With IT, the brass has made them into dispensable scapegoats that slave away for meager salaries with the fear of being replaced in a heartbeat.
And who is responsible for that?
Think about it: who has convinced employers that IT people don't need to know anything about computing - they just push buttons.. any monkey could do that! You don't need someone who actually understands what the computer is doing, the three "R"s are all they need to know!
"Brass" hears all this from some marketing idiot, sees that everything is just pushing buttons on a GUI, and decides that all their IT guys are overpaid who are deserve blame when something breaks.
The problem is MS, for making non-IT people think that users should be the same thing as administrators.
Evolutionarily speaking, nobody ever lived long enough to get Alzheimers. Those who did wandered off into the tundra and didn't burden the tribe any longer.
[citation needed]
And no, I don't mean the misapplication of statistics that makes idiots think that "average" is the same as "median" or "mode".
Hi there - you must have just popped in from some alternate universe... did Michael Jackson die there too? Was he black?
In this universe, the speed with javascript is noticeably slower - in many cases it's so slow as to be unusable. I've tried it from both my home and work desktops (quad-core, 4 and 8GB of RAM respectively), and from my Netbook (EeePC 901). It's *always* slower with javascript enabled.
When the communities say I told you so, I wanna see Bill Gates cry.
The problem is that won't happen.
This was issued with great fanfare, press releases all around. What happens next week when it gets broken?
Nothing. Nobody will hear about it. The government isn't gonna issue a press release saying "oops, we were wrong", and the hackers that pull it off either won't have the resources to buy a feed in PR Newswire, or if they do, nobody will publish it, out of fear of offending their advertisers (ie. MS.)
It will be published on Ars and BoingBoing, and the people who make these sorts of decisions will never know, and continue to think this is what *they* have to do to make their environments "secure".
Yes, and then screw over those 1,300 people whose information you wrongly received. Congrats, you would have just became a criminal. I can only hope you would enjoy your stay in prison.
But isn't that just "Free Market" economics? By posting the information, he's doing *everyone* a favour by showing how insecure the bank is, thereby encouraging consumers to go elsewhere!
google has every right, even a responsibility, to stop it
They may have the right, but they have no responsibility to do it. And just because you have the right to do something, does not mean that doing it is *right*.
What happens if Cyanogen, or some other person, decided to modify the Talk so that all numbers dialed were reported to third party advertisers?
Is he doing that? Your argument is so fucking stupid, I'm wondering how the hell you manage to operate a computer. What if someone were to use a cyanogen modded G1 to beat a cop to death? Is that reason to stop him? What if someone used a non-cyanogen modded G1 to beat a cop to death? That might be reason to stop him too, right?
give your head a shake
Here's a novel concept: If he does do that, then you C&D him. Does that make sense? You know,
And how the hell should he be held responsible if someone else does something?
Right holders have a obligation to control distribution
Bull fucking shit.
If that were true, then how exactly do the Free/Open/Net BSD or FSF folks manage to survive?
Jesus, you (and the people who modded you up) need to pull your head out of your ass - your brain is full of shit.
(Yes, this is flamebait - mod me down, I don't care.)
Nope. The law says that you get one strike for each accusation, not conviction.
Considering there were at least two other instances where they were told they were infringing (once when they were notified, the second was the original court case) then they're ready to be disconnected.
Except that the other story was about different people. And they were from MIT, not Sherwood Park, Canada. And they used a still camera, not a video one.
So yeah, except for the fact that everything is different, it's completely the same.
You could make hummous. You just couldn't call it "hummous".
The concept is foreign to the US, but to much older areas, culturally, it's very important. You can't make "Delft" pottery except in Delft. You can't make "champaign" except in the Champaign region of France.
Please point me to the state, city or region in the middle east called "Hummous." I couldn't find it in Google Maps.
Then please point me to the city or region in Malaysia called "Nasi Lemak". I couldn't find that in Google Maps either.
Yes, I'm serious.. you forgot the biggest one.. the whole "porn name" meme.
You know these ones - they're very popular on social sites.. they ask you to post your mother's maiden name with the street you lived on, or your favourite pet with your first crush's last name, etc..
