You know between this and the Education speech, Obama must be getting kind of tired of having radical extremist political parties censoring his otherwise basic and principled messages. Good thing that kind of thing doesn't happen over he... wait...
Why can't open-source, verifiable software be part of your hallowed PROCESS? It can. And ought to be. Software engineers have a legitimate seat at this table.
I would draw comparisons between this and the Simpson's Monorail episode, but at least the Monorail got built before they realized it was a gigantic waste of money. The bullet-train would simply be a financial quagmire for this fiscally irresponsible state.
I'm going to comment instead of mod, since this topic is so dear to my heart. Let me wholeheartedly agree and go one step further than bashing targeted ads.
I'm against ads, period. Advertising has gone beyond informing me of a product to the point where advertisements, especially in TV and Radio, are manufactured specifically for the purpose of manipulating me into desiring the product being advertised. It is no longer, "Hey, buy this product if you're in the market". It is now, "Hey, watch as we manipulate you with images and sounds that play on your politics or emotions so that we can manufacture a desire for you to buy our product that you do not need."
Not only is this manipulation occurring, but many times it is occurring so blatantly and unabashedly that I become offended that the ad is being shown. Think: Chevy's ads juxtaposing classic Americana and John Mellencamp to sell their trucks (link). That I, as a watcher/listener of that show/channel/medium, am considered to be so stupid that I will bite on their emotional/subliminal advertising garbage, is so enraging to me that I will completely disassociate myself from the show/channel/medium in order to get away from advertising.
So I have abandoned commercial radio and television, and, frankly, I don't miss it. Advertising has gone from annoyance to something that I consider to be unethical and a serious contributor to our problems as a consumer society.
thousands of hours of preventative labour and hundreds of thousands of dollars worth of top tier hardware
Yes, how silly of his "tech people" to think that, especially since every office has tech people, and has that same expensive investment in their complex IT infrastructure, right!?
Don't be obtuse. If your average under-served office with 1-5 (most likely infected) Windows PCs would shut down more often, it'd be better for both the environment and IT security as a whole.
but by the looks of one of the linked articles, any standardized internal controls audit should have seriously mitigated the risks of these types of attacks being possible. These guys are dealing with credit cards, right? Where was PCI compliance?
The F-35 Lightning II is bad-ass, btw
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How bad-ass? This badass. The link is to a YouTube video where the guy who had the initial design ideas talks about getting the plane together, and the video features some awesome footage of the F-35's capabilities.
RIP F-22, you were cool and did a great job. The F-35 is a worthy replacement.
The "due diligence" you speak of for the multi-billion dollar company has more to do with an investigation into the finances of a potential partner, and has very little to do with any kind of analysis of a partner's ethical fortitude.
One might say the consumer's "due diligence" is exactly the opposite and subsequently far, far more important.
New Balance shoes are made in the US and UK, where labor laws are, at the very least, in existence. That's a good start. Your local farmer's market would be happy to sell you all the fixins' of a Big Mac, and you can get a good idea about how sustainable their operation is by actually talking to the people who farm it.
Many people think the way you seem to, which is that "opting out" is impossible. This is an uninformed opinion, it would seem, since options abound. You just have to decide to A) look for them and then B) choose them. Moral backflipping also seems to allow people to continue to sleep at night while their conveniences are paid for in blood by their fellow man in other countries.
And just to take this to its logical, and far more important end, the consumers who support this kind of business by voting in droves with their wallets are the singularly most important party turning "a blind eye". This is applicable across all retail. The conditions under which the goods we buy are prepared, be it Nike shoes or a Big Mac or an iPhone, is ultimately the responsibility of the individuals who are purchasing those goods. They hold all the power and therefore virtually all of the responsibility.
Indeed, it has already been noted that "some familiar -- very important -- passages are missing, including verses dealing with the resurrection of Jesus". With the Christian faith being so dependent on the Bible being "God's perfect word", one wonders what the religion will look like in another few hundred years given its rampant re-translation and re-interpretation. The Bible that we read today is vastly, vastly different than the one on display in TFA.
the Register has an article up today entitled A Google monopoly today means packet sniffing tomorrow. Seems like the tech community has possibly learned from its past and may be a lot more hesitant to blindly support monopolies, no matter what their supposed "slogan" is.
