This happened at my work. It was either commit to a seven figure fine or commit to a multi year Oracle Cloud contract we never ever ever would use for 1/3 the cost. Any consideration given to our being a 20 year Oracle customer or that the infraction was ambiguously interpreted? No, because Oracles license Nazi's are just that: Nazis. Of course we are an Oracle Cloud customer now (and have never even logged into the cloud portal), and just as soon as we can get off this POS company's platform in a few months, we will never have to deal with them again. Fuck you Larry.
Tell me again how my Xfinity broadband connection, which uses one RG58 coax cable to deliver my phone, internet, and cable TV, is not both a telcom service and an information service?
Oracle has screwed over almost their entire customer base including myself due to licensing shenanigans. So no I will not be purchasing anything from that company ever again.
This is both true and false at the same time:). I was pulled over in Boston once by a cop for doing about 60 in a 45 on a highway in Boston. Cop said to keep it under 55 in the future. But then on a similarly sized but much busier road elsewhere in the city, you can get pulled over for doing anything over the speed limit because that road is frequently traveled by out of state and long commute drivers headed out of town, and has many speed traps in a short span. It seems that revenue has quite a bit to do with how strictly LE chooses to enforce the law.
I will also say this. I see more and more evidence of lower speed limits being put in place for purposes of driving up ticket revenue. I see new roads having much lower speed limits than similarly sized roads and traveled roads elsewhere for no good reason I can discern. Things like tunnel roads, where there is near zero possibility of harming a non driver, are arbitrarily low and frequently have speed traps.
..it seems like more and more companies are following this model, although the religious fervor may be less. We were bitten by the VMware scam this year in an audit triggered by the retirement of a legacy system and it's Oracle CPU licenses. Another dirty trick: audit triggered on any reduction of license, nice one! I've also heard of them playing all sorts of license conversion shenanigans when converting from old licenses to new licenses.
Thankfully their audit was the last straw that caused our CIO to dictate that we switch to open source RDBMS providers going forward.
Who in their right mind would willingly submit to anything from Oracle? Have you ever been audited by them? Horrible company. They have some great products, but the company itself is a nasty evil entity that thinking people avoid like the plague unless they have absolutely no other choice.
Charms bar? Continuum?
Names used to be fairly intuitive, and even when they weren't completely intuitive their names were derived from their technical function. I'm thinking "context menu", "start menu", "task list", "quick-launch menu", and "system tray".
Now they're just marketing doublespeak.
The Charms Bar describes the quantum state of all the Charm quarks used by your install of Windows 10 (within the bounds of quantum mechanics of course).
It's interface is a mess on the PC with KB/mouse. It is visually good, but nothing groundbreaking. The game really feels like a LOTRO rip-off though, except with a lot more interface and design bugs. Best RPG in decades? It may not even be the best RPG out right now. It's certainly not the best Dragon Age. I like the game so far, but I am not in love with it, the design flaws make it hard to love.
criminals won't wear them when committing a crime. Even embedding the devices into the body would not work reliably as anything that can be put in can also be taken out. I bet an EMP device could also be used to disable them without invasive surgery.
What you'll end up with is a bunch of data on people who are not committing crimes, and a scant few pieces of data on the dumbest of the dumb who would fire a gun with one of these on.
please, fox just lies, saying other news networks are somehow as bad is ridiculous.
please, they ALL lie, saying that FOX is worse than MSNBC is ridiculous, as both outlets are really really bad. You have to look really hard to find objectivity nowadays.
Well put and exactly right. BTW, who's going to be paying to retrofit all these millions of websites so that cookies are no longer integral to them? YOU will, that's who. Stupid, dumb, stupid idea.
Would it be legal to use a machine to lip-read and store said conversation from video only? The software exists today, and works quit well. No need to store the audio if you can lip-read it from the video.
>> Look, Ive used macs since the orignal - that just had 1Mb of ram! - and I always will.
The original Mac had just a paltry 128K of ram. I used to do lot's of 512K and 1MB upgrades back in the day.
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This happened at my work. It was either commit to a seven figure fine or commit to a multi year Oracle Cloud contract we never ever ever would use for 1/3 the cost. Any consideration given to our being a 20 year Oracle customer or that the infraction was ambiguously interpreted? No, because Oracles license Nazi's are just that: Nazis. Of course we are an Oracle Cloud customer now (and have never even logged into the cloud portal), and just as soon as we can get off this POS company's platform in a few months, we will never have to deal with them again. Fuck you Larry.
