he never broke into anything though. He was downloading what he already had access to, but not in the same amount. Its a bad analogy. Second, the machine in question was a system available to the public.
Its no worse than getting a free game in a pinball machine, except for a far more noble cause.
Lets also remember Rosa Parks was a criminal too, she was breaking a law sitting in the white's only section of the bus.
Then assume the worst, and he was a criminal, how serious is this crime, a real life burgler would never be charged 20-30 years first offense. Same as someone who robbed a bank at gunpoint. A rapist might get at most 7-10, assault with a deadly weapon against a police officer 15.
But unauthorized downloading 20-30? Doesn't that seem disproportionate.
and the army, and the nation as a whole show some degree of loyalty back. The military is hardly a commericial outfit looking for exploit you for your labor.
You can't get fired from the army, unless your convicted of a crime, generally pretty severe one too.
Everyone gets no-cost healthcare. To include prescriptions.
Probably the most proggressive pay-rating system in the entire country. Generals make a tiny fraction of what corporate officers make with similar amount of employees and/or responsibility, by a far margin. Enlisted make far more than their unskilled labor equivilants. When you talk about skilled labor, and total compensation, its about even with skilled labor.
Not only is management pay more proportial, its also decided in a much more fair method, and its also far more transparent. Its all listed online in an easy to read convienant format, here from the official DFAS(defense finance and accounting services): http://www.dfas.mil/militarymembers/payentitlements/militarypaytables.html
Essentially your base pay is decided by what your rank is on one axis, and how long been in the military on the other axis. Everyone gets the same base pay, regardless of race, gender, back room deals, how well they know top brass, etc...
Also, you get special pays for doing things like being various kinds of doctor, sea pay, being on jump status, hazardous duty pay, combat pay, and other special bonuses for doing special, but important roles. These pays are generally flat rate, and listed on the same pay chart. All completely transparant.
No-cost housing, formerly no-cost, but now dirt cheap meals provided, and subsidized shopping at the PX.
There are many hazerous jobs, that you could die, loose a limb, or otherwise get critically injured. There is no job that the general public will do more to help you for on the job injuries. The people who experiment with robotic limbs, give soliders who lost them the first pick, over cops, construction, deep sea fishers, demolition workers, and even other potentially more dangerous work. The army wil also pay in full any injuries you get while serving them.
After the army breaks you down, and makes you into a fighting machine, they are not going to just kick you to the curb after got all they could from you. Corporate America will.
But I agree, apples to oranges, you can't compare federal service to private employement.
Until you realize what a buerocratic juggernaut the army is, and how its fraught with waste, ineffeciencies, miscommunication, very rarely works with great co-ordination as a whole. To the point is a joke.
Thinking for oneself never gets further than thinking on how to cheat the buerocracy or advance further. Technical correctness is admired, while failure to achieve broader goals is often met with amusement, because you can hide behind the buerocratic tape of "its above my pay-grade", when you are fully capable of understanding the situation, and "I was not trained/its not my job", when you are clearly capable.
It generates mounds of paper, where you can "prove" your effeciency as a CYA. Soliders develop effecient rules and the ability to Cover Your Ass, by staying in strictly defined boundries.
Evince is the PDF/Documents viewer for gnome, It also gets compiled for windows.
In the linux world, its a heavy weight gnome app.(compared to e/x pdf), but its far far far lighter than Adobe Acrobate Reader, and it doesn't do javascript at all. I've yet to come accross issues with PDFs not working, as most legimiate PDFs don't use javascript.
It also comes from a long standing respected open source project, GNOME,(read comparable quality as commericial software,), not a drive by night freeware operation of dubious origins.
which is never going to happen, because you have multiple GPU archectures.
and if it was more direct to hardware, it would help linux, as it would be more OS agnostic. Then you also have 5 or 6 x86 CPU archectures X86 OS kernels seemlessly handle.
The operating system IS an abstraction layer. If it wasn't, you'd worse hardware fragmentation than android, and thats a far bigger problem than the marginal performance gain you'd think you'd get by writing optimzed code for one CPU family and ONE GPU family.
but there are a whole host catalog of games that use D3D9, in fact I think the vast majority still do, and many popular titles have D3D9 support still.
and if a company is doing favors for politicians to get laws changed in its favor, its a bribe, its corruption, and its a subversion of this concept of a popular government.
what gets me MORE, is the whole "business as usual" aspect of it all.
Probably one of the most blatant pieces of propagan we've seen outside fascist and stalinist societies.
