Product placement is done all the time on TV and movies and is rarely noticed. Ever notice that many of the phones you see on the small and big screens are made by Cisco, and they have a logo that's significantly larger than what's on the actual product?
I've seen it go over the top from time to time, though, like when actors actually say things like "Gee whiz, this widget from Acme Corp is awesome!"
I've no issue with ads in games when they are in context. If I'm going to get bored and walk around shooting random cans and bottles they might as well say "Coke" on them.
I remember the uproar around BF2142 when they announced they would have billboards with ads on them. Everyone got upset about it, but in the actual game the billboards fit into the overall feel of the level design, and were never intrusive. It was so subtle that I never noticed what any of the ads were for.
How should I clean up a broken fluorescent bulb? Because CFLs contain a small amount of mercury, EPA recommends the following clean-up and disposal guidelines:
1. Before Clean-up: Air Out the Room Have people and pets leave the room, and don't let anyone walk through the breakage area on their way out.
Open a window and leave the room for 15 minutes or more.
Shut off the central forced-air heating/air conditioning system, if you have one.
2. Clean-Up Steps for Hard Surfaces
Carefully scoop up glass fragments and powder using stiff paper or cardboard and place them in a glass jar with metal lid (such as a canning jar) or in a sealed plastic bag.
Use sticky tape, such as duct tape, to pick up any remaining small glass pieces and powder.
Wipe the area clean with damp paper towels or disposable wet wipes. Place towels in the glass jar or plastic bag.
Do not use a vacuum or broom to clean up the broken bulb on hard surfaces.
3. Clean-up Steps for Carpeting or Rug:
Carefully pick up glass fragments and place them in a glass jar with metal lid (such as a canning jar) or in a sealed plastic bag.
Use sticky tape, such as duct tape, to pick up any remaining small glass fragments and powder.
If vacuuming is needed after all visible materials are removed, vacuum the area where the bulb was broken.
Remove the vacuum bag (or empty and wipe the canister), and put the bag or vacuum debris in a sealed plastic bag.
4. Clean-up Steps for Clothing, Bedding, etc.:
If clothing or bedding materials come in direct contact with broken glass or mercury-containing powder from inside the bulb that may stick to the fabric, the clothing or bedding should be thrown away. Do not wash such clothing or bedding because mercury fragments in the clothing may contaminate the machine and/or pollute sewage.
You can, however, wash clothing or other materials that have been exposed to the mercury vapor from a broken CFL, such as the clothing you are wearing when you cleaned up the broken CFL, as long as that clothing has not come into direct contact with the materials from the broken bulb.
If shoes come into direct contact with broken glass or mercury-containing powder from the bulb, wipe them off with damp paper towels or disposable wet wipes. Place the towels or wipes in a glass jar or plastic bag for disposal.
5. Disposal of Clean-up Materials
Immediately place all clean-up materials outdoors in a trash container or protected area for the next normal trash pickup.
Wash your hands after disposing of the jars or plastic bags containing clean-up materials.
Check with your local or state government about disposal requirements in your specific area. Some states do not allow such trash disposal. Instead, they require that broken and unbroken mercury-containing bulbs be taken to a local recycling center.
6. Future Cleaning of Carpeting or Rug: Air Out the Room During and After Vacuuming
The next several times you vacuum, shut off the central forced-air heating/air conditioning system and open a window before vacuuming.
Keep the central heating/air conditioning system shut off and the window open for at least 15 minutes after vacuuming is completed.
Technically, the telemarketers aren't breaking the do not call list laws. They aren't in canada.
I'm in the US and recently have had canadian based companies calling me.. I tell them I'm on the do not call list "we're in Canada so the US list doesn't apply to us" Canuck companies are doing the same thing now.
That's not exactly correct. Technically, they are breaking the law. They just can't be prosecuted easily.
Actually, no. I'm assuming that your referring to the Japanese internments during WWII. That's the closest thing in US history that I am aware of that resembles what your talking about. You could be talking about some fictional event or something else entirely dealing with some other country so correct me if I wrong on that.
