It shouldn't be anything, but very specific things that screw Monsanto.
As a company, they can go to hell for all I care so I agree that the world can do without Monsanto and similar companies, but this isn't just about the company anymore. This is about their creation out there in the real world with the potential to do harm biologically. I'm not opposed to GMOs if they can be done safely and ethically. Ethically has failed a long time ago, but now the safely bit has failed as well, so that was my point.
The fact that he's suing Google for putting "bankrupt" in the autocomplete virtually ensures the words are permanantly linked together now that the news everywhere is reporting that Google put "bankrupt" in the autocom... (cue infinite loop). And now not just on Google, but also on Bing, Yahoo and pretty much every other search engine that didn't previously put "bankrupt" next to his name.
Who said anything about PP? And it isn't a waste of time to build a big picture of exactly what's needed, what needs improving and what needs weeding out. If they don't know what to change, how will they change?
Of how much time and productivity is being wasted on inadequate practices and how much you'll improve your product, discover bugs faster and generally innovate with your improvements. Worst case, you'll need to do a shame trip on a few egregious offenders (pick their work and try to exclude names) and show how you'd do things differently.
The benefit from your improvements must be obvious, immediate and beyond reproach.
Fair warning: You cannot change the mind of management if they're more worried about maintaining the status quo. A very likely issue, if it's been this long with no improvements. All of the above will only work if your 2-3 people have any position of authority within the company. In my experience, the old-dogs don't want to or can't change, in which case you'll be on your own.
Of course, you will also earn the ire of those around you if it's that type of atmosphere. People fear change when they're not the ones doing the changing.
...Will also screw those eating their products. Please resist the temptation to treat this so light-heartedly as just another case of hubris. These things affect not just one or two lives, but entire communities and even a couple of generations.
A bit like a Linux distribution, they used existing components and avoided as much work from scratch as possible due to the time constraints and need for as reliability and flexibility as is possible. Some of the AWS wizardry and front-end stuff may be what's really missing from the picture.
Agree with this 100%. At the most a public apology for making the system slow would have been plenty from Aaron. While we're at kicking out Ortiz, the same treatment should go to Stephen Heymann.
JSTOR acted naively, but corrected itself later. MIT acted naively and then stupidly, but realized their mistake too late. Prosecutors acted like prosecutors typically do these days (I.E. tyranically) and a vulnerable kid took the least painful way out.
Mr. Swartz turned over his hard drives with 4.8 million documents, and Jstor declined to pursue the case. But Carmen M. Ortiz, the United States attorney in Boston, decided to press on.
As in MIT didn't "ensnare" anyone. They first overreacted, but then couldn't reach the reset button before Ortiz et al took over and sent all reservations MIT may have had about pressing on and destroying his life straight to/dev/null.
The prosecutors killed Swartz. That's it. While I appreciate the details of exactly what happened within MIT, lets not divert attention away to what this story really is. This should actually be looked as a big fat spotlight being shined on our spectaular legal system that values conviction rates over actual decreased crime rates and political gain at the cost of lives.
PayPal is an old granny trying hard to change her skewed view of business, but ain't getting anywhere. So she goes, "well, maybe the people who talk funny aren't out to steal money", but no. That kind of thinking won't change as it's too far ingrained. Are there people conducting funny business on PayPal? Of course! But when customer service is near non-existent and fundraisers can be a complete success or an abject failure well under the time it takes for them to turn their head either way, why would anyone use them for anything critical again?
I don't know if Google is a better alternative, but I can't imagine it's a surprise it's taking off as much as it is.
Easier than sanitizing correctly. Honestly, it's just laziness. There are also some places that actually send you the bloody password from the database when you enter an email (because that's also easier), instead of salt+hashing and just resetting it. And a unicode password would cause issues in the carefully crafted HTML layout of reset email. These are actual excuses I was given by a project manager. He doesn't work with us anymore.
Entering wrong infromation for password reminders / security questions.
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Maybe a little of both. Clearly, they had other priorities and this just fell through the cracks.
"turns out that mCrossDomain was of value 127": For some reason reminds me of the time Linus blew up at Mauro a little while ago also for returning a value that makes no sense (made worse by dancing around the issue).
... Depends on which is preferred. A relationship is basically an act of prolonged negotiation and it's not good to let it break down. Negotiations (whether by kind words or bullets), involve some form of bartering. Not unlike most games either.