Did this guy speach write for pionichet before he got this gig writing for balmer?
Its full of appeals to emotion and other logical fallacies
The first two paragraphs are nothing more than fluff.
Then we have some gems: "Since October 5, 2011, the technology industry has been left with only one legendary chief executive called Steve. Ballmer,"
I feel bad for whoever is paid to write this.
"Why was such a brutal hatchet job written in Americaâ€(TM)s most illustrious magazine, normally so unctuous in its praise of the rich and powerful?"
Oh, I get it, he's rich and powerful. He must be a good guy. George Bush, Kaddafi, Hitler, Saddam Hussein, where all rich and powerful, great bunch? But I guess this is America, and not siding with the winner is some form of defeatism.
"We should begin in Silicon Valley, which resents Microsoftâ€(TM)s chief executive at least in part because he has helped grow what the Internet industry has so rarely managed in all its decades of boom and bust: a stable, profitable company" What?
Nothing to do how MS whrecked dozen and a half companies, intimidated hobbyists. Made untrue and misleading statements to scare people away from his smaller competitors(poison the well attack), or made shitty products, with lots of bugs he refused to fix because he had more fun intimidating the compitetion than fixing their own problems.
It also has nothing to do with his lobying of congress to get open source activists put on terrorist watch lists either.
"But itâ€(TM)s not just the hipsters of SoMa, of course." The irony of this is Balmmer's biggest critics are the geeks themselves, no one else gives a fuck. We are the people who were sick of not having an alternative to microsoft, or being verbally attacked, slandered, etc... The irony is that the author of this article is most likely a hipster, an underemployed retard with a BA in English. The people who he accusses are techies, who do actual productive work.
"itâ€(TM)s tough to believe that Microsoft used to be the cool place to work" There was a nice documentary on this, that it was always a terrible place to work, and they've abused employees, and ran a cult like, to keep pay down, along with dissent, run the employees until they quit, and get more. Usually fresh out of college so they didn't know better.
"Now itâ€(TM)s Microsoft that represents the evils of establishment largesse, complexity and corruption" Believe it or not, less so than previously. You know when slashdot had the borg icon for microsoft. Back when BSoDs were daily, port 139 winnuke left everyone vulrneable, and there were no free updates, or live updates. Service Pack1 for windows 95 cost $150. All so you didn't get winnuked.
Back in the 1990s, hatred for microsoft was universal. PR people for microsoft used to be known as "Brown shirts", after the nazi SA, for their distruptive tactics at conventions and tradeshows. You could spot them as the only people who had nice things to say about linux. It lessened after the Xbox was released.
"Itâ€(TM)s true enough that for all its uncoolness with West Coast elites" Yes, the vast, varried critism of microsoft could be summed up as a handful of complainers, with a political agenda. Laughable. Considering its more likely that its written by some douchebag with a BA, snobby "elite" is more likely true of the author than MS's critics.
"Microsoftâ€(TM)s re-engagement with developers and the start-up world has, to an extent, been a success." Traditionally, microsoft's "engagement" is of the same type, when an Army says "engangement with the enemy". usually results in the destruction, absortion, or surrender of the
the smear campaign against hackers has been far more aggress, sinister, than just about anything else.
The press would rather talk to a bunch of pedophiles with blood on their dicks from freshly deflouring 8 year olds than give a shred of good press to the most noble and ethical of hackers
who are these hackers, nerds like you, are home grown suits, drawn from the typical agent pool.
No, its people like us they recruit. Of those 5,000, I can guaruntee that at least 4,000 were the type that would attend DEFCON, BEFORE, they starting working for the feds. Their good people are us. All institutions and movements survive by recruiting. The Feds have good people because people like us decide to work for them. They really need to remember that.
No, WE really need to remember that. Then remember how we get treated by society, the press, the legal system, etc...
the problem with the feds is really thinking they care.
as with most sub-cultures, counter-cultures, its not that they misunderstand you, its they PURPOSEFULLY misrepresent you to the public. They just play stupid to get you do to all the work of informing them on how your sub culture works, which they use to exploit it.
If they can't exploit it, they just arrest everyone. If they do a good job of pre-trial slander, all they really have to do is prove you belong to a group of undesirables, and they really don't have to prove anything else.
For years they knew they didn't know enough about computers, but they figured, they could stigmatize enough computer users, until they volunteered their information in exchange for an image whitewash. They also knew the general public was ignorant and already distrustful of computers.(See evil robot movies, about how they are going to take jobs), and very little appreciation for the nerds who seemed to talk a diffrent language and didn't socialize properly with them.
