I think it's about impoliteness when asking favors. Friends help each other: I'm quite ok fixing my non-technical friend's WLAN, just as he's ok with giving me a hand when I'm moving houses. That's the social norm, and thus asking someone for a favor also indicates how you feel about them.
So if you don't like someone, if you would under normal circumstances not want to spend time with them - then you don't ask them for favors. That would be plain rude.
If you don't have an actual friend to provide tech services - just purchase said services.
Yeah, quite frequently people argue that this is just the way the game is played. Might be a valid excuse for a country the size of Belgium. However the US - one of the biggest economies of the world, controlling of half the world's military - has a big say in how the game is played.
The MBA program probably teaches them how to achieve good results for the company. That's typically not what the bigger players are trying to do - they want to get good results... for themselves. A good way to accomplish this is by being greedy at the expense of the company.
For example Freescale: you can make a big deal with a major EDA company (that would be Cadence in this case) that you are going to buy all your design software from them. Never mind that Cadence doesn't have good quality tools for all the tasks a major chip design company needs (they are not a bad company as such, but they just don't cover the full design flow appropriately).
So you deny the problem, you cash-in a huge bonus due to the big savings you've made, and you leave the company as soon as you can. Perfectly rational strategy, hugely successful for the VP. Not for Freescale, I suspect.
The VP now works for AMD - three years already, I wonder whether he's about to change jobs, soon?
Right, and furthermore we don't live in particularly dangerous times. We had the threat of nuclear war for decades, and now all we have to worry about in terms of national security is terrorism.
"What is more important, an admission of blame or a fix?"
Important for whom? His employer mainly needs the fix. However, closely followed by that they need to figure out whether they have the right people for the job. If they don't, then issues like this will keep appearing.
He, on the other hand mainly needs the admission of blame because he wants to keep his job. He also needs a fix so that the company can keep paying him, but that's only relevant if they don't fire him.
"Sun had their SunRay systems where you could seamlessly move your entire desktop session, [...] from one desktop computer to another"
Well seamlessy only if you were using the same screen resolution on both machines. Otherwise you'd end up with a session which didn't take advantage of your screen or one which didn't fit on it. Any other machine running VNC would be able to give you the same feature - albeit with the same limitations as the SunRay.
"Soldiers, because they nobly relinquish their rights to protect the rest of us."
No, because it's necessary to run an effective army. And they don't do it nobly, but usually simply because it's a way to earn money and get health insurance. The US army is several times the size needed to protect the US - the rest of it is subsidies for defense contractors and empire-related activities.
I really don't get the point of this system - they already (hopefully) know whether the kid is in school or not. They could (and should) pass this information on to the parents. Call them, send them a letter and ask for a reply. What's the GPS adding to that? Now you have a record that they are hanging out in the mall, or on the basketball court or whatever. Did you really need to know that? They are not in school, that's what matters.
You can't even go and get them from wherever they are, if they just leave the device somewhere. Now what?
Depends what your attack scenario is. If you want to protect yourself from the state you need to take different measures then if you just want to protect your trade secrets in case you have your laptop stolen or you lose your USB drive. The latter two scenarios are probably more interesting for the majority of us.
Depending on the jurisdiction you are in, encrypting helps against the state as well. E.g. in Germany you can not be compelled to give evidence against yourself, and that includes giving up encryption keys.
Yeah, but if you want to organize thousands, or tens of thousands of people, then your board will get noticed. The "tell people about it" means the security forces will know about it, too.
It might actually be beneficial to use a platform like facebook - not just because it's a good way to connect like minded people, but also because it's popular among the people the regime relies on. It's harder for them to to block it, because they'd be pissing off their supporters, too.
That's not as easy as it may sound. You need to be evil to be a brutal ruthless dictator, but that's not enough - you also need to be able to convince others that they are better off following you (even if the majority of the population is not). If the basis of your system is an ideology, then you can't easily make changes which go counter that ideology. You also need to arrange yourself with other power structures within your realm - it's rare that you have all the power to begin with.
If you look at Burma for example - they need to respect Buddhism to an extent, and will not easily move against monks, except as a very last resort. To go against deeply ingrained beliefs you need an ideology to counter it - like communism for example. That ties your hands on other matters though - e.g. now you need to at least make a convincing show of following communist beliefs.
Same in our company. The problem is that frequently the users have no say at all. If the SW needed to be sold, then customers would simply refuse to buy such low quality - for internal tools the users are forced to use the crap.
Having a platform which controls content is not just a problem for publishers, it can hit the consumer, too. Just google for reports of kindle users who had their account blocked for some reason or another.
I had my account blocked, too. According to their customer support they did that because of another customer who they have problems with and who I apparently share my name with. Never mind that I've never lived anywhere near the city that this guy lives in, that I've been their customer for 13 years, never had anything shipped to any place near his city...
It's bizarre really, but they are currently building a reputation for pulling shit like that. Well I'm glad I never bought a Kindle - I can buy books and electronics elsewhere.
