They thought it was phishing because it seny people to a URL just like one you'd get from a scam email. I don't blame them for being skeptical. Why would they send you to an unknow 3rd-party site to reset your email? That's a classic phising tactic.
While individuals in a company may care about you, to the company, in the ned, you are simply a cost and as long as their return on that cost is acceptable they will do things to keep you around; to think otherwise is delusional.
No, it's not delusional at all. Some companies actually do care about their employees beyond how much they cost to keep around. You may not have actually worked for any such companies. I have. I'm sorry that you think such an attitude towards one's employees is anything but shitty.
Quite frankly, it makes no economic sense to train someone for a better job unless you are assured they will stick around because otherwise you simply absorb training costs for your competitor's employees.
Yes, that's why they also need to treat you well and pay you reasonable salaries so you stay. If a company doesn't want to do those things then it's really their own damn fault that employees may use the training to find a better job. Sorry, but I have no sympathy for shitty companies and their poor choices of how to treat their staff.
Companies do not provide training because they are decent, they do it because it generates a return and is viewed like any other investment - is the cost worth the return?
If your company solely does training for their own bottom line then, yes, they are not a decent company. But all the decent companies that I've worked for saw the training as much more than that. They also had high retention of employees because they actually cared about more than just "how much is my ROI on this training going to be?". At my current job and the last couple of places I worked for I could get training and get books reimbursed for pretty much any technology subject I wanted. In fact, my managers urged me to do so repeatedly. They viewed training in a way far beyond only the ROI.
That doesn't make them evil or bad, simply an organism that responds to the same stimuli as we do.
No it usually means they are shitty places to work. "Evil" has nothing to do with to do with anything.
Again, a decent company does not expect you to pay your own money and/or use up your leisure time to do training for them. And any company that does is no place I'd ever work for. There are plenty of better jobs out there.
That's what any decent company does. One that actual cares about growing their people instead of wanting another low-paid drone. That any company expects you to use your own time and money to improve your skills for them (because we all want to have no leisure time) is absurd. It's even more laughable that some employees think this is the way a company should treat you.
They didn't enact salary caps. This is just allowing shareholders to veto the BoD from giving itself pay raises and bonuses. Couldn't even be bothered to read the summary before writing a spittle-filled rant?
Runs faster, uses less memory, numerous improvements in the driver model, has better GPU acceleration support, preferching is better, caching is much better. I could go on. Basically, you're a moron.
Military personnel are subject to the UCMJ which has different rules. And, yes, this has been upheld as constitutional via Congress' power granted to it in Article 1 Section 8:
"Congress shall have Power... To make Rules for the Government and Regulation of the land and naval forces."
And they didn't say they were. Who's to say that someone with sufficient skill couldn't break into the Iranian government's network and steal the info? There are plenty of examples of people breaking into governmental systems and stealing data.
Says someone who has never worked in the government or for a contractor (I've done both for more than a decade). If you think private-sector contractors are either more efficient or more competent you couldn't be more wrong.
That's funny because many of the technologies that still underly most "modern" OS kernels, file systems, etc. are many times older than the 5-10 years you claim for something to be obsolete.
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Hardware DRM is how it works.
Except if 50%+ of the people are blocking the ads, why would they pay the removal donation? Also that doesn't even sound remotely sustainable.
They did contact the company via their security discussion mailing list.
He knows what cracking is. Their point was that roblimo's usage of the term was stupid and made no sense.
They thought it was phishing because it seny people to a URL just like one you'd get from a scam email. I don't blame them for being skeptical. Why would they send you to an unknow 3rd-party site to reset your email? That's a classic phising tactic.
While individuals in a company may care about you, to the company, in the ned, you are simply a cost and as long as their return on that cost is acceptable they will do things to keep you around; to think otherwise is delusional.
No, it's not delusional at all. Some companies actually do care about their employees beyond how much they cost to keep around. You may not have actually worked for any such companies. I have. I'm sorry that you think such an attitude towards one's employees is anything but shitty.
Quite frankly, it makes no economic sense to train someone for a better job unless you are assured they will stick around because otherwise you simply absorb training costs for your competitor's employees.
Yes, that's why they also need to treat you well and pay you reasonable salaries so you stay. If a company doesn't want to do those things then it's really their own damn fault that employees may use the training to find a better job. Sorry, but I have no sympathy for shitty companies and their poor choices of how to treat their staff.
Companies do not provide training because they are decent, they do it because it generates a return and is viewed like any other investment - is the cost worth the return?
If your company solely does training for their own bottom line then, yes, they are not a decent company. But all the decent companies that I've worked for saw the training as much more than that. They also had high retention of employees because they actually cared about more than just "how much is my ROI on this training going to be?". At my current job and the last couple of places I worked for I could get training and get books reimbursed for pretty much any technology subject I wanted. In fact, my managers urged me to do so repeatedly. They viewed training in a way far beyond only the ROI.
That doesn't make them evil or bad, simply an organism that responds to the same stimuli as we do.
No it usually means they are shitty places to work. "Evil" has nothing to do with to do with anything.
Again, a decent company does not expect you to pay your own money and/or use up your leisure time to do training for them. And any company that does is no place I'd ever work for. There are plenty of better jobs out there.
That's what any decent company does. One that actual cares about growing their people instead of wanting another low-paid drone. That any company expects you to use your own time and money to improve your skills for them (because we all want to have no leisure time) is absurd. It's even more laughable that some employees think this is the way a company should treat you.
and OS X has pretty solid POSIX support (although it's quickly waning)
How exactly is it "waning"? OS X is just as much POSIX compliant as it ever was.
De Icaza had nothing to do with Gnome Shell.
Open office won't work without Java.
Sure it does. The only parts that really required Java were a couple of wizards and the RDBMS.
How is it even remotely socialist? It gives the shareholders more power in deciding how much is paid to the people running the company they own.
They didn't enact salary caps. This is just allowing shareholders to veto the BoD from giving itself pay raises and bonuses. Couldn't even be bothered to read the summary before writing a spittle-filled rant?
The size of the installer says next to nothing about the amount of code. Especially since files in instaers are routinely compressed to save size.
Win7 has nearly no improvements over Vista.
Runs faster, uses less memory, numerous improvements in the driver model, has better GPU acceleration support, preferching is better, caching is much better. I could go on. Basically, you're a moron.
I don't know. I've seen your mom's tuna vag and her blown-out asshole.
Read Article 1 Section 8. It's what gave Congress the power to create the UCMJ. There is nothing unconstitutional.
Military personnel are subject to the UCMJ which has different rules. And, yes, this has been upheld as constitutional via Congress' power granted to it in Article 1 Section 8:
"Congress shall have Power... To make Rules for the Government and Regulation of the land and naval forces."
Because breaching government systems and stealing sensitive and/or classified info has never been done by anyone before, right?
And they didn't say they were. Who's to say that someone with sufficient skill couldn't break into the Iranian government's network and steal the info? There are plenty of examples of people breaking into governmental systems and stealing data.
Says someone who has never worked in the government or for a contractor (I've done both for more than a decade). If you think private-sector contractors are either more efficient or more competent you couldn't be more wrong.
That's funny because many of the technologies that still underly most "modern" OS kernels, file systems, etc. are many times older than the 5-10 years you claim for something to be obsolete.
Such as?
this doesn't do anything but breaking the ability to take over ownership of the device by the person who paid for it, right?
No, it patches bugs in their software.
Care to inform me why anyone should update?
Because you don't want possible open security exploits on your phone?
That was a great impersonation of an idiot. *golf clap*