May 1 was a banking holiday in China. The following Monday they were able to get assistance from local law enforcement and banking officials to freeze the account that held the stolen funds. Two days later, the money was recovered.
It's like Slashdot hasn't changed at all since the new Backslash guy or whatever his nick was took over. We're still getting all the duplicate stories and just plain wrong news. Sigh.
Dear Microsoft Social Media representative: you hit all the right talking points, but you left out the issue of consent. All of these issues are from Microsoft's point of view. They make MS's life easier. What about us, the people who actually use the damn things? Did you assholes even bother to ask us what we wanted?
If you're not a paid shill, you should be. You write well, hit all the main points, and are shockingly pro-Microsoft. They're a horrid evil corporation that spies on its users, WTF? Why would anyone do this in their spare time?
You made a mistake by not helping this guy. You needed to communicate with him. You needed to ask him a deep, existential question that would cause him to question and reassess his actions, attitudes, and core beliefs in light of the impact he is having on the world and of the impact the world can have on him. You needed to ask him a question that would help him onto the path of nonviolent enlightenment.
Sometimes you can even ask such a question without using any words at all. A question like - "You don't really want me to shoot you in the face with this.38, do you?"
Fun fact: Joseph McCarthy was right, there really were Communists in the State Department. And these people really did mean to use their positions to overthrow the elected US government. Why couldn't it have happened? Subversion had worked great in the Chinese Communist revolution only a few years before. Time after time, patriotic Chinese resisting the foreign influence of Communism found their orders altered, their supplies missing, and their shells full of sand instead of gunpowder. By whom? Secret Communists in their own government, who had wormed their way to the top over decades. Mao couldn't have won without them. There are enormous monuments all over China dedicated to the invaluable services they performed.
This isn't some crazy cold war paranoia. This shit really happened. For real. Hell, ask Bernie's Brownshirts what kind of government they support for America - it sure ain't anything to do with the Constitution or a government that represents the interests of its citizens. Obama is on record at being angry about the separation of powers in the Constitution, he wants to just be able to rule by decree without any recourse to anyone. He just complained about it again in Argentina. OMG PARANOIA NUTBAGS BLAHBLAHBALHB WHARRRRAGARBLLLLL
They don't have the freedom to decline the calls. Women were relieved that I was cutting them off. I could see the bill details - totalling hundreds of dollars, calls day after day. If she cut him off, there would be consequences. But if I, the evil bill collector did it, it was out of her control and therefore OK. I think you need to check your misogyny and do some reading on feminist issues.
Who said anything about it not being a screwjob? Obviously it is, jeez stick to the topic.
Scott Adams is widely hated for misogynistic comments he has made, and when called out on them, refused to apologize and pay a fine (contribution) to a feminist organization. He's on the shitlist just like Penny Arcade, Cards Against Humanity, and all the rest of them.
The stupid in this comment hurts so much. I cannot believe that educated people hold these opinions, but here we are. I think a lot of what Leftists hate, they are just inventing themselves. It's a contest who can make the most ridiculous strawmen.
I see nobody has any actual experience dealing with prison calls. It's all the usual claptrap that people have heard somewhere online and are repeating. Long ago I used to work for a company that collected past-due phone bills. It was mundane work, just call them and remind them they're overdue, will be cut off from the carrier if they don't pay by a certain date, etc. Nothing threatening or weird. Once in a while we would get a batch of jail calls, all made collect from the jailhouse phones. The reaction on these was different. Usually the person who answered was a woman, and more than once she was relieved that we would be cutting her off from these calls.
She couldn't pay for them anyway, and the man inside didn't give a shit. He was bored, or controlling, and would call again and again. I had the call records and the guy would call for 15 minutes, get automatically cut off, call again, and again, and again. Day after day after day. Something the "they neeeed to talk to their faaaamilies!!!" crowd apparently has totally failed to consider. Maybe their families don't want to talk to them because they're horrible manipulative evil people who belong in prison.
I wonder what gave them the idea! Oh right, the exact same people on the Left calling them Hitler. I remember when that started, and people took it utterly seriously and Godwin's Law or reductio ad Hitlerum were not mentioned ONCE.
And calling people who disagree with your politics stupid and insecure is precisely what keeps Trump going. It must be nice to be able to feel such hatred of your fellow Americans on a daily basis. Keeps you warm inside, right?
