You can call code bad while still being respectful to the person who wrote it.
Would you rather me say "Your solution doesn't work and this is why" or "You're a fucking moron and your code is crap." One of those comments is what we like to call "constructive" and the other is "hostile". One of them encourages the other person to do better and tells them what they did wrong. The other just tries to make them feel bad.
We have decided that in polite society we should be respectful to others. It's not about "kissing ass", it's about recognizing that people don't like to be bullied. People like people who are nice. It is also about recognizing that by treating people poorly you do not motivate them to do better, you motivate them to leave. Corporate America is not "professional" because we are sissies. We are "professional" because it easier to encourage dialog when people are not afraid.
Torvalds believes that he doesn't have to play by the rules because he is some Linux god and the rest of us can suck it. This is only true as long as the rest of us let him. People continue to be assholes and harass others as long as we sit here silent and take it.
And Mr Torvalds still hasn't figured out why Linux can't gain any recognizable market share. His attitude turns away good people.
Well TBH it has been tried but it'll need help from COngress, so it's not 100% Obama's fault. Of course what is his fault is promising something that he could not necessarily deliver on.
The President didn't make promises. He stated his goals and wishes upon being elected. So many people take every word as a promise.
Except everything Snowden has released isn't news. We've been suspicious for some time that the US helped develop the stuxnet virus. Major virus companies claimed this. The FBI/CIA surveillance revelation isn't new either. It was revealed back in the late 90's that this was happening. Yet again by AT&T a few years ago when they were being sued for something unrelated. Quit giving this retard the time of day because unlike Wikileaks who actually released credible secrets this guy is repeating stuff that anyone with google can find.
I'll freely admit that I believe in the unpopular-around-here Genesis account of a literal seven-day creation event, but nowhere in the Bible does it say something along the lines of, "And God created the continents, seven in total. Seven continents did God create, and He saw that they were good." If anything, you could probably make an argument that since the Genesis creation account only mentions one "land", that it may have been meaning a super-continent. Besides which, the Bible makes no claims that would contradict the idea of a super-continent existing prior to the Noahic Flood, and the Noahic Flood would also provide Christians with a reason for why the continents might have split, given that the Bible talks about "the springs of the great deep burst forth" and things of that sort in Genesis 7, indicating that there may have been some significant tectonic events occurring at the time of the flood.
Long story short, there may be difficulties reconciling the 165 million year age with the Genesis creation account, but there aren't any difficulties in reconciling the idea of a super-continent with the Bible.
His parents have launched a change.org petition to convince the authorities to release their son.
Perhaps his parents should understand the difference between local, state, and federal governmental jurisdictions and spend their time more wisely if they want their son released.
Maybe they should start by apologizing instead of making petitions and excuses about it being a joke.
The breadcrumb trail itself can raise a flag. Me driving coast-to-coast for the first time on a certain credit card resulted in a call to confirm several gas station purchases across the country. It was way outside my normal purchasing pattern, so it got flagged.
So 5 minutes of your time was wasted?
It would be months of your time had your card been stolen or the magnetic strip forged as you try to prove that the $300 of gas purchases suddenly escalated to $15k dollar charges. Not to mention your credit will be screwed for years due to companies who don't clear fraud even after you've resolved the mistakes. Plus the time and resources spent to fix it on both ends.
Great, the UK is becoming a panopticon state even faster than the US. As an American, I'm not petty enough to welcome the company.
You got it backwards.
The UK entered the mass-surveillance business back before WW1. Pax Brittania meant they could monitor the world with impunity, just like the US does now. Mass surveillance of British citizens entered the public knowledge around WW1, so the government made the GCCS (Government Code and Cypher School) public after the war. It was later named the GCHQ, which is the functional equivalent to the NSA in the United States. Thanks to the CCTV cameras every five meters it is still the most surveilled nation --- the US is not alone in monitoring every phone call.