For a level 1-2 support position, metrics should probably be focused on how efficiently tickets are resolved.
Once you get into administrative functions and management, those positions should be the ones focusing on increasing stability and reducing the amount of tickets submitted in the first place. Hopefully your managers and administrators are being assessed for their success in those areas, just as the junior staff are being assessed for how efficiently they can process the issues.
You guys have been calling twitter a fad for at least two years, meanwhile families, businesses, celebrities and politicians have been flocking to it in droves and using it extremely successfully. For example, Dell.
Also, I see a lot of "what does Twitter really do??" posts. Either these posters are simply being obtuse or/. IQ's have plummeted recently.
Having become so accustomed to hearing the term "millions", "billions" and, more recently "trillions" used to describe public spending, I had to look up this strange word "thousands". Apparently, it represents something akin to like.0001 percent of a trillion dollars. I had no idea such antiquated amounts of money were still spent in the public sector. I thought you couldn't even get a toilet seat for under a million...
If you think that you are not a criminal, it is for one of three reasons:
1 - You are a criminal and you know it, but you haven't been caught yet, so you haven't been publicly labeled as such or
2 - You are ignorant of laws that criminalize things you do (and there are oh so many laws) or
3 - They haven't passed a law against what you enjoy doing yet.
There are libraries, Neo, endless libraries to hold all of our laws. We, as private citizens, are overrun with laws that examine our personal lives and behavior and make criminals of us all. All the State need do is to shine their spotlight on your life and soon enough you too will find yourself a "criminal".
So you might not want to be so quick to suggest capital punishment for all of those who run afoul of the government. Just sayin.
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For those interested in the study, you can find it on IHS Global Insight's page: pdf here.
maybe the koreans can help?
You know between this and the Education speech, Obama must be getting kind of tired of having radical extremist political parties censoring his otherwise basic and principled messages. Good thing that kind of thing doesn't happen over he... wait...
Why can't open-source, verifiable software be part of your hallowed PROCESS? It can. And ought to be. Software engineers have a legitimate seat at this table.
I would draw comparisons between this and the Simpson's Monorail episode, but at least the Monorail got built before they realized it was a gigantic waste of money. The bullet-train would simply be a financial quagmire for this fiscally irresponsible state.
Worth noting:
"Report details why high-speed rail won't meet ridership predictions, deliver on promised travel times, or meet emission reduction targets."
I'm going to comment instead of mod, since this topic is so dear to my heart. Let me wholeheartedly agree and go one step further than bashing targeted ads.
I'm against ads, period. Advertising has gone beyond informing me of a product to the point where advertisements, especially in TV and Radio, are manufactured specifically for the purpose of manipulating me into desiring the product being advertised. It is no longer, "Hey, buy this product if you're in the market". It is now, "Hey, watch as we manipulate you with images and sounds that play on your politics or emotions so that we can manufacture a desire for you to buy our product that you do not need."
Not only is this manipulation occurring, but many times it is occurring so blatantly and unabashedly that I become offended that the ad is being shown. Think: Chevy's ads juxtaposing classic Americana and John Mellencamp to sell their trucks (link). That I, as a watcher/listener of that show/channel/medium, am considered to be so stupid that I will bite on their emotional/subliminal advertising garbage, is so enraging to me that I will completely disassociate myself from the show/channel/medium in order to get away from advertising.
So I have abandoned commercial radio and television, and, frankly, I don't miss it. Advertising has gone from annoyance to something that I consider to be unethical and a serious contributor to our problems as a consumer society.
If you want constant internet access, you must not go where there is no signal.
If you want to go enjoy remote places with no signal, you cannot have constant internet coverage.
Pick one.
I seem to remember them saying that the mutations come from the father, how women are mutants I don't know.
I have shocking news for you, you may want to have a seat: women have fathers, just like men. Disturbing, I know.
You'll note that all the specimens are Asian...