A lot of us think it's a huge problem and that it should stop. We have our concerns run over and we're told that if we disagree, we are horrible, vile people with the worst possible motives. It gets really old being told that. You don't close the borders because you hate the people outside. You close the borders because you love the people inside.
We regularly ridicule countries with state-funded media for being mouthpieces. State-funded arts are also ridiculed because they produce art that hates the people. Why should my tax dollars go to bigots who think I am vile and full of hate, while these artists are just projecting their own feelings onto us?
Do you even understand that countries are allowed to take actions that are in their own interest? And defend themselves against hostile nations? Seriously? The Iranians are likewise free to do the same, and face the consequences. That's how the game is played, for fuck's sake. Instead we have this situation whenever America does something it is always wrong, because to say otherwise might give aid and comfort to the enemy - Americans.
Well that's good then! They fundamentally agree with everything today's Left says about America and especially the American people. Can you think of anyone on the Left who supports Americans having jobs? Those racist Nascar-watching, Jesus worshipping patriotic freaks? I suppose they'd agree with your racist slur about jingoistic Chinese as well.
The Chinese OEMs don't care about security or anything else. They are remarkably dense and will reject changes coming from anywhere. It's hard enough to get them to change anything when you're a paying customer, and if you do get them to change, the moment you are satisfied and think things are under control, they'll change it right back to the old way.
This is because the smart people want to be thought of as creative. When someone else is telling them what to do, they're not being creative and think they're being forced into being mindless slaves. Follow an established security vetting process? That's not what creatives do. That's following procedure, only factory assembly workers do that, and even then only because they are forced to do so. Also, being predictable violates the maxim that one should conceal one's true goals. They're not at war but the Sun Tzu thinking will tell.
Second, details are boring. If you're creative, you think of the effects you want the product to have, not the stupid security protocols it has to follow. And if the product is selling, who cares?
The Western customers who buy the OEM products are clueless about everything, that's why they're buying whitebox in the first place. We shouldn't blame them for security, although perhaps it's tempting. It's not like they can complain and get it fixed. If they make too much of a fuss the OEM will just point out that none of their other 70 customers has any problem and fire them as a customer.
That would be a sound idea, were Bill Gates long dead and Microsoft stock in the toilet. We all do know that oil prices are way, way down and not going up anytime soon, right? Right? That makes this a poor performing asset and the cash raised will be put to better use elsewhere. Plus they get to lie about why they're doing it! What, you actually believe elites like the Rockefeller Foundation when they tell you something? Think critically, you dumbfuck!
Fight? You're a leftist, you're terrified of firearms. You won't even be in the same room when one is lying unloaded on a table. The Second Amendment is your worst enemy, you want all the power out of the hands of the people and into the federal government. How were you planning on revolting? Political power grows out of the barrel of a gun. Moreover you're physical cowards unless you're provoking a few punches from someone while being videotaped. But you're tigers when it comes to running down the streets smashing out the windows of every car with Republican bumper stickers on it.
A problem with highly intelligent people like you, is that you assume that your opinions are facts. The only place a "social justice war" is going on is in the social normalization of deviance that is taking place inside your head. And even if it is, the rest of us would rather live under robber barons than under omnipotent moral busybodies like yourself, because you will will torment us without end with the full approval of your own conscience.
The term is a mistranslation of the Russian and yet that's how it entered the English language. The term "transmission belts" was also used. None of it changes the fact that educated Western leftists, much like yourself, worked tirelessly for decades to turn our own shining societies into totalitarian dystopias, and your masters could not understand why. The fact that you now want to take this well-defined epithet and strip it of meaning to suit your purposes sickens me.
The purpose of Newspeak was not only to provide a medium of expression for the world-view and mental habits proper to the devotees of Ingsoc, but to make all other modes of thought impossible. It was intended that when Newspeak had been adopted once and for all and Oldspeak forgotten, a heretical thought - that is, a thought diverging from the principles of Ingsoc - should be literally unthinkable, at least so far as thought is dependent on words. Its vocabulary was so constructed as to give exact and often very subtle expression to every meaning that a Party member could properly wish to express, while excluding all other meanings and also the possibility of arriving at them by indirect methods. This was done partly by the invention of new words, but chiefly by eliminating undesirable words and by stripping such words as remained of unorthodox meanings, and so far as possible of all secondary meanings whatever.
