How about for not policing their kid? Letting him play the game is a minor thing, allowing him to get the keys, walk out of the house, get into the car and drive it into a pole is the stupid part and the big problem.
I can't believe regulators aren't all over them for this. What are we paying them for? What good is all this bailout money doing if they are just using it to buy foriegn companies instead of saving the jobs of the people that effing paid for the bailout? Talk about biting the hand that feeds you. That bailout money did NOT come from Europe.
Not to mention all the bridges that are on the verge of collapse...
Go ahead, lay some fiber instead of fixing our crumbling infrastructure. Won't do us much good as we plunge 200ft into a river.
Sure the casualties will be limited. I guess killing a few people and losing a transportation artery for a few months is worth being able to get porn faster.
that's pretty funny considering, they've let me re-auth my OEM copy of windows xp against 3 different PC builds. I have to do it every time I add a memory stick, disk drive or whatever.
The funny part is an OEM license is only supposed to be good once, but they keep reauthing it.
You call and use the automated system. It doesn't seem to care how many times you reauthorize it.
A retail copy is supposed to be usable as many times as you like which is likely why yours won't authorize any more. As usual, their software works backwards.
How about the $59.99 options/plan that costs $90 after taxes and "fees". WTF?
I really wish they'd just post the TOTAL cost of the plan instead of being bastards about it. The FTC really needs to step in and do something about this crap. Plus you pay extra to know what those fees are? WTF. That crap should be illegal. If you are getting charged for shit, they shouldn't be allowed to make you pay, just to see what they are charging you for.
For real... texting, while it's annoying to some people, is useful. My GF and I can easily exceed 100 msgs in a day. Sometimes, it's just a fast way to say "I wuvz you" or "Don't forget the cough medicine", or whatever.
Since it's asynchronous, I don't need to try to answer a phone while I'm shifting gears and trying to focus on the road. I get to where I'm going, hit my inbox and start responding.
I have a $20 a month plan for unlimited texting and the bare minimum minutes package. Last month I used around 23 minutes total, but sent many hundreds of text messages.
Since I'm a developer, I also find it asinine that they charge as much as they do because I knew it costs next to nothing to transmit 160 bytes on any network.
But at the same time so many people text now that if I don't get this unlimited plan, I end up paying a lot. It's pretty ****ed up but at the same time, I'd be using a ton of minutes without it, losing calls, saying "WHAT?, HUH?" because I'm often in places where the ambient noise level simply renders a normal conversation impossible.
Not to mention that half the medical procedures we think of as "legit" for a given condition today won't be tomorrow.
Frontal Lobotomy comes to mind... As does the medical establishments continual flip flopping on what's healthy and what's not.
I'm not sayin that herbal medicine is better, just that "scientific" medicine has it's own issues with quackery, bad research, and disinformation, intentional or not.
This book is the proverbial pot calling the kettle black.
If scientific medicine was so great we'd be seeing a lot less doctoring and more curing.
If "legit" pharmaceuticals were so great, They'd learn what "standard deviation" means and stop using stats that fall within standard deviation as "proof" of efficacy.
Sure most "herbal" doctors are quacks that are FOS. But are medical doctors really that much different?
All of them, (medical and herbal) without exception, operate on incomplete and often unproven information.
In the military you swear an oath to obey the commander in chief. In intel agencies you swear an oath of secrecy, like this one for NSA:
" Upon being cleared to protect the sensitive information of the National Security Agency, I subscribe to this oath freely, without mental reservation, and with the full intent to exercise meticulous care in abiding by its items.
I solemnly swear that I will not reveal to any person any information pertaining to the classified activities of the National Security Agency, except as necessary toward the proper performance of my duties or as specifically authorized by a duly responsible superior known to me to be authorized to receive this information.
I further solemnly swear that I will report without delay to my security representative the details and circumstances of any case which comes within my knowledge of an unauthorized person obtaining or attempting to obtain information concerning the classified operations of the National Security Agency.
