Now, if you get your hands at the detail reports, the audit result may actually tell you something, at least if the auditors are good. But the certifications pretty much only ensure minimal standards low enough to be meaningless.
The first thing you'll probably discover is that 'Certificate' isn't spelled with an 'S', like all these acronyms are starting with.:-\
It's not like MegaUpload was some kind of charity... CEO seemed to be making money hand-over-fist. Just another side of the Machine, from my perspective.
That's because when such sites are few in numbers, any one of them will have a lot of users. The more of these will appear, the less revenues any one of them will get.
The barrier to getting into that kind of business is pretty low. Interesting the little play on creating a corporate veil, holding company, to shield the owner. I figure the feds puncture that one in record time.
Yes, but the line he quoted was from one Adams' books. Not 100% sure off the top of my head, but I think it was the third one.
From So Long And Thanks For All The Fish.
I remember the phrase because it has such a true feel to it - probably because I've either been that man or heard that thunder at various times in my life.
Do not stand for this flagrant abuse of our farcical democracy!
If it's farcical, then surely abuse of it isn't a big deal? Kind of like making fun of a clown.
It's not like MegaUpload was some kind of charity... CEO seemed to be making money hand-over-fist. Just another side of the Machine, from my perspective.
You're welcome:) (although I'm not in Thailand, but in cold and dark Scandinavia)
Ah, yes. But you didn't catch all my punctuation errors, which will be detected and forward to the next time zone - all part of the 24 hour continuous global project that is now an industry for/. posting! (c:
With friends like that for the cause of freedom of the internet, who needs enemies? I have to think that they just -increased- the odds of draconian legislation being passed to help contain outbreaks just like this.
Reminds me of a line from a Douglas Adams book, referencing the distant rumble of a passed storm - leaving the impression of a man muttering "and another thing", who lost an argument 20 minutes ago. Yeah, this is a pretty poor grumble, nothing to match the heroics of Wikipedia, Wired, Google, et all who took on SOPA/PIPA in a constructive manner.
I'm certain the feds can back-track the traffic and find more ip addresses to servers which were compromised and home addresses which controlled them. The net isn't as loose as it once was and the more this activity happens the more tools the feds will build to track and back-track.
They shouldn't be here in the first place if they're taking slots that belong to our own citizens.
I'm not from the US, so I don't really know, but I always understood that a "slot" at a university in the US is reserved for the person that pays. If the citizens can't pay it, than the universities will just fill these slots by foreigners who can, no?
No sense in not training our own versus helping the enemy.
In light of what I said above, you might want to consider Ferengi aquisition rule N 177: "Know your enemies... but do business with them always."
Universities, as far back as I can remember, have been thrilled to take on best qualified entrants, no matter where they come from. They do pay for the honor, however, often as much as three times the tuition of an in-state resident. If you don't like it, bother your public university Trustees about limiting availibility or raising the Out of State/Out of Country tuition rates to your satisfaction.
That said, the US has benefited tremendously from foreign-born university graduates, who have started companies who employ american citizens and enrich investors.
Perhaps there'd be less xenophobia if American youth didn't feel being "cool" and "fitting in with the crowd" was more important than cracking a book open on the weekend. How often in a Monday class have I heard people in the back row parroting what was said on some show, or in some film, or how the 49ers did, rather than how they think they have the material for the class well covered.
Most American parents can't or can hardly afford to send their children to University anymore.
The educated ones can find a way.. there's such a thing as putting the money away for the pending college education, rather than buying an SUV, eating half your meals out and having a big screen TV, it's called Forward Planning.
Something else... send kids to the local Community College for the first two years then they can complete their studies at a State University in two more years. Amazing how many people overlook this option in favor of $150/credit and sitting in a lecture theatre of 600 other students, when you could be sitting in a CC classroom, for less $$ and have a ratio closer to 30 students to 1 teacher. Just make sure all credits taken are transferable into the targetted university.
China and India have had massive, massive pushes to educate engineers, medical workers, technology workers, etc. The shift is the pay off.
