I do not use Chrome because it has onerous terms in the EULA. Namely, that I must accept all updates to the application and I cannot block their attempts to update it.
If you have made the mistake of installing a Google App on your system.... you are leaking a lot of info that you might not want them to have...
Pretty much all Google apps create a giant sucking sound on your private data.
You shouldn't get me wrong either, I don't believe that corporations should get away with 'evil'. However in life it's not always easy to recognise that you've ended up in the wrong place, and some individuals on this list probably have no idea that some people even consider this organisation evil. Any individuals named on this list shouldn't have their details released unless they are considered public personages (politicians etc), there shouldn't be a carte blanche to release all of the details without some scrutiny or at least some thought about the issues. After examination, maybe all of the names do get released and maybe they don't. Checks and balances which appear to be lacking in groups like anonymous.
Hmm I'm reminded of an Esop fable about a flock of crows, a crane and a farmer... The Farmer netted a flock of crows and the crane was trapped as well. The crane paid the ultimate price (along with the crows) for the 'crime' of the crows due to being caught up in a war that did not concern it. (Cranes don't eat seeds, OTOH: Corvids will eat anything that does not try to eat them first.)
Two issues come to mind. 1: The indiscriminate 'justice' of the farmer. And 2: the incautious crane who was in the wrong place at the wrong time.
Where does fault really lie?
Seems like social order is running into more and more of these grey areas....
Sorry but that is not correct. A "quantized chunk of the fabric of empty space" suggests you are talking about the structure of space-time itself. Gravitational waves a oscillations in the fabric of space-time and these are very different beasts to the Higgs boson - for a start they are massless.
The Higgs is a field which fills space-time - like an electric field but different. You would not refer to a photon of light as "a quantized chunk of the fabric of empty space" because it is a quantized vibration of the EM field, not space-time itself. The same logic applies to the Higgs - it is a vibration of the Higgs field which is a field which exists inside the "fabric of empty space".
As some one in a previous instance of the H-B topic posted weeks ago. The Boson in question is really a quantized chunk of the fabric of empty space.
I tend to think of it like a vortex spun off a rowboat oar. They don't last very long, but while they are there, if you dip your paw in the water near one, you can feel it, if it has enough energy in it.
I expect to get popped on the paw by a real physicist for this analogy... but I figured what the heck...
As far as I can tell no one has referred back to SETI's most vocal spokesman... Mr. Billion & Billions himself... Carl Sagan.... who is probably twisting up a fatty IN HIS GRAVE to celebrate the reactivation of SETI.
Yo, Carl... pass de duchy on the left hand side...
My local, independently owned, and operated DVD rental store(which also deals in used CDs, DVDs, and books) has a great selection and low prices. I even get decent store credit for trading in my used books and digital media. Sometimes the "old ways" are best.
As long is this craptastic OS refuses to die an honorable death, I regret that it is likely that I will be forced to support it.
I galls me.
It is the reason I do not do much IT work. It is why I turn down many jobs.
Call it stubbornness. Call it ethics. - How could I live peacefully with myself if I rape some idiot with money because they cant drive a computer? I'd rather they just stop using it. It's not helping them... and my helping them is just wasting my time and their money. Other people who really need my skills are waiting. And helping them is a profound joy.
Too bad for windoze... The vast majority of people I had to abandon were married to Windows in codependent relationships.
While there were people I helped who used windows, and people who abused MacOS horribly. The vast majority of hopeless cases involved DOS or Windows.
This is not only in personal environments, but also in corporations, from small to middling.
It comes down to money.... the first money one puts down for IT...
I went back to my roots. I'm gainfully bit bashing in 8 bit controllers. Have fun with your elephants.
This type of lock-in has been practiced by the game console industry since the first round of machines such as the Atari 2600, ColeicoVision, et al. That the 2600 and other 1G consoles used security through obscurity is quite beside the point. It was not until very late in the 2600's product life cycle that anyone successfully marketed games that were not authorized by Atari. Atari addressed that in future platforms with some hardware lockout devices, but really never did get it right.
