Anyone else think that 55% white is an incredibly low number for a top tier tech company and not high, as everyone seems to indicate? I would have thought the numbers would like more like 60% white, 30% asian, 10% everything else.
Top tier tech are being populated by more Indians and Chinese than Caucasians now.
Gotta agree that's stupid. First, you can only hire people that are available with the skills you're looking for. So if you don't have "diverse applicants", you'll never get "higher numbers".
Second, I hope he doesn't mean it, but it sounds like Cook want to be more diverse to look more politically correct. If I were a stock holder, I'd be upset. I wouldn't want him be "diverse" so he can look good; I'd want him to hire the best qualified people in a completely "blind" way. If that means 90% are male, or 80% white, or 85% female, or whatever the numbers work out to be because those were the best people to get the job done, then so be it. If the PC-crowd doesn't like it, then they need to encourage more minorities to get the required education and get qualified.
Well that's probably the only angle they have left in the public eye right now. They are sitting at top of the anti-american list with the way they manufacture their products.
I find Snowden to be a typical pampered, ego-centric product of his generation. If he actually surrendered himself to US authorities unconditionally, I'd think he just might be insane. So I totally get why he is in Russia. I'm not saying I approve of what he did as I don't, but I get why he felt the need to hide under protection to do what he did. But he undermines his credibility with statements in the article like this:
I told the government I'd volunteer for prison, as long as it served the right purpose,” he says. “I care more about the country than what happens to me."
Yeah. Right.
He's now a puppet for Russia who is playing a cyberwarfare game on the US in the media.
or he knows what hes talking about. Treason is what the NSA is currently doing by failing to uphold the constitution, specifically the 4th amendment
The NSA has blanket authority to do what they want. You do know they haven't stopped doing a thing. All these investigations are nothing more than a dog and pony show. The NSA is business as usual.
I doubt there are that many people outside of the stereotypical Slashdot demographic who view Microsoft the way you are describing them. Most people I know of know Microsoft as simply the company who makes the software they are familiar with.
Most of the non-techie people I know despise Windows and Microsoft because they can't keep their computers running for six months without having to take it to the "Geek Squad" and have it disinfected. They could give a shit about openness, but they just don't understand why Microsoft can't make Windows work. The Techie people I know hate Microsoft because their past behavior. The president of one company I consult for hates Microsoft and wishes they could switch to something else, but their very expensive modelling and accounting software only runs on Windows.
That's just ignorance on the users part. It's just like people who refuse to change their oil regularly or put air in their tires. Regular maintenance and attentiveness comes with owning a computer. When you're told what to do over and over and yet you never change, how does it become Microsoft's fault? They dummy proof their OS and people disable these features because they are inconvenient.
When most of your customers hate you, it's not usually a very good long term prospect.
What we can notice is the conspicuous absence of a Surface RT 3 -- it appears like the RT line was a big anchor and is being cut loose, and the Pro line may be legitimately successful. The Pro line was generally praised by reviewers. The RT line...not so much.
The problem as I see it is that Microsoft has a mammoth credibility issue. They've used up their allotment of fuckup forgiveness. Starting largely with Vista, then throw in some other botched up stuff like Zune, Surface RT, The entire Windows 8 debacle,Windows phone - and it's not terribly surprising that people might be resistant to what might otherwise be a fine instrument.
Vista's botched launch was primarily Intel's fault. Unfortunately Microsoft caved and took the blame. It was Intel who forced them to make specific chipsets rated as compatible months before launch along with changed the standard for driver certification. This put manufacturer's nearly a year behind and by then it was too late.
There is no requirement to scan email that way. For content they index or publish, sure. But not for this. However this incident stinks of something carefully crafted to beak that they do to the public.
Don't use a free email system if you don't agree with the TOS.
Remember, some people classify "potential terrorist" as those who cite the Constitution in online article comments.
Everyone is a potential terrorist.
Chief Justice John G. Roberts, CIA director John Brennan, actress Julia Roberts, you and I are all potential terrorists. And potential child molesters too.
It goes without saying that I feel no sympathy for a child molester.
It shouldn't go without saying. That's groupthink.
What distinguishes a mensch from a barbarian is the ability to have sympathy for even those you despise the most. If someone is a child molester, I would think it highly likely that they suffer from a mental illness, and need our help. I don't think there are many who decided to become a child molester.