No, that's correct.
However, during the internments, Habeas corpus was not suspended. The language in Executive Order No. 9066 which created and authorized the internments never mentioned habeas corpus at all. In fact, even while in the internment camps, they still enjoyed habeas corpus for all matter except their internment.
Wouldn't you agree that habeas doesn't have much meaning if it doesn't protect you from imprisonment without due process?
There was never 100,000 people exposed to it and the Japanese American internments were done in spite of habeas corpus not with it's suspension.
That's pretty much my point, although you have me on the technicalities. Tell me, though, to those 110,000 people, do you think it mattered whether or not habeas was suspended or just ignored?
I think your mixing a little mistaken history with rumors floating around conspiracy channels. Now, I agree with you in principle but I don't agree with you over the habeas corpus and the manipulations of it that we have seen. Roosevelt never attempted to suspend Habeas corpus, he just ignored it.
I don't subscribe to conspiracy theories. There's some pretty strange and far-fetched stuff out there; the Japanese-American interment camps are real. My point in bringing them up is to show that saying "it can't happen here" or "it can't happen to me" isn't accurate.
The habeas corpus issue only effected people who posed a direct and immenent danger to the security of the united state.
I'm not sure how much of a direct and imminent danger they were if we had to say "sorry" and cut them a big check after 50 years. We, the US, admitted we made a mistake, and that they did not pose a direct and imminent danger.
But I think there is a big of different between that and a drug dealer or whatever don't you?
That's exactly my point. Your argument is that these things will not affect us because we aren't terrorists. My point is that the only reason we aren't treated as terrorists is because we haven't been accused. Under normal circumstances, we have to be convicted. I'm not expecting to be rounded up tomorrow and hauled off to prison. I'm not talking so much about losing rights, but a steady trickle of erosion. Paraphrasing what I said before, if you won't stand up for others, who will stand up for you? Anyway, interesting discourse. Thank you.
The rest of your comment, well I agree with it sort of. However your rights weren't eroded away. I'm sure you have spoken out against the Habeas Corpus before and yet here you are unaffected by it.
I humbly suggest you look at what happened the last time habeas corpus was suspended. It resulted in the illegal imprisonment, on US soil, of over 100,000 people, many of them US citizens. They were held without trial, in most cases they were not even accused of a crime. When they finally were released, many of them had lost their homes and all their possessions. Some of them were killed while imprisoned. A small number were so bitter that they renounced their US citizenship.
The government apologized and paid reparations. 50 years later.
I don't think the government is evil. I think the government is made up of people just like you and me. Some are honest and some are not. Some make mistakes, some have and act on their prejudices. Some deserve admiration, and others deserve denigration.
Sometimes there are enough of the wrong sort in the right place at the right time and some pretty nasty things happen. McCarthyism is another example. Not everyone was on the same team during the Civil Rights era. We always correct these mistakes, but it takes years, decades, sometimes even centuries.
Just because something hasn't affected you or me does not mean that it cannot. Just because you trust your government today does not mean that you can trust them always. Please, have a look. This isn't some wacko fringe theory, this really happened. It's an ugly chapter in US history. I don't want my kids or their kids looking back at us this way.
I'll leave you with this adaptation of a poem originally written by a German named NiemÃller. I don't know who wrote the version I'm quoting below.
First they came for the fourth amendment, and I did not speak out, because I didn't deal drugs. Then they came for the fifth amendment, and I was silent because I owned no property involved in crimes. Then they came for the sixth amendment, and I did not protest because I was innocent. Then they came for the second amendment, and I said nothing because I didn't own a gun. And then they came for the first amendment, and I could say nothing.
The Supreme court has over turned that law and even if they didn't, it was set to suck a narrow limit on use that unless you were actively plotting a terrorist attack in the US or aiding someone who was knowingly, it never would have effected you. Go read the law that enabled it.
In the same sentence you say that the law was harmless to me and that it was also overturned as unconstitutional. I don't really have a point on that, I just like irony.
