It would be a silly scheme though considering that this is a safe Republican seat anyway. Ok if we are going to be throwing conspiracy theories around, how do you know that this is not a scheme by the Democrats to create a scandal that they could blame on the Republicans?
It wouldn't matter which side fixed the election, if it was fixed. If it can be proved that the iVo is "fixable", that's a pretty big deal.
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In most of the companies I know, you'd be written up or fired within 8 hours of pulling such a stunt.
Well, you don't tell them. If you do that, you're doing it wrong. "Written up". Whatever. This isn't junior high, or whatever you kids call it these days.
Just be happy you have a job. There are various ways you can "compensate" yourself for the increased workload, without pissing off the boss(es) by asking for a raise. Like taking full advantage of the free printers to run-off resumes and look for a new job.
Employers just love the "be happy you have a job" attitude. But really, there's only so much compensation you can make up from the office supplies cabinet.
The post-9/11 airport has been all about security through showmanship.
Yet, somehow, there haven't been any more planes bringing down skyscrapers or smashing into the Pentagon. Maybe the showmanship is having the desired effect?
Haven't been any more bear sightings after we implemented the "Bear Patrol" either. However, just in case, you might be interested in this special rock . . .
So what's left? We are pretty much left with SPOT: the observation of human behavior to indicate who gets special treatment. It is the only thing that can work, because it keys on the only thing common among terrorists: their plan, and the impact on human physiology of planning a suicide. Will innocent people be subjected to extra searches? They sure will. But behavioral observation - if done correctly, and yes, that's a big if - is the only real profiling technique that has any chance of not falling into obvious traps.
If a security measure can be beaten with Xanax, it's probably not worth it.
I use a prepaid service. "Unlimited" voice, text, and data is $50/month
You are not using a prepaid service. You have a monthly contract of $50/month. Pre-paid the article is referring to are phones where you pay per minute you use plus a fee for connecting. so you make no calls during the month your bill that month is $0.00
You don't have to back it up. It's just plain false.
OK, I see your false and raise you a "your false is false." Or something.
I use a prepaid service. "Unlimited" voice, text, and data is $50/month with all the taxes and fees and misc added in ~$57. To get the equivalent in a "contract" plan with the same carrier, it would cost me $80 + the fees and tax.
There are also limited usage versions of the prepaid and contract plans, but in almost every case, the prepaid is cheaper. You have to buy a phone at "full price" if you go prepaid, but even if you buy it from the carrier, it's only $30-$200 more expensive, and you make that up in less than a year's worth of service.
I'm sorry you can't find a deal like that in your area.
..why is it that no one has a better idea or alternative; just rants on how it won't work. I'm not saying this just to flame bait - personally I think/. has some of the most intelligent folks I've read posts from. So how about coming up with some better alternatives? I'd just like to see some of the creative and experienced people here suggest some ideas rather than just bemoan the stupidity of others.
Not doing something is an alternative to doing it.
Since I'm guessing this is a Windows environment -- installing Python. I wouldn't think it would be a big deal if the users were already installing the system being tested. But you did ask, and that is a slight increase in complexity.
As long as the kernel configuration file and platform-specific drivers are included in the kernel source, everything needed to build it for the target is available, so a competent programmer cannot be precluded from changing it.
I know GCC can compile and link for many processors and controllers, but all? Perhaps the system in question uses a microcontroller that GCC cannot generate object code and binaries for.
Why would I want to use Facebook at all if I value my privacy? And a follow up which is probably more to the point, with all the shit Facebook has pulled, why are you bitching about it if you're still a user?
Maybe you do value your privacy with some (strangers, employers) more than with others (friends, family). I think that privacy, like intimacy is not a binary thing. There are people whose hand you wouldn't even shake, folks you would hug in public and people who've seen you naked, right? (I'm being rhetorical here, you don't need to answer that.)
I take your point about facebook, though. They don't act trustworthy and do act too capriciously. Nevertheless, people would like to expose some of themselves, just not all of it and just not to everybody. Facebook happens to be extremely popular: many of your friends are there. Bitching about facebook's crap is actually quite reasonable. You'd like them to change to avoid the hassle of finding another alternative. They probably won't, given their history, but they certainly won't if no one says anything.
I'm lazy, impatient, have a sense of entitlement AND a cheap-ass.
Plus I sometimes want to watch a movie or listen to music. It's a freakin' movie or tune, OK? How much god-damn effort do I need to put into it? I don't want to record music or make a movie. Does Fiskars have a case against me cause I'm too lazy to mow the lawn with scissors? If you want to make a movie but feel that only the worthy should see it, I suppose you can. Just don't expect to profit from the endeavor. You make things too hard, too expensive, too time consuming or require some sort of morality test for your customers to overcome, then they're gonna find another way to get it or just find something else altogether.
So, to summarize, all that "lazy, impatient, have a sense of entitlement AND a cheap-ass" really means is that I'm a discerning consumer trying to find something for the lowest cost possible. I suppose to be consistent, you'd have to also accuse someone producing a product that insists that I come somewhere to buy it at his convenience, when he's available and for whatever price he sets as "lazy, unmotivated, having a sense of entitlement and a greedy bastard". Except that we're talking a company here, so they're exempt of such accusations, right?
