I'm no fan of either company, but that's just a PR quality meaningless statement. All you've said is that Apple is more successful ithan MS currently is.
Take it to its logical conclusion - does Apple offer what it thinks you should not have? Of course not, they both do the same thing, Apple's just been better at it recently is all.
Just scrolling through the +5 comments, I see a ton of xenophobia...
Then you are jumping at shadows. Maybe one of the +5 comments was xenophobic. Maybe, he made a comment about staffing what are basically military jobs. None of the other +5s, or even formerly +5, comments had any xenophobia at all much less tons.
This is the same poll that last year judged us as worse than companies responsible for the biggest oil spill in history, the mortgage crisis, and bank bailouts that cost millions of taxpayer dollars.
There is a lot wrong with EA, but saying they're the worst company is fundamentally bullshit.
You have to take into account the sampling bias for this poll. The people voting in the poll are making their choices from their perpsective. Most of them were not affected by BP's oil spill, nor were they directly affected by the mortgage crisis and bank bailouts - most of them are probably 20-somethings and college kids, the majority of which live in rental housing anyway.
But they do play video games. They are a demographic that has a lot of EA customers.
So what he did was just superficial deflection - EA has been directly shitty to these people more than most other companies have. So think of it as a poll not for the worst company in the country but for the company that thas treated the voters the worst.
The 10 largest users of H1B are off-shoring contract-houses. Last year, those 10 off-shoring companies claimed 40,000 of the 85,000 available H1B visas.
The way it works is that they low-bid on some project, bring in their people on H1B get them trained up and then send them back home to work on the same project.
All the PR about H1B says that we have a skills-shortage here, but if that is true, then H1B is contributing to the skills shortage rather than fixing it. Most of what is wrong with H1B could be fixed if the politicians actions matched their rhetoric - instead of being an unofficial dual-purpose immigration visa that typically expires just months before the immigrant clears all the paperwork for an green-card, make it a fast-track immigrant only visa - everybody on an H1B is guaranteed a green-card within just one year of residency. That way instead of being a brain-drain out of the US, we would be sucking in the (supposedly) higher-qualified foreign candidates to become permanent contributing members of US society.
You should have picked a different quote to reply to, then, because that's exactly what your comment is saying we should be "standing up and acting like free men" in the face of.
I was replying to the "play it cool" part. Selectively misquoting yourself is also kind of hypocritical.
But just being rowdy in the airport isn't going to accomplish anything.
Says you. Rights don't mean anything if we don't exercise them. What the TSA is doing is fundamentally unfair - pressuring people to give up their rights. Most people can't afford to go against that pressure. Those who choose to risk it simply by exercising their right to behave like free men deserve our support just for the act itself because we should support everybody's right to exercise their rights.
Chances are this hack was not about getting into people's scribd accounts. It was about getting into their email accounts (and from there into any other site associated with that email address).
What they should be telling people is not only to change their scribd password, but even more importantly, if you used the same password for scribd as you do you for your email account, you need to change the password on your email account immediately.
It was a very sad day when Gene Siskel died fairly young, and now we've lost Roger Ebert as well. It's just movies, I realize
It isn't "just" movies - movies are a major part of modern culture. Once a society gets above the level of mere subsistence, culture is pretty much the entire point of human existence.
Unless the originating agency can prove where and how they intercepted some communication, and it wasn't obtained as part of an unreasonable search or seizure, any such evidence is "fruit of the poisoned tree".
That is absolutely true. However, that doesn't stop them from "laundering" the information in such a way to reverse engineer a plausible explanation for how they came across that fruit.
For example. the spooks (illegally) decrypt a message that contains a list of scheduled drug shipments and their destinations. At that point, they need only have the local police change their patrols to focus on the areas around those destinations. Make that change a week or two in advance of the shipment's arrival and they've got all the cover they need to say that they just stumbled upon the shipment during one of their regularly scheduled patrols. Fruit laundry...
It's ridiculous that it's gotten to the point where you should act non-threatening and nice to people?
Actually, its ridiculous that you would understate the situation like that.
Why not save your protest for someone who can the policy you disagree with, rather than manifesting your civil disobedience as sarcastic remarks to the guy who is power tripping on his menial job?
There is always somebody willing to tell other people that their form of protest isn't good enough. Until you yourself have done better, that's just hypocrisy.
Problem is, you'll need to get money into your account somehow. To do so will take a wire transfer that the IRS will be notified about. Going the other direction would also take a wire transfer, that the IRS will be notified about.
