But I can remember waiting weeks for a Free BSD manual and discs that suggested installing NT for all of your IRQ settings. I can't say I miss that very much.
For example, would supporters of Anonymous view this situation differently if a group of masked men and women broke into HBGary, Berico, and Palanti in the dead of night, stole computers or drives containing the various damning files, and shipped them to a contact in the House of Representatives?
That's like comparing Deep Throat with G. Gordon Liddy.
One is an informant, the other is a hired thug. Whatever happened to asking about motive?
While I understand it 99% of the time, I'm not sure if I should get hit with violating the ToS for firing up a Quake server once a month. I mean, yes, I "should" get hit, but I'm not sure if it leaves me very satisfied with my service, especially when Netflix and torrent guys use much more bandwidth.
PS: Might want to find a better term to use than "freetards". It is kind of vague. Some days of the week tossing that term around means you are out to defend a man's right to feed his family and expand the market place, you know truth and virtue and all that jazz. On other days it means you are supporting rent seeking and people will assume you are a shill who don't want their stock dipping. All in all I find it best just to avoid the term. Granted it is a free country, you can say what you want, but for some people around here you might as well be saying, "faggot".
That said, something about this does seem right. "Voice of Free Speech & the Advocate of the People"? Doesn't sound like the people I've been reading about over the years. Heartless, cruel bastards, sure. Vigilante? Yes. "Voice of Free Speech & the Advocate of the People"? No.
Watched a BBC documentary on them a month ago. After years of despising them, I couldn't help but feel bad for them, the family. Phelps himself, could take a flying leap for all I care.
That said, Anon has either jumped the shark (well, there isn't an Anon, so it could be anyone, so perhaps the concept of Anon has jumped the shark) or has picked a losing fight. By their own rules feeding a troll only ends in failure and I can't think of a bigger, or at least purer troll than Westboro Baptist.
Unless every state did this, they'd laugh their way to court and then sue the state for damages. Besides state reps and senators are very, very easy to buy out. You could probably swing a vote with a bottle of good scotch or here in the south a case of Coors.
No, things are going to have to get bad, really, really, really bad before they get better.
Reading through some of this, I got the impression that the problem has a lot more to do with making those above you happy, than anything else.
While Jussi's mistake was pretty damned boneheaded, how often do you do what your boss says, because they said so? Not from the perspective of "How I do my job right?", but "Will I get canned if I say no? I'm not going to tell my boss that he is too stupid to remember both his username and his password".
Granted, at that point, I'd probably just tell them, "I'll give you a ring, it'll clear things up quicker".
On the plus side, we now have a modern, real world, textbook case on how not to handle these things.
True, Blankenship didn't recant it, I should have chosen my words better. Listening to a talk he did on it some years back, he seemed a bit embarrassed as it was revealing about his upbringing, surrounded by dogma and boredom.
For those who have been reading up on CoS, most of this is stuff you've known for years (though some of the perks that Haggis alleges Mr. Cruise has received over the years were news to me).
The best bit comes in the last few paragraphs. A CoS rep says that everything in their church doctrine was 100% pure from the horses mouth, the words of Hubbard. Then Wright asks about the church's views on homosexuality. Suddenly the rep responds that some bigot must have, while dictating it from Hubbard, added bigoted comments to the text, all a conspiracy to bring down the church.
Clearly, if these are the folks who are dealing with the public (who appear to know so little about their own "faith"), Scientology's ship is sinking and within a few years it will be nothing but pool of trademarks/copyrights managed by a handful of lawyers and a large collection of dated internet memes.
They frequently do cause unnecessary limitations. Then I get it up to snuff and find out that quiet XYZ client wants it that way for their POS legacy setup.
"Who is this XYZ?"
"XYZ, they propped us up during the last economic downturn. By the way they called this morning and were pissed."
Sometimes it's a senior (in years only) developer who created a "standard" before I got there.
I'm guessing you never bothered to ask why that "standard" was there to begin with and 2 to 4 months down the line will find out that there is some limitation that was completely outside of everyone's control and you've just run head first into it. Of course by then you'll have started a re-write and will learn to just blame it on the old timer's lack of documentation and if it was documented, it wasn't documented "right".
It was a bit like the Hacker's Manifesto in that it was written by a very passionate young person (William Powell, 22 at the time) that ran like wildfire amongst other passionate, like-minded (or at least very curious) young people. It also had the same reaction as H.M. when it's author went back, re-read it and was startled by how angry, foolish and idealistic they were in their youth and that almost all of that rage was caused by other sources.
From what I've read Powell has felt very guilty about that book and he doesn't advise anyone to ever bother reading it.
That's the way it goes. Same with record companies releasing music out on the torrents to gather interest. Come to think of it, games and print are the only entertainment mediums I can think of that don't commonly use this tactic.
Too bad the studios and record companies don't realize that they lose something with these tactics: consumer's respect.
