Nobody loses their job. It's a gradual process. It will probably take 20 years for driverless cars to take an important enough share of the market that it will affect infraction revenues.
Why not reduce the road patrols as driverless cars increase in popularity. As police officers retire and the need for road patrols declines just reduce the number of officers... Seems logical and how any business is run.
I haven't heard of this tax in Canada on EV but if it's true I want to smack the one who proposed it. I pay taxes on my electricity, why do I need to pay an extra taxes for using an EV? (Rhetorical question)
From the article: One of the alleged bomb threats happened April 30 just before 10:30 a.m. at Jean Vanier Catholic Secondary School in Milton, Ont., west of Toronto, said Halton Regional Police Sgt. Chantal Corner. She said an anonymous 911 caller said he had placed explosives near the school that he was going to detonate
Negativity is all I see from you. You do not see an ounce of good in anything which is unfortunate. Maybe you live in the US and that would possibly explain a portion of your views (which I cannot comment on because I don't live there). This article was pointing at the Canadian situation not the US situation. Many of the statements you made about the police or the post office appears wrong to me as I have had a completely different experience.
Anyhow, you seem hung upside down on everything... You are one of very few people I have seen with such pessimist views of public services. Considering how well we live in NA you would think one would be critical with a sense of respect.
I agree. It's almost as if all this privacy is to protect crooks and people with bad intentions. Everybody deserves a level of privacy but I think some information should remain available.
On the flip side a news article claiming one is a pedophile for which the individual is trialed and found not guilty can be very damaging as the original article is often no linked to the final outcome. Maybe news providers need to maintain the news article and make the outcome obvious.
Can someone explain how one gets amazing performance for the file server with cloud hosting? Replication?
For almost every single application I see the cloud being a god given gift (other than I have to convince the owners on a budget) but I can't get over the idea that file servers are much faster when local. I can't get a gig connection to a cloud service where I'm located so when those CAD guys need to access a 200mb file they won't be happy if the pipe is only 10Mbs.
EXACTLY. Thanks for making my point. You choose to trust them because you cannot be efficient otherwise. We have people in place to do jobs. When shit hits the fan people are questioned and the wheels of change are put in motion.
Do you trust he post office when you drop a letter in the mail box? The answer is YES. Let got a little bit and let them deal with it. They are capable and have proven so by implementing complex systems in the past. They have the public eye on them. If swatting is a problem they are doing what they can to resolve it. They are people just like you that do not want to see someone die from a bad call and they also want their budgets to go as far as they can make it go.
FYI, if you take the time to look you'll find out the government for the most part is open. It's not because you don't know anything about their protocols and procedures that they aren't available to the public. The military is a different story but your general bureaucracy is public domain and available on request if you care enough.
I mean no offense when I say this but the point I was making originally is that ill informed people like you make huge assumptions without having all the information. An article talking about swatting doesn't give you enough information to start criticizing the emergency services work.
I don't have the time to personally investigate every issue I have an opinion on and care to make a comment about online. If you're making the claim that you do then I believe you are a liar. If you're not claiming that then you're just a hypocrite.
If you are going to write about it in a public forum one would expect a minimum amount of research to be done. The current state of the internet allows anybody to publish a very negative view of anybody and anything without proper backing. I wish people were more mature and took a positive approach instead of bashing everything they see.
They won't invest money to fix a game that won't make money. 500 players isn't enough to justify a rework. My suggestion is the best. Let the public fix it. The hardcore players will find a way to make it work again.
Frankly, you sound just as untrustworthy as the police. NOT because you don't know what you're doing, but because you are arrogant and don't communicate well. How hard would it have been to explain your priorities? Why wouldn't you let him know about the issue before he had to discover it himself? What other problems are you secretly taking care of that you also neglected to inform him? What history do you have to demonstrate your trustworthiness?
A for the issue, a public list was already available with over 600 items to fix including this one but I wouldn't expect anybody to look at it since it's much easier to come see me and get a quick answer. Decision are often made in meetings with the parties that need to be involved. If you weren't in that meeting then you probably don't need to know the details. Having your priorities questioned by everybody that isn't happy THEIR problem isn't fixed first isn't efficient for anybody. Most members of this company trust each other and for that reason we have managed to double our revenues over the last 2 years. There are 2 - 3 abrasive individuals but for the most part team work is great. If a mistake is found it is simply routed to the individuals that require action to be taken. We at that point trust they will do what they need to fix the issue. If they require assistance from others they get them involved. At not point does anybody question each other's priority.
Micromanaging should only be a temporary state of management. If you keep micromanaging an individual you are either doing a shit poor job or have the wrong guy for the job.
Your view of who and what I am are wrong and that's fine by me. I've always rated very well in peer reviews so I know where I sit.
