I watch people look up, acknowledge that someone is coming at them with very little time to react, and then pull out in front of them and hope they have good brakes. A lot of people just don't care or understand the implications of the choice they could have just made.
Its no deterrent to a lot of people that their actions could be the direct cause of an accident, as long as its someone else involved.
**I'm not suggesting that shooting people is the appropriate response to luggage being stolen**
If no one will do anything about it, of course it is. I'd shoot someone if they tried to steal something from my house, and I'd shoot someone if they tried to steal something in my luggage if there were no other recourse or way to get it back.
If its Google, they'll probably give you a way to disable the kill switch. That way all the geeks can have their cake while all the non-geeks can have a tiny measure of protection from malware.
One of the main reasons it got down, supposedly, was that their forces would be too split.
Imagine if you had to have 5 games, and those 5 games had to tie-in to each other. That means the server/client software must be compatible between all games and versions, and that each 'world' must be persistent. It also means that things are probably going to be unbalanced. Who wants to be forced to play Tom Clancy's Infantry and Tank Divisions when they can play Tom Clancy's Mobile Rapesquad and Gunship? We know that the TCMRG will always beat TCITD in combat.
Similarly, Tom Clancy's Nuclear Sub Simulator will always beat TCMRG due to its use of nuclear weapons.
What they're doing is preventing their customers from doing things to them. If little Timmy met someone off of PSN and got himself murdered, lawsuit papers would be on their way to SCEA before his body was even cold and in the grave. Seeing as how most judges and juries care about children, that's pretty much a blank check for the parents of the kid. They're protecting themselves.
And modders? I'm looking at you. There are many of you who would sue when you run that update that SCEA put out and had your system bricked. Lots less legal hassle/bills to nip it in the bud. I doubt anything will change in the way that they are doing things.
Also, there are people who use the PSN for posting obscene/offensive material that could be accessed by minors. See the first paragraph.
First, all was good. Protections came into place as demanded by consumers and people who were 'in the know.'
Second, all was still good. Government action was taken to make more competition and less monopolies.
Third, all was good, but things were about to take a nosedive. Corporate and SIG (special interest group) lobbying became the fad.
Forth, not so good. Companies are getting all kinds of bonuses, laws, rights, etc, that consumers could never dream of having
Fifth, bad. The government is taking our land and freedoms away to give to corporations.
Sixth, very bad. The government is directly taking the money of the consumer and giving it to the corporations.
Seventh, worse than before. The government will pass more protections, more laws, more restrictions. Pretty soon, it'll actually be illegal to not buy something you saw on a commercial. Failure to do so constitutes theft via deprivation of future revenue.
Its COMAS we're talking about here, not male pattern baldness or runny noses. Most of the time, if someone doesn't wake up after a few days, their chances for waking up go way down. The majority of people in a coma for more than a few days have obvious and serious neurological damage. A small majority of them have no major damage.
If you can wake someone up that would normally be in a coma for an undetermined period of time, using a cheap and relatively safe method like this, you do it. Even health insurance could get behind this, as caring for a comatose patient is very expensive. Rather than toss it aside as an interesting story, it should be (and is) investigated further.
Have you ever tried to figure out a 'knot' in a social group/web and found out that things are rarely as they seem? This is the problem for figuring people and social interactions out. People can be friends on the surface but complete enemies just underneath. Those knots can come from a subconscious battle royale because things aren't as they seem. Machines will never be able to figure this out and adapt accordingly, and it will drive people that try to solve problems absolutely crazy.
I suggest just sitting back, having a beer, and watching it all unfold. It'll be a lot more fun and you'll be a lot more sane afterwords.
Alright, so lets say you're the manager of a BigBoxRetail Co. store. You know peak hours are mid-day Saturday and mid-day Sunday.
You plan schedules accordingly.
