I don't accept your example under "accidental shooting" for the simple reason that a calculated risk in a situation involving a hostage usually results in a decision not to fire *in case shit goes south*. When a trigger happy fool in a uniform shoots a hostage, that's not accidental at all, that's a decision taken without regard to the risk to the hostage - in other words, professional negligence. The difference between a cop shooting a criminal and a cop shooting an innocent bystander is in a box on the paperwork with the following next to it:
"Was the shooting, in your opinion, justified?"
The ONLY reason a cop can tick that box is under one or more of the following conditions:
1. the victim was caught in the process or fleeing from the scene of a crime, resisting arrest or moving with stated intent. 2. the victim was armed and presented an immediate, clear and present danger to the officer concerned.
The circumstances are evaluated and the decision on whether to prosecute that officer for an unjustified shoot is taken out of his hands and burdened on whatever passes for Internal Affairs.
there is something to be said about a Grand being played with the lid up, that no speaker stack can possibly hope to match. Unfortunately, not many of us can afford a piano, never mind fit it through our front door (I could possibly fit one in my garage but frankly the acoustics in there suck), so we have to make do with a voice coil.
how about "blind-input technical author"? Considering a good scientist goes in to a sea of data with no expectations (hence bias) about what that data is going to reveal, hence has no incentive to cherrypick. Even anomalies are data. Why are those anomalies there? Are they actually anomalies? Or are they indicators that the original hypothesis or the gathering method itself is flawed?
Me? I'm in to highly technical writing, but not from a mechanical or electronic or programming field. I analyse human data. That which directly affects people both on an individual and collective basis. This means I can scale my research from a single person to a cast of tens of thousands. The nature of that data varies, as does the purpose of the writing. And no, the pay isn't very good but I enjoy what I do.
my phone doesn't do that, it maintains full functionality - including the ability to dial out for the emergency services. That thing hasn't had a SIM in it for almost its entire service life (4 years 11 months and counting), yet I can still use the audio player, voice recorder, camera... the only indication that it doesn't have a SIM in it is the text where it would normally display the name of the connected carrier, "EMERGENCY CALLS ONLY".
unbundled hardware is expensive because it's expensive to make. Bundled features such as a tv tuner, voice monitoring, tivo, etc., aren't value-added consumer perks, they're incentives for the consumer to part with their privacy and in some cases, their hard earned on an ongoing basis through channel subscriptions and TV licensing. Without those ongoing incentives, there is little to persuade retailers to sell you the hardware. I found the same with laptops. No retailer wanted to sell me a laptop without Windows for the same price minus the cost of an OEM Windows licence (which is the way it should be done), the incentive for them to bundle Windows is £175. I figured and decided it would be less painful for me just to swallow the £5 worth of hurt and ditch the Windows licence at the first opportunity (glad I didn't, Windows 7 is actually pretty decent notwithstanding its glaring faults). That perceived value-added for Joe Sixpack is the Windows licence (which as far as he's concerned is £180 worth but in reality it's a fucking FIVER), but the real incentive for the retailer is less of that, it's service contracts, insurance policies, finance and whatever else they can stuff your shopping cart with (hard drives, headphones, mp3 players, how about a nice velour-lined backpack?). Phones, same thing. An unbundled phone costs what, £600-£1000? Same phone, locked to a single carrier, quick credit check and BAM, your "free" phone is attached to a 24 month contract (that just happens to be about the same or +£200 the cost of the phone) with a limited amount of what you "bought" the contract for in the first place: a meaty data deal with voice minutes and text bundles thrown in. Bundling/unbundling is a giant fucking ripoff.
I think most phones that don't actually come with Linux (read: Android) installed will actually brick when you try to install Linux on them, because the kernel simply isn't designed for the architecture.
you mean like the desktop gadgets gadget? Yeah, I discovered yesterday while trying to install a lunar cycle widget that MS had deprecated the entire project, saying basically "Oh, we'd discovered that what we'd actually done was enable any old Joe Scumbag to completely own your computer via a widget you might actually find useful like live weather or news tickers".
