(Brute-forcing keys is fairly foolish with modern encryption systems, but brute-forcing passwords isn't.)
Only if the person who created the password used lowercase letters, and kept it under 7-8 characters. Around 8 characters, things get expensive VERY fast.
Example: 6 mixed case, numbers, plus punctuation marks (only those on number keys): 140BN combinations, which would take 9.6 hours.
Not very good, right? Well, make it 8 characters, and they're looking at roughly 722 TRILLION combinations, or about 5.7 YEARS (provided I didn't make any power-of-ten mistakes.)
Mazerov also finds it disingenuous for Amazon to argue that it should not have to help support public services in states in which it has no physical presence when the company fails to support public services in most of the states in which it does have a physical presence.
Yep. Corporations relentlessly lobby town, county, and state officials to get tax breaks, "loans", grants, and more...all in the promise of "jobs", which is the staple of how politicians get elected.
At least give a look-see to the website for the book The GReat American Jobs Scam. The author cites case after case where companies get tax benefits, loans, grants, special public utility/infrastructure projects, you name it...and companies stick around until the well runs dry or the find a better deal elsewhere, playing governments off each other endlessly.
Meanwhile, the math behind the "number of jobs" created/saved/etc is pretty dubious, and the author points out that most of them are temporary, contract, or otherwise low-income jobs. What's hilarious is when politicians claim they're helping the tax base- right after giving said company a giant tax break they'll never repay, because the company will jet as soon as the break is over!
. If there's evidence from Facebook indicating that he updated his status, then the prosecution would need to show that the guy was using a proxy/tunnel/whatever, or that he had someone else post for him, etc.
You have a fundamental misunderstanding of how evidence works. Even if it's evidence in your favor, it has to still be valid.
This case is ridiculous; the prosecutor should be fired for gross incompetence. All the prosecution would have to do is ask "could a login from his computer only be done by him?" and the answer would be "no, anyone with his password."
Perhaps they should make winches that aren't strong enough to capsize a boat. Just a thought.
WOW, I'm sure decades of fishermen haven't considered that. Thank god we have Slashdot.
"What capsizes a boat" is probably very complicated- how loaded is it with fish? How high are the seas? How much water and fuel does it have on board? How much angular momentum does the boat have? How much water resistance does the hull give?
It's probably possible or even normal to haul up a load that, if you kept it hanging out on the crane, would slowly cause the ship to heel over too far, but if brought aboard relatively quickly, wouldn't...
A GPS typically calculates velocity from Doppler shift of the D-band signal.
Uh, no; I see you like to quote that one site that quotes a specific manufacturer's owner manual from circa-1996.
GPS units calculate position fixes at rates of 1-10Hz (anything more than 1Hz is uncommon in the mass retail market) and then apply point-to-point distance-vs-time calculations.
Doppler shift is used by all units to correct the frequencies due to movement of the GPS satellites in orbit; the velocities involved are almost in the range of 1KM/sec. Advanced units called RTK, or Real Time Kinematics, use phase information to get sub-meter (almost sub-inch) position information. They're for survey-level accuracy units, and they start in the 4-figure range.
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Can somebody please develop a CMS for people without Asperger's ?!
It's for consultants, not people with Asperger's. Everything requires coding and customization and is awkward. It's a consultant's wet dream.
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...who works with it every day. Then, it's brilliant.
I spent 4 hours banging my head against a wall trying to do two things: 1)get a calendar of events up (in any way, shape, or form) and 2)put some boxes on the front page of a site, one for each major category of the blog. So, to transpose the example to slashdot: a box containing just "idle" story headlines.
The calendar bit, I gave up on because it involved creating all sorts of custom data types and forms and views and...jesus christ, why couldn't they just make an "events" module...
The box-with-a-category, I also gave up on. Apparently, the "solution" is to dig into PHP in your theme (why themes are chock full of code is beyond me) and edit the files. Well, except that then when a new version of the theme comes out, you have to port your changes forward. So instead, you make a copy of the file, install it into a duplicate of the theme's folder structure, tell Drupal your theme is a subtheme of another existing theme, and Drupal makes Magic Happen.
