He will have a trivial time finding employment with people and companies that share his values. The Feds will never give him a clearance again (OH NOES!), but he will have no problem at all finding a really good job.
I said the same thing at first, but if you think about it, its brilliant. When the KGB tries to hack into his personal account, they see it is an AOL account and say, 'Neyt comrade, you are mistakekink. Thees coold not be direcktors account, only retarded child use AOL account. Must be, how you say, hunny pit? Ve keep lookikink elsever.'
These CIA guys, always throwing fucking curve balls. They are like, Inception deep.....
It should be pretty easy to unionize on the spot with all the other people in the same boat. Collectively, they would have all the leverage they need. The fact they all weren't just summarily fired indicates they have something of value that the company needs.
She is not a criminal, she has not been convicted of anything. Note that I am not claiming she is innocent of wrongdoing, simply that it has not been proven in a court that she did anything wrong. The toxic state of political discourse has insured that anything short of a conviction cannot be trusted to be anything more than slander and innuendo.
Mosquitoes are killing us. It would be stupid not to fight back. That's how natural selection works.
I love how people talk about natural selection as if we weren't part of it. If mosquitoes are a pest to the apex predator of the planet and it decides to eliminate them, it has lost at natural selection because it was unfit to survive in an environment where we live. Other insects that don't spread disease to the apex predator are more fit. Just because we reason and can launch space ships into orbit doesn't mean that we are somehow outside of the forces that natural selection acts with. We are one of its tools for determining survival regardless of what we think.
Perhaps we should catch and cultivate in captivity a genetically viable population of the species we intend to eradicate, before we wipe them out. Then if we eliminate them from the wild and that proves to be a bad move, we at least have the option of reversing course.
While it would seem to be nice to not have these insects making parts of the earth effectively uninhabitable, lets be a little cautious before removing something that has been part of the Earths ecology for the past billion years or so.
Honestly, if you cannot read between the lines here, stop voting.
When a politician (from either party) says 'I cannot recall' while being questioned under oath, it means, 'I will neither conform or deny your question because I am under oath'. Saying nothing of substance give investigators and prosecutors no ammo for perjury charges, which could be filed even if a primary charge gets thrown out of court. Furthermore, Pleading the fifth just makes you look guilty even if you had nothing to do with whatever it is that is being investigated. Saying you cannot recall is a solid legal dodge, and ANY politician with good legal council will use it if you try to push them into a corner.
If you want to hate on Hillary, go ahead. But try to stick to actual character flaws and not tried and true legal tactics to avoid perjury charges. She remembers every bit of it, but she is playing defense so the Hilary witch hunters cannot nail her on tangential charges.
Parent has a good point. For one, the FBI technically doesn't have the right to authorize breaking the law. Isn't that the right of a federal prosecutor or the DoJ? The FBI, for all their fancy suits and cool sunglasses are just basically cops. A cop could ignore someone breaking the law, but they aren't really supposed to. The DA looks at the evidence collected by the police and decides if there are grounds for charges. (Actually it is probably more along the lines of if they are likely to succeed in getting a successful sentience or if they will get yelled at for not at least trying to charge someone for a high profile crime.) That is why a prosecutor offers a deal or plea bargain to witnesses for cooperation, and not the arresting officer.
As I understand it, if the FBI is just looking the other way, they are very out of line. If they are running this by a federal prosecuter and/or a judge that is providing assistance and oversight, then this is probably a legit practice. Perhaps not very moral or prudent, though.
/. readers who are lawyers cops, & prosecutors reading this, please jump in and correct my erroneous assumptions now...
"fat twink" is an oxymoron. If you're fat you can't be a twink.
YOu at beiung shutting up now! FAERLESS LEADUR CAN DOANYTHING! He want be fat twink, he be bestest fat twink workd HAS ever seen! You Donalds Trump is not half fat twink Faerless leadur can ever be! KiM will wrestle him to mud, like fat greasy fat twink he is!
you american no tell us what faerlus leedur can do, that why world so hate on you. We all be fat twinks just to show you what powerful NK peoples can do. We show you, but good! Fat twinkes we all be! Fuck on you!
There a lot of complaints in this thread about this new *feature*, but hasn't the horse already escaped the barn? If you are using Windows, you are trusting them to do the right thing with your OS when you install it. How is this rolled up set of patches really going to change things? Either you trust them to do things right, or you go download *nix.
As a senior multi-language full stack dev, I have talked to Amazon before. The reason I laugh and hang up on their recruiters that cold call me is because they are dicks, not because the money is bad, or even the hours being uneven. They have a lot of people, like MS did 15 years back, who are convinced that because they work for a company that is currently doing well, that they are 'the shit' and anyone else is garbage. They earned the nickname 'Am-holes' for a reason.
