Actually, that's a good point. "Professional ganker". Very interesting career potential.
You could form an entire guild/company dedicated to chain-camping victims until they rage-quit.
You'd just have to make sure you didn't get enough business that the MMO company notices mass rage-quittage amongst the other reasons why players quit.
then everyone wonders why society is so miserable.
IMHO, self-sufficient misery is vastly superior to parasitic enjoyment. But I have a little pride. I'd rather be miserably poor but getting by on my own than leeching in order to raid and PvP 24x7.
As part of this agreement, all three organizations can begin using the newest versions of Microsoft products, including Microsoft Office 2013, SharePoint 2013 Enterprise and Windows 8. The ability to standardize on SharePoint 2013 Enterprise will unlock new levels of cross-agency information sharing through improved enterprise search and social communications features while powering advanced business intelligence and reporting capabilities. Access to Office 2013 will equip each organization with the latest versions of productivity tools that personnel rely on every day, including Microsoft Word, Microsoft Excel and Microsoft PowerPoint. The increasingly mobile DoD workforce will also use Windows 8 to empower productivity from any location, and any supported device, while taking advantage of enhanced security. The U.S. Armyâ(TM)s Network Enterprise Technology Command headquartered at Fort Huachuca, Ariz., and the Air Force Program Executive Office for Business and Enterprise Systems at Maxwell Air Force Base-Gunter Annex in Alabama, have been working closely with Microsoft on achieving Army Golden Master and Air Force Standard Desktop Configuration compliance for Windows 8.
As the names imply, those two named configurations (Army Golden Master and Air Force Standard Desktop Configuration) are the standard desktop deploy images for the overwhelming majority of the normal day-to-day systems for those respective two services... and they're definitely transitioning to 8. So yaaay. I definitely picked a good time to get the hell out of the service.
If I were patient enough, I could probably produce a series-produced automobile from junk parts. Especially if I worked in a junkyard.
Of course, a car yard is more likely to see junked 1968 Fords come through than any desert backwater world is likely to see lots of wrecked C3-series Protocol Droids... except that (as pointed out elsewhere) Jabba seemed to go through protocol droids at a fair clip.
Or not. More than once, the reponse I've seen was the icy equivalent of "Your understanding is not my problem."
Seriously. If there's no violation of actual standards, browbeating someone about coding style is both futile and counterproductive. Even if it's horrible coding style. Without the firm ground of enforceable standards, it's just an unwinnable piss-fest.
As glurgy and trite as it comes across, sometimes the Serenity Prayer is the best answer. Especially the part about wisdom.
Let's face it. It's all just life. No one's getting out alive, and age has its own built-in liabilities, regardless of how hard you work (or avoid working) your body in your youth.
Optimize for short-term profit at the expense of long-term profit, then bail out when the company takes a dive. Except this time it's the employees rather than the execs that are bailing...
Ya see, this is where the wisdom of the ancients has gone lost.
You lash the slaves to the oars.... that way, they can't abandon ship when you drive it aground. Everyone who matters is free to go.
"Buffalo Bills" == National Football League franchise in the city of Buffalo, New York. Has nothing to do with American Bison (bison bison), other than the coincidental resemblance between the bovine and some of the members of the sports team.
"robust football analytics" == "another opportunity for the beancounters to interfere with the operation of the team."
Somehow you've conflated "qualified" with "not an idiot".
That's the root of your confusion. For HR, "qualified" has mostly to do with "non-controversial" and "mild-mannered" and "conforming well". And also "prudish".
Thanks for clarifying that. I can stand being head-shotted from across the zone by some camping bitch... but an involuntary vasectomy? Thanks, no thanks, I'll settle for being chain-ganked by Korean gold farmers in WoW.
Excuse me, but if it were like Tor, it would be shuffling your donation around several times between a network of thousands of volunteers' accounts, hoping it will be passed on.
And also, a non-trivial number of financial agencies participating in the fund transfer chain will actually be owned by unfriendly government agencies which are monitoring transactions and building audit trails to de-anonymize stuff they don't like.
No one has ever successfully protested their own imminent death as unfair. The Grim Reaper doesn't give a rat's ass. If you're vulnerable, the only one who can watch out for you is you.
Pragmatically, "fair" is irrelevant or worse: distracting.
I suspect the usage "to be fair" is just linguistic habit. "On the other hand" would probably been more semantically appropriate.
Bring a tablet, I'll bring my e-ink reader, and let's go sit in the sun and read for 4 hours.
Exposing yourself to a powerful emitter of deadly electromagnetic radiation for hours at a stretch is a terribly slow and indirect way to kill yourself. Casually reading as you boil away your life only adds confusion for your grieving next-of-kin.
I'll kick back in the shade with my full-color full-capability portable computer, thanks. Maybe I'll read. Maybe I'll play a game. I certainly won't be gratuitously shortening my life. XD
You don't charge people who made mistakes in their jobs unless they did so with criminal intent, and I encourage you to attempt to prove that in a court of law.
