For all the talk about NO SDK=FAILURE that has been going on since day one, I haven't seen anyone make even the vaguest suggestions of what they think such a killer-app might be that is absolutely dependent on a direct SDK.
OBVIOUSLY this isn't the only source of information being used by the intended audience. You might as well point out that "golly, how do *I* know that's really Chad? I mean, it's brown, the buildings are made of sticks, it could be, you know, like Ouagoudougou...but I don't know where that is either, so it might as well be London." These images are part of the analysis kit for those who already have half a clue what is going on and where, not for the sub-average moron who couldn't find Chad on a map if it was already labeled in flashing 150pt Helvetica bold.
You're making a garrulous argument that could be made for every piece of historical evidence in existence if taken individually, which is to say: no shit, Sherlock.
Perhaps the author should look towards Central Europe ca. 1991-2001 to see what economic wonders occur when you have/loose/ bankruptcy laws. It was GREAT for the "entrepreneurs" and loan officers working on "commission" when you could write a loan to finance your business, liquidate it, write off the loan having effectively pocketed the cash, then walk straight back to the bank to pull a new one for a new business, rinse, repeat and retire to the Caymans having produced absolutely nothing.
Oh, it's been going on a lot longer than that, but a certain widespread exuberance with this sort of shell-game crap among even the lowliest small business owners made the relevant courts a bit more sympathetic to the plaintiffs and prosecution of late.
Twenty-five years ago that trick may have worked. Today, that structure is little more than a means of generating extra tax forms and accounting books while offering essentially zilch in terms of shielding liability. Besides, closely-held corps are themselves tenuous at best, certainly in their infancy. In reality, the corporate veil can be pierced simply if you're a sloppy excuse for a company or if it appears you are simply using it as a personal ATM...which is pretty common in such scenarios. When that happens, even the most absurdly complicated Rube Golberg paper conglomerates can quickly vanish into the glorified sole-proprietorships they really are to the sound of uproarious laughter from tax collectors, judges and creditors.
"Thank you Hilary and the Dems for destroying the last bits of American competitiveness, and thank you to the American people for voting these imbeciles in."
It would appear that the likes of YOU voted these particular imbeciles in:
He could have proven he was not breaking this asinine law if they forced a "Welcome Page" that popped up the magic words "Greeting, user, you're 'AUTHORIZED!'" (You know, much the same thing the protocol is asserting in the background in the first place)
It would seem people now need to post intrusive redirects on every connection blatantly announcing to all concerned parties that, yes, indeed, this free, open, unsecured, SSID broadcasting access point is in fact all of those things, so please concerned officers of the law, move the !@#%# along and find some skateboarders to harass.
Even those who realize that have still fallen for the crooks who've convinced them to refer to cons as "social engineers," which in itself was a frightfully successful con job not least because it was perpetrated on/actual/ engineers.
If Ron Popeil can patent a paper-clip into the In-The-Egg-Scrambler, you'd damn well better believe I expect equal protection for a gabillion-lines of engineering the schematics of which, rather than scarcely filling a cocktail napkin, would fill an encyclopedia.
Hell, since hammers and nails are all just clever extensions of smelting, I suppose the only valid patent out there should be awarded to some damned caveman who figured out which rocks to throw into his campfire.
With all the damage the existence of the United States Passport has done to our diversity and prosperity...
If everyone went out and got a passport, this would be a non-issue, so that raises the question for me: have those people complaining the loudest about this ever held one? It seems scarcely any different and I don't know many people with valid passports who get entirely big-brother about it. It's just a global reality and not a terribly ominous one at that.
I love these things. It makes interviews so much easier.
Q:"So, can you provide samples of your work?" A:"Since you want me to sign an NDA to work here, and that would violate the NDA I signed there, if I did that, it would render my signature worthless, so, no." Q:"Well, okay, then, do you have any references we can call?" A:"My severance contract forbids me from talking about them and them about me beyond title and dates of employment, and since I'm sure you do the same, see above. But, I'm sure my mom will put in a good word." Q:"..." A:"So, when do I start?" Q:"Tomorrow good for you?"
What's really asinine is I've had several/successful/ interviews like that because everyone is doing this stuff.
If I converted to this, it would ramp my annual bill from $480 to $3200. Since we haven't had a significant nuclear accident since the Carter administration, which even then affected roughly NO ONE, I'll stick with my current supplier, thanks.
