Having worked in government IT for a bit, I'd say their story is entirely plausible and not entirely unreasonable. How many years of backups should they be required to keep? But hey, don't worry. Congress shall pass laws mandating backups and we will spend millions on tapes to be used once until subpoenaed.
"Never ascribe to malice that which is adequately explained by incompetence"
In any case this is some petty, inconsequential, political bullshit we are talking about. Did the extra scrutiny result in anything? Anything at all?
Ultimately this is a culture war and will only be won over the long term. For starters we could push back against Saudi Arabia instead of coddling them. I don't see how anyone can expect to win a war against Islamic fundamentalist terror when the spiritual center of Islam is controlled by fundamentalists with unlimited funds from oil sales. We also need to promote a more equitable distribution of wealth, world wide. Poverty breeds violence, ignorance, and fundamentalists of many stripes.
We could quit behaving like hypocrites, ignoring blatant and obscene human rights abuses by our Islamic dictatorship "allies" because it's profitable in the short term.
We could quit pissing our pants at the thought of terrorism, accept that it may occasionally happen (as it always has), and carry on instead of over reacting. Islamic fundamentalist terrorism has never represented the existential threat to western society that some would have us believe. It may be a thorn in our side for quite some time but the pain and damage it inflicts is entirely absorbable.
We should quit using this pathetic war on terror as an excuse to destroy ourselves.
Absolutely. For example Microsoft's misguided decisions to do things like hide file extensions by default and obscure the way files are organized with with My Documents, symlinks, and.ini files which hide true directory names have been counter productive in my experience. These decisions only serve to assist a limited subset of users who never venture beyond routine computer use and totally screws them over when they do.
There's got to be some acceptable balance between ease of use and NOT keeping users ignorant. What constitutes ease of use for my mother is not necessarily the same as ease of use for my kids. It seems to me that we should be designing software that will teach our kids useful skills while not deliberately obfuscating the way technology works rather than for a previous generation who may never need or want to know what's really happening.
I generally have the most fun in games with no plot at all and they tend to have more replay value. Not to say that there aren't any fun games with plots...
Maybe we could go after the industries that paved the way, first.... Big Pharma, Oil, Defense, etc...
You have a point about Google but unless the others are dealt with, does it really matter? If the contest is between the corporations then, so far, Google remains the lesser evil.
A few years ago I was hit for several thousand dollars because I was supposedly overpaid during my tenure working as a DOD civilian overseas. (less than 10 years ago at the time) The explanation for the overpayment was and remains cryptic and would change depending on which agency I spoke to, one agency said they overpaid health insurance, another said it was a housing benefit. After a year of phone calls and emails I could never get a straight, specific answer and so I could never prove them wrong. let alone find anyone willing accept any kind of responsibility for resolving the issue. After setting a collection agency on us (who we ignored because it seemed so obviously a scam), The IRS took my entire tax refund one year, and then half again the following year.
Yep 2012 mostly works as well as 2008R2 but the Metro interface is highly inappropriate and the new GUI tools waste a huge amount of screen real estate. Also I'd avoid storage spaces. I lost a bunch of data from a single drive failure in what was supposedly a highly redundant configuration. It should not have happened....
In-game chat can be useful but I wouldn't be opposed to a racist asshole filter within chat. I'm really not very concerned about 1st amendment rights while playing BF4 so I'l take that risk. At the very least this could be an optional feature on the client side. I'd be happy with an "auto-mute on keywords which I specify" feature. Auto-kick/mute/ban on common spellings of offensive epithets should be a standard, if optional, server feature. It's not perfect but let's at least force the assholes to be creative.
I feel like the game industry has had their head in the sand on this issue for a long time now. They just gave up... or maybe it's the 'a racist's money is as good as yours', attitude....
Since when has Newsweek been known for journalism? As with most tabloid pieces, this one is 95% speculation and hearsay. I found the article distasteful and inconclusive.
No you don't have the right to make money indefinitely from work you, or in most cases others, did once. No you don't have the right to hold our culture hostage.
I don't even think IP should be transferable, or if necessary, only very temporarily.
...but only if they can release OS updates for 1-2 years after a phone's release.
My experience with Samsung, (my first 3 android phones were Samsung), is that they tend to ship and forget. They showed no loyalty to me and so I never developed any loyalty to them. I think they got where they are by market saturation rather than any real, inherent superiority of their products.
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Having worked in government IT for a bit, I'd say their story is entirely plausible and not entirely unreasonable. How many years of backups should they be required to keep? But hey, don't worry. Congress shall pass laws mandating backups and we will spend millions on tapes to be used once until
subpoenaed.
"Never ascribe to malice that which is adequately explained by incompetence"
In any case this is some petty, inconsequential, political bullshit we are talking about. Did the extra scrutiny result in anything? Anything at all?
Oh, but cheap, exploitable labor is the Capitalist's god-given right. Just another commodity.
