Same here. I used to vote R about half the time, till Reagan made his Faustian bargain with the theocrats. At first, it was just Tax Cuts and Old Testament exclusively, now it has morphed into a true insane asylum. Best of luck in trying to rein that in, though.
Exactly my first thought! Insecure "IoT" devices NEED to be disabled from accessing the internet and fucking it up for the rest of us. Besides, how can we watch our ads?!?
You are crazy, or you know absolutely nothing about how code is integrated into the Linux kernel and other software stacks. Seriously, has the whole fucking country become nothing but an asylum of conspiracy-nutcases? Crikey!!
See, when government agencies get hacked it's "well, government can't do ANYTHING right! See?" and when it's a private company, the response is "oh, yeah. Happens all the time. They really need to tighten up security...".
When I was working for Intel, I went to Israel for training on a new VoIP product developed by a research lab there. On leaving, Israeli customs dude opened one of my training manuals, pointed to a block diagram and asked me to explain what it was. Now, I knew right away that he was completely ignorant of the stuff, but was looking to see if I would do the "hamina-hamina-hamina" thing. Also, they asked a lot of circular questions: what hotel did you stay at? what did you have for dinner on your first night? etc. Very thorough, I must say...
Just a thought, but perhaps a small, left-leaning country could launch a trial program, using randomized participants, and then we perform a longitudinal study on those recipients for a period of, say, 3-5 years to measure its efficacy and cost-effectiveness. Oh, wait...
Sadly, a typical reaction today... Fire/LockUp/Execute Everyone Even Remotely Connected to Scandal-De-Jure...FFS, most of these same commenters also want to "shrink government", "cut taxes", etc. NONE of which is going to: improve training and testing; expand, fund and enforce standards across municipalities; enhance LEO capabilities to track and prosecute attackers. But - Hey! - we get to sound awful tough!!
I used to work at Dialogic, which was then bought by Intel. In all my time there, new prospects/customers would invariably say: "This is really hard to configure (we had line resource cards, DSP resource cards, and various ways to map these resources together.) don't you guys have a card configuration utility?" Well, for Windows, yes. For Linux, no. "Too hard and no demand" says Engineering. So, taking the bull by the horns, I found the PCI ID codes for the various cards, wrote a utility to configure them, got approval from my manager to release it as open-source and all was well.
Until...The head of Engineering at our division found out about it and lodged a formal internal complaint that I had "released Intel proprietary information" and was summoned to Parsippany to face legal. Fortunately, my manager's support and basic common sense prevailed, the Eng manager was sent packing with his tail between his legs and I flew home drunk as a skunk. The legal guy basically said: "when you expose a PCI ID to the OS, it's no longer proprietary - dumbass!".
Point is that when information is documented and exposed in any way, it is not "proprietary" in the sense that it cannot be used, just not stolen and used inappropriately.
If Apple is making regular royalty payments to Qualcomm. If so, how does this statement from Apple that QC is "withholding nearly $1 billion in payments from Apple as retaliation for..." make any sense? Is QC refusing to cash the check? Asking for bigger payments? Genuinely confused.
Ta-da! While everyone wants to get rid of the EPA, etc., how about we get rid of the DEA and rein in some of the excessive bullshit in the legal (not regulatory only) system.
Hhhmmm, let's see: Over the last 10 years, IBM has spent more on share buybacks than R&D. I wish I had more faith in their long-term prospects, but this knid of malarkey does not bode well.
Yeah, cause YOU had a shitty cruise (WTF did you expect on a floating, albeit guilded, prison anyway?) then the IT workers (who had fuck-all to do with your cruise quality) should just eat shit and die. Can't wait for a PO'ed customer of YOUR employer to post here....
So, if Cap walks away, their jobs stay. If Cap gets PAID MORE to "deal with it", then the workers get PAID MORE for getting fucked over. Wassa problem again?
...is what slows my connection speed down. Fuck, I could have a gigabit connection and would spend 80% of my time waiting for the next version of ad.doubleclick.net, etc. Really? Bufferbloat? I wish!
Agreed, but - to expand...See my post above: if they COLLECTIVELY negotiate, they are in a much better position than trying to negotiate individually. Would you agree?
How so? I don't mean "unionize" in the traditional sense, but just group together and "just say no". Follow that with: "If you think that CG can actually do this work without our knowledge, then go ahead. If not, and you want this to succeed, here's our counter-offer." It doesn't have to be $500K, etc., but - hey! - this is basic negotiation which they understand very well. They're not used to it in this context, but they can count - trust me.
CapGemini would be in a world of shit. Think about it...They were/are banking on a majority of the existing IT workers to do "knowledge transfer" in order to be successful in fulfilling their contract. If the existing IT workers COLLECTIVELY said NO, there is no way that CG could assume the contract and not get sued for utter failure. No KT, no success. Together, we can win - separately, we are at their mercy (of which they demonstrably have none).
And yet....they/you (Christians) always quote Leviticus when it comes to homosexuality. If what you say is true, expunge the Old Testament. You just cannot have it both ways and remain intellectually and morally consistent.
Thanks! I was going to post a similar thought, but you beat me to it.
Lesson: NEVER have content that you give a bubbly-fart about live on a "Cloud" environment without someway to immediately and transparently re-direct to your own, private server.
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Any study that does not have Windstream at the top of the list is suspect to me.
Same here. I used to vote R about half the time, till Reagan made his Faustian bargain with the theocrats. At first, it was just Tax Cuts and Old Testament exclusively, now it has morphed into a true insane asylum. Best of luck in trying to rein that in, though.