...what is double-entry accounting but keeping two separate databases of financial transactions--specifically so when the numbers don't match, you know something is up?/Yes, I know the difference
We know you hate ICANN and think it is more an evil empire than the USSR ever was, but at least attach that tiresome rant to a topic that at least makes a single, solitary passing mention of ICANN.
The member states of the E.U. would be within their bounds if they declared war on the U.S. and nuked Washington. Getting into a pissing contest with an American software company is something short of that.
An open access point is a literal invitation. The protocol is exceedingly polite and quite explicitly offers, grants and renews both permission to use and the means of use--and it is a trivial matter to shut the electronic butler off and erect the equivalent of a fence complete with No-Tresspassing/Private-Property signs and keyed entry.
Barring that, it is effectively like leaving your house unlocked with a gigantic visible-from-space "Open House" sign...and then pissing and moaning when you find random strangers traipsing across your lawn.
Yes, because dashing off emails from a random/. flamewar is really going to represent well-reasoned, well-informed concern for a situation that truly has impacted the authors of those e-mails, rather than just thousands of morons in need of a Satyagraha du jour screaming "UR TEH SUXX0RZ!!! LOL!!" from behind cubicle walls a thousand miles away who in reality couldn't care less and will have forgotten this story by this time tomorrow.
There's a reason, for instance, that FARK has a standing policy of deleting such incitements and banning the offending user from posting. It's not political activism, it's just harassment.
"The Slashdot effect" is bad enough. We can all individually look this information up, but when people start posting it with requisite "tee-hee, let THIS guy know" comments, it's an attempt to incite an electronic flashmobs and that is totally irresponsible, abusive and in the end pointless.
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For all the talk about NO SDK=FAILURE that has been going on since day one, I haven't seen anyone make even the vaguest suggestions of what they think such a killer-app might be that is absolutely dependent on a direct SDK.
OBVIOUSLY this isn't the only source of information being used by the intended audience. You might as well point out that "golly, how do *I* know that's really Chad? I mean, it's brown, the buildings are made of sticks, it could be, you know, like Ouagoudougou...but I don't know where that is either, so it might as well be London." These images are part of the analysis kit for those who already have half a clue what is going on and where, not for the sub-average moron who couldn't find Chad on a map if it was already labeled in flashing 150pt Helvetica bold.
You're making a garrulous argument that could be made for every piece of historical evidence in existence if taken individually, which is to say: no shit, Sherlock.
What sort of political shilling is that?
/loose/ bankruptcy laws. It was GREAT for the "entrepreneurs" and loan officers working on "commission" when you could write a loan to finance your business, liquidate it, write off the loan having effectively pocketed the cash, then walk straight back to the bank to pull a new one for a new business, rinse, repeat and retire to the Caymans having produced absolutely nothing.
Perhaps the author should look towards Central Europe ca. 1991-2001 to see what economic wonders occur when you have
They tried to make boiling sea water illegal. Lost a bit of real estate in that move, they did...
Oh, it's been going on a lot longer than that, but a certain widespread exuberance with this sort of shell-game crap among even the lowliest small business owners made the relevant courts a bit more sympathetic to the plaintiffs and prosecution of late.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Piercing_the_corpora
Twenty-five years ago that trick may have worked. Today, that structure is little more than a means of generating extra tax forms and accounting books while offering essentially zilch in terms of shielding liability. Besides, closely-held corps are themselves tenuous at best, certainly in their infancy. In reality, the corporate veil can be pierced simply if you're a sloppy excuse for a company or if it appears you are simply using it as a personal ATM...which is pretty common in such scenarios. When that happens, even the most absurdly complicated Rube Golberg paper conglomerates can quickly vanish into the glorified sole-proprietorships they really are to the sound of uproarious laughter from tax collectors, judges and creditors.
Go ahead, try to follow my logic. I dare you.
That's about how I feel about Ayn Rand too.
What, that she was an effusively petulant bitch with a massive chip on her shoulder?
Mixing the two seems sort of cartoonish at best and ignorant at worst.
/worst/ that perpetuating this sort of nonsense can create.
It is ignorant at BEST. God only knows the
Ahem:
http://politechbot.com/docs/enzi.sales.tax.bill.0
"Thank you Hilary and the Dems for destroying the last bits of American competitiveness, and thank you to the American people for voting these imbeciles in."