A couple decades ago my brother, an engineer with Dow Chemical related the project he was managing - an project would be begun in North America, passed to a team in Japan or Oceana, then passed to India, before passing along to Europe and back to North America - each location meeting its objectives as part of the project. That was two decades back. So you can see there are people capable of engineering, research, medical discoveries and such in abundance by now. No doubt someone in Thailand is waking up about now and will correct any spelling errors I have made in this post.
If you get really good at the game, they give you a real spaceship to pilot!
Indeed and you don't even know about it!
This isn't the first time they've tried this Crowdsourcing thing - there's currently a Abrams tank at the bottom of the middle of the Atlantic, with a great hole blown in its side, which was supposed to be run around Fort Hunter Liggett, in California, based upon use patterns, moderation and metamoderation on/. Which should tell you something... it'll all end in tears (and give several lucky tube worms a new home.)
Before anyone gets voted up to the stratosphere or down to oblivion here, we should remind ourselves that there is no way to tell how legitimately or illegitimately he made his money until a breakdown of his income is published.
And we'll probably be a lot older and following other stories by the time that comes out...
In today's news, aliens land in Los Angeles ans proclaim L. Ron Hubbard totally slanders them in his Church of Scientology writings and they plan to sue. Tom Cruise was unavailable for comment as he was squashed flat by the alien ship landing.
How is it that you allow young people, let alone whole families, to be homeless, to live in "shelters".
WTF is wrong with you people?!
You are supposedly the most powerful nation on earth, the wealthiest, the nation that is spoken to exude opportunity and success from every pore.
And you have whole families, school children, living in homeless shelters.
I don't care how they came to be in the situation, it doesn't matter how that happened, what matters is resolving it, providing the social, housing, and financial support to ensure that every body can call somewhere home.
For every one remarkable individual like this who manages to overcome the adversity, I hate to think how many are dragged down by the circumstance.
There are those who are homeless in America by choice (live in one of the larger cities in California and you'll know what I mean), many of them prefer the freedom to ru(i)n their own lives for substances or alcohol. I'll give them food, but no money.
There are those who are homeless due to misfortune - lost of job, breadwinner in family, foreclosure of house loan, etc. These people are not at the bottom of the barrel, but without some form of assistance they could be there. There are shelters and federal and state programs to help them - often those still living in their cars are due to some failure to abide rules or restrictions of shelters. Where I work we track about 1,000 of these families. It's not a small issue, but those people, like this student have a good chance of getting back into a place they can call their own when the economy bounces back.
Well done of her to rise up and be counted. Amazingly, despite everything thrown at her by people who would go so far as to condemn her for the social and financial position of her family, she's using it as self-motivation. Has to be cruel to be homeless and one of the National School Lunch Program kids in a world where many children go out of their way (starving effectively) to hide the shame of their family's misfortune.
Any candidates for public office feel like giving her parents some employment or shall we go the usual route, use her as an example the American Dream isn't dead, yet, and then abandon them for the next popular thing on the campaign trail?
Too familiar with this these days as I code replacements for crappy apps. What I'd really like to know is if people actually think about their interfaces, rather than patching them together as they go along.
You clearly don't work at any company which is trying to get anywhere. Lucky you.
I have worked for people who don't only expect the worker to work extra hours for no additional compensation, but expect it. It's how management can pat itself on the back for meeting goals (their goals, not yours.)
While mental health is affected by having time off to rest and rejuvenate, it can also give you some break from the stresses of getting things done to consider better ways to do it. Not all employers value this, many who are frequently mentioned in/. articles are near slave drivers - which is OK with some young employees as this gets them their first experience and paycheck - while they don't recognize the value of their own time or are eager to sacrifice now. The problem is, where do you go when you leave, if you've only been one more ant?
I have a few friends who have left high pressure work to spend more time with families - they are very happy and don't miss being threatened over their bread and butter with termination for not working 16 hour days.
I started going to CES when Comdex stopped happening, but I haven't gone in years. No travel budget.