When a game studio or print publisher goes belly up, we feel bad for the people working in those businesses. We think of all the hard work and often times, little pay and appreciation they get back. On the other side of the aisle, the movie and music industry can run ads 24/7 showing the sound engineers and stunt men and their families and thanks to the industry's notoriously underhanded ethics, you can only think, "Man, what a manipulative group of assholes."
Reading over it, the problem wasn't HBGary, but Barr. His own people didn't have faith in him and when he said, "Lets jump for the moon", they said, "OK, this won't work, but you are paying me to jump so *hop*."
He just seems like your average, crappy middle management type who probably says things like: I don't need to know how the bus works to drive it.
It is the 'cry out for it' that makes me wonder. When Charles Manson gets a cell phone, it reminds me of the story from the 90s where a rapist was able to get a camcorder, hormones supplements and make his own prison porn from his cell. Of course it ended up being that everyone from the warden on down was behind it in order to get public outrage and extra funding.
It does lead to one interesting "what if" question. How do we deal with this problem when the cellphone is in your head? Granted the question is pure science fiction, but sooner or later, this will be the case.
"Well we have the in-head jammer, but it causes random 'schizophrenic episodes'."
"Awesome, we'll just ship em off to the psych hospital and when they get that cleared up 10 years from now, they'll ship 'em back and they'll have to serve out the rest of their sentence. We won't have to grovel for money for decades."
Doesn't seem to difficult. Just hand Schmidt a card that says:
If an underling asks you something, tell them either 'no' or 'your idea is shit and unworthy of this company; this stands as proof that you are a horrible, horrible human being. Come back when you have something that doesn't make me sick to my stomach. Wait for profit.'
Yes, I'm being silly, but there were a lot of people on the left and on the right who honestly wondered if Bush was going to leave office or just declare an eternal state of emergency.
Just look at the textile industry. There are lot of odd tools they used from the early 1900s that today, we honestly have no idea what they are even used for. That doesn't even include the mountains of wood bobbins, loom repair devices, etc.
The point should never be how to communicate with something that probably doesn't exist yet or died off before we humans came around, but having protocols that WE can use out there. Instead of some pie in the sky protocol, how about a better long distance approach to current CCSDS standards?
I don't want to call out anyone at the event, but one reporter noted during the conference call, that almost everyone in the room was fighting to hold back the laughter. Will.i.am and Intel seem to be the only ones missing the joke.
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But I can remember waiting weeks for a Free BSD manual and discs that suggested installing NT for all of your IRQ settings. I can't say I miss that very much.
For example, would supporters of Anonymous view this situation differently if a group of masked men and women broke into HBGary, Berico, and Palanti in the dead of night, stole computers or drives containing the various damning files, and shipped them to a contact in the House of Representatives?
That's like comparing Deep Throat with G. Gordon Liddy.
One is an informant, the other is a hired thug. Whatever happened to asking about motive?
Don't forget the AVR Butterfly. About $15 more, but with a few more bells and whistles.
http://www.pcmag.com/article2/0,2817,2381164,00.asp
In the long run this makes me sad.
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While I understand it 99% of the time, I'm not sure if I should get hit with violating the ToS for firing up a Quake server once a month. I mean, yes, I "should" get hit, but I'm not sure if it leaves me very satisfied with my service, especially when Netflix and torrent guys use much more bandwidth.
PS: Might want to find a better term to use than "freetards". It is kind of vague. Some days of the week tossing that term around means you are out to defend a man's right to feed his family and expand the market place, you know truth and virtue and all that jazz. On other days it means you are supporting rent seeking and people will assume you are a shill who don't want their stock dipping. All in all I find it best just to avoid the term. Granted it is a free country, you can say what you want, but for some people around here you might as well be saying, "faggot".
Pretty sure it wasn't. Just doesn't fit the general MO.
That said, something about this does seem right. "Voice of Free Speech & the Advocate of the People"? Doesn't sound like the people I've been reading about over the years. Heartless, cruel bastards, sure. Vigilante? Yes. "Voice of Free Speech & the Advocate of the People"? No.
Watched a BBC documentary on them a month ago. After years of despising them, I couldn't help but feel bad for them, the family. Phelps himself, could take a flying leap for all I care.
That said, Anon has either jumped the shark (well, there isn't an Anon, so it could be anyone, so perhaps the concept of Anon has jumped the shark) or has picked a losing fight. By their own rules feeding a troll only ends in failure and I can't think of a bigger, or at least purer troll than Westboro Baptist.
Unless every state did this, they'd laugh their way to court and then sue the state for damages. Besides state reps and senators are very, very easy to buy out. You could probably swing a vote with a bottle of good scotch or here in the south a case of Coors.
No, things are going to have to get bad, really, really, really bad before they get better.
Reading through some of this, I got the impression that the problem has a lot more to do with making those above you happy, than anything else.
While Jussi's mistake was pretty damned boneheaded, how often do you do what your boss says, because they said so? Not from the perspective of "How I do my job right?", but "Will I get canned if I say no? I'm not going to tell my boss that he is too stupid to remember both his username and his password".
Granted, at that point, I'd probably just tell them, "I'll give you a ring, it'll clear things up quicker".
