It did. Further up in this discussion is a list of "unintended acceleration" complaints by manufacturer. It correlates well with the number of cars each manufacturer has on the road.
£2.2 Billion (a million million, not a US thousand million).
No, it's a "US thousand million." The UK is having some debt issues, yes, but Manchester United doesn't have a debt that is 82% of the GDP of the entire United Kingdom.
Heard of Websense? It has a nice little checkmark for "Porn". It also has a nice checkmark for "automatically update myself".
Online radio, well... that's another issue.
The opinion also states that it is not an unreasonable search, since he was a) notified beforehand that he was monitored, b) the reason for looking at the records was noninvestigative, and c) that it occurred in the course of normal business. The court SPECIFICALLY avoided establishing an opinion on expectation of privacy by public sector workers.
But... don't let that stand in the way of good ol' Slashdot hand-wringing.
In my country, the local universities churn out a number of dodgy-sounding 'degrees' such as Management Information Systems, Business Information Systems, etc. I actually have no idea what these are, but there's a preoccupation here with sitting in a desk in an office, versus doing the work.
Not dodgy at all, they're just not your normal CS-type degrees. Those are fairly geared towards ERP software, which requires a fairly decent knowledge of basic systems administration and DBA skills in addition to a full undergrad business education. If you've ever worked with SAP/Peoplesoft/etc, you'd have an appreciation for the guys that have to deal with that stuff.
You're lucky. I've yet to meet a helpdesk guy who would be able to comprehend that "255.255.255.0" is not the universal subnet mask. At least they're better than the majority of IT-related management.
I can't emphasize enough your point about avenues to learning. There is no "one true path" to becoming a good developer. The trail thats there, though, requires so much backtracking and circular knowledge dependencies that it's often an exercise in frustration. If I had points, I'd mod you up. This will have to suffice.
Yes, it is a problem, but it's not the focal one. Collateral damage happens. Out of hundreds of thousands of service members that have been over there, there are bound to be mistakes and even outright immoral behaviors. That's a simple matter of statistics. A coverup operation, however, is a systemic problem. We can't fix the fact that some humans suck ass. What is hopefully fixable, though, is a group conspiring at a high level in the government to hide the truth from the friends and families of these victims.
The press release was less than 4 hours ago. Give it time. I'd imagine that extensive fact-checking would be in order for this one. The video itself is about three years old, so it's not like the news is "breaking" enough to warrant skipping the basic checks.
Minor military fuckups like this happen all over the world everyday, it's not a problem unique to the US.
The problem isn't with the collateral damage, though blatantly blowing away children and people evacuating the wounded is deplorable. The big problem is the cover-up that followed it.
It's not that all government is inherently corrupt. The point is that a government is corrupt if its citizens need to be completely anonymous in order to safely question their government or present damning evidence about it. The harassment and detainment that Wikileaks editors have had to endure is a very telling point in this debate. The anti-Wikileaks documents that have been leaked by, well, Wikileaks, are also an interesting point to note.
Funny thing, the comment on the Marines was Nieriko's, which I assume means that Nieriko is Cory Doctorow's alter ego. Original Boingboing story. Either way, my opinion of Cory just took a nosedive.
Or maybe they could assemble an actual rackmount server? What's with this IDE and single power supply crap? No engineer/admin in their right mind would call this a "server." And this is a plug for a HOSTING company? Dear $deity, I weep for their customers.
Lack of server-level hardware aside, how could they even call this "assembling?" My neighbor's 8 year old could plug in two Molex connectors, a couple IDE cables, a couple sticks of RAM, and a processor fan in 45 seconds, and still have time to text his posse.
If they're going to call it "Speed-assembling servers," they probably shouldn't just be re-connecting a couple of the components in an ancient desktop. Pathetic.
Even ext3/NTFS/whatever doesn't write ones and zeros directly to the hard drive. It goes through the controller, which intermingles the original data with multiple proprietary error correction algorithms and location information, and then spits it out to the platter. Once written, it isn't even ones and zeros. The heads themselves read the data as an analog waveform.
So, you respond with a statement essentially proposing that "he's wrong, because it IS magical"? I could see no actual reason in your post explaining why it's so 'amazing'. It reads just like a review of the standard audiophile fare: $1000 speaker cables or $500 wooden stereo knobs. Does the oversized iPod Touch accentuate the natural floor and exemplify crisper dynamics, too?
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Former actress? I think they forgot the _PORN_ part.
It did. Further up in this discussion is a list of "unintended acceleration" complaints by manufacturer. It correlates well with the number of cars each manufacturer has on the road.
£2.2 Billion (a million million, not a US thousand million).
No, it's a "US thousand million." The UK is having some debt issues, yes, but Manchester United doesn't have a debt that is 82% of the GDP of the entire United Kingdom.
