The worst part about all this is that it is EXACTLY what Osama bin Laden hoped would happen when he attacked us on 11 September not terribly long ago. He was not trying to destroy buildings, he was trying to manipulate the U.S. government and even clearly stated that was his purpose... and they did EXACTLY what he wanted despite knowing this? The world is just too crazy to be believed.
Actually, the 13" MacBook Air does have 900px of height--it's 1440x900. Kind of interesting, because the 13" MBP is only 1280x800.
20 years ago, 1440x900 was pretty nice. I still preferred my 1920x1200 though. Wait a sec. 20 years ago?! No wonder my eyes are going to shit. Nobody can make a decent screen even after 20 years. Meh.
I currently run at 2560x1600 and it is still WAY too low res for me. Processors, RAM, storage space, etc have all been increasing in orders of magnitude. Screen resolution has been dropping. Is it even possible to buy a 2560x1600 monitor anymore?
Or to put your paragraph into simpler words: All of the carriers suck badly.
That is what happens when there is no serious competition. They all cut as many corners as possible to inflate their stock price by a few pennies. No matter which carrier you choose, you will have high prices, pathetic customer service (even if the actual rep is nice), and crappy coverage/dropped calls (except in certain areas with certain carriers).
Hm. This is a nasty case. There is no doubt he broke his probation if he admitted to it to his probation/parole officer. I am not sure stage names should be considered an alias for legal purposes but my opinion really does not matter. You have more or less satisfied my skepticism of the actual charges... but I do have to wonder if anybody would have cared about his terms of probation/parole if he did not give a sizable chunk of the world a reason to hate him.
Where do you live that you have problems with cops enforcing Sharia law? Or is this just a hypothetical excuse-to-be-afraid situation that isn't going to happen in the United States?
San Diego California USA. Not that they are enforcing Sharia law, but that they will do those things that I mentioned when someone THINKS (absolutely no proof) you escaped justice for a crime they THINK (because they think everyone is as evil as them) you committed.
China might be a better choice than Russia but the problem still remains, you are relying on a government to not care about your activities. Under normal circumstances, relying on the government not to care about you is VERY safe; however, when money is involved, we can clearly see that even the less corrupt governments quickly fold and do illegal actions against their own people. See Kim Dotcom for the most recent example. Or Julian Assange for a very slightly less recent example (storm the embassy to arrest him? Really?!). Hell the examples are falling all around us like rain now. *sigh*
For myself, I would put the servers in a different country than myself and then put myself in a different country than the people I am pissing off. That way, no matter how it all goes down, something is more likely to survive.
P.S. I am glad you were not offended by the question of your sanity. It was the use of an expression, not an actual accusation. Since you did not seem to get upset, I assume you are American like I am... or at least fairly world-savvy. Like I am too.;)
What I want to know is why sites like this keep trying to locate in unfriendly countries. Why not put them in someplace safe, like Russia?
You are utterly insane. You can take out a competitor by paying $60k to the police. The victim then spends 15 years in prison. And you want to go to that country and piss off rich people around the world?
In Amsterdam, cyclists ride over any flat spot. Be very careful when walking and looking at the architecture. I know I pissed off one native pretty badly by wandering out unseeing in front of him. I was staring pretty hard at a church that looked REALLY neat. Oops. My fault. I doubt the cyclist heard my apology.
I know at least 5 cases where this cm of styrofoam *made* a difference between a light injury and a very severe one.
Really? Holy crap. Something is seriously twisted in your reality. I am not saying it has not happened... but 5?! I have ridden thousands, probably tens of thousands of miles in hardcore city streets. I am 45 years old now. I have _never_ seen an accident involving a bicycle where a helmet would have helped. Obviously, such an accident could happen... but 5 times seen by one person? Just wow. Perhaps your judgement on the severity of the damage to the helmet is overstated?
By the way, in the Netherlands (where as you might now cycling is very common on the roads) the person driving the car is always liable in a car-bicycle collision.
I have been to Amsterdam a few times and I have never noticed any cyclists acting crazy so this thought process that I am about to elucidate does not apply outside of America: This kind of law would cause cyclists to do stupid things thinking they are safe. Reality does not seem to be a factor in decision making here.:/
I understand the purpose of the law: It is to force drivers to be more careful; however, it ignores reality. It sucks that I have to run over the group of schoolchildren when I swerve to the avoid the cyclist because I am deathly afraid of being prosecuted for running the cyclist over. At least I can explain WHY I hit the schoolchildren right? I was avoiding a cyclist.