But, seriously, just get together and talk about games for a start. If she loves you, she'll want to share that part of your life since it's clearly a significant part of your life. Start easy, and be aware of the difference in experience (important! Soundly defeating your opponent should be saved for later when she's good enough), and you can gradually start to enjoy games together even with the limited selection. I'd probably start looking for games playable with a simple download first since you did mention trouble finding good titles. There are lots of places online (flash games to start) and if you have two computers, you can compare scores even without multiplayer.
If she picks MindJack though, hand her the divorce papers.
Ilya Ivanovich Ivanov. They all resulted in failure (allegedly, some conspiracy theorists insist he was at least partially successful). I don't think that he'll have difficulty finding volunteers, only finding a place with neighbors who aren't keen on pitchforks and torches.
...If they have them installed and actually recording. Find out which ones were inserting the USB drives in question, fire them and ban them from ever being hired at any infastructure facilities. Train the remaining employees in security best practices and run random scans of any equipment they bring into the premises.
More often than not security breaches are a result of an oversight, but far too often, it's laziness and incompetence.
I think we'll have fewer misanthropic troglodytes around if they did all get to play Quake. But more importantly, we understand the silliness of rage and appropriate handling of frustration. I.E. Fragging bots is quite a lot more temporary than human beings. It certainly was a huge stress relief to play Quake III Arena back in high school (this is during the second wave video game scare after Columbine).
Knew when I saw the title, there would be posts praising HP for their blunder. Look, welfare needs reform, no one (sane) doubts that, but to end the whole system indiscriminately is both counterproductive and inhumane. There are many reasons why someone would need to go on welfare so learn a bit more sympathy and please stop the thinly veiled "kill 'em all" attitude.
Besides, the they fixed the mess in a day, so at most this was a major inconvenience.
While tablets alone may be shipping well (who can argue with the convenience of not having to lug around a full laptop), I'm seeing more and more people get keyboard cases for these. Also, with the plethora of Chinese Android tablets for dirt cheap, it's no wonder.
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It shouldn't be anything, but very specific things that screw Monsanto.
As a company, they can go to hell for all I care so I agree that the world can do without Monsanto and similar companies, but this isn't just about the company anymore. This is about their creation out there in the real world with the potential to do harm biologically. I'm not opposed to GMOs if they can be done safely and ethically. Ethically has failed a long time ago, but now the safely bit has failed as well, so that was my point.
Surely some of them have a taste for and can afford these games.
Even if India's censorship is just as asinine sometimes, I can totally see them giving any game that paints Pakistan in a bad light a pass.
The fact that he's suing Google for putting "bankrupt" in the autocomplete virtually ensures the words are permanantly linked together now that the news everywhere is reporting that Google put "bankrupt" in the autocom... (cue infinite loop). And now not just on Google, but also on Bing, Yahoo and pretty much every other search engine that didn't previously put "bankrupt" next to his name.
What an idiot.
Who said anything about PP? And it isn't a waste of time to build a big picture of exactly what's needed, what needs improving and what needs weeding out. If they don't know what to change, how will they change?
Of how much time and productivity is being wasted on inadequate practices and how much you'll improve your product, discover bugs faster and generally innovate with your improvements. Worst case, you'll need to do a shame trip on a few egregious offenders (pick their work and try to exclude names) and show how you'd do things differently.
The benefit from your improvements must be obvious, immediate and beyond reproach.
Fair warning: You cannot change the mind of management if they're more worried about maintaining the status quo. A very likely issue, if it's been this long with no improvements. All of the above will only work if your 2-3 people have any position of authority within the company. In my experience, the old-dogs don't want to or can't change, in which case you'll be on your own.
Of course, you will also earn the ire of those around you if it's that type of atmosphere. People fear change when they're not the ones doing the changing.
...Will also screw those eating their products. Please resist the temptation to treat this so light-heartedly as just another case of hubris. These things affect not just one or two lives, but entire communities and even a couple of generations.
A bit like a Linux distribution, they used existing components and avoided as much work from scratch as possible due to the time constraints and need for as reliability and flexibility as is possible. Some of the AWS wizardry and front-end stuff may be what's really missing from the picture.
Agree with this 100%. At the most a public apology for making the system slow would have been plenty from Aaron. While we're at kicking out Ortiz, the same treatment should go to Stephen Heymann.
JSTOR acted naively, but corrected itself later. MIT acted naively and then stupidly, but realized their mistake too late. Prosecutors acted like prosecutors typically do these days (I.E. tyranically) and a vulnerable kid took the least painful way out.
