So you are asking for a citation proving that asking the government to predict how many employees they will have 49 years from today so that they can contribute an appropriate amount to their retirement today in the event that they have a reorganization 74 years from now and need to pay their retirement in year 75 is excessive?
Your answer to this question must be in iambic pentameter and performed in period costume on the stage of Shakespeare's Globe. If you find this demand excessive, then [citation needed].
Are you demanding a citation for "approximately zero people live to 118"? There is exactly one American known to have lived past 118: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/... She was a manager for an insurance company, and did not work for the government.
If you're demanding a citation for my calculation of a minimum age to retire with benefits, I put a link to a FERS retirement guide right in the next sentence.
Arguments like yours simply underline the said Government's incompetence
Sure. Fortunately it's an issue that could be fixed, for instance by requiring the USPS to follow the same rules as everyone else or removing the price controls.
and serve nothing but advancing the idea of privatizing
If the federal government screwing up advances the idea that instead of fixing the problem it must be privatized, then when private corporations screw up, what idea do you believe that advances?
What's so "unreasonable" about keeping a government monopoly to a higher standard?
The standard you are defending is excessively high given that approximately zero people live 75 years after retirement. (If I understand FERS, https://www.opm.gov/retirement... it looks like if you start working at 18 the earliest you can possibly retire with pension is after 25 years of work at age 43, assuming a "major reorganization")
Additionally you are forgetting to include the federal government's price controls against the USPS as part of the "higher" standard you are insisting they follow. If they did not have to beg Congress to allow them to raise rates (or even keep the rates they have, since Congress required them to drop 2 cents from first class this year), they would be in a better position to meet this higher standard.
HELlo subject-name-here. I am callING from the microSOFT SUPport team to inFORM you that YOU have a VIrus. Please inSTALL teamviewer so WE may begin the PROcess of removING the VIrus.
Everytime I hear someone say "no idiot would ever let the AI out of the box" I wonder how long it will take for the AI to start trying to convince people that they're a Nigerian Prince with millions of dollars.
The wrench is unbeatable when you have a specific person in mind. Sure, there's probably less violent and, shall we say... satisfying ways of getting the information, but application of the wrench doesn't require any fancy analysis or much know-how at all.
However, what if we wish to apply the wrench to every single person? That takes a lot of time and manpower. Even without the wrench, having someone take a look at the computer to see what is exploitable on it is a bit on the time consuming side, even if we automate the exploits by redirecting popular websites like slashdot.
Assuming they had any to begin with. I'd guess when NK started down the crazy communist path, they had their own "great leap forward" complete with a purge of anyone smart enough to know that it was a bad idea.
I'm guessing economics is not one of your strong subjects.
Or technology. Ransomware doesn't need admin privs to be effective, all it needs to do is encrypt every file you have write access to. It will work just as well on Linux(*) as on Windows.
* Excepting possibly an isolation system like QubesOS, again excepting VM escape exploits.
These days? Monitors have Display Port for 4k, which is what pretty much every computer is using. TVs have HDMI 2.0, which pretty much no video card supports.
If you're not doing 4k or you've managed to find the rare laptop that has an HDMI 2.0 output instead of Mini DisplayPort, then it doesn't matter as long as you can turn off the TV's "cinematic" motion blur.
What this sounds like is that they break in, find you have no fire alarm, then tell you "hey bud, you've got a major fire code violation on your hands. For $x, I'll tell you what it is. Otherwise, well, who knows what the next inspection will turn up?"
If you switch to a BSD then at least in 6 months you won't have to do it again when systemd adds +1 (fuck semantic versioning, every release is a Major Release!) to its version number and makes some other major behavioral change that you will have to audit all over again.
My parents switched to chromebooks after their laptop went to windows 10 and they didn't want to bother me by asking for help with it until after the one month was up, and then I had to tell them they were stuck.
It has come to our attention that you are now completely dependent on our equipment in order to provide service to your customers. Please be aware that effective next week, your service contract fees will increase by 100%. Thank you,
since Cortana and all MS services default to MS Edge no matter what you set, it's going to be a mixed operation from now on
You set it in control panel now.
I'm sorry, Dave. I'm afraid you can't do that. (Maybe it works in non-Cortana "MS Services", whatever those might be)
I declined to enable Cortana on my laptop during the upgrade. We'll see how long before I start getting popup windows insisting I turn it on (with options for [Enable] [Activate] [Turn On] and an [x] button in the corner that automatically agrees to Cortana's EULA)
I don't think their actions are the actions of people who are operating within the rules of law. Their actions are the actions of people who are afraid of being caught violating the supreme law of the land.
Another fact that the CNN article didn't make clear : the developer was already in the process of moving to Germany.
Slashdot Mirror
So now people are clicking on boobs.jpg.doc.wmv.torrent.exe?
It's Windows 10, has microsoft stopped hiding the .exe extension yet?
So you are asking for a citation proving that asking the government to predict how many employees they will have 49 years from today so that they can contribute an appropriate amount to their retirement today in the event that they have a reorganization 74 years from now and need to pay their retirement in year 75 is excessive?
Your answer to this question must be in iambic pentameter and performed in period costume on the stage of Shakespeare's Globe. If you find this demand excessive, then [citation needed].