Obviously it's not a fallacy, which you would have noted if you'd consulted an actual textbook...
I'll save you the effort with this quote from wikipedia: "Since we cannot have expert knowledge of many subjects, we often rely on the judgments of those who do. There is no fallacy involved in simply arguing that the assertion made by an authority is true. The fallacy only arises when it is claimed or implied that the authority is infallible in principle and can hence be exempted from criticism."
As for the theory of a worldwide conspiracy of the vast majority of scientists, politicians and even some oil company executives, for which you have not one shred of evidence...
Even if that completely invented horseshit - which you only choose to believe because you desperately want to - was true: You'd still not get to claim that others are spreading FUD for not sharing your belief in something as absurdly unlikely as that.
What Gore says is backed by 32 National Science Academies, there is no scientific organization which disagrees.
You may not agree with that for some bizarre reason, but to call that exploiting FUD is disingenuous, to say the least. It's provably mainstream scientific opinion.
"I wouldn't consider them to be legitimate medical professionals."
Agreed, I'd merely consider them a legitimate witch doctor. I just think there is a difference between those and people like Peter Popoff. It's just terminology, but you asked how people can use the term.
As an atheist, I'd say a legitimate religion is one where the leaders also believe in that religion, and where the leaders believe that their religion benefits their followers.
A religious leader being legitimate does not preclude him from being intellectually lazy, full of hate, dumb or ignorant. It just means he'll honestly believe what he says. I think that's a fair and important distinction to make.
Also there are many religious people who are really nice, educated and intelligent - who I genuinely admire. They are honest in their beliefs - I disagree with them, but I respect that they are genuine.
Well, it's certainly an interesting story, and hard work does deserve respect. On the other hand, I'm not sure why TFA seems to think special recognition was somehow needed for this particular group. Plenty of people worked hard during war time - be it in factories, in agriculture or in desk jobs. You can be far removed from any physical danger and still make a significant contribution to the war effort, that's understood.
However recognition is usually given to those who directly put their lives and limbs on the line. Which seems quite reasonable, really.
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I think it's about impoliteness when asking favors. Friends help each other: I'm quite ok fixing my non-technical friend's WLAN, just as he's ok with giving me a hand when I'm moving houses. That's the social norm, and thus asking someone for a favor also indicates how you feel about them.
So if you don't like someone, if you would under normal circumstances not want to spend time with them - then you don't ask them for favors. That would be plain rude.
If you don't have an actual friend to provide tech services - just purchase said services.
Yeah, quite frequently people argue that this is just the way the game is played. Might be a valid excuse for a country the size of Belgium. However the US - one of the biggest economies of the world, controlling of half the world's military - has a big say in how the game is played.
The MBA program probably teaches them how to achieve good results for the company. That's typically not what the bigger players are trying to do - they want to get good results ... for themselves. A good way to accomplish this is by being greedy at the expense of the company.
For example Freescale: you can make a big deal with a major EDA company (that would be Cadence in this case) that you are going to buy all your design software from them. Never mind that Cadence doesn't have good quality tools for all the tasks a major chip design company needs (they are not a bad company as such, but they just don't cover the full design flow appropriately).
So you deny the problem, you cash-in a huge bonus due to the big savings you've made, and you leave the company as soon as you can. Perfectly rational strategy, hugely successful for the VP. Not for Freescale, I suspect.
The VP now works for AMD - three years already, I wonder whether he's about to change jobs, soon?
Sure, but why expend all this effort when it's trivial to circumvent?
"I can't see a damned thing wrong with keylogging your kid's computer."
Among other points: It's useless and it produces too much data. You are welcome.
What's the point, don't they have friends who have computers? Or access to computers in the library? Or friends with smart phones?
"There is no delicate balance."
Right, and furthermore we don't live in particularly dangerous times. We had the threat of nuclear war for decades, and now all we have to worry about in terms of national security is terrorism.
"What is more important, an admission of blame or a fix?"
Important for whom? His employer mainly needs the fix. However, closely followed by that they need to figure out whether they have the right people for the job. If they don't, then issues like this will keep appearing.
He, on the other hand mainly needs the admission of blame because he wants to keep his job. He also needs a fix so that the company can keep paying him, but that's only relevant if they don't fire him.
"Sun had their SunRay systems where you could seamlessly move your entire desktop session, [...] from one desktop computer to another"
Well seamlessy only if you were using the same screen resolution on both machines. Otherwise you'd end up with a session which didn't take advantage of your screen or one which didn't fit on it. Any other machine running VNC would be able to give you the same feature - albeit with the same limitations as the SunRay.
"Soldiers, because they nobly relinquish their rights to protect the rest of us."
No, because it's necessary to run an effective army. And they don't do it nobly, but usually simply because it's a way to earn money and get health insurance. The US army is several times the size needed to protect the US - the rest of it is subsidies for defense contractors and empire-related activities.