Tell me again how my Xfinity broadband connection, which uses one RG58 coax cable to deliver my phone, internet, and cable TV, is not both a telcom service and an information service?
I cringe because I know I'm about to feel like a $20 whore: sore in the ass.
Oracle has screwed over almost their entire customer base including myself due to licensing shenanigans. So no I will not be purchasing anything from that company ever again.
This is both true and false at the same time :). I was pulled over in Boston once by a cop for doing about 60 in a 45 on a highway in Boston. Cop said to keep it under 55 in the future. But then on a similarly sized but much busier road elsewhere in the city, you can get pulled over for doing anything over the speed limit because that road is frequently traveled by out of state and long commute drivers headed out of town, and has many speed traps in a short span. It seems that revenue has quite a bit to do with how strictly LE chooses to enforce the law.
I will also say this. I see more and more evidence of lower speed limits being put in place for purposes of driving up ticket revenue. I see new roads having much lower speed limits than similarly sized roads and traveled roads elsewhere for no good reason I can discern. Things like tunnel roads, where there is near zero possibility of harming a non driver, are arbitrarily low and frequently have speed traps.
...well made tin foil hat wouldn't have fixed.
..it seems like more and more companies are following this model, although the religious fervor may be less. We were bitten by the VMware scam this year in an audit triggered by the retirement of a legacy system and it's Oracle CPU licenses. Another dirty trick: audit triggered on any reduction of license, nice one! I've also heard of them playing all sorts of license conversion shenanigans when converting from old licenses to new licenses. Thankfully their audit was the last straw that caused our CIO to dictate that we switch to open source RDBMS providers going forward.
So, about the same as Michael Moore then? Not as much super heated rhetoric probably though.
Who in their right mind would willingly submit to anything from Oracle? Have you ever been audited by them? Horrible company. They have some great products, but the company itself is a nasty evil entity that thinking people avoid like the plague unless they have absolutely no other choice.
Charms bar? Continuum? Names used to be fairly intuitive, and even when they weren't completely intuitive their names were derived from their technical function. I'm thinking "context menu", "start menu", "task list", "quick-launch menu", and "system tray". Now they're just marketing doublespeak.
The Charms Bar describes the quantum state of all the Charm quarks used by your install of Windows 10 (within the bounds of quantum mechanics of course).
Man, those guys at Verizon are getting the job done. I gotta step up my game.
It's interface is a mess on the PC with KB/mouse. It is visually good, but nothing groundbreaking. The game really feels like a LOTRO rip-off though, except with a lot more interface and design bugs. Best RPG in decades? It may not even be the best RPG out right now. It's certainly not the best Dragon Age. I like the game so far, but I am not in love with it, the design flaws make it hard to love.
criminals won't wear them when committing a crime. Even embedding the devices into the body would not work reliably as anything that can be put in can also be taken out. I bet an EMP device could also be used to disable them without invasive surgery. What you'll end up with is a bunch of data on people who are not committing crimes, and a scant few pieces of data on the dumbest of the dumb who would fire a gun with one of these on.
Hugo, Nebula, and Clarke good? No. Stop it. It wasn't that good.
please, fox just lies, saying other news networks are somehow as bad is ridiculous.
please, they ALL lie, saying that FOX is worse than MSNBC is ridiculous, as both outlets are really really bad. You have to look really hard to find objectivity nowadays.
there's no Pokemon card for it!
Oh oh ya... I guess tasing would be better than accessing a google site from an Apple store. Good grief.
then you shouldn't be the one running the server room.
Well put and exactly right. BTW, who's going to be paying to retrofit all these millions of websites so that cookies are no longer integral to them? YOU will, that's who. Stupid, dumb, stupid idea.
Would it be legal to use a machine to lip-read and store said conversation from video only? The software exists today, and works quit well. No need to store the audio if you can lip-read it from the video.
The whole "preying on the innocent" thing comes to mind...
...the Mythbusters crew have escaped blame.
They are only against strikes when they are on bourgeois American television stations like ESPN.
Ever heard of solid state storage? Check this out: http://www.superssd.com/products/tera-ramsan/
>> Look, Ive used macs since the orignal - that just had 1Mb of ram! - and I always will. The original Mac had just a paltry 128K of ram. I used to do lot's of 512K and 1MB upgrades back in the day.