Uhoh, its Saturday morning at 2am and a surge of people have come in. Since you only scheduled 4 register attendants, there's ten people in each line bitching about you. You deserve to be fired for making customers wait. Your decision has potentially annoyed a single customer. But corporate would NEVER allow you to fill up all registers 24/7, would they?
IT is the same way. In some ways, its worse! Imagine if your store only had 4 registers, total, and corporate wouldn't let you build more. Instead, they suggest you turn over some shopping carts and pull a scanner out of your ass, and hack a point-of-sale system out of it so you can have five registers, because they JUST bought you a new credit card reader system for each checkout! You're WAY over budget!
The truly paranoid are irrational and contradictory.
They do things like refuse to fly on planes because the government obviously staged 9/11 and killed all of those people on the planes, so they don't want to become a part of that. But they'll work in the same areas that would be likely targets if another round of 9/11-esque hijackings occurred. They do things wrap everything in tin foil to keep the mind control/thought reading beams out, but happily sit in conspiracy theory forums all day, and go to work or to the store to get supplies.
If the paranoid want to find fault, they'll find fault. Obviously this is a thinly-veiled attempt by the government to see what the paranoid want to hide.
Companies wouldn't stop providing short term credit to each other. The payables industry just doesn't work like that. If company A wants payment for widgets A upon delivery, and widgets A are vital to the operation of company B, company A has no reason to believe that company B will stop paying them, because its vital to their business.
Things would mostly remain the same in the business world, despite what the leaders say if we didn't pass it.
Credit will always be around, and has always been around. If you so much as pick up a gallon of milk at the store, you're being credit. You're being credited with the milk on the off chance you might run out the door with it, without paying. When you pay with your debit card, you're being credited with the milk while the wheels spin and the money changes electronic hands. You're being credited the cost of the electricity until the end of the month when the total use and fee is calculated and is asked of you.
Instant transactions are only a luxury in the retail world. You pay cash for the milk and the transaction is done. Your company receives 10,000 gallons of milk for rebranding and shipping, and it will pay the original vendor sometime within 30 days usually.
I would be honestly surprised if all of your letters, faxes, emails, phone calls, etc made a difference at all to the people writing the check and the people cashing the check. The money doesn't belong to the writers of the check, and the people who are getting the check don't give a damn about anyone but themselves.
There was nothing keeping it from passing. In theory, they could have just tried it again and again with different names and slight rewording until it passed.
Or pasted it onto another bill, something named, "The Protection of Children Act..you do want to protect children, don't you?"
Considering how hard this will hit taxpayers, either in pocket book or in services provided by the government going lax, or both which is likely, this should be the tipping point of a revolution.
They made their mess, and they want us to pay for it, without making significant changes to ensure that the mess doesn't happen again. So this time next year when we're having to shell out $700 billion again, who's fault is it? Its ours, for not DOING SOMETHING ABOUT IT.
The people that owned slaves have also long since died out, but that doesn't keep their possible descendants demanding money from the descendants of the slave owners.
According to any religion-respecting Christian, the rocks are only 5,000 years old.
I have no problem with Christians. I have a problem with someone that wants to run the country according to their religion, though. But if she keeps religion out of her office, I'd be fine with it.
They could turn to disabling your OS and protecting themselves with EULAs.
After all, you shouldn't have stolen their product. We both know that software would never mess up and think that its stolen when it isn't, therefore creating a massive headache to the end user, who has to sit on the phone with an Indian call center for three hours in order to figure out that rebooting and calling back doesn't unlock his machine, despite what they say.
"Acceptance of this EULA grants The Corporation access to your PC and all of the software installed therein, and grants it the power to use the machine as it see's fit."
I've seen worse terms in a EULA stand up in court before...
The bean counters want numbers, since they're good at that game. The higher-ups want numbers, too. They want to see what their money is going towards. After all, a car company can give you megabytes of numbers describing everything in and around their car down to the micron level. Payroll wants numbers.
Numbers, unfortunately, rarely tell the whole truth.