Now I get it - the program provides funding for gifted kids. They can use the money to upgrade their computers.
I really don't get the point of this system - they already (hopefully) know whether the kid is in school or not. They could (and should) pass this information on to the parents. Call them, send them a letter and ask for a reply. What's the GPS adding to that? Now you have a record that they are hanging out in the mall, or on the basketball court or whatever. Did you really need to know that? They are not in school, that's what matters.
You can't even go and get them from wherever they are, if they just leave the device somewhere. Now what?
Depends what your attack scenario is. If you want to protect yourself from the state you need to take different measures then if you just want to protect your trade secrets in case you have your laptop stolen or you lose your USB drive. The latter two scenarios are probably more interesting for the majority of us.
Depending on the jurisdiction you are in, encrypting helps against the state as well. E.g. in Germany you can not be compelled to give evidence against yourself, and that includes giving up encryption keys.
Yeah, but if you want to organize thousands, or tens of thousands of people, then your board will get noticed. The "tell people about it" means the security forces will know about it, too. It might actually be beneficial to use a platform like facebook - not just because it's a good way to connect like minded people, but also because it's popular among the people the regime relies on. It's harder for them to to block it, because they'd be pissing off their supporters, too.
That's not as easy as it may sound. You need to be evil to be a brutal ruthless dictator, but that's not enough - you also need to be able to convince others that they are better off following you (even if the majority of the population is not). If the basis of your system is an ideology, then you can't easily make changes which go counter that ideology. You also need to arrange yourself with other power structures within your realm - it's rare that you have all the power to begin with.
If you look at Burma for example - they need to respect Buddhism to an extent, and will not easily move against monks, except as a very last resort. To go against deeply ingrained beliefs you need an ideology to counter it - like communism for example. That ties your hands on other matters though - e.g. now you need to at least make a convincing show of following communist beliefs.
Same in our company. The problem is that frequently the users have no say at all. If the SW needed to be sold, then customers would simply refuse to buy such low quality - for internal tools the users are forced to use the crap.
They'd be better off building an alternative platform now, while they are still able to do so.
Having a platform which controls content is not just a problem for publishers, it can hit the consumer, too. Just google for reports of kindle users who had their account blocked for some reason or another.
I had my account blocked, too. According to their customer support they did that because of another customer who they have problems with and who I apparently share my name with. Never mind that I've never lived anywhere near the city that this guy lives in, that I've been their customer for 13 years, never had anything shipped to any place near his city ...
It's bizarre really, but they are currently building a reputation for pulling shit like that. Well I'm glad I never bought a Kindle - I can buy books and electronics elsewhere.
Obviously it's not a fallacy, which you would have noted if you'd consulted an actual textbook...
I'll save you the effort with this quote from wikipedia:
"Since we cannot have expert knowledge of many subjects, we often rely on the judgments of those who do. There is no fallacy involved in simply arguing that the assertion made by an authority is true. The fallacy only arises when it is claimed or implied that the authority is infallible in principle and can hence be exempted from criticism."
As for the theory of a worldwide conspiracy of the vast majority of scientists, politicians and even some oil company executives, for which you have not one shred of evidence ...
Even if that completely invented horseshit - which you only choose to believe because you desperately want to - was true: You'd still not get to claim that others are spreading FUD for not sharing your belief in something as absurdly unlikely as that.
What Gore says is backed by 32 National Science Academies, there is no scientific organization which disagrees.
You may not agree with that for some bizarre reason, but to call that exploiting FUD is disingenuous, to say the least. It's provably mainstream scientific opinion.
"I wouldn't consider them to be legitimate medical professionals."
Agreed, I'd merely consider them a legitimate witch doctor. I just think there is a difference between those and people like Peter Popoff. It's just terminology, but you asked how people can use the term.
From their site:
# Our website is getting hammered with traffic. You can also read the Nokia Plan B in our Facebook page http://on.fb.me/ee01ml #NokiaPlanB
"I think the biggest potential loss is either the dropping or downplaying of Qt by Nokia"
Well Intel certainly has the resources to fork it, if it's important to them.
As an atheist, I'd say a legitimate religion is one where the leaders also believe in that religion, and where the leaders believe that their religion benefits their followers.
A religious leader being legitimate does not preclude him from being intellectually lazy, full of hate, dumb or ignorant. It just means he'll honestly believe what he says. I think that's a fair and important distinction to make.
Also there are many religious people who are really nice, educated and intelligent - who I genuinely admire. They are honest in their beliefs - I disagree with them, but I respect that they are genuine.
Well, it's certainly an interesting story, and hard work does deserve respect. On the other hand, I'm not sure why TFA seems to think special recognition was somehow needed for this particular group. Plenty of people worked hard during war time - be it in factories, in agriculture or in desk jobs. You can be far removed from any physical danger and still make a significant contribution to the war effort, that's understood.
However recognition is usually given to those who directly put their lives and limbs on the line. Which seems quite reasonable, really.