"The PTC will wage an unrelenting campaign against every network advertiser that chooses to support this program; and in this instance, we will wage an unrelenting campaign against every local advertiser sponsoring the program at the affiliate station level," Winter warns.
And I will boycott any company that caves into these power hungry anti American pansies: against Free Speech = Anti American = Traitor.
And, I will put any company that tells these repressed sissies on the front of my purchasing list.
The PTC are a bunch of #^&@@*# and $&@((*$## swallowing ^$**##!
But PTC, because of the minority of people like you who can't take "harsh" words, I have stopped watching TV because it has become so infantilized to the point of being boring, vapid, and just a waste of time. Which is interesting because of those programs that are geared towards stupid people are perfectly fine to the PTC. The PTC likes stupid stuff and I guess that makes them stupid?
Never mind. I've wasted too much time thinking about those *&*@^# people at the PTC..
That's right Winter! I called you a *&^&*#$###! What are going to do about it you (*^(*(*@(*#**#####!!!
Dare I say, if you don't find xkcd funny, the material might be somewhat... not aimed at you.
To be delicate.
Especially if you don't find *any* of them funny (although not all of them are designed to be humourous).
Wooo! Howdy!
I ain't find'n any'um funny meself!
Where's the farting?! Or the stick guy hitting the other stick guy in the balls - you know Ouch! My balls! That's funny!
I think uze guys are just too stick in the muds!
Oh! Gotta go! One of them thar chopper shows is on TV and then there's the bounty hunter go'in after some dirtbags. Then later it's the Ice Cream Truckers driven on ice roads. It's all sciencie stuff 'cause it's on Discovery and that history channel - sos'it's educational!
Most privates schools are religious based and the secular ones are extremely hard to get into.
Home schooling. I know someone who home schooled her daughter for a while because the girl had a teacher that was just destroying her self-esteem. The girl thought that she sucked at math (Her mother and father all scored well over 600 on the Math part of their SATs). Anyway, the woman home schooled her kid and got tutors when needed to bring her up to speed - funny, compared to her female classmates at the time, she ended up surpassing them when she went back into the system, which totally surprised the teachers. Usually, home schooled kids fall way behind.
Anyway, she said she would get some lesson plans from catalogs (slim pickings) and the catalog home school companies sold her name and she started getting all this kooky religious home schooling stuff - like teaching creationism and other such non-sense.
I don't know about now, but most of the home school curriculums where "Christian" in nature - read no real science.
So, outside of public schools, there's not many options for a middle class or poorer parent. Besides, how many people have the time and energy to teach their kids grade and high school level material - especially since we've forgot most of it.
The article was interesting in how they made their decision and I don't think it was necessarily a bad decision - assuming their assessment of the old version was correct. The process looked like it broke down in the design and planning phases. The article didn't go into detail on the design and planning; which kind of leads me to believe that may have tried to do the "superstar" programmer thing and rewrite it over a weekend. Anyone whose been in development long enough has heard the "he coded it over the weekend"stories and the programmer "street cred" it gave - at least back then.
I've seen rewrites/ports go quite well. Systems that were originally on mainframes and needed or wanted to be moved to cheaper hardware for cost - if it was the proper thing to do (Sometimes you really need the metal).
Another rewrite that went well was a bunch of code that over the decades became so convoluted to be a maintenance nightmare - modify one thing or add on functionality and then break a shit load of other things.
Just do these basica things and it'll work out.
Go back to the specs and start there.
Talk to the stake holders - yep, there will be creep but also feature reduction because there are things that they never used or because it doesn't make sense anymore.
Plan, plan, plan. No cowboy programming and hacking out shit. And document everything.
It seems to show more incompetence than malicious intent,...
Facebook? The hottest thing on the Internet since the 90s and has the choice of the best of the best of the best web developers - made a mistake like that?
I think most people don't even think about it or don't think they have anything to hide - until their identity gets stolen or they get fired for a post on their Facebook page.
Unfortunately, throughout the Western World, we have worried so much about government trampling our rights that we completely ignored the private sector.
To head off the "well, just don't do business with them!" posts, I'd like to point out that Facebook stated in their policies that they wouldn't do this and secondly that every service, whether it's cell phones or internet sites, has a little statement buried in their terms that states they can change the terms anytime they want.