The harder you work, the more stressful a job is. The more stressed that most people become, the more they hate their jobs. Stress goes away over time, but if you come in Monday morning all stressed out already because a new work week is starting, maybe its time for a new job. One that pays better, or one that is less stressful.
The less you make, the more you're treated like dirt. The more expendable you are. As you move up the ladder in terms of salary or hourly wage, things get better. Suddenly when you're making $50,000 you're harder to replace than the minimum wage worker at McDonalds. They might not tell you "No, you CAN'T go to the bathroom again today..you've already been once! Can't you hold it? You're not a team player, are you?" because they realize the burden it will cause to find an immediate replacement for you.
Your manager was hired to manage you and how you spend your time.
Some managers are good managers. They see what they need to do, they see the resources they have, and they make it happen. They figure out ways to make it happen faster, or more efficiently.
If you're working two hours a day, your manager isn't doing a good job at being efficient. They should be finding you more work to do. I, personally, am a fast worker. But I've learned that it often does NOT get rewarded. What will get you noticed and rewarded is choosing when to work fast, and when to work at a relaxed pace. For example, when crunch time comes, give it your all. Make sure they know that you're working hard. When the numbers come out and you're usually in the lead, you'll get noticed.
On the other hand, if you work faster than everyone else all the time, you'll just end up doing more work for the same pay, which is the ultimate goal of any manager. Can you blame them? Some managers are unreasonable about it, though, and count every minute.
In P2P, the end users are to blame. In this, the end users are to blame, but the ISP SHOULD be cutting them off due to abuse reports, but is not.
Comcast will cut you off for abuse if they receive enough hate your way via email from the companies that you could potentially be ripping off, why not entire ISPs?
Should be easy to ban. I don't go more than five minutes without a tell from a different person advertising gold.
I've always wondered if gold sellers have someone working for them on the inside. Diablo 2, for example, had item sellers selling all of the best top tier items and runes approximately 3 hours after the ladder reset and everyone had to start fresh on the lader.
It could be fixed if they sent you a physical copy as well as allowing the download, then they owe you nothing at all.
I never understood why this didn't catch on. I'd be much more likely to pay for a movie from Amazon if you could download the movie before you got the copy.
Since being accused of being a pedophile basically means you're a pedophile to most of the sheeple out there, it wouldn't be difficult to prove harm at all. What about all the kids that have been removed from his class, by demand of the parents? What about all the angry parents storming the school and demanding he be fired? If I had to deal with that at work, I would sue someone until I had enough money to live a few years in peace, in some other city/state, and change my name..because its the only way to get out of that accusation.
Once someone is labeled a pedophile, parents aren't going to want their kids around them to find out if its true or not. Cue the story of that guy that got acquitted on pedophilia charges 10 years or so ago when the girl admitted that she was lying..he used to pop up in the news every now and then for doing things like suing his employer for wrongful termination after he started to get poor marks on his reviews when nothing changed, or how his house got burned to the ground and no one even called the fire department..
Comcast: We're reducing our legal liability! Newsgroups are full of CP and warez!
Translation: We're reducing our costs while keeping the price to the end user the same!
If they're so worried about it, they're in the perfect position to open up their own newsgroup service and charge a few bucks a month. There's no way this wouldn't be profit, as they would no longer have to pay for much bandwidth if they just downloaded EVERYTHING once and then updated as necessary when someone changed something.
I don't think the point was to get servers put into tents in the future. I think the point was testing the limits.
If a server can run in a tent, why not a shipping container that's elevated off the ground with both ends open and a fan in each end? Or maybe a specially modified van or other mobile vehicle? What about putting routing servers closer to the action in a ventilated wire closet on each floor?
Companies can get workers from other countries IF American workers cannot meet the demand.
The demand is $1/hr tech support people that double as the billing department and moonlight as coders. Americans cannot legally fill this role in America for that price.
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Most people would ignore it.
