Problem is, everyone is claiming that the image would fall under parody or similar nonsense. It *would* be able to argue that *if* the kid who did it had made an actual parody. But all he did was take a copyrighted image and change the color of Obama's hair and face then post it online as his own work. It's clearly not his own work. Now, if he had made an actual PARODY of the Time magazine cover, gave it slightly different appearance, changed all the text and other little images on it to something else, THEN *that* would have been parody and then I would completely agree that his rights of free speech and expression were being censored by Flickr. Oh, and a reminder, Flickr is free to do whatever the hell it wants. Flickr is not the United States government beholden to follow the letter of the Constitution and its laws. And neither did the government order Flickr to take down the image. No. Flickr is a business entity. Flickr chose to do this on its own, which it is completely and entirely free to do. It is under no legal obligation to allow its users to post whatever they want. The GOVERNMENT is expected to respect free speech and can not (with obvious exceptions, rules, limitations, etc) curtail free speech by citizens. Flickr is not the government. There is no Constitution of the United Web Servers of Flickr. All you nut jobs screaming about censorship, free speech, and whatnot need to calm down and go look at the FACTS then make an intelligent post.
I completely agree with that post's final sentence: "If you want to upgrade early then you will have to pay full price with no subsidy discount. You can't blame anyone but yourself for your predicament." Every American cell-phone user knows this is standard practice. If you want to buy a new phone from your provider before your contract is up or your upgrade option renews, then you pay the non-subsidized price. I simply do not feel the slightest bit sorry for these whiners who feel that buying an iPhone last June/July somehow makes them special.
Dead astronauts usually go hand-in-bodypart with a destroyed spacecraft. Said spacecraft is probably worth billions to build and more billions to maintain and actually use. Those 7 astronauts are probably not exactly cheap, either. There's usually decades of training and education involved for each one of them. I haven't even thought to add in the value of the shuttle's payload if it were lost in the same accident.
Now let's look at those soldiers dying by the tens of thousands in a foreign war. Each soldier is pretty cheap on an individual basis compared to an astronaut. Society hasn't invested that much time, resources, or education on the average soldier compared to an astronaut. Their future value to humanity is also statistically and economically lower than the astronaut. The equipment the average soldier goes to war with is only a few thousands - maybe few tens of thousands - of dollars. Said equipment is typically common stuff easily replaced, as is the solider lost with that equipment. Heck, you could easily give a dead soldier's equipment to a live soldier and save a few dollars.
So, dollar for dollar, you have to lose thousands of soldiers and their equipment to reach the same financial loss as the destruction of a shuttle and it's crew. Looking at the Iraq war, America has lost a paltry 4000+ soldiers spread out over a period of 6 years. Compare that to losing a shuttle, it's crew, and it's payload all in one fast blast, and it becomes easy to see why sending soldiers to die in war is so much easier than risking a shuttle mission to repair Hubble.
My point is more commentary on the state of human affairs; life is only important if there is a significant dollar value attached to it.
This is yet another proof that 99.9% of consumers are sheep.
Or, put into the perspective of those 99.9% of consumers, they simply don't give a shit about what a bunch of nerds (who whine amongst each other on a geek website) think about stuff that doesn't affect anyone with a sex life.
That was a VERY creative and intelligent response. You dressed down that witless troglodyte with excellent logic. That you did so without the slightest wiff of personal attack in response is pure poetry.
But hey, don't let me and my facts get into your way of perpetuating anti-immigration propaganda.
You say that like it's a bad thing.
I like immigrants... WHEN their presence is good for the community. If having a bunch of immigrants around negatively affects a community, say by depressing wages and lowering the standard of living for the natural citizens, then really the natural citizens have every right to want the immigrants to get the fuck out.
But hey, don't let me and my life get in the way of your efforts to lowball your way into a better economic situation.
I've been eagerly anticipating Spore for quite a while now. If this report turns out to be true, though, and the game requires this kind of frequent check just to allow me to play it, then I have no problem not playing it. I only buy games, I don't pirate them. And I only support companies that treat me like a paying customer when I am a paying customer. It's rather insulting that EA would assume by default that I am a thief and then treat me like one.