Nintendo finally got it right with their address-line scrambling chip-set. Which created a patented lockout. When Tengen (a subsidiary of Atari) tried to bypass it in the late 80's they got fish-hooked by the patent on the lockout chip. Atari tried arguing anti-trust, and lock-in, unfair market exclusion etc. The courts rejected all of it, and held Tengen's feet to the fire for patent infringement. Tengen faded into obscurity, and no one seriously (in law) challenges a platform manufacturer's right to make software/firmware/peripheral development exclusive, should they choose to.
And addressing the usual Greek Chorus of Walled Garden Whiners: As always, the best solution is to vote with your dollars. If you don't like the terms of the EULA/DevLicense, you don't have to buy the device, or contribute to the ecosystem. So STFU.
I was never charged.... with any offense from this stop and there was never an articulated cause for the stop... Neither I nor my passenger were wanted for a crime, no charge with any...
they just simply decided to shake us down.... for no cause.
I don't know what rock you have been living under for the last decade, but in WA since 2002... it has been legal for state troopers to stop people for no reason....
I experienced this personally...
I was pulled over
when I questioned the officer for the cause of my stop he could not articulate one.... he asserted that he needed no reason...
my car was searched.... my records run my person and passenger subjected to a personal search....
We were given no reason or cause for such a search....
I demanded a supervisor be present for a formal complaint....my request was granted only on condition that I be formally detained.... as in arrested, handcuffed and stowed in the officer's vehicle.
I granted that request.. I supervisor arrived. I was given the opportunity to plead.... the supervisor informed me that Terry stops in WA no longer required a probable cause.
I demanded and received both badge IDs and their names.... I filed a formal complaint.
Back in the early 90's I worked for a short time in a corporate 'machine room' and was appalled at the level of professionalism displayed by managers.
One day while I was performing 'health checks' in the machine room, I witnessed a black manager and a white manager having an argument so out of control that they were screaming obscenities at each other like a couple of cheap whores scrapping over a street corner.
It was the most disgusting scene I have ever witnessed in a professional environment.... and yet... none of the other IT grunts even batted an eye. This was SOP for the management team.
I told my boss to get stuffed over the sadistic management culture, and was invited to leave. They tried to block my unemployment benefits, on grounds of open insurrection, but were ordered to pay in full after a lengthy investigation of their toxic employment culture.
After talking to a lot of grunt level IT drones over the years I conclude that this is an industry-wide culture phenomenon.
Didn't an outage just like this kill off the Sidekick and any hope of M$ making money off it's acquisition of Danger? RIM is in deep seas here. I think there is too much blood in the water now for them to survive this capsizing.
If it was just another phone that was stolen, would the punishment be as severe? I dont think so.
Had it not been an iPhone prototype... a sad-faced phone owner would have cried for a moment....and then ordered a new one next day.
The person who took it out of the bar and sold it, would never have been caught. So yes the punishment would have been less severe -- it would have been non-exisitant.
If we assume that the person who lost the phone had chosen to file a report with the local authorities: In the unlikely event the phone, per chance, was recovered later; (read: some crack-dealer nicked with a cache of stolen and/or questionably acquired junk) nothing would happen to the clown who took it in the first place.
And the phone would likely never be returned to it's rightful owner even then.
Money is an artifact of a much more troubling issue.
I'd call it 'Oil, oil, oil.'
Without more of it this 100 year old industrial orgy is gonna go limp real fast.
Oops. The keg of fun is more than half empty by any rational measure. There are plenty of frat-boys and sorority chicks standing around with empty plastic cups in their paws. They want their cup of oil to chug and get wasted like their parents did.
Somehow they didn't get the memo. No oil... no party. No oil no space toys. No oil, no industrial economic growth. No oil, no Suburban Nirvana.
(and no;
eco-green-vegetable oil does not even begin to
make a dent in the thirst that has chugged more than half of
the 500+ million years of sequestered carbon on this planet,
and farted it back into the atmosphere.)
