An even bigger problem is that with software, we don't get to just say "Close Enough". If you look at any building, bridge, wall, whatever, you will find huge numbers of defects. If the bridge doesn't fall down we say "Close Enough". With industries like medicine, standards are even looser.
Software development is just about the only industry where perfection is expected.
That is the correct answer. The Bizzeh's employer is trying to steal from Bizzeh. There is no industry where employees are expected to work for free. It is likely that Bizzeh's employer was actually in violation of the law by even suggesting that Bizzeh work for free.
Liberal Motto: If reality proves you wrong, accuse the other person of being a conservative, reject that reality and substitute your own.
I am not even close to what anyone would call a "Conservative". It's just that Liberals tend to be so batshit insane that they can't even comprehend that there is anything but the Red team and Blue team.
3DTV is nice. The only really problem with it is that the TVs won't automatically merge two different inputs into a single "3D" feed so that I can wear a left only set of glasses while my wife wears a set of right only glasses.
The premise with the refridgerators keeping track of experation dates is that they would use and RFID type technology in the food product packaging, so you wouldn't keep a database of your food. The database would happen automatically.
In many places, it is more of a... You only have it if you lock the gun in a safe and never take it out. Especially when there is ammunition in the same room.
You do realize that those statistics don't count the majority of times that a gun is used for self defense, right? If someone commits assault or murder, the police are virtually always contacted. When someone commits suicide, the authorities are virtually always contacted. When someone shoots themselves on accident, they will generally go to a hospital, and... the authorities are contacted.
On the other hand, in the vast majority of cases, when a gun is used for self protection in the home, no shots are fired, and the homeowner does not contact the authorities because they then run the risk of being arrested for protecting themselves from a threat that they have already neutralized.
I can't say definitively one way or the other, but what I do see is that I periodically take my son to Starbucks for a change of scenery in his school day (we homeschool), and the work that the local college students are doing is only slightly more advanced than what my 9 year old is doing.
My distinct impression is that most colleges have gone the paper mill route for most of their courses. The only difference between the traditional colleges and the what generally get classified as paper mills seems to be that the traditional colleges will have one or two departments that are legit, so that those departments can be pointed to when someone calls them out as paper mills.
I believe that you can use a standard Windows RPC client with ReactOS.
I would agree that they need to get some adoption. I think (which has no real bearing on what they should really do) they should work at getting some of those high value applications working 100% on ReactOS, and then create an installer so that the application could install into a version of ReactOS that launches the application by default and that installs into a Virtual machine. This would make ReactOS a compatibility layer for all of those old applications. Any bugs or missing features in ReactOS that are not used by the specific application would not matter.
Another option would be to try to work with someone like GOG. GOG already uses DosBox and ScummVM to run a lot of games. Having a system that would allow them to package old Windows games would enhance their offerings. Particularly if the system was cross platform, which ReactOS installed to a VM would be.
Unless they figure out how to replace the bricked part. Thieves will also stop stealing things that track their location and report it to the police, who then come and arrest them.
Specific details like supporting a candidate that they don't like? Or how about specific details like speaking ill of the police union? Maybe, specific data having posted video footage of another cop committing a crime?
Any data that police receive should be required to have been sanitized before making it to the cops.
I don't know how good or bad things are in Canada, but here in the U.S., being a "white guy" hasn't been protection against corrupt cops in the last 40 years.
Yeah, because it is way more dangerous for a teenage boy to drive 45 in a 35 than it is for a woman of any age with big tits to drive at any speed they want.
That would imply that there are healthy departments, or even enough healthy departments. At the current state of things, it is more likely that the corrupt would so outnumber the good that you would just end up breaking the oddball uncorrupt departments that may exist.
You are right though about not being able to just fire the Chief. It's not like a new Chief of Police could walk into the department and fire/suspend 90% of his staff.
It is painfully clear that the level of conspiracy to destroy evidence has been well entrenched at every level of virtually all police departments for a very long time.
If the phones are generally being sent over seas, they are not going to get killed before it is sold. It doesn't take any time at all for it to get around that you need to turn the phone off quickly after stealing it for that to become the standard.
Honestly, I don't buy that most of the phones are being shipped over seas. The overseas theory would require a vast criminal network for a product that just doesn't have that much value above wholesale. The price paid for a stolen iPhone can't be that much more than the wholesale price of counterfeit iPhone. When you start getting into Android phones, you won't even be able to identify by sight the difference between a $600 retail vs a $80 retail phone.
It isn't the NSA that I would worry about. It is more local law enforcement. As much as I dislike the behavior of our federal government these days, I have never been in a situation where I thought I was in immediate danger of physical harm from a federal agent. I have been afraid for my safety from local law enforcement several times.
Better yet, use the tracking that is already built into each and every phone to go arrest the criminal. When arrests for stolen cell phones starts to reach close to 100%, even crackheads will stop stealing them.
It is already a given that if they were trying to stop cell phone theft, they would just track the phone and arrest the people stealing them. Claims that a kill switch is to prevent cell phone theft isn't even a good lie.
Nothing is done to brick the credit card. The card itself works exactly as it always did. The back end systems can refuse to authorize a loan against that particular card, but that is entirely different than bricking the card.
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An even bigger problem is that with software, we don't get to just say "Close Enough". If you look at any building, bridge, wall, whatever, you will find huge numbers of defects. If the bridge doesn't fall down we say "Close Enough". With industries like medicine, standards are even looser.
