Is it because they're whores and will do anything for loose change? That's pretty much my standard answer for any headline in the format "Why is blank blanking?"
... Because... um... I guess she hates gays and women and can therefore do business with whatever oppressive regimes she wants? Carly's a non-starter in the Republican race because it's way too easy to point out that having successfully run HP into the ground, she now wants a chance to do the same for the country. She seems to want to be a character in an Ayn Rand novel. Presumably like Rand Paul, she grew up spanking it to Atlas Shrugged. And we've already seen how that style of management works on the small scale. It won't work any better at the level of a large country.
6 minutes twice a week in an indoor skydiving facility for 6 weeks. It'll cost neighborhood of $1000, but that's still significantly less than a similar number of skydives. If you focus on flying on your belly, you'd be a pretty decent belly flyer at the end of that time. 'Course you might also have a new life-long habit as a wind tunnel rat.
Companies these days want hot-swappable cogs in their machines. Anyone who has enough sense of individuality left to go to the effort of creating an easter egg is not a desirable employee. It's not hard to slip one in, even if they have code reviews. Really, the challenge just makes it more spicy.
Same thing with the coffee. When they swap the Starbucks out for "Peets Coffee", you know the layoffs are coming. When the coffee goes from "So good you don't mind the urine" to "The urine improves the flavor," that's a bad sign. I suppose the resemblance of the last CEO to the love child of Fred Rogers and a weasel may also have been some sort of warning sign. Pretty much any time weasels appear to be involved in the ancestry of upper management, that's probably a bad sign.
I've arrived at the conclusion that I'd like to work for douchebags less and skydive more. Whenever one of my old instructors posts a youtube video of him BASE jumping into a pool party in Kuala Lumpur or flying a wingsuit off a mountain in Sweden, I have one of those "What the fuck am I doing with my life?" moments. I'm still considering how to implement this particular solution though, as so far working for the douchebags has been paying for my skydiving.
You could just install Ubuntu, change the startup bitmap and a few labels in Unity and tell them it's Windows 10! "Yeah, Microsoft had to change the look and feel of the OS a bit when they added systemd *vague hand wave*" It might be a bit harder to pass Libreoffice off as Outlook/Powerpoint/Excel, but if you could transition the company to that first, odds are no one would ever notice!
The latest windows is so buggy the risk of giving away the source code might be outweighed by the idea of thousands of developers fixing all those bugs for free. Plus we'll file patent lawsuits against anyone who tries to use a not-our version commercially.
All those contracts go to the lowest bidder, so they just underbid them and come back and say "We need more money" a third of the way into the project.
Not to look a gift outbreak of common sense in the mouth, but how the fuck can GPS trackers be a form of search and seizure and civil forfeiture NOT be a form of search and seizure? Some measure of consistency in our right to be secure in our papers and shit would be nice.
Crashing through a gate where there's a guy armed with a machine gun is a really good way to get shot, a lot. It annoys the guy with the machine gun, and he has a tendency to shoot things that annoy him. And he's not using the cheap Wal*Mart bullets, either. The last thing to go through your head, I mean, before bullets, would probably be "Wow, those are really some high quality bullets that guy is shooting me with!" I seem to recall that this sort of thing was fairly common back in the 70's and 80's with the hippies trying to disrupt the SAC air force bases. We seem to be having a spike in the crazy/stupid lately, where people seem to think that if you go crashing through a gate with a guy with a machine gun, they'll be nice to you or something. Nope. Not the case at all.
Ad campaigns are easily subverted. Case in point. If you're going to do something like that, you'd best be sure you're squeaky clean and that the public loves you. And if you're a souless corporation, the answer to both those questions is inevitably "no."
They demand a lot of loyalty from people they'd cut up and sell for organs if they thought it would be profitable. I'm actually mildly surprised Amazon hasn't tried this yet. Like if you get killed in the warehouse Amazon gets dibbs on your organs kinda clause.
Most of those web sites are not one's I'm likely to return to anyway. Like a corporate web site for some company I clicked on a job posting for. And now it's asking me to create an account with my E-Mail address and a password. The only information in the account that the password is protecting is an E-Mail address, and I'm not likely to ever return to that site. At this point I'm already pretty sure I don't want to work for that company. If they bitch at me about the strength of the password I chose, that's really just going to make up my mind for me at that point. If I ever DO return to the site, I'm not even likely to remember that I ever created an account there, much less what the password was, so I'm just going to have to click on the "forgot password" link, anyway. I've had sites like this send me the original password in plain text, too.