Anyway.
The problem is that there is very little burden placed on the government before they are allowed to utilize some of these laws. Basically they just need to say that you're a terrorist and that they have credible evidence to prove it, but they don't have to show the evidence to you or your legal representatives.
Governments that do things like that are the Bad Guys in our history books.
I understand the reasons the government wants these tools. I'll even concede that they may not be able to prevent another 9/11 type of attack without them. I'm not one of those assholes who cries about what a terrible job they do when bad things happen and then also cries about how my rights are being eroded when they stop the bad things from happening.
I just whine about the latter, because I think it does more harm to our culture and way of life than the former.
I think you have been getting some bad information.
There is no such provision in the Geneva Convention.
Here, in fact, is what it says about the treatment of persons not in uniform (emphasis added):
"Where in occupied territory an individual protected person is detained as a spy or saboteur, or as a person under definite suspicion of activity hostile to the security of the Occupying Power, such person shall, in those cases where absolute military security so requires, be regarded as having forfeited rights of communication under the present Convention.
In each case, such persons shall nevertheless be treated with humanity and, in case of trial, shall not be deprived of the rights of fair and regular trial prescribed by the present Convention. They shall also be granted the full rights and privileges of a protected person under the present Convention at the earliest date consistent with the security of the State or Occupying Power, as the case may be."
So no, we aren't permitted to just shoot people who aren't in uniform.
US military is widely celebrated as a bunch of extraordinary cowards who go to war only after being convinced that they will kill their enemies without endangering themselves.
Starting a fight you don't think you can win is not only risky but enormously stupid.
Any professional soldier of any nation on this planet, as opposed to only the US, will tell you that their ideal scenario is when they can kill the enemy without any danger to themselves.
As the saying goes, if you find yourself in a fair fight you have failed to adequately plan.
Not only that but you also had to deal with scumfuck corporate tactics on returns, were treated like a thief every time you left the stores with mandatory bag searches, etc.
Check the law where you live. Where I live, once your purchase has been made the store has no right to search through what has now become your personal property. Legally this would be the same as if they went through your wallet or purse.
When I leave Frys, Best Buy etc. I will usually let them have a look inside my bag if they ask me politely, even though we both know I'm not required to do so. Otherwise I just ignore and walk past the bag checker. They usually are aware that they don't have the right, and will rarely say or do anything.
If they really believe you have stolen something, they have the option of placing you under citizens arrest and calling the police to search your bag. They rarely employ this tactic unless they're pretty sure you're ripping them off.
Exceptions are club stores, like Costco, where you agreed to inspection upon exit when you applied for membership.
In summary, be polite but know your rights and assert them. There's no reason to let these guys treat you rudely, and I'm frustrated that most people don't see a problem with this. Or I'm just crazy, take your pick (my wife chooses the latter).
The thing is, once you've been turned off of a dealer/manufacturer by some bad practice (hello Belkin, hello Sony), even once that's forgiven there's still a tendency to evaluate them negatively even where price on an item is comparable.
Absolutely true. I had two bad experiences at CC well over a decade ago (rude staff and attempted bait-and-switch) and vowed to never give them a dime of my business. Looks like there are a lot of folks posting here today with similar stories.
I'm sorry for the employees who will be looking for new jobs, but good riddance to Circuit City.
1) It's risky to use the same authentication credentials and password for multiple accounts. If one web site is compromised it would enable unauthorized access on everything else.
2) If you use different passwords for each account, it's extremely difficult to remember them all. Highly impractical for some, impossible for most.
3) Trusting all your authentication credentials to a browser is fine, unless someone else uses your PC without your permission. The browser will just as happily fill in the forms for them as it does for you.
It's really immaterial to the point of the story, but I assume that he identified the problem with the machine was located under the boilerplate, and not some other component.
Managing the types of personalities you find on/. deserves compensation. I'm no manager, and I don't want to be a manager, but herding cats through a kennel must be easier. Probably more rewarding too.