So why the fuck is it still in my desktop context menu!?
whoa, 0.01% of 800 million (a very conservative estimate of the installed base) is still 80,000. That's a number far greater than 0 and most definitely of concern if you're one of those 80,000.
yeah, it's expensive though I'm at a loss as to why - it's water soluble hence not that difficult to extract from mint oil, the plant grows like a weed - seriously, plant just one and wait a year, it'll drop rhizomes everywhere it can and grow to eight feet. You'll go from nice smelling edible houseplant to nice smelling Triffid invasion.
When a firearm discharges, it is because someone left a live cartridge in the breech. NOT AN ACCIDENT.
IF someone hadn't left a cartridge in the breech the hammer would have hit air, and three year old Johnny wouldn't have shot both his parents with one round (I mean, what, did he have them line up?)
The fault is ALWAYS with the last person to handle the equipment.
Simple proof:
Place a handgun on the floor and place a full magazine next to it. Shout at it to load itself and fire. Scream at it. Yell at it. Berate it. Question its parentage. Troll the living shit out of it. Guess what? IT WON'T MOVE. IT IS AN INANIMATE OBJECT. IT IS A FUCKING TOOL. A TOOL WILL DO PRECISELY WHAT IT IS MOVED TO DO BY THE PERSON HANDLING IT AND NOTHING MORE, EVER.
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and the overwhelming response was "NO". Why would it be any different now?
yeah... disturbingly enough, I've missed out on some work because I don't have a Facebook account.
I mean, the fuck happened that people need to willingly give up the right to control their own data to be able to work??
uh, I would say "yes you do", but there again I only live here, the fuck do I know?
I don't accept your example under "accidental shooting" for the simple reason that a calculated risk in a situation involving a hostage usually results in a decision not to fire *in case shit goes south*. When a trigger happy fool in a uniform shoots a hostage, that's not accidental at all, that's a decision taken without regard to the risk to the hostage - in other words, professional negligence. The difference between a cop shooting a criminal and a cop shooting an innocent bystander is in a box on the paperwork with the following next to it:
"Was the shooting, in your opinion, justified?"
The ONLY reason a cop can tick that box is under one or more of the following conditions:
1. the victim was caught in the process or fleeing from the scene of a crime, resisting arrest or moving with stated intent.
2. the victim was armed and presented an immediate, clear and present danger to the officer concerned.
The circumstances are evaluated and the decision on whether to prosecute that officer for an unjustified shoot is taken out of his hands and burdened on whatever passes for Internal Affairs.
there is something to be said about a Grand being played with the lid up, that no speaker stack can possibly hope to match. Unfortunately, not many of us can afford a piano, never mind fit it through our front door (I could possibly fit one in my garage but frankly the acoustics in there suck), so we have to make do with a voice coil.
the difference being you don't need a fucking facebook account to vote.
it wasn't funny the first time this hoax was put out, it's not fucking funny today. Fuck off and die in a fire.
how about "blind-input technical author"?
Considering a good scientist goes in to a sea of data with no expectations (hence bias) about what that data is going to reveal, hence has no incentive to cherrypick. Even anomalies are data. Why are those anomalies there? Are they actually anomalies? Or are they indicators that the original hypothesis or the gathering method itself is flawed?
Me? I'm in to highly technical writing, but not from a mechanical or electronic or programming field. I analyse human data. That which directly affects people both on an individual and collective basis. This means I can scale my research from a single person to a cast of tens of thousands. The nature of that data varies, as does the purpose of the writing. And no, the pay isn't very good but I enjoy what I do.
my phone doesn't do that, it maintains full functionality - including the ability to dial out for the emergency services. That thing hasn't had a SIM in it for almost its entire service life (4 years 11 months and counting), yet I can still use the audio player, voice recorder, camera... the only indication that it doesn't have a SIM in it is the text where it would normally display the name of the connected carrier, "EMERGENCY CALLS ONLY".
