Remember, the people they are playing against do not believe in any rules: they cheat, and will never stop; there is no reasoning with them, and every ploy is singularly meant to further their own ends. Or do we have some true believes in the crowd, who think that politicians & friends, against every shred of evidence, will not cheat given the opportunity?
Well, they did say they don't want to be involved in any sort of negotiation. The demands are basically that the US suddenly undoes over a century of case law, re-legislates the entire criminal justice system at a time when Congress can't even agree on what time it is, and they want a return to partiality and common law. It's not going to happen. It's great that they're asking for it. It's great that they're leaving the time table for it open, but they might as well just release those files, and let everyone know what juicy bits of information are in them.
On a side note, I think this feel like a different Anonymous than we've seen in awhile. I'm glad that they're focusing on the greater good again, rather than breaking into Sony and pwning consumers, simply because they can. It's hard to have respect for people that expose gramma's card number, and follow it up with defacing small business websites in middle eastern countries.
Also, I hope when they talk about Chaos this time, that they mean something other than DDOS attacks and writing na-na-na-boo-boo on government sites. They keep promising action, but have yet to deliver anything truly breathtaking. This time, I'll give them the benefit of the doubt.
It's an absolutely ignorant and contemptible argument that it's just the rich that are affected by things like this. Venture capital outfits are funded by every day people, many of whom have their retirements locked up in pension funds that are tied to vc firms. So my big question to you, or anyone that makes this argument is... why do you hate pensioners so much? Why do you hate the guy who works hard, and puts money in his 401k to get a six percent or a twelve percent return? Why do you hate America and the free market?
The other question I have that comes to mind is this: You're quick to talk about giving their "fair share." But to date, I have yet to hear anyone explain what the logic is behind the "fair share" number. In fact, I have yet to hear a "fair share" number to begin with. Was hoping you, or someone who agrees with you can let me in what exactly "paying their fair share" actually means.
Do you find as a paleontologist that you're followed around by nerd groupies? You know, those hot young girls that read scientific journals, and want to get down to your Paleozoic?
Be for long we will need a way to pay for all people in the USA not working.
Right, because making American companies even less competitive in a global marketplace is a marvelous idea. Well, at least the Liberals in Congress agree with you. Thank god they're a minority. Taxes are not the solution, they're the problem. Creating more pointless taxes will only increase the incentive to get around them. Increasing taxes has only created the situation we're in now. Reducing them is the only way to fix said situation. I don't know why people have such a hard time wrapping their heads around this problem. It's simple arithmetic.
Just based on what you seem to be saying, it sounds like there are a number of issues. These issues are probably more social than they are technical. It also sounds like the team has little incentive to do the right thing, and that you more than likely have a clueless project manager (probably, but not necessarily a woman) who refuses to understand the technical aspects of whatever it is you're doing.
If the problem is poor management, you're going to need a better project manager. Someone with a history of delivering results in situations like this. Unfortunately, great project managers are so few and far between, that I can say with some certainty that it'll take you at least a year, possibly longer to find the right one.
If you're certain the issue is not the project management, take a look at the processes, and limit who has commit rights on the main cvs/subversion/git branch. In fact, you actually want to go so far as to give the keys to the main branch to one person who will be held accountable for the quality of the overall system. This way, nobody feels left out or punished. And everybody feels bad for the guy who can be fired for your fuck up... at least, until he starts pushing back on bad code.
Require all code to go through an approval and review process by this person before it can be committed to the main branch of your source repository. If necessary, tie this person into the quality assurance apparatus that you already have in place for your product. Sell it to this person as a "promotion," and pay him a couple grand more a year to do it. It's not going to kill the company, and it should be enough for this guy to take the job seriously.
Throw the word specialist, or manager in his title, and give him the the power to send code back when it needs to be fixed. Make no mistake... feelings of empathy for his plight won't last long, and he will be hated if he's part of Q/A, unless he's exceptionally charming. But do not flinch on him being the one and only person allowed to commit to main, come hell or high water. There will be objections, and they will most likely come from your worst offenders.
I know it sounds harsh. It's just that there aren't a lot of ways to fix a situation like this one. In my experience, this method is the least invasive of the options you have available, but it can be quickly derailed by bad or inappropriate project management or team governance. Be careful, see it through, and you'll be fine.
You would think, logically, that Microsoft would have no problem releasing such information if said information were correct. Then again, it's also entirely possible that there is no study, never was, and that they're pulling the numbers out of thin air. Wouldn't be the first time they pulled something like that. But it is the first time they're being called on it.
Microsoft has been dissecting Apples strategy of being a device and os company. Or perhaps they want to be IBM, which does the same thing? A Microsoft stake in Dell might mean an end to Studiobuntu Laptops, though. And I think that would be a shame. Those things are nice.
