Interesting premise there. Maybe it isn't a universal trait that serious injury or death is the only way to express displeasure? Maybe they were not intended to brain the targets? I have a strong suspicion that if he wanted to nail someone between the eyes with a rock, he could have. Or even just a body shot.
Maybe he hasn't "evolved" to the stage where he believes he needs to kill his problems yet. Give him some time:P
er. he didn't say anything about extraditing them to the US, you know... i'm sure Estonian law enforcement would be the ones who get to handle this, our World Police badge notwithstanding...
The designers of this car though they were making it harder to lock your keys in the car, but in reality they were simply training people to hold the handle up when they closed the door.
UAC reminds me of the exact same thinking. It doesn't really prevent you from making mistakes, it just conditions you to click "OK".
Bingo!
Anyone who's worked with a network user has had this conversation:
User: MY CPUTER R BROKEN!1!! HALP!
Support: Okay, did you see anything unusual happen?
User: Yes... it said something on the screen!
Support: Okay, what did it say?
User: Iono.
Support: Ok, was it a dialog box... said something, then click a choice?
User: Maybe.
Support: Ok, what were the choices?
User: Iono.
Support: Okay then... which button did you click on?
User: The one that made the bad nasty box go away!
Support: Well, ok, it may take me a min to see what's going on...
User: WAT?! FIX NAO! U SUK!
Support:/facepalm
People've been inundated with signs, pop-ups, dialog boxes, logins... they're trained to click click click click thru everything. They actually get pissed off if you suggest they need to read the funny words because they might actually, you know, say something interesting... and even those who want to help find themselves clicking by reflex before they realize something's wrong, and it's not just another endless meaningless useless "Are you Sure?" type deal.
Years and years ago, Dragon magazine had a cockpit-view from a fighter jet with a dragon flying head-on...
There was a tiny area in the instrumentation that was a blank square, that said in it, "Useless empty wasted space."
The artist, IIRC, said of course it wasn't, but was not allowed to paint that part. Don't remember how or why, but he'd gotten access to the real thing at some point, and used it as a model. A bunch of people noticed the label and called them on it. A plain blank panel would not have attracted nearly as much attention as doing something silly like "something important here! don't look! avert thine eyes!"
How, exactly, will painting a blurry bulls-eye make terrorrism harder? I think "well, my kids are coming here next year and it's all blurry on the map now" is a great excuse for a little in-person recon, too.
Maybe someone will market blurry expensive Gap Kids clothes to SAVE THE CHLIDREN!11!1!!! next:P
Blurry, FFS. BLURRY! I still can't wrap my head around it. Maybe the esteemed Congresstwit in question would care to suggest we all wear tinted spectacles of reddish hue next, to keep us all feeling safe.
That's always the first logical answer - but you have to take it into their closed-loop to realize how it works.
You see, when stuff we like happens, that proves that all is the will of god. But when bad stuff happens, that proves that we didn't have enough faith!
If there was any way to automate the process more than it already is, it would be done by now.
Mmm... i get where you're coming from, but you assume rational forces making decisions based on logic. Instead, you have entrenched forces making decisions based on self-preservation, or greed, or plain buttheadedness.
Consider the existing systems in place that benefit from road repair and construction; or, at least, have prioritized other expenditures - such as themselves - over same. Then too, who will research and develop these systems to a usable level? If a market is viewed as difficult to reach for political reasons, or already overseen by protective corporate structures or unions - who's gonna waste the cash developing a solution that will be shot down by lobbyists, protectionists, well-connected rivals, etc.?
Obviously this doesn't always happen, and there is innovation in the face of the comfortably profitable. But it's still a barrier to overcome, and someone has to be both interested and capable (not to mention funded and connected) enough to overcome it.
Yeah, unrestrained greed and lack of accountability had nothing to do with it. Banks like PNC, who avoided the feeding frenzy and were laughed at by their peers for not cashing in on the FotM, were substantially penalized by- no, wait, they've actually come out stronger and gobbled up some of their gambling competition....
That's an interesting choice of analogy. You may have noticed that over the last couple centuries, we've attempted - with varying degrees of success - to stop leaving shit lying around everywhere, too.
