Anyone know if some descendant of WGA is part of Win 7? The description of the problem in TFA (and also the corresponding Inq article reminds me of a botched WGA "software self-help" thing.
Of course, it could just be a garden-variety bug in something besides WGA.
What do you mean? We're at war with Microsoft, and always have been.
Weren't you at today's Two-Minute Hate? You were supposed to get your reinforcement exposure to the Realty Enhancement Field.
On a less-trollish note, I read with some interest that a critical factor is the presence of an Nvidia GPU, and that the improper downclock seems to be more closely correlated to GPU temp than CPU temp. NVidia "Bumpgate", anyone?
You forgot my favorite Star Trek social-defective tech geek, Reg Barclay. He'd fit right in here. He'd probably have an actual holo program of Natalie Portman, petrified and covered in hot grits.
You're arguing a strawman. No one is claiming that NG won't live up to every term of the contract. But for any given value of "it", if the contract doesn't explicitly call for it (or implicitly, by incorporating external terms such as an agreed standard or quality attribute), it won't be delivered.
You seem to be arguing "No one, in good conscience, should deliver a distributed wide-area architecture without some degree of resilient connectivity." In principle, I agree. But if the statement of work didn't specify it, and the basic explicit terms of the contract can be fulfilled without it, it would be financially reckless to give it away gratis. Furthermore, it might complicate the ability to deliver on the actual terms of the contract. If I overrun the schedule and deliver late because I spent too long polishing the brass, do you really think the customer would chuckle understandingly and wink?
I could expect the pizza guy to give me beer along with my pizza order, because pizza's no good without beer, but that isn't gonna happen unless I'm paying for the beer. And if I didn't ask for beer, I'd be rightly annoyed if pizza delivery guy gave me a late, stale, cold pizza because there was a long line at the liquor store.
Little known factoid: Every starship dedication plaque has, on the back, an engraved legend: "Never forget that this vessel was made by the lowest bidder."
I don't know this particular situation well enough to say who is at fault and to what degree, but it's part of their business to service their customers well. It's part of every company's business to provide service to their customers in an ethical manner.
It's also a part of every publicly-traded company's business to provide maximum value to shareholders in an ethical manner. And that is also a legal requirement. Failure to do so will get your board or your executives in front of a judge so fast they'll leave desirable body parts behind.
Hmmm... do I take money out of the profit for this program to save these customers from themselves.... no. If they didn't specify and we didn't bid the backup capability they'll probably want for non-nominal situations, they won't get it out of our hide. If nothing else, it's the opportunity for follow-on business.
C'mon, do you actually expect a for-profit to do something for nothing? If you go into the doctor's office for your flu, do you expect him to just give you the medicine? He'll write the scrip, but you'll have to procure it yourself. Or he'll sell it to you, if he has in-house pharmacy services. (Like some hospitals do). But not for free. Ethically, he has to give you the opportunity to get better with the best treatment he can give you... that you can afford.
Sorry. We geeks playing World of Warcraft would not be engaged in killing each other if not for the game.
True. I wonder how many closet murderers indulge their taste for mayhem in a virtual world but avoid it IRL simply because it's permitted in one place and punished in the other. Or, to put it more plainly, how many would do it IRL if they were guaranteed they could get away with it.
"I once stabbed a man to watch him die. And also for 8 honor points."
isn't that these files and this correspondence got hacked.
The shame of it is that hacking was necessary at all.
Transparency, People. We're debating public policy and making decisions for the benefit of all Mankind. Credibility is only hindered by opacity and closed data.
Tough choice. Tyranny of an oligarchy, or tyranny of the majority to smash the minority/individual underfoot. I guess a tyranny of 50%+1 is better than a tyranny of ~50 nobles/ministers,
If I'm playing Starcraft II online, I don't want to hear "Nuclear launch detected!" and wonder if I should be spamming my Orbital Command scanner sweeps looking for stealthed Ghosts or maybe just duck and cover IRL.
Infinitely many things do or could exist. The fact that you took the time to write out this particular scheme is not irrelevant to the conversation.
I bet you're suspicious of mystery authors, too.
In any case, I'm relieved that you're not interested in executing your perverse plan.
I don't know why you feel relieved. I never said I wasn't planning on executing my perverse plan. I never said I was planning on executing my perverse plan. I never said it was a plan. So since the alleged plan is all in your head, I think we need for you to clearly disclaim your intentions to set up a murder-in-the-guise-of-self-defense.