Steam showed that halving the game's price results is more than twice the sales. Which in the end means more profit.
Not necessarily. Sometimes the publisher of a video game based on a licensed underlying work is required to pay a fixed royalty per copy to this underlying work's copyright owner. This means that whether the game costs $20 per copy or $10 per copy, the underlying work's copyright owner still gets its $2 or more per copy.
Looks like you've solved the problem right there by reducing it to recursion.
Why don't we simply get rid of textbooks? With the internet primary source material is -very- easy to find and would teach children how to think rather than how to be brainwashed by the Right/Left. A teacher would guide discussions and offer hints about what primary material would be on tests, but really, textbooks by nature are not "apolitical" they have human editors with human biases. Perhaps 20 years ago the argument could be made that it was too hard to find primary sources, but today? One look at Google Books shows thousands of relevant, historical material for free.
I thought at first you were advocating getting rid of textbooks in physical form, but then I realized you meant paper, online, audiobook, everything. I don't think we should go that far.
Although it can be useful to examine primary sources, it may not always be practical. For instance, you might expect to be able to teach a subject to a child even though the primary material is beyond their reading or comprehension level. For that matter, it might not be written in a child's native language or even one he/she could be expected to study.
I'm also not certain that primary information is as available as you suggest. Not all subjects are equally well documented on the internets in primary form. And some that are are behind paywalls. Plenty of science and medical journals require a subscription or per-article fee to access them. Probably others as well. Maybe you could overcome this by making sure that your school has a subscription to just about everything a student might be expected to need. But then you're back in the filter business like you were before with the textbooks.
I think we'll continue to need textbooks in one form or another.
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It would be a silly scheme though considering that this is a safe Republican seat anyway. Ok if we are going to be throwing conspiracy theories around, how do you know that this is not a scheme by the Democrats to create a scandal that they could blame on the Republicans?
It wouldn't matter which side fixed the election, if it was fixed. If it can be proved that the iVo is "fixable", that's a pretty big deal.
1 month to launch? Sure, no problem, we'll give you a 10k per year raise. And then we'll show you the exit a week or two after launch.
Sounds like a good way to end up having to contract with the guy for 5-10 times his previous wage to make inevitable changes and fixes.
I think every time I post a new position I get 100 candidates more qualified than your dumbass.
Oh, I get it. Anyone can just jump in and take over with no loss of time and resources. Then whatcha waitin' for? Nothing can possibly go wrong!
Don't you mean:
Because it's like a console . . .!
Is is much more efficient to produce tex ,"swolp xo eht sa" t
aer eht gnitanimile
der's need to slew his eyeballs back to
OH ym tsuj-enil txen eht fo gninnigeb eht
In most of the companies I know, you'd be written up or fired within 8 hours of pulling such a stunt.
Well, you don't tell them. If you do that, you're doing it wrong. "Written up". Whatever. This isn't junior high, or whatever you kids call it these days.
Just be happy you have a job. There are various ways you can "compensate" yourself for the increased workload, without pissing off the boss(es) by asking for a raise. Like taking full advantage of the free printers to run-off resumes and look for a new job.
Employers just love the "be happy you have a job" attitude. But really, there's only so much compensation you can make up from the office supplies cabinet.
Yet, somehow, there haven't been any more planes bringing down skyscrapers or smashing into the Pentagon. Maybe the showmanship is having the desired effect?
Haven't been any more bear sightings after we implemented the "Bear Patrol" either. However, just in case, you might be interested in this special rock . . .
So what's left? We are pretty much left with SPOT: the observation of human behavior to indicate who gets special treatment. It is the only thing that can work, because it keys on the only thing common among terrorists: their plan, and the impact on human physiology of planning a suicide. Will innocent people be subjected to extra searches? They sure will. But behavioral observation - if done correctly, and yes, that's a big if - is the only real profiling technique that has any chance of not falling into obvious traps.
If a security measure can be beaten with Xanax, it's probably not worth it.
in recent history that gambling casinos have used "mechanical problems" to evade honoring their promises?
I believe you're right. This one was in Central City.
I use a prepaid service. "Unlimited" voice, text, and data is $50/month
You are not using a prepaid service. You have a monthly contract of $50/month. Pre-paid the article is referring to are phones where you pay per minute you use plus a fee for connecting. so you make no calls during the month your bill that month is $0.00
I pay in advance. There is no contract.
No T-mobile in my state at all . . .
You don't have to back it up. It's just plain false.
OK, I see your false and raise you a "your false is false." Or something.
I use a prepaid service. "Unlimited" voice, text, and data is $50/month with all the taxes and fees and misc added in ~$57. To get the equivalent in a "contract" plan with the same carrier, it would cost me $80 + the fees and tax.
There are also limited usage versions of the prepaid and contract plans, but in almost every case, the prepaid is cheaper. You have to buy a phone at "full price" if you go prepaid, but even if you buy it from the carrier, it's only $30-$200 more expensive, and you make that up in less than a year's worth of service.
I'm sorry you can't find a deal like that in your area.