This seems cruel, but run the bicyclists over if they do something stupid. I was a cyclist and I say that.
If an animal runs into the road, then i brake if possible. I will consider swerving if it is not dangerous to do so. At some point, it is safer to just run over the animal. I _always_ feel terrible when I run over an animal. Guess what babies? Your mommy/daddy was out gathering food for you and now they are not coming home. Ever. Starve.
I use the same philosophy when bikes are around. I will do my best to avoid you but I will not endanger my life or another innocent bystander's life just to save YOUR life. YOU put yourself in that situation, YOU suffer the consequences.
Reality can not be legislated around... and I have never hit a cyclist.
I rode a bicycle as my sole (haha) means of transportation until I was 27 years old. I would pedal more than 100 miles a day just for fun. I was purposefully hit by a car twice. I have had several more run-ins with cars with drivers that were just being careless. I did crash a few times with nobody else involved (front wheel fell off while popping a wheelie, etc)
I never wore a helmet, not even once. At no time would a helmet have been useful. Yes, I know that my experiences could have been a fluke but I still firmly believe that a helmet is safety overkill for casual bike riding.
...but the future intent is to bring these up to 2 Ton 10,000 mile systems.
At a range of 10k miles, a gun in Florida and a gun in Alaska would be sufficient to hit any interesting target anywhere in the world. No ships needed.
Microsoft ALWAYS has a plan to manipulate things or outright control things. It is not unreasonable at all to be suspicious of this too, even if there is no currently visible way that anything underhanded could be done. Act offended if you want but not very many people will care.
They are in decline and they are no longer a superpower. But... Russia has nukes, is able to field an army, and can be VERY aggressive. Not quite a chihuahua, perhaps more like a bulldog amongst wolfhounds. More time needs to pass for them to fade enough to feel confident that they are chihuahuas on the world stage.
Pensions and healthcare for retirees are important, but funding them with borrowed money is insane.
The money was "borrowed" from the people who are receiving it. It is not their fault that the money was spent before it was returned to them as initially promised.
1. Autonomy - can they at least sometimes discover something on their own that needs doing/fixing and go ahead and do it without okaying it with management?
I thought the same thing. That is what I wanted as a non-management employee so I thought it would apply when I was management. When suddenly tasked with management responsibilities, I found that this is actually not the case for a fairly large number of people.
I was confused about "productivity". I thought I was providing an excellent working environment and it seemed that things were not getting done as I had thought they should. At one point while investigating the issue, I asked someone if they would rather have general instructions or explicit instructions. They answered that they would feel much more comfortable with explicit instructions. I was flabbergasted. I needed to reevaluate my base assumptions so I asked everyone individually how they best liked tasks to be managed. The majority said explicit lists, instructions, and timelines.
Needless to say, "productivity" went way up. The people who disliked autonomy no longer had to deal with the stresses of autonomy. The folks who preferred autonomy retained it and thoroughly blew any metrics right out of the water. A stellar performance all around.
All of that said, when it comes to weeding out those that aren't contributing anything... some sort of tracking system is essential, for techs to keep tabs on what they've done.
Different people like to be managed differently. Some are self starters who like to know what the goal is and then work their way towards it. Some do not like to think at that level and require more explicit instructions. Problematic people force themselves into the latter group. Once problematic people find themselves with more explicit instructions, they tend to either rebel or submit. If they submit, they will find that many of their, and your, troubles disappear. If they rebel, they have written their own exit papers.
Of course, the above statement assumes that the managing person does not have personality or mental defects that would affect the above statement.
Honestly, I do not see what the daily reports thing is about.
When I have been in supervisory or management positions, I always had things that I (the department) needed done. Being intimately familiar with what needed to get done, I would always know what the progress was when it was important to know it.
I would get this information by speaking to the people who were working on those tasks. Usually, it was just a word or two in passing that might escalate to more in depth discussions if needed.
And of course, these types of interactions would occur with the person/people who were my bosses. Actually, anyone who had a stake in whatever it was my department was doing had an open window into the process. Communication (and trust) is key.
I did see some other departments in the same organization go to the daily report thing. Utterly absurd. It is not real communication, it is lies through summary.
