People that make (pay for) movie production are greedy. News at 11.
Movies made for art tend to be low budget. Big budget movies are a business commodity. It is controlled by making as much money as possible and that is largely about hitting the largest target audience as possible. Why pay for a movie that will be restricted to who you can sell it to, its not good business.
I hate it, but that's just how it is.
That's why I am glad of the revival of the TV miniseries. I am looking forward to HBO's Game of Thrones. However if they ever tried to make a actual movie on the books it would be an utter failure. If ANY fantasy series were to be R rated it would be Game of Thrones, and if they made a movie out of it, it would most certainly be PG13. However considering past (excellent) series that HBO has done, they don't have to pull the same punches that the big movie producers seem to have to.
You make it sound difficult. In my experience this happens all the time. People are too lazy and systems too disorganized to keep track or update access. They will usually just take the easy way out. I have seen many systems that not only have accounts still active for employees that have changed jobs (particularly if issuing to job types with lots of turn around), but I have seen accounts still active for people that no longer work for the company anymore. No only that, I have seen accounts still active for people that don't work any more period, that are now retired. Not only that, I have seen accounts still active for people that don't exist anymore because they are dead...
I would say that this is the rule rather than the exception. Sure if someone with super user access or something moves on, then IT may feel compelled to do something about it, but a normal account? Can't be bothered. Some use expiry dates, but they quickly get tired of renewing them for contract staff, and annoyed for having to do it for full time staff as well, who get pissed when their account up and expires one day.
I know for fun many years ago I went and checked my email through POP3 and webmail forwarding for an old (5 years+) email account through an independ ISP that I was no longer with. I ended up forwarding 5 years of old spam to myself lol. The ISP has disabled the dialup (yes dialup) username and password, but just left my account active with my old username and password. I can only assume that once it wasted enough of their server space they might go try and clean it up... then again, likely easier just to buy more HD capacity. I wouldn't be surprised if it is still active, assuming of course that the actual ISP is still around. IT folks will disable the front end thinking they don't have to bother to get rid of the actual account as they can't ever foresee them getting access again... Trouble is access can come from the most unlikely of places...
So yeah, this doesn't surprise me, in fact the only surprise is that its supposedly only 10%.
If you look at the two departments within the Canadian Government that were specifically targeted they were the Treasury and Fiance.
How much do you want to bet that this has absolutely nothing to do with the Chinese government and more to do with your typical criminals phishing for finical information that they can use to score some dough. They deal with large sums of money, and have been criticized in the past for lax network security. Much harder to hit a commercial bank. That said I doubt the Chinese government has much desire to do anything about this sort of activity within its boarders.
I would argue and hope that Canada would be exerting pressure via China's desire for Canadian resources, particularly oil, to put a very abrupt stop to this sort of activity directed towards us. I would also hope that this is a wake up call for government to start paying serious attention to IT security.
Well the US was in a No Win situation, so they did nothing. Wait and see how things turn out.
Basically they can't do anything really to interfere because they are supposed to be about democratic change and more power freedom for the people, so they can overtly support Mubarak.
However, with Mubarak gone, there is a very real chance that the next government in Egypt will be a Muslim one. A government that may not share the same views as the US. Mubarak they could control, just keep throwing US military aid his way, and he is happy as a clam (the 70 billion in his family can attest to that), he'll do whatever the US says (within reason), and that was a pretty good thing that lasted a very long time. There was also stability.
Anyway, no matter what the US did in this situation they were screwed, so in the end they just stood back and watched, every now and again saying a platitude to the media.
A sad truth about democracy is that one if its largest problems is allowing everyone a say in who makes decisions. For the most part populations are made up of idiots, and half of them are even dumber than that. That's the popular vote for you.
Citation: 2001-2009.
Whats the point of having a qualified candidate when some asshat can convince people to vote for them instead. Of course fixing the electoral system, and eliminating all the money from the equation from the lobbyists, corporations, and wealthy elite would be a good start. However Glen Beck would slaver some vitriol about socialism and and all the hillbillies and idiots of the land will whip back into line.