I watch people look up, acknowledge that someone is coming at them with very little time to react, and then pull out in front of them and hope they have good brakes. A lot of people just don't care or understand the implications of the choice they could have just made.
Its no deterrent to a lot of people that their actions could be the direct cause of an accident, as long as its someone else involved.
**I'm not suggesting that shooting people is the appropriate response to luggage being stolen**
If no one will do anything about it, of course it is. I'd shoot someone if they tried to steal something from my house, and I'd shoot someone if they tried to steal something in my luggage if there were no other recourse or way to get it back.
If its Google, they'll probably give you a way to disable the kill switch. That way all the geeks can have their cake while all the non-geeks can have a tiny measure of protection from malware.
One of the main reasons it got down, supposedly, was that their forces would be too split.
Imagine if you had to have 5 games, and those 5 games had to tie-in to each other. That means the server/client software must be compatible between all games and versions, and that each 'world' must be persistent. It also means that things are probably going to be unbalanced. Who wants to be forced to play Tom Clancy's Infantry and Tank Divisions when they can play Tom Clancy's Mobile Rapesquad and Gunship? We know that the TCMRG will always beat TCITD in combat.
Similarly, Tom Clancy's Nuclear Sub Simulator will always beat TCMRG due to its use of nuclear weapons.
What they're doing is preventing their customers from doing things to them. If little Timmy met someone off of PSN and got himself murdered, lawsuit papers would be on their way to SCEA before his body was even cold and in the grave. Seeing as how most judges and juries care about children, that's pretty much a blank check for the parents of the kid. They're protecting themselves.
And modders? I'm looking at you. There are many of you who would sue when you run that update that SCEA put out and had your system bricked. Lots less legal hassle/bills to nip it in the bud. I doubt anything will change in the way that they are doing things.
Also, there are people who use the PSN for posting obscene/offensive material that could be accessed by minors. See the first paragraph.
First, all was good. Protections came into place as demanded by consumers and people who were 'in the know.'
Second, all was still good. Government action was taken to make more competition and less monopolies.
Third, all was good, but things were about to take a nosedive. Corporate and SIG (special interest group) lobbying became the fad.
Forth, not so good. Companies are getting all kinds of bonuses, laws, rights, etc, that consumers could never dream of having
Fifth, bad. The government is taking our land and freedoms away to give to corporations.
Sixth, very bad. The government is directly taking the money of the consumer and giving it to the corporations.
Seventh, worse than before. The government will pass more protections, more laws, more restrictions. Pretty soon, it'll actually be illegal to not buy something you saw on a commercial. Failure to do so constitutes theft via deprivation of future revenue.
Eighth, revolution. Back to step one.
Its COMAS we're talking about here, not male pattern baldness or runny noses. Most of the time, if someone doesn't wake up after a few days, their chances for waking up go way down. The majority of people in a coma for more than a few days have obvious and serious neurological damage. A small majority of them have no major damage.
If you can wake someone up that would normally be in a coma for an undetermined period of time, using a cheap and relatively safe method like this, you do it. Even health insurance could get behind this, as caring for a comatose patient is very expensive. Rather than toss it aside as an interesting story, it should be (and is) investigated further.
Have you ever tried to figure out a 'knot' in a social group/web and found out that things are rarely as they seem? This is the problem for figuring people and social interactions out. People can be friends on the surface but complete enemies just underneath. Those knots can come from a subconscious battle royale because things aren't as they seem. Machines will never be able to figure this out and adapt accordingly, and it will drive people that try to solve problems absolutely crazy.
I suggest just sitting back, having a beer, and watching it all unfold. It'll be a lot more fun and you'll be a lot more sane afterwords.
Alright, so lets say you're the manager of a BigBoxRetail Co. store. You know peak hours are mid-day Saturday and mid-day Sunday.
You plan schedules accordingly.