Who says Nakoula personally posted it on Youtube? Who says he used a fake name (which name did he use?)? I agree the guy appears to be a real scumbag though.
Seeing a (supposed) routine probation violation plastered across international news is... a somewhat chilling idea. What if I created and posted such a video? Well, I am not on probation so I have nothing to worry about right? Well, the cop sitting across the street waiting for me to back out my driveway so he can use any excuse to stop me and search my car and otherwise harass me might be a problem. No, I will not argue with him so they will have to wait for another time to find that my papers are not quite in order. Oy.
If such a person passed operational secrets that could reasonably lead to US or other forces being compromised then it should be no surprise at all if said person ended up making little rocks out of big rocks or worse.
An operational unit. A squad? A company? A brigade? Once your actions cause the death of another, you should be held liable except in acts of overt hostility on both sides. Even just one death.
Of course, with overt hostilities declared, immediate death without consideration (trial) is usually the penalty. But without declared hostilities, it is a normal legal matter. Are there laws about what foreigners can do, on foreign soil, with locally classified information?
While hating Assange seems perfectly rational, I fail to see why he is being persecuted. I can definitely see why Manning is being persecuted though. He broke the trust placed in him.
I have no opinion on what should happen to Manning. I do not have enough information to judge; however, it seems pretty clear that at most, Assange is an asshole to be hated, not someone to persecuted legally.
While what you say could be true in some circumstances, it seems pretty obvious that not everyone has the same abilities. Idolizing an ability in others that you yourself do not possess, seems to be something other than laziness.
Don't do wrong, especially to bad people, since in the latter case you have to apologize to bad people, and it sucks.
While what you say appears to indeed be a very good lesson, it should not be the primary item to take away from this experience.
What really needs to happen is to find out what pressures caused the officials to act in a lawless manner and then pass legislation that nullifies or removes such pressures. The way this is being described, it is like a buffer overflow which allowed unsigned code to run. All unsigned code should be prohibited. Find out how it got in and fix all classes of that particular error throughout the entire codebase.
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The worst part about all this is that it is EXACTLY what Osama bin Laden hoped would happen when he attacked us on 11 September not terribly long ago. He was not trying to destroy buildings, he was trying to manipulate the U.S. government and even clearly stated that was his purpose... and they did EXACTLY what he wanted despite knowing this? The world is just too crazy to be believed.
Actually, the 13" MacBook Air does have 900px of height--it's 1440x900. Kind of interesting, because the 13" MBP is only 1280x800.
20 years ago, 1440x900 was pretty nice. I still preferred my 1920x1200 though. Wait a sec. 20 years ago?! No wonder my eyes are going to shit. Nobody can make a decent screen even after 20 years. Meh.
I currently run at 2560x1600 and it is still WAY too low res for me. Processors, RAM, storage space, etc have all been increasing in orders of magnitude. Screen resolution has been dropping. Is it even possible to buy a 2560x1600 monitor anymore?
Or to put your paragraph into simpler words: All of the carriers suck badly.
That is what happens when there is no serious competition. They all cut as many corners as possible to inflate their stock price by a few pennies. No matter which carrier you choose, you will have high prices, pathetic customer service (even if the actual rep is nice), and crappy coverage/dropped calls (except in certain areas with certain carriers).
All shit.
Hm. This is a nasty case. There is no doubt he broke his probation if he admitted to it to his probation/parole officer. I am not sure stage names should be considered an alias for legal purposes but my opinion really does not matter. You have more or less satisfied my skepticism of the actual charges... but I do have to wonder if anybody would have cared about his terms of probation/parole if he did not give a sizable chunk of the world a reason to hate him.
Where do you live that you have problems with cops enforcing Sharia law? Or is this just a hypothetical excuse-to-be-afraid situation that isn't going to happen in the United States?
San Diego California USA. Not that they are enforcing Sharia law, but that they will do those things that I mentioned when someone THINKS (absolutely no proof) you escaped justice for a crime they THINK (because they think everyone is as evil as them) you committed.
China might be a better choice than Russia but the problem still remains, you are relying on a government to not care about your activities. Under normal circumstances, relying on the government not to care about you is VERY safe; however, when money is involved, we can clearly see that even the less corrupt governments quickly fold and do illegal actions against their own people. See Kim Dotcom for the most recent example. Or Julian Assange for a very slightly less recent example (storm the embassy to arrest him? Really?!). Hell the examples are falling all around us like rain now. *sigh*
For myself, I would put the servers in a different country than myself and then put myself in a different country than the people I am pissing off. That way, no matter how it all goes down, something is more likely to survive.
