Eh, RIAA etc is mostly a media stunt. I'm sure 'derp' down they're using it just to scare people into making a bunch of purchases for awhile and don't care about actually blocking the sites as it still promotes their material.
If they can have websites promoting people into using things for 'free', get used to it, comfortable with it, know it's worth paying for and really don't want to be without it, be it a game, music or otherwise, then SCARE all of them into purchasing the product, it's genius.
Have some faith in capitalism people. They just figured out a clever way to make more money by crushing a few of the little people, but not all of them, as they want them to buy more.
You'll probably notice a pattern where they'll be quiet for awhile, let people save their penny's, let people get more content and marketed to, then bam, another scare of buy it or else.
But that's not the question to ask. The question to ask is, if your employer posts a job listing for your job, are you allowed to quit? Unless your under a contract, the answer is yes. So, why should employees be allowed to terminate the relationship when employers post their job, but employers aren't allowed to terminate the relationship when an employee posts a resume?
Maybe if employers were required to advise you that the advertised position is your position and should they find someone they wish to hire you'll be replaced?
I don't think you should be fired for looking at another job or considering it. That sounds like a bit too much control from a corporate entity, which often people are just numbers in. "You look anywhere else or even consider advancing your career, we'll fire you" sounds like it'll stifle a lot of progression. I'm sure they'd love that at Mcdonalds, that you had to fear having no job at all if you ever consider doing anything better than working for them.
It's not like in the movies. The world isn't black and white.
Yeah, I agree there's a lot of evil and corruption in the world, but not being in your best interest to do something doesn't imply it's your fault.
It's the fault of the person who commits the action, I never implied otherwise. If someone "makes you angry" and/you/ decide to beat them with a rock. It's/your. fault/ for beating them with a rock. Not theirs for making you angry.
I saw another reply to this which was a perfect example. Running into a war unarmed does nothing but get you killed, no matter how noble or brave it is. No one cares, and people aren't going to suddenly go "Hey this guy is right, we should all stop and put our guns down." No, they'll just question your intelligence and shoot you.
I don't recommend people give in to evil, but if you're going to "fight evil" do it intelligently. Don't broadcast yourself in the open so that evil knows it's target and can act swiftly.
Even if the video was 'real' (It wasn't imo), it could simply have been maglev, you know, magnetic replusion to keep them in position on a closed track.
That actually works, fyi. We even have trains that use maglev, fastest one is in asia somewhere I believe. Japan or China.
I'm not saying what happened to him is right. There's a lot of wrong in this world, but a lot of this wrong is fact.
If you go to a country, with a government who performs these acts, while in a public position that's easily identified and, well, damn it's public man.
You're out there easy to see, you're visiting on the basis of the job, and you draw attention to yourself in a country where police damage property and people disappear all the time?
Did you think your justice shield would protect you? It doesn't matter if you're right, it's still not in your best interest to do it.
Wait until you leave the country and don't ever plan / intend to go back (They might be waiting for you) before you start commenting and throwing around any ego (Specifically his comment about wait till after the 30th and I'll tell you)
When you say something like that, it's a slap in the face to the people you're protesting. They told you they want you out, and you know they're watching facebook, so you tell them even tho I promised not to say anything, I'm going to do it as soon as I leave?
Bad idea to show your cards there.
I'm just glad you took the chance to get out and your family is safe. Places like that can get scary very, very fast.
Agreed - Unless the twitter account was under the name of the company. If it's under his personal name E.G "My name is bob, follow me on twitter as bob" shouldn't entitle a company to it.
Just because you use personal accounts to garner additional business for a company doesn't mean they should be entitled to anything you do personally forever and then on to keep the business flowing. That's the same as your skillset, it follows you where you go and companies should consider that when letting you go or if you're quitting.
If anything the company should just be thankful for what you've done so far for them with your personal accounts and be sorry that they lost you as an employee if that was valuable.
Yeah I agree. Why is it okay for employers to post a job listing, when they know they're going to remove you from your position, and yet it's not okay the other way around? Foul play.
You should be able to quit on the spot with whatever termination package you were entitled to in the first place or lay off status.
You mean Vista is just as slow as when you installed it? Out of the box I didn't find it incredibly fast or efficent. Service packs later fixed a lot of that, but I don't think people's primary problem with Vista was that "After clicking punch the monkey it slowed down" but more or less "I can't punch the monkey the system is too slow to start with"
Yeah but all the files that install components into your windows folder etc. That software is borked and needs to be reinstalled. Still lose your registry entries too.
Ultimately no matter than reinstalling from a disc or any other format. Normal user puts in a disc, clicks a few buttons, it's done. Someone has a linux partition, boots into it, clicks a few things (Or types if you don't bother with a gui) and done. Same problems either way. Nothing new here.