Everyone is busy Googling 75% of the terms used in the summary trying to figure out what it even says. Someone in the know care to interpret?
thousands of hours of preventative labour and hundreds of thousands of dollars worth of top tier hardware
Yes, how silly of his "tech people" to think that, especially since every office has tech people, and has that same expensive investment in their complex IT infrastructure, right!?
Don't be obtuse. If your average under-served office with 1-5 (most likely infected) Windows PCs would shut down more often, it'd be better for both the environment and IT security as a whole.
but by the looks of one of the linked articles, any standardized internal controls audit should have seriously mitigated the risks of these types of attacks being possible. These guys are dealing with credit cards, right? Where was PCI compliance?
How bad-ass? This badass. The link is to a YouTube video where the guy who had the initial design ideas talks about getting the plane together, and the video features some awesome footage of the F-35's capabilities.
RIP F-22, you were cool and did a great job. The F-35 is a worthy replacement.
The "due diligence" you speak of for the multi-billion dollar company has more to do with an investigation into the finances of a potential partner, and has very little to do with any kind of analysis of a partner's ethical fortitude.
One might say the consumer's "due diligence" is exactly the opposite and subsequently far, far more important.
Many people think the way you seem to, which is that "opting out" is impossible. This is an uninformed opinion, it would seem, since options abound. You just have to decide to A) look for them and then B) choose them. Moral backflipping also seems to allow people to continue to sleep at night while their conveniences are paid for in blood by their fellow man in other countries.
And just to take this to its logical, and far more important end, the consumers who support this kind of business by voting in droves with their wallets are the singularly most important party turning "a blind eye". This is applicable across all retail. The conditions under which the goods we buy are prepared, be it Nike shoes or a Big Mac or an iPhone, is ultimately the responsibility of the individuals who are purchasing those goods. They hold all the power and therefore virtually all of the responsibility.
Indeed, it has already been noted that "some familiar -- very important -- passages are missing, including verses dealing with the resurrection of Jesus". With the Christian faith being so dependent on the Bible being "God's perfect word", one wonders what the religion will look like in another few hundred years given its rampant re-translation and re-interpretation. The Bible that we read today is vastly, vastly different than the one on display in TFA.
the Register has an article up today entitled A Google monopoly today means packet sniffing tomorrow. Seems like the tech community has possibly learned from its past and may be a lot more hesitant to blindly support monopolies, no matter what their supposed "slogan" is.
Get to work. Guess why it's called work?
For a level 1-2 support position, metrics should probably be focused on how efficiently tickets are resolved. Once you get into administrative functions and management, those positions should be the ones focusing on increasing stability and reducing the amount of tickets submitted in the first place. Hopefully your managers and administrators are being assessed for their success in those areas, just as the junior staff are being assessed for how efficiently they can process the issues.
Also, I see a lot of "what does Twitter really do??" posts. Either these posters are simply being obtuse or /. IQ's have plummeted recently.
Because they aren't allowed to charge interest (too Jewish or something)
It's called usury, and it is prohibited quite explicitly by Islamic law. Nothing to do with Jews.
We are dangerously close to the point that the rest of the world will say enough is enough and stop buying our debt.
[citation needed]
Having become so accustomed to hearing the term "millions", "billions" and, more recently "trillions" used to describe public spending, I had to look up this strange word "thousands". Apparently, it represents something akin to like .0001 percent of a trillion dollars. I had no idea such antiquated amounts of money were still spent in the public sector. I thought you couldn't even get a toilet seat for under a million...
If you think that you are not a criminal, it is for one of three reasons:
1 - You are a criminal and you know it, but you haven't been caught yet, so you haven't been publicly labeled as such or
2 - You are ignorant of laws that criminalize things you do (and there are oh so many laws) or
3 - They haven't passed a law against what you enjoy doing yet.
There are libraries, Neo, endless libraries to hold all of our laws. We, as private citizens, are overrun with laws that examine our personal lives and behavior and make criminals of us all. All the State need do is to shine their spotlight on your life and soon enough you too will find yourself a "criminal".
So you might not want to be so quick to suggest capital punishment for all of those who run afoul of the government. Just sayin.