"I now smile and try to seem enthusiastic about any plan, no matter how unfeasible or ill-conceived it may be. And I am doing better (professionally) for that attitude."
I take that much further, have resolved to love everything, and don't stress about the outcomes because I don't give a shit about anything except covering my ass. The bosses set the ROE. I'm not in the military anymore, and so have no moral obligation to my employer because business is amoral.
If you work for silly or stupid people, MAKE THEM HAPPY SO THEY GIVE YOU MONEY. They are your customer.
The only vote you get is not to buy those devices.
NOTHING ELSE. Complaints don't matter, you bought the device, they got their money, and they are in business to make a profit. Unless and until consumers reject platforms that are limited in such a manner, expect more of them.
We can also choose to sacrifice the jobs and buy oil from Brazil instead.
The idea that this is the last major spill is as absurd as the idea of an unsinkable ship, so the only question is WHEN the next one will happen if we keep drilling.
"That's right. I am wishing death upon those that dare pursue a career with the MPAA or RIAA. About the only people lower than you are the kiddie porn peddlers."
They are still Muslim hence still vulnerable to fundamentalism. Turkey (on the other end of the Med) once had hope of being a modern secular state, but the Islamists are getting traction rapidly.
Never become dependent on foreign countries for energy if one can help it. Never become dependent on countries with enemy superstitions if one can help it. Never pretend to be a unique snowflake exempt from geopolitical reality because that reality isn't politically correct.
Surveillance tech will eventually improve and become useful. Because it is primitive now is no reason to give up on it. The goal of total battlefield awareness is valid for any battlefield.
Considering electronic communication "low" is absurd and it's time to change that.
It's Luddite to reject efficient communication for archaic communication just because archaic communication used to be the only game in town.
"What if you had a wedding, and the bridal march was done by some guys farting, or your Masters Degree was on a post-it note?"
I got married by civil union, I didn't need a ritual. I don't need ritual for other things, and even ditched my last promotion ceremony (I made the rank, which was what I did care about).
I don't consider an execution of a murderer "icky", I consider it garbage disposal as do many others.
I'd cheerfully join a firing squad or spring the trap on a gallows. I demand an orderly society and have zero problem with the lawful application of violence to those who disrupt it.
"But if their policy is to screw their customers at every turn, they will lose me as a customer."
That's business, and business is war. The business wants to take as much customer money as possible, and the customer wants as much product or service as possible.
Of course they try to fuck us, we should try to expose that in detail, and to fight back by voting with our sweet, sweet wallets.
Or a nice military career, or a nice and profitable civilian career designing firearms. If he gets machine shop skills he can produce legal dummy weapons to hone his ability, or move to a (somewhat) freer country like the US where he can build actual weapons. If he gets citizenship and chooses to live in the right State, he can get licensed to build most anything he likes.
Most kids, like most people, were and are stupid. The kid building mock firearms out of Legos is clearly not stupid, and has a wonderful grasp of how to construct mechanisms.
"I was back up and running in two hours where as to do the same with a PC would have cost me a day or two."
Two hours beats usual Windows + apps install time from standard media, but a day or two is a bit much. If I had a Windows machine with that much...stuff on it I'd image the thing and back it up frequently.
Laptops will never have standard form-factors so they will never be as easy to work on as desktops. Laptop makers fully understand that proprietary designs (especially battery packages) help take their machines "beyond economical repair" more quickly than a machine based on an ATX desktop case.
The ideal consumer product is one that is thrown in the trash at point of purchase by a delighted buyer, who then buys a newer version.
He didn't have to contact Lamo, or anyone else, in a manner that left a trail. He knew how not to leave a trail. The attention would have been easy to obtain without a trail, so the trail was a choice. Maintaining one's position is also a choice. Don't have "other issues". Soldiers are expected to have self-mastery.
I understand the flood of love/. generally has for this guy, but at least learn from his fuckups.
If YOU wanted to blow the whistle on (insert entity) which could impose negative consequences, would you make such silly mistakes?
"Many of the bizarre aspects of this case, at least as conveyed by Lamo and Wired, are self-evident. Why would a 22-year-old Private in Iraq have unfettered access to 250,000 pages of diplomatic cables so sensitive that they "could do serious damage to national security?" Why would he contact a total stranger, whom he randomly found from a Twitter search, in order to "quickly" confess to acts that he knew could send him to prison for a very long time, perhaps his whole life? And why would he choose to confess over the Internet, in an unsecured, international AOL IM chat, given the obvious ease with which that could be preserved, intercepted or otherwise surveilled? These are the actions of someone either unbelievably reckless or actually eager to be caught."
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"I now smile and try to seem enthusiastic about any plan, no matter how unfeasible or ill-conceived it may be. And I am doing better (professionally) for that attitude."
I take that much further, have resolved to love everything, and don't stress about the outcomes because I don't give a shit about anything except covering my ass. The bosses set the ROE. I'm not in the military anymore, and so have no moral obligation to my employer because business is amoral.
If you work for silly or stupid people, MAKE THEM HAPPY SO THEY GIVE YOU MONEY. They are your customer.
The only vote you get is not to buy those devices.
NOTHING ELSE. Complaints don't matter, you bought the device, they got their money, and they are in business to make a profit. Unless and until consumers reject platforms that are limited in such a manner, expect more of them.
Short version: "Tough shit."
"Because it's a home, not a datacenter."