I think it would be "very rare" that the rank and file would be involved with such things.
You made me play the NAZI card. Basically most people that were in that organization were not out committing atrocities. Some defiantly where, and most of the hierarchy was complicit in some why or another. Many didn't believe the things that were said about the organization.
The big difference was that many didn't have a choice about joining, or doing what they were told to do, on possible pain of death.
While Catholics have a choice. Though they might not have a choice as a baby, when they grow up and make decisions, they can choose which organizations they wish to be apart of. They may have pressures of faith and family, but no one is going to shoot them.
Anyway it just baffles me why people associate themselves with organizations, particularly faiths, that preach one thing, but pretty consistently do something completely different than would be considered wrong not only by their own, but by pretty much any others.
Then again I'm not all that religious myself, so perhaps I just don't understand.
Oh and as for the Scientology aspect of this, while it is possible to leave, or get kicked out, you are pretty much ostracized and ruined financially from what I could tell from the special I saw on TV. You leave, your basically starting your life over with no contacts or money. They have a pretty big axe to threaten people into believing or saying they believe something.
"at best 2nd place"? Seriously? Who is even close to AMD in the CPU market? VIA? Motorola? ARM? Give me a break. They are firmly in 2nd to Intel, and always have been.
So? Intel doesn't own ARM. Licence ARM all you want. Whats the problem? Also AMD is big in the server market, I would say their servers are doing better than their consumer goods.
nVidia? Who cares. Your would OWN ATI. If you think Intel is not happy with this rumor, well nVidia has more to lose. Video cards are for the most part a "consumer" market, of which Dell is the biggest player.
As for Dell not sharing AMD products don't be silly. AMD would sell to as many companies as it can. Dell is not about to limit that it would be foolish.
On the plus side, you would see AMD get even bigger, and perhaps be able to compete with Intel on a level playing field.
Dell is firmly in bed with Microsoft, I don't see that changing anytime soon.
Belonging to such an organization, knowing that the hierarchy behaves in such a way does knowingly facilitate that evil. That's my take on it anyway. If it was an "isolated" incident, then yeah perhaps you can argue that simple membership in no way condones that activity, but when it is so rampant that it is a commonly held joke and has been for a very long time, well your continued support of that organization I think then says that you do in fact condone that behavior. I don't think you can separate it, simply by saying oh the members do molest people, only the priests, therefore its OK.
I would invoke Godwin's Law, but its probably been done too many times already.
Seriously the CRIA couldn't have timed this worse for themselves. Look at the outpouring of anger directed toward the internet ISP's being corporate jerks ripping off the people. Think of the results.
So lets say that CRIA is successful. This is against search. So now you get another large corporate industry limiting what people can do online. How do you think people are going to react now? How do you think the government is likely to react to that, particularly with a possible election in the future?
Now have someone point out that the CRIA is getting paid several different ways through levy's, increasing the cost of consumer media, ripping off people. Now have someone else point out about the HUGE copyright infringement case AGAINST the CRIA just last year (largest in the world for violations and damages so far that I know)... and that lawsuit was actually brought to court by actual music artists, against their association, ripping them off! Have someone else point out how much the CRIA "contributes" to politicians (and which ones).
Put all that together and you are going to have a very angry populace. Personally I see this going very bad for them. ISOHUNT has also shown that it will not back down and that it will go through court. What scares me a bit is that, considering what would happen if they lost, they must be VERY confident that they will win.
Considering that the abuses from the Catholic church have been happening for hundreds of years, despite the teaching, with a hierarchy that on one hand does not condone it, but on the other protects its priests. How is that not evil.
Scientology hasn't even been around for 50 years. Its a loony money making tax evading scam. Evil? More like criminal, that takes advantage of certain peoples gullibility. The same could be said about douchebags who target seniors to rip them off.
