Companies need to be held responsible for overseeing what their contractors are doing. Blaming the contractor != taking responsibility.
They (MSN China) acted in good faith by immediately pulling down the site.
What part of "We apologize to Plurk and we will be reaching out to them directly to explain what happened and the steps we have taken to resolve the situation. In the wake of this incident, Microsoft and our MSN China joint venture will be taking a look at our practices around applications code provided by third-party vendors" don't you understand?
As much as I dislike MSFT, I can't blame them for their reaction to this minor scandal. Though I would blame them for, in the future, again using that contractor...
And what's wrong with code sharing and code reusing?
Any place that aspires to be First World needs the Rule Of Law. Licenses, and following them, are part of that law. The GPL, LGPL, BSD, Apache, MIT/X, etc, etc are Free licenses which encourage code sharing and reusing. Closed licensing does not, but to stay civilized, we must respect -- even if we do not agree with -- those who choose to keep their source closed.
Most irrational people don't think of themselves as irrational, of course that's just another example of them being unable to face reality.
Let's play Devil's Advocate: Are you the irrational one? How do you know? Because you believe what White-Coated High Holy Scientists (in consultation with other White-Coated High Holy Scientists, i.e. peer reviewed journals) proclaim is The Truth Which Requires Immediate, Massive Globe-Wrenching Economic Changes?
That's a very interesting article. I just bookmarked it.
However, note "we have no analogue for what will happen next."
Also, (dark, heat-absorbing) Chinese soot has been found in Arctic pack ice, the Himalayas and the Colorado Rockies. Trapping that soot (like the US did in the 1970s) would restore ice levels.
Your original quote was a couple of centuries of wars and european (and, post-WW2, american) imperialism fucked up their culture and sent them into their version of the Dark Ages
The Mongol invasions were 800 years ago, and the Crusades 900-1000 years ago.
The Europeans were in an almost-constant state of war for a millenia, yet still somehow managed a Renaissance, Enlightenment and Scientific Revolution.
Up until 90 years ago, most of the Islamic world was controlled by Ottoman Turkey, not Europe.
They've been keeping records for what, 150-200 years? That's a lot by our puny standards, but not in geological times.
And when you say, "tree rings!", I ask, "How precise are they?" A cool but sunny summer, or hot but dusty/cloudy/smoky summer could produce anomalous results.
a couple of centuries of wars and european (and, post-WW2, american) imperialism fucked up their culture and sent them into their version of the Dark Ages
The Mongols destroyed Muslim libraries, observatories, hospitals, and universities, culminating in the destruction of Baghdad, the Abbasid capital and intellectual centre, in 1258, which is traditionally believed to have marked an end to the Islamic Golden Age.
Europeans carting off (as opposed to destroying, which is what the Mongols did) libraries and technologies during the Crusades, and Sunni/Shia conflict and power politics hurt just as much.
Wow...that would so completely break the entire purpose of having folders and using filter rules.
If OP couldn't figure out how to manually move all Inbox and Sent mail into one mega folder, I didn't want to confuse him with multiple folders...
Wonder how well TB3 would handle my 3 GB of data on Yahoo! mail in a single folder...or my 20+GB of back e-mail
TB2 (really, the Courier IMAP daemon and Maildir structure, where each email is a separate file) handles my 4.2GB pretty well. Note, though, that I'm pretty rigorous about creating a new dated folder and updating the filter rules at the start of each calendar quarter, Thus, no folder has more than 10-12K messages.
I have on CDs...
Have you tested them lately for bit rot?
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A little nervous, eh?
No, I'm sick and tired of the extended partisan hatred: Dems against Nixon, Reagan and W, Republicans against the Clintons (although it all seems to have shifted towards BHO).
The partisan vituperation against most sitting presidents in the past 40 years is also really frickin' old.
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will become more complex. given a few thousand years
I think you're off by a few orders of magnitude.
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I must assume that you have never heard Dubya speaking.
The war is over, you won, W is gone. Now GIVE IT A FUCKING REST ALREADY!!!!
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Hah. Hope they can write BIOS code from scratch... can you imagine trying to get mobo vendor support?
Yet another RTFA (or, in this case, WTFV).
Unfortunatelly capitalism reflexes the human nature
As opposed to other economic systems, which are (overall) better in what way?
The essence of civil disobedience is that you accept the risk of civil and criminal penalties.
Not only that, but MLK's civil disobeyors (is that a word, "one who disobeys"?) weren't the ones who burned Newark, Watts and South Central.
Companies need to be held responsible for overseeing what their contractors are doing. Blaming the contractor != taking responsibility.
They (MSN China) acted in good faith by immediately pulling down the site.
What part of "We apologize to Plurk and we will be reaching out to them directly to explain what happened and the steps we have taken to resolve the situation. In the wake of this incident, Microsoft and our MSN China joint venture will be taking a look at our practices around applications code provided by third-party vendors" don't you understand?