Are you demanding a citation for "approximately zero people live to 118"? There is exactly one American known to have lived past 118: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/... She was a manager for an insurance company, and did not work for the government.
If you're demanding a citation for my calculation of a minimum age to retire with benefits, I put a link to a FERS retirement guide right in the next sentence.
Sure. Fortunately it's an issue that could be fixed, for instance by requiring the USPS to follow the same rules as everyone else or removing the price controls.
If the federal government screwing up advances the idea that instead of fixing the problem it must be privatized, then when private corporations screw up, what idea do you believe that advances?
The standard you are defending is excessively high given that approximately zero people live 75 years after retirement. (If I understand FERS, https://www.opm.gov/retirement... it looks like if you start working at 18 the earliest you can possibly retire with pension is after 25 years of work at age 43, assuming a "major reorganization")
Additionally you are forgetting to include the federal government's price controls against the USPS as part of the "higher" standard you are insisting they follow. If they did not have to beg Congress to allow them to raise rates (or even keep the rates they have, since Congress required them to drop 2 cents from first class this year), they would be in a better position to meet this higher standard.
HELlo subject-name-here. I am callING from the microSOFT SUPport team to inFORM you that YOU have a VIrus. Please inSTALL teamviewer so WE may begin the PROcess of removING the VIrus.
Everytime I hear someone say "no idiot would ever let the AI out of the box" I wonder how long it will take for the AI to start trying to convince people that they're a Nigerian Prince with millions of dollars.
The wrench is unbeatable when you have a specific person in mind. Sure, there's probably less violent and, shall we say... satisfying ways of getting the information, but application of the wrench doesn't require any fancy analysis or much know-how at all.
However, what if we wish to apply the wrench to every single person? That takes a lot of time and manpower. Even without the wrench, having someone take a look at the computer to see what is exploitable on it is a bit on the time consuming side, even if we automate the exploits by redirecting popular websites like slashdot.
In that case, it's much cheaper to install microphones everywhere.
Assuming they had any to begin with. I'd guess when NK started down the crazy communist path, they had their own "great leap forward" complete with a purge of anyone smart enough to know that it was a bad idea.
Or technology. Ransomware doesn't need admin privs to be effective, all it needs to do is encrypt every file you have write access to. It will work just as well on Linux(*) as on Windows.
* Excepting possibly an isolation system like QubesOS, again excepting VM escape exploits.
My mother told me her mother would turn the microwave around to face the wall while it was cooking to prevent it from irradiating her.
These days? Monitors have Display Port for 4k, which is what pretty much every computer is using. TVs have HDMI 2.0, which pretty much no video card supports.
If you're not doing 4k or you've managed to find the rare laptop that has an HDMI 2.0 output instead of Mini DisplayPort, then it doesn't matter as long as you can turn off the TV's "cinematic" motion blur.
In sort-of related news, the new Windows 10 update will allow you to have big, long filenames on your itty-bitty stamp-sized SSD.
Who's installing one?
What this sounds like is that they break in, find you have no fire alarm, then tell you "hey bud, you've got a major fire code violation on your hands. For $x, I'll tell you what it is. Otherwise, well, who knows what the next inspection will turn up?"
If you switch to a BSD then at least in 6 months you won't have to do it again when systemd adds +1 (fuck semantic versioning, every release is a Major Release!) to its version number and makes some other major behavioral change that you will have to audit all over again.
My parents switched to chromebooks after their laptop went to windows 10 and they didn't want to bother me by asking for help with it until after the one month was up, and then I had to tell them they were stuck.
The dog will just get hit by a car.
The only solution is for it to fly like a bird or a plane or something.
Given the red X debacle it's "20 Nos and a no answer means Yes"
Something like http://creativecommons.org/cho... ?
Don't be stupid. Adidas will sell their shoes to Converse's employees!
The first companies to fully automate will win big. I spend my slashdot reading time honestly amazed that the process hasn't gone faster.
I've found that they'd rather complain about how badly they need foreigners because "Americans won't do the job (for the price they want to pay)"
Dear RoboFlipperTM customer:
It has come to our attention that you are now completely dependent on our equipment in order to provide service to your customers. Please be aware that effective next week, your service contract fees will increase by 100%. Thank you,
RoboFlipperTM Accounting Department
Is this going to be a problem before or after the next quarterly earnings report?
60,000 people, even at 10 cents an hour, is a lot of money.
Getting 2 billion yuan to stop killing employees probably helps too.
I'm sorry, Dave. I'm afraid you can't do that. (Maybe it works in non-Cortana "MS Services", whatever those might be)
I declined to enable Cortana on my laptop during the upgrade. We'll see how long before I start getting popup windows insisting I turn it on (with options for [Enable] [Activate] [Turn On] and an [x] button in the corner that automatically agrees to Cortana's EULA)
Dammit, they were playing the longest of long cons with their Microsoft BASIC.
The FBI agents refused to deal with her lawyer, and intimated that they would pick her up off the street to interrogate her without a lawyer present.
https://www.techdirt.com/artic...
I don't think their actions are the actions of people who are operating within the rules of law. Their actions are the actions of people who are afraid of being caught violating the supreme law of the land.
Another fact that the CNN article didn't make clear : the developer was already in the process of moving to Germany.