On the plus side, we now have a modern, real world, textbook case on how not to handle these things.
True, Blankenship didn't recant it, I should have chosen my words better. Listening to a talk he did on it some years back, he seemed a bit embarrassed as it was revealing about his upbringing, surrounded by dogma and boredom.
For those who have been reading up on CoS, most of this is stuff you've known for years (though some of the perks that Haggis alleges Mr. Cruise has received over the years were news to me).
The best bit comes in the last few paragraphs. A CoS rep says that everything in their church doctrine was 100% pure from the horses mouth, the words of Hubbard. Then Wright asks about the church's views on homosexuality. Suddenly the rep responds that some bigot must have, while dictating it from Hubbard, added bigoted comments to the text, all a conspiracy to bring down the church.
Clearly, if these are the folks who are dealing with the public (who appear to know so little about their own "faith"), Scientology's ship is sinking and within a few years it will be nothing but pool of trademarks/copyrights managed by a handful of lawyers and a large collection of dated internet memes.
They frequently do cause unnecessary limitations. Then I get it up to snuff and find out that quiet XYZ client wants it that way for their POS legacy setup.
"Who is this XYZ?"
"XYZ, they propped us up during the last economic downturn. By the way they called this morning and were pissed."
Sigh.
Sometimes it's a senior (in years only) developer who created a "standard" before I got there.
I'm guessing you never bothered to ask why that "standard" was there to begin with and 2 to 4 months down the line will find out that there is some limitation that was completely outside of everyone's control and you've just run head first into it. Of course by then you'll have started a re-write and will learn to just blame it on the old timer's lack of documentation and if it was documented, it wasn't documented "right".
It was a bit like the Hacker's Manifesto in that it was written by a very passionate young person (William Powell, 22 at the time) that ran like wildfire amongst other passionate, like-minded (or at least very curious) young people. It also had the same reaction as H.M. when it's author went back, re-read it and was startled by how angry, foolish and idealistic they were in their youth and that almost all of that rage was caused by other sources.
From what I've read Powell has felt very guilty about that book and he doesn't advise anyone to ever bother reading it.
That's the way it goes. Same with record companies releasing music out on the torrents to gather interest. Come to think of it, games and print are the only entertainment mediums I can think of that don't commonly use this tactic.
Too bad the studios and record companies don't realize that they lose something with these tactics: consumer's respect.
When a game studio or print publisher goes belly up, we feel bad for the people working in those businesses. We think of all the hard work and often times, little pay and appreciation they get back. On the other side of the aisle, the movie and music industry can run ads 24/7 showing the sound engineers and stunt men and their families and thanks to the industry's notoriously underhanded ethics, you can only think, "Man, what a manipulative group of assholes."
Kind of reminds me of that Maple Street story from the Twilight Zone.
You don't need government assassins and moles to ruin and slander you, at least not when you have your own healthy dose of paranoia.
Reading over it, the problem wasn't HBGary, but Barr. His own people didn't have faith in him and when he said, "Lets jump for the moon", they said, "OK, this won't work, but you are paying me to jump so *hop*."
He just seems like your average, crappy middle management type who probably says things like: I don't need to know how the bus works to drive it.
It is the 'cry out for it' that makes me wonder. When Charles Manson gets a cell phone, it reminds me of the story from the 90s where a rapist was able to get a camcorder, hormones supplements and make his own prison porn from his cell. Of course it ended up being that everyone from the warden on down was behind it in order to get public outrage and extra funding.
It does lead to one interesting "what if" question. How do we deal with this problem when the cellphone is in your head? Granted the question is pure science fiction, but sooner or later, this will be the case.
"Well we have the in-head jammer, but it causes random 'schizophrenic episodes'."
"Awesome, we'll just ship em off to the psych hospital and when they get that cleared up 10 years from now, they'll ship 'em back and they'll have to serve out the rest of their sentence. We won't have to grovel for money for decades."
Doesn't seem to difficult. Just hand Schmidt a card that says:
If an underling asks you something, tell them either 'no' or 'your idea is shit and unworthy of this company; this stands as proof that you are a horrible, horrible human being. Come back when you have something that doesn't make me sick to my stomach. Wait for profit.'
Easy, he got us out of the Bush administration.
Yes, I'm being silly, but there were a lot of people on the left and on the right who honestly wondered if Bush was going to leave office or just declare an eternal state of emergency.
Just look at the textile industry. There are lot of odd tools they used from the early 1900s that today, we honestly have no idea what they are even used for. That doesn't even include the mountains of wood bobbins, loom repair devices, etc.
The point should never be how to communicate with something that probably doesn't exist yet or died off before we humans came around, but having protocols that WE can use out there. Instead of some pie in the sky protocol, how about a better long distance approach to current CCSDS standards?
I don't want to call out anyone at the event, but one reporter noted during the conference call, that almost everyone in the room was fighting to hold back the laughter. Will.i.am and Intel seem to be the only ones missing the joke.
Fortunately we have T-Pain: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=b4T3a1xDT3U