The thing about this that is nice, is the OS is designed to account for this, and you don't have to configure squat to do it. Just push a button.
Two stages - Core OS chip so is need to absolutely 100% load a factory image, that is it. No ability to write to this chip at all.
Secondary chip - More like a bios chip. Can be modified to load patches kernels etc. So if you've "updated" windows, it flashes it with the updates which load ontop of the core chip. Still could be very fast.
Then your hard drive loads all third party software / addons / documents.
I think it'd be exceptionally fast, not perfect but a much more secure setup (As you can flash the modded update chip or reset it to factor using the core chip) and a marvel in technology.
A world where sharing online is always 100% legal....
It's a desolate world, much like what you see after a horrible nuclear war. A post apocalyptic environment. Rabbid programs scampering about, programmers scavenging what they can....
Dust bunnies roll by, where once large corporate software stood. Just wrecks instead of nice pretty towers, you have beaten, broken glass buildings falling over.
That's what happens when it all becomes legal. Because corporations, stop making enough money. So they find a different way to make money, something other than software. Employee's no longer are employed as companies stop putting out money for developers.
Software development slows greatly. Less open source apps are made, because they can't make a living off of it, and the consumers that are starving reach and grasp at you demanding always more.
No...you promote hell you do. Sharing...in moderation, is a moderate world. Free sharing is internet anarchy.
Since when did people have the right to claim foul and not send it back?
Man I'd love to see that in retail stores. Yea, I bought this 3000$ laptop. It didn't work, I'll get you photos of it being destroyed. You're just out a 3000g laptop tho.
Knowing this, paypal just hit my shit list. I'm not interested in having things stolen and paypal supporting the thief. Not only refunding it, which means the sale is incomplete, this means that they are/no/ longer the owner. Paypal just authorized someone to destroy my personal property? I don't think so.
With the way they're advancing solar cells, incorporating them even into paper. Yes, they have printed solar cells. (Here:http://www.pcworld.com/article/235667/mit_prints_solar_cells_on_paper_but_are_they_recyclable.html)
How effective, well, that's another story but the point is it can be done. What we need is basically a solar weave, something that incorporates solar technology into clothing. So you can wear clothes that almost look identical to regular clothes, except that it has micro-solar weaving through out to generate electricity.
If you're needing some warmer clothing it could be a bit heavier with piezoelectric weave that generates energy on movement. Naturally this would be more useful in colder climates that have less sunlight as it would make the clothes naturally a little heavier / thicker and warmer.
So through a combination of piezoelectric / solar weave clothing, you could probably generate enough power to charge or at least greatly extend your phones battery life. Could even have clothing that creates an induction field, just like certain 'wireless' phone charges do, then no wires, just battery charging/extending. (Inductive charging: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Inductive_charging)
"It's not MY fault we're divorced, it's facebooks. It has NOTHING to do with me cheating or talking dirty to someone outside my current relationship"
Typical human thought pattern for getting caught being a sad excuse for human. It's never there fault for comitting the action, it's whatever got them caught. Shifting blame as usual.
Who needs the media? Everyone is their own personal news caster these days.
That's how it happens. Okay, I can't charge nominal fee for an extra service? Well, I'm going to have my cake and eat it anyway. System access fee increased by 2$!
What? I can't charge a system access fee? Fine...All plans increased by 2$! Mwahahahahaha.
I ment if anything google will buy facebook and therefore by proxy only such a purchase would be by the new googlebook should facebook look at purchasing HP.,
Ever seen a something awful phone number flame? People are pretty dispicable, especially when they think they're invisible.
If you think no one on the internet would care enough or is petty enough to threaten physical violence over a phone call to this guy for this, maybe someone who's had bad customer service before, I don't know, I'd put to question a level naivety in regards to this matter.
I could be wrong and you might be right, but I find the odds are against you that he didn't receive any threats.
It's possible that no one did, but let's be realistic. If 1% of people who actually cared about what this guy did, that's still probably like 10,000 people. I'm sure a million people viewed this. If 1% of those 10,000 people are douchey enough to make threats of violence to his family, that's still 100 people.
One threat is one too many, never mind 100.
I've seen people get a lot of threats when their number is posted on something like something awful and someone says "hey, this guy is a jerk, he did X'
He told off penny-arcade which has a lot of dedicated supporters, and they posted it on their front page. Way more exposure.
I'd say there's an 80-95% chance that he's had some physical threats made to his family.
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Eh, RIAA etc is mostly a media stunt. I'm sure 'derp' down they're using it just to scare people into making a bunch of purchases for awhile and don't care about actually blocking the sites as it still promotes their material.
