Two crimes were committed. The (illegally) found evidence proves the commission of a crime. But what about the crime of the illegal search. If you are going to throw someone in prison upon finding the dead body in the trunk, what will you do to the cop who had no business opening the trunk without a warrant in the first place? Nothing. Because the police are above the law. Whatever happens, society will end up paying for the bad actions of law enforcement. Either for violations of our Fourth Amendment rights or the release of a dangerous killer into our midst.
I think companies have caught on to the true cost of this approach. NET monkeys are cheap for a reason. And we can't wait for that one in an infinite crowd to luck out and crank out a Shakespeare.
Depends on how anally retentive management is about compartmentalizing processes. There's a story I heard (can't vouch for it's validity) about a guy who got a job as a coder at a (very) major s/w company. His job was to write code. Period. And then turn it over to be compiled/tested. Errors (even compile time typos) were counted and the package was handed back to the coder. Statistics were collected. Pay and promotions were based upon lines of code and number of errors.
This was back in the days of DOS PCs with 20 Mb hard drives. Coders got a PC with a company standard editor and nothing else. But this guy found a small compiler that ran from a floppy. So he'd run his work through before submitting it and catch the missing semicolon and mismatched paren crap. Needles to say, he was the top coder and got the big raises. Until his boss asked how he did it and he fessed up to the floppy compiler. He was promptly fired. Never mind that his productivity was probably many times that of the 'average' coder in the department.
I've worked for companies that came close to this level of ass-hattery. Each little empire of code, unit test, integration test, etc. jealously guards their turf.
The twins of Mammon quarrelled. Their warring plunged the world into a new darkness, and the beast abhorred the darkness. So it began to move swiftly, and grew more powerful, and went forth and multiplied. And the beasts brought fire and light to the darkness.
I imagine many people bought those vehicles because they wanted one that was better for the environment.
Lets see how many people bring their VW in to have the ECU s/w updated. I mean without an EPA threat to brin them in or else. I'll bet that most people will weigh a little higher NOx emmissions against driving a gutless pig and not find time to get it in to the shop.
And how many lives did that save by reducing stress on the population? IMO, Tepco should be lauded as heros, get lots of medals and awards for not scaring thousands of people to death.
What state/contry are you in? I don't think I've ever seen a plastic plate in the USA.
One problem I can see with plastic (I even have this with metal plates) is that the front plate won't last very long under harsh conditions. A few good whacks driving off road and my metal plate is bent to shit. After a few months, it's gone.
Collisions with pedestrians - EU takes this into consideration, US is minimal
I think this is backwards. The NPR podcast went through a bunch of EU testing for pedestrian safety issues. But in Europe, every nation requires a front license plate. In the USA, its up to each state. And some states, realizing that mounting a sharp, sheet metal blade to the front of a car is bad for pedestrians, they make them optional.
For instance, take the 5 mph bumper requirement in the US versus the EU.
Why does that even exist? Because the US insurance industry doesn't like paying for morons who bump into things. Just label an EU car as non-compliant in this category and let the insurance companies add a surcharge to the premium. And leave it up to the consumer.
Those bull bars got their start in rural areas and places like the Australian outback. To keep livestock from going through your radiator in a collision. In the USA, they have become popular due to Idaho Stops.
this company intentionally defrauded millions of customers.
Implying that all these customers care about the NOx/CO2 tradeoff. I see a big market for these higher performance/lower maintenance VWs on the used car market.
Nothing prevents you from printing emails of instructions to implement dubious decisions.
Other than the fact that all those e-mails are work product and belong to the company. Take a copy home with you and risk being arrested for theft. It happened to a Boeing tecnician who tried to blow the whistle about fraud in their QA process.
It's a tradeoff between NOx production and performance, lower CO and CO2 production, lower particulates, lower maintenance and better mileage. Volkswagen probably figured that since worldwide vehicle NOx production is several orders of magnitude below that produced by lightning, nobody would care as long as all the other numbers went in the right direction.
Slashdot Mirror
No data plan. It's WiFi or nothing.
It's not a lie that the wrongdoing/crime occurred
Two crimes were committed. The (illegally) found evidence proves the commission of a crime. But what about the crime of the illegal search. If you are going to throw someone in prison upon finding the dead body in the trunk, what will you do to the cop who had no business opening the trunk without a warrant in the first place? Nothing. Because the police are above the law. Whatever happens, society will end up paying for the bad actions of law enforcement. Either for violations of our Fourth Amendment rights or the release of a dangerous killer into our midst.