To be honest back then, they kinda held the leverage.
Today, now that EVERYTHING is dependant on computers, and the TV is promoting "nerd" as its latest materialistic image of choice, I think its time for a good re-negotation of terms. WE hold leverage now.
and heaven knows what else they are looking for besides terrorists.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/FBI_Index
Read this, Subversives: the FBI's war on student radicals http://www.amazon.com/Subversives-Student-Radicals-Reagans-Power/dp/0374257000
Based on de-classified FBI memos, it describes how th FBI kept security and reserve lists of political enemies, that could be detained at a moments notice.
Its a clear example on how we got damn close to having our own "night of long knives".
employees of buerocracy don't measure success in how well the buerocracy performs its job relative to society.
They measure personal success in how well the buerocracy does relivant to itself, and how well they do invidually inside the buerocracy.
I'd gander most people get into that work, because they see it as "recession proof", with retirement, good pay, and stability. They also probably recruit a good deal of ex-military who have a hard time finding work elsewhere. Given the fact the army is downsizing, it would be really easy to recruit them. No, extremely easy to recruit them, considering that its a government job, you get to move your pension over.
They are already used to working for the government.
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he never broke into anything though. He was downloading what he already had access to, but not in the same amount. Its a bad analogy. Second, the machine in question was a system available to the public.
Its no worse than getting a free game in a pinball machine, except for a far more noble cause.
Lets also remember Rosa Parks was a criminal too, she was breaking a law sitting in the white's only section of the bus.
Then assume the worst, and he was a criminal, how serious is this crime, a real life burgler would never be charged 20-30 years first offense. Same as someone who robbed a bank at gunpoint. A rapist might get at most 7-10, assault with a deadly weapon against a police officer 15.
But unauthorized downloading 20-30? Doesn't that seem disproportionate.
thats a tall measure, but at the same token, they do have things to answer to.
The world is not black and white. If you view it as such you can niether make, nor observe progress.
I'll take one if you can install linux on it.
As in, I want you to pre-install linux for me, and I wanna watch a high ranking microsoft employee to do it.
I'd pay you $500 just to watch.
and the army, and the nation as a whole show some degree of loyalty back. The military is hardly a commericial outfit looking for exploit you for your labor.
You can't get fired from the army, unless your convicted of a crime, generally pretty severe one too.
Everyone gets no-cost healthcare. To include prescriptions.
Probably the most proggressive pay-rating system in the entire country. Generals make a tiny fraction of what corporate officers make with similar amount of employees and/or responsibility, by a far margin. Enlisted make far more than their unskilled labor equivilants. When you talk about skilled labor, and total compensation, its about even with skilled labor.
Not only is management pay more proportial, its also decided in a much more fair method, and its also far more transparent. Its all listed online in an easy to read convienant format, here from the official DFAS(defense finance and accounting services):
http://www.dfas.mil/militarymembers/payentitlements/militarypaytables.html
Essentially your base pay is decided by what your rank is on one axis, and how long been in the military on the other axis. Everyone gets the same base pay, regardless of race, gender, back room deals, how well they know top brass, etc...
Also, you get special pays for doing things like being various kinds of doctor, sea pay, being on jump status, hazardous duty pay, combat pay, and other special bonuses for doing special, but important roles. These pays are generally flat rate, and listed on the same pay chart. All completely transparant.
No-cost housing, formerly no-cost, but now dirt cheap meals provided, and subsidized shopping at the PX.
There are many hazerous jobs, that you could die, loose a limb, or otherwise get critically injured. There is no job that the general public will do more to help you for on the job injuries. The people who experiment with robotic limbs, give soliders who lost them the first pick, over cops, construction, deep sea fishers, demolition workers, and even other potentially more dangerous work. The army wil also pay in full any injuries you get while serving them.
After the army breaks you down, and makes you into a fighting machine, they are not going to just kick you to the curb after got all they could from you. Corporate America will.
But I agree, apples to oranges, you can't compare federal service to private employement.
They do this in the Army and it works great.
Until you realize what a buerocratic juggernaut the army is, and how its fraught with waste, ineffeciencies, miscommunication, very rarely works with great co-ordination as a whole. To the point is a joke.
