You have a bison? Good God, man, how big is your backyard? I can't walk up the stairs in my house without stepping on a cat - a bison would be right out!
"Senator, we were browsing through your Facebook messages and noticed a few interesting exchanges with 14 year old girls, your mother-in-law, and a llama rancher. I'm sure you can now see your way clear to vote against additional consumer privacy safeguards."
Exactly. I was going to post essentially what you did.
An article linked from the POGO site quoted a trade rep: "The fact is that POGO's report draws false conclusions by comparing fully burdened contractor rates — which include all costs charged to the government, such as salaries, benefits, overhead, supplies, equipment, materials, rent and more — to an estimate of just salaries and benefits paid to a similar government workforce,"
I am a federal contractor and I guarantee no one billing the government on our contract makes the kind of money alleged by POGO. We work in our own facility, we buy our own equipment, provide our own IT support, plus the overhead people (HR, senior management, for example) are paid from what the company bills for my time.
As you stated, a fair comparison would be to factor in what the government pays for its facilities, equipment, executives, employee welfare, insurance. Also, it's impossible to get rid of a government employee. If we don't perform, though, they can terminate the contract.
They included benefits but they compared the fully-loaded contract rate vs the government employees pay and benefits. The fully loaded rate includes overhead - that's what pays the salary of the employees who don't bill to a contract (such as HR), infrastructure (office costs), plus a profit. They did not compare salary + benefits to salary + benefits.
I clicked through the article looking for the slick USA Today-like info graphic. Ah yes...there's nothing like an all-text article on icons. Maybe the editors should reject submissions where the link starts with "gopher://".
So clerks at convenience stores, liquor stores, and adult bookstores shouldn't check IDs because it therefore puts them "in the position of being mommy and daddy"?
No one is reporting he is innocent. They reached a plea deal. The government dropped the 10 charges because a judge decided the prosecution would have to show classified material to the jury.
Dropping the charges because you don't have enough evidence to make a case (i.e. without using classified material) is not the same as deciding he is innocent.
Educators of children? Hopefully they're doing a better job than those that educated you, judging from your entertaining comment history. A connoisseur of transsexuals, are you? Italy has "some of the most passable/beautiful TS outside asia". Awesome. Maybe you could publish a field guide to the world's she-males.
Oh, such drama. Quite the characterization of a bunch (kids,/b/tards, immature adults) who are happy to do the bidding of others because they think it's funny.
As for "brilliant pranksters", neither word applies to scripted ddos attacks. You want brilliant pranks? Check out http://improveverywhere.com/
And butterflies aren't stealthy...quiet, yes, but have you seen how they fly? You could never sneak up on anyone if you walked in a similar pattern.
The American Art museum has hosted neither the ruby slippers nor the puffy shirt. The American History museum houses those. The linked article got it right...submitter must have been in a rush to present this breaking news to Slashdot.
But since anyone can act as Anonymous then the WBC claim was legit. I can put up a server, make myself a part of Anonymous, attempt to hack my server, leave Anonymous, then claim Anonymous tried to hack my server.
In fact, how do we know who issued the Anonymous press release? On the anonnews website it says, "Anyone can post to the site, and moderators will approve relevant posts. No censorship takes place!"
In a perfect world, I agree with your sentiment. In the real world, with parents (or single parents) working multiple jobs just to make ends meet it's not that easy. Yes, there are shitty worthless parents, plenty of them, but there are also a lot of parents struggle to keep everything together, so something like this would be seen as a blessing to them.
Come on you guys...at least put the translation there. Yes, I could look it up but since you already know what it means why not include it for the Latin-challenged among us? I might learn something along the way. I don't know that I'll ever use it...I have no plans to travel to Latin America...but it would still be nice to be in on your joke.
My wife often complains that I don't carry my phone with me all the time or that I have it with me in my car but it's turned off. Sometimes I don't want to be bothered by a phone call - I just want some uninterrupted time to myself. Her response? "What if there's an emergency?" My response: "Call 911, not me".
Yes, we've played that out many many times now.
What surprises me is that there's someone who is surprised that a person may actually not have a phone with them. Why would someone want to be connected every single moment of every single day?
It would be more like me giving you a flower to pin on your lapel and saying it will tell me where you go, but really it also records and tells me what you order to eat and where you ordered it at.
Not quite...the Bing toolbar installer clearly says it provides information on your searches, not just on the sites you visit.
What you are describing would be more like MS doing searches on Google's site directly, and incorporating those results into their own rankings.
No, because the useful data is what people click on, not what another search engine returns.
Do you really think spammers a) are using webmail accounts to send spam and b) checking those webmail accounts to see what replies they've received? No wonder you posted anonymously.
Spammers use open relays (or spam-friendly hosts) to send e-mails with fake "from" addresses. The e-mails direct the potential victim to either a website or to reply to another e-mail address.
The ease at which new addresses can be created and disposed of in Hotmail is only a good thing.
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You have a bison? Good God, man, how big is your backyard? I can't walk up the stairs in my house without stepping on a cat - a bison would be right out!
"Senator, we were browsing through your Facebook messages and noticed a few interesting exchanges with 14 year old girls, your mother-in-law, and a llama rancher. I'm sure you can now see your way clear to vote against additional consumer privacy safeguards."
I'd give up my job too if my hobby involved women coming over, getting undressed, and letting me take pictures of them.
I'll give the man credit, though he's no Bob Crane he takes nice pictures.
Ooops...wrong con. Carry on.
This is a little off topic but since you mentioned it...how many wives do you have?