Sort of. The subtheme doesn't inherit critical stuff in the original theme, like the stuff that defines where content boxes can go on the page (ie, the most basic part of the theme: the layout!) so when you load the new theme, all your content completely disappears. Unfuckingbelievable.
In the end I threw up my hands in disgust. I could see the possibilities for a community site (which is what I needed and wanted in the long run), but getting there would have been an endless amount of time learning Drupal internals. Why the fuck should I have to learn internals to put an event calendar on my blog's sidebar?
Oh, and everyone makes out that modules are the second coming of Christ, especially this book, apparently. Well, as we discovered at work trying to implement a drupal site that sometimes when you enable a module, it runs all over your database, permanently screwing the pooch and requiring a complete restore from backup...a problem exacerbated by the lack of (apparently) refined APIs. What does that mean? Well, it means the modules and Drupal very often end up having very specific version requirements...
Genetically slutty women had more children than genetically prude women. Therefore, women are now genetically easier to get with than they used to be. Discuss.
# of children these days has to do with social and educational level; uneducated women end up at home having babies. Also, attractive women tend to form long term relationships or get into a career, and don't end up having loads of kids.
Also, "slutty women" tend to get STDs and have their reproductive systems damaged in the process, or suffer from other health problems...and in general be avoided by all but really desperate guys.
And they actually use that stuff to grow food. I mean it's the feces of animals, and they're dumping it on our food to make it grow. But somehow the food is okay and safe to eat.http://www.google.com/search?&q=Salmonella+Contamination
Spinach, romaine lettuce, pistachios, peanuts, tomatoes, onion sprouts, cantaloupes, alfalfa sprouts, and that's when I stopped looking around page 2-3.
...when you can get P3 class machines or better for free that will be an order of magnitude faster.
For anything under $100, the principle concern should be power usage, since if left on 24x7, that will be far more expensive than purchasing the system itself.
He could take a picture of the board and then duplicate it onto paper. News, on pieces of paper! That way they can take the news with them to read it at home, on the train...they can share it with their family and friends. Avoid the crowds of people standing around all trying to read the same board.
Some people might like to receive the news on pieces of paper at their home for convenience's sake. He could offer a pricing model whereby they commit to a certain number of months- and it could be called a subscription.
Of course, eventually, someone will point out that he could communicate the news faster and cheaper to his subscribers if he did it electronically. He'll probably have to wait until the technology matures, though.
To anyone who doesn't know, the two major political parties in Australia are the Labor party (left-center) and the ironically named Liberal party (right conservative)
Fun fact:
"Conservatives" in the US have pushed hard for things like religion in the state, stripping of constitutional protections and freedoms in the name of fighting "terrorism", pushing to ban gay marriage, aggressive preemptive foreign policy, and an wild extension of the executive branch's power.
If you look at it from a Constitutional perspective, it's an extremely liberal agenda. That's why I call myself a constitutional conservative: I believe everyone has equal rights, those rights cannot be waived for the convenience of protection, and that the three branches must retain equal power to balance and check each other. Just like the piece of paper says.
The greatest trick they've pulled off is getting the entire US population to believe that their agenda is somehow "conservative", and that those standing up to maintain the principles of the constitution are "liberal."
there are critics of the teaching of evolution worldwide
So where are YOUR facts? Because as far as I know, the anti-evolution "movement" exists almost exclusively in the US. Everywhere else, evolution is held as proven, established fact. For fuck's sake, even the Catholic church supports it. We are viewed as a bunch of backwater, ignorant, stupid hicks.
To anyone who has been paying attention to the increased commercial activity from Canonical and commercial bundling (first Landscape, which advertises itself via your shell logins...now all the "cloud" BS in the current beta, like the storage plan), this shouldn't be a surprise.