About the same here. The worst was seeing stuff which was actually years from hitting the market -- which kinda dulls your enthusiasm a bit. On the other hand, I did manage to hear Bill Gates speak, which was more like some idiot-savant babble which appeared to threaten half the businesses at the show, with some sort of "and Microsoft will control it or be a part of..." gee-whizzy thing. Honestly, I don't think they had a clue why they were there, aside being invited - Microsoft failed at so many CE applications. Now they're a bit patent-troll parasite on Android.
Best of all, though was going over to a hotel and seeing all the great High-End Hi-Fi stuff. Awesome systems, which showed how utter rubbish anything you could get at Best Buy was. Bought a lot of great stuff there as it was part CES and part sale/order taking.
Biggest disappointment: Cost of food in the casinos - gone are the days of Losing Gambler subsidized All Yew Can Eat.
You haven't entered the market until the phones are available at retail. I would like to see this, but it hasn't happened yet and the announcement is premature.
I would like to see these phones on sale in the US. It would probably be my next phone, as I'm due for one in the fall.
As far as I'm concerned, it's like announcing yet another car which runs on gas.
Processors.. woop de doo. Better operating systems / apps are more important (plus compatibility to standards)
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Now, if you get your hands at the detail reports, the audit result may actually tell you something, at least if the auditors are good. But the certifications pretty much only ensure minimal standards low enough to be meaningless.
The first thing you'll probably discover is that 'Certificate' isn't spelled with an 'S', like all these acronyms are starting with. :-\
It's not like MegaUpload was some kind of charity ... CEO seemed to be making money hand-over-fist. Just another side of the Machine, from my perspective.
That's because when such sites are few in numbers, any one of them will have a lot of users. The more of these will appear, the less revenues any one of them will get.
The barrier to getting into that kind of business is pretty low. Interesting the little play on creating a corporate veil, holding company, to shield the owner. I figure the feds puncture that one in record time.
Yes, but the line he quoted was from one Adams' books. Not 100% sure off the top of my head, but I think it was the third one.
From So Long And Thanks For All The Fish.
I remember the phrase because it has such a true feel to it - probably because I've either been that man or heard that thunder at various times in my life.
Do not stand for this flagrant abuse of our farcical democracy!
If it's farcical, then surely abuse of it isn't a big deal? Kind of like making fun of a clown.
It's not like MegaUpload was some kind of charity ... CEO seemed to be making money hand-over-fist. Just another side of the Machine, from my perspective.
So... the Cyber Police back-traced it?
Man, the consequences will never be the same again!
The opportunity to do these things is in limited supply. Each iteration of attacks exposes more of the means and the perpetrators.
Utterly juvenile reaction. "Hey, lookit me! I can take down ur websites! LOL! Take that, teh man!"
he was managing - an project would be
a project
You're welcome :) (although I'm not in Thailand, but in cold and dark Scandinavia)
Ah, yes. But you didn't catch all my punctuation errors, which will be detected and forward to the next time zone - all part of the 24 hour continuous global project that is now an industry for /. posting! (c:
With friends like that for the cause of freedom of the internet, who needs enemies? I have to think that they just -increased- the odds of draconian legislation being passed to help contain outbreaks just like this.
Reminds me of a line from a Douglas Adams book, referencing the distant rumble of a passed storm - leaving the impression of a man muttering "and another thing", who lost an argument 20 minutes ago. Yeah, this is a pretty poor grumble, nothing to match the heroics of Wikipedia, Wired, Google, et all who took on SOPA/PIPA in a constructive manner.
I'm certain the feds can back-track the traffic and find more ip addresses to servers which were compromised and home addresses which controlled them. The net isn't as loose as it once was and the more this activity happens the more tools the feds will build to track and back-track.
Short term victory, that's all.
They shouldn't be here in the first place if they're taking slots that belong to our own citizens.
I'm not from the US, so I don't really know, but I always understood that a "slot" at a university in the US is reserved for the person that pays. If the citizens can't pay it, than the universities will just fill these slots by foreigners who can, no?