US mass-surveillance came a bit later, but WW2 saw the industry boom. It entered public knowledge after WW2, which is about the time the NSA was formed. The "Five Eyes" program during World War 2 expanded government surveillance to the global scale. The five nations (UK, US, Canada, Australia, and New Zealand) are still working together to ensure that when one country can't do the spying, another country will gladly step in and spy for them.
The US joined the UK. Even though the US does an incredible amount of spying around the globe, the UK has been and continues to be the "leader" in homeland surveillance.
Hell they only make movies about it every couple years under the name James Bond. I find it funny when people are surprised that things are being monitored. What rock have they been living under for so long?
That was because the Xbox 360 hardware was measurably better in some ways. Xbox 360 had a faster GPU and a slower CPU, effectively. In this generation, both consoles have identical GPUs and CPU architecture - except sony paid for a GPU with more processing units, a faster CPU, and much faster memory. By "identical" I mean that the same code will basically execute on either console, almost unchanged.
Do you actually need the extra GPU? Sure it's cool to have it but when games on console's are capped are certain FPS what's the point? It's like people who play pc games at 150 fps. Complete overkill.
MS could always publish it for them. And every other game they find worthwhile. Which also means MS can take a bigger cut.
Except 90% of these indie games are complete garbage. If Microsoft became the publisher then they also might want to QA each game. I don't think they want that headache for some $10 indie game.
Sony fucked up a lot last gen, it looks like they are learning.
Either way, even if they change a month after shipping it, at least it started out better than Xbone.
Sony is going to fuck everyone over after the 1st year. They will patch the OS with always online or some crappy DRM. They essentially invented DRM so there's no way they will let it go.
On the other hand, you could use it to nuke your own phone if the police had seized it and were using it to find evidence against you...
Or better yet when high school lockers are being broken into because they supply 0 security you can kill switch these phones. It will deter most of this bullshit that goes on and allow police to focus on real crime.
Microsoft wont blame themselves for any difference between actual and total expected sales. They'll just prefer to blame the console market for being dead.
The only figure that will force MS to face reality is the actual difference between Xbox One and PS4 sales.
This same crap was being said about the PS3 versus Xbox. In the end MS won so we'll see how it actually plays out in the real world. Slashdot is not an indication of reality.
As long as Google Chrome supports XP,it can use a modern secure browser....
What happens when a new conficker hits that requires a kernel patch? Or something like slammer (I know it's sql) where it broadcast relentlessly infecting anyone and everyone. It takes 1 machine to take down a whole company.
Until the first big virus hits that exploits a security hole that won't be fixed. When you realize you machines that can't be patched and will continuously be infected you may think differently about corporate security.
At which time you discover that continuously re-cleaning the machines is STILL easier and less work and money than replacing the poorly written proprietary corporate dreck resembling a Rube Goldberg machine that only runs under Windows XP.
Tell that to your sales staff making $150k a year that you need to re-image or clean their machine twice a month. Better yet, watch their machine go down on the last day of the quarter causing you to miss your quarter. Stock tanks.
Now your cost just went through the roof because you want to take the route of additional downtime versus fixing the problem outright.
I would hope most people in the corporate environment know we use Windows 7 as well. This article discusses the pushing of new machines but it doesn't explain how most companies downgrade to Windows 7 based on the licensing.
"Pulling the rug out from under 40-50% of our clients should really shake things up and boost sales"
Unfortunately there's no rug pulling going on. Microsoft announced this end of life 3+ years ago. That's the lifetime of a many business pc's so this should come as no surprise to anyone.
For the business users still running XP, I don't see them flocking to buy new Windows 8 hardware. They are still on XP because either the software they run won't run on anything else, or they are small businesses that don't have an IT budget. As long as the hardware and software works, they aren't going to go out and buy new systems.
Until the first big virus hits that exploits a security hole that won't be fixed. When you realize you machines that can't be patched and will continuously be infected you may think differently about corporate security.
I totally believe it's possible to exfiltrate data from multiple game companies (or indeed any companies). But how do we know he didn't just upload a 1.7 TB encrypted blob of random garbage? The word of a 17-year-old script kiddie is not exactly a lot to go on.
