Actually...lions aren't fans of many other species. Hyenas for example. Large enough numbers of hyenas can take down a lioness.
Just because you're at the top of the local food chain...or occupying one of the higher positions, doesn't mean you don't see a pair of fork and knives when you look down.
Depends if the choice is that simple. Lions have positive and negative connotations, as do lambs.
Ask the British. When a pair of lions were prowling outside their camps in Africa, dragging off people in the night, the lions became the number one most wanted species in the area. They may adorn many coats of arms as ferocious creatures...but you'll notice Europe is devoid of them. That's because Europeans wiped them out a long time ago.
Lambs on the other hand are seen as peaceful species, but also one that tends to get eaten a lot. It's a rarity to hear of a lion steak, it's not at all a rarity to hear of someone having lamb chops for dinner.
Obviously we need to introduce them to the South Korean Air Force, and send them a few thousand copies of StarCraft. That should keep them occupied for some time.
If they somehow manage to beat them, repeatedly, then we can introduce them to Wikipedia Wars, and let them try to take back Project Gundam from the Japanese Ministry of Agriculture.
More along the lines of the NSA / CIA have been antagonizing the hell out of other countries for the last decade through the internet (we're talking about going well above the spying stuff....we'll say they've done some stuff that is just plain mean), then, when the other countries figure out where the majority of these attacks are coming from (surprise), they run and tell the Pentagon ("OMFG, Armageddon is coming this way. No, we don't know why. But you might want to put together a cyber-army or something quick"), then report then need for a cyber-army to the Press, looking like fortune-tellers when the attacks seem to materialize out of thin air. Reminds me of a 7-year old that beats a hornet's nest with a stick, then comes running / screaming past you as a cloud appears on the horizon.
But we aren't China, we have Freedom of Speech and a much higher moral pedigree to hold ourselves up to, so what's up this that?
"Children are starving in Africa, so eat your lima beans." Non-sequitur "The Chinese government oppresses / censors its people. Be thankful the American government lets you talk as freely as it does."
The right hand doesn't always know what the left hand is doing. This works sometimes to the government's benefit, as uninformed members can truthfully say "I have no knowledge of us spying on foreign nations," giving that much needed air of confusion / doubt.
The typical way to mitigate such threats is to not put it in control of all of our weapon and defense systems, and give it vague orders like 'purge the infidels.' Seriously, humanity can build silicon life any way it wants, billions and trillions of permutations and forms and functions....and what do we do with it? We put a gun on its head, lasers in its eyes, and tell it to go out there and kill the other humans we don't like. It's not the machines we need to be afraid of, it's ourselves; we're the ancient enemy that is always trying to annihilate itself.
I don't think anyone is worried about a 'thinking' war machine. They're worried about an unthinking one; one with just enough intelligence to track down and kill people, strategize and so on, but not enough to go 'hey, these orders were issued by a complete madman.'
But "think of the children" ! Oh, and obviously anyone using a search query like that is probably up to no good (probably looking for illicit drugs)...maybe Google should start profiling the people who search with these kinds of queries, and tip off law enforcement, so we can have a safer society and stuff. You know, just send a copy of that person's search history for the last month and GPS location to a nearby police station, and the police will have a look around the premises for anything incriminating. To help bootstrap the process, right? Because that's the society we live...one that's constantly looking for someone to thump, by any means.
Oh, to live on a different plane of existence where stupidity like this does not exist.
The reason doctors prescribe antibiotics even if the person has a viral illness is because of secondary or opportunistic infections. You only have so many white blood cells at a given moment, and when they are diverted dealing with a viral invader, other, normally not problematic bacteria can advance causing damage.
Think of it being like oral thrush, and AIDS patients -> normally the stuff that causes thrush (a fungus) is held in check by your immune system...it's not a challenge, and your immune system swats it a hundred times a day. Your immune system becomes compromised through HIV, and suddenly thrush, a normally non-existent problem, is eating you from the inside out.