P.S. I am glad you were not offended by the question of your sanity. It was the use of an expression, not an actual accusation. Since you did not seem to get upset, I assume you are American like I am... or at least fairly world-savvy. Like I am too. ;)
What I want to know is why sites like this keep trying to locate in unfriendly countries. Why not put them in someplace safe, like Russia?
You are utterly insane. You can take out a competitor by paying $60k to the police. The victim then spends 15 years in prison. And you want to go to that country and piss off rich people around the world?
Not. A. Good. Idea.
I can not find the BBC link I was thinking of but this one should be sufficient to illustrate: http://www.channelnewsasia.com/stories/afp_world/view/1193249/1/.html
In Amsterdam, cyclists ride over any flat spot. Be very careful when walking and looking at the architecture. I know I pissed off one native pretty badly by wandering out unseeing in front of him. I was staring pretty hard at a church that looked REALLY neat. Oops. My fault. I doubt the cyclist heard my apology.
I know at least 5 cases where this cm of styrofoam *made* a difference between a light injury and a very severe one.
Really? Holy crap. Something is seriously twisted in your reality. I am not saying it has not happened... but 5?! I have ridden thousands, probably tens of thousands of miles in hardcore city streets. I am 45 years old now. I have _never_ seen an accident involving a bicycle where a helmet would have helped. Obviously, such an accident could happen... but 5 times seen by one person? Just wow. Perhaps your judgement on the severity of the damage to the helmet is overstated?
By the way, in the Netherlands (where as you might now cycling is very common on the roads) the person driving the car is always liable in a car-bicycle collision.
I have been to Amsterdam a few times and I have never noticed any cyclists acting crazy so this thought process that I am about to elucidate does not apply outside of America: This kind of law would cause cyclists to do stupid things thinking they are safe. Reality does not seem to be a factor in decision making here. :/
I understand the purpose of the law: It is to force drivers to be more careful; however, it ignores reality. It sucks that I have to run over the group of schoolchildren when I swerve to the avoid the cyclist because I am deathly afraid of being prosecuted for running the cyclist over. At least I can explain WHY I hit the schoolchildren right? I was avoiding a cyclist.
This seems cruel, but run the bicyclists over if they do something stupid. I was a cyclist and I say that.
If an animal runs into the road, then i brake if possible. I will consider swerving if it is not dangerous to do so. At some point, it is safer to just run over the animal. I _always_ feel terrible when I run over an animal. Guess what babies? Your mommy/daddy was out gathering food for you and now they are not coming home. Ever. Starve.
I use the same philosophy when bikes are around. I will do my best to avoid you but I will not endanger my life or another innocent bystander's life just to save YOUR life. YOU put yourself in that situation, YOU suffer the consequences.
Reality can not be legislated around... and I have never hit a cyclist.
I rode a bicycle as my sole (haha) means of transportation until I was 27 years old. I would pedal more than 100 miles a day just for fun. I was purposefully hit by a car twice. I have had several more run-ins with cars with drivers that were just being careless. I did crash a few times with nobody else involved (front wheel fell off while popping a wheelie, etc)
I never wore a helmet, not even once. At no time would a helmet have been useful. Yes, I know that my experiences could have been a fluke but I still firmly believe that a helmet is safety overkill for casual bike riding.
...but the future intent is to bring these up to 2 Ton 10,000 mile systems.
At a range of 10k miles, a gun in Florida and a gun in Alaska would be sufficient to hit any interesting target anywhere in the world. No ships needed.
Microsoft ALWAYS has a plan to manipulate things or outright control things. It is not unreasonable at all to be suspicious of this too, even if there is no currently visible way that anything underhanded could be done. Act offended if you want but not very many people will care.
They are in decline and they are no longer a superpower. But... Russia has nukes, is able to field an army, and can be VERY aggressive. Not quite a chihuahua, perhaps more like a bulldog amongst wolfhounds. More time needs to pass for them to fade enough to feel confident that they are chihuahuas on the world stage.
So why isn't there enough money to pay the obligations? Something is clearly not right.
Pensions and healthcare for retirees are important, but funding them with borrowed money is insane.
The money was "borrowed" from the people who are receiving it. It is not their fault that the money was spent before it was returned to them as initially promised.