-- George Orwell, 1984
So in other words, the right-wing, anti-government, black helicopter paranoid crazies were right all along? Yeah, I think you're going to have to get a better thesis there, Timothy McVeigh. That kind of outdated shit doesn't fly in the age of "Black Lives Matter".
Huh? Useful idiots are Western leftists. The term was coined in the Soviet Union, whose Communists could not understand why people could live in such magnificent free societies and yet wish to turn them into authoritarian hellholes like their own. Shrugging their shoulders, they called them "useful idiots" and used them for their own purposes, showing them Potemkin villages on their pilgrimages and putting them up in the best hotels for free. Their descendants are today's Cultural Marxists who still continue with the plan but have no Soviet Union to betray the West to. I see already that the story has already been twisted from "out of touch Apple executives who want to sell more crap" into "cis white males fucking disgust me". You can misuse a term if you want but that doesn't make it right.
"There's glory for you!"
"I don't know what you mean by 'glory'," Alice said.
Humpty Dumpty smiled contemptuously. "Of course you don't - till I tell you. I meant 'there's a nice knock-down argument for you'!"
"But 'glory' doesn't mean 'a nice knock-down argument'," Alice objected.
"When I use a word," Humpty Dumpty said in rather a scornful tone, "it means just what I choose it to mean, neither more or less."
"The question is," said Alice, "whether you can make words mean so many different things."
"The question is," said Humpty Dumpty, "which is to be Master - that's all."
-- Alice in Wonderland
This is nothing new at all. This has been Apple user attitude since the Macintosh came out. The attitude was to look down on those poor pitiable IBM users because they didn't have the best, and had to bow down before the silicon gods to receive their next batch of poorly engineered hardware. This was back in 1985. Nothing has changed.
This wouldn't even be an article other than some journalist seized an angle and went with it. I bet the spokeslady never saw it coming, because she's so into it that it's completely normal for her and everyone she ever talks to in her life. But these days, one part of the mainstream media hivemind can take something out of context like this, signal to the rest of the hivemind, and bam it's a huge story.
Pretty much confirms what I thought - scratch a leftist, find a fascist underneath. You know, right, that the Soviet Union was exactly that, the "best and brightest", doing whatever they wanted, without regard to what the people needed? You couldn't just be any geek off the street and join the Communist Party either, it was a society of elites. And it's not like they were squeamish, either, they didn't hesitate to murder millions of people who got in the way of their dreams. No environmental impact statements or Title IX oversight or Gender and Race-Based Supervision Offices. It still fell apart and could never deliver what they wanted until they finally realized it and let it die. I shudder to realize that the subtext completely whooshed over your head and you are entirely ignorant of this. Those who do not know the past are condemned to repeat it.
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It's like Slashdot hasn't changed at all since the new Backslash guy or whatever his nick was took over. We're still getting all the duplicate stories and just plain wrong news. Sigh.
Dear Microsoft Social Media representative: you hit all the right talking points, but you left out the issue of consent. All of these issues are from Microsoft's point of view. They make MS's life easier. What about us, the people who actually use the damn things? Did you assholes even bother to ask us what we wanted?
If you're not a paid shill, you should be. You write well, hit all the main points, and are shockingly pro-Microsoft. They're a horrid evil corporation that spies on its users, WTF? Why would anyone do this in their spare time?
You made a mistake by not helping this guy. You needed to communicate with him. You needed to ask him a deep, existential question that would cause him to question and reassess his actions, attitudes, and core beliefs in light of the impact he is having on the world and of the impact the world can have on him. You needed to ask him a question that would help him onto the path of nonviolent enlightenment.
Sometimes you can even ask such a question without using any words at all. A question like - "You don't really want me to shoot you in the face with this .38, do you?"
-- Massad Ayoob
Fun fact: Joseph McCarthy was right, there really were Communists in the State Department. And these people really did mean to use their positions to overthrow the elected US government. Why couldn't it have happened? Subversion had worked great in the Chinese Communist revolution only a few years before. Time after time, patriotic Chinese resisting the foreign influence of Communism found their orders altered, their supplies missing, and their shells full of sand instead of gunpowder. By whom? Secret Communists in their own government, who had wormed their way to the top over decades. Mao couldn't have won without them. There are enormous monuments all over China dedicated to the invaluable services they performed.