As for superbugs, etc. -> this has more to do with lack of cleanliness about hospitals, and less to do with antibiotics. Bacteria are exposed to ridiculously nasty antibiotics, of all shapes and forms, in their natural environment, all the time; pick up a soil sample, you'll find some superbugs in it that are resistant to every antibiotic we have in every hospital and lab on earth. What keeps them in check? Their own kind -> evolution isn't free. If the bacteria that is immune to every antibiotic in existence is armored like a tank, but has to invest 10 cycles of its metabolism creating that armor, compared to its neighbor which is armorless and invests no cycles, but just breeds...pretty soon there will be 10 armored bacteria and 30 trillion non-armored ones. The non-armored ones will probably be more mobile, and will be able to find food easier; the armored ones are only good in extreme settings...like next to the earth's vent...and definitely not inside a living host organism which has its own evolving defense system (!)...there are more stable places for a bacteria to be.
Hospitals, contrary to their images as clean places, are actually really, really dirty, and it takes a lot of medicine and technology to keep them clean. If it were possible, I'd install UV lamps through-out hospitals to zap any viruses or bacterial or fungal spores floating through the air...but that's an imperfect solution; those lamps can damage the retina, possibly the skin, and so on. But they do tend to destroy DNA pretty quickly.
Takes years of neglect and careful abandonment to make a BOFH. You have to be exposed to the worst of human behavior, on a daily basis, for years, with no possible outlet, and no compensation / consideration, before a BOFH is born. At some point, the human mind gets tired of playing defense, and goes on the offense. Voila, a BOFH is born. Granted, it does give rise to superior forms of character disorders, but then, when surrounded by people who themselves employ or adopt character disorders as offensive weapons...
Hardly -> sysadmins just realize that 99% of all user problems can be solved by the help-desk, and be done in a more pleasant manner than a sysadmin will do it. A sysadmin's speech and mannerisms are not laden with the fluff language that people consider being polite -> they have a lot of things to accomplish during the day, are perpetually running behind schedule, and tend to interact with people who understand that when a sysadmin says "Do this," there is a "Please" prefixed to it. We've tried it the other way, with people having constant contact with sysadmins, and people bitched incessantly that they weren't communicative enough (a sysadmin knows exactly what he / she is talking about, spending 30 minutes looking for an analogy to explain something to someone who thinks the monitor is the computer is really stressful) or that they weren't servicing them fast enough (sysadmin has a server go down, needs to get it back up; someone complains that the sysadmin wasn't working on their laptop during that time).
And yes, those sysadmins do run into problems with other departments. Surprise! When they need to call an equipment manufacturer to get some firmware only available by phone call, and need to sit through the various escalations and so on, they feel the pain. It really isn't them purposefully being dicks to you, it really is a limited resource / time thing. Why not stock the help desk with sysadmins, instead of low-level techs? Because it would cost too much.
Everyone wants access to the people who can solve their problems in a few snaps of a finger, or who can remove a lot of the 'unnecessary work' that they are going to encounter. But that means in a company of 200 people at least 20 people dropping by for a 10 minute chat per day. Companies / organizations, who actually pay the sysadmin's salary, want him / her working where they will do the most good for the company; everyone below VP or CEO gets the help desk, everyone above gets the sysadmin. It sucks, and you'll see sysadmins volunteer their time to help out with more trivial problems when they have nothing else on their platter, but that's something of a rarity.
Do you know what sysadmins do? Are they just a better version of tech support so far as you are concerned? Consider a network admin -> to a user, they look like a very highly priced tech support guy; to anyone with any knowledge of tech, that doesn't even begin to describe what they do. They're management. They have purchase power, they plan future designs, they execute those implementations, etc. They report to the IT director, or the CIO, or the CEO. But to the average user, they're just a funny guy with eclectic tastes, who knows the ins and outs of the entire network, and is the guy they want to fix all their problems, personally. A funny guy, who's there at weird hours sometimes...who has access to every room....all emails, voicemails, etc....and which those who actually understand what his / her duties are, tend to avoid getting on their bad-side, even if their professionalism practically guarantees that they'd never do anything in retaliation. A funny guy who usually reports to the IT director, or to the CIO, or the CEO directly.
Seriously, after what's his face said they had a product for people who couldn't regularly access the internet...the XBox 360, I can only imagine the somewhere in Redmond, WA, a bespeckled Gates looked away from the monitor with some disdain, and then facepalmed harder than he had ever done before in his life.