I really hope Facebook gets sued over this a loses and a precedent is set over internet website policies - in the consumer's favor.
I just innately think it could come back and bite me.
Yes. Identity theft for one. A Facebook profile along with some intense Googling could glean enough information to steal your identity.
Or just sharing your profile. I have a family member that lists her religion as "Pastafarian" or whatever it is for the Flying Spaghetti Monster "religion" - basically Atheist. As we all know, being Atheist is the worst thing you can be in America to most people. If she applies for a job and the potential employer sees that she's an atheist and doesn't like it, she doesn't get a job (illegal?So what. She'll have to PROVE it and they'll just reject her for "lack of needed skills"). Or worse, they preach to her.
I have a hang up about born again Christians, myself. If I hear that someone is one, I run because I'm used to being preached to and harassed by those people to "save" me - and the lack of respect by some of those people for my own believes really pisses me off. Honestly, if I saw that a potential employee was one, I would be a bit hesitant to hire them. Yeah, I'm prejudiced against them, but I have been won over by some as being decent people and they didn't preach to me and they were respectful of my beliefs - at least to my face. But still, you get one kook and it's a bitch to get rid of them.
I can't find any IRS ruling that requires a University to have an SSN.
The student does not have to give the SSN but they will face a $50 fine per semester.
Who exactly levies the fine? Too many times, people wanting to avoid being questioned will say there's a "law" and when you pin them down, they pulled it out of their ass or someone told them about a law who pulled it out of their ass.
The SSN is just an easy and stupid way for Universities of have an "unique" identifier. Of course, it has never occurred to them that the SSA does in fact recycle SSNs - there's only so many numbers and the first two digits are state codes.
Here's a scenario, an old guy takes classes and croaks. A couple of years later, a kid comes in can could have the same SSN because he just applied for one for the first time or even an immigrant who just got his SSN could have the exact same SSN - Oh, oh! What's the school's database going to do then?
As long as it is expressed explicitly that this is voluntary and the privacy policy is written, I don't have a problem.
Unfortunately with most bureaucracies (especially universities), voluntary things have a bad habit of being "required". For example, a student goes in, University bureaucrat just says "and give me your DNA sample." Most students having to go through all the horseshit, including having to give Social Security numbers, probably won't even think to ask if it is in fact voluntary.
Speaking of SSNs, those used to be voluntary and now they're required. And when that happens, school admin folks become very careless with personal data - universities are just horribly incompetent with student's personal information.
That happened to a friend of mine. She was out with friends and wasn't drinking. Someone passed her shots to pass down the table. Of course, someone was taking pictures and guess what? Yep, the picture of her with the two shots got on her friends Facebook page. She had a Facebook page too which was linked to her friends.... Oy!
Mr. Fulmer and his wife made fun of a local church sermon in a podcast they posted online in 2005. Mr. Fulmer says it got so much attention, his boss listened to it, thought it was offensive and fired him.
The thing is, sharing things about yourself can be objectionable to an employer - and you don't know what they could be.
What may be completely harmless or even your God given right to say or do, may make you unhirable for an employer or even fired. Against the law in some cases - prove it. They can always find a legitimate and legal excuse to not hire you or fire you.
Seating is usually dictated by the individual airline that buys the planes. Rest assured that all of the US based carriers will cram as many seats in as possible so even a little guy like me - 5' 7" 155lbs - will feel cramped.
Of course, when the airlines get these, there will be a "green" fee, a "designed by MIT" fee and an "environmental feel good" fee added onto your ticket price along with all the junk fees.
I'd like the names and phone numbers of the women to answered in the affirmative that the cell phones are causing them health problems so I can give them a call!
Hey baba! I use a cell phone, live by power lines, have electrical wiring all around me in my home, I'm constantly bombarded by electromagnetic radiation. I'm one bad-ass mo fo and you want me, don't ya!?
Women: "Oh, you're so, so, DANGEROUS!"
That's right! I'm talking to you right now on my CELL PHONE!
This is easily one of the stupidest fucking discussions I have ever seen on this site. Every dumb ass analogy there is has been used. Every unnecessary soap box has been stood on.
See, its like this. Imagine if you see folks driving a car to go and pick up a pizza with a Nazi....
The crime (if there was one) does not warrant as much police attention as it is getting.