The more heinous the crime, the more important it is that we do not let base feelings take control. If we do, we are no better than the child molesters who let their base feelings take control of what they do.
If it was something stupid like statutory rape between a 16 and 18 year old then yes I have sympathy for the person. But it's being proven time after time that jail and rehabilitation is not working for these individuals. They are wired incorrectly and its not going to change.
It is well understood how ebola is transmitted and we have very well established containment protocols that we know work well. Ebola is not highly communicative, readily contained and the risks are quite low. The CDC doesn't even consider it among the most dangerous pathogens because it is relatively hard to transmit.
Sierra Leone's only expert on Ebola died from Ebola a couple of days ago, despite being an expert and therefore following all the safety procedures to the best of his ability.
There's a huge difference between the tents made out of sheets and branches from trees in Africa versus the labs of the CDC where people where fully enclosed body suits. Watch any of the videos and you can see just how easy it is to transmit the virus in Liberia. Conditions are awful.
I got a nice email from Comcast through Crytek for downloading Crysis 2. I had actually bought it by the time they contacted me so I could do the multiplayer. Without that download I wouldn't have went back and bought Crysis 1 either. Dicks.
I mean what he wants is tech companies to hire minorities because of their race right? Wouldn't it be more fair to be colorblind in the workplace and hire people according to skill?
Most tech companies do. What they may not have is more black/african american people. Big tech companies are rolling with individuals from china, asia, japan, india, russia and africa. But the majority of new highly skilled workers are coming from china and india.
Seriously, does anyone check their facts any more? By default it is turned off. You have to allocate some memory to the In-Memory Column Store by setting the INMEMORY_SIZE parameter and restarting the database. This is not going to happen by accident.
The parameter that is being discussed (INMEMORY_QUERY) which is enabled by default does nothing if no memory is allocated. You only get charged for the option if you turn it on by allocating the memory. This INMEMORY_QUERY parameter is not part of that issue.
Someone has taken something out of context and run with it. Now it has taken on a life of its own. Quality journalism!
Not to mention most people who spending the amount of money required for a custom built solution will already know the licensing requirements. There won't some magical surprise you owe us another $100k because you have 4 processors instead of 1. It sounds more like the OP can't read.
Apple was definitely behind the power, performance curve," said Nathan Brookwood, principal analyst at Insight 64. The PowerPC processor that emerged from that earlier pairing changed that
PowerPC was pushed by the AIM alliance: Apple, IBM, Motorola. The latter two developed and produced chips. Apple had some input. The goal was an ISA that made it easy to emulate both m68k and i386.
Can we then add that 10 years ago Apple almost went under until Microsoft bailed them out.
yes... that's sort of the point. windows servers and device drivers being stable has been a real problem even for fully supported hardware
You get what you pay for. If you did any research and bought supported components you never had a problem. It's companies that took the cheap route and didn't buy things like Adaptec controllers or offbrand system boards.
And of course you could be such a fanatic jihadist pretending to not even be muslim. So you want mind if the FBI goes through all your communications and belongings anytime they feel like it. And of course you won't mind the occasional week long questioning session..
I have nothing to hide, except the pron from my wife (she found it already) so why would I care what the FBI does? They aren't going to act on any of this unless these people actually plan to do something criminal and in that case, they should.
I don't think she has a case against tor at all because its already been ruled ISPs cannot nor even web sites cant be held responsible for what's its users do or upload. I can be wrong though as im not a lawyer, just recollecting what I've already read in the news. But the web site \owner and its users who uploaded are in sit deep trouble. Don't be a dick just delete the images you know you never had permission to broadcast.
ISP's can be held responsible if they refuse to cancel service for people involved in criminal activity. But this lady needs to go after the person running the TOR, not TOR itself.
As has been pointed out several times, this was not product testing. This was a psychological test which Facebook failed to get informed consent.
Science is in no way hurt by this but that you think it is shows how truly ignorant you are.
"the questionable assumption that such manipulation has happened"
They literally wrote a peer-reviewed scientific paper demonstrating that they manipulated people's moods to a statistically significant degree, I don't think there's much you can call questionable about it from Facebook's perspective.
And what do you call advertising, commercials and the nightly news? The same damn thing.
Under this sort of thinking, Volkswagen would be liable if someone drove a VW as the getaway car in a bank robbery.