If I were an investment manager, watching that particular commentary live, the first words out of my mouth, immediately after I managed to pick it up from the limo's floor, would be to 'sell that stock, sell it all, and short it until the kingdom comes!' I'd borrow from my friends to short that stock, and when they ran out of stock to short, I'd go door to door looking for more.
There are simply some things that cannot be said when representing a multi-billion dollar software company unveiling its latest product, and he said a few of them. Frankly I'm amazed he's still alive, as I'd have had the guys in black shirts throw him into the back of a black minivan and driven across town as soon as the cameras turned the first time. I'd cop an excuse about him having recently taken some powerful blood pressure medications, and that the words spilling out of his mouth were in no way reflective of what MS thought or planned. I'd pay a group of security minded people to sit on him at a high-rise apartment, somewhere on the outskirts of town, until damage control could give me an estimate of just how much boot-licking and open bribery it would take to prevent the board from hanging me, let alone keeping everyone else on staff.
"We already have a product for them, the Xbox 360" -> No, no, no. When they ask you a hardball question like that, and you know that you don't have the answer, shut the f*ck up. Tell them the honest truth -> "I do not know, but I will look into it, and attempt to get back to you on that as soon as I can." Instead he goes for the smart ass answer "the XBox 360," which was as good as saying "the Navy will take whatever we damn well feel like giving them; yesterday's meet is good enough for the likes of them." Dumb, dumb, dumb, a thousand times dumb.
Ah, the cyberwar makes sense now. The government wants to pre-emptively remove anyone from the population who has the skillset to override the drones, and turn them back on their controllers. With no one alive to disable those things if the powers that be decide to...exercise their culling capacity...well, this makes sense now, doesn't it?
Welcome to reality. Some people believe that the best way to 'get through life' is by being at the top of things...you may not know how to do anything, but you know how to pull the cord that does something. Some people believe that the best way to 'get through life' is by being the best you can be at something, even if you are terri-bad at everything else. Some people believe that the best way to 'get through life' is by being the best you can be at several somethings, even if you are not the absolute best. And so on.
The problem with small business owners is that they, in this instance, are running on the basis of some dime-store logic, and not the full diamond. "You need to look to cut costs everywhere" which has a corollary in the form of "You need to understand your art / business / science well enough to know when you are cutting costs, and when you are screwing yourself long-term." Unfortunately, this is typically lost on small-business owners, since they think that in order to get ahead of the game, they need to rush people / everything, because "time is money"; what is actually happening here is a programmer is trying to explain to them why what they are thinking about doing is going to cost them tens to hundreds of thousands of dollars, but their attention span won't allow them to spend five minutes to save themselves that money. Being the head of a small-business somehow leads one to believe that you need to act like every bad CEO / president / actor on TV you've ever seen, which means asking for bullet points and never seeming interested in the details.
WordPress is fine if you are running a blog. It's fine if you have a dedicated programmer on staff, and you are running a company that sells t-shirts with funny slogans over the internet. It can't be hacked into a better product...it doesn't work like that. If you aren't selling t-shirts, consider something else. Everyone will offer their favorite flavor of the month CMS (which, in common parlance, can be seen as a website that lets you add most new products / adjust prices without needing to hassle a programmer); many of them suck, and popular does not mean good. Do some research, see how much it would cost for a mid-range developer (look at the high-end of the reported salaries...those sites tend to lie) to know what it will look like if your website needs to be pulled out of the fire (manually); hopefully that will never happen...you'll open up a decent relationship with a good firm, choose the right CMS, and never have to worry about Plan B. Plan B, in case you are unawares, is when that firm disappears for whatever reason, and leaves you with a website that you need updated, but no one else is familiar with, but you absolutely, positively need someone to fix it, because otherwise your business is sunk.
