So, they want to shut down the PSTN in favor of cellular service?
What the FUCK do these dimwit politicians think is the mechanism that actually transmits their cellular call after it leaves the NSS? Magic and unicorn farts?? Or are they just in bed with the broadband/cable television companies who want to see even more critical consumer data pushed across their cheap last mile infrastructure so they can append it to people's data caps?
"Oh, you're being robbed and need to call out to 911? Sorry, but you have exceeded your monthly data cap and can't do that."
The big three social networks are quickly getting themselves into a war over control of personal information. One can only hope that once the dust clears from the social network wars we are quickly barrelling towards that there will have been no survivors. I really hope we will look back upon this period of internet history afterwards and say to ourselves "Well, turns out you can't trust advertising companies with personal data...what the hell were we thinking?"
It allows folks at work to circumvent just about every single software installation policy in existence just by simply navigating to a website, so that way they can play their farmville and their angry birds instead of getting things done. This behavior translates right on over to their home machines, since installing software is a confusing and terrifying experience for the computer users too incompetent to even know what a filesystem is (omg registry settings are getting changed a commercial once told me they're bad i am so confused?). Path of least resistance I guess.
Well, taking a chapter out of the Stephen A. Ballmer book of software engineering, something like this:
1. Ignore the core products of your technology because "they work, why do they need any more upkeep?"
2. Potential competitor comes out with product or feature that everyone seems to like
3. "GODDAMIT WHY DIDNT WE THINK OF THAT MAKE THAT NOW GO GO GO!"
4. Show up late to the party with a half-assed implementation of said product or feature that doesn't really catch on
5. Lather, rinse, repeat.
This seems to be the preferred method of software development for your modern, MBA-wielding CTOs.
Agreed. It seems these days you can't even design a little league baseball field without some zealot right-wing bureaucrat stepping in and requiring you to audit its potential of being a target for the big bad terrorist bogeyman.
G+ invites have been out for what, like a week? And already FB is playing the me too! feature creep game with Google. Could this actually finally be the beginning of the end of the reign of Zuck?
Probably not. They're probably just trying to kick some dirt into EA's eyes in order to add insult to injury over the fact that Origin doesn't even work.
Is it really that hard to test and insure that your custom 404 error page is actually throwing a 404 error message, and it isn't just a soft 404 that actually throws a 200 OK message? There are far too many sites with custom 404 pages that don't check this, and it makes script writing needlessly difficult.
The MicroPointing touchpad works by detecting the force your fingertip produces as it drags across the tiny device's three sensors according to the company's patent application
I created an all in one cure for cancer, hiv, and erectile dysfunction according to some pieces of paper I scribbled crayon onto.
Literally the same day as I find a beautiful 1960s era plug-in wall clock in a supply closet at work...one of the really nice ones with military time pained in red numerals and everything.
Have you seen this little thing called "Facebook Chat"?
Although Facebook chat uses what could roughly-be-described-on-a-foggy-day-during-the-hour-your-glasses-are-at-lenscrafters as XMPP, their implementation is convoluted and contains proprietary elements to the point where native XMPP clients are not able to properly use it, despite Facebook's claims on the contrary.
We're losing customers to Newegg! We need to stop price gouging our repair services! We need to hire actually knowledgeable and well trained sales representatives! We need to carry a better selection of components that aren't grossly overpriced! We need to.... ah screw it too much overhead let's just sue them over use of the word geek.
Oh look at you, you can rephrase people's words about as well as a political advertisement. However, you miss one pretty critical aspect in your argument.
Your work computer that sits on the desk that belongs to your employer that sits in the office that your employer pays rent on is probably the property of...your employer, wow how 'bout that? It's his property, and you are merely a user on it for 8 hours a day. Why is he not in his right to protect his property from someone who may not be as technically competent in keeping the computer compliant with the company's network usage policies?
Meanwhile, I gave money that was mine to a man in a cheap suit, and he gave me a car and a little piece of paper that represents the title to the car, therefore the car is my property. Why do I have to lose my warranty, which is a promise from the seller of the car that the property he sold me is free of defects and poor craftsmanship, just because I would like to opt to handle the routine maintenance of my property by myself, rather than give the cheap suit man more of my money for the same exact if not poorer quality of maintenance?
I wasn't asked anything like that when I bought my first new car.
Customize your own car? Blasphemy! Due to being a consumer, you are assumed to be an idiot and completely technically incompetent; it's a miracle you can even figure out how to work the automatic transmission. You can't even change your own oil without voiding your warranty these days.