No sense in not training our own versus helping the enemy.
In light of what I said above, you might want to consider Ferengi aquisition rule N 177: "Know your enemies ... but do business with them always."
Universities, as far back as I can remember, have been thrilled to take on best qualified entrants, no matter where they come from. They do pay for the honor, however, often as much as three times the tuition of an in-state resident. If you don't like it, bother your public university Trustees about limiting availibility or raising the Out of State/Out of Country tuition rates to your satisfaction.
That said, the US has benefited tremendously from foreign-born university graduates, who have started companies who employ american citizens and enrich investors.
Perhaps there'd be less xenophobia if American youth didn't feel being "cool" and "fitting in with the crowd" was more important than cracking a book open on the weekend. How often in a Monday class have I heard people in the back row parroting what was said on some show, or in some film, or how the 49ers did, rather than how they think they have the material for the class well covered.
Most American parents can't or can hardly afford to send their children to University anymore.
The educated ones can find a way .. there's such a thing as putting the money away for the pending college education, rather than buying an SUV, eating half your meals out and having a big screen TV, it's called Forward Planning.
Something else ... send kids to the local Community College for the first two years then they can complete their studies at a State University in two more years. Amazing how many people overlook this option in favor of $150/credit and sitting in a lecture theatre of 600 other students, when you could be sitting in a CC classroom, for less $$ and have a ratio closer to 30 students to 1 teacher. Just make sure all credits taken are transferable into the targetted university.
It'll all be in the spin.
Murdoch* et al. will point at it as, "See! This kind of thing is killing American business!"
The other side will say, "Doh. You used what legal muscle you already had, which is already abusive."
* If you didn't see him squirm on Twitter yesterday, you're missing out.
Rupert says you should check your voicemail more often. Texts, too.
Really, not an ounce of sympathy for a man who made his fortune ruining people.
China and India have had massive, massive pushes to educate engineers, medical workers, technology workers, etc. The shift is the pay off.
A couple decades ago my brother, an engineer with Dow Chemical related the project he was managing - an project would be begun in North America, passed to a team in Japan or Oceana, then passed to India, before passing along to Europe and back to North America - each location meeting its objectives as part of the project. That was two decades back. So you can see there are people capable of engineering, research, medical discoveries and such in abundance by now. No doubt someone in Thailand is waking up about now and will correct any spelling errors I have made in this post.
If you get really good at the game, they give you a real spaceship to pilot!
Indeed and you don't even know about it!
This isn't the first time they've tried this Crowdsourcing thing - there's currently a Abrams tank at the bottom of the middle of the Atlantic, with a great hole blown in its side, which was supposed to be run around Fort Hunter Liggett, in California, based upon use patterns, moderation and metamoderation on /. Which should tell you something ... it'll all end in tears (and give several lucky tube worms a new home.)
Before anyone gets voted up to the stratosphere or down to oblivion here, we should remind ourselves that there is no way to tell how legitimately or illegitimately he made his money until a breakdown of his income is published.
And we'll probably be a lot older and following other stories by the time that comes out...
In today's news, aliens land in Los Angeles ans proclaim L. Ron Hubbard totally slanders them in his Church of Scientology writings and they plan to sue. Tom Cruise was unavailable for comment as he was squashed flat by the alien ship landing.
Actually, this is a good argument for why we don't need SOPA/PIPA.
My thinking exactly.
Present laws should be shown to fail before new laws, which are effectively wrecking balls to swat mosquitos, are enacted.
Timing is certainly insteresting. Is this meant to underscore that point? Could be...
Sopa is a piece of shit!
Excuse me, mods, but this is not Offtopic - it's highly topical, Informative to the uninitiated and damn near Insightful.
This post was in no fecking way endorsed by Rupert "I've heard you have voice mail" Murdoch.
America (I'm addressing you as a whole).
How is it that you allow young people, let alone whole families, to be homeless, to live in "shelters".
WTF is wrong with you people?!
You are supposedly the most powerful nation on earth, the wealthiest, the nation that is spoken to exude opportunity and success from every pore.