This isn't some crazy cold war paranoia. This shit really happened. For real. Hell, ask Bernie's Brownshirts what kind of government they support for America - it sure ain't anything to do with the Constitution or a government that represents the interests of its citizens. Obama is on record at being angry about the separation of powers in the Constitution, he wants to just be able to rule by decree without any recourse to anyone. He just complained about it again in Argentina. OMG PARANOIA NUTBAGS BLAHBLAHBALHB WHARRRRAGARBLLLLL
They don't have the freedom to decline the calls. Women were relieved that I was cutting them off. I could see the bill details - totalling hundreds of dollars, calls day after day. If she cut him off, there would be consequences. But if I, the evil bill collector did it, it was out of her control and therefore OK. I think you need to check your misogyny and do some reading on feminist issues.
Who said anything about it not being a screwjob? Obviously it is, jeez stick to the topic.
Scott Adams is widely hated for misogynistic comments he has made, and when called out on them, refused to apologize and pay a fine (contribution) to a feminist organization. He's on the shitlist just like Penny Arcade, Cards Against Humanity, and all the rest of them.
The stupid in this comment hurts so much. I cannot believe that educated people hold these opinions, but here we are. I think a lot of what Leftists hate, they are just inventing themselves. It's a contest who can make the most ridiculous strawmen.
I see nobody has any actual experience dealing with prison calls. It's all the usual claptrap that people have heard somewhere online and are repeating. Long ago I used to work for a company that collected past-due phone bills. It was mundane work, just call them and remind them they're overdue, will be cut off from the carrier if they don't pay by a certain date, etc. Nothing threatening or weird. Once in a while we would get a batch of jail calls, all made collect from the jailhouse phones. The reaction on these was different. Usually the person who answered was a woman, and more than once she was relieved that we would be cutting her off from these calls.
She couldn't pay for them anyway, and the man inside didn't give a shit. He was bored, or controlling, and would call again and again. I had the call records and the guy would call for 15 minutes, get automatically cut off, call again, and again, and again. Day after day after day. Something the "they neeeed to talk to their faaaamilies!!!" crowd apparently has totally failed to consider. Maybe their families don't want to talk to them because they're horrible manipulative evil people who belong in prison.
I wonder what gave them the idea! Oh right, the exact same people on the Left calling them Hitler. I remember when that started, and people took it utterly seriously and Godwin's Law or reductio ad Hitlerum were not mentioned ONCE.
And calling people who disagree with your politics stupid and insecure is precisely what keeps Trump going. It must be nice to be able to feel such hatred of your fellow Americans on a daily basis. Keeps you warm inside, right?
I think you don't know what a douchebag is. They are fully reusable.
A lot of us think it's a huge problem and that it should stop. We have our concerns run over and we're told that if we disagree, we are horrible, vile people with the worst possible motives. It gets really old being told that. You don't close the borders because you hate the people outside. You close the borders because you love the people inside.
You don't love the people inside.
We regularly ridicule countries with state-funded media for being mouthpieces. State-funded arts are also ridiculed because they produce art that hates the people. Why should my tax dollars go to bigots who think I am vile and full of hate, while these artists are just projecting their own feelings onto us?
Do you even understand that countries are allowed to take actions that are in their own interest? And defend themselves against hostile nations? Seriously? The Iranians are likewise free to do the same, and face the consequences. That's how the game is played, for fuck's sake. Instead we have this situation whenever America does something it is always wrong, because to say otherwise might give aid and comfort to the enemy - Americans.
Well that's good then! They fundamentally agree with everything today's Left says about America and especially the American people. Can you think of anyone on the Left who supports Americans having jobs? Those racist Nascar-watching, Jesus worshipping patriotic freaks? I suppose they'd agree with your racist slur about jingoistic Chinese as well.
The Chinese OEMs don't care about security or anything else. They are remarkably dense and will reject changes coming from anywhere. It's hard enough to get them to change anything when you're a paying customer, and if you do get them to change, the moment you are satisfied and think things are under control, they'll change it right back to the old way.
This is because the smart people want to be thought of as creative. When someone else is telling them what to do, they're not being creative and think they're being forced into being mindless slaves. Follow an established security vetting process? That's not what creatives do. That's following procedure, only factory assembly workers do that, and even then only because they are forced to do so. Also, being predictable violates the maxim that one should conceal one's true goals. They're not at war but the Sun Tzu thinking will tell.