That's a pretty common fallacy, really. Reality has nothing to do with what you, I, or Our Insect Overlords want. Reality is reality.
Odd you would think I'm endorsing a calculated scheme to murder. I simply point out it exists.
For all you know, tears of agonized grief and appalled horror may have been spilling from my eyes as I explained it. The potential for injustice and evil may have been breaking my heart even as I typed.
But that's OK, mindless ad-hominem is pretty much par for the course here.
Important lesson: understanding is not advocacy. Pretending it doesn't happen doesn't make it go away. The Ravenous Bugblatter Beast of Traal was fictional. Your towel will not help you.
Lacking witness testimony to the contrary, it'd be hard to prove that the "victim" (deceased ex-criminal) didn't bring his own unlamented death on himself. If the basic standard of self-defense is "you're entitled to defend yourself as long as the threat exists", you may not get to stop until the assailant isn't moving any more. And death by that kind of blunt-force trauma may not be instantaneous: one well-place kick to the upper abdomen could leave dead-boy with ruptured internal organs (spleen, etc.) and internal bleeding, and still able (and mad enough) to get up and come at you again.
Now, a dead guy with 17 mortal stab wounds... that's a bit harder to finesse, self-defense-wise. Unless he's a zombie.
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Anyone know if some descendant of WGA is part of Win 7? The description of the problem in TFA (and also the corresponding Inq article reminds me of a botched WGA "software self-help" thing.
Of course, it could just be a garden-variety bug in something besides WGA.
What do you mean? We're at war with Microsoft, and always have been.
Weren't you at today's Two-Minute Hate? You were supposed to get your reinforcement exposure to the Realty Enhancement Field.
On a less-trollish note, I read with some interest that a critical factor is the presence of an Nvidia GPU, and that the improper downclock seems to be more closely correlated to GPU temp than CPU temp. NVidia "Bumpgate", anyone?
You forgot my favorite Star Trek social-defective tech geek, Reg Barclay. He'd fit right in here. He'd probably have an actual holo program of Natalie Portman, petrified and covered in hot grits.
You're arguing a strawman. No one is claiming that NG won't live up to every term of the contract. But for any given value of "it", if the contract doesn't explicitly call for it (or implicitly, by incorporating external terms such as an agreed standard or quality attribute), it won't be delivered.
You seem to be arguing "No one, in good conscience, should deliver a distributed wide-area architecture without some degree of resilient connectivity." In principle, I agree. But if the statement of work didn't specify it, and the basic explicit terms of the contract can be fulfilled without it, it would be financially reckless to give it away gratis. Furthermore, it might complicate the ability to deliver on the actual terms of the contract. If I overrun the schedule and deliver late because I spent too long polishing the brass, do you really think the customer would chuckle understandingly and wink?
I could expect the pizza guy to give me beer along with my pizza order, because pizza's no good without beer, but that isn't gonna happen unless I'm paying for the beer. And if I didn't ask for beer, I'd be rightly annoyed if pizza delivery guy gave me a late, stale, cold pizza because there was a long line at the liquor store.
So should all employees of companies that manufacture testing supplies for forensic and criminal investigation.
or are you just happy to see me?
Little known factoid: Every starship dedication plaque has, on the back, an engraved legend: "Never forget that this vessel was made by the lowest bidder."
I don't know this particular situation well enough to say who is at fault and to what degree, but it's part of their business to service their customers well. It's part of every company's business to provide service to their customers in an ethical manner.
It's also a part of every publicly-traded company's business to provide maximum value to shareholders in an ethical manner. And that is also a legal requirement. Failure to do so will get your board or your executives in front of a judge so fast they'll leave desirable body parts behind.
Hmmm... do I take money out of the profit for this program to save these customers from themselves.... no. If they didn't specify and we didn't bid the backup capability they'll probably want for non-nominal situations, they won't get it out of our hide. If nothing else, it's the opportunity for follow-on business.
C'mon, do you actually expect a for-profit to do something for nothing? If you go into the doctor's office for your flu, do you expect him to just give you the medicine? He'll write the scrip, but you'll have to procure it yourself. Or he'll sell it to you, if he has in-house pharmacy services. (Like some hospitals do). But not for free. Ethically, he has to give you the opportunity to get better with the best treatment he can give you... that you can afford.
