You do realize that in most real business contexts, that's absolutely no help?
Your ship schedule is your commitment. "Our supplier gave us bad parts" gets you no credit. It's no excuse, and trying to use it like an excuse will get you on the "never let them bid on anything else" list.
If you're a manufacturer, subcontractor and supply chain management is on YOU. Your customer rightly blames YOU for the problem. You, as a manufacturer, buy counterfeit parts, and it's YOUR FAULT.
On top of that after looking through the firmware they've found that it's not custom software, but a badly configured OpenWRT build with a standard root password (set to "developer!"), an unsecured wifi ssid and sshd installed and running by default!
Interesting. Maybe "open-source", in the context that they meant it, means that all the users' private data should be open-source, rather than anything about the hardware or software.
Lack of access to the First Lady's workout schedule is not what the people complaining about lack of transparency are upset about.
Explicit counter-example was right in parent post. David Nakamura clearly was upset about the lack of transparency in the First Lady's workout schedule.
I believe the next step is that you claim the cited example doesn't count, for reasons approximating "No True Scotsman".
"If so many people refuse to get vaccinated, herd immunity can't work. So why bother?"
"Because if all you voluntary natural selection candidates want to kill yourselves, my own vaccination will at least partially protect me."
Open Source at least offers the opportunity to protect yourself, to the extent of your own skill and effort. Which is the most anyone can realistically expect in this world. I have no intentions of allowing my fate to rest entirely at the tender mercy of people who think they know better than me.
Complete with unsupported (unsupportable?) assertions ("perl is dead! DEAD!") on completely wrong-headed propositions ("A programming language can die," which apparently means that "the cool kids don't want to get their precious genius minds dirty with it because it's too mainstream.")
And yet here I am, participating in the conspiracy by commenting. I hate what Slashdot has made me become. I should have walked away months, maybe years, ago.
"Hey, Baby, you've heard about Orcas, right? We're whales, Honey, and I do mean that in every way. Yeah. Once you've gone black and white, you never go back. And white."
And that isn't specifically just the military background, although the military culture has a way of incubating a "just follow orders" mindset. There are others who are clever and intelligent and actually mission-oriented enough to make the conversation go like this:
"But that request is insane."
"Not my call."
"It'll do the opposite of what's intended"
"That decision is above my paygrade. So let's come up with Plan B and save management from themselves."
Sad fact of life: management is sometimes too stupid to make the right decision, and the right decision will not be made against their explicit direction. Period. Unless you're the kind of guy who's willing to go to jail to prevent those unworthy bean-counters from sullying your network.
So the best service you can render, if you care about getting the mission done rather than buffing your ego or getting the hell out of Dodge, is prepare damage control.
It's approaching troll event horizon, with trolls trolling trolls who troll trolls trolling other trolls. Ridiculous.
On one hand, I'd welcome empirical evidence that black holes actually exist, even if it requires every troll on Earth to do it. OTOH, 4chan has spewed forth many notable elements of on-line culture, so its loss would be lamentable. Sorta.
Probably. Funerary practices in that part of the world are very home-centered, generally administered by the grieving family. That's a major current transmission route, and its emotional and traditional base gives it resistance to quarantine pressures. No one is just going to pile corpses outside waiting for the body cart, if they've spent weeks locked away caring for their dying loved one.
Dealing with the dead is a big part of epidemic management, and "doing it right" (to minimize infectiousness) is expensive, as well as insensitive to the survivors. So yeah, the dead will continue to infect the living, until it burns itself out, or until someone imposes draconian responses.
Corollary: Anything done late by Apple wasn't cool until Apple did it.
Corollary corollary: Unless Apple claims it was never done before Apple did it, objective reality notwithstanding. Because it didn't count, or the RDF makes the faithful forget, or "No true Scotsman", or whatever.
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They can't get the users without the restricitons.
At least, until the first post-merger unannounced unilateral no-notice change of terms of service.
You do realize that in most real business contexts, that's absolutely no help?
Your ship schedule is your commitment. "Our supplier gave us bad parts" gets you no credit. It's no excuse, and trying to use it like an excuse will get you on the "never let them bid on anything else" list.
If you're a manufacturer, subcontractor and supply chain management is on YOU. Your customer rightly blames YOU for the problem. You, as a manufacturer, buy counterfeit parts, and it's YOUR FAULT.
Fine, good, true, and utterly fucking irrelevant.
The only player in this stupid drama being punished is the only one who had no way of knowing about the counterfeit chip: the consumer.
You probably thought SCO was right to sue Linux users too, amirite?
It's official. Doublespeak is now codified in law.
It's only fair. Law is encoded in Doublespeak.
Weird Al is goin' to jail?