HK-47, opining on torture
"Droids tend to blend into the background, like a bench or a card table. Mockery: Droid, fetch this. Droid, translate that. Droid, clean out the trash compactor. Part of the love of my function comes when the ‘furnishings’ pull out tibanna-powered rifles and point them at the owners' heads."
You sound like someone who's old. Or irrelevant. Were you one of those people protesting in front of air force bases in the 70's? Sure, a nuclear-armed Iran is a convenient boogeyman to wave around to scare the US public. Who's doing that? John McCain mostly. Let's apply our criteria to him. Old? Yup. He's practically yelling at the rest of Congress to get off his lawn. And irrelevant? Yep, pretty much. No one cares what John McCain thinks, except maybe some old people in Florida and Arizona and some irrelevant people at Fox News.
Nuclear weapons were a convenient boogeyman to wave around when you were a hippie in the 70's. "Oh, they're going to blow the world up unless we pour this goat's blood on the gate of the air force base!" Discounting the fact that making a nuclear bomb is really hard (Iran and North Korea have been trying for as long as I've been alive, despite the fact that the general concepts are simple enough for a teenager to grasp,) and making something to deliver it is also really hard. By the time you get done doing all that stuff, you may as well have just leveled a city with conventional weapons. We did a lot more to Japan with conventional weapons than we did with nuclear ones in WWII, by the way. But after all that, some very interesting politics come into play, which is why India and Pakistan haven't nuked each other. And you know, the longer a nuclear device sits, the less likely it is that it's going to work. Your nice pure plutonium core starts getting crapped up with hydrogen bubbles. And those things are already very finicky as Iran and North Korea are finding out.
So yeah, on a scale of things that are likely to kill you, nuclear war is simply not one of them. You're significantly more likely to be shot by a disgruntled co-worker or a road-raging jackass in a giant penis truck. His truck is very very big, his penis is very very small and he's angry! In fact if you asked 1000 random people if they worry more about dying in a nuclear war or to zombies, I'd be willing to bet most of them would say zombies. Which are fictional.
It's like an anti-social network! If you had some data you wanted to make sure no one would ever see, you could post it to Google+!
I saw some (i'm assuming) teenager post some angsty thing on a social page the other day and it occurred to me that we built this huge network that lets you reach out and speak to basically any other human being on the planet and people seem lonelier than ever. Odd, how that works...
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There's still no word on delivering them via catapult. The law seems to frown on this particular method.
Is it because they're whores and will do anything for loose change? That's pretty much my standard answer for any headline in the format "Why is blank blanking?"
... Because... um... I guess she hates gays and women and can therefore do business with whatever oppressive regimes she wants? Carly's a non-starter in the Republican race because it's way too easy to point out that having successfully run HP into the ground, she now wants a chance to do the same for the country. She seems to want to be a character in an Ayn Rand novel. Presumably like Rand Paul, she grew up spanking it to Atlas Shrugged. And we've already seen how that style of management works on the small scale. It won't work any better at the level of a large country.
6 minutes twice a week in an indoor skydiving facility for 6 weeks. It'll cost neighborhood of $1000, but that's still significantly less than a similar number of skydives. If you focus on flying on your belly, you'd be a pretty decent belly flyer at the end of that time. 'Course you might also have a new life-long habit as a wind tunnel rat.
Companies these days want hot-swappable cogs in their machines. Anyone who has enough sense of individuality left to go to the effort of creating an easter egg is not a desirable employee. It's not hard to slip one in, even if they have code reviews. Really, the challenge just makes it more spicy.
I've arrived at the conclusion that I'd like to work for douchebags less and skydive more. Whenever one of my old instructors posts a youtube video of him BASE jumping into a pool party in Kuala Lumpur or flying a wingsuit off a mountain in Sweden, I have one of those "What the fuck am I doing with my life?" moments. I'm still considering how to implement this particular solution though, as so far working for the douchebags has been paying for my skydiving.
You could just install Ubuntu, change the startup bitmap and a few labels in Unity and tell them it's Windows 10! "Yeah, Microsoft had to change the look and feel of the OS a bit when they added systemd *vague hand wave*" It might be a bit harder to pass Libreoffice off as Outlook/Powerpoint/Excel, but if you could transition the company to that first, odds are no one would ever notice!