I was watching an interesting doco a while ago where the captain of a prawn trawler was almost in tears as they had had two weeks of terrible prawn hauls so the crew were near mutiny (pay is directly related to how much the boat takes on) but were dragging in tonnes and tonnes of prime fish and under EU law had to throw it all back mostly dead, each time every time as to take it back to port risked him losing his boat.
Welcome to capitalism. The incompetent go out of business.
The same people who say that women must have free access to abortion, because they have the right to say what they do with their bodies, are now saying that NYS health care workers don't have the right to say what they do with their bodies with regards to a vaccine?
When a woman gets an abortion, only she and the fetus are affected.
When a health worker, WHO WORKES A JOB WHERE THEY WILL COME IN CONTACT WITH INFECTED PEOPLE, refuses to get a shot to prevent the spread of an infection...that affects their own health and potentially tens of thousands of people. That worker needs to be able to come into contact with patients, help them, and not get sick themselves, and not pass the illness onto others.
Furthermore, health workers are already required to get many vaccines. They knew that going into the job; when I worked at a hospital, we had to hand over medical records proving we'd been vaccinated (even though I didn't work with patients, if there is a public health emergency, they pull employees from other areas as needed. Even if it only to help push stretchers and take out the trash.) If you want the right to refuse a vaccine, DON'T WORK IN HEATHCARE.
This is, just as the top poster says, anti-vaccine hysteria from people who think their gut beats experts, research, fact. We're the only developed country that has this problem...the rest of the world, hell, even the Catholic church has accepted Evolution, yet nutjobs came out of the woodwork and demanded it's false and constantly challenge its teaching. Then we had the anti-global-warming nutjobs. Now it's anti-vaccine nutjobs.
What's next? Square Earth? We're the pivoting point of the universe? Why is it that it feels like only America has all the idiots who deny the obvious, proven, fact?
No - the RC is usually nearly identical to the actual release. Only if there is something totally disastrous (eats your data, leaves dirty socks in the hall, sleeps with your girlfriend/boyfriend/cat/dog) would the final release be delayed.
You joke, but almost every Ubuntu release I can think of has shipped with major problems that never get fixed. Once it "shipped", despite few reasons to do so (this isn't a commercial software release), major bugs sit ignored. For example, one release had numerous bugs like dimming the screen due to inactivity, and never un-dimming it. It was never fixed. In general, the Ubuntu release model is astoundingly ignorant, assuming that because they release every 6 months, there's no need to fix functionality problems in releases. This is especially problematic given the lack of QA and focus on Shiny(TM). The latest release is all focused on "Cloud Computing" buzzword compliance, not stability or reliability.
Don't get me started about the issues with the Intel GMA drivers. "8.04LTS" worked fine on a number of systems, and 9.x caused never-ending forum postings from users wondering why the hell they couldn't get X going. The KVM stuff has also been incredibly half-baked. I'm pretty sure there's still no way to use virtual-builder to deploy a VM on an logical volume. It'll build the machine, but fuck up the kernel/bootloader install, and the end result is a machine that won't boot. I've got a machine sitting here that crashes Xorg after a few minutes; the mouse goes dead, and we've tried 6 different mice.
Lastly, Canonical has been getting uncomfortably cozy with tying in pay-for services into the OS, either theirs or 3rd parties. I was shocked when I logged into a 9.x machine and got a welcome message that pushed their statistical monitoring "service". Now I see all sorts of Cloud Computing crap. It's becoming increasingly clear that Canonical isn't in this for the good of the world, but lining their pockets via what is essentially bundling agreements. You know how we need wipe Dell and HP systems of all the shit they "bundle"? Well, look who's coming to dinner: third-rate "partners"...
Someone ranted to me about how great Thunderbird was, so I downloaded it and gave it a shot.
Worked great, right up until I wanted to write an email to someone and cc'd to three other people. Someone needs to be drug out into the street and shot for the user interface around composing/viewing/editing to/cc/bcc headers. *Points to Apple Mail as an example*.
