Me: “Good afternoon, [Software Company] Tech Support. How can I help you?”
Customer: “I have a complaint about your software. My employees keep exiting the files without saving. I need you to fix that problem with your software.”
Me: “Sir, when you pick to exit the application, it asks you if you are sure you want to exit without saving.”
Customer: “I know. I think they are just hitting enter at the question.”
Me: “Sir, the default is no.”
Customer: “Well, they must be answering yes.”
Me: “Im not sure how we can change the software to make it easier for your employees to understand.”
Customer: “Can you add a second box after the first box, asking if they are really sure they want to lose what they just entered?”
Me: “I can put that request in, sir. But I doubt that development will change the software.”
Customer: “Why not?! Its a bug in your software! I want it fixed!”
Yes, I agree with you that if you screen, you have to do it to everyone, but are such severe screenings; i.e. a mandatory full pat-down even necessary in the first place? It probably wouldn't have caught the Underwear bomber (who is the supposed reason for the full-body scanners).
I suspect the real reason is to try stopping drug smuggling and to increase the security theater, but both won't work. (It's not like these measures have stopped drugs from getting into prisons)
There is no reason why they need to be made public today, this month, or even this year. But the materials should be preserved carefully and passed to an archive. In good time they should be available to those who chronicle these events, so they can do so with a keen and impartial eye. The death of bin Laden marks the end of an era. This should not be marked with lies and secrecy; it should be marked with a strengthened commitment to acknowledge the truth, unpleasant as it may be in certain details. The passage of some time may be necessary, but in the end a democracy is nourished, not demoralized, when it looks the truth unflinchingly in the face.
Aside from the claim in 2001, has anyone ever corroborated that? There's been no mention or picture of a dialysis machine in the compound. It looks like the dialysis thing was just a myth.
Not quite, unless you're intending robbery on a scale that affects most of the public. You'd need to be looting the Federal Reserve for that kind of scale.
Can we stop overusing the word terrorists? They're pirates and criminals, nothing more. Are they committing "a violent act or an act dangerous to human life that is a violation of the criminal laws of the United States or any State, or that would be a criminal violation if committed within the jurisdiction of the United States or of any State, and appears intended (i) to intimidate or coerce a civilian population; (ii) to influence the policy of a government by intimidation or coercion; or (iii) to affect the conduct of a government and by assassination or kidnapping."
(according to the definition of "terrorism" defined by the US Congress)
Let me play devil's advocate for a moment; the Emergency Broadcast Network routinely cuts into all broadcast TV and radio channels and does weekly tests. People, including myself complain that it interrupts regularly-scheduled programming for about 30 seconds, but it happens every week anyway. This is supposedly the same thing just put onto cell phones.
That's a pretty neat idea, and I can see a lot of great uses for it.
However, it's also worrisome from a privacy perspective. Unlike the EBS/EAS which floods all channels with a warning, this system requires the broadcaster to know a basic vicinity people are in. If there's an announcement telling people below 14th street Manhattan to evacuate (like on 9/11), how will they know who to message unless the phone company or FEMA also has everyone's latest locations already listed in a database? The announcement is short on specifics, whether that will be AT&T or FEMA pushing out the location-sensitive alerts.
I don't quite like the idea; what normally would require a warrant to determine a person's cell tower vicinity will now make it even easier for the government to look someone's location up if they're sharing that data.
Actually no. I know theres a lot of people trying to pin this on the Pakistani intelligence, but nobody makes the claim that they owned the building. (Think about it, if the Pakistani intelligence actually wanted to hide him, they would have put him in an extremely remote area, not a city and especially not near any of their installations).
Well, the iMac is the best-selling PC of all time, and its adoption of things like USB helped the standard take off. Since it's got Thunderbolt and Quad-core Intel on a consumer model, we should expect to see other PC makers try to catch up to them. That's why it's news.
While it's true that we need one of these every so often to remind us of the need for scientific rigor, it also does great damage to science for many. e.g. Climategate gave ammo for global warming deniers, piltdown man gave more credence to creationists, etc.
Google prides itself on having supposedly the best quality apps and features, which is why they take years to leave Beta. Why would they intentionally release a crippled version of their app? That will be the worst thing since Google Books with the missing pages.
I don't really think Apple is in the same ballpark here. A cache that stays on the phone and isn't deleted due to a bug is very different than a GPS device that shares data with the police.
I wonder if we could use a car analogy here. If your car rolled into the street unattended, could the police tow it or would they be liable for damages from towing it?
DailyKos has a better way to deal with Trolls. Enough downvotes and the system makes all their posts invisible to the rest of the users. The troll still sees them so he/she wouldn't know they're essentially locked out (at least not right away).
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From The Customer is Not Always Right:
Me: “Good afternoon, [Software Company] Tech Support. How can I help you?”
Customer: “I have a complaint about your software. My employees keep exiting the files without saving. I need you to fix that problem with your software.”