.NET monkeys
I think companies have caught on to the true cost of this approach. NET monkeys are cheap for a reason. And we can't wait for that one in an infinite crowd to luck out and crank out a Shakespeare.
You're kidding, right?
The Rasperry Pi isn't included in that kit. Pricing that stuff out, Microsoft is getting something like $50 for the Windows 10 image on the SD card.,
"they sold out rather quickly with people still asking for it."
Depends on how anally retentive management is about compartmentalizing processes. There's a story I heard (can't vouch for it's validity) about a guy who got a job as a coder at a (very) major s/w company. His job was to write code. Period. And then turn it over to be compiled/tested. Errors (even compile time typos) were counted and the package was handed back to the coder. Statistics were collected. Pay and promotions were based upon lines of code and number of errors.
This was back in the days of DOS PCs with 20 Mb hard drives. Coders got a PC with a company standard editor and nothing else. But this guy found a small compiler that ran from a floppy. So he'd run his work through before submitting it and catch the missing semicolon and mismatched paren crap. Needles to say, he was the top coder and got the big raises. Until his boss asked how he did it and he fessed up to the floppy compiler. He was promptly fired. Never mind that his productivity was probably many times that of the 'average' coder in the department.
I've worked for companies that came close to this level of ass-hattery. Each little empire of code, unit test, integration test, etc. jealously guards their turf.
Bingo!
Trust but verify. So who watches the watchers?
This will all end in tears.
Considering the audience, it's best to keep it simple.
>about:mozilla
The twins of Mammon quarrelled. Their warring plunged the world into a new darkness, and the beast abhorred the darkness. So it began to move swiftly, and grew more powerful, and went forth and multiplied. And the beasts brought fire and light to the darkness.
from The Book of Mozilla, 15:1
I imagine many people bought those vehicles because they wanted one that was better for the environment.
Lets see how many people bring their VW in to have the ECU s/w updated. I mean without an EPA threat to brin them in or else. I'll bet that most people will weigh a little higher NOx emmissions against driving a gutless pig and not find time to get it in to the shop.
How many millions will the environmentalists kill?
Tepco downplayed and lied about the actual risk
And how many lives did that save by reducing stress on the population? IMO, Tepco should be lauded as heros, get lots of medals and awards for not scaring thousands of people to death.
Mine are plastic.
What state/contry are you in? I don't think I've ever seen a plastic plate in the USA.
One problem I can see with plastic (I even have this with metal plates) is that the front plate won't last very long under harsh conditions. A few good whacks driving off road and my metal plate is bent to shit. After a few months, it's gone.
Collisions with pedestrians - EU takes this into consideration, US is minimal
I think this is backwards. The NPR podcast went through a bunch of EU testing for pedestrian safety issues. But in Europe, every nation requires a front license plate. In the USA, its up to each state. And some states, realizing that mounting a sharp, sheet metal blade to the front of a car is bad for pedestrians, they make them optional.
For instance, take the 5 mph bumper requirement in the US versus the EU.
Why does that even exist? Because the US insurance industry doesn't like paying for morons who bump into things. Just label an EU car as non-compliant in this category and let the insurance companies add a surcharge to the premium. And leave it up to the consumer.
mounting a battering ram on the front of your car
Those bull bars got their start in rural areas and places like the Australian outback. To keep livestock from going through your radiator in a collision. In the USA, they have become popular due to Idaho Stops.
this company intentionally defrauded millions of customers.
Implying that all these customers care about the NOx/CO2 tradeoff. I see a big market for these higher performance/lower maintenance VWs on the used car market.
refuse to use DNS
There's always the hosts file.
[ducking and running]
Nothing prevents you from printing emails of instructions to implement dubious decisions.
Other than the fact that all those e-mails are work product and belong to the company. Take a copy home with you and risk being arrested for theft. It happened to a Boeing tecnician who tried to blow the whistle about fraud in their QA process.
It's a tradeoff between NOx production and performance, lower CO and CO2 production, lower particulates, lower maintenance and better mileage. Volkswagen probably figured that since worldwide vehicle NOx production is several orders of magnitude below that produced by lightning, nobody would care as long as all the other numbers went in the right direction.
Some smells are universally abhorrent.
Axe body spray.