No. Under this sort of thinking, the owner of a Volkswagen would be liable if someone drove their VW as the getaway car in a bank robbery. And indeed, in some countries you can be held [partially] liable for misuse of your vehicle even if all you did was leave the keys in the car, especially if you have even a passing relationship with the perpetrators.
The owner would only be responsible if they loaned the vehicle and even in that case they could just say it was stolen.
This would be akin to owning a strip club and get busted for prostitution. You can tell people not to do illegal things but when you're having sex with a stripper on the property, the owner is liable for damages. Just like the person running the TOR. If he knows people will be using this for illegal purposes than maybe he should have a way to ban them.
Microsoft has pushed upon the world (literally, the world) software that has a history of security issues.
.
Now it appears that Microsoft is using their reputation for producing security-challenged software to badger companies for PR purposes. The headlines will all read, ~Microsoft takes down a company that is a security threat~. And Microsoft will look good in the headline.
But what has Microsoft really accomplished? Will Microsoft's reputation for software with abysmal security be changed? Or will a small company be crushed because a huge company is trying to look good?
Microsoft has no more bugs than any other software out there. Come to think of it, their bugs are fixed in many cases and only impact virus type exploits. Heartbleed was only exposed for what, 10 years? It was embedded in over half the web servers out there...
Exactly. How long until a Grandpa Random User is charged a huge overage fee because "they" downloaded a fifty HD movies via torrents - when the downloads were actually Public WiFi users? Or, more insidious, Joe User is charged a small overage fee for just barely going over the cap when the real reason for the overage was one or two Public WiFi downloads being marked under the subscriber's account?
Subnetting 101. They already do it on a per subscriber basis. What makes you think they can't do it here?
Why? The cable modem will be able to figure out what traffic is coming from the home vs. coming via the public wifi, and can count those separately. (And can do different speed shaping and prioritization).
As proven time and time again, cable companies seem to have a very difficult time accurately computing actual data usage. I wouldn't have a lot of faith that they can accurately keep track of data usage of two networks from the same cable modem.
It's really not that difficult since they will be assigned different subnet's in order to keep the vlan separate. This is networking 101. Most people complaining about internet usage not being accurate don't have a clue how to track it themselves. If you upgrade to blast, your quota is removed anyways.
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Anyone else think that 55% white is an incredibly low number for a top tier tech company and not high, as everyone seems to indicate? I would have thought the numbers would like more like 60% white, 30% asian, 10% everything else.
Top tier tech are being populated by more Indians and Chinese than Caucasians now.
Gotta agree that's stupid. First, you can only hire people that are available with the skills you're looking for. So if you don't have "diverse applicants", you'll never get "higher numbers". Second, I hope he doesn't mean it, but it sounds like Cook want to be more diverse to look more politically correct. If I were a stock holder, I'd be upset. I wouldn't want him be "diverse" so he can look good; I'd want him to hire the best qualified people in a completely "blind" way. If that means 90% are male, or 80% white, or 85% female, or whatever the numbers work out to be because those were the best people to get the job done, then so be it. If the PC-crowd doesn't like it, then they need to encourage more minorities to get the required education and get qualified.
Well that's probably the only angle they have left in the public eye right now. They are sitting at top of the anti-american list with the way they manufacture their products.
I find Snowden to be a typical pampered, ego-centric product of his generation. If he actually surrendered himself to US authorities unconditionally, I'd think he just might be insane. So I totally get why he is in Russia. I'm not saying I approve of what he did as I don't, but I get why he felt the need to hide under protection to do what he did. But he undermines his credibility with statements in the article like this: I told the government I'd volunteer for prison, as long as it served the right purpose,” he says. “I care more about the country than what happens to me." Yeah. Right.
He's now a puppet for Russia who is playing a cyberwarfare game on the US in the media.
or he knows what hes talking about. Treason is what the NSA is currently doing by failing to uphold the constitution, specifically the 4th amendment
The NSA has blanket authority to do what they want. You do know they haven't stopped doing a thing. All these investigations are nothing more than a dog and pony show. The NSA is business as usual.
Most of the non-techie people I know despise Windows and Microsoft because they can't keep their computers running for six months without having to take it to the "Geek Squad" and have it disinfected. They could give a shit about openness, but they just don't understand why Microsoft can't make Windows work. The Techie people I know hate Microsoft because their past behavior. The president of one company I consult for hates Microsoft and wishes they could switch to something else, but their very expensive modelling and accounting software only runs on Windows. That's just ignorance on the users part. It's just like people who refuse to change their oil regularly or put air in their tires. Regular maintenance and attentiveness comes with owning a computer. When you're told what to do over and over and yet you never change, how does it become Microsoft's fault? They dummy proof their OS and people disable these features because they are inconvenient. When most of your customers hate you, it's not usually a very good long term prospect.