The way I see it you're just another bitter person complaining in a public forum but not doing anything about it. Have you actually questioned the authorities or do you just write on/. about it? From what I can see you've chosen to trust them just like I do because you have shit to do.
Many changes to the protocols have already been made. The WIKI on swatting makes reference to it and there are dozens of papers on it. As far as they are concerned it's a big problem with very few solutions. Most solutions would render the system useless. Tracking the source of the call is their best option at the moment. Basic checks are already made via the information available at the time of the call.
All your comments so far have shown me that you trust nobody. This means if you were a manager you would not delegate work because you would not trust it wasn't being handled to your liking.
Believe me when I say there are people involved that are looking at these numbers and reacting accordingly. With failure comes opportunity which often later results into solutions. If this is truly a problem there is a solution underway.
I deal with people that believe solutions are just suppose to pop up of thin air. E.g. Had a guy tell me the application I wrote was causing extra parts to be manufactured. I told him I was aware and that it wasn't a priority at this time. He threw his hands in the air (a little like what you've been doing in your comments) but what he didn't know is that the cost of this mistake was less than $20 per week where as the project I was about to finish was going to save $2000 per week. You are an outsider with no information and you aren't trusting the people in charge after they have been made aware of the issue. Take a step back, trust that the people in charge will do everything in their power to make things right.
You could be naïve and think that their original strategy to launch the product as a bundle had deeper rooted issues. Issues that would now have been weeded out. What I mean is that it could have been viewed as a good strategy to have a full package but when the public showed disapproval it was already too late to turn around. Months of code had already been written around the Kinect so to release on time they needed to keep it as is. Only later does the team manage to re-write the critical code and allow for a non-Kinect experience.
The fact and the matter is that emergency calls are very much dependent on the honor system (If I call about a fire the firefighters will show up).
What you are asking is to put aside the honor system in time of need so that we can avoid Swat calls? How many valid swat calls for the 30 fake ones actually occurred. If the number of invalid is less than 1% I'd say the call handlers are doing a great job.
It is much less expensive and far more efficient to deal with the small % of invalid calls than to hinder the service by creating road blocks for the people in need.
Being trialed as an adult has nothing to do with rights you haven't acquired yet. At 16 you may not be responsible with booze but you know the difference between right and wrong in a matter like this one.
As for the Swat orders, we don't know what he said to the emergency service. Lets say he called in and said he saw a group of men preparing grenades and assault riffles. Who do you send, the local police? I doubt it. There's an honor system and that's what emergency services rely on. If you call about a fire they send firefighters don't they?
Next time they get a call about people in a house with firearms, I'd like to volunteer you to knock on the door and investigate.
Unfortunately 1 or 2 cases every 5 years aren't enough to prove anything. Mass shootings are probably the only place a gun could be useful although a bullet proof vest may be rendered almost just as good in some cases.
Gun related deaths disproves your theory. Statistically almost every American owns a gun and yet 3 000 people die by gun shots yearly. Do you have 100 cases of people owning guns saving their lives yearly? Even if you do, does it matter considering it's less than 5% of the total problem?
If I was the government I would slap a ridiculous tax on guns (say 25%) and redirect the funds into the community to help reduce the violence that results from lack of education and poverty.
I know for fact Wolfeistein 3d full source sprites and maps was released to the public. Unfortunately only Quake 1 source code was release and I believe it was because the sprites and music wasn't theirs to release copyrights to.
I haven't needed a gun my whole life and the day I need one it probably won't matter to the outcome.
I'm sure the outcome will matter to you quite a bit on that day.
I'd like to know how a gun will save you when you are shot at first. Most shootings are cowardly or planned so the presence of a gun at you waist is going to mean nothing. There far more chances a bullet proof vest will save you.
I don't see people running to the store to get a bullet proof vest yet it would seem to be the more logical option for most people.
Or how about Wonder Woman's bracelets? Now they'd be running to the store.
The geeks already run to the store for that bracelet. LOL!!!
Who pays for the patch to remove DRM? Not as simple as it may sound in most cases.
I would be of the opinion that the source code should be released if the product is discontinued so that those avid fans can use their own time to bring it back to life. This benefits the game maker by removing liability, the fans by giving them back their favorite product and the general gaming dev community by educating them on what large studios do (or did).
Didn't John Carmak do this for his games (Wolf Eistein 3D, Doom and Quake)?
I haven't needed a gun my whole life and the day I need one it probably won't matter to the outcome. I don't see people running to the store to get a bullet proof vest yet it would seem to be the more logical option for most people.
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Are you ever bitter. Relax, your life doesn't depend on your comments on /.
Nobody loses their job. It's a gradual process. It will probably take 20 years for driverless cars to take an important enough share of the market that it will affect infraction revenues.
Why not reduce the road patrols as driverless cars increase in popularity. As police officers retire and the need for road patrols declines just reduce the number of officers... Seems logical and how any business is run.
