It's not "a few dollars", it's a pretty huge amount of money when you look at all the money ashleymadison bilked from its customers. The government happily pursues cases of fraud in the tens or hundreds of thousands of dollars, why wouldn't they pursue one that's well into the tens of millions or more?
Besides, criminal cases are frequently pursued by prosecutors because it looks good for them, it's a feather in their cap. Ashleymadison isn't exactly liked right now (between the anti-cheating people and the customers who were duped with false profiles), so a prosecutor pursuing this would get his name in the news and be well-liked, and could launch a political career with it.
Most fast-food workers and other low-level workers probably do hate their jobs, and for good reason. They're called "work" for a reason.
But we're supposed to be highly skilled professionals here. Do most doctors hate their jobs? I sure hope not, or else we'd have all kinds of problems in the healthcare industry (and I don't mean the insurance/payment side of things). Can you imagine a surgeon hating his job? That's a recipe for disaster.
So no, I'm sorry, I don't buy this "everyone hates their job" tripe. For shit work, sure, but not for highly-skilled work. I think that's mostly unique to tech workers.
I interviewed at a place that had some of that, like an air-hockey table. I didn't see anyone using it. Maybe it got some use over lunch break, but stuff like that seems like a waste because if you use it, then you're obviously not working, and that isn't going to look good if you use it too much. You could use it after work in your off-hours, but who wants to spend their spare after-work time at work? By then you're ready to get home and eat something.
I agree, I just don't see it happening. Getting the ISVs on board with that (especially shitty but large and entrenched companies like Adobe), and MS actually doing it for free instead of taking a big cut like Apple does, just isn't realistic I think. MS sees all the money Apple is making with their App Store and greedily wants to do the same, but like a typical cargo cult can't understand that they're just not in a position to replicate what Apple did.
Good luck with that. First, many reviews are anonymous, and even if they aren't, how exactly do you prove that they're falsehoods?
"The food tasted lousy" is a subjective claim. That isn't libel. It doesn't matter how great your food is, someone can claim it tastes lousy to them, and that's Constitutionally-protected speech.
Almost any online complaint is going to be a he-said-she-said situation. Libel laws don't help with those.
Think of all the good, normal, upstanding stuff you do every day, and of course nobody notices and splashes "PopeRatzo is a great guy!" all over the internet. But you don't think and screw up one time and you could find yourself destroyed online. There are no 1000 good stories about PopeRatzo to drown out the one about the time you passed out drunk and shit yourself in a Wendy's. Reputation management is good for such cases.
Actually, this isn't quite true. That guy who dressed up as Batman and visited kids with cancer got his story put all over the news. Of course, he was hit by a car while stopped on the road and tragically killed, which is why he was in the news....
So yeah, if you want to be in the news for good deeds, just go do a bunch of really good stuff (and get no public recognition for it), then get yourself tragically killed somehow, then you'll be in the news. You won't be around to read it though.:-(
The problem is, that doesn't work. Very few people are motivated to spend the time writing a positive review (unless maybe they're paid for it). But angry people are quick to post negative reviews. I'm not defending false reviews, mind you, I'm just pointing out how "reputation management" (in the most vague sense) can be seen as necessary. I don't really have a good quick-and-easy solution for restaurants with a few angry customers. Most of the time though, what works for me as a customer is to look at how many negative reviews a place has, and read the reviews to see if they're highly specific and seem legit, or if they sound like insane ramblings by some obnoxious self-important asshole who's mad the server didn't wait on them hand and foot and ignore the other patrons. If there's too many negative reviews that look totally legitimate and not nit-picky BS, then I eat elsewhere, but I keep in mind that even the best restaurant is going to make a mistake from time to time so you can't expect 100% positive reviews.
Also, it's unfortunately common for many small businesses to write shill reviews for themselves, so I keep that in mind too.
BTW, I did a little googling, and everything I found indicates that eHarmony is almost explicitly Christian; their site even refers to their Christian principles in places, and this leads some to criticize them for not clearly indicating that they're really only a site for Christians wanting to date, and are not open to everyone (which makes sense, they're liars who want other people to pay $$$ to join and then go away when it doesn't work out for them).