That's probably true, but the very fact that so many people are setting up these shell companies and are pouring hundreds of millions of dollars into them means that there is a way to to get that money in and out without the IRS finding out. Tax evasion is the reason these shells exist om the first place.
I've long since learned that at an airport, it's best to just play it cool, and be seen to be non-threatening or angry with them
Yes, that is true. Unfortunately it is ridiculous that we have got to that point. That's why we should support anyone who does not respect their authoritae. It almost certainly means they are going to get hassled as a result.
So while it might be seem stupid for someone to invite the TSA to shit on them, at least they are willing to give a little bit of that shit back to the TSA. We should cheer those who stand up and act like free men. In any social revolution thousands, if not millions, get smacked down before change eventually happens. It doesn't matter if they are just doing it to be a jackass or as a genuine political protest or somewhere in between - they deserve the benefit of the doubt from the rest of us who aren't brave enough or foolhardy enough to do it ourselves.
I use Request Policy which gives even better control than NoScript. The problem with both of them is that you still have to know what 3rd party sites are trackers and whcih are necessary for the site to work correctly. Sometimes those 3rd party sites are both - like googleapis.com. With per-site private-browsing you wouldn't have to think about it - and the trackers would get their cookies so they wouldn't know to try ever more sneaky ways to track you.
What I want is private browsing a on a per-site basis. So when I am on the NYTimes, there is one cookie store for the NYTimes (and all the embedded stuff on the NYTimes pages) and when I am on ESPN it is a completely seperate cookie store for ESPN and embeds. That way if both NYTimes and ESPN use some of the same trackers, each tracker gets a different cookie from me based on the site the tracker was embedded in.
I can't opt out of other people capturing me with their goggles, but this is hardly different than people collecting video in public spaces with cameraphones or more traditional video capture devices.
It is significantly different because most CCTVs and cameraphones aren't feeding everything into a single permanent central database running facial recogniton on every face and recording the time and GPS coordinates. Don't get me wrong, there is a risk of that happening too with CCTVs and the rest, but the issue here is that google glass is already set up to feed everything to Google for a variety of analyses. If even just 1% of the population starts using google glass that may well be sufficient coverage to effectly track the location of practically everyone out in public everywhere and everywhen with sufficient accuracy,
Right now, always on video feeds from google glass are impractical due to cellular bandwidth caps, but the day is coming when it will be feasible and we should be talking about the risks before we get there - given how you've massively underestimated the risks your own post is proof that we should be having the discussion.
I don't think that running parallel systems would work so well. The problem with the current system is that it gives patent holders too much control. Given a choice, they aren't going to voluntarily opt for another system that reduces their level of control.
Until we have a better system in place for coming up with the hundreds of millions of dollars it takes to prove the efficacy and safety of a new drug
That's a recipe for stasis. If the requirement is a "better system" already implemented before we change the current system, then that day will never come. I'm not saying the current system should be totally junked tomorrow, but your requirements are impossibly high.
These bombers flew direct from Missouri and then directly back. If it were about intimidating NK, there are plenty of US bases in the area that could have launched shorter-range planes like the B-52s that are based in Guam or F-16's based in Japan. Heck, in January they stationed two B-2's in Guam - they are probably still there. Flying all the way from Missouri was for China.
The Chinese are the only ones in a position to twist Kim's arm hard enough to make him stop acting like a four-year-old, the Chinese are the ones that we are trying to scare.
I doubt it is about convincing China to influence NK. Its about showing China that all of their territorial claims won't go unchallenged. It is also about showing US allies that they should be even better buddies with the US because the US is the only one in the world willing to stand up to China.
China doesn't even have to respond militarily, a lot of countries in the area have China as their single largest trading partner. Threatening to screw with their economies is major leverage in this "debate."
NK is just a convenient excuse for everybody to whip out their dicks and get with the tape measuring.
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Microsoft offers what it thinks you should have.
Apple offers what attracts people.
I'm no fan of either company, but that's just a PR quality meaningless statement. All you've said is that Apple is more successful ithan MS currently is.
Take it to its logical conclusion - does Apple offer what it thinks you should not have? Of course not, they both do the same thing, Apple's just been better at it recently is all.
Just scrolling through the +5 comments, I see a ton of xenophobia...
Then you are jumping at shadows. Maybe one of the +5 comments was xenophobic. Maybe, he made a comment about staffing what are basically military jobs. None of the other +5s, or even formerly +5, comments had any xenophobia at all much less tons.