I learned the history of Spongebob Squarepants a couple of days ago. If I remember it correctly, Stephen Hillenberg was a marine biologist who also had a part time job working in an animation studio, and his boss was Joe Murray. He worked in Murray's animation studio during the period of the early 1990s when Murray's main project was Rocko's Modern Life. When Murray stopped doing animation after 1995 due to some serious marital issues (his wife eventually killed herself and he went on a 10 year hiatus from animation before creating Camp Lazlo), Hillenberg came up with the idea for Spongebob, and shortly thereafter made a pilot for Viacom.
So basically, Spongebob is the alter ego to Rocko Wallaby.
That's the way it should be, and that's definitely the way it is at my job. Every good sysadmin knows that the biggest idiot in the whole system is the user.
If you are allowing common users to install their own software, you are doing it wrong.
Philadelphia Police: Sir, we caught this man trying to break into your house at approximately 1:30 this afternoon after receiving an urgent notification from Comcast.
Homeowner: Who is he?
Philadelphia Police: He claims he is from "Verizon" and that he was here to "install FiOS", whatever that means.
I predict a respone that is a bureaucraticly worded 'Fuck you.' The FCC is fully bought and paid for, they already just let one of its commissioners take a blatant bribe from Comcast under the condition that they give them the ok to merge with NBC Universal.
Now that Zuck has a good 12 billion to his name, he is really desperately trying to bury this skeleton in his closet by throwing money at it. Come on, we've all been 17 and unemployed at one time, and would sign just about any piece of paper that would promise us better work than bagging groceries. Sure Ceglia is a grade A scumbag, but so is Zuck, and he deserves to have a stupid mistake like this come back and bite him in the ass now that his ass is actually worth something.
Frankly, a company with the corporate culture like Microsoft's pulling stunts like this puts an image in my head of creepy late 30's to early 40's guys pretending like they're in a college frat again.
I think they'll be fine with it. It'll give them another excuse to cry to the government for subsidiaries "for infrastructure upgrades," and then pocket the money instead...again.
I've notice that if an algorithm on Facebook needs revising and it doesn't have something to do with showing more advertisements to more people in more intrusive ways, it usually gets pushed to the back of the queue.
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So, they want to shut down the PSTN in favor of cellular service?
What the FUCK do these dimwit politicians think is the mechanism that actually transmits their cellular call after it leaves the NSS? Magic and unicorn farts?? Or are they just in bed with the broadband/cable television companies who want to see even more critical consumer data pushed across their cheap last mile infrastructure so they can append it to people's data caps?
"Oh, you're being robbed and need to call out to 911? Sorry, but you have exceeded your monthly data cap and can't do that."
The big three social networks are quickly getting themselves into a war over control of personal information. One can only hope that once the dust clears from the social network wars we are quickly barrelling towards that there will have been no survivors. I really hope we will look back upon this period of internet history afterwards and say to ourselves "Well, turns out you can't trust advertising companies with personal data...what the hell were we thinking?"
It allows folks at work to circumvent just about every single software installation policy in existence just by simply navigating to a website, so that way they can play their farmville and their angry birds instead of getting things done. This behavior translates right on over to their home machines, since installing software is a confusing and terrifying experience for the computer users too incompetent to even know what a filesystem is (omg registry settings are getting changed a commercial once told me they're bad i am so confused?). Path of least resistance I guess.
Well, taking a chapter out of the Stephen A. Ballmer book of software engineering, something like this:
1. Ignore the core products of your technology because "they work, why do they need any more upkeep?"
2. Potential competitor comes out with product or feature that everyone seems to like
3. "GODDAMIT WHY DIDNT WE THINK OF THAT MAKE THAT NOW GO GO GO!"
4. Show up late to the party with a half-assed implementation of said product or feature that doesn't really catch on
5. Lather, rinse, repeat.
This seems to be the preferred method of software development for your modern, MBA-wielding CTOs.
Agreed. It seems these days you can't even design a little league baseball field without some zealot right-wing bureaucrat stepping in and requiring you to audit its potential of being a target for the big bad terrorist bogeyman.
G+ invites have been out for what, like a week? And already FB is playing the me too! feature creep game with Google. Could this actually finally be the beginning of the end of the reign of Zuck?
Probably not. They're probably just trying to kick some dirt into EA's eyes in order to add insult to injury over the fact that Origin doesn't even work.
Is it really that hard to test and insure that your custom 404 error page is actually throwing a 404 error message, and it isn't just a soft 404 that actually throws a 200 OK message? There are far too many sites with custom 404 pages that don't check this, and it makes script writing needlessly difficult.
The MicroPointing touchpad works by detecting the force your fingertip produces as it drags across the tiny device's three sensors according to the company's patent application
I created an all in one cure for cancer, hiv, and erectile dysfunction according to some pieces of paper I scribbled crayon onto.