What we can notice is the conspicuous absence of a Surface RT 3 -- it appears like the RT line was a big anchor and is being cut loose, and the Pro line may be legitimately successful. The Pro line was generally praised by reviewers. The RT line...not so much.
The problem as I see it is that Microsoft has a mammoth credibility issue. They've used up their allotment of fuckup forgiveness. Starting largely with Vista, then throw in some other botched up stuff like Zune, Surface RT, The entire Windows 8 debacle,Windows phone - and it's not terribly surprising that people might be resistant to what might otherwise be a fine instrument.
Vista's botched launch was primarily Intel's fault. Unfortunately Microsoft caved and took the blame. It was Intel who forced them to make specific chipsets rated as compatible months before launch along with changed the standard for driver certification. This put manufacturer's nearly a year behind and by then it was too late.
I'm confused. You're saying they're not delivering what they advertised, and yet they should win? How do you think that works.
There's always disclaimers about how your multiplayer experience may vary. I'm sure Sony will cite that it will be tossed out.
There is no requirement to scan email that way. For content they index or publish, sure. But not for this. However this incident stinks of something carefully crafted to beak that they do to the public.
Don't use a free email system if you don't agree with the TOS.
Remember, some people classify "potential terrorist" as those who cite the Constitution in online article comments.
Everyone is a potential terrorist. Chief Justice John G. Roberts, CIA director John Brennan, actress Julia Roberts, you and I are all potential terrorists. And potential child molesters too.
It goes without saying that I feel no sympathy for a child molester.
It shouldn't go without saying. That's groupthink.
What distinguishes a mensch from a barbarian is the ability to have sympathy for even those you despise the most. If someone is a child molester, I would think it highly likely that they suffer from a mental illness, and need our help. I don't think there are many who decided to become a child molester.
The more heinous the crime, the more important it is that we do not let base feelings take control. If we do, we are no better than the child molesters who let their base feelings take control of what they do.
If it was something stupid like statutory rape between a 16 and 18 year old then yes I have sympathy for the person. But it's being proven time after time that jail and rehabilitation is not working for these individuals. They are wired incorrectly and its not going to change.
Sierra Leone's only expert on Ebola died from Ebola a couple of days ago, despite being an expert and therefore following all the safety procedures to the best of his ability.
There's a huge difference between the tents made out of sheets and branches from trees in Africa versus the labs of the CDC where people where fully enclosed body suits. Watch any of the videos and you can see just how easy it is to transmit the virus in Liberia. Conditions are awful.
I got a nice email from Comcast through Crytek for downloading Crysis 2. I had actually bought it by the time they contacted me so I could do the multiplayer. Without that download I wouldn't have went back and bought Crysis 1 either. Dicks.
I mean what he wants is tech companies to hire minorities because of their race right? Wouldn't it be more fair to be colorblind in the workplace and hire people according to skill?
Most tech companies do. What they may not have is more black/african american people. Big tech companies are rolling with individuals from china, asia, japan, india, russia and africa. But the majority of new highly skilled workers are coming from china and india.
Seriously, does anyone check their facts any more? By default it is turned off. You have to allocate some memory to the In-Memory Column Store by setting the INMEMORY_SIZE parameter and restarting the database. This is not going to happen by accident.
The parameter that is being discussed (INMEMORY_QUERY) which is enabled by default does nothing if no memory is allocated. You only get charged for the option if you turn it on by allocating the memory. This INMEMORY_QUERY parameter is not part of that issue.
Someone has taken something out of context and run with it. Now it has taken on a life of its own. Quality journalism!
Not to mention most people who spending the amount of money required for a custom built solution will already know the licensing requirements. There won't some magical surprise you owe us another $100k because you have 4 processors instead of 1. It sounds more like the OP can't read.
Apple was definitely behind the power, performance curve," said Nathan Brookwood, principal analyst at Insight 64. The PowerPC processor that emerged from that earlier pairing changed that
PowerPC was pushed by the AIM alliance: Apple, IBM, Motorola. The latter two developed and produced chips. Apple had some input. The goal was an ISA that made it easy to emulate both m68k and i386.