Think about the "lost password" questions most websites use... what do they ask?
the site itself claims it is nothing more than a rumor. Which means that, so far, there is zero evidence to back it up. Why should he bother?
Because if he's innocent, he has no reason to deny the accusations.
The simple fact that he refuses to deny that he raped and murdered a girl in 1990 casts considerable doubt on his character, and Fox News should immediately suspend him until he admits that he didn't rape and murder that girl in 1990.
The point of the whole exercise, though, is that we should be taking what I just said and applying it to what Beck himself says, because he uses a lot of these linguistic techniques to cajole people all the time.
Wow - what a great idea! I wish someone else had thought of that! With such an incisive intellect, you should apply at Fox News - hear they might be looking for someone to replace Glenn Beck because he refuses to deny the allegations that he raped and murdered a girl in 1990.
Frankly, I agree with him half the time
Hmm.. what is it you called people who believe this sort of thing? Oh yeah...
Have you ever heard a CD that you would confuse with a live performance? Me either. I have heard LPs played on high end equipment that you would confuse with a live performance.
But he is not a scientist. His "interest" in science is mentioned in passing, but has no bearing on the story at all.
he's touring some type of labs when he gets bitten by a genetically spliced spider.
Yes.. touring it - as opposed to working in it... and he's doing it with the rest of his class it's a frigging field trip.
He doesn't actually make the webslingers, yes, but frankly that always struck me as poor storytelling in the first place.
So, the demonstration of his application of science is "poor storytelling"? Way to miss the point.
I recall him still being very into physics although the movie didn't focus on that.
Thank you for making my point for me.
Doc Oc is another thing I think you got wrong
How exactly did I get it wrong? You just repeated what I wrote - he got corrupted by the "evil science".
that wasn't "mad scientist"
Please quote the part of my post where I said it was.
the first two spiderman films, the ones people actually watched, portray science as a powerful force which can be used for good but can also be bent to evil purposes.
Well, next time you might want to provide some examples of that to back up your claim, because all you did was prove that I was correct.
women run from science because even in the most intellectual establishments, the people who run it are still little more than slathering ape-beasts who despite over twenty thousand years of evolution still think the penis is the center of the universe.
And this is different from professional sports how?
the goal should not be to fit science into pop-culture [...] It wasn't that long ago when Bill Nye was getting kids interested in more pure science. Now about the best we have is Mythbusters
So.. we shouldn't be trying to fit science into popular culture, but the problem is that there is no science in popular culture?
I'd say one of the problems is that modern popular culture regards science as evil. Look at Spider Man. In the 60's, Peter Parker was a science student who built his own tracking devices and formulated his own "web" and "web shooters" in order to fight crime. Science was a tool - used by good and evil alike.
Contrast that with the recent movies.. Peter never does any science, or uses his intelligence to solve problems. The webbing and shooters are now part of his "mutation" (regardless that if that were the case, it should come out of his ass, rather than his wrists), and science is merely an evil corrupting influence on good, honest men like Norman Osborn or Otto Octavius.
Hollywood needs to stop portraying science as evil.
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With IT, the brass has made them into dispensable scapegoats that slave away for meager salaries with the fear of being replaced in a heartbeat.
And who is responsible for that?
Think about it: who has convinced employers that IT people don't need to know anything about computing - they just push buttons.. any monkey could do that! You don't need someone who actually understands what the computer is doing, the three "R"s are all they need to know!
"Brass" hears all this from some marketing idiot, sees that everything is just pushing buttons on a GUI, and decides that all their IT guys are overpaid who are deserve blame when something breaks.
The problem is MS, for making non-IT people think that users should be the same thing as administrators.
Evolutionarily speaking, nobody ever lived long enough to get Alzheimers. Those who did wandered off into the tundra and didn't burden the tribe any longer.
[citation needed]
And no, I don't mean the misapplication of statistics that makes idiots think that "average" is the same as "median" or "mode".
Irony
That word, I do not think it means what you think it means.
it's usually faster with the script.
Hi there - you must have just popped in from some alternate universe... did Michael Jackson die there too? Was he black?