I fully appreciate and understand that the security of the information and activities of the National Security Agency is of vital importance to the welfare and defense of the United States. I affirm that I am familiar with the provisions of Section 793, 794 and 798, Title 18 United States Code.
I do hereby affirm any understanding that the obligations of this oath will continue even after severance of my connections with the National Security Agency and that they remain fully binding on me during peacetime as well as during wartime. "
This doesn't mention the constitution... which means NSA plays by a different set of rules than the justice department.
However, as a Justice department appointment, he is *required* by his oath to report what he found the NSA doing. He isn't being a hero, defender of freedom or "whistle blower" he just did his job as he swore, in an oath, that he would....
If the DOJ doesn't like it, maybe they should change their oath and mission so their employees are *allowed* to stay mum when they discover people violating the constitution and bill of rights (which would kind of eliminate them from doing their job).
Then again, maybe the NSA needs to do their job better so people don't find out what they are doing.
Yet again, maybe agencies shouldn't violate the constitution and bill of rights.
If the gov is going to violate it's own rules, maybe it should just burn them and start a totalitarian state of some sort and be done with it. Why beat around the bush (no pun intended)?
I went to both types of school, the private school was an overpaid babysitter, and horrible babysitter at that.
I learned all about shooting spitballs, throwing spit-grenades and "racking" people up (think triangle hit in football, smashing victim between three bodies and a wall) at private school. We also learned a bunch of creationism in religion class. The "academic" subjects were roughly 3 grades behind where I was when I left public school.
After one year of that I begged my parents to let me go back to public school. My mom couldn't believe it, my dad was more than happy to shed the expense and get me away from the catholic brainwashing.
In public high school I learned algebra(geometry, II, trig), biology, chemistry, literature, English, Spanish, furthered my music training (started in public school, unavailable in private school), athletics, got into a lot less fights (outside of the bus ride home), and learned a lot more.
It depends on what schools you are talking about. There are some great public schools and really crappy private schools.
No, they've come to realization that OSX, like any other operating system, is not immune to viruses and decided to admit it. Just because nobody's written one yet doesn't mean it can't happen.
All it takes is an individual to be interested in writing a virus for the OS, and have the ability, and a virus is inevitable.
Now we just need to educate linux users so they come out of cloud 9 too. I've been harping on this since I saw the first post by a linux user saying linux is immune to viruses. It's just plain wrong and is a mindset that people should not have.
Not to mention the part that the death was ruled a suicide. Killing yourself pretty much makes you complicit. It's a choice you made. If you can be tried as an adult for murder at age 13, it's pretty safe to say that you can kill yourself as an adult too.
Actually the author is the problem. The title should be "The problems with packaging my proprietary software for Linux Distros and keeping the packages up to date".
The kernel has little or no bearing on the problem. The way he worded the title, he implies that "Linux" (the kernel) is the problem, when in reality the problem is he (and other proprietary software developers) don't have the time to make a package for each distro and keep up with them all.
The reason "open source" sucks for Joe User is that Joe User often wants functionality that is sometimes only available in proprietary software which the distro maintainers are not allowed to distribute and package.
Therefore he has to go out and find the software and figure out how to install it.
It has nothing to do with linux or open source, rather it has everything to do with proprietary licenses and their restrictions on re-distributing the binaries.
If Joe User wants to avoid these issues, he just needs to pay for all of his software and run Windows. If he wants to run free software, along side this proprietary stuff, it's gonna take a little elbow grease. The people with the technical know how to make Joe's life easier, are _not allowed_ to help beyond documenting what needs to be done to make stuff work.
This means poor Joe has to use google and find the info and do it himself, or do without whatever software it is he needs.
FOSS doesn't suck for Joe, the proprietary licensing and distribution restrictions do;-) The only thing that will fix it is if these people release source for their binaries and/or license the binaries in such a way that the distro maintainers are allowed to build packages that work and distribute them with their distro.
Open source developers and distro maintainers are powerless to fix the situation without more flexible licenses.
as well as trading analog expense dollars for digital expense pennies.