It would appear that the likes of YOU voted these particular imbeciles in:
http://enzi.senate.gov/public/index.cfm?FuseActio
He could have proven he was not breaking this asinine law if they forced a "Welcome Page" that popped up the magic words "Greeting, user, you're 'AUTHORIZED!'" (You know, much the same thing the protocol is asserting in the background in the first place)
It would seem people now need to post intrusive redirects on every connection blatantly announcing to all concerned parties that, yes, indeed, this free, open, unsecured, SSID broadcasting access point is in fact all of those things, so please concerned officers of the law, move the !@#%# along and find some skateboarders to harass.
Even those who realize that have still fallen for the crooks who've convinced them to refer to cons as "social engineers," which in itself was a frightfully successful con job not least because it was perpetrated on /actual/ engineers.
My BMR totally sedentary 24/7 is over 3kCal/day, so I just have to sit completely motionless for nine hours to burn off that value meal...
If Ron Popeil can patent a paper-clip into the In-The-Egg-Scrambler, you'd damn well better believe I expect equal protection for a gabillion-lines of engineering the schematics of which, rather than scarcely filling a cocktail napkin, would fill an encyclopedia.
Hell, since hammers and nails are all just clever extensions of smelting, I suppose the only valid patent out there should be awarded to some damned caveman who figured out which rocks to throw into his campfire.
With all the damage the existence of the United States Passport has done to our diversity and prosperity...
If everyone went out and got a passport, this would be a non-issue, so that raises the question for me: have those people complaining the loudest about this ever held one? It seems scarcely any different and I don't know many people with valid passports who get entirely big-brother about it. It's just a global reality and not a terribly ominous one at that.
I love these things. It makes interviews so much easier.
/successful/ interviews like that because everyone is doing this stuff.
Q:"So, can you provide samples of your work?"
A:"Since you want me to sign an NDA to work here, and that would violate the NDA I signed there, if I did that, it would render my signature worthless, so, no."
Q:"Well, okay, then, do you have any references we can call?"
A:"My severance contract forbids me from talking about them and them about me beyond title and dates of employment, and since I'm sure you do the same, see above. But, I'm sure my mom will put in a good word."
Q:"..."
A:"So, when do I start?"
Q:"Tomorrow good for you?"
What's really asinine is I've had several
If I converted to this, it would ramp my annual bill from $480 to $3200. Since we haven't had a significant nuclear accident since the Carter administration, which even then affected roughly NO ONE, I'll stick with my current supplier, thanks.
That being said, this kid sounds like a fuckin nut job.
Yes, and the treatment for the miniseries will be "Puzo meets Burroughs meets Thompson."
I've seen worse and more disturbing literary and artistic expression on poetry night at the local coffeehouse.
We know you hate ICANN and think it is more an evil empire than the USSR ever was, but at least attach that tiresome rant to a topic that at least makes a single, solitary passing mention of ICANN.
The member states of the E.U. would be within their bounds if they declared war on the U.S. and nuked Washington. Getting into a pissing contest with an American software company is something short of that.
An open access point is a literal invitation. The protocol is exceedingly polite and quite explicitly offers, grants and renews both permission to use and the means of use--and it is a trivial matter to shut the electronic butler off and erect the equivalent of a fence complete with No-Tresspassing/Private-Property signs and keyed entry.
Barring that, it is effectively like leaving your house unlocked with a gigantic visible-from-space "Open House" sign...and then pissing and moaning when you find random strangers traipsing across your lawn.
Yes, because dashing off emails from a random /. flamewar is really going to represent well-reasoned, well-informed concern for a situation that truly has impacted the authors of those e-mails, rather than just thousands of morons in need of a Satyagraha du jour screaming "UR TEH SUXX0RZ!!! LOL!!" from behind cubicle walls a thousand miles away who in reality couldn't care less and will have forgotten this story by this time tomorrow.
There's a reason, for instance, that FARK has a standing policy of deleting such incitements and banning the offending user from posting. It's not political activism, it's just harassment.
"The Slashdot effect" is bad enough. We can all individually look this information up, but when people start posting it with requisite "tee-hee, let THIS guy know" comments, it's an attempt to incite an electronic flashmobs and that is totally irresponsible, abusive and in the end pointless.
...it did come from the "pennies" department.