The "x" indicates the area that needed to be fixed in order to solve the problem. It's an old story told many ways with the point being that the knowledge of _how_ to solve a problem is more valuable than the skill it takes to actually fix whatever is busted.
I'm not sure what he's talking about. None of the Linksys products run IOS, which IIRC was originally based on a BSD kernel a couple decades ago. Perhaps he means that some Linksys products have included libraries from IOS somehow, but I don't see how that would make those libraries then fall under GPL.
At least some, possibly all, of the GPL violations predate Cisco's acquisition of Linksys, not that it excuses anything; they own Linksys now so they are responsible for compliance. I'm just not certain that there is a link between some Linksys GPL violations and Cisco as an entity willfully violating copyright on a daily basis.
Your understanding is not correct. The infrastructure necessary to do so would be very, very expensive. Implementing something along these lines would also require an awful lot of people to be "in on it", thousands or more. These two considerations count for more than my third point, which is that it isn't legal.
Some companies might have a policy like this. For example, many call centers record all calls (and notify you that they do). But the entire US telephone infrastructure? Please put your tin foil hat on the table and back away slowly.
Bugs in hard drive firmware are completely unexpected. We aren't talking about a nVidia driver here. Hard drives are expected to perform flawlessly when new.
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Product placement is done all the time on TV and movies and is rarely noticed. Ever notice that many of the phones you see on the small and big screens are made by Cisco, and they have a logo that's significantly larger than what's on the actual product?
I've seen it go over the top from time to time, though, like when actors actually say things like "Gee whiz, this widget from Acme Corp is awesome!"
I've no issue with ads in games when they are in context. If I'm going to get bored and walk around shooting random cans and bottles they might as well say "Coke" on them.
I remember the uproar around BF2142 when they announced they would have billboards with ads on them. Everyone got upset about it, but in the actual game the billboards fit into the overall feel of the level design, and were never intrusive. It was so subtle that I never noticed what any of the ads were for.
I call FUD.
CFLs do contain more mercury than incandescent bulbs. However, they don't have a high enough level to warrant special disposal procedures.
Below are the EPA recommendations on dealing with a broken CFL. I call shenanigans on your calling FUD.
http://www.energystar.gov/ia/partners/promotions/change_light/downloads/Fact_Sheet_Mercury.pdf
How should I clean up a broken fluorescent bulb?
Because CFLs contain a small amount of mercury, EPA recommends the following clean-up and disposal
guidelines:
1. Before Clean-up: Air Out the Room
Have people and pets leave the room, and don't let anyone walk through the breakage area on their way out.
Open a window and leave the room for 15 minutes or more.
Shut off the central forced-air heating/air conditioning system, if you have one.
2. Clean-Up Steps for Hard Surfaces
Carefully scoop up glass fragments and powder using stiff paper or cardboard and place them in a glass jar with metal lid (such as a canning jar) or in a sealed plastic bag.
Use sticky tape, such as duct tape, to pick up any remaining small glass pieces and powder.
Wipe the area clean with damp paper towels or disposable wet wipes. Place towels in the glass jar or plastic bag.
Do not use a vacuum or broom to clean up the broken bulb on hard surfaces.
3. Clean-up Steps for Carpeting or Rug:
Carefully pick up glass fragments and place them in a glass jar with metal lid (such as a canning jar) or in a sealed plastic bag.
Use sticky tape, such as duct tape, to pick up any remaining small glass fragments and powder.
If vacuuming is needed after all visible materials are removed, vacuum the area where the bulb was broken.
Remove the vacuum bag (or empty and wipe the canister), and put the bag or vacuum debris in a sealed plastic bag.
4. Clean-up Steps for Clothing, Bedding, etc.:
If clothing or bedding materials come in direct contact with broken glass or mercury-containing powder from inside the bulb that may stick to the fabric, the clothing or bedding should be thrown away. Do not wash such clothing or bedding because mercury fragments in the clothing may contaminate the machine and/or pollute sewage.