Thinking for oneself never gets further than thinking on how to cheat the buerocracy or advance further. Technical correctness is admired, while failure to achieve broader goals is often met with amusement, because you can hide behind the buerocratic tape of "its above my pay-grade", when you are fully capable of understanding the situation, and "I was not trained/its not my job", when you are clearly capable.
It generates mounds of paper, where you can "prove" your effeciency as a CYA. Soliders develop effecient rules and the ability to Cover Your Ass, by staying in strictly defined boundries.
Evince is the PDF/Documents viewer for gnome, It also gets compiled for windows.
In the linux world, its a heavy weight gnome app.(compared to e/x pdf), but its far far far lighter than Adobe Acrobate Reader, and it doesn't do javascript at all. I've yet to come accross issues with PDFs not working, as most legimiate PDFs don't use javascript.
It also comes from a long standing respected open source project, GNOME,(read comparable quality as commericial software,), not a drive by night freeware operation of dubious origins.
https://wiki.gnome.org/Evince/Downloads
which is never going to happen, because you have multiple GPU archectures.
and if it was more direct to hardware, it would help linux, as it would be more OS agnostic. Then you also have 5 or 6 x86 CPU archectures X86 OS kernels seemlessly handle.
The operating system IS an abstraction layer. If it wasn't, you'd worse hardware fragmentation than android, and thats a far bigger problem than the marginal performance gain you'd think you'd get by writing optimzed code for one CPU family and ONE GPU family.
not true.
It means porting to linux will be easier, as you won't have to re-write the graphics backend to work on OpenGL.
but there are a whole host catalog of games that use D3D9, in fact I think the vast majority still do, and many popular titles have D3D9 support still.
Good D3D9 support will bring games to linux
might as well go with ext4 for performance, and modernitity.
a big concern with flash systems is also permissionlessness.
permission based file systems can be a big trip up on removable media used on many computers.
and fat32 is dogshit slow.
*spits*
A fucking actor?
I think its time we give the hipsters the nod they aren't welcome here. Scene killers.
it was nice knowing you HP, but your about to suffer the same fate as Nokia.
don't you people ever learn?
How long until we have high altitude bombers with these Tiny Ion Engines(TIE) get lasers?
and if a company is doing favors for politicians to get laws changed in its favor, its a bribe, its corruption, and its a subversion of this concept of a popular government.
what gets me MORE, is the whole "business as usual" aspect of it all.
https://slashdot.org/topic/cloud/why-all-the-hate-for-steve-ballmer/
Probably one of the most blatant pieces of propagan we've seen outside fascist and stalinist societies.
Did this guy speach write for pionichet before he got this gig writing for balmer?
Its full of appeals to emotion and other logical fallacies
The first two paragraphs are nothing more than fluff.
Then we have some gems:
"Since October 5, 2011, the technology industry has been left with only one legendary chief executive called Steve. Ballmer,"
I feel bad for whoever is paid to write this.
"Why was such a brutal hatchet job written in Americaâ€(TM)s most illustrious magazine, normally so unctuous in its praise of the rich and powerful?"
Oh, I get it, he's rich and powerful. He must be a good guy. George Bush, Kaddafi, Hitler, Saddam Hussein, where all rich and powerful, great bunch? But I guess this is America, and not siding with the winner is some form of defeatism.
"We should begin in Silicon Valley, which resents Microsoftâ€(TM)s chief executive at least in part because he has helped grow what the Internet industry has so rarely managed in all its decades of boom and bust: a stable, profitable company"
What?
Nothing to do how MS whrecked dozen and a half companies, intimidated hobbyists. Made untrue and misleading statements to scare people away from his smaller competitors(poison the well attack), or made shitty products, with lots of bugs he refused to fix because he had more fun intimidating the compitetion than fixing their own problems.
It also has nothing to do with his lobying of congress to get open source activists put on terrorist watch lists either.
"But itâ€(TM)s not just the hipsters of SoMa, of course."
The irony of this is Balmmer's biggest critics are the geeks themselves, no one else gives a fuck. We are the people who were sick of not having an alternative to microsoft, or being verbally attacked, slandered, etc... The irony is that the author of this article is most likely a hipster, an underemployed retard with a BA in English. The people who he accusses are techies, who do actual productive work.
"itâ€(TM)s tough to believe that Microsoft used to be the cool place to work"
There was a nice documentary on this, that it was always a terrible place to work, and they've abused employees, and ran a cult like, to keep pay down, along with dissent, run the employees until they quit, and get more. Usually fresh out of college so they didn't know better.