You must work in government. Everyone outside just thinks they are wasteful on purpose and lazy. If private industry ever had to document as much as we do, or adhere to standards no one else does, they would have their time and costs soar as well. Though in my little rant I wasn't really talking about big applications. Just getting dev web space to try and throw together a quick and dirty Google Maps app is seemingly impossible. Oh well I guess the pension is nice if I ever last that long...
A) Why am I as a Canadian paying 30% more for books than the US price when the Canadian currency has been at parity or higher for years?
B) I have never bought any so I don't know. Is there a difference between electronic versions, that is to say one price for Canadians and another for Americans? Because that would be the biggest scam ever. (can't even blame production, distribution, or stock/currency costs...)
I see this all the time in government. Various IT departments will make it impossible or difficult for others to do work, but limiting access to various things, restricting software, no allowing for permissions, and refusing to take responsibility for a role or function that might enable any of those things.
ME: I would like to do X. I need to have access to Y in order to do X, may I have access please? IT Dept: A) No you cannot do it, but we would happy to do it for an exorbitant sum, but we don't have capacity now, so you will have to wait 6months. B) We are not responsible for granting that access but please speak with RandomITDept (who will immediately say its not their responsibility, and refer you back), however we would happy to do it for an exorbitant sum, but we don't have capacity now, so you will have to wait 6months.
I understand the rational for limited access to certain things, but the sole purpose for most of this seems to be to secure work and thus positions for their particular IT department as well as the power base for those managers so that their staffing and budgets are justified.
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People that make (pay for) movie production are greedy. News at 11.
Movies made for art tend to be low budget. Big budget movies are a business commodity. It is controlled by making as much money as possible and that is largely about hitting the largest target audience as possible. Why pay for a movie that will be restricted to who you can sell it to, its not good business.
I hate it, but that's just how it is.
That's why I am glad of the revival of the TV miniseries. I am looking forward to HBO's Game of Thrones. However if they ever tried to make a actual movie on the books it would be an utter failure. If ANY fantasy series were to be R rated it would be Game of Thrones, and if they made a movie out of it, it would most certainly be PG13. However considering past (excellent) series that HBO has done, they don't have to pull the same punches that the big movie producers seem to have to.
You make it sound difficult. In my experience this happens all the time. People are too lazy and systems too disorganized to keep track or update access. They will usually just take the easy way out. I have seen many systems that not only have accounts still active for employees that have changed jobs (particularly if issuing to job types with lots of turn around), but I have seen accounts still active for people that no longer work for the company anymore. No only that, I have seen accounts still active for people that don't work any more period, that are now retired. Not only that, I have seen accounts still active for people that don't exist anymore because they are dead...
I would say that this is the rule rather than the exception. Sure if someone with super user access or something moves on, then IT may feel compelled to do something about it, but a normal account? Can't be bothered. Some use expiry dates, but they quickly get tired of renewing them for contract staff, and annoyed for having to do it for full time staff as well, who get pissed when their account up and expires one day.
I know for fun many years ago I went and checked my email through POP3 and webmail forwarding for an old (5 years+) email account through an independ ISP that I was no longer with. I ended up forwarding 5 years of old spam to myself lol. The ISP has disabled the dialup (yes dialup) username and password, but just left my account active with my old username and password. I can only assume that once it wasted enough of their server space they might go try and clean it up... then again, likely easier just to buy more HD capacity. I wouldn't be surprised if it is still active, assuming of course that the actual ISP is still around. IT folks will disable the front end thinking they don't have to bother to get rid of the actual account as they can't ever foresee them getting access again... Trouble is access can come from the most unlikely of places...
So yeah, this doesn't surprise me, in fact the only surprise is that its supposedly only 10%.
If you look at the two departments within the Canadian Government that were specifically targeted they were the Treasury and Fiance.
How much do you want to bet that this has absolutely nothing to do with the Chinese government and more to do with your typical criminals phishing for finical information that they can use to score some dough. They deal with large sums of money, and have been criticized in the past for lax network security. Much harder to hit a commercial bank. That said I doubt the Chinese government has much desire to do anything about this sort of activity within its boarders.