Second, details are boring. If you're creative, you think of the effects you want the product to have, not the stupid security protocols it has to follow. And if the product is selling, who cares?
The Western customers who buy the OEM products are clueless about everything, that's why they're buying whitebox in the first place. We shouldn't blame them for security, although perhaps it's tempting. It's not like they can complain and get it fixed. If they make too much of a fuss the OEM will just point out that none of their other 70 customers has any problem and fire them as a customer.
The fascists make themselves known again. Seriously, are you people even listening to yourselves?
Useful idiots are leftists who wanted to turn our culture over to the Communists! Stop trying to make well-defined words into Newspeak!
That would be a sound idea, were Bill Gates long dead and Microsoft stock in the toilet. We all do know that oil prices are way, way down and not going up anytime soon, right? Right? That makes this a poor performing asset and the cash raised will be put to better use elsewhere. Plus they get to lie about why they're doing it! What, you actually believe elites like the Rockefeller Foundation when they tell you something? Think critically, you dumbfuck!
Fight? You're a leftist, you're terrified of firearms. You won't even be in the same room when one is lying unloaded on a table. The Second Amendment is your worst enemy, you want all the power out of the hands of the people and into the federal government. How were you planning on revolting? Political power grows out of the barrel of a gun. Moreover you're physical cowards unless you're provoking a few punches from someone while being videotaped. But you're tigers when it comes to running down the streets smashing out the windows of every car with Republican bumper stickers on it.
A problem with highly intelligent people like you, is that you assume that your opinions are facts. The only place a "social justice war" is going on is in the social normalization of deviance that is taking place inside your head. And even if it is, the rest of us would rather live under robber barons than under omnipotent moral busybodies like yourself, because you will will torment us without end with the full approval of your own conscience.
The term is a mistranslation of the Russian and yet that's how it entered the English language. The term "transmission belts" was also used. None of it changes the fact that educated Western leftists, much like yourself, worked tirelessly for decades to turn our own shining societies into totalitarian dystopias, and your masters could not understand why. The fact that you now want to take this well-defined epithet and strip it of meaning to suit your purposes sickens me.
So in other words, the right-wing, anti-government, black helicopter paranoid crazies were right all along? Yeah, I think you're going to have to get a better thesis there, Timothy McVeigh. That kind of outdated shit doesn't fly in the age of "Black Lives Matter".
Huh? Useful idiots are Western leftists. The term was coined in the Soviet Union, whose Communists could not understand why people could live in such magnificent free societies and yet wish to turn them into authoritarian hellholes like their own. Shrugging their shoulders, they called them "useful idiots" and used them for their own purposes, showing them Potemkin villages on their pilgrimages and putting them up in the best hotels for free. Their descendants are today's Cultural Marxists who still continue with the plan but have no Soviet Union to betray the West to. I see already that the story has already been twisted from "out of touch Apple executives who want to sell more crap" into "cis white males fucking disgust me". You can misuse a term if you want but that doesn't make it right.
This is nothing new at all. This has been Apple user attitude since the Macintosh came out. The attitude was to look down on those poor pitiable IBM users because they didn't have the best, and had to bow down before the silicon gods to receive their next batch of poorly engineered hardware. This was back in 1985. Nothing has changed.
This wouldn't even be an article other than some journalist seized an angle and went with it. I bet the spokeslady never saw it coming, because she's so into it that it's completely normal for her and everyone she ever talks to in her life. But these days, one part of the mainstream media hivemind can take something out of context like this, signal to the rest of the hivemind, and bam it's a huge story.
Pretty much confirms what I thought - scratch a leftist, find a fascist underneath. You know, right, that the Soviet Union was exactly that, the "best and brightest", doing whatever they wanted, without regard to what the people needed? You couldn't just be any geek off the street and join the Communist Party either, it was a society of elites. And it's not like they were squeamish, either, they didn't hesitate to murder millions of people who got in the way of their dreams. No environmental impact statements or Title IX oversight or Gender and Race-Based Supervision Offices. It still fell apart and could never deliver what they wanted until they finally realized it and let it die. I shudder to realize that the subtext completely whooshed over your head and you are entirely ignorant of this. Those who do not know the past are condemned to repeat it.