I was going to crack some funny about "Freedom Miles" when I remembered that they could just use the larger 'imperial' gallon and call it Mission Accomplished.
Little note: if you find yourself getting any significant amount of energy from regenerative braking, then you are an awful driver who is a hazard to yourself and others.
Granted there's a lot of such drivers out there, but education and training should have a better ROI then chasing the latest idiocy-compensation technology.
Jobs also only had one talent that I could see: saying "No". Apple employed some brilliant people, and Jobs shitcanned the ones who weren't up to scratch.
As They also say, it takes a dictator to make the trains run on time. <Godwinned>
You've been though the perv-scan or the finger-rape, your carry on baggage has already been nuked, and you're at the boarding gate with only Sally Swipe-n-Smile between you and the 'plane.
Then the machine goes "ping" and the siren goes off. What now? How does that play out?
If it's a false positive (and it will be) then Sally asks you politely to step aside, and it's just another piece of minor inconvenience for the airline, and probably a missed flight and some more TSA probing for the traveller.
But let's pretend for a second that it's a true positive - which is surely the only scenario that we're actually interested in. What then?
Does Sally throw herself onto the passenger in slow motion, screaming "Nooooooo!" in order to save everyone else? And how does she know that this is the one time that it's a real threat, rather than the false ones that she's become used to, day after day?
Really, how does Sally react to the real threat, and what will be the results of that reaction?
Why not RTFA and find out for yourself? It seems clear enough that he lied, at least by omission, in order to get himself on the jury. And there's also precedent that the court can and should assume that he did it for nefarious purposes, regardless of what he says now.
The man was asked clear questions, and lied. He was given absolutely explicit instruction to disregards his own understanding and experiences of patent law and only use the intrinsic evidence in the case. By his own admission, he disregarded those instructions and set himself up as a secret jury room expect - then got it comically wrong, although Samsung aren't laughing.
Of course, he may be lying about that as well, which is why the court should at the very least have a hearing to see which of his stories he wants to stick to now.
You can spend a week in a tiger team lock-in session, mind mapping the shizzle out of your next project. Eventually, a desperate delirium sets in, and you'll agree to anything just to get out of there. Thus the design is "finalised".
Then by the time you get back to your keyboard, some executive vice president of marketing is accidentally exposed to a copy of Wired, and decides that instead of writing an app to keep recipes on, what you really need is to ride the frontsurge to a collaboratively cloudsourced web 3.0 win-win solution, and the charade starts all over again.
Experience starts to look a lot like cynicism after a while.
The first release showed that they didn't even comprehend the basic concepts of security. They were trying to paper over cracks the size of the Grand Canyon. "We'll add it later" was an epic fail in that context. Better to do nothing, than to do anything wrong.
Oh, I doubt they'll let any money accumulate. Any "independent trust" will be run by husbands and wives of the Nominet cabal, and they'll find creative ways to cross "consult" with each other. That's just how Things Are Done.
Yes, there's going to be a global shortage. No, nobody reading this will have to go without. Yes, you may find yourself sighing a little and eating a bit less. No, that's not the end of the world. Yes, it will seem like it.
I get your point, but the kid didn't have $999 in the first place, and the purchasers of bootleg DVDs don't have that $1.3 million. If we accept those numbers, then we're just confirming the delusional math of the the "Associations" (pronounced "cartels").
Slashdot has long been an abode of shills and trolls arguing over fresh Slashvertisements and yesterday's re-heated news. That's its only remaining merit.
The only lesson he learned was that it's better to be the bigger asshole and let it rain down on the people underneath you. Note that he's now all about being the shitcanner rather than the shitcannee.
From experience, you request all emails, memos and meeting minutes relevant to a subject from a government department or public body.
They reply that the information is classified, contains personal information that would be too burdensome to remove, or (if they're being honest) just reply with a variant of "Sod off, peon. We are obliged to tell you that you can appeal this decision."
You then appeal the decision, and the person who told a minion to tell you to sod off then tells you to sod off directly.
Then you get to appeal to the Information Commissioner's Office.
8 to 12 weeks later, you get an acknowledgement that your appeal has been received.
About 3 months after that, you get a note that it is being investigated.
A further 3 months passes and the ICO tells you that they have raised the matter with the original department or body.
And finally, 6 months later, you are told that your appeal has been unsuccessful, thank you, come again.
Perhaps if you're a media outlet with lawyers on staff you can get different results, but I've found that in the UK, information is only free in principle, not in practice.
We keep reading that they're being investigated, charged, "fined", but cut to the chase: what actual sums have left Microsoft's account and gone into the Brussels swill trough?
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Deep Space 9: "Tribunal". Hand in your Nerd Card and your UID at the door.
Clusterfuck.
You can buy them with bitcoins.
I was going to crack some funny about "Freedom Miles" when I remembered that they could just use the larger 'imperial' gallon and call it Mission Accomplished.
No, he got it in a Jaaaaag.
Little note: if you find yourself getting any significant amount of energy from regenerative braking, then you are an awful driver who is a hazard to yourself and others.
Granted there's a lot of such drivers out there, but education and training should have a better ROI then chasing the latest idiocy-compensation technology.
Well, you know what They say: those who can, do.
Jobs also only had one talent that I could see: saying "No". Apple employed some brilliant people, and Jobs shitcanned the ones who weren't up to scratch.