I think the internet has too many users. We nerds need to create a new platform where we can be the superior race again. But we'll have to take some of the 4channers and slashdot newbs, so that we have someone to pick on that makes us feel better about ourselves.
1. That Debian isn't the first to do it. They're usually on top of this.
2. That it's taken this long to happen. We knew something like this would happen in the Linux community when Oracle took over MySQL. And there were some promising forking efforts that started immediately. Then, silance... for years. Now it's happening all at once, which is good.
Does anyone know if Maria is a MySQL fork? Or if it's totally new code? My cursory scan of the website hasn't revealed anything to this end.
Y2k was a boom for technology contractors such as myself. The years leading up to Y2k38 will be good too. Think of all the code that will need to be totally rewritten. I know, there is that faction of people that want to see technology undo itself, and the world end, but for those of us that live in reality... it'll be great. Honestly, I wish we had these kinds of crises more often.
That you don't need to be right, as long as you can explain whatever it is you're explaining in a technical way. I know very few judges that are going to be capable of following this kind of math, especially with some of the wild assumptions he comes up with in the paper. He's intentionally talking over their heads. He could be measuring the diameter and deceleration of a cream puff going to the moon for all they know. Well played.
The biggest problem I've had with it is getting away from my personal life, which lives at home, and generally stays there all day. If I could figure out a way to get some quiet for ten to twelve hours a day, I could manage it.
The fab isn't really the important part of the industry anymore. It's the ideas, the product design that's important. Have we not learned anything from our friends at Apple?
It's a centralized walled garden where you can't go off network, with no appeal to hackers because you had to have a license to create anything. It had no DNS, and was menu driven. If it had taken off, it would have failed too, due to limitations in the broadcast spectrum that they obviously didn't think about. That's why it didn't take off.
Nobody really cares, or pays much attention to this kind of thing. I lie about everything on my linked in profile, even my name. I figure this gives me the credibility I need to convince people I'm somebody else entirely.
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Remember, the people they are playing against do not believe in any rules: they cheat, and will never stop; there is no reasoning with them, and every ploy is singularly meant to further their own ends. Or do we have some true believes in the crowd, who think that politicians & friends, against every shred of evidence, will not cheat given the opportunity?
Well, they did say they don't want to be involved in any sort of negotiation. The demands are basically that the US suddenly undoes over a century of case law, re-legislates the entire criminal justice system at a time when Congress can't even agree on what time it is, and they want a return to partiality and common law. It's not going to happen. It's great that they're asking for it. It's great that they're leaving the time table for it open, but they might as well just release those files, and let everyone know what juicy bits of information are in them.
On a side note, I think this feel like a different Anonymous than we've seen in awhile. I'm glad that they're focusing on the greater good again, rather than breaking into Sony and pwning consumers, simply because they can. It's hard to have respect for people that expose gramma's card number, and follow it up with defacing small business websites in middle eastern countries.
Also, I hope when they talk about Chaos this time, that they mean something other than DDOS attacks and writing na-na-na-boo-boo on government sites. They keep promising action, but have yet to deliver anything truly breathtaking. This time, I'll give them the benefit of the doubt.
but instagram is still the name brand that emo kids and hipsters are too good to admit they're using.
I hear the media saying that a lot these days.
It's an absolutely ignorant and contemptible argument that it's just the rich that are affected by things like this. Venture capital outfits are funded by every day people, many of whom have their retirements locked up in pension funds that are tied to vc firms. So my big question to you, or anyone that makes this argument is... why do you hate pensioners so much? Why do you hate the guy who works hard, and puts money in his 401k to get a six percent or a twelve percent return? Why do you hate America and the free market?
The other question I have that comes to mind is this: You're quick to talk about giving their "fair share." But to date, I have yet to hear anyone explain what the logic is behind the "fair share" number. In fact, I have yet to hear a "fair share" number to begin with. Was hoping you, or someone who agrees with you can let me in what exactly "paying their fair share" actually means.
And who exactly is the elite in this case? You don't have to be all that wealthy to make investments.
Both systems are expensive, clunky, profit losing failures. I wish Nokia would go with Android. Their hardware isn't bad.
Do you find as a paleontologist that you're followed around by nerd groupies? You know, those hot young girls that read scientific journals, and want to get down to your Paleozoic?
time for a outsouring tax?
Be for long we will need a way to pay for all people in the USA not working.
Right, because making American companies even less competitive in a global marketplace is a marvelous idea. Well, at least the Liberals in Congress agree with you. Thank god they're a minority. Taxes are not the solution, they're the problem. Creating more pointless taxes will only increase the incentive to get around them. Increasing taxes has only created the situation we're in now. Reducing them is the only way to fix said situation. I don't know why people have such a hard time wrapping their heads around this problem. It's simple arithmetic.