Uniformed members of the Armed Forces responsible for managing the DoD assets affected by this were theoretically vulnerable to being charged with, for instance, dereliction of duty. The Uniform Code of Military Justice is funny that way. If command could argue that the systems managers had a duty to secure the systems, the failure to do so would be a culpable crime.
That said, I'm sure it didn't happen that way because the defense would turn the spotlight of attention up the chain of command, embarrasing everyone above the "foot soldier" level with their own inattention to duty. You'll almost never see a prosecution in those circumstances. Besides, the negligence which led to the event probably doesn't come to the level of criminal negligence. (I don't think leaving a vulnerable computer exposed to the internet has quite become criminal negligence yet, since so many people continue to run unpatched Windows installations.)
This is nothing about DNS. The slippery slope argument (for good or ill) the major Internet powers used to justify refusal is that treaty language implies that signatory governments have a mutual international obligation to do content monitoring (e.g., deep packet inspection). These clauses were argued to be non-content-neutral, and (for instance) coud allow Iran to insist that the US prohibit blastphemous content (for Shiite Muslim definitions of "blastphemy").
DPI and other content-based restrictions have nothing to do with how you find the address of the other end of the wire, and everything to do with the actual packets going through the wire. DNS isn't a player in this consideration.
In truth, DNS is the least useful control mechanism for restricting access. It's blunt, easy to circumvent, and otherwise full of holes. It works well enough as long as the clueless mob doesn't hear about the workarounds, like DNS aliases for "prohibited addresses". This treaty, as perceived by the holdouts, cuts right to the gold standard of internet repression: content monitoring.
I sound all wishy-washy because I'm restating the stated objections of the holdout nations. I am not completely convinced in the sincerity of those objections. Am I the only one who finds an American government opposing content monitoring somewhat hard to believe? Certainly, there are constituencies within the governments of the holdout nations that are in love with mandatory content inspection.
It may be as simple as "we'll do content monitoring because we want to, and not because Iran wants us to, and we'll do it the way we want to do it."
The phrase "fist cheese" is completely nonsensical by any literal reading, and yet evokes such images of horror and disgust that I am searching around right now for my mind bleach.
Certain products are banned because of cryptography. The iPhone is not among them.
True dat. The crypto subsystem in the iDevice is so bad that the DoD hopes we can get our adversaries to start using it for their own secret communications.
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The adblocking war just went nuclear!
I wonder what the media/advertising uber-cartel's response will be? "No media for you!"? Lawsuits galore?
I'm gonna pop some popcorn and pull up a comfy chair. This...could...be...AMAZING.
Actually, that's a good point. "Professional ganker". Very interesting career potential.
You could form an entire guild/company dedicated to chain-camping victims until they rage-quit.
You'd just have to make sure you didn't get enough business that the MMO company notices mass rage-quittage amongst the other reasons why players quit.
then everyone wonders why society is so miserable.
IMHO, self-sufficient misery is vastly superior to parasitic enjoyment. But I have a little pride. I'd rather be miserably poor but getting by on my own than leeching in order to raid and PvP 24x7.
YMMV.
Too bad. It most certainly is:
As the names imply, those two named configurations (Army Golden Master and Air Force Standard Desktop Configuration) are the standard desktop deploy images for the overwhelming majority of the normal day-to-day systems for those respective two services... and they're definitely transitioning to 8. So yaaay. I definitely picked a good time to get the hell out of the service.
If I were patient enough, I could probably produce a series-produced automobile from junk parts. Especially if I worked in a junkyard.
Of course, a car yard is more likely to see junked 1968 Fords come through than any desert backwater world is likely to see lots of wrecked C3-series Protocol Droids... except that (as pointed out elsewhere) Jabba seemed to go through protocol droids at a fair clip.
I dunno.... when did "Ask Slashdot" start?
Or not. More than once, the reponse I've seen was the icy equivalent of "Your understanding is not my problem."
Seriously. If there's no violation of actual standards, browbeating someone about coding style is both futile and counterproductive. Even if it's horrible coding style. Without the firm ground of enforceable standards, it's just an unwinnable piss-fest.
As glurgy and trite as it comes across, sometimes the Serenity Prayer is the best answer. Especially the part about wisdom.
Hard work is satisfying, but it has costs you don't always recognize until it's too late.
Soft jobs have their own costs.
Let's face it. It's all just life. No one's getting out alive, and age has its own built-in liabilities, regardless of how hard you work (or avoid working) your body in your youth.
Optimize for short-term profit at the expense of long-term profit, then bail out when the company takes a dive. Except this time it's the employees rather than the execs that are bailing...
Ya see, this is where the wisdom of the ancients has gone lost.
You lash the slaves to the oars.... that way, they can't abandon ship when you drive it aground. Everyone who matters is free to go.
and also non-sports geeks of all nationalities:
"Football" == "gridiron football", aka "handegg".