4G as in cellular? Pop out the SIM. Sorted.
unbundled hardware is expensive because it's expensive to make. Bundled features such as a tv tuner, voice monitoring, tivo, etc., aren't value-added consumer perks, they're incentives for the consumer to part with their privacy and in some cases, their hard earned on an ongoing basis through channel subscriptions and TV licensing. Without those ongoing incentives, there is little to persuade retailers to sell you the hardware. I found the same with laptops. No retailer wanted to sell me a laptop without Windows for the same price minus the cost of an OEM Windows licence (which is the way it should be done), the incentive for them to bundle Windows is £175. I figured and decided it would be less painful for me just to swallow the £5 worth of hurt and ditch the Windows licence at the first opportunity (glad I didn't, Windows 7 is actually pretty decent notwithstanding its glaring faults). That perceived value-added for Joe Sixpack is the Windows licence (which as far as he's concerned is £180 worth but in reality it's a fucking FIVER), but the real incentive for the retailer is less of that, it's service contracts, insurance policies, finance and whatever else they can stuff your shopping cart with (hard drives, headphones, mp3 players, how about a nice velour-lined backpack?). Phones, same thing. An unbundled phone costs what, £600-£1000? Same phone, locked to a single carrier, quick credit check and BAM, your "free" phone is attached to a 24 month contract (that just happens to be about the same or +£200 the cost of the phone) with a limited amount of what you "bought" the contract for in the first place: a meaty data deal with voice minutes and text bundles thrown in. Bundling/unbundling is a giant fucking ripoff.
I'd respond with something witty but I'm laughing too fuckin' hard! :D
oh snap! lol you nearly had me up until the Mt. Gox thing.
Well played.
Anonymous owns your fridge, your eighty thousand pound Tesla, your PACEMAKER.
Take your Internet of Things and stick it up your arse. My shit might be stone age, but I OWN IT.
Seconded. I'm surprised nothing called "Skullfuck" has hit the security newswires to date...
uh... DVLinux is a security training tool and sandbox for SELinux component testing, not a production desktop platform.
I think most phones that don't actually come with Linux (read: Android) installed will actually brick when you try to install Linux on them, because the kernel simply isn't designed for the architecture.
you mean like the desktop gadgets gadget? Yeah, I discovered yesterday while trying to install a lunar cycle widget that MS had deprecated the entire project, saying basically "Oh, we'd discovered that what we'd actually done was enable any old Joe Scumbag to completely own your computer via a widget you might actually find useful like live weather or news tickers".
So why the fuck is it still in my desktop context menu!?
whoa, 0.01% of 800 million (a very conservative estimate of the installed base) is still 80,000. That's a number far greater than 0 and most definitely of concern if you're one of those 80,000.
I read this just SIX MINUTES after I installed the bloody office runtime update.
Which, lucky me, didn't lock the system up. It seems to have installed pretty painlessly.
(wonder if that could be anything to do with the fact that I don't have Office installed?)
yeah, it's expensive though I'm at a loss as to why - it's water soluble hence not that difficult to extract from mint oil, the plant grows like a weed - seriously, plant just one and wait a year, it'll drop rhizomes everywhere it can and grow to eight feet. You'll go from nice smelling edible houseplant to nice smelling Triffid invasion.
how about you read the fucking account instead of hiding behind AC and spewing out yet another tired metaphor?
it doesn't.
When a firearm discharges, it is because someone left a live cartridge in the breech. NOT AN ACCIDENT.
IF someone hadn't left a cartridge in the breech the hammer would have hit air, and three year old Johnny wouldn't have shot both his parents with one round (I mean, what, did he have them line up?)
The fault is ALWAYS with the last person to handle the equipment.
Simple proof:
Place a handgun on the floor and place a full magazine next to it. Shout at it to load itself and fire. Scream at it. Yell at it. Berate it. Question its parentage. Troll the living shit out of it. Guess what? IT WON'T MOVE. IT IS AN INANIMATE OBJECT. IT IS A FUCKING TOOL. A TOOL WILL DO PRECISELY WHAT IT IS MOVED TO DO BY THE PERSON HANDLING IT AND NOTHING MORE, EVER.
citations required.
I'll see your former Soviet states and raise you a Columbia, Panama and Zaire.
I could do this all fuckin' day,