Just based on what you seem to be saying, it sounds like there are a number of issues. These issues are probably more social than they are technical. It also sounds like the team has little incentive to do the right thing, and that you more than likely have a clueless project manager (probably, but not necessarily a woman) who refuses to understand the technical aspects of whatever it is you're doing.
If the problem is poor management, you're going to need a better project manager. Someone with a history of delivering results in situations like this. Unfortunately, great project managers are so few and far between, that I can say with some certainty that it'll take you at least a year, possibly longer to find the right one.
If you're certain the issue is not the project management, take a look at the processes, and limit who has commit rights on the main cvs/subversion/git branch. In fact, you actually want to go so far as to give the keys to the main branch to one person who will be held accountable for the quality of the overall system. This way, nobody feels left out or punished. And everybody feels bad for the guy who can be fired for your fuck up... at least, until he starts pushing back on bad code.
Require all code to go through an approval and review process by this person before it can be committed to the main branch of your source repository. If necessary, tie this person into the quality assurance apparatus that you already have in place for your product. Sell it to this person as a "promotion," and pay him a couple grand more a year to do it. It's not going to kill the company, and it should be enough for this guy to take the job seriously.
Throw the word specialist, or manager in his title, and give him the the power to send code back when it needs to be fixed. Make no mistake... feelings of empathy for his plight won't last long, and he will be hated if he's part of Q/A, unless he's exceptionally charming. But do not flinch on him being the one and only person allowed to commit to main, come hell or high water. There will be objections, and they will most likely come from your worst offenders.
I know it sounds harsh. It's just that there aren't a lot of ways to fix a situation like this one. In my experience, this method is the least invasive of the options you have available, but it can be quickly derailed by bad or inappropriate project management or team governance. Be careful, see it through, and you'll be fine.
You would think, logically, that Microsoft would have no problem releasing such information if said information were correct. Then again, it's also entirely possible that there is no study, never was, and that they're pulling the numbers out of thin air. Wouldn't be the first time they pulled something like that. But it is the first time they're being called on it.
They would be in talks with HP. Just sayin'.
Microsoft has been dissecting Apples strategy of being a device and os company. Or perhaps they want to be IBM, which does the same thing? A Microsoft stake in Dell might mean an end to Studiobuntu Laptops, though. And I think that would be a shame. Those things are nice.
I think the internet has too many users. We nerds need to create a new platform where we can be the superior race again. But we'll have to take some of the 4channers and slashdot newbs, so that we have someone to pick on that makes us feel better about ourselves.
Why not just migrate to one of the newer, cooler, noSQL databases? Some of them are maturing quite well.
Ah come on. A little harsh, don't you think? And that bit about the exercise machine was kind of cool.
Two things that amaze me about this
1. That Debian isn't the first to do it. They're usually on top of this.
2. That it's taken this long to happen. We knew something like this would happen in the Linux community when Oracle took over MySQL. And there were some promising forking efforts that started immediately. Then, silance... for years. Now it's happening all at once, which is good.
Does anyone know if Maria is a MySQL fork? Or if it's totally new code? My cursory scan of the website hasn't revealed anything to this end.
Y2k was a boom for technology contractors such as myself. The years leading up to Y2k38 will be good too. Think of all the code that will need to be totally rewritten. I know, there is that faction of people that want to see technology undo itself, and the world end, but for those of us that live in reality... it'll be great. Honestly, I wish we had these kinds of crises more often.
That you don't need to be right, as long as you can explain whatever it is you're explaining in a technical way. I know very few judges that are going to be capable of following this kind of math, especially with some of the wild assumptions he comes up with in the paper. He's intentionally talking over their heads. He could be measuring the diameter and deceleration of a cream puff going to the moon for all they know. Well played.
It's true. I'm not really sure why the audiophiles are so obsessed with this.
I'm not deaf, but I've never spent more than $10 on headphones.
The biggest problem I've had with it is getting away from my personal life, which lives at home, and generally stays there all day. If I could figure out a way to get some quiet for ten to twelve hours a day, I could manage it.
The fab isn't really the important part of the industry anymore. It's the ideas, the product design that's important. Have we not learned anything from our friends at Apple?
I wouldn't discount them that easily. Just in general.
It's a centralized walled garden where you can't go off network, with no appeal to hackers because you had to have a license to create anything. It had no DNS, and was menu driven. If it had taken off, it would have failed too, due to limitations in the broadcast spectrum that they obviously didn't think about. That's why it didn't take off.
I've failed at failing. Really really badly.
Nobody really cares, or pays much attention to this kind of thing. I lie about everything on my linked in profile, even my name. I figure this gives me the credibility I need to convince people I'm somebody else entirely.