So was his offence the mention of a firearm, or the mention of its employment in ending a fantasy creature's life? If he said he shot a raccoon, would he have also been expelled?
The US has been glorifying scenes of extreme violence for years on TV or in the movies. And yet, if a child were to mention they watched anything like that, and, god forbid, write a synopsis on it, they'd be looking at expulsion/sternly-worded letters too?
Really, what kind of children are being raised there these days? Where everything is an offence of some kind, where to feel mildly insulted is a level of indignance akin to to smacking your mother in the face elsewhere in the world.
In a couple of decades, these mis-educated, skin-as-thick-as-paper children are going to be the ones running a country possessing the most powerful military on earth.
if you bully people online then it should be possible to find and bring you to justice.
Have we really come to the point that we'd choose to end something as important as the right - and the ability - to remain anonymous, all for the sake of catching bullies and bringing them to justice?
The userbase is predominantly teenagers who'll be very different people in a couple years, and the slightly older crowd who'll have moved onwards as well.
I see two issues: 1) Functionally, it's simple to replicate, and 2) The ephemeral nature of the pictures were what gave it traction in the first place. This is now under serious (20 years of) scrutiny.
There will likely remain a market for the functionality it offers, but the teen demographic will probably not be revitalised given its current situation.
Let's not mock the founder(s) for turning down the $3 billion though, this is a good lesson learned and hey, they're still young.
.. as the admin for a couple of hundred Windows servers, an efficient CAB is your friend. As another said, they have your back, and that of the business (and by extension, the poor guy who is up at 4am fixing any issues introduced).
That said, I've also worked with companies and CABs that know how everything is written in the ITIL handbook, but with no clue of how to put it into (an efficient) practice. It sounds like your CAB just wants the paperwork done - did you bring on consultants recently? - and think/hope it will mitigate the risks involved with patching.
Change request for patching on a development environment? Routine change. Keep up with the news for any issues from this month's patches. You patch dev, or your pre-prod environment or whatever you have, monitor for a few days and if all is good you apply the same patches to your production machines. This is enough risk mitigation for most, and it gets the job done at the end of the day.
Make up a nice RACI chart (Responsible, Accountable, Consulted, Informed) for the whole process - you are probably R/A for successful patching, but, the CAB will provide the approval for you to go ahead. They won't allow you to do it if there's a big release, or some on-going issues.
Then you only need to know how to push the patches and have a good engineer to fix anything that might occur on the night, and the accountability trail takes care of any finger-pointing and addresses any gaps in the process you might have noticed.
Start slow, start small. Work your way up in volume as the becomes more like a routine change.
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Urgh. This banal thread is why I grow weary of thee, Slashdot.
I disagree. It's standard tactic of that House to indebt governments because such loans are always backed by taxes on the people. If there Rothschilds really DIDN'T run the place, it would be prosperous. This is their MO.
Lads there will be a referendum coming in May or June where we'll have to decide if we take a bailout from the Rothschil- sorry, the IMF - and sign over our independence to the cabals that have already destroyed the US. Keep an eye on this one.
I work with some of those guys. That DC is actually pretty epic - everything cooled naturally by the environment, built in England and shipped to Iceland, put together within a month.. a good job.
They suck on more levels than that. Wish I got here earlier so more people could read this.
1) Their login form sends incorrect passwords so I can't login to print my tickets
2) they refuse to support me on this since I bought the tickets through a 3rd party (actually Ticktackticket, who they bought years ago)
3) I point this out, they still refuse to help because apparently the gig is in Mexico (it's in Spain)
4) I lost 60 euros on this bullshit and they still refuse to offer any level of support
Moral of the rant: ticketmaster suck, and interminably so.
There is no issue with "textspeak" or anything like that. A good command of a language is needed in order to convey meaning in an abbreviated manner.
The only problem is where the literacy level of the individual is low enough that they'll use this format in other forms of communication which don't necessarily require such heavy brevity. It's not Twitter's fault, or phone networks who limit SMS characters. It's education, pure and simple.
I should probably mention I left after 4 months for different reasons, and I didn't have time or interest in extra-curricular projects during those 4 months anyway.
Had I been seriously into spare-time development, there's no way I would have signed it without a lot of negotiations beforehand.
Fair point. Though - imho - they would only have ever chased it into a court room if there was valid reason, hence a case which they logically would expect to win.
They weren't Google, but have a vaguely similar culture. People were often working on their jobs outside of work hours too.
I worked for a software dev company before, quite well known, and in my contract was a specific clause stating *anything* I produced, no matter where and when, would be considered the intellectual property of the company.
They were pretty cool guys in general so I questioned the motivation behind it some months into my employment. Turns out they'd been burned badly before by having some of their assets reused and sold off, and henceforth used that clause as a contractual safety net. In practise however, things were generally totally open and innovative with a lot of devs working on separate projects; the enforcement of this clause depended on your own standing and relationship with the company.
In other words, it's very possible he had this in his contract and for precisely the same reasons this case has gone to court.
Id suspect its little more than a PR exercise for Google. They can now hold up their hands and say "hey, were working with auditors for two decades in making sure we do no evil". How things change.
Seems to be chock full of stalkers, spammers and generally maladjusted people talking to themselves via status updates.
The only use I have for it now is keeping in touch with *old* friends and retrieving news feeds from various sites & services.
Facesuck.
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The US has been glorifying scenes of extreme violence for years on TV or in the movies. And yet, if a child were to mention they watched anything like that, and, god forbid, write a synopsis on it, they'd be looking at expulsion/sternly-worded letters too? Really, what kind of children are being raised there these days? Where everything is an offence of some kind, where to feel mildly insulted is a level of indignance akin to to smacking your mother in the face elsewhere in the world.