One sec....
Ah yes. In the words of the immortal (really) Hob Gadling, re Renfaires:
"The problem is, there's no shit... people shit, animal shit. You ought to spray everyone with shit as they walk in."
I worked for a couple places that were funded by M$ or accepted donations. I suggested a FOSS solution for something, and was told quite explicitly, "We can't, its in the contract."
Now, it's certainly possible the man was lying to me, or mistaken, or if you want to get cute, there was no actual legal obligation to eschew Open Source but M$ reps *implied* that there was, and the folks in charge assumed, were cowed, or simply too slow of mind or weak of will to look at it closer, resulting in this gawdawful run-on sentence i can't seem to fix.
But why wouldn't they add an exclusivity clause to such agreements, and why wouldn't most FOSS-ignorant public school and library administrators agree to it, thinking "who needs crappy free weird software written by teenage hackers, when i have professional polished shiny software for free?" They have never heard the drug-pusher analogy, i suppose, which is weird considering they're in at-risk public schools. Ahem.
Now, you asked for proof. I obviously cannot (and would not) provide a copy of any documentation from former employers, but you DID ask. I am not posting anonymously. Therefore, if you discount my account, as it were, then *you* are now the conspiracy theorist.
Er. Okay. So? If it was some random jerk stealing a random cellphone who didn't (still doesn't?) realize what he's scored, and he's busted, ha ha, screw you thief. If it was industrial espionage and they're busted, ha ha, screw you incompetent thief.
The reason i'm not considering what happens to the thief is... i don't really care. Except, perhaps, should opportunity present, to point and laugh.
Slashdot Mirror
Interesting premise there. Maybe it isn't a universal trait that serious injury or death is the only way to express displeasure? Maybe they were not intended to brain the targets? I have a strong suspicion that if he wanted to nail someone between the eyes with a rock, he could have. Or even just a body shot.
Maybe he hasn't "evolved" to the stage where he believes he needs to kill his problems yet. Give him some time :P
er. he didn't say anything about extraditing them to the US, you know... i'm sure Estonian law enforcement would be the ones who get to handle this, our World Police badge notwithstanding...
You have to tell amazon not to use an item you have already purchased to suggest other items.
FYP
Even a simple ADD instruction
10 POKE RITALIN
20 GOTO WHEEE
... i'll get me coat.
Now get off my lawn!
10 PRINT LAWN
20 GOTO CURB
I'm not too certain where they've really been, either...
The designers of this car though they were making it harder to lock your keys in the car, but in reality they were simply training people to hold the handle up when they closed the door. UAC reminds me of the exact same thinking. It doesn't really prevent you from making mistakes, it just conditions you to click "OK".
Bingo!
Anyone who's worked with a network user has had this conversation:
People've been inundated with signs, pop-ups, dialog boxes, logins... they're trained to click click click click thru everything. They actually get pissed off if you suggest they need to read the funny words because they might actually, you know, say something interesting... and even those who want to help find themselves clicking by reflex before they realize something's wrong, and it's not just another endless meaningless useless "Are you Sure?" type deal.
of Phantom ports i'd like to share...
Years and years ago, Dragon magazine had a cockpit-view from a fighter jet with a dragon flying head-on...
There was a tiny area in the instrumentation that was a blank square, that said in it, "Useless empty wasted space."
The artist, IIRC, said of course it wasn't, but was not allowed to paint that part. Don't remember how or why, but he'd gotten access to the real thing at some point, and used it as a model. A bunch of people noticed the label and called them on it. A plain blank panel would not have attracted nearly as much attention as doing something silly like "something important here! don't look! avert thine eyes!"
How, exactly, will painting a blurry bulls-eye make terrorrism harder? I think "well, my kids are coming here next year and it's all blurry on the map now" is a great excuse for a little in-person recon, too.
Maybe someone will market blurry expensive Gap Kids clothes to SAVE THE CHLIDREN!11!1!!! next :P
Blurry, FFS. BLURRY! I still can't wrap my head around it. Maybe the esteemed Congresstwit in question would care to suggest we all wear tinted spectacles of reddish hue next, to keep us all feeling safe.
bah.