We need to crowdsource decrypt it and laugh at him.
Ummmm --- Muslim brotherhood is in power in Egypt. Muslim brotherhood heavily influencing events in Libya. Al Queda rebels fighting in Syria with our support. Islamists on the rise in other middle eastern countries.
Yet more Al Qaeda have died than the americans they are fighting so they are losing.
I don't really understand why Facebook would do this. What benefit is there for them?
The harder it is for you to download your data, the harder it is for you to leave.
It's also harder for someone to steal your history, personal information and pictures with 1 click when your Facebook password has been compromised. Ever think this was more to protect you?
Facebook could easily put a ticketing system in allowing users to request access to this info and provide it via a random, expiring url. People would still bitch and cry about waiting a few hours or days before it was available even though they haven't provided a single penny to FB.
"The state has no right to force me to subject my body to any medical procedure, however trivial, and no right to any part of my living flesh. None. At all. Not a microgram. "
Clearly, you are incorrect. You may disagree, but the courts disagree with you, as of today. Now feel free to move somewhere else.
He better be careful. All that skin he sheds while walking is living evidence that he exists.
They aren't sequencing the entire genome... yet. That only requires advancement in technology. Given enough advancement in technology, a DNA sequencer might be in every Patrol Vehicle in a few years, or at least, every police substation/precinct. Given enough sequencing capability, and many, if not most genomes having been sequenced, it does present a situation like GATTACA.
Are you really afraid of that? The misuse of information by the government? I would bet the lives that have been saved by using DNA including the previously convicted freed is far greater than people who have been falsely accused using DNA.
My medical condition is not visually apparent, but once you see my list of medicine you would know what it was
Is your medical condition visible in your DNA? I doubt it. They aren't taking a blood and drug test but swabbing your DNA in case it matches a future crime.
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The Sun Rays are pretty handing technology. I was surprised at how well they work.
Except no one wants them. They would rather have a fully functional PC or tablet instead.
You can call code bad while still being respectful to the person who wrote it.
Would you rather me say "Your solution doesn't work and this is why" or "You're a fucking moron and your code is crap." One of those comments is what we like to call "constructive" and the other is "hostile". One of them encourages the other person to do better and tells them what they did wrong. The other just tries to make them feel bad.
We have decided that in polite society we should be respectful to others. It's not about "kissing ass", it's about recognizing that people don't like to be bullied. People like people who are nice. It is also about recognizing that by treating people poorly you do not motivate them to do better, you motivate them to leave. Corporate America is not "professional" because we are sissies. We are "professional" because it easier to encourage dialog when people are not afraid.
Torvalds believes that he doesn't have to play by the rules because he is some Linux god and the rest of us can suck it. This is only true as long as the rest of us let him. People continue to be assholes and harass others as long as we sit here silent and take it.
And Mr Torvalds still hasn't figured out why Linux can't gain any recognizable market share. His attitude turns away good people.
Well TBH it has been tried but it'll need help from COngress, so it's not 100% Obama's fault. Of course what is his fault is promising something that he could not necessarily deliver on.
The President didn't make promises. He stated his goals and wishes upon being elected. So many people take every word as a promise.
Except everything Snowden has released isn't news. We've been suspicious for some time that the US helped develop the stuxnet virus. Major virus companies claimed this. The FBI/CIA surveillance revelation isn't new either. It was revealed back in the late 90's that this was happening. Yet again by AT&T a few years ago when they were being sued for something unrelated. Quit giving this retard the time of day because unlike Wikileaks who actually released credible secrets this guy is repeating stuff that anyone with google can find.
I'll freely admit that I believe in the unpopular-around-here Genesis account of a literal seven-day creation event, but nowhere in the Bible does it say something along the lines of, "And God created the continents, seven in total. Seven continents did God create, and He saw that they were good." If anything, you could probably make an argument that since the Genesis creation account only mentions one "land", that it may have been meaning a super-continent. Besides which, the Bible makes no claims that would contradict the idea of a super-continent existing prior to the Noahic Flood, and the Noahic Flood would also provide Christians with a reason for why the continents might have split, given that the Bible talks about "the springs of the great deep burst forth" and things of that sort in Genesis 7, indicating that there may have been some significant tectonic events occurring at the time of the flood.