Can we then add that 10 years ago Apple almost went under until Microsoft bailed them out.
yes ... that's sort of the point. windows servers and device drivers being stable has been a real problem even for fully supported hardware
You get what you pay for. If you did any research and bought supported components you never had a problem. It's companies that took the cheap route and didn't buy things like Adaptec controllers or offbrand system boards.
And of course you could be such a fanatic jihadist pretending to not even be muslim. So you want mind if the FBI goes through all your communications and belongings anytime they feel like it. And of course you won't mind the occasional week long questioning session..
I have nothing to hide, except the pron from my wife (she found it already) so why would I care what the FBI does? They aren't going to act on any of this unless these people actually plan to do something criminal and in that case, they should.
I don't think she has a case against tor at all because its already been ruled ISPs cannot nor even web sites cant be held responsible for what's its users do or upload. I can be wrong though as im not a lawyer, just recollecting what I've already read in the news. But the web site \owner and its users who uploaded are in sit deep trouble. Don't be a dick just delete the images you know you never had permission to broadcast.
ISP's can be held responsible if they refuse to cancel service for people involved in criminal activity. But this lady needs to go after the person running the TOR, not TOR itself.
As has been pointed out several times, this was not product testing. This was a psychological test which Facebook failed to get informed consent. Science is in no way hurt by this but that you think it is shows how truly ignorant you are.
It's ok. You've had 2 years to get over it.
"the questionable assumption that such manipulation has happened"
They literally wrote a peer-reviewed scientific paper demonstrating that they manipulated people's moods to a statistically significant degree, I don't think there's much you can call questionable about it from Facebook's perspective.
And what do you call advertising, commercials and the nightly news? The same damn thing.
Except that the purpose of this experiment was to play with emotions of their users. And upset was one of the expected results.
The problem is this was done in 2012. Almost 2 years ago. Anyone who was even remotely upset would have moved on by now.
Under this sort of thinking, Volkswagen would be liable if someone drove a VW as the getaway car in a bank robbery.
No. Under this sort of thinking, the owner of a Volkswagen would be liable if someone drove their VW as the getaway car in a bank robbery. And indeed, in some countries you can be held [partially] liable for misuse of your vehicle even if all you did was leave the keys in the car, especially if you have even a passing relationship with the perpetrators.
The owner would only be responsible if they loaned the vehicle and even in that case they could just say it was stolen. This would be akin to owning a strip club and get busted for prostitution. You can tell people not to do illegal things but when you're having sex with a stripper on the property, the owner is liable for damages. Just like the person running the TOR. If he knows people will be using this for illegal purposes than maybe he should have a way to ban them.
Yeah. Why the fuck is Microsoft, a company, allowed to seize *anything*!?
It's their security side of the business. You know the ones who have taken down many major malware and spam authors throughout the world...
Microsoft has pushed upon the world (literally, the world) software that has a history of security issues.
. Now it appears that Microsoft is using their reputation for producing security-challenged software to badger companies for PR purposes. The headlines will all read, ~Microsoft takes down a company that is a security threat~. And Microsoft will look good in the headline.
But what has Microsoft really accomplished? Will Microsoft's reputation for software with abysmal security be changed? Or will a small company be crushed because a huge company is trying to look good?
Microsoft has no more bugs than any other software out there. Come to think of it, their bugs are fixed in many cases and only impact virus type exploits. Heartbleed was only exposed for what, 10 years? It was embedded in over half the web servers out there...
Exactly. How long until a Grandpa Random User is charged a huge overage fee because "they" downloaded a fifty HD movies via torrents - when the downloads were actually Public WiFi users? Or, more insidious, Joe User is charged a small overage fee for just barely going over the cap when the real reason for the overage was one or two Public WiFi downloads being marked under the subscriber's account?
Subnetting 101. They already do it on a per subscriber basis. What makes you think they can't do it here?
As proven time and time again, cable companies seem to have a very difficult time accurately computing actual data usage. I wouldn't have a lot of faith that they can accurately keep track of data usage of two networks from the same cable modem.
It's really not that difficult since they will be assigned different subnet's in order to keep the vlan separate. This is networking 101. Most people complaining about internet usage not being accurate don't have a clue how to track it themselves. If you upgrade to blast, your quota is removed anyways.