It was 'down' for more like 16 hours, depending where you live. Just rolling back the date made everything work fine. It had the appearance of simply being something like an expired certificate. No biggie, but inconvenient if you happened to want a new app this weekend.
"Internal investigations" brought on in preparation for a government audit that was happening to them in Europe.
This isn't something Google just decided to do all by themselves. They knew they had to find it themselves quick or the government would and would slam them hard for it. So it was really govt. intervention. Google is just as crappy as other companies. They aren't saints.
So if you were going to set up a wireless rig to map open wireless locations, exactly how would you 'slip' to start also mapping what traffic was passing through them?
That takes a good bit more work than simply noting the SSID. Accident my ass.
It's not worthy of a 1.0.
The setup SUCKS. Seriously. It's a PITA to get it going. Until they have a decent installer/install-process at a minimum, this thing shouldn't be 1.0 to warn folks that 'This is not ready for general use by anyone approaching normal folks, and even geeks may get angered by the crappy install process'.
It's not a key question at all. Adobe has demo'd the Pre running a flash beta. Adobe just isn't ready to release their new version for the mobile market yet. Whenever Adobe gets done with their slow, ever-delayed production cycle, the new version of Flash will be on WebOS as well as Android and MaeMo/Meego/whatever-the-heck-else-it's-called-these-days.
If it's real Cisco gear, I can go to Cisco for support and warranty issues.
If it's a fake, I'm left holding the bag.
Clones sold as clones are fine.
Clones sold as the real thing are a liability to me.
I also had the choice to buying the game cheaper elsewhere, with profits going to the developers. My decision was instead to buy through Steam. I like the Steam distribution model. I trust the Valve folks to Vet stuff more than some indie site, and Valve has a reputation of being decent with developers that want to use their distribution system.
If you are weeding out users who have already bought the game earlier (and paid more when it was offered for more), and folks who prefer other distribution models, don't have explicit trust in an unvetted developer/distributor, etc, then there are many variables you aren't accounting for in this 'experiment'.
Then of course when you consider that Linux folks also have less games available to them (A LOT less unless you want to mess with WINE and I've tried and given that up, far to much grief for many things for my taste) then that makes the lower number of games that run well under Linux more valuable to them than to a Windows user. Another confound for this 'experiment'
Sorry, I'm a scientist, and this has too many uncontrolled variables you can't just get some easy take-home message like 'windows users don't want to pay/donate as much as Linux folks' unless you don't really care about that being the truth of the matter.
You kind of missed the entire point about there being many means of contributing besides that one specific indie distributor. One VERY popular one is steam which is windows only. So stats provided only from that indie distributor don't reflect total contributions by a long shot.
Do you really think I'm the only windows user who purchased it through Steam? Really? Seriously?
Considering total income, rather than what was generated by that one indie distributor was my point. You missed the point by a mile Mr. Coward.
I bought world of Goo through Steam for my windows machine and paid more than the average Linux user contributes more for the whole indie bundle. When folks 'contribute' through different sources, these number don't mean much.
No. The bosses of sysadmin's aren't always computer folks, they are often biz-admin types and don't have a clue what needs to be done. If those basic policies aren't in place, it's his job to try to get them put in place. If he had wanted to set that up that policy and his boss had blocked it, THEN it would be his boss's fault. Since he's not claiming that as a defense, the blame falls squarely on his shoulders.
Sorry, No.
It's the job of any competent admin to make sure necessary passwords are safely stored in a location where they are available to others they will be needed by in the case he is hit by a bus. It's not above his pay grade. It's a minimum common sense necessity obvious to anyone who should be allowed to run production systems and call themselves a sysadmin.
The problem is, you want someone who is paranoid AND smart.
The guy was incompetent. If you are in charge of vital machines passwords, you make sure the passwords are written down and stored in a secure location (like a bank safety deposit box, etc) and available to an authorized person in case you are hit by a bus, etc. This wasn't done. If it had been done properly, he wouldn't be facing any jail time or even charges.
Triangulating the position of a fixed broadcast point by a moving receiver (the Google van) is pretty trivial. My guess is there are some smart guys at Google that could make a way to do it in about 5 minutes if they want the data, which they appear to want.
There is no virtualbox that runs on top of linux. You are thinking of Android. WebOS was designed just that way, as WEB OS. The only apps originally ran in the browser. They were HTML and javascript. That's it. Since then, they have released native APIs. Once again, no virtualization.
Cigarette smoke contains a huge range of nasty chemicals. Those chemicals aren't blocked from the rest of your body your lungs. They seep in through your lungs. Although the chemicals are most likely to cause lung cancer because that tissue is heavily exposed, the carcinogens are quite free to do damage to other tissues in your body.
"Smoking doubles the risk of pancreatic cancer. Smoking is also associated with early age at diagnosis, and, very importantly, the risk of pancreatic cancer drops close to normal in people who quit smoking. Simply put, cigarette smoking is the leading preventable cause of pancreatic cancer. In fact, some scientists have estimated that one in four, or one in five cases of pancreatic cancer are caused by smoking cigarettes."
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I do a lot of molecular biology. I've never thought of it as like the humanities at all. It's always seemed a lot more like computer programming to me.
Yep. I consider them the digital equivalent of selling bottled water. You know, that stuff that is generally the same stuff that comes out of municipal faucets for pennies.
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It was 'down' for more like 16 hours, depending where you live. Just rolling back the date made everything work fine. It had the appearance of simply being something like an expired certificate. No biggie, but inconvenient if you happened to want a new app this weekend.
"Internal investigations" brought on in preparation for a government audit that was happening to them in Europe. This isn't something Google just decided to do all by themselves. They knew they had to find it themselves quick or the government would and would slam them hard for it. So it was really govt. intervention. Google is just as crappy as other companies. They aren't saints.