Me: “Sir, when you pick to exit the application, it asks you if you are sure you want to exit without saving.”
Customer: “I know. I think they are just hitting enter at the question.”
Me: “Sir, the default is no.”
Customer: “Well, they must be answering yes.”
Me: “Im not sure how we can change the software to make it easier for your employees to understand.”
Customer: “Can you add a second box after the first box, asking if they are really sure they want to lose what they just entered?”
Me: “I can put that request in, sir. But I doubt that development will change the software.”
Customer: “Why not?! Its a bug in your software! I want it fixed!”
Yes, I agree with you that if you screen, you have to do it to everyone, but are such severe screenings; i.e. a mandatory full pat-down even necessary in the first place? It probably wouldn't have caught the Underwear bomber (who is the supposed reason for the full-body scanners).
I suspect the real reason is to try stopping drug smuggling and to increase the security theater, but both won't work. (It's not like these measures have stopped drugs from getting into prisons)
Scott Horton finds middle ground:
Aside from the claim in 2001, has anyone ever corroborated that? There's been no mention or picture of a dialysis machine in the compound. It looks like the dialysis thing was just a myth.
Not quite, unless you're intending robbery on a scale that affects most of the public. You'd need to be looting the Federal Reserve for that kind of scale.
Can we stop overusing the word terrorists? They're pirates and criminals, nothing more. Are they committing "a violent act or an act dangerous to human life that is a violation of the criminal laws of the United States or any State, or that would be a criminal violation if committed within the jurisdiction of the United States or of any State, and appears intended
(i) to intimidate or coerce a civilian population;
(ii) to influence the policy of a government by intimidation or coercion; or
(iii) to affect the conduct of a government and by assassination or kidnapping."
(according to the definition of "terrorism" defined by the US Congress)
Let me play devil's advocate for a moment; the Emergency Broadcast Network routinely cuts into all broadcast TV and radio channels and does weekly tests. People, including myself complain that it interrupts regularly-scheduled programming for about 30 seconds, but it happens every week anyway. This is supposedly the same thing just put onto cell phones.
Smacks of V for Vendetta to me. "You designed it, sir, you wanted it foolproof. You said every television in London!"
That's a pretty neat idea, and I can see a lot of great uses for it.
However, it's also worrisome from a privacy perspective. Unlike the EBS/EAS which floods all channels with a warning, this system requires the broadcaster to know a basic vicinity people are in. If there's an announcement telling people below 14th street Manhattan to evacuate (like on 9/11), how will they know who to message unless the phone company or FEMA also has everyone's latest locations already listed in a database? The announcement is short on specifics, whether that will be AT&T or FEMA pushing out the location-sensitive alerts.
I don't quite like the idea; what normally would require a warrant to determine a person's cell tower vicinity will now make it even easier for the government to look someone's location up if they're sharing that data.
Let's hope this stays an Opt-in feature.
I don't know if I'd call that civil war, more like dissension in the ranks, or mutiny or barratry, and a greater than average amount of anarchy.
Now if you wanted to see Anonymous in Civil War, you should hear the Boxxy story. She managed to divide the indivisible.
Actually no. I know theres a lot of people trying to pin this on the Pakistani intelligence, but nobody makes the claim that they owned the building. (Think about it, if the Pakistani intelligence actually wanted to hide him, they would have put him in an extremely remote area, not a city and especially not near any of their installations).
Do you have a citation?
A lot of facts have been "clarified" since the original story broke. Considering it was a mouldy un-air conditioned home, was it really that price?
Yes, Apple made the tethering a carrier-specific feature, so some carriers like AT&T block it without paying extra.
Well, the iMac is the best-selling PC of all time, and its adoption of things like USB helped the standard take off. Since it's got Thunderbolt and Quad-core Intel on a consumer model, we should expect to see other PC makers try to catch up to them. That's why it's news.
Actually Apple licensed the relevant GUI tech from Xerox.
The article says 5000 per second by the time Obama finished his speech
Your example of what Apple blatantly copied?
Go check out OpenBook, way too many people do (ew!)
While it's true that we need one of these every so often to remind us of the need for scientific rigor, it also does great damage to science for many. e.g. Climategate gave ammo for global warming deniers, piltdown man gave more credence to creationists, etc.
Google prides itself on having supposedly the best quality apps and features, which is why they take years to leave Beta. Why would they intentionally release a crippled version of their app? That will be the worst thing since Google Books with the missing pages.
I don't really think Apple is in the same ballpark here. A cache that stays on the phone and isn't deleted due to a bug is very different than a GPS device that shares data with the police.
You made it sound as if there was already an accident.
...and by posting (I assume with the same account) you've undid all the moderation
I wonder if we could use a car analogy here. If your car rolled into the street unattended, could the police tow it or would they be liable for damages from towing it?
DailyKos has a better way to deal with Trolls. Enough downvotes and the system makes all their posts invisible to the rest of the users. The troll still sees them so he/she wouldn't know they're essentially locked out (at least not right away).