"Now itâ€(TM)s Microsoft that represents the evils of establishment largesse, complexity and corruption"
Believe it or not, less so than previously. You know when slashdot had the borg icon for microsoft. Back when BSoDs were daily, port 139 winnuke left everyone vulrneable, and there were no free updates, or live updates. Service Pack1 for windows 95 cost $150. All so you didn't get winnuked.
Back in the 1990s, hatred for microsoft was universal. PR people for microsoft used to be known as "Brown shirts", after the nazi SA, for their distruptive tactics at conventions and tradeshows. You could spot them as the only people who had nice things to say about linux. It lessened after the Xbox was released.
"Itâ€(TM)s true enough that for all its uncoolness with West Coast elites"
Yes, the vast, varried critism of microsoft could be summed up as a handful of complainers, with a political agenda. Laughable. Considering its more likely that its written by some douchebag with a BA, snobby "elite" is more likely true of the author than MS's critics.
"Microsoftâ€(TM)s re-engagement with developers and the start-up world has, to an extent, been a success."
Traditionally, microsoft's "engagement" is of the same type, when an Army says "engangement with the enemy". usually results in the destruction, absortion, or surrender of the
Can you say it any plainer, that large companies have to do favors for politicians to make sure the state remains a "friendly place to do business".
Is this any plainer than politicians shaking down business for bribes? Or is google doing something even more shady that they need his silence on?
some really creepy quid pro quo here, blatantly obvious quid pro quo.
Its windows, thats whats fucking wrong, no one wants windows on their phone
get lost brown shirt.
I think the whole math of paying someone more thant $75k/year to attract top talnet starts to go haywire.
A a point you tend to attract people who either cheat, game the system, or have connections, more than skill.
the smear campaign against hackers has been far more aggress, sinister, than just about anything else.
The press would rather talk to a bunch of pedophiles with blood on their dicks from freshly deflouring 8 year olds than give a shred of good press to the most noble and ethical of hackers
who are these hackers, nerds like you, are home grown suits, drawn from the typical agent pool.
No, its people like us they recruit. Of those 5,000, I can guaruntee that at least 4,000 were the type that would attend DEFCON, BEFORE, they starting working for the feds. Their good people are us. All institutions and movements survive by recruiting. The Feds have good people because people like us decide to work for them. They really need to remember that.
No, WE really need to remember that. Then remember how we get treated by society, the press, the legal system, etc...
Then think how well they get treated.
the problem with the feds is really thinking they care.
as with most sub-cultures, counter-cultures, its not that they misunderstand you, its they PURPOSEFULLY misrepresent you to the public. They just play stupid to get you do to all the work of informing them on how your sub culture works, which they use to exploit it.
If they can't exploit it, they just arrest everyone. If they do a good job of pre-trial slander, all they really have to do is prove you belong to a group of undesirables, and they really don't have to prove anything else.
For years they knew they didn't know enough about computers, but they figured, they could stigmatize enough computer users, until they volunteered their information in exchange for an image whitewash. They also knew the general public was ignorant and already distrustful of computers.(See evil robot movies, about how they are going to take jobs), and very little appreciation for the nerds who seemed to talk a diffrent language and didn't socialize properly with them.
To be honest back then, they kinda held the leverage.
Today, now that EVERYTHING is dependant on computers, and the TV is promoting "nerd" as its latest materialistic image of choice, I think its time for a good re-negotation of terms. WE hold leverage now.
and heaven knows what else they are looking for besides terrorists.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/FBI_Index
Read this, Subversives: the FBI's war on student radicals
http://www.amazon.com/Subversives-Student-Radicals-Reagans-Power/dp/0374257000
Based on de-classified FBI memos, it describes how th FBI kept security and reserve lists of political enemies, that could be detained at a moments notice.
Its a clear example on how we got damn close to having our own "night of long knives".
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Night_of_long_knives
I also understand that war is peace, and freedom is slavery too.
and also misses the point, most likely intentionally.
employees of buerocracy don't measure success in how well the buerocracy performs its job relative to society.
They measure personal success in how well the buerocracy does relivant to itself, and how well they do invidually inside the buerocracy.
I'd gander most people get into that work, because they see it as "recession proof", with retirement, good pay, and stability. They also probably recruit a good deal of ex-military who have a hard time finding work elsewhere. Given the fact the army is downsizing, it would be really easy to recruit them. No, extremely easy to recruit them, considering that its a government job, you get to move your pension over.
They are already used to working for the government.