In a couple of decades, these mis-educated, skin-as-thick-as-paper children are going to be the ones running a country possessing the most powerful military on earth.
if you bully people online then it should be possible to find and bring you to justice.
Have we really come to the point that we'd choose to end something as important as the right - and the ability - to remain anonymous, all for the sake of catching bullies and bringing them to justice?
It probably won't be around in 5 years or so.
The userbase is predominantly teenagers who'll be very different people in a couple years, and the slightly older crowd who'll have moved onwards as well.
I see two issues:
1) Functionally, it's simple to replicate, and
2) The ephemeral nature of the pictures were what gave it traction in the first place. This is now under serious (20 years of) scrutiny.
There will likely remain a market for the functionality it offers, but the teen demographic will probably not be revitalised given its current situation.
Let's not mock the founder(s) for turning down the $3 billion though, this is a good lesson learned and hey, they're still young.
.. as the admin for a couple of hundred Windows servers, an efficient CAB is your friend. As another said, they have your back, and that of the business (and by extension, the poor guy who is up at 4am fixing any issues introduced). That said, I've also worked with companies and CABs that know how everything is written in the ITIL handbook, but with no clue of how to put it into (an efficient) practice. It sounds like your CAB just wants the paperwork done - did you bring on consultants recently? - and think/hope it will mitigate the risks involved with patching. Change request for patching on a development environment? Routine change. Keep up with the news for any issues from this month's patches. You patch dev, or your pre-prod environment or whatever you have, monitor for a few days and if all is good you apply the same patches to your production machines. This is enough risk mitigation for most, and it gets the job done at the end of the day. Make up a nice RACI chart (Responsible, Accountable, Consulted, Informed) for the whole process - you are probably R/A for successful patching, but, the CAB will provide the approval for you to go ahead. They won't allow you to do it if there's a big release, or some on-going issues. Then you only need to know how to push the patches and have a good engineer to fix anything that might occur on the night, and the accountability trail takes care of any finger-pointing and addresses any gaps in the process you might have noticed. Start slow, start small. Work your way up in volume as the becomes more like a routine change.
Urgh. This banal thread is why I grow weary of thee, Slashdot.
I disagree. It's standard tactic of that House to indebt governments because such loans are always backed by taxes on the people. If there Rothschilds really DIDN'T run the place, it would be prosperous. This is their MO.
Lads there will be a referendum coming in May or June where we'll have to decide if we take a bailout from the Rothschil- sorry, the IMF - and sign over our independence to the cabals that have already destroyed the US. Keep an eye on this one.
I work with some of those guys. That DC is actually pretty epic - everything cooled naturally by the environment, built in England and shipped to Iceland, put together within a month.. a good job.
Oh, I can't wait to see the cow Hilary gives birth to
Those gentlemen had suggested December 26th instead ... retailers would have had a boom xmas
Start a revolution already, jeez
Definitely.
Adblock, como te amo.
They suck on more levels than that. Wish I got here earlier so more people could read this.
1) Their login form sends incorrect passwords so I can't login to print my tickets
2) they refuse to support me on this since I bought the tickets through a 3rd party (actually Ticktackticket, who they bought years ago)
3) I point this out, they still refuse to help because apparently the gig is in Mexico (it's in Spain)
4) I lost 60 euros on this bullshit and they still refuse to offer any level of support
Moral of the rant: ticketmaster suck, and interminably so.
There is no issue with "textspeak" or anything like that. A good command of a language is needed in order to convey meaning in an abbreviated manner.
The only problem is where the literacy level of the individual is low enough that they'll use this format in other forms of communication which don't necessarily require such heavy brevity. It's not Twitter's fault, or phone networks who limit SMS characters. It's education, pure and simple.
I wish I hadn't commented so I could mod you up ..
That would be down-right fantastically, orgasmically, innovatingly cool IF not for the fact that Apple would go just whore it out everywhere.
Mod me down, bitches.
I should probably mention I left after 4 months for different reasons, and I didn't have time or interest in extra-curricular projects during those 4 months anyway. Had I been seriously into spare-time development, there's no way I would have signed it without a lot of negotiations beforehand.
Fair point. Though - imho - they would only have ever chased it into a court room if there was valid reason, hence a case which they logically would expect to win. They weren't Google, but have a vaguely similar culture. People were often working on their jobs outside of work hours too.
I worked for a software dev company before, quite well known, and in my contract was a specific clause stating *anything* I produced, no matter where and when, would be considered the intellectual property of the company. They were pretty cool guys in general so I questioned the motivation behind it some months into my employment. Turns out they'd been burned badly before by having some of their assets reused and sold off, and henceforth used that clause as a contractual safety net. In practise however, things were generally totally open and innovative with a lot of devs working on separate projects; the enforcement of this clause depended on your own standing and relationship with the company. In other words, it's very possible he had this in his contract and for precisely the same reasons this case has gone to court.
http://articles.businessinsider.com/2011-11-07/europe/30368594_1_shale-gas-fracking-process-tremors
Id suspect its little more than a PR exercise for Google. They can now hold up their hands and say "hey, were working with auditors for two decades in making sure we do no evil". How things change.
You know what, you're damn right. I am associating with some very strange people.
Seems to be chock full of stalkers, spammers and generally maladjusted people talking to themselves via status updates. The only use I have for it now is keeping in touch with *old* friends and retrieving news feeds from various sites & services. Facesuck.
When will we get some politicians who have backgrounds in what they're actually working in. Zzzz