That was me, posted AC by mistake.
This is the same poll that last year judged us as worse than companies responsible for the biggest oil spill in history, the mortgage crisis, and bank bailouts that cost millions of taxpayer dollars.
There is a lot wrong with EA, but saying they're the worst company is fundamentally bullshit.
You have to take into account the sampling bias for this poll. The people voting in the poll are making their choices from their perpsective. Most of them were not affected by BP's oil spill, nor were they directly affected by the mortgage crisis and bank bailouts - most of them are probably 20-somethings and college kids, the majority of which live in rental housing anyway.
But they do play video games. They are a demographic that has a lot of EA customers.
So what he did was just superficial deflection - EA has been directly shitty to these people more than most other companies have. So think of it as a poll not for the worst company in the country but for the company that thas treated the voters the worst.
The 10 largest users of H1B are off-shoring contract-houses. Last year, those 10 off-shoring companies claimed 40,000 of the 85,000 available H1B visas.
The way it works is that they low-bid on some project, bring in their people on H1B get them trained up and then send them back home to work on the same project.
Citation: Who's Hiring H-1B Visa Workers? It's Not Who You Might Think
All the PR about H1B says that we have a skills-shortage here, but if that is true, then H1B is contributing to the skills shortage rather than fixing it. Most of what is wrong with H1B could be fixed if the politicians actions matched their rhetoric - instead of being an unofficial dual-purpose immigration visa that typically expires just months before the immigrant clears all the paperwork for an green-card, make it a fast-track immigrant only visa - everybody on an H1B is guaranteed a green-card within just one year of residency. That way instead of being a brain-drain out of the US, we would be sucking in the (supposedly) higher-qualified foreign candidates to become permanent contributing members of US society.
You should have picked a different quote to reply to, then, because that's exactly what your comment is saying we should be "standing up and acting like free men" in the face of.
I was replying to the "play it cool" part. Selectively misquoting yourself is also kind of hypocritical.
But just being rowdy in the airport isn't going to accomplish anything.
Says you. Rights don't mean anything if we don't exercise them. What the TSA is doing is fundamentally unfair - pressuring people to give up their rights. Most people can't afford to go against that pressure. Those who choose to risk it simply by exercising their right to behave like free men deserve our support just for the act itself because we should support everybody's right to exercise their rights.
According to TFA, they were salted and hashed.
Mhhm um umh! I loves me some salted password hash browns!
Chances are this hack was not about getting into people's scribd accounts. It was about getting into their email accounts (and from there into any other site associated with that email address).
What they should be telling people is not only to change their scribd password, but even more importantly, if you used the same password for scribd as you do you for your email account, you need to change the password on your email account immediately.
It was a very sad day when Gene Siskel died fairly young, and now we've lost Roger Ebert as well. It's just movies, I realize
It isn't "just" movies - movies are a major part of modern culture. Once a society gets above the level of mere subsistence, culture is pretty much the entire point of human existence.
Unless the originating agency can prove where and how they intercepted some communication, and it wasn't obtained as part of an unreasonable search or seizure, any such evidence is "fruit of the poisoned tree".
That is absolutely true. However, that doesn't stop them from "laundering" the information in such a way to reverse engineer a plausible explanation for how they came across that fruit.
For example. the spooks (illegally) decrypt a message that contains a list of scheduled drug shipments and their destinations. At that point, they need only have the local police change their patrols to focus on the areas around those destinations. Make that change a week or two in advance of the shipment's arrival and they've got all the cover they need to say that they just stumbled upon the shipment during one of their regularly scheduled patrols. Fruit laundry...
It's ridiculous that it's gotten to the point where you should act non-threatening and nice to people?
Actually, its ridiculous that you would understate the situation like that.
Why not save your protest for someone who can the policy you disagree with, rather than manifesting your civil disobedience as sarcastic remarks to the guy who is power tripping on his menial job?
There is always somebody willing to tell other people that their form of protest isn't good enough. Until you yourself have done better, that's just hypocrisy.
Two Thumbs Up for Roger Ebert and Gene Siskel.
Problem is, you'll need to get money into your account somehow. To do so will take a wire transfer that the IRS will be notified about. Going the other direction would also take a wire transfer, that the IRS will be notified about.