If they can have websites promoting people into using things for 'free', get used to it, comfortable with it, know it's worth paying for and really don't want to be without it, be it a game, music or otherwise, then SCARE all of them into purchasing the product, it's genius.
Have some faith in capitalism people. They just figured out a clever way to make more money by crushing a few of the little people, but not all of them, as they want them to buy more.
You'll probably notice a pattern where they'll be quiet for awhile, let people save their penny's, let people get more content and marketed to, then bam, another scare of buy it or else.
You can throw one tho. A little push goes a long ways in space ;)
But that's not the question to ask. The question to ask is, if your employer posts a job listing for your job, are you allowed to quit? Unless your under a contract, the answer is yes. So, why should employees be allowed to terminate the relationship when employers post their job, but employers aren't allowed to terminate the relationship when an employee posts a resume?
Maybe if employers were required to advise you that the advertised position is your position and should they find someone they wish to hire you'll be replaced?
I don't think you should be fired for looking at another job or considering it. That sounds like a bit too much control from a corporate entity, which often people are just numbers in. "You look anywhere else or even consider advancing your career, we'll fire you" sounds like it'll stifle a lot of progression. I'm sure they'd love that at Mcdonalds, that you had to fear having no job at all if you ever consider doing anything better than working for them.
It's not like in the movies. The world isn't black and white.
Yeah, I agree there's a lot of evil and corruption in the world, but not being in your best interest to do something doesn't imply it's your fault.
It's the fault of the person who commits the action, I never implied otherwise. If someone "makes you angry" and /you/ decide to beat them with a rock. It's /your. fault/ for beating them with a rock. Not theirs for making you angry.
I saw another reply to this which was a perfect example. Running into a war unarmed does nothing but get you killed, no matter how noble or brave it is. No one cares, and people aren't going to suddenly go "Hey this guy is right, we should all stop and put our guns down." No, they'll just question your intelligence and shoot you.
I don't recommend people give in to evil, but if you're going to "fight evil" do it intelligently. Don't broadcast yourself in the open so that evil knows it's target and can act swiftly.
Even if the video was 'real' (It wasn't imo), it could simply have been maglev, you know, magnetic replusion to keep them in position on a closed track.
That actually works, fyi. We even have trains that use maglev, fastest one is in asia somewhere I believe. Japan or China.
Anywho...
I'm not saying what happened to him is right. There's a lot of wrong in this world, but a lot of this wrong is fact.
If you go to a country, with a government who performs these acts, while in a public position that's easily identified and, well, damn it's public man.
You're out there easy to see, you're visiting on the basis of the job, and you draw attention to yourself in a country where police damage property and people disappear all the time?
Did you think your justice shield would protect you? It doesn't matter if you're right, it's still not in your best interest to do it.
Wait until you leave the country and don't ever plan / intend to go back (They might be waiting for you) before you start commenting and throwing around any ego (Specifically his comment about wait till after the 30th and I'll tell you)
When you say something like that, it's a slap in the face to the people you're protesting. They told you they want you out, and you know they're watching facebook, so you tell them even tho I promised not to say anything, I'm going to do it as soon as I leave?
Bad idea to show your cards there.
I'm just glad you took the chance to get out and your family is safe. Places like that can get scary very, very fast.
Yeah, except for what they loaded I'd get faster performance out of my thumb drive.
So conceptually a like but fundamentally different.
Agreed - Unless the twitter account was under the name of the company. If it's under his personal name E.G "My name is bob, follow me on twitter as bob" shouldn't entitle a company to it.
Just because you use personal accounts to garner additional business for a company doesn't mean they should be entitled to anything you do personally forever and then on to keep the business flowing. That's the same as your skillset, it follows you where you go and companies should consider that when letting you go or if you're quitting.
If anything the company should just be thankful for what you've done so far for them with your personal accounts and be sorry that they lost you as an employee if that was valuable.
Yeah I agree. Why is it okay for employers to post a job listing, when they know they're going to remove you from your position, and yet it's not okay the other way around? Foul play.
You should be able to quit on the spot with whatever termination package you were entitled to in the first place or lay off status.
You mean Vista is just as slow as when you installed it? Out of the box I didn't find it incredibly fast or efficent. Service packs later fixed a lot of that, but I don't think people's primary problem with Vista was that "After clicking punch the monkey it slowed down" but more or less "I can't punch the monkey the system is too slow to start with"
Yeah but all the files that install components into your windows folder etc. That software is borked and needs to be reinstalled. Still lose your registry entries too.
Ultimately no matter than reinstalling from a disc or any other format. Normal user puts in a disc, clicks a few buttons, it's done. Someone has a linux partition, boots into it, clicks a few things (Or types if you don't bother with a gui) and done. Same problems either way. Nothing new here.
