It falls under the aegis of the Fourth Amendment. Freedom from unreasonable search and seizure.
I, at least, define the methods they would espouse to be invasive and ineffectual. Therefore unreasonable.
If you have no problem living in a panopticon, great. Good for you!
But this sick little subculture of invading EVERYONE'S lives with some vain and vague notion of, SOMEHOW, making people "safe" (when it accomplishes no such thing) needs to die.
Stake through the heart. Cut off its head. Burn the remains. Sow them with lime.
This change is the effective equivalent of "Instead of flipping the light switch to turn the lights on, dive into the room, roll around on the floor to build up a static charge, then jump up and try to hit the light fixture so you can power the bulbs with your static buildup".
That's jumping through pointless hoops. Just because someone has a hard-on for tablet interfaces.
"We've turned off functionality and broken compatibility simply because we could!"
I have no time nor patience for that kind of bullshit.
That's like "We're rewired the brake system so that when you want to brake you have to tap the rear view mirror, then look at the dashboard, then swipe your hand across the glove compartment. After that adjust your driver-side mirror a bit and you'll slow down."
And I wouldn't ever work someplace that was stupid and slipshod enough to insist that, when I need a pair of forceps, that a hedge trimmer is "just as good".
Right tools for the right job. I don't have time for mental defectives who are so deluded that they think (using the term loosely) otherwise.
The Linux machines I *am* using are Red Hat servers and entirely command line. They have been for pretty much ever. And I don't have to dig into them on a daily basis for hours at a time.
When I ask for a Phillips Screwdriver and you hand me a ball peen hammer, prepare to get bopped with it. Give me the tools I ask for, that allow me to do my job RIGHT, or don't waste my damn time and then bitch when I kick you to the curb.
I don't WANT to have to "learn to adapt". Especially not for some imbecilic tweaks in the UI that remove functionality and stop me from working efficiently. For me, time is money. And all the time I have to waste trying to dick around in the new UI, instead of getting work done, is money Microsoft is stealing from me.
Correct. Windows 8 didn't kill PC sales. The fact that even cheap, bargain basement PCs nowadays are GROTESQUELY overpowered for the uses many users actually put them to is a factor.
Windows 8 just provides no incentive to get a new PC based on OS. And, in some cases can be a disincentive to upgrade. But that's not the same thing as being responsible for the drop in sales. It's merely one of a number of factors feeding into the current nadir in sales.
New submitter drachensun writes "Francesco Santini was looking into the possibilities of stand-alone printing with the Solidoodle. He choose the PengPod 700, a tablet that runs a full Linux distribution and turned it into a standalone interface for the SD2. 'So, in summary, I now have a fully-functional touchscreen pronterface installation that can drive the Solidoodle, for a total cost of 110$. No assembly, soldering, firmware modding required. Just a little bit of fiddling with Linux (if required, I can post a step-by-step guide, or prepare an ad-hoc linux image).'"
A pronterface?
So this is an NSFW project we shouldn't expose our children to?
A couple of my partners were flying back from a con (more than) a few years ago.
Sitting in O'Hare, they started spitballing a terrorism game.
Finally, one of the guys' wives elbowed them and FORCEFULLY reminded them where exactly they were, and the general lack of humor they had about this sort of thing.
So they shut up right?
WRONG.
They continued on, couching everything in euphemisms.
Thus the Ice Cream game (I Scream).
If we ever decide to do it, we'll probably have to start up a throw-away imprint to do so (like White Wolf did with their Black Dog imprint for Hol).
Median for the top 88 companies with the best pay is $54,300 a year.
For the mathematically challenged, that's $26.11 an hour.
And HR costs are NOWHERE near 70% of salary (try 40%, though it's actually inversely proportional to a higher salary).
$36.55 * 25K = 913,850
And that's assuming all employees are primarily trained in a single year, and an entire hour for training upkeep is required of each employee every year after that or that ongoing forms of employee awareness training will cost a similar amount.
AND it also assumes that the company is kept to a single incident in a year.
If number of incidents is anything exceeding 1...
Simply investing in a technological solution and hoping it'll magically solve all your security issues is lazy and stupid. Worse, it means you've started believing the line of bullshit your vendors are feeding you.
Security is not a "product". It's a process. And the stronger each link in that process chain is, the harder it'll be to breach it. Security hardware isn't the be all and end all. Security software isn't the be all and end all. Security personnel aren't the be all and end all. Security testing isn't the be all and end all. Security policies aren't the be all and end all. Security processes aren't the be all and end all. Employee education (and ongoing awareness raising) is not the be all and end all.
All of them should be working together in lock-step or you have a vulnerable point someplace. And someone WILL figure out how to exploit it.
The training itself may be inexpensive, but the lost time for "all" employees forced to take the course/class/lecture is not. Not to mention the burden on your staff in tracking attendance compliance etc.
And, compared to the cost of cleaning up an incident, it's STILL infinitesimally small.
Don't buy gas on such and such a day! It'll send a message! (Yeah, that people think this sort of thing helps are dumbasses who don't understand that a one day cessation of demand, even on a worldwide scale, is pointless. As people simply buy the next day or stock up in the preceding days.)