One thing I still don't understand is how these assholes get off charging even 1/4 of the price of a physical cd for a digital download. Most of the cd cost is manufacturing, storage, shipping and sleeve printing, not to mention the costs the store adds to it.
> Yes, a good support system is VERY important for just about every psychological disorder or problem, but it is not a cure-all and and it not guarantee.
>it is a well-known fact that recovery pretty much requires that the person actually be motivated to recover
I can vouch for this with personal experience. My brother has an awesome support system (both parents and two brothers, and a girlfriend) who bend over backwards for him, yet he can't kick his addiction (drugs). He's tried medication, rehab, even god.
There is only one person that can cure an addiction, and you'll see them when you look in the mirror.
The rest of it is a joke.
Anything that works works because the person decided to kick the addiction and wants to. You have to want to fix the problem. Once you do, anything is possible. If you don't want to clean up, you may as well spend your rehab money on your addiction for all the good it will do.
Where I work they log everything, but never look at it unless you fail as an employee and they need a reason to fire you. They'd probably also look at it if they needed to lay people off...
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The most productive source of bio oil is hemp, which has many non THC strains, but is illegal anyway.
Too bad the US gov is morons... Of course flying a hemp powered plane might not inspire confidence.
-Viz
How about for not policing their kid? Letting him play the game is a minor thing, allowing him to get the keys, walk out of the house, get into the car and drive it into a pole is the stupid part and the big problem.
Oh like citigroup buying a spanish highway construction company with 7bn euros in bailout money from our taxes?
http://www.thestreet.com/story/10450514/1/citi-to-buy-spanish-highway-operator.html?puc=_tscrss
Here's the day they got our bailout check. Note the dates:
http://www.reuters.com/article/marketsNews/idUSN2636427520081126
Yeap we paid for it. Be pissed, very pissed.
I can't believe regulators aren't all over them for this. What are we paying them for? What good is all this bailout money doing if they are just using it to buy foriegn companies instead of saving the jobs of the people that effing paid for the bailout? Talk about biting the hand that feeds you. That bailout money did NOT come from Europe.
Here's the layoff announcement of the US employees:
http://www.pcworld.com/businesscenter/article/154130/citigroup_layoff_could_decimate_it_jobs.html
grrr
-Viz
Not to mention all the bridges that are on the verge of collapse...
Go ahead, lay some fiber instead of fixing our crumbling infrastructure. Won't do us much good as we plunge 200ft into a river.
Sure the casualties will be limited. I guess killing a few people and losing a transportation artery for a few months is worth being able to get porn faster.
that's pretty funny considering, they've let me re-auth my OEM copy of windows xp against 3 different PC builds. I have to do it every time I add a memory stick, disk drive or whatever.
The funny part is an OEM license is only supposed to be good once, but they keep reauthing it.
You call and use the automated system. It doesn't seem to care how many times you reauthorize it.
A retail copy is supposed to be usable as many times as you like which is likely why yours won't authorize any more. As usual, their software works backwards.
-Viz
It's also not going to help when someone on enough Ativan to kill a horse blows a red light and T-Bones you doing 40mph.
-Viz
your credit report is not a bill...
aren't they essentially patenting time sharing? Isn't there prior art from the 1950's through 90's?
Nah they'll charge by the stroke
How about the $59.99 options/plan that costs $90 after taxes and "fees". WTF?
I really wish they'd just post the TOTAL cost of the plan instead of being bastards about it. The FTC really needs to step in and do something about this crap. Plus you pay extra to know what those fees are? WTF. That crap should be illegal. If you are getting charged for shit, they shouldn't be allowed to make you pay, just to see what they are charging you for.
-Viz
For real... texting, while it's annoying to some people, is useful. My GF and I can easily exceed 100 msgs in a day. Sometimes, it's just a fast way to say "I wuvz you" or "Don't forget the cough medicine", or whatever.
Since it's asynchronous, I don't need to try to answer a phone while I'm shifting gears and trying to focus on the road. I get to where I'm going, hit my inbox and start responding.