The thing about this that is nice, is the OS is designed to account for this, and you don't have to configure squat to do it. Just push a button.
What I'd like to see is OS on a chip.
Two stages - Core OS chip so is need to absolutely 100% load a factory image, that is it. No ability to write to this chip at all.
Secondary chip - More like a bios chip. Can be modified to load patches kernels etc. So if you've "updated" windows, it flashes it with the updates which load ontop of the core chip. Still could be very fast.
Then your hard drive loads all third party software / addons / documents.
I think it'd be exceptionally fast, not perfect but a much more secure setup (As you can flash the modded update chip or reset it to factor using the core chip)
and a marvel in technology.
A world where sharing online is always 100% legal....
It's a desolate world, much like what you see after a horrible nuclear war. A post apocalyptic environment. Rabbid programs scampering about, programmers scavenging what they can....
Dust bunnies roll by, where once large corporate software stood. Just wrecks instead of nice pretty towers, you have beaten, broken glass buildings falling over.
That's what happens when it all becomes legal.
Because corporations, stop making enough money. So they find a different way to make money, something other than software. Employee's no longer are employed as companies stop putting out money for developers.
Software development slows greatly. Less open source apps are made, because they can't make a living off of it, and the consumers that are starving reach and grasp at you demanding always more.
No...you promote hell you do. Sharing...in moderation, is a moderate world. Free sharing is internet anarchy.
Since when did people have the right to claim foul and not send it back?
Man I'd love to see that in retail stores. Yea, I bought this 3000$ laptop. It didn't work, I'll get you photos of it being destroyed. You're just out a 3000g laptop tho.
Knowing this, paypal just hit my shit list. I'm not interested in having things stolen and paypal supporting the thief. Not only refunding it, which means the sale is incomplete, this means that they are /no/ longer the owner. Paypal just authorized someone to destroy my personal property? I don't think so.
With the way they're advancing solar cells, incorporating them even into paper. Yes, they have printed solar cells. (Here:http://www.pcworld.com/article/235667/mit_prints_solar_cells_on_paper_but_are_they_recyclable.html)
How effective, well, that's another story but the point is it can be done. What we need is basically a solar weave, something that incorporates solar technology into clothing. So you can wear clothes that almost look identical to regular clothes, except that it has micro-solar weaving through out to generate electricity.
If you're needing some warmer clothing it could be a bit heavier with piezoelectric weave that generates energy on movement. Naturally this would be more useful in colder climates that have less sunlight as it would make the clothes naturally a little heavier / thicker and warmer.
So through a combination of piezoelectric / solar weave clothing, you could probably generate enough power to charge or at least greatly extend your phones battery life. Could even have clothing that creates an induction field, just like certain 'wireless' phone charges do, then no wires, just battery charging/extending.
(Inductive charging: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Inductive_charging)
Yet....
"It's not MY fault we're divorced, it's facebooks. It has NOTHING to do with me cheating or talking dirty to someone outside my current relationship"
Typical human thought pattern for getting caught being a sad excuse for human. It's never there fault for comitting the action, it's whatever got them caught. Shifting blame as usual.
Who needs the media? Everyone is their own personal news caster these days.
If we can do it, they can.
I bet they can also do it without cyber bullying and causing suicides too.
That's how it happens. Okay, I can't charge nominal fee for an extra service? Well, I'm going to have my cake and eat it anyway. System access fee increased by 2$!
What? I can't charge a system access fee? Fine...All plans increased by 2$! Mwahahahahaha.
I ment if anything google will buy facebook and therefore by proxy only such a purchase would be by the new googlebook should facebook look at purchasing HP.,
If anyone is going to purchase anything, it's google.
Google plus now integrated with newly acquired googlebook!
Don't need to believe him.
Ever seen a something awful phone number flame? People are pretty dispicable, especially when they think they're invisible.
If you think no one on the internet would care enough or is petty enough to threaten physical violence over a phone call to this guy for this, maybe someone who's had bad customer service before, I don't know, I'd put to question a level naivety in regards to this matter.
I could be wrong and you might be right, but I find the odds are against you that he didn't receive any threats.
It's the internet.
It's possible that no one did, but let's be realistic. If 1% of people who actually cared about what this guy did, that's still probably like 10,000 people. I'm sure a million people viewed this. If 1% of those 10,000 people are douchey enough to make threats of violence to his family, that's still 100 people.
One threat is one too many, never mind 100.
I've seen people get a lot of threats when their number is posted on something like something awful and someone says "hey, this guy is a jerk, he did X'
He told off penny-arcade which has a lot of dedicated supporters, and they posted it on their front page. Way more exposure.
I'd say there's an 80-95% chance that he's had some physical threats made to his family.
If a space station falls to earth, China didn't fail, Gravity did.
U mad google?