No one has proven that a crime has been committed. There is all this police time and attention on something that's not really that important.
In other words, there is much more police time and investigation over a stupid cell phone then there ever is on a missing child case.
Are you getting it? This cell phone thing is being treated like some huge crime when it in fact is really a small time... nothing. Get it? It would be like if someone got a hold of KFC's secret recipe and published it and there was this huge police investigation and warrants and news attention...
A corporate trade secret is worth more than catching murderers and rapists. Got it.
A prototype that I seriously doubt has any custom tech designed (Apple uses mostly off the shelf stuff, get over it) is more important than finding some missing child.
At least you understand. Watching how my comment and some of the answers above, it's pretty clear to me that the Apple fanboys consider Apple's property to be more important than public safety and they have no problem with taxpayer money being spent on protecting a company because of some carelessness by one of their employees.
No one stole anything. A worker left it laying around and from the stories I read, there was an attempt to return it but Apple was too stupid to take it.
Whilst you and your hoodie friends might not realise it, stealing a cell phone *is* a crime.
I'll ignore the "hoodie" part. Let's say that is was stolen even though is WAS NOT, but let's say it was - do you really think all of this police and court attention is warranted for a goddamn cell phone? Over people who really need police help?
Gizmodo dropped a bombshell on the gadget world April 19 with a detailed look at the iPhone prototype, which an Apple employee named Robert “Gray” Powell had lost at a bar.
Does anyone else think this whole thing is pretty fucking ridiculous for a lost prototype by a careless worker? A CELL PHONE prototype - not plans for a nuke or plans for a sub or for a stealth fighter - a stupid fucking cell phone.
A young man is in a shit load of legal problems because the cops think A STUPID FUCKING CELL PHONE is important. This STUPID FUCKING CELL PHONE is more important than the crimes going on in their area. If I were a victim of a violent crime in that area, I'd be throwing bags of dogshit at the cops and at the prosecutor.
Really, does anyone else think this is an idiotic waste of police and tax payer money to "protect" the property rights of some corporation?
There are many people who really need to get their priorities in order.
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But he's not in the closet! He is a fudge packer in Colorado, though. BTW, fuck Jesus.
If it's the Jesus I'm thinking of, yeah, he's a pretty good looking Spanish guy and if i were gay, I'd hit it.
Have you thought of asking him out for a couple of cervezas?
What ....is.... this.....play....doh....you .... speak....of?
"The PTC will wage an unrelenting campaign against every network advertiser that chooses to support this program; and in this instance, we will wage an unrelenting campaign against every local advertiser sponsoring the program at the affiliate station level," Winter warns.
And I will boycott any company that caves into these power hungry anti American pansies: against Free Speech = Anti American = Traitor.
And, I will put any company that tells these repressed sissies on the front of my purchasing list.
The PTC are a bunch of #^&@@*# and $&@((*$## swallowing ^$**##!
But PTC, because of the minority of people like you who can't take "harsh" words, I have stopped watching TV because it has become so infantilized to the point of being boring, vapid, and just a waste of time. Which is interesting because of those programs that are geared towards stupid people are perfectly fine to the PTC. The PTC likes stupid stuff and I guess that makes them stupid?
Never mind. I've wasted too much time thinking about those *&*@^# people at the PTC..
That's right Winter! I called you a *&^&*#$###! What are going to do about it you (*^(*(*@(*#**#####!!!
Dare I say, if you don't find xkcd funny, the material might be somewhat... not aimed at you.
To be delicate.
Especially if you don't find *any* of them funny (although not all of them are designed to be humourous).
Wooo! Howdy!
I ain't find'n any'um funny meself!
Where's the farting?! Or the stick guy hitting the other stick guy in the balls - you know Ouch! My balls! That's funny!
I think uze guys are just too stick in the muds!
Oh! Gotta go! One of them thar chopper shows is on TV and then there's the bounty hunter go'in after some dirtbags. Then later it's the Ice Cream Truckers driven on ice roads. It's all sciencie stuff 'cause it's on Discovery and that history channel - sos'it's educational!
Home schooling. I know someone who home schooled her daughter for a while because the girl had a teacher that was just destroying her self-esteem. The girl thought that she sucked at math (Her mother and father all scored well over 600 on the Math part of their SATs). Anyway, the woman home schooled her kid and got tutors when needed to bring her up to speed - funny, compared to her female classmates at the time, she ended up surpassing them when she went back into the system, which totally surprised the teachers. Usually, home schooled kids fall way behind.