Rather than trying to fire off the bottom 20% of the company's performers each year, perhaps they should be trying to fire off the 20% that are anti-social, abusive, or poor team players.
Yes, innovation is good for society at large. No, most people who read/. probably don't feel to bad when an established business is upset by a disruptive new company. Yes, change is good in the economy, as it keeps companies innovating. No it isn't good that a lot of people are going to lose their jobs.
But, this is particularly disturbing because driving a taxi is a hard problem to automate, and if this can be done, then it puts a timer on a lot of manual labor that people at the bottom of the financial ladder depend on to get by. Society in its current form cannot survive with 50% of the population perpetually impoverished and unemployed. There is a saying that a country is only ever meals away from revolution, and either we need to become a lot more generous with social entitlements, or cities will burn, and it will be France 1793 all over again.
The only real question is when? Based on social and technological change, I am guessing in no less that 20 years, but no more than 50 years.
Imagine if the researchers of the Manhattan project not only discovered how to create a nuclear bomb, but also discovered a defense against nuclear weapons.
Nonono. Its far worse than that. Imagine the government build a nuclear weapon, and then let someone walk off with it. Individual exploits come and go, this is letting someone walk off with a MIRV ICBM. And now they are trying to sell it. On the Internet.
To the NSA: Dear god, you fuckups. Please call your friend over at the CIA who does wet work and black ops, and put these people who walked off with your software and put them into the ground before it gets sold to China or Russia. And then, have a review meeting with your people about the 'S' part of NSA.
You have it half right. Apple is corporation, which are sociopathic entities that essentially 'feed' on money. You give them more money, they grow. You cut their money, they die. People within them can influence their behavior, but only in the short term, since a company often has much going on than one person can ever track and influence, and can easily outlive a single person.
Tim Cook could 'be your friend' and it sounds like he is at least a somewhat ethical person. But even he doesn't have complete control over Apple's behavior. If he makes just one bad call, the board will kick him to the curb, so everything he does is certainly influenced how the board and stockholders feel. But similarly, even if he wanted to make Apple products non-repairable and filled with the blood of orphans and nuns, he doesn't have complete power to do so. So ascribing the things you mentioned to him, probably isn't completely accurate.
"The academy would like to acknowledge the hard work and dedication of the researchers at UCB and U of M for their innovative work with crypto currencies and security. In addition to the usual financial grants that the academy bestows upon recipients, we will be awarding several punches in the junk to the researchers involved for taking a good idea and being total tools. Good work gentlemen, and fuck you."
Interesting observation, moreover, if they attempt to go around ab blocking software wouldn't they be guilty of breaking federal computer crime statues? I believe the wording is to the effect that you aren't allowed to view, alter or erase data on a system without permission.
Serving ads to a user might fall under the normal TOS, but attempting to bypass an ad blocker against the user's wishes would seem to meet these criteria. I am not saying that they are breaking federal law by doing this though, just opening the possibility for what would be a really interesting lawsuit to watch. Do corporations have a right to deliver content contrary to a user's wishes as part of a service? Is a furnace repair man allowed to break into my house for a monthly service?
There was a time when IBM was unconquerable. General Motors and General Electric as well. Facebook will eventually decline. It's certainly not expanding market share anymore. ..
...Which is why they are so very interested in getting into India and Africa.
"In retrospect, I feel that I was foolish to checking to see how I was trending in my social media while engaging in an armed standoff with all the collective tri-state SWAT teams. I think I will be more focused, and I will definitely be on my 'a' game next week when I have a stand off with the ATF agents at my fortified compound."
I recall working with an amazing idiot a few years back who, when he was forced to change his password, would change it 13 times, because the system remembered the last 12 passwords used, and thus kept using the same password all the time.
As soon as you build an idiot proof system, they just build better idiots...
PRO TIP: if you are creative and want to get back at the jerk drones in IT for making you change your secure twenty five digit password every 60 days because they read somewhere that that helps keep hackers out here is what you do:
Look up the password algorithm used for your network passwords. These sorts of things are verified by auditors, and bandied by sales droids, so it shouldn't be hard to do. Build a rainbow table of hashed passwords, this might take time and a large db to store them in. Then, whenever you are forced to change your password, use a new password that generates the exact same hash as your old one.
You can then drink your coffee in the morning with the strange smug satisfaction that you are making it ever so minutely simpler for a non-existent eastern European hacker to brute force your password, and steal all the dataz of your asshole employers.
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He will have a trivial time finding employment with people and companies that share his values. The Feds will never give him a clearance again (OH NOES!), but he will have no problem at all finding a really good job.
Note to Hp: You guys could have got the business for 250 million, if you hadn't bought the ink cartridge department, too...