Well, the problem is some of the more intelligent crackers out there have been upping their game recently...they have, if memory serves me correctly, found ways of getting websites to arbitrarily become a part of botnets. That's right, it's no longer just a matter of your website's database being compromised, with your liability ending with a broadcasted message to everyone telling them to change their passwords / check their credit cards...now your website, or rather the host machine that the website is running on, can be hijacked into DDOS'ing the DHS's main servers, or something equally tasteful. If repeated phone calls from the bank telling you to fix your website's code was enough motivation, then possibly a heart to heart talk with Agent Bob and Agent Rob will. And I'm sure the part where you tell them that you hired the lowest bidder to build the site (or just used the built-in), use a Mac because you're super-bad with computers (but still have a blog, because of that advertising money, amiright?), and that you have no idea how to fix it, and thus can't be held accountable for whatever has happened, will go over well with them. It'll be a real knee-slapper, you'll be laughing, they'll be laughing, and the whole thing will be cleaned right up inside of a week.
In other news, the DoJ may have found a use for all those crackers they plan on catching -> early-release program, clean-slate, provided they fix WordPress and help hunt down the old installs. Should keep them busy for the next several eons...
Stupidity is evil, and a burden to everyone who is afflicted by it. How much cleaner the world might be, were it not for the insatiable miscommunications that divide us.
And years afterwards, it still remains in effect. Expanded, by some accounts, even though the far right has dwindled.
I heard something funny the other day...apparently Gitmo is still open. Granted, taking Air Force One down there, and escorting the prisoners out one by one would be considered a strong statement...perhaps too strong for some tastes...but the option was always on the table.
Oh, but of course...Congress didn't vote for any money to close it. Well, after letting those people out, I guess the soldiers could sit around and guard an empty prison. It would look kind of silly, as would the bill for more money to continue funding it the next year, but then, sillier things have been seen.
Now, there's the small issue of trials and so on. Wonder if anyone can brainstorm around / about that.
Well, it's obvious that these women are feeling put on by the pressure of the public eye, and wish to recant their testimony. Thus the State must throw itself upon the altar, and sacrifice itself to ensure that these women see justice.
And it has absolutely nothing to do with what appears to be someone's else's hand up Sweden's ass, telling them how to walk and talk.
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Actually...lions aren't fans of many other species. Hyenas for example. Large enough numbers of hyenas can take down a lioness.
Just because you're at the top of the local food chain...or occupying one of the higher positions, doesn't mean you don't see a pair of fork and knives when you look down.
Depends if the choice is that simple. Lions have positive and negative connotations, as do lambs.
Ask the British. When a pair of lions were prowling outside their camps in Africa, dragging off people in the night, the lions became the number one most wanted species in the area. They may adorn many coats of arms as ferocious creatures...but you'll notice Europe is devoid of them. That's because Europeans wiped them out a long time ago.
Lambs on the other hand are seen as peaceful species, but also one that tends to get eaten a lot. It's a rarity to hear of a lion steak, it's not at all a rarity to hear of someone having lamb chops for dinner.
Obviously we need to introduce them to the South Korean Air Force, and send them a few thousand copies of StarCraft. That should keep them occupied for some time.
If they somehow manage to beat them, repeatedly, then we can introduce them to Wikipedia Wars, and let them try to take back Project Gundam from the Japanese Ministry of Agriculture.
More along the lines of the NSA / CIA have been antagonizing the hell out of other countries for the last decade through the internet (we're talking about going well above the spying stuff....we'll say they've done some stuff that is just plain mean), then, when the other countries figure out where the majority of these attacks are coming from (surprise), they run and tell the Pentagon ("OMFG, Armageddon is coming this way. No, we don't know why. But you might want to put together a cyber-army or something quick"), then report then need for a cyber-army to the Press, looking like fortune-tellers when the attacks seem to materialize out of thin air. Reminds me of a 7-year old that beats a hornet's nest with a stick, then comes running / screaming past you as a cloud appears on the horizon.
But we aren't China, we have Freedom of Speech and a much higher moral pedigree to hold ourselves up to, so what's up this that?
"Children are starving in Africa, so eat your lima beans." Non-sequitur "The Chinese government oppresses / censors its people. Be thankful the American government lets you talk as freely as it does."
The right hand doesn't always know what the left hand is doing. This works sometimes to the government's benefit, as uninformed members can truthfully say "I have no knowledge of us spying on foreign nations," giving that much needed air of confusion / doubt.
I doubt that, but we will be able to do away with the 2000% projected increase that comes with them deciding that 'we need a cyber-war.'
I'm favoring it as satire.
So...why does the NSA help build back-doors into our products? This makes them less secure, not more so.