Somehow, I don't think EnergyScholar wants to be as isolated as you appear to be by your tinfoil hat.
Considering the bigger picture issues that loom...Is it any surprise that civil rights have been suspended?
What we see now is a process of slowly boiling the frog of public resistance to what amounts to an eventual, inevitable, and violent rape of public trust.
In my experience this is exactly correct... I brought photographic evidence and a witness to traffic court to fight a parking ticket. I was cited for parking in a No PArking Zone when my vehicle was NOT in the zone, simply close to it.
At the end of my exposition in court the magistrate offered me a deal.... pay a $2 fine and accept a conviction or take it to a superior court.
I confronted the magistrate on the deal observing that they must have a conviction.... they just smiled and reiterated, "take it or leave it."
I had to take it.... I could not afford to take more days off work to fight on those terms.
Traffic courts are not just.... only a fool would believe them to be so.
This pattern of responsibility is well established in the military. If the investigation of a PFC for screwing up shows that his CO was not supervising effectively then the CO is in trouble too. Responsibility goes right on up the chain and depending on the seriousness of the offense, everyone who had a hand in that chain of command is going to get busted for it to their degree of responsibility for making sure that things were done correctly. Oh, and failure to document accurately is not a defense, it just leads to more people in the chain getting busted.
I believe it is unreasonable to hold strictly to military standards of command responsibility, when dealing with corporations. OTOH, when people are killed/die/or their is major property damage due to corporate malfeasance.... the Government should definitely make sure that everyone in the chain of management responsibility gets what is coming to them, as well as taking a hefty chunk out of the corporate purse.
IMO: It is simply unacceptable that in the corporate setting an individual is held to a lower standard in the eyes of the law than if they were to engage in similar negligent conduct out side of work.
If your kids ever use those skills against a schoolmate... and it comes out that you taught them to do that. You will lose custody of your children, and probably be brought up on charges....
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wtf is this elf-serving shit?
EOL.
I do not use Chrome because it has onerous terms in the EULA. Namely, that I must accept all updates to the application and I cannot block their attempts to update it.
If you have made the mistake of installing a Google App on your system.... you are leaking a lot of info that you might not want them to have...
Pretty much all Google apps create a giant sucking sound on your private data.
I have been seeing these backscatter rigs both stationary and portable on the NW frontier for 2 years.
Ah... TCO..... Total Cost of Ownership.... (Pwnrship?)
Gets kinda spendy... 65M years ago the population on this little blue rock dropped off dramatically. Could it have been a TCO that got too friendly?
Hmm I'm reminded of an Esop fable about a flock of crows, a crane and a farmer... The Farmer netted a flock of crows and the crane was trapped as well.
The crane paid the ultimate price (along with the crows) for the 'crime' of the crows due to being caught up in a war that did not concern it. (Cranes don't eat seeds, OTOH: Corvids will eat anything that does not try to eat them first.)
Two issues come to mind. 1: The indiscriminate 'justice' of the farmer. And 2: the incautious crane who was in the wrong place at the wrong time.
Where does fault really lie?
Seems like social order is running into more and more of these grey areas....
Thanks for the clarification. :)
As some one in a previous instance of the H-B topic posted weeks ago. The Boson in question is really a quantized chunk of the fabric of empty space.
I tend to think of it like a vortex spun off a rowboat oar. They don't last very long, but while they are there, if you dip your paw in the water near one, you can feel it, if it has enough energy in it.
I expect to get popped on the paw by a real physicist for this analogy... but I figured what the heck...
As far as I can tell no one has referred back to SETI's most vocal spokesman... Mr. Billion & Billions himself... Carl Sagan.... who is probably twisting up a fatty IN HIS GRAVE to celebrate the reactivation of SETI.
Yo, Carl... pass de duchy on the left hand side...
Peace, out!
My local, independently owned, and operated DVD rental store(which also deals in used CDs, DVDs, and books) has a great selection and low prices. I even get decent store credit for trading in my used books and digital media. Sometimes the "old ways" are best.