You can, however, wash clothing or other materials that have been exposed to the mercury vapor from a broken CFL, such as the clothing you are wearing when you cleaned up the broken CFL, as long as that clothing has not come into direct contact with the materials from the broken bulb.
If shoes come into direct contact with broken glass or mercury-containing powder from the bulb, wipe them off with damp paper towels or disposable wet wipes. Place the towels or wipes in a glass jar or plastic bag for disposal.
5. Disposal of Clean-up Materials
Immediately place all clean-up materials outdoors in a trash container or protected area for the next normal trash pickup.
Wash your hands after disposing of the jars or plastic bags containing clean-up materials.
Check with your local or state government about disposal requirements in your specific area. Some states do not allow such trash disposal. Instead, they require that broken and unbroken mercury-containing bulbs be taken to a local recycling center.
6. Future Cleaning of Carpeting or Rug: Air Out the Room During and After Vacuuming
The next several times you vacuum, shut off the central forced-air heating/air conditioning system and open a window before vacuuming.
Keep the central heating/air conditioning system shut off and the window open for at least 15 minutes after vacuuming is completed.
Technically, the telemarketers aren't breaking the do not call list laws. They aren't in canada.
I'm in the US and recently have had canadian based companies calling me.. I tell them I'm on the do not call list "we're in Canada so the US list doesn't apply to us" Canuck companies are doing the same thing now.
That's not exactly correct. Technically, they are breaking the law. They just can't be prosecuted easily.
Actually, no. I'm assuming that your referring to the Japanese internments during WWII. That's the closest thing in US history that I am aware of that resembles what your talking about. You could be talking about some fictional event or something else entirely dealing with some other country so correct me if I wrong on that.
No, that's correct.
However, during the internments, Habeas corpus was not suspended. The language in Executive Order No. 9066 which created and authorized the internments never mentioned habeas corpus at all. In fact, even while in the internment camps, they still enjoyed habeas corpus for all matter except their internment.
Wouldn't you agree that habeas doesn't have much meaning if it doesn't protect you from imprisonment without due process?
There was never 100,000 people exposed to it and the Japanese American internments were done in spite of habeas corpus not with it's suspension.
That's pretty much my point, although you have me on the technicalities. Tell me, though, to those 110,000 people, do you think it mattered whether or not habeas was suspended or just ignored?
I think your mixing a little mistaken history with rumors floating around conspiracy channels. Now, I agree with you in principle but I don't agree with you over the habeas corpus and the manipulations of it that we have seen. Roosevelt never attempted to suspend Habeas corpus, he just ignored it.
I don't subscribe to conspiracy theories. There's some pretty strange and far-fetched stuff out there; the Japanese-American interment camps are real. My point in bringing them up is to show that saying "it can't happen here" or "it can't happen to me" isn't accurate.
The habeas corpus issue only effected people who posed a direct and immenent danger to the security of the united state.
I'm not sure how much of a direct and imminent danger they were if we had to say "sorry" and cut them a big check after 50 years. We, the US, admitted we made a mistake, and that they did not pose a direct and imminent danger.
But I think there is a big of different between that and a drug dealer or whatever don't you?
That's exactly my point. Your argument is that these things will not affect us because we aren't terrorists. My point is that the only reason we aren't treated as terrorists is because we haven't been accused. Under normal circumstances, we have to be convicted. I'm not expecting to be rounded up tomorrow and hauled off to prison. I'm not talking so much about losing rights, but a steady trickle of erosion. Paraphrasing what I said before, if you won't stand up for others, who will stand up for you? Anyway, interesting discourse. Thank you.
The rest of your comment, well I agree with it sort of. However your rights weren't eroded away. I'm sure you have spoken out against the Habeas Corpus before and yet here you are unaffected by it.
I humbly suggest you look at what happened the last time habeas corpus was suspended. It resulted in the illegal imprisonment, on US soil, of over 100,000 people, many of them US citizens. They were held without trial, in most cases they were not even accused of a crime. When they finally were released, many of them had lost their homes and all their possessions. Some of them were killed while imprisoned. A small number were so bitter that they renounced their US citizenship.
