outsourcing is simply importing a service, and there's no meaningful difference between it and importing goods
Yes there is a difference: tarrifs. The "American" companies who use overseas labor at near-slavery wages should be paying import tarrifs, since they're importing a service.
You obviously don't know what you're talking about, as NDIS can be used query the hardware address (the one VMware won't let you change) no matter what the driver is spoofing. Good thing you posted such ignorant pap as AC.
Or check the first three bytes of the MAC address -- VMware doesn't allow its customers to choose arbitrary MAC addresses for VMs, and instead locks them to one of their two OUIs for the first three bytes.
Unfortunately, however, the number of incorrect references crawled by Google doesn't change the fact that "Qui bono" is wrong. Even if bono were the third person singular of a verb meaning "to benefit" (it isn't), qui is the relative pronoun and not the interrogative (which would be quis).
If something is public domain anywhere, it's going to leak into the areas where a copyright is still in force anyway. And since it's not a sales venue, there's still no justification for the feature beyond political censorship. In addition to being demonstrably toadyistic to government censors, Google shows little regard for copyrights (e.g. image thumbnails, Google cache, book search)--based on their previous and current actions, their motives are more likely assisting oppresive governments in return for access to their markets than helping copyright holders.
And BTW, thanks for the anti-American bigotry. I'd rather be a "good American" stepping on toes about censorship by the ChiComs than an appeaser any day.
There is no reason for Google to facilitate such censorship in free content. But lately, it seems Google has been all about censorship in China, so their having it baked in comes as no surprise to me.
I didn't say Apple should or shouldn't do anything -- I'm just tired of hearing wanker Applepologists (TM) piss and moan and try to pretend they're some special magic dust in Apple hardware, particularly since they're using the same off-the-shelf commodity components available to any PC manufacturer.
What Apple sells now is just a "shitty commodity PC" -- albeit in a pretty case. So they only have to write one set of drivers. Windows could be pretty rock solid with that constraint, I bet, but Microsoft doesn't have the luxury of supporting only one shitty commodity PC like Apple does.
There are different cultures in the world, and some are better than others. I'll leave it as an exercise for the reader to determine where the culture that contains the people that mindlessly go apeshit over some cartoons falls in that ordering.
That some Muslims reacted so violently to these cartoons suggests only one thing to me, that they're insecure in their belief of the prophet Muhammad. They act as if what somebody says about Muhammad is enough to make it the truth and they violently oppose that truth. They are unable to just shrug and say "shows how much they know. ha! those infidels will burn in the pits of despair!" or whatever. Why can't they just do that? Why must they be so "offended" by this? In my opinion, it's because they aren't secure in their beliefs, and that's why they can't just let it go.
You just nailed it. Muslims (and some Christians) know in the heart of hearts that their religion is bullshit, and can't countenance hearing anything that might cause them to waver in their already insecure beliefs.
I was thinking along those lines, but there are parcels of real estate worth $800,000,000. So we're not talking a general if (valuation > MAX_VALUATION) here--catching this would have taken some (admittedly rudimentary) comparison with neighboring property values.
Why not confirm the verbal order in writing? This avoids the awkward "Sir, I'll need the order in writing to release those childrens' browsing history to our tobacco advertising partners" and replaces it with "Sir, in accordance with your {IM, phone call, verbal instructions} today, I am sending the childrens' browsing history to our tobacco advertising partners." It avoids the confrontation and still creates a document which your counsel could subpoena showing you were following orders. Keep a printed, dated copy if you think they'd conveniently "lose" the email or that it'd be past its "retention period" on the day of reckoning.
I suppose some compliance is better than none, but I treat display of the Trust-E symbol as almost a warning label -- kind of like I become wary when I enter a place of business that prominently trumpets its Better Business Bureau membership.
Both are sham organizations that try to appear to be in the interest of customers, but are mutual-interest business cooperatives aimed squarely at avoiding real regulation.
I agree that sending sensitive information in the clear is never a good idea. But I submit that there's a big difference between the fact that there are a number of hops along the way from one mail server to another which can all access emails in transit and the archival of those emails in what one poster referred to as a "one stop subpoena shop." And in aggregate, even not-so-sensitive information can yield the pieces to something sensitive.