Don't use electricity for an hour! *Snore* Basically it's a load test for your grid. And an expensive one too. Nothing more.
I've got one!
All you people who want to send a REAL message! If you're SERIOUS about this. Do the following. Don't breed. EVER.
If you can't do that, try the following. Don't breath for an hour. You'll be doing the world a favor.
If that's still too much to ask, here's something more fun. Go skydiving and experience freefall for 30 consecutive minutes.
Honestly, having heard people extol the "virtues" of alcohol for decades now, I'm heartily sick of all the bullshit.
No one thing "gave" us civilization. Alcohol generation, consumption, and the ancillary skills required to do so are merely one of NUMEROUS building blocks.
Anyone telling you differently and yammering about how IMPORTANT alcohol/beer is, is merely trying to excuse all the idiocy that goes with alcohol consumption.
"What'd you do two nights ago?"
"Got drunk, wrecked a car and woke up with a fat girl."
"What'd you do the night after that?"
"Got drunk, wrecked another car and woke up with an ugly girl."
"What'd you do last night."
"Got drunk, wrecked YOUR car and woke up to the realization that both the previous night's companions had actually been guys..."
"Oh man! I didn't need to hear that!"
"But it's okay! Because beer gave us civilization man!"
"Man! God must LOVE us!"
No. All this proves is that some mental defective has killed too many brain cells.
There is most definitely a middle ground here! If you're in a public space, you have no reasonable reason to not be photographed. This has long been upheld in the courts! Obviously, if this goes to the bathroom or your private property, the situation changes.
Photographed. Sure.
That's a LOT different than continuous video capture.
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When I was still doing hospital work about 10 years ago, people were still installing NEW systems with OS/2 on there!
GAH!
The US is *not* a democracy.
It's a democratic republic.
It falls under the aegis of the Fourth Amendment. Freedom from unreasonable search and seizure.
I, at least, define the methods they would espouse to be invasive and ineffectual. Therefore unreasonable.
If you have no problem living in a panopticon, great. Good for you!
But this sick little subculture of invading EVERYONE'S lives with some vain and vague notion of, SOMEHOW, making people "safe" (when it accomplishes no such thing) needs to die.
Stake through the heart.
Cut off its head.
Burn the remains.
Sow them with lime.
Sorry sport.
But the context-breaking Start Screen is just one of numerous UI problems with Windows 8.
So don't try to make my argument all about the Start Screen.
Sorry Troll.
But where did it say I needed to take art appreciation to use a computer?
When the changes make sense.
This change is the effective equivalent of "Instead of flipping the light switch to turn the lights on, dive into the room, roll around on the floor to build up a static charge, then jump up and try to hit the light fixture so you can power the bulbs with your static buildup".
That's jumping through pointless hoops. Just because someone has a hard-on for tablet interfaces.
Fuck that noise.
New technology? I'm always up to learn that.
"We've turned off functionality and broken compatibility simply because we could!"
I have no time nor patience for that kind of bullshit.
That's like "We're rewired the brake system so that when you want to brake you have to tap the rear view mirror, then look at the dashboard, then swipe your hand across the glove compartment. After that adjust your driver-side mirror a bit and you'll slow down."
Good. I like my current job a LOT.
And I wouldn't ever work someplace that was stupid and slipshod enough to insist that, when I need a pair of forceps, that a hedge trimmer is "just as good".
Right tools for the right job. I don't have time for mental defectives who are so deluded that they think (using the term loosely) otherwise.
Honestly? I don't give a fuck about Ubuntu.
I'm not using it on a day-to-day basis.
The Linux machines I *am* using are Red Hat servers and entirely command line. They have been for pretty much ever.
And I don't have to dig into them on a daily basis for hours at a time.
When I ask for a Phillips Screwdriver and you hand me a ball peen hammer, prepare to get bopped with it.
Give me the tools I ask for, that allow me to do my job RIGHT, or don't waste my damn time and then bitch when I kick you to the curb.
That's just it.
I don't WANT to have to "learn to adapt".
Especially not for some imbecilic tweaks in the UI that remove functionality and stop me from working efficiently.
For me, time is money. And all the time I have to waste trying to dick around in the new UI, instead of getting work done, is money Microsoft is stealing from me.
Correct. Windows 8 didn't kill PC sales.
The fact that even cheap, bargain basement PCs nowadays are GROTESQUELY overpowered for the uses many users actually put them to is a factor.
Windows 8 just provides no incentive to get a new PC based on OS. And, in some cases can be a disincentive to upgrade. But that's not the same thing as being responsible for the drop in sales. It's merely one of a number of factors feeding into the current nadir in sales.
Cognitive dissonance at its finest!
New submitter drachensun writes "Francesco Santini was looking into the possibilities of stand-alone printing with the Solidoodle. He choose the PengPod 700, a tablet that runs a full Linux distribution and turned it into a standalone interface for the SD2. 'So, in summary, I now have a fully-functional touchscreen pronterface installation that can drive the Solidoodle, for a total cost of 110$. No assembly, soldering, firmware modding required. Just a little bit of fiddling with Linux (if required, I can post a step-by-step guide, or prepare an ad-hoc linux image).'"