Anyway, she said she would get some lesson plans from catalogs (slim pickings) and the catalog home school companies sold her name and she started getting all this kooky religious home schooling stuff - like teaching creationism and other such non-sense.
I don't know about now, but most of the home school curriculums where "Christian" in nature - read no real science.
So, outside of public schools, there's not many options for a middle class or poorer parent. Besides, how many people have the time and energy to teach their kids grade and high school level material - especially since we've forgot most of it.
I've seen rewrites/ports go quite well. Systems that were originally on mainframes and needed or wanted to be moved to cheaper hardware for cost - if it was the proper thing to do (Sometimes you really need the metal).
Another rewrite that went well was a bunch of code that over the decades became so convoluted to be a maintenance nightmare - modify one thing or add on functionality and then break a shit load of other things.
Just do these basica things and it'll work out.
Go back to the specs and start there.
Talk to the stake holders - yep, there will be creep but also feature reduction because there are things that they never used or because it doesn't make sense anymore.
Plan, plan, plan. No cowboy programming and hacking out shit. And document everything.
It can work.
It seems to show more incompetence than malicious intent,...
Facebook? The hottest thing on the Internet since the 90s and has the choice of the best of the best of the best web developers - made a mistake like that?
Unfortunately, throughout the Western World, we have worried so much about government trampling our rights that we completely ignored the private sector.
To head off the "well, just don't do business with them!" posts, I'd like to point out that Facebook stated in their policies that they wouldn't do this and secondly that every service, whether it's cell phones or internet sites, has a little statement buried in their terms that states they can change the terms anytime they want.
I really hope Facebook gets sued over this a loses and a precedent is set over internet website policies - in the consumer's favor.
I just innately think it could come back and bite me.
Yes. Identity theft for one. A Facebook profile along with some intense Googling could glean enough information to steal your identity.
Or just sharing your profile. I have a family member that lists her religion as "Pastafarian" or whatever it is for the Flying Spaghetti Monster "religion" - basically Atheist. As we all know, being Atheist is the worst thing you can be in America to most people. If she applies for a job and the potential employer sees that she's an atheist and doesn't like it, she doesn't get a job (illegal?So what. She'll have to PROVE it and they'll just reject her for "lack of needed skills"). Or worse, they preach to her.
I have a hang up about born again Christians, myself. If I hear that someone is one, I run because I'm used to being preached to and harassed by those people to "save" me - and the lack of respect by some of those people for my own believes really pisses me off. Honestly, if I saw that a potential employee was one, I would be a bit hesitant to hire them. Yeah, I'm prejudiced against them, but I have been won over by some as being decent people and they didn't preach to me and they were respectful of my beliefs - at least to my face. But still, you get one kook and it's a bitch to get rid of them.
Now it's biofuels. You can take the scientist out of the kid but not the kid out of the scientist ... or something....
The student does not have to give the SSN but they will face a $50 fine per semester.
Who exactly levies the fine? Too many times, people wanting to avoid being questioned will say there's a "law" and when you pin them down, they pulled it out of their ass or someone told them about a law who pulled it out of their ass.
The SSN is just an easy and stupid way for Universities of have an "unique" identifier. Of course, it has never occurred to them that the SSA does in fact recycle SSNs - there's only so many numbers and the first two digits are state codes.
Here's a scenario, an old guy takes classes and croaks. A couple of years later, a kid comes in can could have the same SSN because he just applied for one for the first time or even an immigrant who just got his SSN could have the exact same SSN - Oh, oh! What's the school's database going to do then?
Unfortunately with most bureaucracies (especially universities), voluntary things have a bad habit of being "required". For example, a student goes in, University bureaucrat just says "and give me your DNA sample." Most students having to go through all the horseshit, including having to give Social Security numbers, probably won't even think to ask if it is in fact voluntary.
Speaking of SSNs, those used to be voluntary and now they're required. And when that happens, school admin folks become very careless with personal data - universities are just horribly incompetent with student's personal information.
That happened to a friend of mine. She was out with friends and wasn't drinking. Someone passed her shots to pass down the table. Of course, someone was taking pictures and guess what? Yep, the picture of her with the two shots got on her friends Facebook page. She had a Facebook page too which was linked to her friends .... Oy!