And you have whole families, school children, living in homeless shelters.
I don't care how they came to be in the situation, it doesn't matter how that happened, what matters is resolving it, providing the social, housing, and financial support to ensure that every body can call somewhere home.
For every one remarkable individual like this who manages to overcome the adversity, I hate to think how many are dragged down by the circumstance.
There are those who are homeless in America by choice (live in one of the larger cities in California and you'll know what I mean), many of them prefer the freedom to ru(i)n their own lives for substances or alcohol. I'll give them food, but no money.
There are those who are homeless due to misfortune - lost of job, breadwinner in family, foreclosure of house loan, etc. These people are not at the bottom of the barrel, but without some form of assistance they could be there. There are shelters and federal and state programs to help them - often those still living in their cars are due to some failure to abide rules or restrictions of shelters. Where I work we track about 1,000 of these families. It's not a small issue, but those people, like this student have a good chance of getting back into a place they can call their own when the economy bounces back.
Well done of her to rise up and be counted. Amazingly, despite everything thrown at her by people who would go so far as to condemn her for the social and financial position of her family, she's using it as self-motivation. Has to be cruel to be homeless and one of the National School Lunch Program kids in a world where many children go out of their way (starving effectively) to hide the shame of their family's misfortune.
Any candidates for public office feel like giving her parents some employment or shall we go the usual route, use her as an example the American Dream isn't dead, yet, and then abandon them for the next popular thing on the campaign trail?
Managed to not tell me anything I'd like to know, availability, how big is it, how much does it cost, what materials and so on. Just hype.
1 developer, 1 way of doing things.
2 developers, 2 days of doing things.
etc.
Too familiar with this these days as I code replacements for crappy apps. What I'd really like to know is if people actually think about their interfaces, rather than patching them together as they go along.
You clearly don't work at any company which is trying to get anywhere. Lucky you.
I have worked for people who don't only expect the worker to work extra hours for no additional compensation, but expect it. It's how management can pat itself on the back for meeting goals (their goals, not yours.)
While mental health is affected by having time off to rest and rejuvenate, it can also give you some break from the stresses of getting things done to consider better ways to do it. Not all employers value this, many who are frequently mentioned in /. articles are near slave drivers - which is OK with some young employees as this gets them their first experience and paycheck - while they don't recognize the value of their own time or are eager to sacrifice now. The problem is, where do you go when you leave, if you've only been one more ant?
I have a few friends who have left high pressure work to spend more time with families - they are very happy and don't miss being threatened over their bread and butter with termination for not working 16 hour days.
I started going to CES when Comdex stopped happening, but I haven't gone in years. No travel budget.
About the same here. The worst was seeing stuff which was actually years from hitting the market -- which kinda dulls your enthusiasm a bit. On the other hand, I did manage to hear Bill Gates speak, which was more like some idiot-savant babble which appeared to threaten half the businesses at the show, with some sort of "and Microsoft will control it or be a part of ..." gee-whizzy thing. Honestly, I don't think they had a clue why they were there, aside being invited - Microsoft failed at so many CE applications. Now they're a bit patent-troll parasite on Android.
Best of all, though was going over to a hotel and seeing all the great High-End Hi-Fi stuff. Awesome systems, which showed how utter rubbish anything you could get at Best Buy was. Bought a lot of great stuff there as it was part CES and part sale/order taking.
Biggest disappointment: Cost of food in the casinos - gone are the days of Losing Gambler subsidized All Yew Can Eat.
No tentacle monsters though, they will take all our womens!
Only the Japanese ones.
I experience an alien world ever time I return from vacation, sushi or no.
You haven't entered the market until the phones are available at retail. I would like to see this, but it hasn't happened yet and the announcement is premature.
I would like to see these phones on sale in the US. It would probably be my next phone, as I'm due for one in the fall.
As far as I'm concerned, it's like announcing yet another car which runs on gas.
Processors .. woop de doo. Better operating systems / apps are more important (plus compatibility to standards)