On top of that after looking through the firmware they've found that it's not custom software, but a badly configured OpenWRT build with a standard root password (set to "developer!"), an unsecured wifi ssid and sshd installed and running by default!
Interesting. Maybe "open-source", in the context that they meant it, means that all the users' private data should be open-source, rather than anything about the hardware or software.
Lack of access to the First Lady's workout schedule is not what the people complaining about lack of transparency are upset about.
Explicit counter-example was right in parent post. David Nakamura clearly was upset about the lack of transparency in the First Lady's workout schedule.
I believe the next step is that you claim the cited example doesn't count, for reasons approximating "No True Scotsman".
Considering how the IQ is calibrated, and "genius" is a set number of of standard deviations on that scale, no, there wouldn't be.
Or, to put it less genius-ly, "if everyone's above average, no one is above average, because the average MOVES."
Use non-depleted uranium, and the suit could be powered!
Specifically, anti-vaxxers.
"If so many people refuse to get vaccinated, herd immunity can't work. So why bother?"
"Because if all you voluntary natural selection candidates want to kill yourselves, my own vaccination will at least partially protect me."
Open Source at least offers the opportunity to protect yourself, to the extent of your own skill and effort. Which is the most anyone can realistically expect in this world. I have no intentions of allowing my fate to rest entirely at the tender mercy of people who think they know better than me.
Complete with unsupported (unsupportable?) assertions ("perl is dead! DEAD!") on completely wrong-headed propositions ("A programming language can die," which apparently means that "the cool kids don't want to get their precious genius minds dirty with it because it's too mainstream.")
And yet here I am, participating in the conspiracy by commenting. I hate what Slashdot has made me become. I should have walked away months, maybe years, ago.
So your suggested solution is a time machine and self-support?
I'd like to introduce you to Bossy, the Spherical Cow.
Pickup lines by male Orcas.
"Hey, Baby, you've heard about Orcas, right? We're whales, Honey, and I do mean that in every way. Yeah. Once you've gone black and white, you never go back. And white."
The driving need for sparc emulation is avoiding Oracle. Seems like a real need to me, and a real service in fulfilling the need.
The government says it's not cruel. And they intend to make it not particularly unusual.
Passes Constitutional muster to me! <rubberstamp>
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And that isn't specifically just the military background, although the military culture has a way of incubating a "just follow orders" mindset. There are others who are clever and intelligent and actually mission-oriented enough to make the conversation go like this:
"But that request is insane."
"Not my call."
"It'll do the opposite of what's intended"
"That decision is above my paygrade. So let's come up with Plan B and save management from themselves."
Sad fact of life: management is sometimes too stupid to make the right decision, and the right decision will not be made against their explicit direction. Period. Unless you're the kind of guy who's willing to go to jail to prevent those unworthy bean-counters from sullying your network.
So the best service you can render, if you care about getting the mission done rather than buffing your ego or getting the hell out of Dodge, is prepare damage control.
And then charge your estate for "early termination".
Arkanoid had an actual backstory, for $DIETY's sake. That puts it about 1,000,000 miles ahead of Tetris.
And more accurate, for very little more typing, for GPP to have typed "I don't know anything about Ebola, but I'm scared and loud!"
Right. It's April 1st Old Style*.
They recoilled away from Soviet Communism so hard they overshot back into Tsarist Imperial Russia.
*No, not really. Don't be whoosed by a feeble calendar joke. The bit about 21st Century Tsarist Russia, though, that was serious.
Maybe an immigrant traveling back to the home country for a visit.
Maybe to attend a funeral.
Meanwhile, typos and poor editing still done by a drunk marmoset.
No, wait. A drunk marmoset would actually be a significant upgrade. Give it a chance!.
It's approaching troll event horizon, with trolls trolling trolls who troll trolls trolling other trolls. Ridiculous.
On one hand, I'd welcome empirical evidence that black holes actually exist, even if it requires every troll on Earth to do it. OTOH, 4chan has spewed forth many notable elements of on-line culture, so its loss would be lamentable. Sorta.
I'm conflicted.
Probably. Funerary practices in that part of the world are very home-centered, generally administered by the grieving family. That's a major current transmission route, and its emotional and traditional base gives it resistance to quarantine pressures. No one is just going to pile corpses outside waiting for the body cart, if they've spent weeks locked away caring for their dying loved one.
Dealing with the dead is a big part of epidemic management, and "doing it right" (to minimize infectiousness) is expensive, as well as insensitive to the survivors. So yeah, the dead will continue to infect the living, until it burns itself out, or until someone imposes draconian responses.
Corollary: Anything done late by Apple wasn't cool until Apple did it.
Corollary corollary: Unless Apple claims it was never done before Apple did it, objective reality notwithstanding. Because it didn't count, or the RDF makes the faithful forget, or "No true Scotsman", or whatever.