away with such ineffective labor distribution is because all other companies do it. Trashing perfectly working devices because cost of repair is higher than cost of a new one(most likely due to authorized repair facilities having inadequate capacity due to monopoly privileges allowing for very few of them) is ridiculous and economically inefficient and if market forces aren't working to prevent it then it's yet another example of market failure.
Putin is just a figurehead rubberstamping all this insanity. Only dumb people need one, particular person to rally against, thus any anti-Putin propaganda is by definition exists to manipulate dumb people. Nobody with good intentions would ever use dumb and misinformed people as agent of change. It only creates more chaos. As such anti-Putin rhetoric can't be used for promoting net freedom in Russia. People who would buy it would by definition not care about Internet and other nerdery like that.
Garbage in, garbage out.
Sun would go red giant only in 5 billion years. Pretty sure if human society exists by that time it would be absolutely unrecognizable.
So basically Stardock confused trademark and copyright. Or were hoping that court will confuse. Still even them owning Star Control trademark goes against rationale for trademark, namely to avoid consumer confusion. Any star control title not done by Ford and Reiche would exactly lead to such confusion.
This commission existed exactly for that: to ensure sustainable and non-cruel hunting of whales. But it got captured by countries not dependent on whaling industry so they used it to shut down commercial whaling to gain an economic advantage. But this failed because it's not based on legally binding international agreements and countries are free to leave. So Japan and other countries with whaling industry have no other choice than to abscond from this commission and make a new one.
The whole idea of "selling software" is nonsensical. Software as a good itself has natural market value of 0 since it can be copied with nearly no effort. So any non-zero prices are possible only by violating principles of free market, If no monopolies are established then the hand of market will push the price to 0 nearly immediately. Even with government backed monopolies such as copyright it still manages to do some pushing which can be seen in even Microsoft moving away from software sales and in selling services instead. So it's pretty natural that making software is a side effect of other pursuit. If you do software as business you can meaningfully only sell development effort or support services.
Wasting half million dollars on a project not related to his core business sounds like weird decision. He should have at least spun off those employees as a subsidiary and wrote all R&D costs as subsidiary's debts. That way even if they decided to go their own way they would still have to repay any costs incurred. NCA isn't the best solution really, properly organized subsidiary companies and well thought out contracts are.
Entire gravity is one big phenomenon that we can't explain. Negative mass fluid sounds like the same as Luminiferous Aether, something we made up on analogy with our lower level phenomena. Occam's razor suggests that it's better to expect an explanation for metric expansion of space in future improved versions of existing theories. Perhaps quantization of gravity will help?
In this case "open" means "unrestricted" in sense that sci-hub itself doesn't attempt to restrict access to it based on social class like Springer does.
The malware has the functionality to hijack ssh connections to other systems and execute itself remotely.
Nope. It works on standard linux systems relying on two long fixed root exploits.
Wouldn't it be easy for weather, solar flares and other geo effects to interfere with it then?
Maybe there's a real effort but you don't participate in it definitely.
There is no need for ballot stuffing. Any elections of such scale are merely publicity circus, and this applies to all countries, not only Russia. People don't have enough information on who to vote for, and have no say over which choices end up in ballots in the first place. Media decide what information they will have and consequently how will they vote and pretty much all media in Russia is US-controlled or -influenced.
Was it after or before he died?
Putin is Yeltsin's chosen heir and Yeltsin was elected using heavy US PR support. There is no way he could actually be in any way anti-democratic(that is anti-US), those corrupt US politicians just used Putin as a fall guy for their failure to execute the decision to make Hilary the President. It would work just fine if some Bernie Sanders supporters didn't vote Trump in protest. Election outcome doesn't matter much because relative outsiders like Bernie can be kept out via party decision and nobody will vote non-libdem, but illusion of democracy must be kept for propriety's sake.
Sure. Mea culpa. I should be drawn, hanged and quartered for this. I don't deserve any sort of respect.
Who cares. We all are just little meaningless particles of this endless circlejerk.
You did the same to OP so why not?
There are many humans and they want to "tell" computer contradicting things. Different people disagree about how workflow should be distributed, and agreement on this most definitely shouldn't come from programmers alone. If you actually read TFA you'll find that the software system(probably unwittingly) ended up influencing doctor's own workflows saddling them with some extra work that doesn't serve patients' welfare. So it's obvious that both doctors and the system do what they were told. The problem is that this ends up being inefficient, begging for liberal application of KISS principle. But it's really hard to apply this principle post factum.
The thing is there is no such thing as "video game addiction". People really tend to get bored with games, not something you'd expect to happen with proper,real addiction. It's just bad time management skills, they can lead to conflicts. Games is just one of millions of things over which a neglected child would make a tantrum over.