In this universe, the speed with javascript is noticeably slower - in many cases it's so slow as to be unusable. I've tried it from both my home and work desktops (quad-core, 4 and 8GB of RAM respectively), and from my Netbook (EeePC 901). It's *always* slower with javascript enabled.
"Right about as often as the sun shines on my dog's ass."
So... at least twice a day then? Or is your dog toilet trained? Normal people don't force their dogs to wear pants in public, or indeed at all.
Maybe he's from England... in which case his dog could be outside 24/7 and it would still be only once or twice a year. :)
When the communities say I told you so, I wanna see Bill Gates cry.
The problem is that won't happen.
This was issued with great fanfare, press releases all around. What happens next week when it gets broken?
Nothing. Nobody will hear about it. The government isn't gonna issue a press release saying "oops, we were wrong", and the hackers that pull it off either won't have the resources to buy a feed in PR Newswire, or if they do, nobody will publish it, out of fear of offending their advertisers (ie. MS.)
It will be published on Ars and BoingBoing, and the people who make these sorts of decisions will never know, and continue to think this is what *they* have to do to make their environments "secure".
Yes, and then screw over those 1,300 people whose information you wrongly received. Congrats, you would have just became a criminal. I can only hope you would enjoy your stay in prison.
But isn't that just "Free Market" economics? By posting the information, he's doing *everyone* a favour by showing how insecure the bank is, thereby encouraging consumers to go elsewhere!
I don't think "What do I care" is anything but flamebaiting. Who cares if you don't care?
According to a poll I just saw by Strategic Visions LLC, 68% of Americans care!
What the fuck is wrong with you?
google has every right, even a responsibility, to stop it
They may have the right, but they have no responsibility to do it. And just because you have the right to do something, does not mean that doing it is *right*.
What happens if Cyanogen, or some other person, decided to modify the Talk so that all numbers dialed were reported to third party advertisers?
Is he doing that? Your argument is so fucking stupid, I'm wondering how the hell you manage to operate a computer. What if someone were to use a cyanogen modded G1 to beat a cop to death? Is that reason to stop him? What if someone used a non-cyanogen modded G1 to beat a cop to death? That might be reason to stop him too, right?
give your head a shake
Here's a novel concept: If he does do that, then you C&D him. Does that make sense? You know,
And how the hell should he be held responsible if someone else does something?
Right holders have a obligation to control distribution
Bull fucking shit.
If that were true, then how exactly do the Free/Open/Net BSD or FSF folks manage to survive?
Jesus, you (and the people who modded you up) need to pull your head out of your ass - your brain is full of shit.
(Yes, this is flamebait - mod me down, I don't care.)
Nope. The law says that you get one strike for each accusation, not conviction.
Considering there were at least two other instances where they were told they were infringing (once when they were notified, the second was the original court case) then they're ready to be disconnected.
Yeah, it's the same thing.
Except that the other story was about different people. And they were from MIT, not Sherwood Park, Canada. And they used a still camera, not a video one.
So yeah, except for the fact that everything is different, it's completely the same.
because the poster child of closed source - Windows - is *so* secure...
Nonono.. didn't you read the summary?
Freeware is not akin to malware, but is opening up those customers to problems.
He's obviously saying that "Freeware" is the only way that malware can attack your system, so therefore he thinks that Windows is "Freeware"!
think about it - if his service actually worked, he wouldn't have been prosecuted for running a scam :)
You could make hummous. You just couldn't call it "hummous".
The concept is foreign to the US, but to much older areas, culturally, it's very important. You can't make "Delft" pottery except in Delft. You can't make "champaign" except in the Champaign region of France.
Please point me to the state, city or region in the middle east called "Hummous." I couldn't find it in Google Maps.
Then please point me to the city or region in Malaysia called "Nasi Lemak". I couldn't find that in Google Maps either.
Maybe because Google's motto of "do no evil"?
Or maybe because Google cares about the end-user's happiness with their product?
But then.. a big corporation caring about the people who use their stuff.. doesn't seem very likely does it? :)
Exactly - this is just the Invisible Market Fairy at work!