They don't even allow people who are separated to join.
And what would your USB-drive private key solution solve?
You're completely missing the point. The problem isn't "hackers" remotely logging into routers and doing nefarious things; what they want to prevent is YOU modifying your own router.
No, they're requiring the manufacturers to put secure bootloaders on their devices, so you can't load your DD-WRT firmware unless it's been cryptographically signed, which you can't do because you don't have the correct private key to do so.
This doesn't mean it'll be impossible to load an alternative firmware, but it'll make it orders of magnitude more difficult (and likely require using a JTAG debugger to do so).
The software logic can be modified via firmware. But the RF side of things must be baked in as I understand it.
No, it's not. Alternative firmwares frequently allow modifying both the transmit power and the channels, which can easily make your device operate illegally. The channels, for instance, are different in, say, the US and Japan; some channels that are legal to use in Japan are illegal in the US. With mfgr firmware, this isn't a problem because they lock that stuff out in the ones they ship to the US, but open-source stuff doesn't do that (and can't, since you can modify it yourself since you have the source code).
It won't be "Chinese food" if that's what you're thinking, it'll be actual Chinese food. The stuff they make for us Westerners isn't real Chinese food (and too bad too, the westernized stuff is great). Most westerners wouldn't care much for most authentic Chinese food.
Not quite. In Firefly, both the Chinese faction and the American faction were strong in space exploration, so the two languages spoken in the new society after the migration were English and Chinese.
In real life, what's going to happen is the Chinese will be the only ones strong in space exploration, while the Americans and their buddies sit around and bitch about how it's a waste of money and how the Moon landings never happened, and when it becomes clear the Earth-of-old is about to die (whether it's climate change or asteroid impact or whatever), the Chinese alone will create generation ships and seek out a new star system, while the rest of us perish as the planet becomes uninhabitable. So the society you saw in Firefly won't ever happen; it'll just be a Chinese-descended society in the new star system. It'll probably strongly resemble the Alliance, but without an actual "alliance" (it's just one power, no alliance necessary), and without any rebels.
To change it, they could introduce a full featured package manager (e.g. like Linux uses) which would make it easier for people to install from official repositories than to go elsewhere
That won't work. They would have to convince all the ISVs to switch to that, and they're not doing it. They're already trying to push something like this now, and the ISVs aren't interested because they don't want to pay MS for the privilege of being part of their app store, they like the current model just fine.
Everything I've read about it indicates that it's mainly popular among social conservatives, partially because of the way their matching algorithm works and the assumptions it makes; is that not true? For instance, homosexuals are completely barred from using the site IIRC, as is anyone in an open relationship.
As for OKCupid, most of the women I see on there are also looking for a serious relationship (this isn't so true on Tinder, of course). But the ratio sucks.
You're missing the point that the Turkish military are (comparatively) liberal, which is not the case with Egypt, Syria or Iraq.
Yes, it is. The Egyptian military is not more conservative than the Muslim Brotherhood; that's why they deposed them. Same with the other places: the autocratic regimes were more liberal (i.e., secular instead of Islamist) than their populations and the groups now vying for power there.
The problem with it is with any controversial topic, you're not going to get agreement, and contributors will constantly try to change the article to favor their bias. How do you deal with that?
So if you want to read about the Pythagorean Theorem or African Elephants, there's likely great articles about that. If you want to read about the Moon landings, there's probably a great article about that too, and the few cranks who think it was faked are easily overruled by the editors who keep an eye out for some moron screwing up an article and adding BS. But if it's an article about Obama, forget it. With the political polarization we have now, there's no way to have an unbiased article about him; they'd need to lock it down so that no changes can be published unless approved by an unelected cabal.
Well, think of this example: you run a nice little restaurant in town. Along comes Yelp and Google reviews, so people can post reviews of your restaurant online. Some customers are just assholes, and you happen to get one who is completely unreasonable, says racist stuff to one of your staff, whatever. Anyway they go away angry and write a nasty and completely false review of your restaurant on Yelp.