So if you were going to set up a wireless rig to map open wireless locations, exactly how would you 'slip' to start also mapping what traffic was passing through them? That takes a good bit more work than simply noting the SSID. Accident my ass.
They want lots of privacy for things THEY do. Just none for things WE do.
It's not worthy of a 1.0. The setup SUCKS. Seriously. It's a PITA to get it going. Until they have a decent installer/install-process at a minimum, this thing shouldn't be 1.0 to warn folks that 'This is not ready for general use by anyone approaching normal folks, and even geeks may get angered by the crappy install process'.
It's not a key question at all. Adobe has demo'd the Pre running a flash beta. Adobe just isn't ready to release their new version for the mobile market yet. Whenever Adobe gets done with their slow, ever-delayed production cycle, the new version of Flash will be on WebOS as well as Android and MaeMo/Meego/whatever-the-heck-else-it's-called-these-days.
If it's real Cisco gear, I can go to Cisco for support and warranty issues. If it's a fake, I'm left holding the bag. Clones sold as clones are fine. Clones sold as the real thing are a liability to me.
No, I don't think I am.
I also had the choice to buying the game cheaper elsewhere, with profits going to the developers. My decision was instead to buy through Steam. I like the Steam distribution model. I trust the Valve folks to Vet stuff more than some indie site, and Valve has a reputation of being decent with developers that want to use their distribution system.
If you are weeding out users who have already bought the game earlier (and paid more when it was offered for more), and folks who prefer other distribution models, don't have explicit trust in an unvetted developer/distributor, etc, then there are many variables you aren't accounting for in this 'experiment'.
Then of course when you consider that Linux folks also have less games available to them (A LOT less unless you want to mess with WINE and I've tried and given that up, far to much grief for many things for my taste) then that makes the lower number of games that run well under Linux more valuable to them than to a Windows user. Another confound for this 'experiment' Sorry, I'm a scientist, and this has too many uncontrolled variables you can't just get some easy take-home message like 'windows users don't want to pay/donate as much as Linux folks' unless you don't really care about that being the truth of the matter.
You kind of missed the entire point about there being many means of contributing besides that one specific indie distributor. One VERY popular one is steam which is windows only. So stats provided only from that indie distributor don't reflect total contributions by a long shot. Do you really think I'm the only windows user who purchased it through Steam? Really? Seriously? Considering total income, rather than what was generated by that one indie distributor was my point. You missed the point by a mile Mr. Coward.
I bought world of Goo through Steam for my windows machine and paid more than the average Linux user contributes more for the whole indie bundle. When folks 'contribute' through different sources, these number don't mean much.
Not the widest in the world by a long shot. http://www.digalist.com/list/158
I've had an IP-TV100 for a few years now. I haven't rebooted it in about a year...
Once upon a time, pet rocks sold hugely. More sales does not equate to a more useful product.
No. The bosses of sysadmin's aren't always computer folks, they are often biz-admin types and don't have a clue what needs to be done. If those basic policies aren't in place, it's his job to try to get them put in place. If he had wanted to set that up that policy and his boss had blocked it, THEN it would be his boss's fault. Since he's not claiming that as a defense, the blame falls squarely on his shoulders.
Sorry, No. It's the job of any competent admin to make sure necessary passwords are safely stored in a location where they are available to others they will be needed by in the case he is hit by a bus. It's not above his pay grade. It's a minimum common sense necessity obvious to anyone who should be allowed to run production systems and call themselves a sysadmin.
The problem is, you want someone who is paranoid AND smart. The guy was incompetent. If you are in charge of vital machines passwords, you make sure the passwords are written down and stored in a secure location (like a bank safety deposit box, etc) and available to an authorized person in case you are hit by a bus, etc. This wasn't done. If it had been done properly, he wouldn't be facing any jail time or even charges.
Triangulating the position of a fixed broadcast point by a moving receiver (the Google van) is pretty trivial. My guess is there are some smart guys at Google that could make a way to do it in about 5 minutes if they want the data, which they appear to want.
No, YOU are pretending he said something else. He was quoted as saying what he actually said. Not the way YOU wish to interpret it.
There is no virtualbox that runs on top of linux. You are thinking of Android. WebOS was designed just that way, as WEB OS. The only apps originally ran in the browser. They were HTML and javascript. That's it. Since then, they have released native APIs. Once again, no virtualization.
As an American with an average work health plan, I think it's funny that you think $100/month per family is a lot.
Hey, give him a break. I'm sure he had to pay Commander Taco a lot of money to make it to the front page.
Pancreatic cancer can indeed be smoking-related.
Cigarette smoke contains a huge range of nasty chemicals. Those chemicals aren't blocked from the rest of your body your lungs. They seep in through your lungs. Although the chemicals are most likely to cause lung cancer because that tissue is heavily exposed, the carcinogens are quite free to do damage to other tissues in your body.
http://pathology.jhu.edu/pancreas/BasicCauses.php?area=ba
"Smoking doubles the risk of pancreatic cancer. Smoking is also associated with early age at diagnosis, and, very importantly, the risk of pancreatic cancer drops close to normal in people who quit smoking. Simply put, cigarette smoking is the leading preventable cause of pancreatic cancer. In fact, some scientists have estimated that one in four, or one in five cases of pancreatic cancer are caused by smoking cigarettes."
See : http://quitsmoking.about.com/od/tobaccostatistics/a/cancerstats.htm for details about other types of cancer you are at increased risk of from smoking.
I do a lot of molecular biology. I've never thought of it as like the humanities at all. It's always seemed a lot more like computer programming to me.
Yep. I consider them the digital equivalent of selling bottled water. You know, that stuff that is generally the same stuff that comes out of municipal faucets for pennies.
WWII (for the allies)