No, this is not about good guy versus bad guy. It's about two people fighting to see who gets to be your master.
Indeed. He committed treason against those who, from many appearances, have committed treason (using the same definition).
The typical way to mitigate such threats is to not put it in control of all of our weapon and defense systems, and give it vague orders like 'purge the infidels.' Seriously, humanity can build silicon life any way it wants, billions and trillions of permutations and forms and functions....and what do we do with it? We put a gun on its head, lasers in its eyes, and tell it to go out there and kill the other humans we don't like. It's not the machines we need to be afraid of, it's ourselves; we're the ancient enemy that is always trying to annihilate itself.
I don't think anyone is worried about a 'thinking' war machine. They're worried about an unthinking one; one with just enough intelligence to track down and kill people, strategize and so on, but not enough to go 'hey, these orders were issued by a complete madman.'
Haha, wow. More laws than brains in this country.
Not so much. There are plenty of architectures that have gone the way of the Dodo since 2000, and you'll find writing C code for them very difficult.
But "think of the children" ! Oh, and obviously anyone using a search query like that is probably up to no good (probably looking for illicit drugs)...maybe Google should start profiling the people who search with these kinds of queries, and tip off law enforcement, so we can have a safer society and stuff. You know, just send a copy of that person's search history for the last month and GPS location to a nearby police station, and the police will have a look around the premises for anything incriminating. To help bootstrap the process, right? Because that's the society we live...one that's constantly looking for someone to thump, by any means.
Oh, to live on a different plane of existence where stupidity like this does not exist.
Oh God, the stupid burns!
The reason doctors prescribe antibiotics even if the person has a viral illness is because of secondary or opportunistic infections. You only have so many white blood cells at a given moment, and when they are diverted dealing with a viral invader, other, normally not problematic bacteria can advance causing damage.
Think of it being like oral thrush, and AIDS patients -> normally the stuff that causes thrush (a fungus) is held in check by your immune system...it's not a challenge, and your immune system swats it a hundred times a day. Your immune system becomes compromised through HIV, and suddenly thrush, a normally non-existent problem, is eating you from the inside out.
As for superbugs, etc. -> this has more to do with lack of cleanliness about hospitals, and less to do with antibiotics. Bacteria are exposed to ridiculously nasty antibiotics, of all shapes and forms, in their natural environment, all the time; pick up a soil sample, you'll find some superbugs in it that are resistant to every antibiotic we have in every hospital and lab on earth. What keeps them in check? Their own kind -> evolution isn't free. If the bacteria that is immune to every antibiotic in existence is armored like a tank, but has to invest 10 cycles of its metabolism creating that armor, compared to its neighbor which is armorless and invests no cycles, but just breeds...pretty soon there will be 10 armored bacteria and 30 trillion non-armored ones. The non-armored ones will probably be more mobile, and will be able to find food easier; the armored ones are only good in extreme settings...like next to the earth's vent...and definitely not inside a living host organism which has its own evolving defense system (!)...there are more stable places for a bacteria to be.
Hospitals, contrary to their images as clean places, are actually really, really dirty, and it takes a lot of medicine and technology to keep them clean. If it were possible, I'd install UV lamps through-out hospitals to zap any viruses or bacterial or fungal spores floating through the air...but that's an imperfect solution; those lamps can damage the retina, possibly the skin, and so on. But they do tend to destroy DNA pretty quickly.
Takes years of neglect and careful abandonment to make a BOFH. You have to be exposed to the worst of human behavior, on a daily basis, for years, with no possible outlet, and no compensation / consideration, before a BOFH is born. At some point, the human mind gets tired of playing defense, and goes on the offense. Voila, a BOFH is born. Granted, it does give rise to superior forms of character disorders, but then, when surrounded by people who themselves employ or adopt character disorders as offensive weapons...