Since bad reviews hurt business, even if the reviewer is a liar or exaggerating the facts, there's nothing wrong with you responding to this review in some way. Doing so qualifies as "reputation management", whether you do it yourself, or you have a paid "reputation manager" do it for you (who could be a 3rd-party firm, or your niece).
Yes, I amend my statement. Either ship with wireless disabled but then provide a CD that will set everything up for the user in a secure fashion
A CD??? What is someone who only has iPads and iPhones supposed to do with a CD? Or what about someone whose laptop doesn't have an optical drive (which is a lot of them these days)?
Next, you're going to suggest they ship with a floppy disk.
This is an American site, and most of the users are American. America is also the most powerful country in the world still. It shouldn't be a surprise that someone brings up America as a comparison.
In reality, their liberal MILITARY (mark that one in your record books, folks) was the crux.. but.. now they're gone.
They weren't unique that way. Egypt had the same thing going on; remember the Muslim Brotherhood won in popular elections after the Arab Spring revolution, and it was their military that had to step in and take over. Pakistan had something similar, years ago, with Musharraf and his military running the country to keep the government from being run by Islamists. Same thing with Iraq, sorta: they had Saddam running the place, with a strong military, and he more-or-less kept the peace between all the warring factions within. Same with Syria under Assad; before civil war, he kept the peace, but now different warring groups of Islamists want to take over or separate. Countries like that can't be run democratically; they need dictators or military cabals, otherwise they start resembling ISIS-land.
Most Republicans and Democrats are not extremists or idiots.
Spending a little time around either one will cure you of that thought. And yes, that means that the majority of the American population is either an extremist or an idiot, or both. There's been plenty of studies about how ridiculously polarized Americans are these days; this isn't an unfounded claim.
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It's not "a few dollars", it's a pretty huge amount of money when you look at all the money ashleymadison bilked from its customers. The government happily pursues cases of fraud in the tens or hundreds of thousands of dollars, why wouldn't they pursue one that's well into the tens of millions or more?
Besides, criminal cases are frequently pursued by prosecutors because it looks good for them, it's a feather in their cap. Ashleymadison isn't exactly liked right now (between the anti-cheating people and the customers who were duped with false profiles), so a prosecutor pursuing this would get his name in the news and be well-liked, and could launch a political career with it.
Most fast-food workers and other low-level workers probably do hate their jobs, and for good reason. They're called "work" for a reason.
But we're supposed to be highly skilled professionals here. Do most doctors hate their jobs? I sure hope not, or else we'd have all kinds of problems in the healthcare industry (and I don't mean the insurance/payment side of things). Can you imagine a surgeon hating his job? That's a recipe for disaster.
So no, I'm sorry, I don't buy this "everyone hates their job" tripe. For shit work, sure, but not for highly-skilled work. I think that's mostly unique to tech workers.
I interviewed at a place that had some of that, like an air-hockey table. I didn't see anyone using it. Maybe it got some use over lunch break, but stuff like that seems like a waste because if you use it, then you're obviously not working, and that isn't going to look good if you use it too much. You could use it after work in your off-hours, but who wants to spend their spare after-work time at work? By then you're ready to get home and eat something.
I agree, I just don't see it happening. Getting the ISVs on board with that (especially shitty but large and entrenched companies like Adobe), and MS actually doing it for free instead of taking a big cut like Apple does, just isn't realistic I think. MS sees all the money Apple is making with their App Store and greedily wants to do the same, but like a typical cargo cult can't understand that they're just not in a position to replicate what Apple did.
Thank you, I couldn't have said it better myself.
Good luck with that. First, many reviews are anonymous, and even if they aren't, how exactly do you prove that they're falsehoods?
"The food tasted lousy" is a subjective claim. That isn't libel. It doesn't matter how great your food is, someone can claim it tastes lousy to them, and that's Constitutionally-protected speech.