For example, creating an email to one person and with three people cc'd means an endless amount of fucking around with the mouse creating new "fields" and setting them to "cc".
For example, it's impossible to open a message, select the recipients, and create a new message and paste them in.
Nevermind that options and settings are so absurdly scattered across menus and dialog boxes it's not even funny. Firefox 2 called, it wants its horrible, gaudy, 1990-esque UI back.
requires throwing ethics and morality out the window and blindly carrying out instructions, even if what you are being asked to do seems horribly wrong.
That's a nice straw-man; we're talking about medical professionalism in the context of patient care, not building bioweapons, rootkits, or anything else you cited. And yes, except in cases where the patient is unable to make decisions in an informed capacity and they do not have a pre-existing decision/order, their wishes are more important than whether something 'seems horribly wrong' to you. See: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Patient_Self-Determination_Act. And yes, if an 18 year old woman shows up at your pharmacy asking for a morning-after pill, it's not your right to lecture her about YOUR morals and religious beliefs. She's got her own.
How fucking funny that someone who just argued for the right for a healthcare worker to make decisions that affect the health of others, can't recognize the right for a patient to make decisions that only affect themselves.
Well I do find it interesting that all over the news there are many health care workers who don't care to get the shot.
You may find it interesting that there are pharmacists, doctors, and nurses who feel it is their right to decide whether a patient even has the option of a morning-after pill or abortion. Now how do you feel about whether someone who chose to work in the medical field is permitted to inject their own dogma into your medical treatment?
Medical "professionals" and workers are expected to follow medical science, not superstition or personal beliefs and morals- and look out for the interests of their patient, not themselves or their own dogma. They knew that going in the door. Among other things, the first thing you are expected to do as an employee of a hospital is get all your vaccinations up to date.
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(Brute-forcing keys is fairly foolish with modern encryption systems, but brute-forcing passwords isn't.)
Only if the person who created the password used lowercase letters, and kept it under 7-8 characters. Around 8 characters, things get expensive VERY fast.
Example: 6 mixed case, numbers, plus punctuation marks (only those on number keys): 140BN combinations, which would take 9.6 hours.
Not very good, right? Well, make it 8 characters, and they're looking at roughly 722 TRILLION combinations, or about 5.7 YEARS (provided I didn't make any power-of-ten mistakes.)
Mazerov also finds it disingenuous for Amazon to argue that it should not have to help support public services in states in which it has no physical presence when the company fails to support public services in most of the states in which it does have a physical presence.
Yep. Corporations relentlessly lobby town, county, and state officials to get tax breaks, "loans", grants, and more...all in the promise of "jobs", which is the staple of how politicians get elected.
At least give a look-see to the website for the book The GReat American Jobs Scam. The author cites case after case where companies get tax benefits, loans, grants, special public utility/infrastructure projects, you name it...and companies stick around until the well runs dry or the find a better deal elsewhere, playing governments off each other endlessly.
Meanwhile, the math behind the "number of jobs" created/saved/etc is pretty dubious, and the author points out that most of them are temporary, contract, or otherwise low-income jobs. What's hilarious is when politicians claim they're helping the tax base- right after giving said company a giant tax break they'll never repay, because the company will jet as soon as the break is over!
. If there's evidence from Facebook indicating that he updated his status, then the prosecution would need to show that the guy was using a proxy/tunnel/whatever, or that he had someone else post for him, etc.
You have a fundamental misunderstanding of how evidence works. Even if it's evidence in your favor, it has to still be valid.
This case is ridiculous; the prosecutor should be fired for gross incompetence. All the prosecution would have to do is ask "could a login from his computer only be done by him?" and the answer would be "no, anyone with his password."
Well, it's my life to risk and my informed decision to make.
Which part of "informed" do you not understand?
3)They don't give a damn. They're PhDs at Google. Why does anyone else matter?
Perhaps they should make winches that aren't strong enough to capsize a boat. Just a thought.
WOW, I'm sure decades of fishermen haven't considered that. Thank god we have Slashdot.