If you want the Beatles on your iPod, rip the CDs and transfer. Bingo - Beatlemania hit my iTunes/iPod years ago. Best of all, most of the CDs I bought were obtained at used CD stores for just a few dollars each. Score! $400 Million, Apple? You guys got ripped off. I will only be impressed if they are released on iTunes as a complete digital box set in Apple Lossless without DRM.
I wonder: how many of those 8k concurrent connections are from people who paid the money but couldn't download their digital purchase from NIN.com because of how incapable the servers were of handling the demand? I for one bought the $10+$6.99S&H CD set, then spent the next 6 hours repeatedly trying and failing to download the Apple Lossless files for which I paid. Once those files appeared on The Pirate Bay, I jumped on that torrent and downloaded from there in a matter of minutes. I'm messing with the statistics by doing that, and I would argue that many other people did likewise.
... a storyline about a band of smugglers being hunted down by Jedi.
Oh wait, that was Firefly.
OK, maybe if George just gave someone enough money to bring back Firefly with all the pre-Serenity characters I would be happy. Oh, yeah, and His Georgeness must not write or direct. Or produce. Or advise. Just pay.
I see no reason why universities should fight to protect the privacy of it's students in circumstances like this where a judge has pretty much given the approval for the plaintiffs actions. I would not want a uni to cave just because the MAFIAA contact them, but if a judge has reviewed their requests and then tells the uni to cough up the details, I tend to feel more comfortable with it.
Being a sysadmin (and I'd wager a significant portion of/.'s readership is also), this is a non-issue. I've been dealing with exactly this sort of thing for almost two decades. No big deal. I take it a step farther, in fact, because I work from home - work/life balance really gets weird by normal office jockey standards.
The big deal here is that the people who are having their lives invaded (and that's what it is to them) by these little devices are the kinds of people who have never carried a pager, cell phone, or other communication device for anything work-related ever. For people like me, it's a part of how things are for me. For these folks it will be a radical change.
Don't think for a minute that I am sympathetic toward them. Absolutely not. People like that have no clue about the daily extra effort IT folk put into their jobs, yet people like that have also been the least considerate when making demands of IT folk. Let them have a taste of what it's like to have dinner interrupted every evening, or to frequently get less than 4 hours of uninterrupted sleep, or to sacrifice time with loved ones because oncall duty interrupts it. I've got no problem with letting as many people as possible know what that's like.
Yeah, I'm bitter, but also experienced. I've got no problem not answering the cell outside of my posted work hours unless previous arrangements have been made. The world never collapsed as a result of a missed call.
While I would rather not get unsolicited calls, I do actually approve of the allowances for charities to call. I get about one charitable call per week, they've never happened after 5pm or on weekends, and they are almost always for material donations rather than money (ie clothes, food, etc). It's turned out on a few occasions that I've actually had a very good personal benefit from such calls, ending up with a good way to eliminate a lot of old clothes, especially the kids' old stuff.
However, with that said, my tolerance for charitable calls would evaporate quickly if they became more frequent, began to intrude on family time (please no calls evenings or weekends), or became pushy or demanding.
Naturally. And it then follows that only terrorists would ever use encryption. It's that whole "you have no reason to hide it if you aren't doing anything wrong" argument that police love so much. Funny how the land of the free home of the brave is defended most strongly against it's own citizens by the people who are typically the most patriotic (and the patriotic people are so willing to trample the rights that hypothetically make this a great country).
Because I do not support the police state, I tend to believe that I'm not doing anything wrong so they shouldn't be watching me. That is the America I believe in, but that's not the America that exists anymore. The terrorists won, and they are working for the government.
Wouldn't this be a good thing? Less languages will mean more people speaking the same one, thus promoting better communication.
Not necessarily. Oddly enough, language diversity is about as important as biological diversity, except most people who only speak one language are even less likely to understand that concept. All groups of people do not think the same, and it is an interesting twist that language itself can form the thought processes. There are whole concepts and realms of meaning that exist in German, for example, that simply can not be translated adequately into English (I pick those two language because I am fluent in both). You would have to know German to comprehend the concept correctly. Every language is like that, and the loss of any given language means the loss of an entire way of experiencing the world.
Going back to the example of German, there are plenty of theories and arguments that correlate the world-famous German precision engineering with the German language itself, which happens to be strict, methodical, and exact (when you are looking at the grammar rules, not necessarily its common usage). It does not lend itself well to beautiful poetry (I know, some are going to argue with me on that), but does wonders for exact description.
