It's actually a mild form of trying to grab an abandoned account name in order to leach off the popularity. Same thing happens with abandoned domain names. If you don't want this happening, don't abandon your old account.
We don't know the type of crimes he's committed, but at the very least he has proven himself willing and able to commit crimes of a certain nature. However, it is impossible to prove he will never do any crime again. Statistically, he's in a group (= released prisoners) where 3/4th will commit a crime within 5 years. Perhaps his types of crime have less recidivism, but we don't have enough information to judge that. If the nature of his past crimes conflict with the type of access to sensitive data that typically comes with an IT job, you shouldn't be surprised employers won't risk hiring you. I can't think of a single IT job where you won't have access to data that could be abused. Again, it depends on the type of crimes. Perhaps in a few decades you'll have earned back enough trust. Not trying to put the guy down, but this is the reality of how companies will judge his job applications.
Your best bet is probably to start your own business (assuming you are legally allowed to do so with a criminal background; I don't know the local laws). Even then you might run into laws preventing you from certain types of business due to your past.
MacDonalds' products are the best. Atleast if you define "best" as "fastest and cheapest". Personally I define "best" as "tastiest for a reasonable price", in which case MacDonalds' products are not the best. It's all subjective.
VHS had the longest video tapes and apparently that was all people cared about, so for a lot of people it was the best.
This is semantics. Some people don't think of black and/or white as colors at all. Some people define black as a total absense of light (photons), others as an amount of light below the humanly visible treshold. You seem to define black as the latter, with the addition that atleast some light must be present. In the end, whether a black hole has the color black is a matter for dictionaries, not a matter of scientific fact (unless assuming a scientific definition of what the words "color" and "black" mean).
Things like compression, firewalls and proxying definitely add value to me as a user. But it's a value I'd happily trade in for the value of security and privacy.
So after 2 billion views, 200 billion additional views would just be noise? Anything that happens after those first 2 billions views is just as much noise as any of those first 2 billion views.
You could do both; pay for the original version and play the DRM-free version. Some former collegues of mine did exactly this back when some FPS came out (I think it was Doom 3); they bought the original boxes and played the cracked versions. Most ordinary people would think this acceptable behaviour but legally it's probably a bit of a gray area.
It's like the annoying anti-piracy warnings on DVD's (and possibly BlueRay still?) you are forced to watch; pirates don't get the warning in their version and hence have a better product than paying customers. I've bought DVD's, ripped them minus the warnings and used both discs in the case. FWIW, such backups are legal in my country.
There's not an infinite amount of money, therefore there is not an infinite demand for products, therefore there is not an infinite demand for companies. By definition, only a certain fraction of society will be succesful at starting a company that can employ people, regardles of individual qualities.
I'd like to see marijuana legalized as much as most people and know that small doses don't negatively affect driving ability. Some go as far to say it may even improve driving ability. But surely everybody will agree that marijuana at large enough doses does impede driving ability. It's these larger doses that should not be allowed while driving.
It's the same with alcohol. Just because you're allowed to be shit-faced drunk, doesn't mean you should be allowed to be shit-faced drunk while driving a car.
It's better to try and fail than never try at all.
But since you have very little experience programming in any language, you're going to have to do a lot of learning and you're going to have to get a lot of help. Objective-C has been around a lot longer; there will be more people available to help and there will be more books, tutorials and example code. Considering there is a large and valuable legacy code base, it's going to be around for quite some time to come.
Languages aren't that difficult to switch, assuming you're familiar with the paradigm (procedural, object-oriented, functional). API's are the hard part, but they'll be pretty similar between Objective-C and Swift. By the time you're proficient with Objective-C, switching to Swift (if necessary) should take just a couple of months at the very worst.
The FTC also alleged that Deutsch LA misled consumers by asking employees to post positive tweets about the console on their personal Twitter accounts — without disclosing their connection to the ad agency or Sony.
There is no such thing as a personal twitter account. There are only corporate twitter accounts and anonymous twitter accounts which your employer does not know about.
It's time to come clean. We were all in on it except for MagickalMyst. Should we send one of the Rosswell IFO's to pick him up and take him to emperor Elvis for briefing?
It just means that kernel version numbering has been robbed of it's use by the marketing department.
Never mind that the only people who would actually care about kernel version numbers are the same kind of people who actually need it to have some significance. All this "10.0" version number will do, is for the technical community to start using more meaningful version identifiers like build numbers or dates or perhaps some other internal number that hasn't been discovered by the marketeers. It just means that the kernel version number is no longer of any value or useful meaning.
Red Bull's only product is marketing. All the "extreme" sports events, websites, media and soft drinks are the means by which they push their marketing into the world. This article's primary goal is to push their brand, any information or entertainment contained within it is just collatoral damage.
I meant "the person himself" vs. "a stranger" rather than a choice between specific people. Most people would probably pay to have the ability to shock a specific person.
Slashdot Mirror
Cool. And I'm sure they'll survive a fluffy pillow too. How about throwing in a battery or rotor engine?
Makes you wonder how well they'll handle a clump of metal making up a drone motor or battery.
Don't know if you're being sarcastic or not, but a drone hitting the fan of a jet engine can be quite damaging.
It's actually a mild form of identity theft.
It's actually a mild form of trying to grab an abandoned account name in order to leach off the popularity.
Same thing happens with abandoned domain names.
If you don't want this happening, don't abandon your old account.