Lol WUT?! Get off my lawn.
As long is this craptastic OS refuses to die an honorable death, I regret that it is likely that I will be forced to support it.
I galls me.
It is the reason I do not do much IT work. It is why I turn down many jobs.
Call it stubbornness.
Call it ethics. - How could I live peacefully with myself if I rape some idiot with money because they cant drive a computer? I'd rather they just stop using it. It's not helping them... and my helping them is just wasting my time and their money. Other people who really need my skills are waiting. And helping them is a profound joy.
Too bad for windoze... The vast majority of people I had to abandon were married to Windows in codependent relationships.
While there were people I helped who used windows, and people who abused MacOS horribly. The vast majority of hopeless cases involved DOS or Windows.
This is not only in personal environments, but also in corporations, from small to middling.
It comes down to money.... the first money one puts down for IT...
I went back to my roots. I'm gainfully bit bashing in 8 bit controllers. Have fun with your elephants.
-Meta
Why would the DOJ do anything?
This type of lock-in has been practiced by the game console industry since the first round of machines such as the Atari 2600, ColeicoVision, et al. That the 2600 and other 1G consoles used security through obscurity is quite beside the point. It was not until very late in the 2600's product life cycle that anyone successfully marketed games that were not authorized by Atari. Atari addressed that in future platforms with some hardware lockout devices, but really never did get it right.
Nintendo finally got it right with their address-line scrambling chip-set. Which created a patented lockout. When Tengen (a subsidiary of Atari) tried to bypass it in the late 80's they got fish-hooked by the patent on the lockout chip. Atari tried arguing anti-trust, and lock-in, unfair market exclusion etc. The courts rejected all of it, and held Tengen's feet to the fire for patent infringement. Tengen faded into obscurity, and no one seriously (in law) challenges a platform manufacturer's right to make software/firmware/peripheral development exclusive, should they choose to.
And addressing the usual Greek Chorus of Walled Garden Whiners:
As always, the best solution is to vote with your dollars.
If you don't like the terms of the EULA/DevLicense, you don't have to buy the device, or contribute to the ecosystem. So STFU.
forgive my responding to my own posting...
I was never charged.... with any offense from this stop and there was never an articulated cause for the stop... Neither I nor my passenger were wanted for a crime, no charge with any...
they just simply decided to shake us down.... for no cause.
I don't know what rock you have been living under for the last decade, but in WA since 2002... it has been legal for state troopers to stop people for no reason....
I experienced this personally...
I was pulled over
when I questioned the officer for the cause of my stop he could not articulate one.... he asserted that he needed no reason...
my car was searched.... my records run my person and passenger subjected to a personal search....
We were given no reason or cause for such a search....
I demanded a supervisor be present for a formal complaint....my request was granted only on condition that I be formally detained.... as in arrested, handcuffed and stowed in the officer's vehicle.
I granted that request.. I supervisor arrived. I was given the opportunity to plead.... the supervisor informed me that Terry stops in WA no longer required a probable cause.
I demanded and received both badge IDs and their names.... I filed a formal complaint.
The complaint was rejected.
end of story.
Back in the early 90's I worked for a short time in a corporate 'machine room' and was appalled at the level of professionalism displayed by managers.
One day while I was performing 'health checks' in the machine room, I witnessed a black manager and a white manager having an argument so out of control that they were screaming obscenities at each other like a couple of cheap whores scrapping over a street corner.
It was the most disgusting scene I have ever witnessed in a professional environment.... and yet... none of the other IT grunts even batted an eye. This was SOP for the management team.
I told my boss to get stuffed over the sadistic management culture, and was invited to leave.
They tried to block my unemployment benefits, on grounds of open insurrection, but were ordered to pay in full after a lengthy investigation of their toxic employment culture.
After talking to a lot of grunt level IT drones over the years I conclude that this is an industry-wide culture phenomenon.