Literally the same day as I find a beautiful 1960s era plug-in wall clock in a supply closet at work...one of the really nice ones with military time pained in red numerals and everything.
Nope. Nothing to do with any of those.
Have you seen this little thing called "Facebook Chat"?
Although Facebook chat uses what could roughly-be-described-on-a-foggy-day-during-the-hour-your-glasses-are-at-lenscrafters as XMPP, their implementation is convoluted and contains proprietary elements to the point where native XMPP clients are not able to properly use it, despite Facebook's claims on the contrary.
We're losing customers to Newegg! We need to stop price gouging our repair services! We need to hire actually knowledgeable and well trained sales representatives! We need to carry a better selection of components that aren't grossly overpriced! We need to .... ah screw it too much overhead let's just sue them over use of the word geek.
Skype uses PostgreSQL for it's backend and has created SkyTools for managing replication and failover for a large numbers of servers.
So, converting a PostgreSQL backend to MSSQL? I predict the suicide rate for DBAs is about to skyrocket.
Oh look at you, you can rephrase people's words about as well as a political advertisement. However, you miss one pretty critical aspect in your argument.
Your work computer that sits on the desk that belongs to your employer that sits in the office that your employer pays rent on is probably the property of...your employer, wow how 'bout that? It's his property, and you are merely a user on it for 8 hours a day. Why is he not in his right to protect his property from someone who may not be as technically competent in keeping the computer compliant with the company's network usage policies?
Meanwhile, I gave money that was mine to a man in a cheap suit, and he gave me a car and a little piece of paper that represents the title to the car, therefore the car is my property. Why do I have to lose my warranty, which is a promise from the seller of the car that the property he sold me is free of defects and poor craftsmanship, just because I would like to opt to handle the routine maintenance of my property by myself, rather than give the cheap suit man more of my money for the same exact if not poorer quality of maintenance?
I wasn't asked anything like that when I bought my first new car.
Customize your own car? Blasphemy! Due to being a consumer, you are assumed to be an idiot and completely technically incompetent; it's a miracle you can even figure out how to work the automatic transmission. You can't even change your own oil without voiding your warranty these days.
I learned the history of Spongebob Squarepants a couple of days ago. If I remember it correctly, Stephen Hillenberg was a marine biologist who also had a part time job working in an animation studio, and his boss was Joe Murray. He worked in Murray's animation studio during the period of the early 1990s when Murray's main project was Rocko's Modern Life. When Murray stopped doing animation after 1995 due to some serious marital issues (his wife eventually killed herself and he went on a 10 year hiatus from animation before creating Camp Lazlo), Hillenberg came up with the idea for Spongebob, and shortly thereafter made a pilot for Viacom.
So basically, Spongebob is the alter ego to Rocko Wallaby.
That's the way it should be, and that's definitely the way it is at my job. Every good sysadmin knows that the biggest idiot in the whole system is the user.
If you are allowing common users to install their own software, you are doing it wrong.
"If you plan to shoplift, please let us know. Thanks"
Philadelphia Police: Sir, we caught this man trying to break into your house at approximately 1:30 this afternoon after receiving an urgent notification from Comcast.
Homeowner: Who is he?
Philadelphia Police: He claims he is from "Verizon" and that he was here to "install FiOS", whatever that means.
I predict a respone that is a bureaucraticly worded 'Fuck you.' The FCC is fully bought and paid for, they already just let one of its commissioners take a blatant bribe from Comcast under the condition that they give them the ok to merge with NBC Universal.
Now that Zuck has a good 12 billion to his name, he is really desperately trying to bury this skeleton in his closet by throwing money at it. Come on, we've all been 17 and unemployed at one time, and would sign just about any piece of paper that would promise us better work than bagging groceries. Sure Ceglia is a grade A scumbag, but so is Zuck, and he deserves to have a stupid mistake like this come back and bite him in the ass now that his ass is actually worth something.
Microsoft pays someone to go do a PR prank like this. Remember when they paid a crew to drop a giant Internet Explorer logo on the front lawn of Mozilla's campus?
Frankly, a company with the corporate culture like Microsoft's pulling stunts like this puts an image in my head of creepy late 30's to early 40's guys pretending like they're in a college frat again.
I think they'll be fine with it. It'll give them another excuse to cry to the government for subsidiaries "for infrastructure upgrades," and then pocket the money instead...again.
I've notice that if an algorithm on Facebook needs revising and it doesn't have something to do with showing more advertisements to more people in more intrusive ways, it usually gets pushed to the back of the queue.