"Buffalo Bills" == National Football League franchise in the city of Buffalo, New York. Has nothing to do with American Bison (bison bison), other than the coincidental resemblance between the bovine and some of the members of the sports team.
"robust football analytics" == "another opportunity for the beancounters to interfere with the operation of the team."
It's not the legal mafia that is at fault here. It's the intellectual property system that is the law of the land.
Hence the word "legal" in "legal mafia".
Abusing the law for fun and profit has a long and time-honored history. What makes you think anything will change?
Somehow you've conflated "qualified" with "not an idiot".
That's the root of your confusion. For HR, "qualified" has mostly to do with "non-controversial" and "mild-mannered" and "conforming well". And also "prudish".
Yeah. We're swinging back into the era of the gray flannel suit.
Thanks for clarifying that. I can stand being head-shotted from across the zone by some camping bitch... but an involuntary vasectomy? Thanks, no thanks, I'll settle for being chain-ganked by Korean gold farmers in WoW.
As long as you do them both in that precise order.
Excuse me, but if it were like Tor, it would be shuffling your donation around several times between a network of thousands of volunteers' accounts, hoping it will be passed on.
And also, a non-trivial number of financial agencies participating in the fund transfer chain will actually be owned by unfriendly government agencies which are monitoring transactions and building audit trails to de-anonymize stuff they don't like.
See also the TOR Hostile Exit Node problem.
No one has ever successfully protested their own imminent death as unfair. The Grim Reaper doesn't give a rat's ass. If you're vulnerable, the only one who can watch out for you is you.
Pragmatically, "fair" is irrelevant or worse: distracting.
I suspect the usage "to be fair" is just linguistic habit. "On the other hand" would probably been more semantically appropriate.
Bring a tablet, I'll bring my e-ink reader, and let's go sit in the sun and read for 4 hours.
Exposing yourself to a powerful emitter of deadly electromagnetic radiation for hours at a stretch is a terribly slow and indirect way to kill yourself. Casually reading as you boil away your life only adds confusion for your grieving next-of-kin.
I'll kick back in the shade with my full-color full-capability portable computer, thanks. Maybe I'll read. Maybe I'll play a game. I certainly won't be gratuitously shortening my life. XD
You don't charge people who made mistakes in their jobs unless they did so with criminal intent, and I encourage you to attempt to prove that in a court of law.
Uniformed members of the Armed Forces responsible for managing the DoD assets affected by this were theoretically vulnerable to being charged with, for instance, dereliction of duty. The Uniform Code of Military Justice is funny that way. If command could argue that the systems managers had a duty to secure the systems, the failure to do so would be a culpable crime.
That said, I'm sure it didn't happen that way because the defense would turn the spotlight of attention up the chain of command, embarrasing everyone above the "foot soldier" level with their own inattention to duty. You'll almost never see a prosecution in those circumstances. Besides, the negligence which led to the event probably doesn't come to the level of criminal negligence. (I don't think leaving a vulnerable computer exposed to the internet has quite become criminal negligence yet, since so many people continue to run unpatched Windows installations.)
"Are you also fond of gratuitous simulated lens flare?" he asked rhetorically.
It's further proof that one does not simply walk into Mordor.
This is nothing about DNS. The slippery slope argument (for good or ill) the major Internet powers used to justify refusal is that treaty language implies that signatory governments have a mutual international obligation to do content monitoring (e.g., deep packet inspection). These clauses were argued to be non-content-neutral, and (for instance) coud allow Iran to insist that the US prohibit blastphemous content (for Shiite Muslim definitions of "blastphemy").
DPI and other content-based restrictions have nothing to do with how you find the address of the other end of the wire, and everything to do with the actual packets going through the wire. DNS isn't a player in this consideration.
In truth, DNS is the least useful control mechanism for restricting access. It's blunt, easy to circumvent, and otherwise full of holes. It works well enough as long as the clueless mob doesn't hear about the workarounds, like DNS aliases for "prohibited addresses". This treaty, as perceived by the holdouts, cuts right to the gold standard of internet repression: content monitoring.
I sound all wishy-washy because I'm restating the stated objections of the holdout nations. I am not completely convinced in the sincerity of those objections. Am I the only one who finds an American government opposing content monitoring somewhat hard to believe? Certainly, there are constituencies within the governments of the holdout nations that are in love with mandatory content inspection.
It may be as simple as "we'll do content monitoring because we want to, and not because Iran wants us to, and we'll do it the way we want to do it."
Rennet. It's a good thing.
The phrase "fist cheese" is completely nonsensical by any literal reading, and yet evokes such images of horror and disgust that I am searching around right now for my mind bleach.
Thank you. Thank you very much.
A plague a' all their houses!
Certain products are banned because of cryptography. The iPhone is not among them.
True dat. The crypto subsystem in the iDevice is so bad that the DoD hopes we can get our adversaries to start using it for their own secret communications.
OK, I just made that up.