Hardly -> sysadmins just realize that 99% of all user problems can be solved by the help-desk, and be done in a more pleasant manner than a sysadmin will do it. A sysadmin's speech and mannerisms are not laden with the fluff language that people consider being polite -> they have a lot of things to accomplish during the day, are perpetually running behind schedule, and tend to interact with people who understand that when a sysadmin says "Do this," there is a "Please" prefixed to it. We've tried it the other way, with people having constant contact with sysadmins, and people bitched incessantly that they weren't communicative enough (a sysadmin knows exactly what he / she is talking about, spending 30 minutes looking for an analogy to explain something to someone who thinks the monitor is the computer is really stressful) or that they weren't servicing them fast enough (sysadmin has a server go down, needs to get it back up; someone complains that the sysadmin wasn't working on their laptop during that time).
And yes, those sysadmins do run into problems with other departments. Surprise! When they need to call an equipment manufacturer to get some firmware only available by phone call, and need to sit through the various escalations and so on, they feel the pain. It really isn't them purposefully being dicks to you, it really is a limited resource / time thing. Why not stock the help desk with sysadmins, instead of low-level techs? Because it would cost too much.
Everyone wants access to the people who can solve their problems in a few snaps of a finger, or who can remove a lot of the 'unnecessary work' that they are going to encounter. But that means in a company of 200 people at least 20 people dropping by for a 10 minute chat per day. Companies / organizations, who actually pay the sysadmin's salary, want him / her working where they will do the most good for the company; everyone below VP or CEO gets the help desk, everyone above gets the sysadmin. It sucks, and you'll see sysadmins volunteer their time to help out with more trivial problems when they have nothing else on their platter, but that's something of a rarity.
Do you know what sysadmins do? Are they just a better version of tech support so far as you are concerned? Consider a network admin -> to a user, they look like a very highly priced tech support guy; to anyone with any knowledge of tech, that doesn't even begin to describe what they do. They're management. They have purchase power, they plan future designs, they execute those implementations, etc. They report to the IT director, or the CIO, or the CEO. But to the average user, they're just a funny guy with eclectic tastes, who knows the ins and outs of the entire network, and is the guy they want to fix all their problems, personally. A funny guy, who's there at weird hours sometimes...who has access to every room....all emails, voicemails, etc....and which those who actually understand what his / her duties are, tend to avoid getting on their bad-side, even if their professionalism practically guarantees that they'd never do anything in retaliation. A funny guy who usually reports to the IT director, or to the CIO, or the CEO directly.
Seriously, after what's his face said they had a product for people who couldn't regularly access the internet...the XBox 360, I can only imagine the somewhere in Redmond, WA, a bespeckled Gates looked away from the monitor with some disdain, and then facepalmed harder than he had ever done before in his life.
If I were an investment manager, watching that particular commentary live, the first words out of my mouth, immediately after I managed to pick it up from the limo's floor, would be to 'sell that stock, sell it all, and short it until the kingdom comes!' I'd borrow from my friends to short that stock, and when they ran out of stock to short, I'd go door to door looking for more.
There are simply some things that cannot be said when representing a multi-billion dollar software company unveiling its latest product, and he said a few of them. Frankly I'm amazed he's still alive, as I'd have had the guys in black shirts throw him into the back of a black minivan and driven across town as soon as the cameras turned the first time. I'd cop an excuse about him having recently taken some powerful blood pressure medications, and that the words spilling out of his mouth were in no way reflective of what MS thought or planned. I'd pay a group of security minded people to sit on him at a high-rise apartment, somewhere on the outskirts of town, until damage control could give me an estimate of just how much boot-licking and open bribery it would take to prevent the board from hanging me, let alone keeping everyone else on staff.
"We already have a product for them, the Xbox 360" -> No, no, no. When they ask you a hardball question like that, and you know that you don't have the answer, shut the f*ck up. Tell them the honest truth -> "I do not know, but I will look into it, and attempt to get back to you on that as soon as I can." Instead he goes for the smart ass answer "the XBox 360," which was as good as saying "the Navy will take whatever we damn well feel like giving them; yesterday's meet is good enough for the likes of them." Dumb, dumb, dumb, a thousand times dumb.
Ah, the cyberwar makes sense now. The government wants to pre-emptively remove anyone from the population who has the skillset to override the drones, and turn them back on their controllers. With no one alive to disable those things if the powers that be decide to...exercise their culling capacity...well, this makes sense now, doesn't it?