The latest windows is so buggy the risk of giving away the source code might be outweighed by the idea of thousands of developers fixing all those bugs for free. Plus we'll file patent lawsuits against anyone who tries to use a not-our version commercially.
All those contracts go to the lowest bidder, so they just underbid them and come back and say "We need more money" a third of the way into the project.
And I guarantee you'll have yourself an IT security disaster in no time!
Olig XKCD.
End of college? Khaaaaaaaaaaaaaan! *raises fist*
Not to look a gift outbreak of common sense in the mouth, but how the fuck can GPS trackers be a form of search and seizure and civil forfeiture NOT be a form of search and seizure? Some measure of consistency in our right to be secure in our papers and shit would be nice.
Crashing through a gate where there's a guy armed with a machine gun is a really good way to get shot, a lot. It annoys the guy with the machine gun, and he has a tendency to shoot things that annoy him. And he's not using the cheap Wal*Mart bullets, either. The last thing to go through your head, I mean, before bullets, would probably be "Wow, those are really some high quality bullets that guy is shooting me with!" I seem to recall that this sort of thing was fairly common back in the 70's and 80's with the hippies trying to disrupt the SAC air force bases. We seem to be having a spike in the crazy/stupid lately, where people seem to think that if you go crashing through a gate with a guy with a machine gun, they'll be nice to you or something. Nope. Not the case at all.
Ad campaigns are easily subverted. Case in point. If you're going to do something like that, you'd best be sure you're squeaky clean and that the public loves you. And if you're a souless corporation, the answer to both those questions is inevitably "no."
A $300 gopro recording to a $100 128GB MicroSD chip would add $150,000 to the cost of each plane and would be easily defeated with duct tape.
They demand a lot of loyalty from people they'd cut up and sell for organs if they thought it would be profitable. I'm actually mildly surprised Amazon hasn't tried this yet. Like if you get killed in the warehouse Amazon gets dibbs on your organs kinda clause.
Maybe there aren't any workers. Is the CEO sporting a shiny new $9 billion iWatch by any chance?
Most of those web sites are not one's I'm likely to return to anyway. Like a corporate web site for some company I clicked on a job posting for. And now it's asking me to create an account with my E-Mail address and a password. The only information in the account that the password is protecting is an E-Mail address, and I'm not likely to ever return to that site. At this point I'm already pretty sure I don't want to work for that company. If they bitch at me about the strength of the password I chose, that's really just going to make up my mind for me at that point. If I ever DO return to the site, I'm not even likely to remember that I ever created an account there, much less what the password was, so I'm just going to have to click on the "forgot password" link, anyway. I've had sites like this send me the original password in plain text, too.
Or this happens.
Every time they test it, it turns out it actually IS magic, though.
Just spin the printer, duh.
HK-47, opining on torture
"Droids tend to blend into the background, like a bench or a card table. Mockery: Droid, fetch this. Droid, translate that. Droid, clean out the trash compactor. Part of the love of my function comes when the ‘furnishings’ pull out tibanna-powered rifles and point them at the owners' heads."
Nuclear weapons were a convenient boogeyman to wave around when you were a hippie in the 70's. "Oh, they're going to blow the world up unless we pour this goat's blood on the gate of the air force base!" Discounting the fact that making a nuclear bomb is really hard (Iran and North Korea have been trying for as long as I've been alive, despite the fact that the general concepts are simple enough for a teenager to grasp,) and making something to deliver it is also really hard. By the time you get done doing all that stuff, you may as well have just leveled a city with conventional weapons. We did a lot more to Japan with conventional weapons than we did with nuclear ones in WWII, by the way. But after all that, some very interesting politics come into play, which is why India and Pakistan haven't nuked each other. And you know, the longer a nuclear device sits, the less likely it is that it's going to work. Your nice pure plutonium core starts getting crapped up with hydrogen bubbles. And those things are already very finicky as Iran and North Korea are finding out.
So yeah, on a scale of things that are likely to kill you, nuclear war is simply not one of them. You're significantly more likely to be shot by a disgruntled co-worker or a road-raging jackass in a giant penis truck. His truck is very very big, his penis is very very small and he's angry! In fact if you asked 1000 random people if they worry more about dying in a nuclear war or to zombies, I'd be willing to bet most of them would say zombies. Which are fictional.
I saw some (i'm assuming) teenager post some angsty thing on a social page the other day and it occurred to me that we built this huge network that lets you reach out and speak to basically any other human being on the planet and people seem lonelier than ever. Odd, how that works...