That deficiency can be remedied. ;)
We can also choose to sacrifice the jobs and buy oil from Brazil instead.
The idea that this is the last major spill is as absurd as the idea of an unsinkable ship, so the only question is WHEN the next one will happen if we keep drilling.
"Future deep-water drilling will likely be more carefully regulated."
in areas within the US Economic Exclusion Zone...
"That's right. I am wishing death upon those that dare pursue a career with the MPAA or RIAA. About the only people lower than you are the kiddie porn peddlers."
The two vocations are not mutually exclusive.
"Logan's Google?"
To heck with the Sandmen, did they clone young Jenny Agutter?
They are still Muslim hence still vulnerable to fundamentalism. Turkey (on the other end of the Med) once had hope of being a modern secular state, but the Islamists are getting traction rapidly.
Never become dependent on foreign countries for energy if one can help it. Never become dependent on countries with enemy superstitions if one can help it. Never pretend to be a unique snowflake exempt from geopolitical reality because that reality isn't politically correct.
English, motherfuckers, do you speak it?
Twitter is literally for "twittering", not engineering communication.
The name wasn't an accident. It's for mood-setting housewife babble.
There is nothing wrong with that, but there is something wrong with expecting more than that.
"How ignorant to you have to be to be proud of your ignorance?"
That's Ignorance on a Biblical scale.
I realize paranoia is delectable, but you will feel much better if you seek peaceful oblivion before the Illuminati win.
I suggest suicide.
Solution, don't buy in the first place. No means no.
BTW, I favor handing out free smack and other substances which don't cause behavior problems.
The problem with heroin is that people steal to get money to buy it. They have every right to destroy themselves.
Surveillance tech will eventually improve and become useful. Because it is primitive now is no reason to give up on it. The goal of total battlefield awareness is valid for any battlefield.
Considering electronic communication "low" is absurd and it's time to change that.
It's Luddite to reject efficient communication for archaic communication just because archaic communication used to be the only game in town.
"What if you had a wedding, and the bridal march was done by some guys farting, or your Masters Degree was on a post-it note?"
I got married by civil union, I didn't need a ritual. I don't need ritual for other things, and even ditched my last promotion ceremony (I made the rank, which was what I did care about).
Gimme the outcomes, not the fucking ritual.
People who think print media are dignified haven't read many newspapers!
Explain why the death of a worthless, extremely bad person deserves respect.
I don't consider an execution of a murderer "icky", I consider it garbage disposal as do many others.
I'd cheerfully join a firing squad or spring the trap on a gallows. I demand an orderly society and have zero problem with the lawful application of violence to those who disrupt it.
"Obama's the president now, not Bush! Didn't the Brits get the memo?"
They did, many years ago:
"Meet the new boss, same as the old boss."
The Who
"But if their policy is to screw their customers at every turn, they will lose me as a customer."
That's business, and business is war. The business wants to take as much customer money as possible, and the customer wants as much product or service as possible.
Of course they try to fuck us, we should try to expose that in detail, and to fight back by voting with our sweet, sweet wallets.
Or a nice military career, or a nice and profitable civilian career designing firearms.
If he gets machine shop skills he can produce legal dummy weapons to hone his ability, or move to a (somewhat) freer country like the US where he can build actual weapons. If he gets citizenship and chooses to live in the right State, he can get licensed to build most anything he likes.
Most kids, like most people, were and are stupid.
The kid building mock firearms out of Legos is clearly not stupid, and has a wonderful grasp of how to construct mechanisms.
"I was back up and running in two hours where as to do the same with a PC would have cost me a day or two."
Two hours beats usual Windows + apps install time from standard media, but a day or two is a bit much. If I had a Windows machine with that much...stuff on it I'd image the thing and back it up frequently.
""Unsinkable" modern passenger ship with no lifeboats or worn African ferryboat with more lifeboats than seats?"
++ for marine analogy. (A chubby is sprung forthwith!)
I'll go for an Open Source Coast Guard cutter that is fully equipped but requires I become a crewman instead of a passenger.
Laptops will never have standard form-factors so they will never be as easy to work on as desktops. Laptop makers fully understand that proprietary designs (especially battery packages) help take their machines "beyond economical repair" more quickly than a machine based on an ATX desktop case.
The ideal consumer product is one that is thrown in the trash at point of purchase by a delighted buyer, who then buys a newer version.
He didn't have to contact Lamo, or anyone else, in a manner that left a trail. He knew how not to leave a trail. The attention would have been easy to obtain without a trail, so the trail was a choice. Maintaining one's position is also a choice. Don't have "other issues". Soldiers are expected to have self-mastery.
I understand the flood of love /. generally has for this guy, but at least learn from his fuckups.
If YOU wanted to blow the whistle on (insert entity) which could impose negative consequences, would you make such silly mistakes?
"Many of the bizarre aspects of this case, at least as conveyed by Lamo and Wired, are self-evident. Why would a 22-year-old Private in Iraq have unfettered access to 250,000 pages of diplomatic cables so sensitive that they "could do serious damage to national security?" Why would he contact a total stranger, whom he randomly found from a Twitter search, in order to "quickly" confess to acts that he knew could send him to prison for a very long time, perhaps his whole life? And why would he choose to confess over the Internet, in an unsecured, international AOL IM chat, given the obvious ease with which that could be preserved, intercepted or otherwise surveilled? These are the actions of someone either unbelievably reckless or actually eager to be caught."