That's always the first logical answer - but you have to take it into their closed-loop to realize how it works.
You see, when stuff we like happens, that proves that all is the will of god. But when bad stuff happens, that proves that we didn't have enough faith!
WHOOSH!
they have yet to rise up and try to enslave humanity, which is more than we can say for humanity.
+1 Can't Decide to Laugh or Cry
If there was any way to automate the process more than it already is, it would be done by now.
Mmm... i get where you're coming from, but you assume rational forces making decisions based on logic. Instead, you have entrenched forces making decisions based on self-preservation, or greed, or plain buttheadedness.
Consider the existing systems in place that benefit from road repair and construction; or, at least, have prioritized other expenditures - such as themselves - over same. Then too, who will research and develop these systems to a usable level? If a market is viewed as difficult to reach for political reasons, or already overseen by protective corporate structures or unions - who's gonna waste the cash developing a solution that will be shot down by lobbyists, protectionists, well-connected rivals, etc.?
Obviously this doesn't always happen, and there is innovation in the face of the comfortably profitable. But it's still a barrier to overcome, and someone has to be both interested and capable (not to mention funded and connected) enough to overcome it.
Official Microsoft Workaround: Get up from your desk, step around it, and stop working.
the government forced lenders to make bad loans
Yeah, unrestrained greed and lack of accountability had nothing to do with it. Banks like PNC, who avoided the feeding frenzy and were laughed at by their peers for not cashing in on the FotM, were substantially penalized by- no, wait, they've actually come out stronger and gobbled up some of their gambling competition....
It's as natural as manure.
That's an interesting choice of analogy. You may have noticed that over the last couple centuries, we've attempted - with varying degrees of success - to stop leaving shit lying around everywhere, too.
One sec....
Ah yes. In the words of the immortal (really) Hob Gadling, re Renfaires:
"The problem is, there's no shit... people shit, animal shit. You ought to spray everyone with shit as they walk in."
Honestly, no. Just pointing out the shortest short-circuit to the success==superiority we seem to fall back on, even when we know better.
Though, to be fair, I think that sort of thing should be saved until retirement.
http://i155.photobucket.com/albums/s300/sjclark1967/FarSideLoneRanger.jpg
And VHS is technically superior to Betamax in every way.
"Grammer" is not an English word I have ever encountered.
She's married to Gramper.
Yes.
I worked for a couple places that were funded by M$ or accepted donations. I suggested a FOSS solution for something, and was told quite explicitly, "We can't, its in the contract."
Now, it's certainly possible the man was lying to me, or mistaken, or if you want to get cute, there was no actual legal obligation to eschew Open Source but M$ reps *implied* that there was, and the folks in charge assumed, were cowed, or simply too slow of mind or weak of will to look at it closer, resulting in this gawdawful run-on sentence i can't seem to fix.
But why wouldn't they add an exclusivity clause to such agreements, and why wouldn't most FOSS-ignorant public school and library administrators agree to it, thinking "who needs crappy free weird software written by teenage hackers, when i have professional polished shiny software for free?" They have never heard the drug-pusher analogy, i suppose, which is weird considering they're in at-risk public schools. Ahem.
Now, you asked for proof. I obviously cannot (and would not) provide a copy of any documentation from former employers, but you DID ask. I am not posting anonymously. Therefore, if you discount my account, as it were, then *you* are now the conspiracy theorist.
Er. Okay. So? If it was some random jerk stealing a random cellphone who didn't (still doesn't?) realize what he's scored, and he's busted, ha ha, screw you thief. If it was industrial espionage and they're busted, ha ha, screw you incompetent thief.
The reason i'm not considering what happens to the thief is... i don't really care. Except, perhaps, should opportunity present, to point and laugh.
Mod Parent Fu... Ins... Fu... now i know how Tantalus felt.
"Redundant"
You keep usin tha wor... i do no thin it means wha you thin it means...
The people have voted with their feet.
I don't know how you blog, but i think yerdoinitwrong.