Tell you what... If you stopping making up misleading headlines I'll try and not be so cynical about them.
IMHO,
Ultimately this is a culture war and will only be won over the long term. For starters we could push back against Saudi Arabia instead of coddling them. I don't see how anyone can expect to win a war against Islamic fundamentalist terror when the spiritual center of Islam is controlled by fundamentalists with unlimited funds from oil sales. We also need to promote a more equitable distribution of wealth, world wide. Poverty breeds violence, ignorance, and fundamentalists of many stripes.
We could quit behaving like hypocrites, ignoring blatant and obscene human rights abuses by our Islamic dictatorship "allies" because it's profitable in the short term.
We could quit pissing our pants at the thought of terrorism, accept that it may occasionally happen (as it always has), and carry on instead of over reacting. Islamic fundamentalist terrorism has never represented the existential threat to western society that some would have us believe. It may be a thorn in our side for quite some time but the pain and damage it inflicts is entirely absorbable.
We should quit using this pathetic war on terror as an excuse to destroy ourselves.
The reaction to 9/11 pretty much proves that the US will accept no risk unless it's self inflicted.
How long until we hear that?
Even Nexus is only good for a few years.... I'm holding my breath for another year of N4 updates.
Absolutely. For example Microsoft's misguided decisions to do things like hide file extensions by default and obscure the way files are organized with with My Documents, symlinks, and .ini files which hide true directory names have been counter productive in my experience. These decisions only serve to assist a limited subset of users who never venture beyond routine computer use and totally screws them over when they do.
There's got to be some acceptable balance between ease of use and NOT keeping users ignorant.
What constitutes ease of use for my mother is not necessarily the same as ease of use for my kids. It seems to me that we should be designing software that will teach our kids useful skills while not deliberately obfuscating the way technology works rather than for a previous generation who may never need or want to know what's really happening.
I generally have the most fun in games with no plot at all and they tend to have more replay value.
Not to say that there aren't any fun games with plots...
Maybe we could go after the industries that paved the way, first.... Big Pharma, Oil, Defense, etc...
You have a point about Google but unless the others are dealt with, does it really matter? If the contest is between the corporations then, so far, Google remains the lesser evil.
You've restored my faith in humanity.
Good luck getting people like this guy to watch that video....
A few years ago I was hit for several thousand dollars because I was supposedly overpaid during my tenure working as a DOD civilian overseas. (less than 10 years ago at the time) The explanation for the overpayment was and remains cryptic and would change depending on which agency I spoke to, one agency said they overpaid health insurance, another said it was a housing benefit. After a year of phone calls and emails I could never get a straight, specific answer and so I could never prove them wrong. let alone find anyone willing accept any kind of responsibility for resolving the issue. After setting a collection agency on us (who we ignored because it seemed so obviously a scam), The IRS took my entire tax refund one year, and then half again the following year.
I signed up and never posted simply to use twitter credentials on other web sites.
Because all that matters is the Dropbox stock price?
Some of us will never forgive her and so some of us will cease using Dropbox.
This is legit.
Yep 2012 mostly works as well as 2008R2 but the Metro interface is highly inappropriate and the new GUI tools waste a huge amount of screen real estate. Also I'd avoid storage spaces. I lost a bunch of data from a single drive failure in what was supposedly a highly redundant configuration. It should not have happened....
In-game chat can be useful but I wouldn't be opposed to a racist asshole filter within chat. I'm really not very concerned about 1st amendment rights while playing BF4 so I'l take that risk. At the very least this could be an optional feature on the client side. I'd be happy with an "auto-mute on keywords which I specify" feature. Auto-kick/mute/ban on common spellings of offensive epithets should be a standard, if optional, server feature. It's not perfect but let's at least force the assholes to be creative.
I feel like the game industry has had their head in the sand on this issue for a long time now. They just gave up... or maybe it's the 'a racist's money is as good as yours', attitude....
But are they actually 13? or 30? That's the scary part.
In my experience SMS is broken with Google Voice... no group texts, no attachments, randomly misses texts completely. Highly unreliable.
But I kind of like this about it. Nobody texts me anymore.
Probably not much of a selling point though.
Since when has Newsweek been known for journalism? As with most tabloid pieces, this one is 95% speculation and hearsay.
I found the article distasteful and inconclusive.
...and as far as I'm concerned, it is.
No you don't have the right to make money indefinitely from work you, or in most cases others, did once.
No you don't have the right to hold our culture hostage.
I don't even think IP should be transferable, or if necessary, only very temporarily.
...but only if they can release OS updates for 1-2 years after a phone's release.
My experience with Samsung, (my first 3 android phones were Samsung), is that they tend to ship and forget. They showed no loyalty to me and so I never developed any loyalty to them. I think they got where they are by market saturation rather than any real, inherent superiority of their products.
'It is the intention of the government to ultimately convert the bitcoins to U.S. currency,'
Good luck with that. I've been waiting 3 months now for my U.S. currency.