Heard of Websense? It has a nice little checkmark for "Porn". It also has a nice checkmark for "automatically update myself". Online radio, well... that's another issue.
The opinion also states that it is not an unreasonable search, since he was a) notified beforehand that he was monitored, b) the reason for looking at the records was noninvestigative, and c) that it occurred in the course of normal business. The court SPECIFICALLY avoided establishing an opinion on expectation of privacy by public sector workers. But... don't let that stand in the way of good ol' Slashdot hand-wringing.
In my country, the local universities churn out a number of dodgy-sounding 'degrees' such as Management Information Systems, Business Information Systems, etc. I actually have no idea what these are, but there's a preoccupation here with sitting in a desk in an office, versus doing the work.
Not dodgy at all, they're just not your normal CS-type degrees. Those are fairly geared towards ERP software, which requires a fairly decent knowledge of basic systems administration and DBA skills in addition to a full undergrad business education. If you've ever worked with SAP/Peoplesoft/etc, you'd have an appreciation for the guys that have to deal with that stuff.
You're lucky. I've yet to meet a helpdesk guy who would be able to comprehend that "255.255.255.0" is not the universal subnet mask. At least they're better than the majority of IT-related management.
I can't emphasize enough your point about avenues to learning. There is no "one true path" to becoming a good developer. The trail thats there, though, requires so much backtracking and circular knowledge dependencies that it's often an exercise in frustration. If I had points, I'd mod you up. This will have to suffice.
Google the legal doctrine of "respondeat superior". It will be enlightening.
Yes, it is a problem, but it's not the focal one. Collateral damage happens. Out of hundreds of thousands of service members that have been over there, there are bound to be mistakes and even outright immoral behaviors. That's a simple matter of statistics. A coverup operation, however, is a systemic problem. We can't fix the fact that some humans suck ass. What is hopefully fixable, though, is a group conspiring at a high level in the government to hide the truth from the friends and families of these victims.
LTC Bleichwehl is just a spokesperson in a Public Affairs Office. I highly doubt he'd be the fall guy.
The press release was less than 4 hours ago. Give it time. I'd imagine that extensive fact-checking would be in order for this one. The video itself is about three years old, so it's not like the news is "breaking" enough to warrant skipping the basic checks.
Minor military fuckups like this happen all over the world everyday, it's not a problem unique to the US.
The problem isn't with the collateral damage, though blatantly blowing away children and people evacuating the wounded is deplorable. The big problem is the cover-up that followed it.
It's not that all government is inherently corrupt. The point is that a government is corrupt if its citizens need to be completely anonymous in order to safely question their government or present damning evidence about it. The harassment and detainment that Wikileaks editors have had to endure is a very telling point in this debate. The anti-Wikileaks documents that have been leaked by, well, Wikileaks, are also an interesting point to note.
They also have had an iPhone app for quite a while to do this. I've been using it for about 6 months.
Funny thing, the comment on the Marines was Nieriko's, which I assume means that Nieriko is Cory Doctorow's alter ego. Original Boingboing story. Either way, my opinion of Cory just took a nosedive.
It doesn't take much to impress you, does it?
Or maybe they could assemble an actual rackmount server? What's with this IDE and single power supply crap? No engineer/admin in their right mind would call this a "server." And this is a plug for a HOSTING company? Dear $deity, I weep for their customers.
Lack of server-level hardware aside, how could they even call this "assembling?" My neighbor's 8 year old could plug in two Molex connectors, a couple IDE cables, a couple sticks of RAM, and a processor fan in 45 seconds, and still have time to text his posse.
If they're going to call it "Speed-assembling servers," they probably shouldn't just be re-connecting a couple of the components in an ancient desktop. Pathetic.
Even ext3/NTFS/whatever doesn't write ones and zeros directly to the hard drive. It goes through the controller, which intermingles the original data with multiple proprietary error correction algorithms and location information, and then spits it out to the platter. Once written, it isn't even ones and zeros. The heads themselves read the data as an analog waveform.
If there is a fairly good reason for someone to have posted that anonymously, I'm all ears. "I'm a lazy turdwaffle" doesn't quite cut it.
Does my 1.44MB floppy count?
So, you respond with a statement essentially proposing that "he's wrong, because it IS magical"? I could see no actual reason in your post explaining why it's so 'amazing'. It reads just like a review of the standard audiophile fare: $1000 speaker cables or $500 wooden stereo knobs. Does the oversized iPod Touch accentuate the natural floor and exemplify crisper dynamics, too?
Everyone was estimating $999 based upon the foolish assumption that it would actually be a useful piece of gear as opposed to a glorified e-reader.
Image this scenario: Five million people are hired for one hour of simultaneous manual labor. Does it cost you $10, or $50,000,000?
Man hours are multiplicative.
That's the most depressing list I've ever read.