Exactly my first thought! Insecure "IoT" devices NEED to be disabled from accessing the internet and fucking it up for the rest of us. Besides, how can we watch our ads?!?
...you can still view them online for free. Granted, it's through LexisNexis, but it's free and searchable, so what's the big deal?
You are crazy, or you know absolutely nothing about how code is integrated into the Linux kernel and other software stacks. Seriously, has the whole fucking country become nothing but an asylum of conspiracy-nutcases? Crikey!!
Hail Satan!
See, when government agencies get hacked it's "well, government can't do ANYTHING right! See?" and when it's a private company, the response is "oh, yeah. Happens all the time. They really need to tighten up security...".
When I was working for Intel, I went to Israel for training on a new VoIP product developed by a research lab there. On leaving, Israeli customs dude opened one of my training manuals, pointed to a block diagram and asked me to explain what it was. Now, I knew right away that he was completely ignorant of the stuff, but was looking to see if I would do the "hamina-hamina-hamina" thing. Also, they asked a lot of circular questions: what hotel did you stay at? what did you have for dinner on your first night? etc. Very thorough, I must say...
Just a thought, but perhaps a small, left-leaning country could launch a trial program, using randomized participants, and then we perform a longitudinal study on those recipients for a period of, say, 3-5 years to measure its efficacy and cost-effectiveness. Oh, wait...
Sadly, a typical reaction today... Fire/LockUp/Execute Everyone Even Remotely Connected to Scandal-De-Jure...FFS, most of these same commenters also want to "shrink government", "cut taxes", etc. NONE of which is going to: improve training and testing; expand, fund and enforce standards across municipalities; enhance LEO capabilities to track and prosecute attackers. But - Hey! - we get to sound awful tough!!
I used to work at Dialogic, which was then bought by Intel. In all my time there, new prospects/customers would invariably say: "This is really hard to configure (we had line resource cards, DSP resource cards, and various ways to map these resources together.) don't you guys have a card configuration utility?" Well, for Windows, yes. For Linux, no. "Too hard and no demand" says Engineering. So, taking the bull by the horns, I found the PCI ID codes for the various cards, wrote a utility to configure them, got approval from my manager to release it as open-source and all was well. Until...The head of Engineering at our division found out about it and lodged a formal internal complaint that I had "released Intel proprietary information" and was summoned to Parsippany to face legal. Fortunately, my manager's support and basic common sense prevailed, the Eng manager was sent packing with his tail between his legs and I flew home drunk as a skunk. The legal guy basically said: "when you expose a PCI ID to the OS, it's no longer proprietary - dumbass!". Point is that when information is documented and exposed in any way, it is not "proprietary" in the sense that it cannot be used, just not stolen and used inappropriately.
If Apple is making regular royalty payments to Qualcomm. If so, how does this statement from Apple that QC is "withholding nearly $1 billion in payments from Apple as retaliation for..." make any sense? Is QC refusing to cash the check? Asking for bigger payments? Genuinely confused.
Did Ctrl-C break between Ubuntu releases? No? Then WTF is your point?
Ta-da! While everyone wants to get rid of the EPA, etc., how about we get rid of the DEA and rein in some of the excessive bullshit in the legal (not regulatory only) system.
Well, not counting the people who died while "capitalism" reconciled itself with basic human morality...I guess?
Hhhmmm, let's see: Over the last 10 years, IBM has spent more on share buybacks than R&D. I wish I had more faith in their long-term prospects, but this knid of malarkey does not bode well.
Yeah, cause YOU had a shitty cruise (WTF did you expect on a floating, albeit guilded, prison anyway?) then the IT workers (who had fuck-all to do with your cruise quality) should just eat shit and die. Can't wait for a PO'ed customer of YOUR employer to post here....
So, if Cap walks away, their jobs stay. If Cap gets PAID MORE to "deal with it", then the workers get PAID MORE for getting fucked over. Wassa problem again?
...is what slows my connection speed down. Fuck, I could have a gigabit connection and would spend 80% of my time waiting for the next version of ad.doubleclick.net, etc. Really? Bufferbloat? I wish!
Agreed, but - to expand...See my post above: if they COLLECTIVELY negotiate, they are in a much better position than trying to negotiate individually. Would you agree?
"First, they came for the Jews...."
How so? I don't mean "unionize" in the traditional sense, but just group together and "just say no". Follow that with: "If you think that CG can actually do this work without our knowledge, then go ahead. If not, and you want this to succeed, here's our counter-offer." It doesn't have to be $500K, etc., but - hey! - this is basic negotiation which they understand very well. They're not used to it in this context, but they can count - trust me.
CapGemini would be in a world of shit. Think about it...They were/are banking on a majority of the existing IT workers to do "knowledge transfer" in order to be successful in fulfilling their contract. If the existing IT workers COLLECTIVELY said NO, there is no way that CG could assume the contract and not get sued for utter failure. No KT, no success. Together, we can win - separately, we are at their mercy (of which they demonstrably have none).
And yet....they/you (Christians) always quote Leviticus when it comes to homosexuality. If what you say is true, expunge the Old Testament. You just cannot have it both ways and remain intellectually and morally consistent.
Thanks! I was going to post a similar thought, but you beat me to it. Lesson: NEVER have content that you give a bubbly-fart about live on a "Cloud" environment without someway to immediately and transparently re-direct to your own, private server.