I would argue and hope that Canada would be exerting pressure via China's desire for Canadian resources, particularly oil, to put a very abrupt stop to this sort of activity directed towards us. I would also hope that this is a wake up call for government to start paying serious attention to IT security.
Considering he ended the game by writing down:
"I for one welcome our new computer overlords!"
I would say yes.
Well the US was in a No Win situation, so they did nothing. Wait and see how things turn out.
Basically they can't do anything really to interfere because they are supposed to be about democratic change and more power freedom for the people, so they can overtly support Mubarak.
However, with Mubarak gone, there is a very real chance that the next government in Egypt will be a Muslim one. A government that may not share the same views as the US. Mubarak they could control, just keep throwing US military aid his way, and he is happy as a clam (the 70 billion in his family can attest to that), he'll do whatever the US says (within reason), and that was a pretty good thing that lasted a very long time. There was also stability.
Anyway, no matter what the US did in this situation they were screwed, so in the end they just stood back and watched, every now and again saying a platitude to the media.
A sad truth about democracy is that one if its largest problems is allowing everyone a say in who makes decisions. For the most part populations are made up of idiots, and half of them are even dumber than that. That's the popular vote for you.
Citation: 2001-2009.
Whats the point of having a qualified candidate when some asshat can convince people to vote for them instead. Of course fixing the electoral system, and eliminating all the money from the equation from the lobbyists, corporations, and wealthy elite would be a good start. However Glen Beck would slaver some vitriol about socialism and and all the hillbillies and idiots of the land will whip back into line.
I can't wait for AMD/ATI to come out with their new GPU code named Kryptonite!
If Israel ever thought they would play nice with Iran, sabotage isn't exactly the way to good relations...
When you're killed by the letter "k"
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I think it would be "very rare" that the rank and file would be involved with such things.
You made me play the NAZI card. Basically most people that were in that organization were not out committing atrocities. Some defiantly where, and most of the hierarchy was complicit in some why or another. Many didn't believe the things that were said about the organization.
The big difference was that many didn't have a choice about joining, or doing what they were told to do, on possible pain of death.
While Catholics have a choice. Though they might not have a choice as a baby, when they grow up and make decisions, they can choose which organizations they wish to be apart of. They may have pressures of faith and family, but no one is going to shoot them.
Anyway it just baffles me why people associate themselves with organizations, particularly faiths, that preach one thing, but pretty consistently do something completely different than would be considered wrong not only by their own, but by pretty much any others.
Then again I'm not all that religious myself, so perhaps I just don't understand.
Oh and as for the Scientology aspect of this, while it is possible to leave, or get kicked out, you are pretty much ostracized and ruined financially from what I could tell from the special I saw on TV. You leave, your basically starting your life over with no contacts or money. They have a pretty big axe to threaten people into believing or saying they believe something.
"at best 2nd place"? Seriously? Who is even close to AMD in the CPU market? VIA? Motorola? ARM? Give me a break. They are firmly in 2nd to Intel, and always have been.
So? Intel doesn't own ARM. Licence ARM all you want. Whats the problem? Also AMD is big in the server market, I would say their servers are doing better than their consumer goods.
nVidia? Who cares. Your would OWN ATI. If you think Intel is not happy with this rumor, well nVidia has more to lose. Video cards are for the most part a "consumer" market, of which Dell is the biggest player.
As for Dell not sharing AMD products don't be silly. AMD would sell to as many companies as it can. Dell is not about to limit that it would be foolish.
On the plus side, you would see AMD get even bigger, and perhaps be able to compete with Intel on a level playing field.
Dell is firmly in bed with Microsoft, I don't see that changing anytime soon.
OK great, you made them smaller Intel that's just peachy. Now they can be used in other types of applications such as phones and other devices...
HOWEVER, the big problem with SSD is 1) PRICE and 2) CAPACITY...
Soooo what you did here, was make a smaller, slower, MORE expensive and LESS capacity SSD? Bravo.