Of all people who should know better, it would be you. *sigh*
I said the same thing at first, but if you think about it, its brilliant. When the KGB tries to hack into his personal account, they see it is an AOL account and say, 'Neyt comrade, you are mistakekink. Thees coold not be direcktors account, only retarded child use AOL account. Must be, how you say, hunny pit? Ve keep lookikink elsever.'
These CIA guys, always throwing fucking curve balls. They are like, Inception deep.....
It should be pretty easy to unionize on the spot with all the other people in the same boat. Collectively, they would have all the leverage they need. The fact they all weren't just summarily fired indicates they have something of value that the company needs.
She is not a criminal, she has not been convicted of anything. Note that I am not claiming she is innocent of wrongdoing, simply that it has not been proven in a court that she did anything wrong. The toxic state of political discourse has insured that anything short of a conviction cannot be trusted to be anything more than slander and innuendo.
I read on the internet that most cases of rabies in the US are contracted from Bill O'Reilly bites.
Mosquitoes are killing us. It would be stupid not to fight back. That's how natural selection works.
I love how people talk about natural selection as if we weren't part of it. If mosquitoes are a pest to the apex predator of the planet and it decides to eliminate them, it has lost at natural selection because it was unfit to survive in an environment where we live. Other insects that don't spread disease to the apex predator are more fit. Just because we reason and can launch space ships into orbit doesn't mean that we are somehow outside of the forces that natural selection acts with. We are one of its tools for determining survival regardless of what we think.
Perhaps we should catch and cultivate in captivity a genetically viable population of the species we intend to eradicate, before we wipe them out. Then if we eliminate them from the wild and that proves to be a bad move, we at least have the option of reversing course.
While it would seem to be nice to not have these insects making parts of the earth effectively uninhabitable, lets be a little cautious before removing something that has been part of the Earths ecology for the past billion years or so.
Honestly, if you cannot read between the lines here, stop voting.
When a politician (from either party) says 'I cannot recall' while being questioned under oath, it means, 'I will neither conform or deny your question because I am under oath'. Saying nothing of substance give investigators and prosecutors no ammo for perjury charges, which could be filed even if a primary charge gets thrown out of court. Furthermore, Pleading the fifth just makes you look guilty even if you had nothing to do with whatever it is that is being investigated. Saying you cannot recall is a solid legal dodge, and ANY politician with good legal council will use it if you try to push them into a corner.
If you want to hate on Hillary, go ahead. But try to stick to actual character flaws and not tried and true legal tactics to avoid perjury charges. She remembers every bit of it, but she is playing defense so the Hilary witch hunters cannot nail her on tangential charges.
Parent has a good point. For one, the FBI technically doesn't have the right to authorize breaking the law. Isn't that the right of a federal prosecutor or the DoJ? The FBI, for all their fancy suits and cool sunglasses are just basically cops. A cop could ignore someone breaking the law, but they aren't really supposed to. The DA looks at the evidence collected by the police and decides if there are grounds for charges. (Actually it is probably more along the lines of if they are likely to succeed in getting a successful sentience or if they will get yelled at for not at least trying to charge someone for a high profile crime.) That is why a prosecutor offers a deal or plea bargain to witnesses for cooperation, and not the arresting officer.
/. readers who are lawyers cops, & prosecutors reading this, please jump in and correct my erroneous assumptions now...
As I understand it, if the FBI is just looking the other way, they are very out of line. If they are running this by a federal prosecuter and/or a judge that is providing assistance and oversight, then this is probably a legit practice. Perhaps not very moral or prudent, though.
"fat twink" is an oxymoron. If you're fat you can't be a twink.
YOu at beiung shutting up now! FAERLESS LEADUR CAN DOANYTHING! He want be fat twink, he be bestest fat twink workd HAS ever seen! You Donalds Trump is not half fat twink Faerless leadur can ever be! KiM will wrestle him to mud, like fat greasy fat twink he is!
you american no tell us what faerlus leedur can do, that why world so hate on you. We all be fat twinks just to show you what powerful NK peoples can do. We show you, but good! Fat twinkes we all be! Fuck on you!
There a lot of complaints in this thread about this new *feature*, but hasn't the horse already escaped the barn? If you are using Windows, you are trusting them to do the right thing with your OS when you install it. How is this rolled up set of patches really going to change things? Either you trust them to do things right, or you go download *nix.
As a senior multi-language full stack dev, I have talked to Amazon before. The reason I laugh and hang up on their recruiters that cold call me is because they are dicks, not because the money is bad, or even the hours being uneven. They have a lot of people, like MS did 15 years back, who are convinced that because they work for a company that is currently doing well, that they are 'the shit' and anyone else is garbage. They earned the nickname 'Am-holes' for a reason.