1. Autonomy - can they at least sometimes discover something on their own that needs doing/fixing and go ahead and do it without okaying it with management?
I thought the same thing. That is what I wanted as a non-management employee so I thought it would apply when I was management. When suddenly tasked with management responsibilities, I found that this is actually not the case for a fairly large number of people.
I was confused about "productivity". I thought I was providing an excellent working environment and it seemed that things were not getting done as I had thought they should. At one point while investigating the issue, I asked someone if they would rather have general instructions or explicit instructions. They answered that they would feel much more comfortable with explicit instructions. I was flabbergasted. I needed to reevaluate my base assumptions so I asked everyone individually how they best liked tasks to be managed. The majority said explicit lists, instructions, and timelines.
Needless to say, "productivity" went way up. The people who disliked autonomy no longer had to deal with the stresses of autonomy. The folks who preferred autonomy retained it and thoroughly blew any metrics right out of the water. A stellar performance all around.
All of that said, when it comes to weeding out those that aren't contributing anything... some sort of tracking system is essential, for techs to keep tabs on what they've done.
Different people like to be managed differently. Some are self starters who like to know what the goal is and then work their way towards it. Some do not like to think at that level and require more explicit instructions. Problematic people force themselves into the latter group. Once problematic people find themselves with more explicit instructions, they tend to either rebel or submit. If they submit, they will find that many of their, and your, troubles disappear. If they rebel, they have written their own exit papers.
Of course, the above statement assumes that the managing person does not have personality or mental defects that would affect the above statement.
Honestly, I do not see what the daily reports thing is about.
When I have been in supervisory or management positions, I always had things that I (the department) needed done. Being intimately familiar with what needed to get done, I would always know what the progress was when it was important to know it.
I would get this information by speaking to the people who were working on those tasks. Usually, it was just a word or two in passing that might escalate to more in depth discussions if needed.
And of course, these types of interactions would occur with the person/people who were my bosses. Actually, anyone who had a stake in whatever it was my department was doing had an open window into the process. Communication (and trust) is key.
I did see some other departments in the same organization go to the daily report thing. Utterly absurd. It is not real communication, it is lies through summary.
Dave
Who says Nakoula personally posted it on Youtube? Who says he used a fake name (which name did he use?)? I agree the guy appears to be a real scumbag though.
Seeing a (supposed) routine probation violation plastered across international news is... a somewhat chilling idea. What if I created and posted such a video? Well, I am not on probation so I have nothing to worry about right? Well, the cop sitting across the street waiting for me to back out my driveway so he can use any excuse to stop me and search my car and otherwise harass me might be a problem. No, I will not argue with him so they will have to wait for another time to find that my papers are not quite in order. Oy.
Have the Western taliban really made this much progress towards paranoid dystopia?
Yes.
If such a person passed operational secrets that could reasonably lead to US or other forces being compromised then it should be no surprise at all if said person ended up making little rocks out of big rocks or worse.
An operational unit. A squad? A company? A brigade? Once your actions cause the death of another, you should be held liable except in acts of overt hostility on both sides. Even just one death.
Of course, with overt hostilities declared, immediate death without consideration (trial) is usually the penalty. But without declared hostilities, it is a normal legal matter. Are there laws about what foreigners can do, on foreign soil, with locally classified information?
While hating Assange seems perfectly rational, I fail to see why he is being persecuted. I can definitely see why Manning is being persecuted though. He broke the trust placed in him.
I have no opinion on what should happen to Manning. I do not have enough information to judge; however, it seems pretty clear that at most, Assange is an asshole to be hated, not someone to persecuted legally.
While what you say could be true in some circumstances, it seems pretty obvious that not everyone has the same abilities. Idolizing an ability in others that you yourself do not possess, seems to be something other than laziness.
Don't do wrong, especially to bad people, since in the latter case you have to apologize to bad people, and it sucks.
While what you say appears to indeed be a very good lesson, it should not be the primary item to take away from this experience.
What really needs to happen is to find out what pressures caused the officials to act in a lawless manner and then pass legislation that nullifies or removes such pressures. The way this is being described, it is like a buffer overflow which allowed unsigned code to run. All unsigned code should be prohibited. Find out how it got in and fix all classes of that particular error throughout the entire codebase.
(CAPTCHA is contain. Weird)
Did you try to contact that religious organization directly?