"What capsizes a boat" is probably very complicated- how loaded is it with fish? How high are the seas? How much water and fuel does it have on board? How much angular momentum does the boat have? How much water resistance does the hull give?
It's probably possible or even normal to haul up a load that, if you kept it hanging out on the crane, would slowly cause the ship to heel over too far, but if brought aboard relatively quickly, wouldn't...
A GPS typically calculates velocity from Doppler shift of the D-band signal.
Uh, no; I see you like to quote that one site that quotes a specific manufacturer's owner manual from circa-1996.
GPS units calculate position fixes at rates of 1-10Hz (anything more than 1Hz is uncommon in the mass retail market) and then apply point-to-point distance-vs-time calculations.
Doppler shift is used by all units to correct the frequencies due to movement of the GPS satellites in orbit; the velocities involved are almost in the range of 1KM/sec. Advanced units called RTK, or Real Time Kinematics, use phase information to get sub-meter (almost sub-inch) position information. They're for survey-level accuracy units, and they start in the 4-figure range.
Can somebody please develop a CMS for people without Asperger's ?!
It's for consultants, not people with Asperger's. Everything requires coding and customization and is awkward. It's a consultant's wet dream.
...who works with it every day. Then, it's brilliant.
I spent 4 hours banging my head against a wall trying to do two things: 1)get a calendar of events up (in any way, shape, or form) and 2)put some boxes on the front page of a site, one for each major category of the blog. So, to transpose the example to slashdot: a box containing just "idle" story headlines.
The calendar bit, I gave up on because it involved creating all sorts of custom data types and forms and views and...jesus christ, why couldn't they just make an "events" module...
The box-with-a-category, I also gave up on. Apparently, the "solution" is to dig into PHP in your theme (why themes are chock full of code is beyond me) and edit the files. Well, except that then when a new version of the theme comes out, you have to port your changes forward. So instead, you make a copy of the file, install it into a duplicate of the theme's folder structure, tell Drupal your theme is a subtheme of another existing theme, and Drupal makes Magic Happen.
Sort of. The subtheme doesn't inherit critical stuff in the original theme, like the stuff that defines where content boxes can go on the page (ie, the most basic part of the theme: the layout!) so when you load the new theme, all your content completely disappears. Unfuckingbelievable.
In the end I threw up my hands in disgust. I could see the possibilities for a community site (which is what I needed and wanted in the long run), but getting there would have been an endless amount of time learning Drupal internals. Why the fuck should I have to learn internals to put an event calendar on my blog's sidebar?
Oh, and everyone makes out that modules are the second coming of Christ, especially this book, apparently. Well, as we discovered at work trying to implement a drupal site that sometimes when you enable a module, it runs all over your database, permanently screwing the pooch and requiring a complete restore from backup...a problem exacerbated by the lack of (apparently) refined APIs. What does that mean? Well, it means the modules and Drupal very often end up having very specific version requirements...
Genetically slutty women had more children than genetically prude women. Therefore, women are now genetically easier to get with than they used to be. Discuss.
# of children these days has to do with social and educational level; uneducated women end up at home having babies. Also, attractive women tend to form long term relationships or get into a career, and don't end up having loads of kids.
Also, "slutty women" tend to get STDs and have their reproductive systems damaged in the process, or suffer from other health problems...and in general be avoided by all but really desperate guys.
And they actually use that stuff to grow food. I mean it's the feces of animals, and they're dumping it on our food to make it grow. But somehow the food is okay and safe to eat. http://www.google.com/search?&q=Salmonella+Contamination
Spinach, romaine lettuce, pistachios, peanuts, tomatoes, onion sprouts, cantaloupes, alfalfa sprouts, and that's when I stopped looking around page 2-3.
Funny definition of "okay and safe to eat."
...when you can get P3 class machines or better for free that will be an order of magnitude faster. For anything under $100, the principle concern should be power usage, since if left on 24x7, that will be far more expensive than purchasing the system itself.
Hear that? That's the sound of a joke, going right over your head.