Rather than trying to fire off the bottom 20% of the company's performers each year, perhaps they should be trying to fire off the 20% that are anti-social, abusive, or poor team players.
The short of it is that Tim is scum, just like Jobs.
See, that's where you are wrong. NOBODY was scum like Jobs.....
Yes, innovation is good for society at large. No, most people who read /. probably don't feel to bad when an established business is upset by a disruptive new company. Yes, change is good in the economy, as it keeps companies innovating. No it isn't good that a lot of people are going to lose their jobs.
But, this is particularly disturbing because driving a taxi is a hard problem to automate, and if this can be done, then it puts a timer on a lot of manual labor that people at the bottom of the financial ladder depend on to get by. Society in its current form cannot survive with 50% of the population perpetually impoverished and unemployed. There is a saying that a country is only ever meals away from revolution, and either we need to become a lot more generous with social entitlements, or cities will burn, and it will be France 1793 all over again.
The only real question is when? Based on social and technological change, I am guessing in no less that 20 years, but no more than 50 years.
Imagine if the researchers of the Manhattan project not only discovered how to create a nuclear bomb, but also discovered a defense against nuclear weapons.
Nonono. Its far worse than that. Imagine the government build a nuclear weapon, and then let someone walk off with it. Individual exploits come and go, this is letting someone walk off with a MIRV ICBM. And now they are trying to sell it. On the Internet.
To the NSA: Dear god, you fuckups. Please call your friend over at the CIA who does wet work and black ops, and put these people who walked off with your software and put them into the ground before it gets sold to China or Russia. And then, have a review meeting with your people about the 'S' part of NSA.
You have it half right. Apple is corporation, which are sociopathic entities that essentially 'feed' on money. You give them more money, they grow. You cut their money, they die. People within them can influence their behavior, but only in the short term, since a company often has much going on than one person can ever track and influence, and can easily outlive a single person.
Tim Cook could 'be your friend' and it sounds like he is at least a somewhat ethical person. But even he doesn't have complete control over Apple's behavior. If he makes just one bad call, the board will kick him to the curb, so everything he does is certainly influenced how the board and stockholders feel. But similarly, even if he wanted to make Apple products non-repairable and filled with the blood of orphans and nuns, he doesn't have complete power to do so. So ascribing the things you mentioned to him, probably isn't completely accurate.
Me: No it's not
The fact you are posting AC rebuts your claim far better than I could.
"The academy would like to acknowledge the hard work and dedication of the researchers at UCB and U of M for their innovative work with crypto currencies and security. In addition to the usual financial grants that the academy bestows upon recipients, we will be awarding several punches in the junk to the researchers involved for taking a good idea and being total tools. Good work gentlemen, and fuck you."
Interesting observation, moreover, if they attempt to go around ab blocking software wouldn't they be guilty of breaking federal computer crime statues? I believe the wording is to the effect that you aren't allowed to view, alter or erase data on a system without permission.
Serving ads to a user might fall under the normal TOS, but attempting to bypass an ad blocker against the user's wishes would seem to meet these criteria. I am not saying that they are breaking federal law by doing this though, just opening the possibility for what would be a really interesting lawsuit to watch. Do corporations have a right to deliver content contrary to a user's wishes as part of a service? Is a furnace repair man allowed to break into my house for a monthly service?
There was a time when IBM was unconquerable. General Motors and General Electric as well. Facebook will eventually decline. It's certainly not expanding market share anymore. . .
...Which is why they are so very interested in getting into India and Africa.
Wait, are we talking about Zuckerberg or Facebook?
"In retrospect, I feel that I was foolish to checking to see how I was trending in my social media while engaging in an armed standoff with all the collective tri-state SWAT teams. I think I will be more focused, and I will definitely be on my 'a' game next week when I have a stand off with the ATF agents at my fortified compound."
I recall working with an amazing idiot a few years back who, when he was forced to change his password, would change it 13 times, because the system remembered the last 12 passwords used, and thus kept using the same password all the time.
As soon as you build an idiot proof system, they just build better idiots...
PRO TIP: if you are creative and want to get back at the jerk drones in IT for making you change your secure twenty five digit password every 60 days because they read somewhere that that helps keep hackers out here is what you do:
Look up the password algorithm used for your network passwords. These sorts of things are verified by auditors, and bandied by sales droids, so it shouldn't be hard to do. Build a rainbow table of hashed passwords, this might take time and a large db to store them in. Then, whenever you are forced to change your password, use a new password that generates the exact same hash as your old one.
You can then drink your coffee in the morning with the strange smug satisfaction that you are making it ever so minutely simpler for a non-existent eastern European hacker to brute force your password, and steal all the dataz of your asshole employers.