I have a $20 a month plan for unlimited texting and the bare minimum minutes package. Last month I used around 23 minutes total, but sent many hundreds of text messages.
Since I'm a developer, I also find it asinine that they charge as much as they do because I knew it costs next to nothing to transmit 160 bytes on any network.
But at the same time so many people text now that if I don't get this unlimited plan, I end up paying a lot. It's pretty ****ed up but at the same time, I'd be using a ton of minutes without it, losing calls, saying "WHAT?, HUH?" because I'm often in places where the ambient noise level simply renders a normal conversation impossible.
-Viz
Not to mention that half the medical procedures we think of as "legit" for a given condition today won't be tomorrow.
Frontal Lobotomy comes to mind...
As does the medical establishments continual flip flopping on what's healthy and what's not.
I'm not sayin that herbal medicine is better, just that "scientific" medicine has it's own issues with quackery, bad research, and disinformation, intentional or not.
This book is the proverbial pot calling the kettle black.
If scientific medicine was so great we'd be seeing a lot less doctoring and more curing.
If "legit" pharmaceuticals were so great, They'd learn what "standard deviation" means and stop using stats that fall within standard deviation as "proof" of efficacy.
Sure most "herbal" doctors are quacks that are FOS. But are medical doctors really that much different?
All of them, (medical and herbal) without exception, operate on incomplete and often unproven information.
-Viz
I'll leave the field too. I used to be in the steelworkers union. Biggest bunch of worthless crybabies in existence.
I'd rather run a hot dog stand than be in a union shop. We don't need no stinkin' union.
In IT it will turn into workplace socialism bullshit that protects the worthless and saps incentive for talented hardworking people.
At the end of the day it will cost jobs and promote outsourcing since employers won't be able to hire as many people.
-Viz
"I had taken an oath to uphold the Constitution"
In the military you swear an oath to obey the commander in chief. In intel agencies you swear an oath of secrecy, like this one for NSA:
" Upon being cleared to protect the sensitive information of the National Security Agency, I subscribe to this oath freely, without mental reservation, and with the full intent to exercise meticulous care in abiding by its items.
I solemnly swear that I will not reveal to any person any information pertaining to the classified activities of the National Security Agency, except as necessary toward the proper performance of my duties or as specifically authorized by a duly responsible superior known to me to be authorized to receive this information.
I further solemnly swear that I will report without delay to my security representative the details and circumstances of any case which comes within my knowledge of an unauthorized person obtaining or attempting to obtain information concerning the classified operations of the National Security Agency.
I fully appreciate and understand that the security of the information and activities of the National Security Agency is of vital importance to the welfare and defense of the United States. I affirm that I am familiar with the provisions of Section 793, 794 and 798, Title 18 United States Code.
I do hereby affirm any understanding that the obligations of this oath will continue even after severance of my connections with the National Security Agency and that they remain fully binding on me during peacetime as well as during wartime. "
This doesn't mention the constitution... which means NSA plays by a different set of rules than the justice department.
However, as a Justice department appointment, he is *required* by his oath to report what he found the NSA doing. He isn't being a hero, defender of freedom or "whistle blower" he just did his job as he swore, in an oath, that he would....
If the DOJ doesn't like it, maybe they should change their oath and mission so their employees are *allowed* to stay mum when they discover people violating the constitution and bill of rights (which would kind of eliminate them from doing their job).
Then again, maybe the NSA needs to do their job better so people don't find out what they are doing.
Yet again, maybe agencies shouldn't violate the constitution and bill of rights.
If the gov is going to violate it's own rules, maybe it should just burn them and start a totalitarian state of some sort and be done with it. Why beat around the bush (no pun intended)?
-Viz
I went to both types of school, the private school was an overpaid babysitter, and horrible babysitter at that.
I learned all about shooting spitballs, throwing spit-grenades and "racking" people up (think triangle hit in football, smashing victim between three bodies and a wall) at private school. We also learned a bunch of creationism in religion class. The "academic" subjects were roughly 3 grades behind where I was when I left public school.