He could take a picture of the board and then duplicate it onto paper. News, on pieces of paper! That way they can take the news with them to read it at home, on the train...they can share it with their family and friends. Avoid the crowds of people standing around all trying to read the same board.
Some people might like to receive the news on pieces of paper at their home for convenience's sake. He could offer a pricing model whereby they commit to a certain number of months- and it could be called a subscription.
Of course, eventually, someone will point out that he could communicate the news faster and cheaper to his subscribers if he did it electronically. He'll probably have to wait until the technology matures, though.
To anyone who doesn't know, the two major political parties in Australia are the Labor party (left-center) and the ironically named Liberal party (right conservative)
Fun fact:
"Conservatives" in the US have pushed hard for things like religion in the state, stripping of constitutional protections and freedoms in the name of fighting "terrorism", pushing to ban gay marriage, aggressive preemptive foreign policy, and an wild extension of the executive branch's power.
If you look at it from a Constitutional perspective, it's an extremely liberal agenda. That's why I call myself a constitutional conservative: I believe everyone has equal rights, those rights cannot be waived for the convenience of protection, and that the three branches must retain equal power to balance and check each other. Just like the piece of paper says.
The greatest trick they've pulled off is getting the entire US population to believe that their agenda is somehow "conservative", and that those standing up to maintain the principles of the constitution are "liberal."
there are critics of the teaching of evolution worldwide
So where are YOUR facts? Because as far as I know, the anti-evolution "movement" exists almost exclusively in the US. Everywhere else, evolution is held as proven, established fact. For fuck's sake, even the Catholic church supports it. We are viewed as a bunch of backwater, ignorant, stupid hicks.
Why not start a donation fund for these?
Because Canonical is not a charity, non-profit, etc? It's a for-profit company, making money. This was a profit move.
To anyone who has been paying attention to the increased commercial activity from Canonical and commercial bundling (first Landscape, which advertises itself via your shell logins...now all the "cloud" BS in the current beta, like the storage plan), this shouldn't be a surprise.
I was watching an interesting doco a while ago where the captain of a prawn trawler was almost in tears as they had had two weeks of terrible prawn hauls so the crew were near mutiny (pay is directly related to how much the boat takes on) but were dragging in tonnes and tonnes of prime fish and under EU law had to throw it all back mostly dead, each time every time as to take it back to port risked him losing his boat.
Welcome to capitalism. The incompetent go out of business.
The same people who say that women must have free access to abortion, because they have the right to say what they do with their bodies, are now saying that NYS health care workers don't have the right to say what they do with their bodies with regards to a vaccine?
When a woman gets an abortion, only she and the fetus are affected.
When a health worker, WHO WORKES A JOB WHERE THEY WILL COME IN CONTACT WITH INFECTED PEOPLE, refuses to get a shot to prevent the spread of an infection...that affects their own health and potentially tens of thousands of people. That worker needs to be able to come into contact with patients, help them, and not get sick themselves, and not pass the illness onto others.
Furthermore, health workers are already required to get many vaccines. They knew that going into the job; when I worked at a hospital, we had to hand over medical records proving we'd been vaccinated (even though I didn't work with patients, if there is a public health emergency, they pull employees from other areas as needed. Even if it only to help push stretchers and take out the trash.) If you want the right to refuse a vaccine, DON'T WORK IN HEATHCARE.
This is, just as the top poster says, anti-vaccine hysteria from people who think their gut beats experts, research, fact. We're the only developed country that has this problem...the rest of the world, hell, even the Catholic church has accepted Evolution, yet nutjobs came out of the woodwork and demanded it's false and constantly challenge its teaching. Then we had the anti-global-warming nutjobs. Now it's anti-vaccine nutjobs.
What's next? Square Earth? We're the pivoting point of the universe? Why is it that it feels like only America has all the idiots who deny the obvious, proven, fact?
No - the RC is usually nearly identical to the actual release. Only if there is something totally disastrous (eats your data, leaves dirty socks in the hall, sleeps with your girlfriend/boyfriend/cat/dog) would the final release be delayed.