Just signed up for that with a domain that laid dormant anyway. Not too shabby, but it does stick MSN ads at the end of messages. It's essentially Hotmail with your own email addresses.
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Yes there is a difference: tarrifs. The "American" companies who use overseas labor at near-slavery wages should be paying import tarrifs, since they're importing a service.
Damn, you beat me to it!
I only buy cards that can have the MAC address changed in CMOS.
Replying to undo "Redundant" that was supposed to be "Insightful." Sorry.
You obviously don't know what you're talking about, as NDIS can be used query the hardware address (the one VMware won't let you change) no matter what the driver is spoofing. Good thing you posted such ignorant pap as AC.
Or check the first three bytes of the MAC address -- VMware doesn't allow its customers to choose arbitrary MAC addresses for VMs, and instead locks them to one of their two OUIs for the first three bytes.
Unfortunately, however, the number of incorrect references crawled by Google doesn't change the fact that "Qui bono" is wrong. Even if bono were the third person singular of a verb meaning "to benefit" (it isn't), qui is the relative pronoun and not the interrogative (which would be quis).
It's Cui bono? Dative case -- to whom the advantage?
Nice troll. Subtle, yet inflammatory. I loved the Geo Metro reference.
And BTW, thanks for the anti-American bigotry. I'd rather be a "good American" stepping on toes about censorship by the ChiComs than an appeaser any day.
There is no reason for Google to facilitate such censorship in free content. But lately, it seems Google has been all about censorship in China, so their having it baked in comes as no surprise to me.
Why would Google even provide such an option?
I didn't say Apple should or shouldn't do anything -- I'm just tired of hearing wanker Applepologists (TM) piss and moan and try to pretend they're some special magic dust in Apple hardware, particularly since they're using the same off-the-shelf commodity components available to any PC manufacturer.
What Apple sells now is just a "shitty commodity PC" -- albeit in a pretty case. So they only have to write one set of drivers. Windows could be pretty rock solid with that constraint, I bet, but Microsoft doesn't have the luxury of supporting only one shitty commodity PC like Apple does.
Your "lady" needs some more hand lotion now.
There are different cultures in the world, and some are better than others. I'll leave it as an exercise for the reader to determine where the culture that contains the people that mindlessly go apeshit over some cartoons falls in that ordering.
You just nailed it. Muslims (and some Christians) know in the heart of hearts that their religion is bullshit, and can't countenance hearing anything that might cause them to waver in their already insecure beliefs.
My heart goes out to you, man. And I know you're right.
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I was thinking along those lines, but there are parcels of real estate worth $800,000,000. So we're not talking a general if (valuation > MAX_VALUATION) here--catching this would have taken some (admittedly rudimentary) comparison with neighboring property values.
Why not confirm the verbal order in writing? This avoids the awkward "Sir, I'll need the order in writing to release those childrens' browsing history to our tobacco advertising partners" and replaces it with "Sir, in accordance with your {IM, phone call, verbal instructions} today, I am sending the childrens' browsing history to our tobacco advertising partners." It avoids the confrontation and still creates a document which your counsel could subpoena showing you were following orders. Keep a printed, dated copy if you think they'd conveniently "lose" the email or that it'd be past its "retention period" on the day of reckoning.
Both are sham organizations that try to appear to be in the interest of customers, but are mutual-interest business cooperatives aimed squarely at avoiding real regulation.
I agree that sending sensitive information in the clear is never a good idea. But I submit that there's a big difference between the fact that there are a number of hops along the way from one mail server to another which can all access emails in transit and the archival of those emails in what one poster referred to as a "one stop subpoena shop." And in aggregate, even not-so-sensitive information can yield the pieces to something sensitive.
Just signed up for that with a domain that laid dormant anyway. Not too shabby, but it does stick MSN ads at the end of messages. It's essentially Hotmail with your own email addresses.
Stop lying in their advertising? Naw, that's crazy talk.