Didn't an outage just like this kill off the Sidekick and any hope of M$ making money off it's acquisition of Danger?
RIM is in deep seas here. I think there is too much blood in the water now for them to survive this capsizing.
If it was just another phone that was stolen, would the punishment be as severe? I dont think so.
Had it not been an iPhone prototype... a sad-faced phone owner would have
cried for a moment....and then ordered a new one next day.
The person who took it out of the bar and sold it, would never have been caught. So yes the
punishment would have been less severe -- it would have been non-exisitant.
If we assume that the person who lost the phone had chosen to file a report
with the local authorities:
In the unlikely event the phone, per chance, was recovered later;
(read: some crack-dealer nicked with a cache of stolen and/or
questionably acquired junk) nothing would happen to the clown who
took it in the first place.
And the phone would likely never be returned to it's rightful
owner even then.
Money is an artifact of a much more troubling issue.
I'd call it 'Oil, oil, oil.'
Without more of it this 100 year old industrial orgy is gonna go limp real fast.
Oops. The keg of fun is more than half empty by any rational measure.
There are plenty of frat-boys and sorority chicks standing around with empty plastic cups in their paws.
They want their cup of oil to chug and get wasted like their parents did.
Somehow they didn't get the memo.
No oil... no party.
No oil no space toys.
No oil, no industrial economic growth.
No oil, no Suburban Nirvana.
(and no;
eco-green-vegetable oil does not even begin to
make a dent in the thirst that has chugged more than half of
the 500+ million years of sequestered carbon on this planet,
and farted it back into the atmosphere.)
Tight money is a symptom, not a cause.
Somehow, I don't think EnergyScholar wants to be as isolated as you appear to be by your tinfoil hat.
Considering the bigger picture issues that loom...Is it any surprise that civil rights have been suspended?
What we see now is a process of slowly boiling the frog of public resistance to what amounts to an eventual, inevitable, and violent rape of public trust.
He showed up to a wake and badmouthed the deceased in a spineless manner.
Now all ya all are barking about it.
Pay your respects or GTFO.
Same to you Mr. Stallman.
Magratheia might have some legal issues with you doing that. I believe they hold the paten on earth and it's derivates.
In my experience this is exactly correct... I brought photographic evidence and a witness to traffic court to fight a parking ticket. I was cited for parking in a No PArking Zone when my vehicle was NOT in the zone, simply close to it.
At the end of my exposition in court the magistrate offered me a deal.... pay a $2 fine and accept a conviction or take it to a superior court.
I confronted the magistrate on the deal observing that they must have a conviction.... they just smiled and reiterated, "take it or leave it."
I had to take it.... I could not afford to take more days off work to fight on those terms.
Traffic courts are not just.... only a fool would believe them to be so.
It this technique not winnow and chaffe?
Fill the pipe with bullshit and real info... only the cleared monkies know which his which.
Are you aware that the moron who invented the Celsius scale wanted to put 100 as freezing and 0 as boiling, don't you?
This pattern of responsibility is well established in the military. If the investigation of a PFC for screwing up shows that his CO was not supervising effectively then the CO is in trouble too. Responsibility goes right on up the chain and depending on the seriousness of the offense, everyone who had a hand in that chain of command is going to get busted for it to their degree of responsibility for making sure that things were done correctly. Oh, and failure to document accurately is not a defense, it just leads to more people in the chain getting busted.
I believe it is unreasonable to hold strictly to military standards of command responsibility, when dealing with corporations. OTOH, when people are killed/die/or their is major property damage due to corporate malfeasance.... the Government should definitely make sure that everyone in the chain of management responsibility gets what is coming to them, as well as taking a hefty chunk out of the corporate purse.
IMO: It is simply unacceptable that in the corporate setting an individual is held to a lower standard in the eyes of the law than if they were to engage in similar negligent conduct out side of work.
If your kids ever use those skills against a schoolmate... and it comes out that you taught them to do that. You will lose custody of your children, and probably be brought up on charges....
Saw it happen.