The government apologized and paid reparations. 50 years later.
I don't think the government is evil. I think the government is made up of people just like you and me. Some are honest and some are not. Some make mistakes, some have and act on their prejudices. Some deserve admiration, and others deserve denigration.
Sometimes there are enough of the wrong sort in the right place at the right time and some pretty nasty things happen. McCarthyism is another example. Not everyone was on the same team during the Civil Rights era. We always correct these mistakes, but it takes years, decades, sometimes even centuries.
Just because something hasn't affected you or me does not mean that it cannot. Just because you trust your government today does not mean that you can trust them always. Please, have a look. This isn't some wacko fringe theory, this really happened. It's an ugly chapter in US history. I don't want my kids or their kids looking back at us this way.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Japanese_American_internment
I'll leave you with this adaptation of a poem originally written by a German named NiemÃller. I don't know who wrote the version I'm quoting below.
First they came for the fourth amendment,
and I did not speak out, because I didn't deal drugs.
Then they came for the fifth amendment,
and I was silent because I owned no property involved in crimes.
Then they came for the sixth amendment,
and I did not protest because I was innocent.
Then they came for the second amendment,
and I said nothing because I didn't own a gun.
And then they came for the first amendment,
and I could say nothing.
The Supreme court has over turned that law and even if they didn't, it was set to suck a narrow limit on use that unless you were actively plotting a terrorist attack in the US or aiding someone who was knowingly, it never would have effected you. Go read the law that enabled it.
In the same sentence you say that the law was harmless to me and that it was also overturned as unconstitutional. I don't really have a point on that, I just like irony.
Anyway.
The problem is that there is very little burden placed on the government before they are allowed to utilize some of these laws. Basically they just need to say that you're a terrorist and that they have credible evidence to prove it, but they don't have to show the evidence to you or your legal representatives.
Governments that do things like that are the Bad Guys in our history books.
I understand the reasons the government wants these tools. I'll even concede that they may not be able to prevent another 9/11 type of attack without them. I'm not one of those assholes who cries about what a terrible job they do when bad things happen and then also cries about how my rights are being eroded when they stop the bad things from happening.
I just whine about the latter, because I think it does more harm to our culture and way of life than the former.
I think you have been getting some bad information.
There is no such provision in the Geneva Convention.
Here, in fact, is what it says about the treatment of persons not in uniform (emphasis added):
"Where in occupied territory an individual protected person is detained as a spy or saboteur, or as a person under definite suspicion of activity hostile to the security of the Occupying Power, such person shall, in those cases where absolute military security so requires, be regarded as having forfeited rights of communication under the present Convention.
In each case, such persons shall nevertheless be treated with humanity and, in case of trial, shall not be deprived of the rights of fair and regular trial prescribed by the present Convention. They shall also be granted the full rights and privileges of a protected person under the present Convention at the earliest date consistent with the security of the State or Occupying Power, as the case may be. "
So no, we aren't permitted to just shoot people who aren't in uniform.
US military is widely celebrated as a bunch of extraordinary cowards who go to war only after being convinced that they will kill their enemies without endangering themselves.
Starting a fight you don't think you can win is not only risky but enormously stupid.
Any professional soldier of any nation on this planet, as opposed to only the US, will tell you that their ideal scenario is when they can kill the enemy without any danger to themselves.
As the saying goes, if you find yourself in a fair fight you have failed to adequately plan.
What right have you lost?
Habeas corpus.
It's kind of a big deal. You should read about it.
Not only that but you also had to deal with scumfuck corporate tactics on returns, were treated like a thief every time you left the stores with mandatory bag searches, etc.
Check the law where you live. Where I live, once your purchase has been made the store has no right to search through what has now become your personal property. Legally this would be the same as if they went through your wallet or purse.