I've been waiting until the widescreen issue was properly addressed before I was going to buy this game, but now I am not going to. It's not worth getting a rootkit stuck in my system. I'm already pissed off at them for sticking it in the demo, which I tried to install but it would always crash. What a load of crap. They took the most anticipated game of the year and have turned it into something that is quickly becoming the most reviled piece of software of the year.
I won't debate the point that anti-bacterial soap may lead to new strains of bacteria that are hardier and resistant to the chemicals in the soap, however, I do believe the assertion that it is no better than regular soap is wrong. My own personal experience says otherwise. Bread in our household use to last about a week before it would get moldy and need to be thrown out. My wife saw anti-bacterial handsoap on sale once and bought some for the kitchen sink and both bathrooms (completely unrelated to the bread issue). Suddenly, the bread stopped getting moldy. A single loaf would last for weeks. Once all the anti-bacterial soap got used up we ended up using some other brand that happened to be on sale and we went right back to bread lasting only a week. Because I noticed this trend, I went out and got all A-B soap again and - voila - long-lasting bread. So in my mind, the A-B hand soap *IS* definitely doing something much better than regular soap does.
. . . that cell phones are kept off airplanes is that the rude assholes who insist on yapping away in public end up with a captive audience of victims. Someone in the airline industry with the authority to keep this most excellent rule in place has the common sense to know that the doing so really is to the benefit of the majority.
Cell phones are a luxury and a privilege, not a right. It's the awful behavior of rude assholes that has kept it firmly limited to that status only.
I think this Missouri study is a study in the obvious. When I was in elementary school, we almost never had any homework. Ever. Whatever you could not finish in the classroom you finished during recess. I do recall in 4th and 5th grade getting projects to do like collecting bugs and leaves and things like that maybe once per semester. That was it.
Homework didn't start until I was in 6th grade. Even then, it wasn't anything time-consuming. There was still ample freedom in my schedule for soccer, playing with friends, having dinner, taking a shower, watching some TV with the family, and going to bed before 9pm.
The amount of work did gradually increase, until high school when there was several hours per day to be completed. But since I was in school during the day for only 6 hours, that still left three hours to finish whatever was assigned before the 'rents came home from work. Larger projects obviously took more time, but that's life. College, naturally, demanded more.
Now, I have two sons. The third grader can read at a sixth grade level, but he was taking home reading material to practice reading 15-30 minutes per day outside of class starting in kindergarten. He was also taking home math and weekly projects, as well as one or two sheets per day that were "required" coloring. The only thing different for him starting in first grade was that the coloring assignments became penmanship assignments. The amount of work has only increased, both in quantity and complexity (I can understand the complexity point, obviously). He spends three hours a day doing homework. He's 8. I didn't do that much work until I was 15.
The younger boy is in kindergarten. He's there three hours a day. My wife and I have sat in on his classes. These kids are busy! They have rotating stations, music lessons, gym class, art class, their time is filled to the brim for those three hours. He brings home enough work with him every day to fill up another two hours if we bother to make him actually do it correctly. We don't. In fact, we encourage him to go out and play more. He's 5. No, he is not as far along as his older brother when that boy was at this point, but then again, neither was I.
Our parents, upon hearing how much our children are doing, simply shake their heads. Both of the grandfathers are engineers. Both of them recall kindergarten as a time for naps and crayons. Reading and the alphabet didn't start for them until first grade. Homework didn't start until high school. They obviously turned out fine. Both grandmothers are college-educated as well.
As for me and the missus, I graduated top of my class in high school and college, and make excellent money working from home. She's a teacher. Both of us are successful, well-adjusted, and intelligent. We didn't have homework in grade school, and we turned out just fine. We see what our kids' schools are doing to them, and we can see the educational benefits. We can also see the stress and anxiety. They don't need to learn that at 8 and 6. There's plenty of time for that when they are older. Their education will not "suffer" if I do my job as a parent and help them learn to slow down and enjoy life when they can, and to work hard when they must.
Accenture was formerly known as Andersen Consulting. Andersen Consulting was originally part of Arthur Andersen, then spun off as a sibling company in the 80's, in large part still tied to Arthur Andersen. In fact, there was a third company called Andersen Worldwide, which basically acted as a facilitator between the two main entities. Around '98 or early '99, AC managing partners got fed up with some of AA's business practices and partnership requirements, so they fully separated, severing all ties, and changed their name to Accenture.