Uhoh, its Saturday morning at 2am and a surge of people have come in. Since you only scheduled 4 register attendants, there's ten people in each line bitching about you. You deserve to be fired for making customers wait. Your decision has potentially annoyed a single customer. But corporate would NEVER allow you to fill up all registers 24/7, would they?
IT is the same way. In some ways, its worse! Imagine if your store only had 4 registers, total, and corporate wouldn't let you build more. Instead, they suggest you turn over some shopping carts and pull a scanner out of your ass, and hack a point-of-sale system out of it so you can have five registers, because they JUST bought you a new credit card reader system for each checkout! You're WAY over budget!
The truly paranoid are irrational and contradictory.
They do things like refuse to fly on planes because the government obviously staged 9/11 and killed all of those people on the planes, so they don't want to become a part of that. But they'll work in the same areas that would be likely targets if another round of 9/11-esque hijackings occurred. They do things wrap everything in tin foil to keep the mind control/thought reading beams out, but happily sit in conspiracy theory forums all day, and go to work or to the store to get supplies.
If the paranoid want to find fault, they'll find fault. Obviously this is a thinly-veiled attempt by the government to see what the paranoid want to hide.
Companies wouldn't stop providing short term credit to each other. The payables industry just doesn't work like that. If company A wants payment for widgets A upon delivery, and widgets A are vital to the operation of company B, company A has no reason to believe that company B will stop paying them, because its vital to their business.
Things would mostly remain the same in the business world, despite what the leaders say if we didn't pass it.
Credit will always be around, and has always been around. If you so much as pick up a gallon of milk at the store, you're being credit. You're being credited with the milk on the off chance you might run out the door with it, without paying. When you pay with your debit card, you're being credited with the milk while the wheels spin and the money changes electronic hands. You're being credited the cost of the electricity until the end of the month when the total use and fee is calculated and is asked of you.
Instant transactions are only a luxury in the retail world. You pay cash for the milk and the transaction is done. Your company receives 10,000 gallons of milk for rebranding and shipping, and it will pay the original vendor sometime within 30 days usually.
I would be honestly surprised if all of your letters, faxes, emails, phone calls, etc made a difference at all to the people writing the check and the people cashing the check. The money doesn't belong to the writers of the check, and the people who are getting the check don't give a damn about anyone but themselves.
There was nothing keeping it from passing. In theory, they could have just tried it again and again with different names and slight rewording until it passed.
Or pasted it onto another bill, something named, "The Protection of Children Act..you do want to protect children, don't you?"
Considering how hard this will hit taxpayers, either in pocket book or in services provided by the government going lax, or both which is likely, this should be the tipping point of a revolution.
They made their mess, and they want us to pay for it, without making significant changes to ensure that the mess doesn't happen again. So this time next year when we're having to shell out $700 billion again, who's fault is it? Its ours, for not DOING SOMETHING ABOUT IT.
The people that owned slaves have also long since died out, but that doesn't keep their possible descendants demanding money from the descendants of the slave owners.
According to any religion-respecting Christian, the rocks are only 5,000 years old.
I have no problem with Christians. I have a problem with someone that wants to run the country according to their religion, though. But if she keeps religion out of her office, I'd be fine with it.
They could turn to disabling your OS and protecting themselves with EULAs.
After all, you shouldn't have stolen their product. We both know that software would never mess up and think that its stolen when it isn't, therefore creating a massive headache to the end user, who has to sit on the phone with an Indian call center for three hours in order to figure out that rebooting and calling back doesn't unlock his machine, despite what they say.
"Acceptance of this EULA grants The Corporation access to your PC and all of the software installed therein, and grants it the power to use the machine as it see's fit."
I've seen worse terms in a EULA stand up in court before...
This is the honest-to-God truth.
The bean counters want numbers, since they're good at that game. The higher-ups want numbers, too. They want to see what their money is going towards. After all, a car company can give you megabytes of numbers describing everything in and around their car down to the micron level. Payroll wants numbers.
Numbers, unfortunately, rarely tell the whole truth.