When I leave Frys, Best Buy etc. I will usually let them have a look inside my bag if they ask me politely, even though we both know I'm not required to do so. Otherwise I just ignore and walk past the bag checker. They usually are aware that they don't have the right, and will rarely say or do anything.
If they really believe you have stolen something, they have the option of placing you under citizens arrest and calling the police to search your bag. They rarely employ this tactic unless they're pretty sure you're ripping them off.
Exceptions are club stores, like Costco, where you agreed to inspection upon exit when you applied for membership.
In summary, be polite but know your rights and assert them. There's no reason to let these guys treat you rudely, and I'm frustrated that most people don't see a problem with this. Or I'm just crazy, take your pick (my wife chooses the latter).
The thing is, once you've been turned off of a dealer/manufacturer by some bad practice (hello Belkin, hello Sony), even once that's forgiven there's still a tendency to evaluate them negatively even where price on an item is comparable.
Absolutely true. I had two bad experiences at CC well over a decade ago (rude staff and attempted bait-and-switch) and vowed to never give them a dime of my business. Looks like there are a lot of folks posting here today with similar stories.
I'm sorry for the employees who will be looking for new jobs, but good riddance to Circuit City.
No kidding. Academics started Sun and Cisco, to name just the first two successful tech companies that spring to mind.
Three points:
1) It's risky to use the same authentication credentials and password for multiple accounts. If one web site is compromised it would enable unauthorized access on everything else.
2) If you use different passwords for each account, it's extremely difficult to remember them all. Highly impractical for some, impossible for most.
3) Trusting all your authentication credentials to a browser is fine, unless someone else uses your PC without your permission. The browser will just as happily fill in the forms for them as it does for you.
It's really immaterial to the point of the story, but I assume that he identified the problem with the machine was located under the boilerplate, and not some other component.
IBM
Cisco
Microsoft
HP
Apple
Amazon
Walmart
etc.
Nothing is idiot-proof, but for every example of failure there are many other examples of success.
Managing the types of personalities you find on /. deserves compensation. I'm no manager, and I don't want to be a manager, but herding cats through a kennel must be easier. Probably more rewarding too.
The "x" indicates the area that needed to be fixed in order to solve the problem. It's an old story told many ways with the point being that the knowledge of _how_ to solve a problem is more valuable than the skill it takes to actually fix whatever is busted.
The Acura RL has had collision sensing and avoidance as an option for several years, called the Collision Mitigation Braking System.
http://www.acura.com/index.aspx?initPath=RL_Learn_FeaturesOptions_SafetySecurity_Braking_CollisionMitigationBraking
I've seen estimates that Cisco is less than 4% of total IT spend. Not really DOJ territory.
I'm not sure what he's talking about. None of the Linksys products run IOS, which IIRC was originally based on a BSD kernel a couple decades ago. Perhaps he means that some Linksys products have included libraries from IOS somehow, but I don't see how that would make those libraries then fall under GPL.
At least some, possibly all, of the GPL violations predate Cisco's acquisition of Linksys, not that it excuses anything; they own Linksys now so they are responsible for compliance. I'm just not certain that there is a link between some Linksys GPL violations and Cisco as an entity willfully violating copyright on a daily basis.
In California it means an evil baseball team.
Having the capability to record any call at will, which is very well-documented, is very different than actually recording every call, all the time.
Your invitation to commit suicide is rejected.
Your understanding is not correct. The infrastructure necessary to do so would be very, very expensive. Implementing something along these lines would also require an awful lot of people to be "in on it", thousands or more. These two considerations count for more than my third point, which is that it isn't legal.
Some companies might have a policy like this. For example, many call centers record all calls (and notify you that they do). But the entire US telephone infrastructure? Please put your tin foil hat on the table and back away slowly.
Bugs in hard drive firmware are completely unexpected. We aren't talking about a nVidia driver here. Hard drives are expected to perform flawlessly when new.
There is an old saying. I'm probably butchering it here, but it goes something like this:
If you aren't liberal when you are young, you have no heart.
If you aren't conservative when you are older, you have no brain.