How about you get working on making a standard 2.5" 300GB SSD not cost about the same as your first born's eternal soul.
k thx bye.
Belonging to such an organization, knowing that the hierarchy behaves in such a way does knowingly facilitate that evil. That's my take on it anyway. If it was an "isolated" incident, then yeah perhaps you can argue that simple membership in no way condones that activity, but when it is so rampant that it is a commonly held joke and has been for a very long time, well your continued support of that organization I think then says that you do in fact condone that behavior. I don't think you can separate it, simply by saying oh the members do molest people, only the priests, therefore its OK.
I would invoke Godwin's Law, but its probably been done too many times already.
Seriously the CRIA couldn't have timed this worse for themselves. Look at the outpouring of anger directed toward the internet ISP's being corporate jerks ripping off the people. Think of the results.
So lets say that CRIA is successful. This is against search. So now you get another large corporate industry limiting what people can do online. How do you think people are going to react now? How do you think the government is likely to react to that, particularly with a possible election in the future?
Now have someone point out that the CRIA is getting paid several different ways through levy's, increasing the cost of consumer media, ripping off people. Now have someone else point out about the HUGE copyright infringement case AGAINST the CRIA just last year (largest in the world for violations and damages so far that I know)... and that lawsuit was actually brought to court by actual music artists, against their association, ripping them off! Have someone else point out how much the CRIA "contributes" to politicians (and which ones).
Put all that together and you are going to have a very angry populace. Personally I see this going very bad for them. ISOHUNT has also shown that it will not back down and that it will go through court. What scares me a bit is that, considering what would happen if they lost, they must be VERY confident that they will win.
People still use CD's? How quaint.
Considering that the abuses from the Catholic church have been happening for hundreds of years, despite the teaching, with a hierarchy that on one hand does not condone it, but on the other protects its priests. How is that not evil.
Scientology hasn't even been around for 50 years. Its a loony money making tax evading scam. Evil? More like criminal, that takes advantage of certain peoples gullibility. The same could be said about douchebags who target seniors to rip them off.
You must work in government. Everyone outside just thinks they are wasteful on purpose and lazy. If private industry ever had to document as much as we do, or adhere to standards no one else does, they would have their time and costs soar as well. Though in my little rant I wasn't really talking about big applications. Just getting dev web space to try and throw together a quick and dirty Google Maps app is seemingly impossible. Oh well I guess the pension is nice if I ever last that long...
A) Why am I as a Canadian paying 30% more for books than the US price when the Canadian currency has been at parity or higher for years?
B) I have never bought any so I don't know. Is there a difference between electronic versions, that is to say one price for Canadians and another for Americans? Because that would be the biggest scam ever. (can't even blame production, distribution, or stock/currency costs...)
Oops. :)
I see this all the time in government. Various IT departments will make it impossible or difficult for others to do work, but limiting access to various things, restricting software, no allowing for permissions, and refusing to take responsibility for a role or function that might enable any of those things.
ME: I would like to do X. I need to have access to Y in order to do X, may I have access please?
IT Dept: A) No you cannot do it, but we would happy to do it for an exorbitant sum, but we don't have capacity now, so you will have to wait 6months. B) We are not responsible for granting that access but please speak with RandomITDept (who will immediately say its not their responsibility, and refer you back), however we would happy to do it for an exorbitant sum, but we don't have capacity now, so you will have to wait 6months.
I understand the rational for limited access to certain things, but the sole purpose for most of this seems to be to secure work and thus positions for their particular IT department as well as the power base for those managers so that their staffing and budgets are justified.
I thought Cancer was cured a lot time ago, and its the big pharmaceutical companies that have a conspiracy to keep it going for huge profits!
Does Joe Flanigan know that he has cancer?
Not everyone wants to join sea org for the pleasure of owning an iPhone.
A teacher going online and calling her students stupid, then getting suspended for doing so.
To quote the illustrious Forrest Gump: "Stupid is as stupid does."