As in MIT didn't "ensnare" anyone. They first overreacted, but then couldn't reach the reset button before Ortiz et al took over and sent all reservations MIT may have had about pressing on and destroying his life straight to /dev/null .
The prosecutors killed Swartz. That's it. While I appreciate the details of exactly what happened within MIT, lets not divert attention away to what this story really is. This should actually be looked as a big fat spotlight being shined on our spectaular legal system that values conviction rates over actual decreased crime rates and political gain at the cost of lives.
PayPal is an old granny trying hard to change her skewed view of business, but ain't getting anywhere. So she goes, "well, maybe the people who talk funny aren't out to steal money", but no. That kind of thinking won't change as it's too far ingrained. Are there people conducting funny business on PayPal? Of course! But when customer service is near non-existent and fundraisers can be a complete success or an abject failure well under the time it takes for them to turn their head either way, why would anyone use them for anything critical again?
I don't know if Google is a better alternative, but I can't imagine it's a surprise it's taking off as much as it is.
Easier than sanitizing correctly. Honestly, it's just laziness. There are also some places that actually send you the bloody password from the database when you enter an email (because that's also easier), instead of salt+hashing and just resetting it. And a unicode password would cause issues in the carefully crafted HTML layout of reset email. These are actual excuses I was given by a project manager. He doesn't work with us anymore.
Entering wrong infromation for password reminders / security questions.
Maybe a little of both. Clearly, they had other priorities and this just fell through the cracks.
"turns out that mCrossDomain was of value 127": For some reason reminds me of the time Linus blew up at Mauro a little while ago also for returning a value that makes no sense (made worse by dancing around the issue).
... Depends on which is preferred. A relationship is basically an act of prolonged negotiation and it's not good to let it break down. Negotiations (whether by kind words or bullets), involve some form of bartering. Not unlike most games either.
But, seriously, just get together and talk about games for a start. If she loves you, she'll want to share that part of your life since it's clearly a significant part of your life. Start easy, and be aware of the difference in experience (important! Soundly defeating your opponent should be saved for later when she's good enough), and you can gradually start to enjoy games together even with the limited selection. I'd probably start looking for games playable with a simple download first since you did mention trouble finding good titles. There are lots of places online (flash games to start) and if you have two computers, you can compare scores even without multiplayer.
If she picks MindJack though, hand her the divorce papers.
Ilya Ivanovich Ivanov. They all resulted in failure (allegedly, some conspiracy theorists insist he was at least partially successful). I don't think that he'll have difficulty finding volunteers, only finding a place with neighbors who aren't keen on pitchforks and torches.
...If they have them installed and actually recording. Find out which ones were inserting the USB drives in question, fire them and ban them from ever being hired at any infastructure facilities. Train the remaining employees in security best practices and run random scans of any equipment they bring into the premises.
More often than not security breaches are a result of an oversight, but far too often, it's laziness and incompetence.
Whether for political or monetary reasons, for governments or companies, it's a very, very, very old game
I think we'll have fewer misanthropic troglodytes around if they did all get to play Quake. But more importantly, we understand the silliness of rage and appropriate handling of frustration. I.E. Fragging bots is quite a lot more temporary than human beings. It certainly was a huge stress relief to play Quake III Arena back in high school (this is during the second wave video game scare after Columbine).
... by that guy who just wouldn't shut up or is just obnoxiously loud, I'll just leave this here.
...can quite comfortably fit outside it.
Like Blade the Series. Execution is everything with shows and budget is only a small part of the equation
I'm not gonna rag on the prequels; it's been done to death already. They were made, done, deal with it.
Knew when I saw the title, there would be posts praising HP for their blunder. Look, welfare needs reform, no one (sane) doubts that, but to end the whole system indiscriminately is both counterproductive and inhumane. There are many reasons why someone would need to go on welfare so learn a bit more sympathy and please stop the thinly veiled "kill 'em all" attitude.
Besides, the they fixed the mess in a day, so at most this was a major inconvenience.
While tablets alone may be shipping well (who can argue with the convenience of not having to lug around a full laptop), I'm seeing more and more people get keyboard cases for these. Also, with the plethora of Chinese Android tablets for dirt cheap, it's no wonder.
Anyone else worried at what all this radio saturation is doing to our insides? Bluetooth, Wifi, Cellular?
I'm looking at all the stuff on my desk and wondering how much of it is sending me to an early grave.
Oops, I meant year before. My brain is still stuck in 2012.