..why is it that no one has a better idea or alternative; just rants on how it won't work. I'm not saying this just to flame bait - personally I think /. has some of the most intelligent folks I've read posts from. So how about coming up with some better alternatives? I'd just like to see some of the creative and experienced people here suggest some ideas rather than just bemoan the stupidity of others.
Not doing something is an alternative to doing it.
Prepaid = more expensive..
Frugal how? Saving gas by not having as much money in your pocket?
Prepaid = less expensive.
And don't ask me to back that up, either.
Um, I don't know about you but I have not had my name on a cell phone contract for 5 years. The name on the contract is my companies, not mine.
Well, I guess you're in the clear. They'd never make that leap . . .
You are willing to bet eternity on that?
You sure that every week you aren't just making God madder and madder?
What complexity does python add (for instance)? .
Since I'm guessing this is a Windows environment -- installing Python. I wouldn't think it would be a big deal if the users were already installing the system being tested. But you did ask, and that is a slight increase in complexity.
nobody cares what you think.
I dunno. At least one guy cared enough to respond.
As long as the kernel configuration file and platform-specific drivers are included in the kernel source, everything needed to build it for the target is available, so a competent programmer cannot be precluded from changing it.
I know GCC can compile and link for many processors and controllers, but all? Perhaps the system in question uses a microcontroller that GCC cannot generate object code and binaries for.
Why would I want to use Facebook at all if I value my privacy? And a follow up which is probably more to the point, with all the shit Facebook has pulled, why are you bitching about it if you're still a user?
Maybe you do value your privacy with some (strangers, employers) more than with others (friends, family). I think that privacy, like intimacy is not a binary thing. There are people whose hand you wouldn't even shake, folks you would hug in public and people who've seen you naked, right? (I'm being rhetorical here, you don't need to answer that.)
I take your point about facebook, though. They don't act trustworthy and do act too capriciously. Nevertheless, people would like to expose some of themselves, just not all of it and just not to everybody. Facebook happens to be extremely popular: many of your friends are there. Bitching about facebook's crap is actually quite reasonable. You'd like them to change to avoid the hassle of finding another alternative. They probably won't, given their history, but they certainly won't if no one says anything.
You Americans and your crazy spellings, what is it you have against the letter u? You won't put it in colour and now you won't even put it in fuck!
There's no "u" in "team".
And I should add, that I'm responding to your "persona", not so much to you, "Em Emalb". So don't blame me.
I'm lazy, impatient, have a sense of entitlement AND a cheap-ass.
Plus I sometimes want to watch a movie or listen to music. It's a freakin' movie or tune, OK? How much god-damn effort do I need to put into it? I don't want to record music or make a movie. Does Fiskars have a case against me cause I'm too lazy to mow the lawn with scissors? If you want to make a movie but feel that only the worthy should see it, I suppose you can. Just don't expect to profit from the endeavor. You make things too hard, too expensive, too time consuming or require some sort of morality test for your customers to overcome, then they're gonna find another way to get it or just find something else altogether.
So, to summarize, all that "lazy, impatient, have a sense of entitlement AND a cheap-ass" really means is that I'm a discerning consumer trying to find something for the lowest cost possible. I suppose to be consistent, you'd have to also accuse someone producing a product that insists that I come somewhere to buy it at his convenience, when he's available and for whatever price he sets as "lazy, unmotivated, having a sense of entitlement and a greedy bastard". Except that we're talking a company here, so they're exempt of such accusations, right?
Steam showed that halving the game's price results is more than twice the sales. Which in the end means more profit.
Not necessarily. Sometimes the publisher of a video game based on a licensed underlying work is required to pay a fixed royalty per copy to this underlying work's copyright owner. This means that whether the game costs $20 per copy or $10 per copy, the underlying work's copyright owner still gets its $2 or more per copy.
Looks like you've solved the problem right there by reducing it to recursion.
Why don't we simply get rid of textbooks? With the internet primary source material is -very- easy to find and would teach children how to think rather than how to be brainwashed by the Right/Left. A teacher would guide discussions and offer hints about what primary material would be on tests, but really, textbooks by nature are not "apolitical" they have human editors with human biases. Perhaps 20 years ago the argument could be made that it was too hard to find primary sources, but today? One look at Google Books shows thousands of relevant, historical material for free.
I thought at first you were advocating getting rid of textbooks in physical form, but then I realized you meant paper, online, audiobook, everything. I don't think we should go that far.
Although it can be useful to examine primary sources, it may not always be practical. For instance, you might expect to be able to teach a subject to a child even though the primary material is beyond their reading or comprehension level. For that matter, it might not be written in a child's native language or even one he/she could be expected to study.
I'm also not certain that primary information is as available as you suggest. Not all subjects are equally well documented on the internets in primary form. And some that are are behind paywalls. Plenty of science and medical journals require a subscription or per-article fee to access them. Probably others as well. Maybe you could overcome this by making sure that your school has a subscription to just about everything a student might be expected to need. But then you're back in the filter business like you were before with the textbooks.
I think we'll continue to need textbooks in one form or another.
It's "Gandhi".
OK, First they ignore you, then they laugh at you, then they correct your spelling.