Wrong. Internally the security could be a shitshow, but you lock down the security of any connection going outside the company.
Any connection? Really? Granted, not allowing outbound connections to the Internet is a pretty good way to tighten up security, but it also an unrealistic approach in many cases. To suggest that nobody on Sony's Internal network had any reason to connect to the Internet is absurd. Again, it seems clear that they were doing a poor job of securing things, but suggesting a "no Internet" policy is just too simplistic to be considered seriously here.
...every single time I've seen an environment like that has been because of incompetent IT.
That might be said in this case, but GP is not to blame for the fact that there was no policy spelling on the proper way to do things. If such a policy had been in place, users would not have been able to "solve problems" by creating file shares on their own PC's. His predecessors neglected their responsibility and allowed a mess to be made. GP came in, found the mess, cleaned it up, and provided a useful alternative to the insane "solution" the users were allowed to create.
Why is it Apple's fault or Apple's problem? First of all these are Foxconn workers. Secondly Foxconn manufactures hardware for a lot of companies, not just Apple.
You are deliberately missing the point or you didn't even read TFS. Then again, this is/., so both are possibilities. Here, let me spell it out for you, again. Apple didn't commit the labor offenses, but they did promise to not do business with companies who do commit those offenses. Now it is clear that they are breaking those promises because it's still profitable to do so, because for Apple fan-boys, cool requires sacrifice. And conscience is an easy thing to offer up.
...to bloated and ineffective government bureaucracies, the private sector. Everyone knows that the private sector is more efficient than any government operation, right? And corruption surrounding fat government contracts granted to political cronies is hardly ever a problem, right?
Memberships and influence. Greenpeace have repeatedly shown to put those before their stated goals, before simple integrity and truth, and before their own volunteers. Greenpeace's real mission is Greenpeace.
Were they planting trees on the Nazca plains? No? Were they advertising themselves? Yes!
So, in your mind, that single stupid act equates to "...has been, for quite some time now, nothing but a group lobbying for its self-interest..."
OK, then. Riiiiiiight.
Greenpeace has been, for quite some time now, nothing but a group lobbying for its self-interest...
Really? What interest is that? Please be specific. You really need to stop parroting Fox news talking points and thinking for yourself. While this stunt is nothing, if not stupid, Greenpeace's stated mission can hardly be described as "self interest".
Please don't act all surprised when this information is used for all sorts of other purposes.
You mean like the private insurance industry has already been doing for years? My insurance carrier is dictating my care to my physician now. I want the power to decide what's best for me place back into her hands. That will never, ever, happen as long as the private insurance industry remains in the position it's in.
Privacy and and security seem to be an afterthought, at best, in these plans and associated documents. Given the fact that attacks on health care data are already growing at an alarming rate (as predicted by many analysts) and that the health care industry is 10-20 years behind financial services when it comes to security and fraud prevention, this plan seems premature. At the very least, it's stated goals need to place privacy and security at the forefront, for until that gap is closed, any effort to expand the footprint of such sensitive information is, to say the least, misguided.
there's fuck all that stops anyone, individual or manufacturer from suing for any, or no, reason.
There exist rules against suits without merit, which can cause the plaintiff to have to pay the defendant's reasonable attorney's fees, sometimes with punitive damages tacked on for wasting the defendant's time. If plaintiff's counsel repeatedly fails to diligently investigate the merit of each case, counsel might end up fined or even disbarred.
Yes, but that does not prevent assholes from bringing worthless lawsuits. It might discourage even marginally circumspect lawyers from doing so, but the burden to challenge the merit of an action, once initiated, rests with the respondent.
They use my bandwidth (without permission) to peddle me ads for things I don't want and they think the courts should force me to look at their ads by removing my choice?
If the content provider chooses to include ads in the stream, you are free to not use that content. The notion that making an http request implies some kind of business arrangement that carries with it certain obligations ("You must look at my ads") is absurd. Content providers are often in it for the money, so we shouldn't begrudge them their attempts at monetizing that content, but creating legislation that forces us to accept that model is, at best, misguided.
Society has strictly no duty to help those who truly cannot fend for themselves, just like cops have strictly no duty to put their lives on the line to save others. And before you contradict me on this point, have a look there: http://disinfo.com/2010/03/the...
You're going to cite a blog post that contains almost no citations of it's own, and those it does provide do not exactly support the assertions made by the blogger. Really? That's your source?
I'd love to agree with you, but history would beg to differ with both of us. The Dark Ages was caused, in large part, but the rise in political influence of the Roman Catholic Church. The Islamic world's fall from it's lofty position of leadership in arts and sciences was cause in large part by a similar rise in influence amongst Islamic clerics. The same mindless stupidity, driven by fear and ignorance, is playing out in the United States every day. The Gilbert, AZ school board silliness is just the latest one to gain national publicity. The religious idiots on the TX department of education has been pulling the same shit for years. If any large group were to gain any serious political traction the results would be almost to frightening to think about.