As much as I dislike MSFT, I can't blame them for their reaction to this minor scandal. Though I would blame them for, in the future, again using that contractor...
And what's wrong with code sharing and code reusing?
Any place that aspires to be First World needs the Rule Of Law. Licenses, and following them, are part of that law. The GPL, LGPL, BSD, Apache, MIT/X, etc, etc are Free licenses which encourage code sharing and reusing. Closed licensing does not, but to stay civilized, we must respect -- even if we do not agree with -- those who choose to keep their source closed.
As dumb as he is for getting such a worthless Masters, at least he has the forethought to not saddle the rest of us with defaulted student loans!
Ah. Fortunately, I'm old enough that words don't hurt anymore.
Most irrational people don't think of themselves as irrational, of course that's just another example of them being unable to face reality.
Let's play Devil's Advocate: Are you the irrational one? How do you know? Because you believe what White-Coated High Holy Scientists (in consultation with other White-Coated High Holy Scientists, i.e. peer reviewed journals) proclaim is The Truth Which Requires Immediate, Massive Globe-Wrenching Economic Changes?
How the hell do you review something you can't see the data to?
Get Fellow Travelers to review it?
An amazing number of poorly educated Fox News watchers like yourself
God, I so dearly love ad hominem attacks by Those Who Know Best!!! Makes me all cuddly warm inside.
Besides, I don't watch FNC.
They never thought about it
Then explain it to all us poor sots who managed to get CompSci and Math degrees and then left academia.
That's a very interesting article. I just bookmarked it.
However, note "we have no analogue for what will happen next."
Also, (dark, heat-absorbing) Chinese soot has been found in Arctic pack ice, the Himalayas and the Colorado Rockies. Trapping that soot (like the US did in the 1970s) would restore ice levels.
Your original quote was a couple of centuries of wars and european (and, post-WW2, american) imperialism fucked up their culture and sent them into their version of the Dark Ages
Because it's a waste of time, that's why. Offering evidence to a denialist ostrich
Not every climate skeptic is a denialist ostrich. Many of us can be converted with patience, lucidity and openness.
They've been keeping records for what, 150-200 years? That's a lot by our puny standards, but not in geological times.
And when you say, "tree rings!", I ask, "How precise are they?" A cool but sunny summer, or hot but dusty/cloudy/smoky summer could produce anomalous results.
They just lost their edge when they stopped expanding.
Just as the West has lost it's edge because it's not expanding anymore.
a couple of centuries of wars and european (and, post-WW2, american) imperialism fucked up their culture and sent them into their version of the Dark Ages
Bullshit.
The Mongol invasion of the 13th century severely beat down the Muslims, burned many libraries and pilloried
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Science_in_medieval_Islam#Decline
Europeans carting off (as opposed to destroying, which is what the Mongols did) libraries and technologies during the Crusades, and Sunni/Shia conflict and power politics hurt just as much.
Everyone in my sphere of acquaintances has a dsl connection
There, fixed that for you...
There are a lot of people who live in sufficiently rural areas as to not have even decent dial-up service.
But any time Congress does something like this, it's really about protecting the pork.
Besides, NASA is part of the Executive Branch, and Obama is The Executive. Even I, a silly old Republican, knows that...
Don't want you kids looking at something? Act as the filter don't let them buy/play games that expose them to things you don't want 'em to see....
Which I do. But I can't/don't/won't/shouldn't hover over them 24x7. It's why in loco parentis was formulated as a common law doctrine.
Wait for the upcoming Linux malware generations
I've been waiting for 9 years, and fully expect never to see anything but small, isolated outbreaks of client side linux malware.
Woosh!!!!
Wow...that would so completely break the entire purpose of having folders and using filter rules.
If OP couldn't figure out how to manually move all Inbox and Sent mail into one mega folder, I didn't want to confuse him with multiple folders...
Wonder how well TB3 would handle my 3 GB of data on Yahoo! mail in a single folder...or my 20+GB of back e-mail
TB2 (really, the Courier IMAP daemon and Maildir structure, where each email is a separate file) handles my 4.2GB pretty well. Note, though, that I'm pretty rigorous about creating a new dated folder and updating the filter rules at the start of each calendar quarter, Thus, no folder has more than 10-12K messages.
I have on CDs...
Have you tested them lately for bit rot?
A little nervous, eh?
No, I'm sick and tired of the extended partisan hatred: Dems against Nixon, Reagan and W, Republicans against the Clintons (although it all seems to have shifted towards BHO).
The partisan vituperation against most sitting presidents in the past 40 years is also really frickin' old.
will become more complex. given a few thousand years
I think you're off by a few orders of magnitude.
I must assume that you have never heard Dubya speaking.
The war is over, you won, W is gone. Now GIVE IT A FUCKING REST ALREADY!!!!