So your comparison of Best Buy to Enron because of Enron's affiliation with Arthur Andersen (and BB's current affiliation with Accenture) is completely false.
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Problem is, everyone is claiming that the image would fall under parody or similar nonsense. It *would* be able to argue that *if* the kid who did it had made an actual parody. But all he did was take a copyrighted image and change the color of Obama's hair and face then post it online as his own work. It's clearly not his own work. Now, if he had made an actual PARODY of the Time magazine cover, gave it slightly different appearance, changed all the text and other little images on it to something else, THEN *that* would have been parody and then I would completely agree that his rights of free speech and expression were being censored by Flickr. Oh, and a reminder, Flickr is free to do whatever the hell it wants. Flickr is not the United States government beholden to follow the letter of the Constitution and its laws. And neither did the government order Flickr to take down the image. No. Flickr is a business entity. Flickr chose to do this on its own, which it is completely and entirely free to do. It is under no legal obligation to allow its users to post whatever they want. The GOVERNMENT is expected to respect free speech and can not (with obvious exceptions, rules, limitations, etc) curtail free speech by citizens. Flickr is not the government. There is no Constitution of the United Web Servers of Flickr. All you nut jobs screaming about censorship, free speech, and whatnot need to calm down and go look at the FACTS then make an intelligent post.
I completely agree with that post's final sentence: "If you want to upgrade early then you will have to pay full price with no subsidy discount. You can't blame anyone but yourself for your predicament." Every American cell-phone user knows this is standard practice. If you want to buy a new phone from your provider before your contract is up or your upgrade option renews, then you pay the non-subsidized price. I simply do not feel the slightest bit sorry for these whiners who feel that buying an iPhone last June/July somehow makes them special.
Dead astronauts usually go hand-in-bodypart with a destroyed spacecraft. Said spacecraft is probably worth billions to build and more billions to maintain and actually use. Those 7 astronauts are probably not exactly cheap, either. There's usually decades of training and education involved for each one of them. I haven't even thought to add in the value of the shuttle's payload if it were lost in the same accident.
Now let's look at those soldiers dying by the tens of thousands in a foreign war. Each soldier is pretty cheap on an individual basis compared to an astronaut. Society hasn't invested that much time, resources, or education on the average soldier compared to an astronaut. Their future value to humanity is also statistically and economically lower than the astronaut. The equipment the average soldier goes to war with is only a few thousands - maybe few tens of thousands - of dollars. Said equipment is typically common stuff easily replaced, as is the solider lost with that equipment. Heck, you could easily give a dead soldier's equipment to a live soldier and save a few dollars.
So, dollar for dollar, you have to lose thousands of soldiers and their equipment to reach the same financial loss as the destruction of a shuttle and it's crew. Looking at the Iraq war, America has lost a paltry 4000+ soldiers spread out over a period of 6 years. Compare that to losing a shuttle, it's crew, and it's payload all in one fast blast, and it becomes easy to see why sending soldiers to die in war is so much easier than risking a shuttle mission to repair Hubble.
My point is more commentary on the state of human affairs; life is only important if there is a significant dollar value attached to it.
This is yet another proof that 99.9% of consumers are sheep.
Or, put into the perspective of those 99.9% of consumers, they simply don't give a shit about what a bunch of nerds (who whine amongst each other on a geek website) think about stuff that doesn't affect anyone with a sex life.
That was a VERY creative and intelligent response. You dressed down that witless troglodyte with excellent logic. That you did so without the slightest wiff of personal attack in response is pure poetry.
Works fine for me. iPod Touch, Vista Ultimate x64, iTunes 8, all very happy with each other.
Look, people, it's simple.
OS/2 was a horse. More like a sway-backed nag.
It died.
More than 10 years ago.
???
There is NO profit!
Seriously - Stop beating this dead horse!
You say that like it's a bad thing.
I like immigrants... WHEN their presence is good for the community. If having a bunch of immigrants around negatively affects a community, say by depressing wages and lowering the standard of living for the natural citizens, then really the natural citizens have every right to want the immigrants to get the fuck out.
But hey, don't let me and my life get in the way of your efforts to lowball your way into a better economic situation.