Sorry. We geeks playing World of Warcraft would not be engaged in killing each other if not for the game.
True. I wonder how many closet murderers indulge their taste for mayhem in a virtual world but avoid it IRL simply because it's permitted in one place and punished in the other. Or, to put it more plainly, how many would do it IRL if they were guaranteed they could get away with it.
"I once stabbed a man to watch him die. And also for 8 honor points."
Well, it can't be that bad, or Android couldn't call it Java.
Microsoft got its wang in a wringer doing less.
isn't that these files and this correspondence got hacked.
The shame of it is that hacking was necessary at all.
Transparency, People. We're debating public policy and making decisions for the benefit of all Mankind. Credibility is only hindered by opacity and closed data.
The Nobel Regular Prize?
Never heard of it. Which Nobel Institute or affiliate awards that one?
Oh, boy, I'm gonna nominate a dodecaplex. That's as regular as it gets.
Jetsun Jamphel Ngawang Lobsang Yeshe Tenzin Gyatso, now with the power of 14 Lamas*!
*One-"L" Lamas. Although a team of 14 two-"l" llamas would also be very powerful.
Really?
Have you seen the flamage on LKML?
If that's peace I'll take war any day.
Tough choice. Tyranny of an oligarchy, or tyranny of the majority to smash the minority/individual underfoot. I guess a tyranny of 50%+1 is better than a tyranny of ~50 nobles/ministers,
Thousands of French executed in one year might argue with you on that point.
but still provides no method to protect the rights of the individual.
True.
failing to maintain the MR-GO properly, was not policy, but insouciance, myopia, and shortsightedness
-1 Redundant
Too bad we can't moderate court judgments. But then someone else would M2 and who knows what that would lead to.
from in-game content.
If I'm playing Starcraft II online, I don't want to hear "Nuclear launch detected!" and wonder if I should be spamming my Orbital Command scanner sweeps looking for stealthed Ghosts or maybe just duck and cover IRL.
Infinitely many things do or could exist. The fact that you took the time to write out this particular scheme is not irrelevant to the conversation.
I bet you're suspicious of mystery authors, too.
In any case, I'm relieved that you're not interested in executing your perverse plan.
I don't know why you feel relieved. I never said I wasn't planning on executing my perverse plan. I never said I was planning on executing my perverse plan. I never said it was a plan. So since the alleged plan is all in your head, I think we need for you to clearly disclaim your intentions to set up a murder-in-the-guise-of-self-defense.
"Methinks he doth protest too much.."
This has nothing to do with what I want.
That's a pretty common fallacy, really. Reality has nothing to do with what you, I, or Our Insect Overlords want. Reality is reality.
Odd you would think I'm endorsing a calculated scheme to murder. I simply point out it exists.
For all you know, tears of agonized grief and appalled horror may have been spilling from my eyes as I explained it. The potential for injustice and evil may have been breaking my heart even as I typed.
But that's OK, mindless ad-hominem is pretty much par for the course here.
Important lesson: understanding is not advocacy. Pretending it doesn't happen doesn't make it go away. The Ravenous Bugblatter Beast of Traal was fictional. Your towel will not help you.
hoses up the camera autofocus?
Is this Slashdot, or The Daily WTF?
"He kept getting up and coming after me!"
Lacking witness testimony to the contrary, it'd be hard to prove that the "victim" (deceased ex-criminal) didn't bring his own unlamented death on himself. If the basic standard of self-defense is "you're entitled to defend yourself as long as the threat exists", you may not get to stop until the assailant isn't moving any more. And death by that kind of blunt-force trauma may not be instantaneous: one well-place kick to the upper abdomen could leave dead-boy with ruptured internal organs (spleen, etc.) and internal bleeding, and still able (and mad enough) to get up and come at you again.
Now, a dead guy with 17 mortal stab wounds... that's a bit harder to finesse, self-defense-wise. Unless he's a zombie.
with nuclear warheads instead of rocks.
-1 Redundant. Or +1 Overkill.
I am no expert, but my impression is that aircraft cat systems haven't changed significantly in those 20 years.
But in the US Navy's next carrier class, it will.
Yeah, no joke.
Even for Slashdot, that's a lot of slashes. I sprained my Wernicke's Area trying to parse that.
life DOES follow art.
(Using a liberal definition of "art" to encompass advertising.)