See here under "Yes, Facebook can get you fired."
Mr. Fulmer and his wife made fun of a local church sermon in a podcast they posted online in 2005. Mr. Fulmer says it got so much attention, his boss listened to it, thought it was offensive and fired him.
The thing is, sharing things about yourself can be objectionable to an employer - and you don't know what they could be.
What may be completely harmless or even your God given right to say or do, may make you unhirable for an employer or even fired. Against the law in some cases - prove it. They can always find a legitimate and legal excuse to not hire you or fire you.
The best thing to do is pass on Facebook.
Of course, when the airlines get these, there will be a "green" fee, a "designed by MIT" fee and an "environmental feel good" fee added onto your ticket price along with all the junk fees.
Well first, where do you find monkeys who use cell phones, Mr. Smart guy!
Hey baba! I use a cell phone, live by power lines, have electrical wiring all around me in my home, I'm constantly bombarded by electromagnetic radiation. I'm one bad-ass mo fo and you want me, don't ya!?
Women: "Oh, you're so, so, DANGEROUS!"
That's right! I'm talking to you right now on my CELL PHONE!
"Oh, I think I'm cumming....Oh! Oh!"
ELECTROMAGNETIC RADIATION!
"Come over now and do me!"
That's what will happen!
This is easily one of the stupidest fucking discussions I have ever seen on this site. Every dumb ass analogy there is has been used. Every unnecessary soap box has been stood on.
See, its like this. Imagine if you see folks driving a car to go and pick up a pizza with a Nazi....
No one has proven that a crime has been committed. There is all this police time and attention on something that's not really that important.
In other words, there is much more police time and investigation over a stupid cell phone then there ever is on a missing child case.
Are you getting it? This cell phone thing is being treated like some huge crime when it in fact is really a small time ... nothing. Get it? It would be like if someone got a hold of KFC's secret recipe and published it and there was this huge police investigation and warrants and news attention...
It is fucking asinine.
Apple employee in possession of prototype leaves it on a counter and forgets it.
Another guy finds it, tells Apple that he has a prototype.
Apple says, Nope. We know nothing.
Finder goes to Gizmodo guy and sells it to him for $5000.
Gizmodo guy publishes photos.
Apple goes, Oh Fuck! And calls the storm troopers.
Gizmodo guy, I guess hoping to get some sort of return for the $5000 he spent asks Apple at least to verify that it is a prototype.
Apple refuses, but yet, brings down so much fucking heat that it's obvious that the prototype is in fact something very very important.
The property was in fact offered to Apple. Apple refused. And now is acting like complete retards because of THEIR stupidity.
A prototype that I seriously doubt has any custom tech designed (Apple uses mostly off the shelf stuff, get over it) is more important than finding some missing child.
Gotcha.
At least you understand. Watching how my comment and some of the answers above, it's pretty clear to me that the Apple fanboys consider Apple's property to be more important than public safety and they have no problem with taxpayer money being spent on protecting a company because of some carelessness by one of their employees.
Whilst you and your hoodie friends might not realise it, stealing a cell phone *is* a crime.
I'll ignore the "hoodie" part. Let's say that is was stolen even though is WAS NOT, but let's say it was - do you really think all of this police and court attention is warranted for a goddamn cell phone? Over people who really need police help?
PRIORITES, bud.
Gizmodo dropped a bombshell on the gadget world April 19 with a detailed look at the iPhone prototype, which an Apple employee named Robert “Gray” Powell had lost at a bar.
Does anyone else think this whole thing is pretty fucking ridiculous for a lost prototype by a careless worker? A CELL PHONE prototype - not plans for a nuke or plans for a sub or for a stealth fighter - a stupid fucking cell phone.
A young man is in a shit load of legal problems because the cops think A STUPID FUCKING CELL PHONE is important. This STUPID FUCKING CELL PHONE is more important than the crimes going on in their area. If I were a victim of a violent crime in that area, I'd be throwing bags of dogshit at the cops and at the prosecutor.
Really, does anyone else think this is an idiotic waste of police and tax payer money to "protect" the property rights of some corporation?
There are many people who really need to get their priorities in order.
STUPID FUCKING CELL PHONE.