I've been eagerly anticipating Spore for quite a while now. If this report turns out to be true, though, and the game requires this kind of frequent check just to allow me to play it, then I have no problem not playing it. I only buy games, I don't pirate them. And I only support companies that treat me like a paying customer when I am a paying customer. It's rather insulting that EA would assume by default that I am a thief and then treat me like one.
If you want the Beatles on your iPod, rip the CDs and transfer. Bingo - Beatlemania hit my iTunes/iPod years ago. Best of all, most of the CDs I bought were obtained at used CD stores for just a few dollars each. Score! $400 Million, Apple? You guys got ripped off. I will only be impressed if they are released on iTunes as a complete digital box set in Apple Lossless without DRM.
I wonder: how many of those 8k concurrent connections are from people who paid the money but couldn't download their digital purchase from NIN.com because of how incapable the servers were of handling the demand? I for one bought the $10+$6.99S&H CD set, then spent the next 6 hours repeatedly trying and failing to download the Apple Lossless files for which I paid. Once those files appeared on The Pirate Bay, I jumped on that torrent and downloaded from there in a matter of minutes. I'm messing with the statistics by doing that, and I would argue that many other people did likewise.
... a storyline about a band of smugglers being hunted down by Jedi.
Oh wait, that was Firefly.
OK, maybe if George just gave someone enough money to bring back Firefly with all the pre-Serenity characters I would be happy. Oh, yeah, and His Georgeness must not write or direct. Or produce. Or advise. Just pay.
I see no reason why universities should fight to protect the privacy of it's students in circumstances like this where a judge has pretty much given the approval for the plaintiffs actions. I would not want a uni to cave just because the MAFIAA contact them, but if a judge has reviewed their requests and then tells the uni to cough up the details, I tend to feel more comfortable with it.
Being a sysadmin (and I'd wager a significant portion of /.'s readership is also), this is a non-issue. I've been dealing with exactly this sort of thing for almost two decades. No big deal. I take it a step farther, in fact, because I work from home - work/life balance really gets weird by normal office jockey standards.
The big deal here is that the people who are having their lives invaded (and that's what it is to them) by these little devices are the kinds of people who have never carried a pager, cell phone, or other communication device for anything work-related ever. For people like me, it's a part of how things are for me. For these folks it will be a radical change.
Don't think for a minute that I am sympathetic toward them. Absolutely not. People like that have no clue about the daily extra effort IT folk put into their jobs, yet people like that have also been the least considerate when making demands of IT folk. Let them have a taste of what it's like to have dinner interrupted every evening, or to frequently get less than 4 hours of uninterrupted sleep, or to sacrifice time with loved ones because oncall duty interrupts it. I've got no problem with letting as many people as possible know what that's like.
Yeah, I'm bitter, but also experienced. I've got no problem not answering the cell outside of my posted work hours unless previous arrangements have been made. The world never collapsed as a result of a missed call.
While I would rather not get unsolicited calls, I do actually approve of the allowances for charities to call. I get about one charitable call per week, they've never happened after 5pm or on weekends, and they are almost always for material donations rather than money (ie clothes, food, etc). It's turned out on a few occasions that I've actually had a very good personal benefit from such calls, ending up with a good way to eliminate a lot of old clothes, especially the kids' old stuff.
However, with that said, my tolerance for charitable calls would evaporate quickly if they became more frequent, began to intrude on family time (please no calls evenings or weekends), or became pushy or demanding.
Naturally. And it then follows that only terrorists would ever use encryption. It's that whole "you have no reason to hide it if you aren't doing anything wrong" argument that police love so much. Funny how the land of the free home of the brave is defended most strongly against it's own citizens by the people who are typically the most patriotic (and the patriotic people are so willing to trample the rights that hypothetically make this a great country).
Because I do not support the police state, I tend to believe that I'm not doing anything wrong so they shouldn't be watching me. That is the America I believe in, but that's not the America that exists anymore. The terrorists won, and they are working for the government.
Wouldn't this be a good thing? Less languages will mean more people speaking the same one, thus promoting better communication.
Not necessarily. Oddly enough, language diversity is about as important as biological diversity, except most people who only speak one language are even less likely to understand that concept. All groups of people do not think the same, and it is an interesting twist that language itself can form the thought processes. There are whole concepts and realms of meaning that exist in German, for example, that simply can not be translated adequately into English (I pick those two language because I am fluent in both). You would have to know German to comprehend the concept correctly. Every language is like that, and the loss of any given language means the loss of an entire way of experiencing the world.