As They also say, it takes a dictator to make the trains run on time. <Godwinned>
You've been though the perv-scan or the finger-rape, your carry on baggage has already been nuked, and you're at the boarding gate with only Sally Swipe-n-Smile between you and the 'plane.
Then the machine goes "ping" and the siren goes off. What now? How does that play out?
If it's a false positive (and it will be) then Sally asks you politely to step aside, and it's just another piece of minor inconvenience for the airline, and probably a missed flight and some more TSA probing for the traveller.
But let's pretend for a second that it's a true positive - which is surely the only scenario that we're actually interested in. What then?
Does Sally throw herself onto the passenger in slow motion, screaming "Nooooooo!" in order to save everyone else? And how does she know that this is the one time that it's a real threat, rather than the false ones that she's become used to, day after day?
Really, how does Sally react to the real threat, and what will be the results of that reaction?
Were they the ones who made buggy whips?
Why not RTFA and find out for yourself? It seems clear enough that he lied, at least by omission, in order to get himself on the jury. And there's also precedent that the court can and should assume that he did it for nefarious purposes, regardless of what he says now.
The man was asked clear questions, and lied. He was given absolutely explicit instruction to disregards his own understanding and experiences of patent law and only use the intrinsic evidence in the case. By his own admission, he disregarded those instructions and set himself up as a secret jury room expect - then got it comically wrong, although Samsung aren't laughing.
Of course, he may be lying about that as well, which is why the court should at the very least have a hearing to see which of his stories he wants to stick to now.
You can spend a week in a tiger team lock-in session, mind mapping the shizzle out of your next project. Eventually, a desperate delirium sets in, and you'll agree to anything just to get out of there. Thus the design is "finalised".
Then by the time you get back to your keyboard, some executive vice president of marketing is accidentally exposed to a copy of Wired, and decides that instead of writing an app to keep recipes on, what you really need is to ride the frontsurge to a collaboratively cloudsourced web 3.0 win-win solution, and the charade starts all over again.
Experience starts to look a lot like cynicism after a while.
You will grow to like it: not a prediction, a directive.
The first release showed that they didn't even comprehend the basic concepts of security. They were trying to paper over cracks the size of the Grand Canyon. "We'll add it later" was an epic fail in that context. Better to do nothing, than to do anything wrong.
The chances of you hitting someone else armed with a gun is fairly minimal no matter what you're armed with. That's why cops like to go in mob handed and performing reconnaissance by fire, whenever the suspect is believed to be armed, or black, or a 92 year old lady - and even then they're most likely to shoot each other and then plant drugs on her.
Oh, I doubt they'll let any money accumulate. Any "independent trust" will be run by husbands and wives of the Nominet cabal, and they'll find creative ways to cross "consult" with each other. That's just how Things Are Done.
Yes, there's going to be a global shortage. No, nobody reading this will have to go without. Yes, you may find yourself sighing a little and eating a bit less. No, that's not the end of the world. Yes, it will seem like it.
I get your point, but the kid didn't have $999 in the first place, and the purchasers of bootleg DVDs don't have that $1.3 million. If we accept those numbers, then we're just confirming the delusional math of the the "Associations" (pronounced "cartels").
Slashdot has long been an abode of shills and trolls arguing over fresh Slashvertisements and yesterday's re-heated news. That's its only remaining merit.
The only lesson he learned was that it's better to be the bigger asshole and let it rain down on the people underneath you. Note that he's now all about being the shitcanner rather than the shitcannee.
Because I have a whole sack of them here that I'm willing to trade for BitCoins. No, wait, the other thing - Leprechaun gold.
SRSly, Slashdot, it's a joke currency used by a few fantasists and dreamers. WOW Gold is "worth" more. It's not news, never has been, never will be.
Then why the bullshit about geolocating the IPs? Spin it any way you like, but the story as presented makes no sense.
And then you find out the household that was using that IP address at that time by...?
Remember, Fantasy Man here assures us this his "basically an IT genius" friend did it "legally".
How?
From experience, you request all emails, memos and meeting minutes relevant to a subject from a government department or public body.
They reply that the information is classified, contains personal information that would be too burdensome to remove, or (if they're being honest) just reply with a variant of "Sod off, peon. We are obliged to tell you that you can appeal this decision."
You then appeal the decision, and the person who told a minion to tell you to sod off then tells you to sod off directly.
Then you get to appeal to the Information Commissioner's Office.
8 to 12 weeks later, you get an acknowledgement that your appeal has been received.
About 3 months after that, you get a note that it is being investigated.
A further 3 months passes and the ICO tells you that they have raised the matter with the original department or body.
And finally, 6 months later, you are told that your appeal has been unsuccessful, thank you, come again.
Perhaps if you're a media outlet with lawyers on staff you can get different results, but I've found that in the UK, information is only free in principle, not in practice.
Forget it, the Two Minute Hate has begun.
Australia, you used to be cool. What happened, bro?
Never mind frog boiling, they've just tossed the toad of liberty into the seething cauldron of totalitarianism and slammed the lid.
Seriously, guys, you're even making Soviet UKistan look like a shining beacon of individual rights now. Poor show.
We keep reading that they're being investigated, charged, "fined", but cut to the chase: what actual sums have left Microsoft's account and gone into the Brussels swill trough?