Thought that was settled. Stabilizing victims for transport has been SOP in Germany, and has been shown to provide worse outcome than the simple get-them-into-the-ER approach previously favored in the states.
You will assume room temperature far before hydrocarbons run out.
[citation needed]..., and please, don't trot out the the magical a-biogenic nonsense.
[quote]
The existence of hydrocarbons on Titan, a moon of Saturn, and venting from the deepest oceans points to the probability that hydrocarbons don't have anything more to do with fossils than anything else in the earth's crust.
LOL. Sorry I bothered with the warning. I see you've got something even better than magic. We'll jes commence ta drillin' on Titan. Yeah, that's definitely going to be a commercially successful venture.
Retired PM here...
Amen, brother. Comparing survival rates of in-hospital cardiac arrest cases and pre-hospital cardiac arrest cases is an absurd comparison. The are not the same population, at all. Given the mean response time for ALS to reach the arrest patient in the field, a 10% number is impressive. Definitive care is definitive care and the sooner it is delivered, the better the outcome, period. Adding the transport delay the time to definitive care will drive survival rates down. This has been well-established for decades. Sanghavi's conclusions are, to say the least, worthless.
Your argument is exactly what they used to say about why apartheid was needed, and also why they justified dictatorial policing - and it was very effective...
...at enforcing a whole lot of laws that actually defined apartheid. In other words, it wasn't the policing that made apartheid evil, it was the notion (codified into law) that people deserved different things because of the color of their skin. We don't have that.
What exactly do you gain by consenting to an illegal request of a power they do not have?
What you gain is the opportunity (because you didn't get shot in the head) to use the system to punish those who've abused their power. If you think that belligerence is the only proper response to such abuses, you've already lost.
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Wrong. Internally the security could be a shitshow, but you lock down the security of any connection going outside the company.
Any connection? Really? Granted, not allowing outbound connections to the Internet is a pretty good way to tighten up security, but it also an unrealistic approach in many cases. To suggest that nobody on Sony's Internal network had any reason to connect to the Internet is absurd. Again, it seems clear that they were doing a poor job of securing things, but suggesting a "no Internet" policy is just too simplistic to be considered seriously here.
...every single time I've seen an environment like that has been because of incompetent IT.
That might be said in this case, but GP is not to blame for the fact that there was no policy spelling on the proper way to do things. If such a policy had been in place, users would not have been able to "solve problems" by creating file shares on their own PC's. His predecessors neglected their responsibility and allowed a mess to be made. GP came in, found the mess, cleaned it up, and provided a useful alternative to the insane "solution" the users were allowed to create.
Funny, because the science that I learned about in college was ALL ABOUT being constantly questioned.
Hence the desire to honor true skepticism. Science deniers are nothing of the sort. No, they are not.
Why is it Apple's fault or Apple's problem? First of all these are Foxconn workers. Secondly Foxconn manufactures hardware for a lot of companies, not just Apple.
You are deliberately missing the point or you didn't even read TFS. Then again, this is /., so both are possibilities. Here, let me spell it out for you, again. Apple didn't commit the labor offenses, but they did promise to not do business with companies who do commit those offenses. Now it is clear that they are breaking those promises because it's still profitable to do so, because for Apple fan-boys, cool requires sacrifice. And conscience is an easy thing to offer up.
...to bloated and ineffective government bureaucracies, the private sector. Everyone knows that the private sector is more efficient than any government operation, right? And corruption surrounding fat government contracts granted to political cronies is hardly ever a problem, right?
Memberships and influence. Greenpeace have repeatedly shown to put those before their stated goals, before simple integrity and truth, and before their own volunteers. Greenpeace's real mission is Greenpeace.
[citation needed]
Were they planting trees on the Nazca plains? No? Were they advertising themselves? Yes!
So, in your mind, that single stupid act equates to "...has been, for quite some time now, nothing but a group lobbying for its self-interest..."
OK, then. Riiiiiiight.
Greenpeace has been, for quite some time now, nothing but a group lobbying for its self-interest...
Really? What interest is that? Please be specific. You really need to stop parroting Fox news talking points and thinking for yourself. While this stunt is nothing, if not stupid, Greenpeace's stated mission can hardly be described as "self interest".
Are you upset? You seem upset.
And with good fucking reason.
Best, most insightful comment in the whole 600+ pile. Well done sir/ma'm
Well, you guys wanted federal health care.
Please don't act all surprised when this information is used for all sorts of other purposes.
You mean like the private insurance industry has already been doing for years? My insurance carrier is dictating my care to my physician now. I want the power to decide what's best for me place back into her hands. That will never, ever, happen as long as the private insurance industry remains in the position it's in.