After one year of that I begged my parents to let me go back to public school. My mom couldn't believe it, my dad was more than happy to shed the expense and get me away from the catholic brainwashing.
In public high school I learned algebra(geometry, II, trig), biology, chemistry, literature, English, Spanish, furthered my music training (started in public school, unavailable in private school), athletics, got into a lot less fights (outside of the bus ride home), and learned a lot more.
It depends on what schools you are talking about. There are some great public schools and really crappy private schools.
-Viz
http://www.sun.com/software/solaris/security.jsp
LOL yup. The best one yet is Sun's claim that they now have the most secure OS on the market, with "military grade" security.
I almost fell out of my chair when I read that.
-Viz
yea but the burger works as intended ;)
Wish I could say the same for my MX-518
No, they've come to realization that OSX, like any other operating system, is not immune to viruses and decided to admit it. Just because nobody's written one yet doesn't mean it can't happen.
All it takes is an individual to be interested in writing a virus for the OS, and have the ability, and a virus is inevitable.
Now we just need to educate linux users so they come out of cloud 9 too. I've been harping on this since I saw the first post by a linux user saying linux is immune to viruses. It's just plain wrong and is a mindset that people should not have.
Unfortunately it's also the dominant mindset.
-Viz
Not to mention the part that the death was ruled a suicide. Killing yourself pretty much makes you complicit. It's a choice you made. If you can be tried as an adult for murder at age 13, it's pretty safe to say that you can kill yourself as an adult too.
-Viz
Actually the author is the problem. The title should be "The problems with packaging my proprietary software for Linux Distros and keeping the packages up to date".
The kernel has little or no bearing on the problem. The way he worded the title, he implies that "Linux" (the kernel) is the problem, when in reality the problem is he (and other proprietary software developers) don't have the time to make a package for each distro and keep up with them all.
The reason "open source" sucks for Joe User is that Joe User often wants functionality that is sometimes only available in proprietary software which the distro maintainers are not allowed to distribute and package.
Therefore he has to go out and find the software and figure out how to install it.
It has nothing to do with linux or open source, rather it has everything to do with proprietary licenses and their restrictions on re-distributing the binaries.
If Joe User wants to avoid these issues, he just needs to pay for all of his software and run Windows. If he wants to run free software, along side this proprietary stuff, it's gonna take a little elbow grease. The people with the technical know how to make Joe's life easier, are _not allowed_ to help beyond documenting what needs to be done to make stuff work.
This means poor Joe has to use google and find the info and do it himself, or do without whatever software it is he needs.
FOSS doesn't suck for Joe, the proprietary licensing and distribution restrictions do ;-) The only thing that will fix it is if these people release source for their binaries and/or license the binaries in such a way that the distro maintainers are allowed to build packages that work and distribute them with their distro.
Open source developers and distro maintainers are powerless to fix the situation without more flexible licenses.
-Viz
> trading analog dollars for digital pennies.
as well as trading analog expense dollars for digital expense pennies.
One thing I still don't understand is how these assholes get off charging even 1/4 of the price of a physical cd for a digital download. Most of the cd cost is manufacturing, storage, shipping and sleeve printing, not to mention the costs the store adds to it.
-Viz
> Yes, a good support system is VERY important for just about every psychological disorder or problem, but it is not a cure-all and and it not guarantee.
>it is a well-known fact that recovery pretty much requires that the person actually be motivated to recover
I can vouch for this with personal experience. My brother has an awesome support system (both parents and two brothers, and a girlfriend) who bend over backwards for him, yet he can't kick his addiction (drugs). He's tried medication, rehab, even god.
There is only one person that can cure an addiction, and you'll see them when you look in the mirror.
The rest of it is a joke.
Anything that works works because the person decided to kick the addiction and wants to. You have to want to fix the problem. Once you do, anything is possible. If you don't want to clean up, you may as well spend your rehab money on your addiction for all the good it will do.
-Viz
Where I work they log everything, but never look at it unless you fail as an employee and they need a reason to fire you. They'd probably also look at it if they needed to lay people off...
-Viz
Not to mention insurance salesman