Long story short, there may be difficulties reconciling the 165 million year age with the Genesis creation account, but there aren't any difficulties in reconciling the idea of a super-continent with the Bible.
Or a big Tsunami.
His parents have launched a change.org petition to convince the authorities to release their son.
Perhaps his parents should understand the difference between local, state, and federal governmental jurisdictions and spend their time more wisely if they want their son released.
Maybe they should start by apologizing instead of making petitions and excuses about it being a joke.
What she did was stupid, and the result of being a nosey busybody, none of which is unusual. What the authorities have done is madness and dangerous.
Maybe you should look at this stupid teenager instead of trying to deflect the issue of how he was discovered saying these things.
The breadcrumb trail itself can raise a flag. Me driving coast-to-coast for the first time on a certain credit card resulted in a call to confirm several gas station purchases across the country. It was way outside my normal purchasing pattern, so it got flagged.
So 5 minutes of your time was wasted? It would be months of your time had your card been stolen or the magnetic strip forged as you try to prove that the $300 of gas purchases suddenly escalated to $15k dollar charges. Not to mention your credit will be screwed for years due to companies who don't clear fraud even after you've resolved the mistakes. Plus the time and resources spent to fix it on both ends.
Great, the UK is becoming a panopticon state even faster than the US. As an American, I'm not petty enough to welcome the company.
You got it backwards.
The UK entered the mass-surveillance business back before WW1. Pax Brittania meant they could monitor the world with impunity, just like the US does now. Mass surveillance of British citizens entered the public knowledge around WW1, so the government made the GCCS (Government Code and Cypher School) public after the war. It was later named the GCHQ, which is the functional equivalent to the NSA in the United States. Thanks to the CCTV cameras every five meters it is still the most surveilled nation --- the US is not alone in monitoring every phone call.
US mass-surveillance came a bit later, but WW2 saw the industry boom. It entered public knowledge after WW2, which is about the time the NSA was formed. The "Five Eyes" program during World War 2 expanded government surveillance to the global scale. The five nations (UK, US, Canada, Australia, and New Zealand) are still working together to ensure that when one country can't do the spying, another country will gladly step in and spy for them.
The US joined the UK. Even though the US does an incredible amount of spying around the globe, the UK has been and continues to be the "leader" in homeland surveillance.
Hell they only make movies about it every couple years under the name James Bond. I find it funny when people are surprised that things are being monitored. What rock have they been living under for so long?
That was because the Xbox 360 hardware was measurably better in some ways. Xbox 360 had a faster GPU and a slower CPU, effectively. In this generation, both consoles have identical GPUs and CPU architecture - except sony paid for a GPU with more processing units, a faster CPU, and much faster memory. By "identical" I mean that the same code will basically execute on either console, almost unchanged.
Do you actually need the extra GPU? Sure it's cool to have it but when games on console's are capped are certain FPS what's the point? It's like people who play pc games at 150 fps. Complete overkill.
MS could always publish it for them. And every other game they find worthwhile. Which also means MS can take a bigger cut.
Except 90% of these indie games are complete garbage. If Microsoft became the publisher then they also might want to QA each game. I don't think they want that headache for some $10 indie game.
Citation please.
Sony fucked up a lot last gen, it looks like they are learning.
Either way, even if they change a month after shipping it, at least it started out better than Xbone.
Sony is going to fuck everyone over after the 1st year. They will patch the OS with always online or some crappy DRM. They essentially invented DRM so there's no way they will let it go.
On the other hand, you could use it to nuke your own phone if the police had seized it and were using it to find evidence against you...
Or better yet when high school lockers are being broken into because they supply 0 security you can kill switch these phones. It will deter most of this bullshit that goes on and allow police to focus on real crime.