We don't know the type of crimes he's committed, but at the very least he has proven himself willing and able to commit crimes of a certain nature. However, it is impossible to prove he will never do any crime again. Statistically, he's in a group (= released prisoners) where 3/4th will commit a crime within 5 years. Perhaps his types of crime have less recidivism, but we don't have enough information to judge that. If the nature of his past crimes conflict with the type of access to sensitive data that typically comes with an IT job, you shouldn't be surprised employers won't risk hiring you. I can't think of a single IT job where you won't have access to data that could be abused. Again, it depends on the type of crimes. Perhaps in a few decades you'll have earned back enough trust. Not trying to put the guy down, but this is the reality of how companies will judge his job applications.
Your best bet is probably to start your own business (assuming you are legally allowed to do so with a criminal background; I don't know the local laws). Even then you might run into laws preventing you from certain types of business due to your past.
MacDonalds' products are the best. Atleast if you define "best" as "fastest and cheapest".
Personally I define "best" as "tastiest for a reasonable price", in which case MacDonalds' products are not the best.
It's all subjective.
VHS had the longest video tapes and apparently that was all people cared about, so for a lot of people it was the best.
This is semantics. Some people don't think of black and/or white as colors at all. Some people define black as a total absense of light (photons), others as an amount of light below the humanly visible treshold. You seem to define black as the latter, with the addition that atleast some light must be present. In the end, whether a black hole has the color black is a matter for dictionaries, not a matter of scientific fact (unless assuming a scientific definition of what the words "color" and "black" mean).
Things like compression, firewalls and proxying definitely add value to me as a user.
But it's a value I'd happily trade in for the value of security and privacy.
So after 2 billion views, 200 billion additional views would just be noise?
Anything that happens after those first 2 billions views is just as much noise as any of those first 2 billion views.
You could do both; pay for the original version and play the DRM-free version.
Some former collegues of mine did exactly this back when some FPS came out (I think it was Doom 3); they bought the original boxes and played the cracked versions.
Most ordinary people would think this acceptable behaviour but legally it's probably a bit of a gray area.
It's like the annoying anti-piracy warnings on DVD's (and possibly BlueRay still?) you are forced to watch; pirates don't get the warning in their version and hence have a better product than paying customers. I've bought DVD's, ripped them minus the warnings and used both discs in the case. FWIW, such backups are legal in my country.
Look, without the movie companies making movies, we wouldn't have movie leaks.
It's clear the movie companies themselves are to blame.
There's not an infinite amount of money, therefore there is not an infinite demand for products, therefore there is not an infinite demand for companies.
By definition, only a certain fraction of society will be succesful at starting a company that can employ people, regardles of individual qualities.
http://www.komonews.com/news/l...
http://denver.cbslocal.com/201...
If you've ever been stoned, you'll understand why driving a car while stoned should be forbidden.
I've never seen a stoned musician slam a 2 ton metal guitar at 50mph into a crowd.
I'd like to see marijuana legalized as much as most people and know that small doses don't negatively affect driving ability. Some go as far to say it may even improve driving ability. But surely everybody will agree that marijuana at large enough doses does impede driving ability. It's these larger doses that should not be allowed while driving.
It's the same with alcohol. Just because you're allowed to be shit-faced drunk, doesn't mean you should be allowed to be shit-faced drunk while driving a car.
It's better to try and fail than never try at all.
But since you have very little experience programming in any language, you're going to have to do a lot of learning and you're going to have to get a lot of help.
Objective-C has been around a lot longer; there will be more people available to help and there will be more books, tutorials and example code.
Considering there is a large and valuable legacy code base, it's going to be around for quite some time to come.
Languages aren't that difficult to switch, assuming you're familiar with the paradigm (procedural, object-oriented, functional).
API's are the hard part, but they'll be pretty similar between Objective-C and Swift.
By the time you're proficient with Objective-C, switching to Swift (if necessary) should take just a couple of months at the very worst.
From TFA
The FTC also alleged that Deutsch LA misled consumers by asking employees to post positive tweets about the console on their personal Twitter accounts — without disclosing their connection to the ad agency or Sony.
There is no such thing as a personal twitter account.
There are only corporate twitter accounts and anonymous twitter accounts which your employer does not know about.
They should have known some religious nutjob would turn 0 BC into a cultist festival.
It's time to come clean.
We were all in on it except for MagickalMyst.
Should we send one of the Rosswell IFO's to pick him up and take him to emperor Elvis for briefing?
I can haz both!
Use Google and its ilk for 99.9% of my daily activity, use privacy-respecting tools for the remaining 0.1% that requires privacy.
This.
It just means that kernel version numbering has been robbed of it's use by the marketing department.
Never mind that the only people who would actually care about kernel version numbers are the same kind of people who actually need it to have some significance. All this "10.0" version number will do, is for the technical community to start using more meaningful version identifiers like build numbers or dates or perhaps some other internal number that hasn't been discovered by the marketeers. It just means that the kernel version number is no longer of any value or useful meaning.
Red Bull's only product is marketing.
All the "extreme" sports events, websites, media and soft drinks are the means by which they push their marketing into the world.
This article's primary goal is to push their brand, any information or entertainment contained within it is just collatoral damage.
The DS turned 10 in the same way that the Playstation turned 20.
Current DS is a completely different device from the first DS.
I meant "the person himself" vs. "a stranger" rather than a choice between specific people.
Most people would probably pay to have the ability to shock a specific person.
Still; it doesn't state what is in the contract.