Privacy and and security seem to be an afterthought, at best, in these plans and associated documents. Given the fact that attacks on health care data are already growing at an alarming rate (as predicted by many analysts) and that the health care industry is 10-20 years behind financial services when it comes to security and fraud prevention, this plan seems premature. At the very least, it's stated goals need to place privacy and security at the forefront, for until that gap is closed, any effort to expand the footprint of such sensitive information is, to say the least, misguided.
there's fuck all that stops anyone, individual or manufacturer from suing for any, or no, reason.
There exist rules against suits without merit, which can cause the plaintiff to have to pay the defendant's reasonable attorney's fees, sometimes with punitive damages tacked on for wasting the defendant's time. If plaintiff's counsel repeatedly fails to diligently investigate the merit of each case, counsel might end up fined or even disbarred.
Yes, but that does not prevent assholes from bringing worthless lawsuits. It might discourage even marginally circumspect lawyers from doing so, but the burden to challenge the merit of an action, once initiated, rests with the respondent.
They use my bandwidth (without permission) to peddle me ads for things I don't want and they think the courts should force me to look at their ads by removing my choice?
If the content provider chooses to include ads in the stream, you are free to not use that content. The notion that making an http request implies some kind of business arrangement that carries with it certain obligations ("You must look at my ads") is absurd. Content providers are often in it for the money, so we shouldn't begrudge them their attempts at monetizing that content, but creating legislation that forces us to accept that model is, at best, misguided.
Society has strictly no duty to help those who truly cannot fend for themselves, just like cops have strictly no duty to put their lives on the line to save others. And before you contradict me on this point, have a look there: http://disinfo.com/2010/03/the...
You're going to cite a blog post that contains almost no citations of it's own, and those it does provide do not exactly support the assertions made by the blogger.
Really? That's your source?
The Dark Ages is probably hyperbolic...
I'd love to agree with you, but history would beg to differ with both of us. The Dark Ages was caused, in large part, but the rise in political influence of the Roman Catholic Church. The Islamic world's fall from it's lofty position of leadership in arts and sciences was cause in large part by a similar rise in influence amongst Islamic clerics. The same mindless stupidity, driven by fear and ignorance, is playing out in the United States every day. The Gilbert, AZ school board silliness is just the latest one to gain national publicity. The religious idiots on the TX department of education has been pulling the same shit for years. If any large group were to gain any serious political traction the results would be almost to frightening to think about.
It's that most "tech" workers suck. If you want to hire someone who actually knows their stuff, you gotta pick them right out of school...
'Cuz old people could never have "da skillz", right? Un-fiucking-believable...
Thought that was settled. Stabilizing victims for transport has been SOP in Germany, and has been shown to provide worse outcome than the simple get-them-into-the-ER approach previously favored in the states.
[citation needed]
You will assume room temperature far before hydrocarbons run out.
[citation needed] ..., and please, don't trot out the the magical a-biogenic nonsense.
[quote]
The existence of hydrocarbons on Titan, a moon of Saturn, and venting from the deepest oceans points to the probability that hydrocarbons don't have anything more to do with fossils than anything else in the earth's crust.
LOL. Sorry I bothered with the warning. I see you've got something even better than magic. We'll jes commence ta drillin' on Titan. Yeah, that's definitely going to be a commercially successful venture.
Retired PM here...
Amen, brother. Comparing survival rates of in-hospital cardiac arrest cases and pre-hospital cardiac arrest cases is an absurd comparison. The are not the same population, at all. Given the mean response time for ALS to reach the arrest patient in the field, a 10% number is impressive. Definitive care is definitive care and the sooner it is delivered, the better the outcome, period. Adding the transport delay the time to definitive care will drive survival rates down. This has been well-established for decades. Sanghavi's conclusions are, to say the least, worthless.
"Renewable energy technologies, as they exist today, simply won't work."
So, what? We should stop pursuing them altogether?
(much typing that borders on wild speculation deleted...) The taxpayer's investment will be paid back many times over from higher economic activity.
In what world will that happen? Maybe you didn't get the memo, but "trickle down economics" has been shown to be just so much B.S.
...I would never have done something like that.
Your argument is exactly what they used to say about why apartheid was needed, and also why they justified dictatorial policing - and it was very effective...
...at enforcing a whole lot of laws that actually defined apartheid. In other words, it wasn't the policing that made apartheid evil, it was the notion (codified into law) that people deserved different things because of the color of their skin. We don't have that.
What exactly do you gain by consenting to an illegal request of a power they do not have?
What you gain is the opportunity (because you didn't get shot in the head) to use the system to punish those who've abused their power. If you think that belligerence is the only proper response to such abuses, you've already lost.