Almost any online complaint is going to be a he-said-she-said situation. Libel laws don't help with those.
Think of all the good, normal, upstanding stuff you do every day, and of course nobody notices and splashes "PopeRatzo is a great guy!" all over the internet. But you don't think and screw up one time and you could find yourself destroyed online. There are no 1000 good stories about PopeRatzo to drown out the one about the time you passed out drunk and shit yourself in a Wendy's. Reputation management is good for such cases.
Actually, this isn't quite true. That guy who dressed up as Batman and visited kids with cancer got his story put all over the news. Of course, he was hit by a car while stopped on the road and tragically killed, which is why he was in the news....
So yeah, if you want to be in the news for good deeds, just go do a bunch of really good stuff (and get no public recognition for it), then get yourself tragically killed somehow, then you'll be in the news. You won't be around to read it though. :-(
The problem is, that doesn't work. Very few people are motivated to spend the time writing a positive review (unless maybe they're paid for it). But angry people are quick to post negative reviews. I'm not defending false reviews, mind you, I'm just pointing out how "reputation management" (in the most vague sense) can be seen as necessary. I don't really have a good quick-and-easy solution for restaurants with a few angry customers. Most of the time though, what works for me as a customer is to look at how many negative reviews a place has, and read the reviews to see if they're highly specific and seem legit, or if they sound like insane ramblings by some obnoxious self-important asshole who's mad the server didn't wait on them hand and foot and ignore the other patrons. If there's too many negative reviews that look totally legitimate and not nit-picky BS, then I eat elsewhere, but I keep in mind that even the best restaurant is going to make a mistake from time to time so you can't expect 100% positive reviews.
Also, it's unfortunately common for many small businesses to write shill reviews for themselves, so I keep that in mind too.
BTW, I did a little googling, and everything I found indicates that eHarmony is almost explicitly Christian; their site even refers to their Christian principles in places, and this leads some to criticize them for not clearly indicating that they're really only a site for Christians wanting to date, and are not open to everyone (which makes sense, they're liars who want other people to pay $$$ to join and then go away when it doesn't work out for them).
They don't even allow people who are separated to join.
And what would your USB-drive private key solution solve?
You're completely missing the point. The problem isn't "hackers" remotely logging into routers and doing nefarious things; what they want to prevent is YOU modifying your own router.
No, they're requiring the manufacturers to put secure bootloaders on their devices, so you can't load your DD-WRT firmware unless it's been cryptographically signed, which you can't do because you don't have the correct private key to do so.
This doesn't mean it'll be impossible to load an alternative firmware, but it'll make it orders of magnitude more difficult (and likely require using a JTAG debugger to do so).
The software logic can be modified via firmware. But the RF side of things must be baked in as I understand it.
No, it's not. Alternative firmwares frequently allow modifying both the transmit power and the channels, which can easily make your device operate illegally. The channels, for instance, are different in, say, the US and Japan; some channels that are legal to use in Japan are illegal in the US. With mfgr firmware, this isn't a problem because they lock that stuff out in the ones they ship to the US, but open-source stuff doesn't do that (and can't, since you can modify it yourself since you have the source code).
It won't be "Chinese food" if that's what you're thinking, it'll be actual Chinese food. The stuff they make for us Westerners isn't real Chinese food (and too bad too, the westernized stuff is great). Most westerners wouldn't care much for most authentic Chinese food.
Not quite. In Firefly, both the Chinese faction and the American faction were strong in space exploration, so the two languages spoken in the new society after the migration were English and Chinese.
In real life, what's going to happen is the Chinese will be the only ones strong in space exploration, while the Americans and their buddies sit around and bitch about how it's a waste of money and how the Moon landings never happened, and when it becomes clear the Earth-of-old is about to die (whether it's climate change or asteroid impact or whatever), the Chinese alone will create generation ships and seek out a new star system, while the rest of us perish as the planet becomes uninhabitable. So the society you saw in Firefly won't ever happen; it'll just be a Chinese-descended society in the new star system. It'll probably strongly resemble the Alliance, but without an actual "alliance" (it's just one power, no alliance necessary), and without any rebels.