You joke, but almost every Ubuntu release I can think of has shipped with major problems that never get fixed. Once it "shipped", despite few reasons to do so (this isn't a commercial software release), major bugs sit ignored. For example, one release had numerous bugs like dimming the screen due to inactivity, and never un-dimming it. It was never fixed. In general, the Ubuntu release model is astoundingly ignorant, assuming that because they release every 6 months, there's no need to fix functionality problems in releases. This is especially problematic given the lack of QA and focus on Shiny(TM). The latest release is all focused on "Cloud Computing" buzzword compliance, not stability or reliability.
Don't get me started about the issues with the Intel GMA drivers. "8.04LTS" worked fine on a number of systems, and 9.x caused never-ending forum postings from users wondering why the hell they couldn't get X going. The KVM stuff has also been incredibly half-baked. I'm pretty sure there's still no way to use virtual-builder to deploy a VM on an logical volume. It'll build the machine, but fuck up the kernel/bootloader install, and the end result is a machine that won't boot. I've got a machine sitting here that crashes Xorg after a few minutes; the mouse goes dead, and we've tried 6 different mice.
Lastly, Canonical has been getting uncomfortably cozy with tying in pay-for services into the OS, either theirs or 3rd parties. I was shocked when I logged into a 9.x machine and got a welcome message that pushed their statistical monitoring "service". Now I see all sorts of Cloud Computing crap. It's becoming increasingly clear that Canonical isn't in this for the good of the world, but lining their pockets via what is essentially bundling agreements. You know how we need wipe Dell and HP systems of all the shit they "bundle"? Well, look who's coming to dinner: third-rate "partners"...
Someone ranted to me about how great Thunderbird was, so I downloaded it and gave it a shot.
Worked great, right up until I wanted to write an email to someone and cc'd to three other people. Someone needs to be drug out into the street and shot for the user interface around composing/viewing/editing to/cc/bcc headers. *Points to Apple Mail as an example*.
For example, creating an email to one person and with three people cc'd means an endless amount of fucking around with the mouse creating new "fields" and setting them to "cc".
For example, it's impossible to open a message, select the recipients, and create a new message and paste them in.
Nevermind that options and settings are so absurdly scattered across menus and dialog boxes it's not even funny. Firefox 2 called, it wants its horrible, gaudy, 1990-esque UI back.
requires throwing ethics and morality out the window and blindly carrying out instructions, even if what you are being asked to do seems horribly wrong.
That's a nice straw-man; we're talking about medical professionalism in the context of patient care, not building bioweapons, rootkits, or anything else you cited. And yes, except in cases where the patient is unable to make decisions in an informed capacity and they do not have a pre-existing decision/order, their wishes are more important than whether something 'seems horribly wrong' to you. See: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Patient_Self-Determination_Act. And yes, if an 18 year old woman shows up at your pharmacy asking for a morning-after pill, it's not your right to lecture her about YOUR morals and religious beliefs. She's got her own.
How fucking funny that someone who just argued for the right for a healthcare worker to make decisions that affect the health of others, can't recognize the right for a patient to make decisions that only affect themselves.
Well I do find it interesting that all over the news there are many health care workers who don't care to get the shot.
You may find it interesting that there are pharmacists, doctors, and nurses who feel it is their right to decide whether a patient even has the option of a morning-after pill or abortion. Now how do you feel about whether someone who chose to work in the medical field is permitted to inject their own dogma into your medical treatment?
Medical "professionals" and workers are expected to follow medical science, not superstition or personal beliefs and morals- and look out for the interests of their patient, not themselves or their own dogma. They knew that going in the door. Among other things, the first thing you are expected to do as an employee of a hospital is get all your vaccinations up to date.
tuition prices are so high because kids keep getting approved for loans.
No, they're high because so many kids are trying to get into schools. Supply and demand.
Student loans are enabling/helping it, but it isn't the root cause.