Microsoft wont blame themselves for any difference between actual and total expected sales. They'll just prefer to blame the console market for being dead.
The only figure that will force MS to face reality is the actual difference between Xbox One and PS4 sales.
This same crap was being said about the PS3 versus Xbox. In the end MS won so we'll see how it actually plays out in the real world. Slashdot is not an indication of reality.
As long as Google Chrome supports XP ,it can use a modern secure browser....
What happens when a new conficker hits that requires a kernel patch? Or something like slammer (I know it's sql) where it broadcast relentlessly infecting anyone and everyone. It takes 1 machine to take down a whole company.
At which time you discover that continuously re-cleaning the machines is STILL easier and less work and money than replacing the poorly written proprietary corporate dreck resembling a Rube Goldberg machine that only runs under Windows XP.
Tell that to your sales staff making $150k a year that you need to re-image or clean their machine twice a month. Better yet, watch their machine go down on the last day of the quarter causing you to miss your quarter. Stock tanks. Now your cost just went through the roof because you want to take the route of additional downtime versus fixing the problem outright. I would hope most people in the corporate environment know we use Windows 7 as well. This article discusses the pushing of new machines but it doesn't explain how most companies downgrade to Windows 7 based on the licensing.
"Pulling the rug out from under 40-50% of our clients should really shake things up and boost sales"
Unfortunately there's no rug pulling going on. Microsoft announced this end of life 3+ years ago. That's the lifetime of a many business pc's so this should come as no surprise to anyone.
For the business users still running XP, I don't see them flocking to buy new Windows 8 hardware. They are still on XP because either the software they run won't run on anything else, or they are small businesses that don't have an IT budget. As long as the hardware and software works, they aren't going to go out and buy new systems.
Until the first big virus hits that exploits a security hole that won't be fixed. When you realize you machines that can't be patched and will continuously be infected you may think differently about corporate security.
I totally believe it's possible to exfiltrate data from multiple game companies (or indeed any companies). But how do we know he didn't just upload a 1.7 TB encrypted blob of random garbage? The word of a 17-year-old script kiddie is not exactly a lot to go on.
We need to crowdsource decrypt it and laugh at him.
Ummmm --- Muslim brotherhood is in power in Egypt. Muslim brotherhood heavily influencing events in Libya. Al Queda rebels fighting in Syria with our support. Islamists on the rise in other middle eastern countries.
Yet more Al Qaeda have died than the americans they are fighting so they are losing.
The harder it is for you to download your data, the harder it is for you to leave.
It's also harder for someone to steal your history, personal information and pictures with 1 click when your Facebook password has been compromised. Ever think this was more to protect you? Facebook could easily put a ticketing system in allowing users to request access to this info and provide it via a random, expiring url. People would still bitch and cry about waiting a few hours or days before it was available even though they haven't provided a single penny to FB.
"The state has no right to force me to subject my body to any medical procedure, however trivial, and no right to any part of my living flesh. None. At all. Not a microgram. "
Clearly, you are incorrect. You may disagree, but the courts disagree with you, as of today. Now feel free to move somewhere else.
He better be careful. All that skin he sheds while walking is living evidence that he exists.
They aren't sequencing the entire genome... yet. That only requires advancement in technology. Given enough advancement in technology, a DNA sequencer might be in every Patrol Vehicle in a few years, or at least, every police substation/precinct. Given enough sequencing capability, and many, if not most genomes having been sequenced, it does present a situation like GATTACA.
Are you really afraid of that? The misuse of information by the government? I would bet the lives that have been saved by using DNA including the previously convicted freed is far greater than people who have been falsely accused using DNA.
My medical condition is not visually apparent, but once you see my list of medicine you would know what it was
Is your medical condition visible in your DNA? I doubt it. They aren't taking a blood and drug test but swabbing your DNA in case it matches a future crime.
The difference is, a finger print does not contain medically private data.
Medically private? Shoot me now.