Going back to the example of German, there are plenty of theories and arguments that correlate the world-famous German precision engineering with the German language itself, which happens to be strict, methodical, and exact (when you are looking at the grammar rules, not necessarily its common usage). It does not lend itself well to beautiful poetry (I know, some are going to argue with me on that), but does wonders for exact description.
This is why, after 5 years as an AMD user, I have switched back to Intel chips for my two most recent computers.
Within seconds this easter egg had consumed more than a gig of available ram then locked up. Not what I would call "freaking awesome".
You have obviously never been the parent of a teenager before.
I've been waiting until the widescreen issue was properly addressed before I was going to buy this game, but now I am not going to. It's not worth getting a rootkit stuck in my system. I'm already pissed off at them for sticking it in the demo, which I tried to install but it would always crash. What a load of crap. They took the most anticipated game of the year and have turned it into something that is quickly becoming the most reviled piece of software of the year.
I won't debate the point that anti-bacterial soap may lead to new strains of bacteria that are hardier and resistant to the chemicals in the soap, however, I do believe the assertion that it is no better than regular soap is wrong. My own personal experience says otherwise. Bread in our household use to last about a week before it would get moldy and need to be thrown out. My wife saw anti-bacterial handsoap on sale once and bought some for the kitchen sink and both bathrooms (completely unrelated to the bread issue). Suddenly, the bread stopped getting moldy. A single loaf would last for weeks. Once all the anti-bacterial soap got used up we ended up using some other brand that happened to be on sale and we went right back to bread lasting only a week. Because I noticed this trend, I went out and got all A-B soap again and - voila - long-lasting bread. So in my mind, the A-B hand soap *IS* definitely doing something much better than regular soap does.
Cell phones are a luxury and a privilege, not a right. It's the awful behavior of rude assholes that has kept it firmly limited to that status only.
Homework didn't start until I was in 6th grade. Even then, it wasn't anything time-consuming. There was still ample freedom in my schedule for soccer, playing with friends, having dinner, taking a shower, watching some TV with the family, and going to bed before 9pm.
The amount of work did gradually increase, until high school when there was several hours per day to be completed. But since I was in school during the day for only 6 hours, that still left three hours to finish whatever was assigned before the 'rents came home from work. Larger projects obviously took more time, but that's life. College, naturally, demanded more.
Now, I have two sons. The third grader can read at a sixth grade level, but he was taking home reading material to practice reading 15-30 minutes per day outside of class starting in kindergarten. He was also taking home math and weekly projects, as well as one or two sheets per day that were "required" coloring. The only thing different for him starting in first grade was that the coloring assignments became penmanship assignments. The amount of work has only increased, both in quantity and complexity (I can understand the complexity point, obviously). He spends three hours a day doing homework. He's 8. I didn't do that much work until I was 15.
The younger boy is in kindergarten. He's there three hours a day. My wife and I have sat in on his classes. These kids are busy! They have rotating stations, music lessons, gym class, art class, their time is filled to the brim for those three hours. He brings home enough work with him every day to fill up another two hours if we bother to make him actually do it correctly. We don't. In fact, we encourage him to go out and play more. He's 5. No, he is not as far along as his older brother when that boy was at this point, but then again, neither was I.
Our parents, upon hearing how much our children are doing, simply shake their heads. Both of the grandfathers are engineers. Both of them recall kindergarten as a time for naps and crayons. Reading and the alphabet didn't start for them until first grade. Homework didn't start until high school. They obviously turned out fine. Both grandmothers are college-educated as well.
As for me and the missus, I graduated top of my class in high school and college, and make excellent money working from home. She's a teacher. Both of us are successful, well-adjusted, and intelligent. We didn't have homework in grade school, and we turned out just fine. We see what our kids' schools are doing to them, and we can see the educational benefits. We can also see the stress and anxiety. They don't need to learn that at 8 and 6. There's plenty of time for that when they are older. Their education will not "suffer" if I do my job as a parent and help them learn to slow down and enjoy life when they can, and to work hard when they must.
So your comparison of Best Buy to Enron because of Enron's affiliation with Arthur Andersen (and BB's current affiliation with Accenture) is completely false.