To change it, they could introduce a full featured package manager (e.g. like Linux uses) which would make it easier for people to install from official repositories than to go elsewhere
That won't work. They would have to convince all the ISVs to switch to that, and they're not doing it. They're already trying to push something like this now, and the ISVs aren't interested because they don't want to pay MS for the privilege of being part of their app store, they like the current model just fine.
Everything I've read about it indicates that it's mainly popular among social conservatives, partially because of the way their matching algorithm works and the assumptions it makes; is that not true? For instance, homosexuals are completely barred from using the site IIRC, as is anyone in an open relationship.
As for OKCupid, most of the women I see on there are also looking for a serious relationship (this isn't so true on Tinder, of course). But the ratio sucks.
You're missing the point that the Turkish military are (comparatively) liberal, which is not the case with Egypt, Syria or Iraq.
Yes, it is. The Egyptian military is not more conservative than the Muslim Brotherhood; that's why they deposed them. Same with the other places: the autocratic regimes were more liberal (i.e., secular instead of Islamist) than their populations and the groups now vying for power there.
The problem with it is with any controversial topic, you're not going to get agreement, and contributors will constantly try to change the article to favor their bias. How do you deal with that?
So if you want to read about the Pythagorean Theorem or African Elephants, there's likely great articles about that. If you want to read about the Moon landings, there's probably a great article about that too, and the few cranks who think it was faked are easily overruled by the editors who keep an eye out for some moron screwing up an article and adding BS. But if it's an article about Obama, forget it. With the political polarization we have now, there's no way to have an unbiased article about him; they'd need to lock it down so that no changes can be published unless approved by an unelected cabal.
Well, think of this example: you run a nice little restaurant in town. Along comes Yelp and Google reviews, so people can post reviews of your restaurant online. Some customers are just assholes, and you happen to get one who is completely unreasonable, says racist stuff to one of your staff, whatever. Anyway they go away angry and write a nasty and completely false review of your restaurant on Yelp.
Since bad reviews hurt business, even if the reviewer is a liar or exaggerating the facts, there's nothing wrong with you responding to this review in some way. Doing so qualifies as "reputation management", whether you do it yourself, or you have a paid "reputation manager" do it for you (who could be a 3rd-party firm, or your niece).
Yes, I amend my statement. Either ship with wireless disabled but then provide a CD that will set everything up for the user in a secure fashion
A CD??? What is someone who only has iPads and iPhones supposed to do with a CD? Or what about someone whose laptop doesn't have an optical drive (which is a lot of them these days)?
Next, you're going to suggest they ship with a floppy disk.
This is an American site, and most of the users are American. America is also the most powerful country in the world still. It shouldn't be a surprise that someone brings up America as a comparison.
Turkey really isn't near the North Atlantic
It's a lot closer to the North Atlantic than it is to the South Atlantic (which is the Atlantic Ocean south of the Equator).
In reality, their liberal MILITARY (mark that one in your record books, folks) was the crux.. but.. now they're gone.
They weren't unique that way. Egypt had the same thing going on; remember the Muslim Brotherhood won in popular elections after the Arab Spring revolution, and it was their military that had to step in and take over. Pakistan had something similar, years ago, with Musharraf and his military running the country to keep the government from being run by Islamists. Same thing with Iraq, sorta: they had Saddam running the place, with a strong military, and he more-or-less kept the peace between all the warring factions within. Same with Syria under Assad; before civil war, he kept the peace, but now different warring groups of Islamists want to take over or separate. Countries like that can't be run democratically; they need dictators or military cabals, otherwise they start resembling ISIS-land.
Most Republicans and Democrats are not extremists or idiots.
Spending a little time around either one will cure you of that thought. And yes, that means that the majority of the American population is either an extremist or an idiot, or both. There's been plenty of studies about how ridiculously polarized Americans are these days; this isn't an unfounded claim.
Police can arrest whoever they want to. What are the judges and parliament going to do about it? The police are the ones who have guns.