A pronterface?
So this is an NSFW project we shouldn't expose our children to?
"Falling into a Black Hole would be a Really Bad Thing"
'nuff said.
No, light can most certainly escape from 1 G. Gravity IS the curvature of space. The Event Horizon is the point at which escape velocity > c.
Fixed that for you.
A couple of my partners were flying back from a con (more than) a few years ago.
Sitting in O'Hare, they started spitballing a terrorism game.
Finally, one of the guys' wives elbowed them and FORCEFULLY reminded them where exactly they were, and the general lack of humor they had about this sort of thing.
So they shut up right?
WRONG.
They continued on, couching everything in euphemisms.
Thus the Ice Cream game (I Scream).
If we ever decide to do it, we'll probably have to start up a throw-away imprint to do so (like White Wolf did with their Black Dog imprint for Hol).
Okay, say the average cost of a security incident is a million bucks.
And I'm not sure where you're getting an average hourly wage of $44 from, but even with your $44/hour average is
http://money.cnn.com/magazines/fortune/best-companies/2012/pay/hourly.html.
Median for the top 88 companies with the best pay is $54,300 a year.
For the mathematically challenged, that's $26.11 an hour.
And HR costs are NOWHERE near 70% of salary (try 40%, though it's actually inversely proportional to a higher salary).
$36.55 * 25K = 913,850
And that's assuming all employees are primarily trained in a single year, and an entire hour for training upkeep is required of each employee every year after that or that ongoing forms of employee awareness training will cost a similar amount.
AND it also assumes that the company is kept to a single incident in a year.
If number of incidents is anything exceeding 1...
Simply investing in a technological solution and hoping it'll magically solve all your security issues is lazy and stupid. Worse, it means you've started believing the line of bullshit your vendors are feeding you.
Security is not a "product". It's a process. And the stronger each link in that process chain is, the harder it'll be to breach it.
Security hardware isn't the be all and end all.
Security software isn't the be all and end all.
Security personnel aren't the be all and end all.
Security testing isn't the be all and end all.
Security policies aren't the be all and end all.
Security processes aren't the be all and end all.
Employee education (and ongoing awareness raising) is not the be all and end all.
All of them should be working together in lock-step or you have a vulnerable point someplace. And someone WILL figure out how to exploit it.
The training itself may be inexpensive, but the lost time for "all" employees forced to take the course/class/lecture is not. Not to mention the burden on your staff in tracking attendance compliance etc.
And, compared to the cost of cleaning up an incident, it's STILL infinitesimally small.
Don't buy gas on such and such a day! It'll send a message! (Yeah, that people think this sort of thing helps are dumbasses who don't understand that a one day cessation of demand, even on a worldwide scale, is pointless. As people simply buy the next day or stock up in the preceding days.)
Don't use electricity for an hour! *Snore* Basically it's a load test for your grid. And an expensive one too. Nothing more.
I've got one!
All you people who want to send a REAL message!
If you're SERIOUS about this. Do the following.
Don't breed. EVER.
If you can't do that, try the following.
Don't breath for an hour. You'll be doing the world a favor.
If that's still too much to ask, here's something more fun.
Go skydiving and experience freefall for 30 consecutive minutes.
It explains a lot.
Honestly, having heard people extol the "virtues" of alcohol for decades now, I'm heartily sick of all the bullshit.
No one thing "gave" us civilization. Alcohol generation, consumption, and the ancillary skills required to do so are merely one of NUMEROUS building blocks.
Anyone telling you differently and yammering about how IMPORTANT alcohol/beer is, is merely trying to excuse all the idiocy that goes with alcohol consumption.
"What'd you do two nights ago?"
"Got drunk, wrecked a car and woke up with a fat girl."
"What'd you do the night after that?"
"Got drunk, wrecked another car and woke up with an ugly girl."
"What'd you do last night."
"Got drunk, wrecked YOUR car and woke up to the realization that both the previous night's companions had actually been guys..."
"Oh man! I didn't need to hear that!"
"But it's okay! Because beer gave us civilization man!"
"Man! God must LOVE us!"
No. All this proves is that some mental defective has killed too many brain cells.
Basically, if I someone photographing me constantly over the course of an evening, I'm going to object just as much.
If I happen to be the subject of a picture here or there? No big deal.
If I get caught in the background of a few pictures as well. No big deal.
But dozens or hundreds of pictures of myself or continuous video streams? Yeah, I'm going to object to that.
Is it arbitrary and inconsistent? Sure!
I never promised consistency or neatly defined rules of interaction.
I object, vehemently (and if necessary, violently) to being subjected to a panopticon culture by fellow "inmates".
There is most definitely a middle ground here! If you're in a public space, you have no reasonable reason to not be photographed. This has long been upheld in the courts! Obviously, if this goes to the bathroom or your private property, the situation changes.
Photographed. Sure.
That's a LOT different than continuous video capture.
If I don't want to be recorded on video, I don't want to be recorded on video.
Unless I'm committing a crime (and thus abrogating my rights), there is NO middle ground here!
End of discussion.
Fixed.
Fixed your half-assed patch.