I haven't heard of this tax in Canada on EV but if it's true I want to smack the one who proposed it. I pay taxes on my electricity, why do I need to pay an extra taxes for using an EV? (Rhetorical question)
How do you screen this call to avoid the swat?
From the article:
One of the alleged bomb threats happened April 30 just before 10:30 a.m. at Jean Vanier Catholic Secondary School in Milton, Ont., west of Toronto, said Halton Regional Police Sgt. Chantal Corner. She said an anonymous 911 caller said he had placed explosives near the school that he was going to detonate
Rob Ford was in the world news and it only had to do with Canada.
The article was about Canada. I was in context, you weren't.
Negativity is all I see from you. You do not see an ounce of good in anything which is unfortunate. Maybe you live in the US and that would possibly explain a portion of your views (which I cannot comment on because I don't live there). This article was pointing at the Canadian situation not the US situation. Many of the statements you made about the police or the post office appears wrong to me as I have had a completely different experience.
Anyhow, you seem hung upside down on everything... You are one of very few people I have seen with such pessimist views of public services. Considering how well we live in NA you would think one would be critical with a sense of respect.
I agree. It's almost as if all this privacy is to protect crooks and people with bad intentions. Everybody deserves a level of privacy but I think some information should remain available.
On the flip side a news article claiming one is a pedophile for which the individual is trialed and found not guilty can be very damaging as the original article is often no linked to the final outcome. Maybe news providers need to maintain the news article and make the outcome obvious.
Can someone explain how one gets amazing performance for the file server with cloud hosting? Replication?
For almost every single application I see the cloud being a god given gift (other than I have to convince the owners on a budget) but I can't get over the idea that file servers are much faster when local. I can't get a gig connection to a cloud service where I'm located so when those CAD guys need to access a 200mb file they won't be happy if the pipe is only 10Mbs.
EXACTLY. Thanks for making my point. You choose to trust them because you cannot be efficient otherwise. We have people in place to do jobs. When shit hits the fan people are questioned and the wheels of change are put in motion.
Do you trust he post office when you drop a letter in the mail box? The answer is YES. Let got a little bit and let them deal with it. They are capable and have proven so by implementing complex systems in the past. They have the public eye on them. If swatting is a problem they are doing what they can to resolve it. They are people just like you that do not want to see someone die from a bad call and they also want their budgets to go as far as they can make it go.
FYI, if you take the time to look you'll find out the government for the most part is open. It's not because you don't know anything about their protocols and procedures that they aren't available to the public. The military is a different story but your general bureaucracy is public domain and available on request if you care enough.
I mean no offense when I say this but the point I was making originally is that ill informed people like you make huge assumptions without having all the information. An article talking about swatting doesn't give you enough information to start criticizing the emergency services work.
I don't have the time to personally investigate every issue I have an opinion on and care to make a comment about online. If you're making the claim that you do then I believe you are a liar. If you're not claiming that then you're just a hypocrite.
If you are going to write about it in a public forum one would expect a minimum amount of research to be done. The current state of the internet allows anybody to publish a very negative view of anybody and anything without proper backing. I wish people were more mature and took a positive approach instead of bashing everything they see.
They won't invest money to fix a game that won't make money. 500 players isn't enough to justify a rework. My suggestion is the best. Let the public fix it. The hardcore players will find a way to make it work again.
Frankly, you sound just as untrustworthy as the police. NOT because you don't know what you're doing, but because you are arrogant and don't communicate well. How hard would it have been to explain your priorities? Why wouldn't you let him know about the issue before he had to discover it himself? What other problems are you secretly taking care of that you also neglected to inform him? What history do you have to demonstrate your trustworthiness?
A for the issue, a public list was already available with over 600 items to fix including this one but I wouldn't expect anybody to look at it since it's much easier to come see me and get a quick answer. Decision are often made in meetings with the parties that need to be involved. If you weren't in that meeting then you probably don't need to know the details. Having your priorities questioned by everybody that isn't happy THEIR problem isn't fixed first isn't efficient for anybody. Most members of this company trust each other and for that reason we have managed to double our revenues over the last 2 years. There are 2 - 3 abrasive individuals but for the most part team work is great. If a mistake is found it is simply routed to the individuals that require action to be taken. We at that point trust they will do what they need to fix the issue. If they require assistance from others they get them involved. At not point does anybody question each other's priority.
Micromanaging should only be a temporary state of management. If you keep micromanaging an individual you are either doing a shit poor job or have the wrong guy for the job.
Your view of who and what I am are wrong and that's fine by me. I've always rated very well in peer reviews so I know where I sit.
The way I see it you're just another bitter person complaining in a public forum but not doing anything about it. Have you actually questioned the authorities or do you just write on /. about it? From what I can see you've chosen to trust them just like I do because you have shit to do.