The harder you work, the more stressful a job is. The more stressed that most people become, the more they hate their jobs. Stress goes away over time, but if you come in Monday morning all stressed out already because a new work week is starting, maybe its time for a new job. One that pays better, or one that is less stressful.
The less you make, the more you're treated like dirt. The more expendable you are. As you move up the ladder in terms of salary or hourly wage, things get better. Suddenly when you're making $50,000 you're harder to replace than the minimum wage worker at McDonalds. They might not tell you "No, you CAN'T go to the bathroom again today..you've already been once! Can't you hold it? You're not a team player, are you?" because they realize the burden it will cause to find an immediate replacement for you.
Your manager was hired to manage you and how you spend your time.
Some managers are good managers. They see what they need to do, they see the resources they have, and they make it happen. They figure out ways to make it happen faster, or more efficiently.
If you're working two hours a day, your manager isn't doing a good job at being efficient. They should be finding you more work to do. I, personally, am a fast worker. But I've learned that it often does NOT get rewarded. What will get you noticed and rewarded is choosing when to work fast, and when to work at a relaxed pace. For example, when crunch time comes, give it your all. Make sure they know that you're working hard. When the numbers come out and you're usually in the lead, you'll get noticed.
On the other hand, if you work faster than everyone else all the time, you'll just end up doing more work for the same pay, which is the ultimate goal of any manager. Can you blame them? Some managers are unreasonable about it, though, and count every minute.
Not quite the same at all.
In P2P, the end users are to blame. In this, the end users are to blame, but the ISP SHOULD be cutting them off due to abuse reports, but is not.
Comcast will cut you off for abuse if they receive enough hate your way via email from the companies that you could potentially be ripping off, why not entire ISPs?
Should be easy to ban. I don't go more than five minutes without a tell from a different person advertising gold.
I've always wondered if gold sellers have someone working for them on the inside. Diablo 2, for example, had item sellers selling all of the best top tier items and runes approximately 3 hours after the ladder reset and everyone had to start fresh on the lader.
It could be fixed if they sent you a physical copy as well as allowing the download, then they owe you nothing at all.
I never understood why this didn't catch on. I'd be much more likely to pay for a movie from Amazon if you could download the movie before you got the copy.
Since being accused of being a pedophile basically means you're a pedophile to most of the sheeple out there, it wouldn't be difficult to prove harm at all. What about all the kids that have been removed from his class, by demand of the parents? What about all the angry parents storming the school and demanding he be fired? If I had to deal with that at work, I would sue someone until I had enough money to live a few years in peace, in some other city/state, and change my name..because its the only way to get out of that accusation.
Once someone is labeled a pedophile, parents aren't going to want their kids around them to find out if its true or not. Cue the story of that guy that got acquitted on pedophilia charges 10 years or so ago when the girl admitted that she was lying..he used to pop up in the news every now and then for doing things like suing his employer for wrongful termination after he started to get poor marks on his reviews when nothing changed, or how his house got burned to the ground and no one even called the fire department..
Comcast: We're reducing our legal liability! Newsgroups are full of CP and warez!
Translation: We're reducing our costs while keeping the price to the end user the same!
If they're so worried about it, they're in the perfect position to open up their own newsgroup service and charge a few bucks a month. There's no way this wouldn't be profit, as they would no longer have to pay for much bandwidth if they just downloaded EVERYTHING once and then updated as necessary when someone changed something.
I don't think the point was to get servers put into tents in the future. I think the point was testing the limits.
If a server can run in a tent, why not a shipping container that's elevated off the ground with both ends open and a fan in each end? Or maybe a specially modified van or other mobile vehicle? What about putting routing servers closer to the action in a ventilated wire closet on each floor?
Companies can get workers from other countries IF American workers cannot meet the demand.
The demand is $1/hr tech support people that double as the billing department and moonlight as coders. Americans cannot legally fill this role in America for that price.