That's probably true, but the very fact that so many people are setting up these shell companies and are pouring hundreds of millions of dollars into them means that there is a way to to get that money in and out without the IRS finding out. Tax evasion is the reason these shells exist om the first place.
I've long since learned that at an airport, it's best to just play it cool, and be seen to be non-threatening or angry with them
Yes, that is true. Unfortunately it is ridiculous that we have got to that point. That's why we should support anyone who does not respect their authoritae. It almost certainly means they are going to get hassled as a result.
So while it might be seem stupid for someone to invite the TSA to shit on them, at least they are willing to give a little bit of that shit back to the TSA. We should cheer those who stand up and act like free men. In any social revolution thousands, if not millions, get smacked down before change eventually happens. It doesn't matter if they are just doing it to be a jackass or as a genuine political protest or somewhere in between - they deserve the benefit of the doubt from the rest of us who aren't brave enough or foolhardy enough to do it ourselves.
I use Request Policy which gives even better control than NoScript. The problem with both of them is that you still have to know what 3rd party sites are trackers and whcih are necessary for the site to work correctly. Sometimes those 3rd party sites are both - like googleapis.com. With per-site private-browsing you wouldn't have to think about it - and the trackers would get their cookies so they wouldn't know to try ever more sneaky ways to track you.
What I want is private browsing a on a per-site basis. So when I am on the NYTimes, there is one cookie store for the NYTimes (and all the embedded stuff on the NYTimes pages) and when I am on ESPN it is a completely seperate cookie store for ESPN and embeds. That way if both NYTimes and ESPN use some of the same trackers, each tracker gets a different cookie from me based on the site the tracker was embedded in.
I can't opt out of other people capturing me with their goggles, but this is hardly different than people collecting video in public spaces with cameraphones or more traditional video capture devices.
It is significantly different because most CCTVs and cameraphones aren't feeding everything into a single permanent central database running facial recogniton on every face and recording the time and GPS coordinates. Don't get me wrong, there is a risk of that happening too with CCTVs and the rest, but the issue here is that google glass is already set up to feed everything to Google for a variety of analyses. If even just 1% of the population starts using google glass that may well be sufficient coverage to effectly track the location of practically everyone out in public everywhere and everywhen with sufficient accuracy,
Right now, always on video feeds from google glass are impractical due to cellular bandwidth caps, but the day is coming when it will be feasible and we should be talking about the risks before we get there - given how you've massively underestimated the risks your own post is proof that we should be having the discussion.
I don't think that running parallel systems would work so well. The problem with the current system is that it gives patent holders too much control. Given a choice, they aren't going to voluntarily opt for another system that reduces their level of control.
Until we have a better system in place for coming up with the hundreds of millions of dollars it takes to prove the efficacy and safety of a new drug
That's a recipe for stasis. If the requirement is a "better system" already implemented before we change the current system, then that day will never come. I'm not saying the current system should be totally junked tomorrow, but your requirements are impossibly high.
How about letting logged in users filter out all april fools jokes?
The TSA says they are all about the war on terror.
But their actions prove they are only interested in conducting a War on Diginity.
Groping children
soaking a man in his own urine
Arresting people for wearing watches with exposed gears
Arbitrary strip-searches
Detaining people armed with flash cards
Forcing mothers to drink their own breast milk
Forcing a woman to remove her nipple ring with pliers
Requiring women to remove their bras
Requiring a woman to remove the brace on her sprained ankle and then making her walk on it to prove it was sprained
The list of abuses is into the thousands. Every once in a while they get a taste of their stupidity. But it isn't anywhere near enough.
90% for china, 10% for NK.
These bombers flew direct from Missouri and then directly back. If it were about intimidating NK, there are plenty of US bases in the area that could have launched shorter-range planes like the B-52s that are based in Guam or F-16's based in Japan. Heck, in January they stationed two B-2's in Guam - they are probably still there. Flying all the way from Missouri was for China.
That is correct.
The Chinese are the only ones in a position to twist Kim's arm hard enough to make him stop acting like a four-year-old, the Chinese are the ones that we are trying to scare.
I doubt it is about convincing China to influence NK. Its about showing China that all of their territorial claims won't go unchallenged. It is also about showing US allies that they should be even better buddies with the US because the US is the only one in the world willing to stand up to China.
China doesn't even have to respond militarily, a lot of countries in the area have China as their single largest trading partner. Threatening to screw with their economies is major leverage in this "debate."
NK is just a convenient excuse for everybody to whip out their dicks and get with the tape measuring.