Welcome to reality. Some people believe that the best way to 'get through life' is by being at the top of things...you may not know how to do anything, but you know how to pull the cord that does something. Some people believe that the best way to 'get through life' is by being the best you can be at something, even if you are terri-bad at everything else. Some people believe that the best way to 'get through life' is by being the best you can be at several somethings, even if you are not the absolute best. And so on.
The problem with small business owners is that they, in this instance, are running on the basis of some dime-store logic, and not the full diamond. "You need to look to cut costs everywhere" which has a corollary in the form of "You need to understand your art / business / science well enough to know when you are cutting costs, and when you are screwing yourself long-term." Unfortunately, this is typically lost on small-business owners, since they think that in order to get ahead of the game, they need to rush people / everything, because "time is money"; what is actually happening here is a programmer is trying to explain to them why what they are thinking about doing is going to cost them tens to hundreds of thousands of dollars, but their attention span won't allow them to spend five minutes to save themselves that money. Being the head of a small-business somehow leads one to believe that you need to act like every bad CEO / president / actor on TV you've ever seen, which means asking for bullet points and never seeming interested in the details.
WordPress is fine if you are running a blog. It's fine if you have a dedicated programmer on staff, and you are running a company that sells t-shirts with funny slogans over the internet. It can't be hacked into a better product...it doesn't work like that. If you aren't selling t-shirts, consider something else. Everyone will offer their favorite flavor of the month CMS (which, in common parlance, can be seen as a website that lets you add most new products / adjust prices without needing to hassle a programmer); many of them suck, and popular does not mean good. Do some research, see how much it would cost for a mid-range developer (look at the high-end of the reported salaries...those sites tend to lie) to know what it will look like if your website needs to be pulled out of the fire (manually); hopefully that will never happen...you'll open up a decent relationship with a good firm, choose the right CMS, and never have to worry about Plan B. Plan B, in case you are unawares, is when that firm disappears for whatever reason, and leaves you with a website that you need updated, but no one else is familiar with, but you absolutely, positively need someone to fix it, because otherwise your business is sunk.
Well, the problem is some of the more intelligent crackers out there have been upping their game recently...they have, if memory serves me correctly, found ways of getting websites to arbitrarily become a part of botnets. That's right, it's no longer just a matter of your website's database being compromised, with your liability ending with a broadcasted message to everyone telling them to change their passwords / check their credit cards...now your website, or rather the host machine that the website is running on, can be hijacked into DDOS'ing the DHS's main servers, or something equally tasteful. If repeated phone calls from the bank telling you to fix your website's code was enough motivation, then possibly a heart to heart talk with Agent Bob and Agent Rob will. And I'm sure the part where you tell them that you hired the lowest bidder to build the site (or just used the built-in), use a Mac because you're super-bad with computers (but still have a blog, because of that advertising money, amiright?), and that you have no idea how to fix it, and thus can't be held accountable for whatever has happened, will go over well with them. It'll be a real knee-slapper, you'll be laughing, they'll be laughing, and the whole thing will be cleaned right up inside of a week.
In other news, the DoJ may have found a use for all those crackers they plan on catching -> early-release program, clean-slate, provided they fix WordPress and help hunt down the old installs. Should keep them busy for the next several eons...
Stupidity is evil, and a burden to everyone who is afflicted by it. How much cleaner the world might be, were it not for the insatiable miscommunications that divide us.
And years afterwards, it still remains in effect. Expanded, by some accounts, even though the far right has dwindled.
I heard something funny the other day...apparently Gitmo is still open. Granted, taking Air Force One down there, and escorting the prisoners out one by one would be considered a strong statement...perhaps too strong for some tastes...but the option was always on the table.
Oh, but of course...Congress didn't vote for any money to close it. Well, after letting those people out, I guess the soldiers could sit around and guard an empty prison. It would look kind of silly, as would the bill for more money to continue funding it the next year, but then, sillier things have been seen.
Now, there's the small issue of trials and so on. Wonder if anyone can brainstorm around / about that.
Well, it's obvious that these women are feeling put on by the pressure of the public eye, and wish to recant their testimony. Thus the State must throw itself upon the altar, and sacrifice itself to ensure that these women see justice.
And it has absolutely nothing to do with what appears to be someone's else's hand up Sweden's ass, telling them how to walk and talk.