Software development is just about the only industry where perfection is expected.
That is the correct answer. The Bizzeh's employer is trying to steal from Bizzeh. There is no industry where employees are expected to work for free. It is likely that Bizzeh's employer was actually in violation of the law by even suggesting that Bizzeh work for free.
Liberal Motto: If reality proves you wrong, accuse the other person of being a conservative, reject that reality and substitute your own.
I am not even close to what anyone would call a "Conservative". It's just that Liberals tend to be so batshit insane that they can't even comprehend that there is anything but the Red team and Blue team.
3DTV is nice. The only really problem with it is that the TVs won't automatically merge two different inputs into a single "3D" feed so that I can wear a left only set of glasses while my wife wears a set of right only glasses.
The premise with the refridgerators keeping track of experation dates is that they would use and RFID type technology in the food product packaging, so you wouldn't keep a database of your food. The database would happen automatically.
Is someone wants to destroy your home or property, they don't need a computer hack to do it.
In many places, it is more of a... You only have it if you lock the gun in a safe and never take it out. Especially when there is ammunition in the same room.
That is simply not true. These guys have been offering third party monitoring for DIY home security for over a decade.
http://www.smarthome.com/alarm...
You do realize that those statistics don't count the majority of times that a gun is used for self defense, right? If someone commits assault or murder, the police are virtually always contacted. When someone commits suicide, the authorities are virtually always contacted. When someone shoots themselves on accident, they will generally go to a hospital, and... the authorities are contacted.
On the other hand, in the vast majority of cases, when a gun is used for self protection in the home, no shots are fired, and the homeowner does not contact the authorities because they then run the risk of being arrested for protecting themselves from a threat that they have already neutralized.
No kidding, if we start mining the moon, we might turn it into a lifeless ball of rock with craters pitting it's surface.
I can't say definitively one way or the other, but what I do see is that I periodically take my son to Starbucks for a change of scenery in his school day (we homeschool), and the work that the local college students are doing is only slightly more advanced than what my 9 year old is doing.
My distinct impression is that most colleges have gone the paper mill route for most of their courses. The only difference between the traditional colleges and the what generally get classified as paper mills seems to be that the traditional colleges will have one or two departments that are legit, so that those departments can be pointed to when someone calls them out as paper mills.
I believe that you can use a standard Windows RPC client with ReactOS.
I would agree that they need to get some adoption. I think (which has no real bearing on what they should really do) they should work at getting some of those high value applications working 100% on ReactOS, and then create an installer so that the application could install into a version of ReactOS that launches the application by default and that installs into a Virtual machine. This would make ReactOS a compatibility layer for all of those old applications. Any bugs or missing features in ReactOS that are not used by the specific application would not matter.
Another option would be to try to work with someone like GOG. GOG already uses DosBox and ScummVM to run a lot of games. Having a system that would allow them to package old Windows games would enhance their offerings. Particularly if the system was cross platform, which ReactOS installed to a VM would be.
Unless they figure out how to replace the bricked part. Thieves will also stop stealing things that track their location and report it to the police, who then come and arrest them.
Specific details like supporting a candidate that they don't like? Or how about specific details like speaking ill of the police union? Maybe, specific data having posted video footage of another cop committing a crime?
Any data that police receive should be required to have been sanitized before making it to the cops.
I don't know how good or bad things are in Canada, but here in the U.S., being a "white guy" hasn't been protection against corrupt cops in the last 40 years.
Yeah, because it is way more dangerous for a teenage boy to drive 45 in a 35 than it is for a woman of any age with big tits to drive at any speed they want.
That would imply that there are healthy departments, or even enough healthy departments. At the current state of things, it is more likely that the corrupt would so outnumber the good that you would just end up breaking the oddball uncorrupt departments that may exist.
You are right though about not being able to just fire the Chief. It's not like a new Chief of Police could walk into the department and fire/suspend 90% of his staff.
It is painfully clear that the level of conspiracy to destroy evidence has been well entrenched at every level of virtually all police departments for a very long time.
If the phones are generally being sent over seas, they are not going to get killed before it is sold. It doesn't take any time at all for it to get around that you need to turn the phone off quickly after stealing it for that to become the standard.
Honestly, I don't buy that most of the phones are being shipped over seas. The overseas theory would require a vast criminal network for a product that just doesn't have that much value above wholesale. The price paid for a stolen iPhone can't be that much more than the wholesale price of counterfeit iPhone. When you start getting into Android phones, you won't even be able to identify by sight the difference between a $600 retail vs a $80 retail phone.
It isn't the NSA that I would worry about. It is more local law enforcement. As much as I dislike the behavior of our federal government these days, I have never been in a situation where I thought I was in immediate danger of physical harm from a federal agent. I have been afraid for my safety from local law enforcement several times.
Better yet, use the tracking that is already built into each and every phone to go arrest the criminal. When arrests for stolen cell phones starts to reach close to 100%, even crackheads will stop stealing them.
A kill switch won't work if it is shipped over seas and sold.
Which is why just arresting the thieves is a better solution than bricking the phone.
It is already a given that if they were trying to stop cell phone theft, they would just track the phone and arrest the people stealing them. Claims that a kill switch is to prevent cell phone theft isn't even a good lie.
Nothing is done to brick the credit card. The card itself works exactly as it always did. The back end systems can refuse to authorize a loan against that particular card, but that is entirely different than bricking the card.