The harassment that you get through security is really just an illusion
No, the harassment is real. It's the security that's the illusion. :) (But I think that's what you meant :)
Yes, I'm serious.. you forgot the biggest one.. the whole "porn name" meme.
You know these ones - they're very popular on social sites.. they ask you to post your mother's maiden name with the street you lived on, or your favourite pet with your first crush's last name, etc..
Think about the "lost password" questions most websites use... what do they ask?
the site itself claims it is nothing more than a rumor. Which means that, so far, there is zero evidence to back it up. Why should he bother?
Because if he's innocent, he has no reason to deny the accusations.
The simple fact that he refuses to deny that he raped and murdered a girl in 1990 casts considerable doubt on his character, and Fox News should immediately suspend him until he admits that he didn't rape and murder that girl in 1990.
The point of the whole exercise, though, is that we should be taking what I just said and applying it to what Beck himself says, because he uses a lot of these linguistic techniques to cajole people all the time.
Wow - what a great idea! I wish someone else had thought of that! With such an incisive intellect, you should apply at Fox News - hear they might be looking for someone to replace Glenn Beck because he refuses to deny the allegations that he raped and murdered a girl in 1990.
Frankly, I agree with him half the time
Hmm.. what is it you called people who believe this sort of thing? Oh yeah...
extremely naive
From TFA:
Newt would like to arrange a private dinner with you
Hmm, an over-the-hill politician wants to have a "private dinner" with a hot porn star, but changes his tune when someone finds out about it...
Yeah, I'm sure it was "inadvertent".
Have you ever heard a CD that you would confuse with a live performance? Me either. I have heard LPs played on high end equipment that you would confuse with a live performance.
Maybe you need to buy one of these Intelligent Chips?
So is it Apple's job to work out the rating system and age correlation for every country?
No, only the countries in which they want to do business.
Just like anything else, if you want a business presence in a country, you have to abide by that country's laws.
Uh... did you actually SEE the movies?
Yes, I did.
(Spoilers)
It's been a while since I did
Maybe that's your problem then.
as I recall, his powers are still science based:
But he is not a scientist. His "interest" in science is mentioned in passing, but has no bearing on the story at all.
he's touring some type of labs when he gets bitten by a genetically spliced spider.
Yes.. touring it - as opposed to working in it... and he's doing it with the rest of his class it's a frigging field trip.
He doesn't actually make the webslingers, yes, but frankly that always struck me as poor storytelling in the first place.
So, the demonstration of his application of science is "poor storytelling"? Way to miss the point.
I recall him still being very into physics although the movie didn't focus on that.
Thank you for making my point for me.
Doc Oc is another thing I think you got wrong
How exactly did I get it wrong? You just repeated what I wrote - he got corrupted by the "evil science".
that wasn't "mad scientist"
Please quote the part of my post where I said it was.
the first two spiderman films, the ones people actually watched, portray science as a powerful force which can be used for good but can also be bent to evil purposes.
Well, next time you might want to provide some examples of that to back up your claim, because all you did was prove that I was correct.
women run from science because even in the most intellectual establishments, the people who run it are still little more than slathering ape-beasts who despite over twenty thousand years of evolution still think the penis is the center of the universe.
And this is different from professional sports how?
the goal should not be to fit science into pop-culture [...] It wasn't that long ago when Bill Nye was getting kids interested in more pure science. Now about the best we have is Mythbusters
So.. we shouldn't be trying to fit science into popular culture, but the problem is that there is no science in popular culture?
I'd say one of the problems is that modern popular culture regards science as evil. Look at Spider Man. In the 60's, Peter Parker was a science student who built his own tracking devices and formulated his own "web" and "web shooters" in order to fight crime. Science was a tool - used by good and evil alike.
Contrast that with the recent movies.. Peter never does any science, or uses his intelligence to solve problems. The webbing and shooters are now part of his "mutation" (regardless that if that were the case, it should come out of his ass, rather than his wrists), and science is merely an evil corrupting influence on good, honest men like Norman Osborn or Otto Octavius.
Hollywood needs to stop portraying science as evil.