Many changes to the protocols have already been made. The WIKI on swatting makes reference to it and there are dozens of papers on it. As far as they are concerned it's a big problem with very few solutions. Most solutions would render the system useless. Tracking the source of the call is their best option at the moment. Basic checks are already made via the information available at the time of the call.
All your comments so far have shown me that you trust nobody. This means if you were a manager you would not delegate work because you would not trust it wasn't being handled to your liking.
Believe me when I say there are people involved that are looking at these numbers and reacting accordingly. With failure comes opportunity which often later results into solutions. If this is truly a problem there is a solution underway.
I deal with people that believe solutions are just suppose to pop up of thin air. E.g. Had a guy tell me the application I wrote was causing extra parts to be manufactured. I told him I was aware and that it wasn't a priority at this time. He threw his hands in the air (a little like what you've been doing in your comments) but what he didn't know is that the cost of this mistake was less than $20 per week where as the project I was about to finish was going to save $2000 per week. You are an outsider with no information and you aren't trusting the people in charge after they have been made aware of the issue. Take a step back, trust that the people in charge will do everything in their power to make things right.
You could be naïve and think that their original strategy to launch the product as a bundle had deeper rooted issues. Issues that would now have been weeded out. What I mean is that it could have been viewed as a good strategy to have a full package but when the public showed disapproval it was already too late to turn around. Months of code had already been written around the Kinect so to release on time they needed to keep it as is. Only later does the team manage to re-write the critical code and allow for a non-Kinect experience.
The fact and the matter is that emergency calls are very much dependent on the honor system (If I call about a fire the firefighters will show up).
What you are asking is to put aside the honor system in time of need so that we can avoid Swat calls? How many valid swat calls for the 30 fake ones actually occurred. If the number of invalid is less than 1% I'd say the call handlers are doing a great job.
It is much less expensive and far more efficient to deal with the small % of invalid calls than to hinder the service by creating road blocks for the people in need.
So if someone calls a fire the firefighters shouldn't just show up on site?
If someone calls with a swat level threat they won't send the police to be killed.
That's in the US. Very different in Canada.
Being trialed as an adult has nothing to do with rights you haven't acquired yet. At 16 you may not be responsible with booze but you know the difference between right and wrong in a matter like this one.
As for the Swat orders, we don't know what he said to the emergency service. Lets say he called in and said he saw a group of men preparing grenades and assault riffles. Who do you send, the local police? I doubt it. There's an honor system and that's what emergency services rely on. If you call about a fire they send firefighters don't they?
Next time they get a call about people in a house with firearms, I'd like to volunteer you to knock on the door and investigate.
Unfortunately 1 or 2 cases every 5 years aren't enough to prove anything. Mass shootings are probably the only place a gun could be useful although a bullet proof vest may be rendered almost just as good in some cases.
Gun related deaths disproves your theory. Statistically almost every American owns a gun and yet 3 000 people die by gun shots yearly. Do you have 100 cases of people owning guns saving their lives yearly? Even if you do, does it matter considering it's less than 5% of the total problem?
If I was the government I would slap a ridiculous tax on guns (say 25%) and redirect the funds into the community to help reduce the violence that results from lack of education and poverty.
I know for fact Wolfeistein 3d full source sprites and maps was released to the public. Unfortunately only Quake 1 source code was release and I believe it was because the sprites and music wasn't theirs to release copyrights to.
Ok here. But what about other products that aren't easy fixes like some of the older games?
I haven't needed a gun my whole life and the day I need one it probably won't matter to the outcome.
I'm sure the outcome will matter to you quite a bit on that day.
I'd like to know how a gun will save you when you are shot at first. Most shootings are cowardly or planned so the presence of a gun at you waist is going to mean nothing. There far more chances a bullet proof vest will save you.
I don't see people running to the store to get a bullet proof vest yet it would seem to be the more logical option for most people.
Or how about Wonder Woman's bracelets? Now they'd be running to the store.
The geeks already run to the store for that bracelet. LOL!!!
So, you're in a store, guy shoots you in the back. I can see the defibrillator helping but I still don't see how helpful the gun is.
Most shootings are cowardly and you having a gun on your person would have made no difference.
Who pays for the patch to remove DRM? Not as simple as it may sound in most cases.
I would be of the opinion that the source code should be released if the product is discontinued so that those avid fans can use their own time to bring it back to life. This benefits the game maker by removing liability, the fans by giving them back their favorite product and the general gaming dev community by educating them on what large studios do (or did).
Didn't John Carmak do this for his games (Wolf Eistein 3D, Doom and Quake)?
Are we this primitive?
I haven't needed a gun my whole life and the day I need one it probably won't matter to the outcome. I don't see people running to the store to get a bullet proof vest yet it would seem to be the more logical option for most people.