Exactly. I was going to post essentially what you did.
An article linked from the POGO site quoted a trade rep: "The fact is that POGO's report draws false conclusions by comparing fully burdened contractor rates — which include all costs charged to the government, such as salaries, benefits, overhead, supplies, equipment, materials, rent and more — to an estimate of just salaries and benefits paid to a similar government workforce,"
I am a federal contractor and I guarantee no one billing the government on our contract makes the kind of money alleged by POGO. We work in our own facility, we buy our own equipment, provide our own IT support, plus the overhead people (HR, senior management, for example) are paid from what the company bills for my time.
As you stated, a fair comparison would be to factor in what the government pays for its facilities, equipment, executives, employee welfare, insurance. Also, it's impossible to get rid of a government employee. If we don't perform, though, they can terminate the contract.
They included benefits but they compared the fully-loaded contract rate vs the government employees pay and benefits. The fully loaded rate includes overhead - that's what pays the salary of the employees who don't bill to a contract (such as HR), infrastructure (office costs), plus a profit. They did not compare salary + benefits to salary + benefits.
Thanks for that...that's exactly what I was looking for too.
I can't be the only person that's never hurd, umm, heard of it.
"The Hurd is the GNU project's replacement for UNIX, a popular operating system kernel."
From http://www.gnu.org/software/hurd/hurd/what_is_the_gnu_hurd.html
I clicked through the article looking for the slick USA Today-like info graphic. Ah yes...there's nothing like an all-text article on icons. Maybe the editors should reject submissions where the link starts with "gopher://".
So clerks at convenience stores, liquor stores, and adult bookstores shouldn't check IDs because it therefore puts them "in the position of being mommy and daddy"?
No one is reporting he is innocent. They reached a plea deal. The government dropped the 10 charges because a judge decided the prosecution would have to show classified material to the jury. Dropping the charges because you don't have enough evidence to make a case (i.e. without using classified material) is not the same as deciding he is innocent.
Don't click...it's a tarp. You have been warned.
If, when I and my children lived in the UK, a teacher had tried to do this I would have sued s/his ass off.
What's a "shis"?
Now I would insert the barrel of my SIG 210 up their left nostril and politely ask them NOT to do it again.
Overreact much? Funny, I thought the barrel of the SIG P210 was far larger than any nostril, well, except maybe this guy's: http://www.thesun.co.uk/sol/homepage/news/article112380.ece
What do those people think they are?
Educators of children? Hopefully they're doing a better job than those that educated you, judging from your entertaining comment history. A connoisseur of transsexuals, are you? Italy has "some of the most passable/beautiful TS outside asia". Awesome. Maybe you could publish a field guide to the world's she-males.
Oh, such drama. Quite the characterization of a bunch (kids, /b/tards, immature adults) who are happy to do the bidding of others because they think it's funny.
As for "brilliant pranksters", neither word applies to scripted ddos attacks. You want brilliant pranks? Check out http://improveverywhere.com/
And butterflies aren't stealthy...quiet, yes, but have you seen how they fly? You could never sneak up on anyone if you walked in a similar pattern.
The American Art museum has hosted neither the ruby slippers nor the puffy shirt. The American History museum houses those. The linked article got it right...submitter must have been in a rush to present this breaking news to Slashdot.
But since anyone can act as Anonymous then the WBC claim was legit. I can put up a server, make myself a part of Anonymous, attempt to hack my server, leave Anonymous, then claim Anonymous tried to hack my server.
In fact, how do we know who issued the Anonymous press release? On the anonnews website it says, "Anyone can post to the site, and moderators will approve relevant posts. No censorship takes place!"
Maybe Anonymous should look into LifeLock...
That's not an answer. What rights are being violated by this?
In a perfect world, I agree with your sentiment. In the real world, with parents (or single parents) working multiple jobs just to make ends meet it's not that easy. Yes, there are shitty worthless parents, plenty of them, but there are also a lot of parents struggle to keep everything together, so something like this would be seen as a blessing to them.
Rights? What rights do minor students have that would be violated by this?
Thanks...now I'm off to translate your sig :)
Come on you guys...at least put the translation there. Yes, I could look it up but since you already know what it means why not include it for the Latin-challenged among us? I might learn something along the way. I don't know that I'll ever use it...I have no plans to travel to Latin America...but it would still be nice to be in on your joke.
Shoot, you stole my answer.
My wife often complains that I don't carry my phone with me all the time or that I have it with me in my car but it's turned off. Sometimes I don't want to be bothered by a phone call - I just want some uninterrupted time to myself. Her response? "What if there's an emergency?" My response: "Call 911, not me".
Yes, we've played that out many many times now.
What surprises me is that there's someone who is surprised that a person may actually not have a phone with them. Why would someone want to be connected every single moment of every single day?
It would be more like me giving you a flower to pin on your lapel and saying it will tell me where you go, but really it also records and tells me what you order to eat and where you ordered it at.
Not quite...the Bing toolbar installer clearly says it provides information on your searches, not just on the sites you visit.
What you are describing would be more like MS doing searches on Google's site directly, and incorporating those results into their own rankings.
No, because the useful data is what people click on, not what another search engine returns.
Do you really think spammers a) are using webmail accounts to send spam and b) checking those webmail accounts to see what replies they've received? No wonder you posted anonymously.
Spammers use open relays (or spam-friendly hosts) to send e-mails with fake "from" addresses. The e-mails direct the potential victim to either a website or to reply to another e-mail address.
The ease at which new addresses can be created and disposed of in Hotmail is only a good thing.