It doesn't seem like it - in fact the whole thing is kind of flimsy as a story, sourced from one anonymous complainer who blew things quite out of proportion.
That was the case for one person who applied for employment with the City. The anonymous viewer emailed the news station recently to express concern with a component of the city's background check policy, which states that to be considered for a job applicants must provide log-in information and passwords for social network sites in which they participate.
They did not provide a reference to this "component of the city's background check policy" anywhere. There's nothing here to say a password is required.
The requirement is included on a waiver statement applicants must sign, giving the City permission to conduct an investigation into the person's "background, references, character, past employment, education, credit history, criminal or police records."
So assuming they got a copy of this waiver statement, all they can say for sure is that the city can do a background check. Again, nothing that confirms that login information is required.
"Please list any and all, current personal or business websites, web pages or memberships on any Internet-based chat rooms, social clubs or forums, to include, but not limited to: Facebook, Google, Yahoo, YouTube.com, MySpace, etc.," the City form states.
So they saw the form, and they still can't quote specific text where it asks for a password?
There are then three lines where applicants can list the Web sites, their user names and log-in information and their passwords.
Or maybe they give a place to list websites, and a certain overzealous reporter decided that they also mean "private login information"? If you read the comments from the official interviewed, there's nothing there to give the impression that he's being asked about login credentials either.
It's certainly possible that the "reporter" is correct, but there's nothing cited in the article which says that he's doing anything more than a) taking a complaint from an anonymous source at face value and b) failing to do due diligence research on the topic at hand.
The conclusion? All but one, not even a whole one, of these problems would simply not exist if Java wasn't used. Many of us raised some warnings about that, but Java dev^H^H^Hfanboys who love their language because it's the only one they know dismissed the argument. Thankyou very much.
Erm... you make a very persuasive argument for a conclusion that reads like "the nvidia rep doesn't know what he's talking about, and I've demonstrated that". But the argument at hand has nothing to do with this conclusion... what can you give in support of "The problem is Java"?
Java is a nice toy, but unfit for production, get real.
Might help to do a bit of research before making posts like this one. You realize that Blackberry has been an all-java platform for years now, and nobody is complaining about performance? Even on their new systems, which directly compete with the iPhone.
The problem here isn't with the Java platform, it's in the fact that Android is a custom implementation that is not standards compliant. This, in turn, means that the tens of thousands (or more?) of J2ME applications that have been developed over the years are useless on this platform. By choosing not to support it, Google has greater control over the platform - but they also compete with the "real" JME platform for mindshare, while providing no measurable advantage other than marketing.
Realistically we can't test everything sufficiently to be absolutely certain, but we can test in a prudent manner to at least uncover the more obvious risks.
Yep, who would have though to test for the possibility that a product that you put up your nose might damage your nose!
comparing iPhone games to PS3 or XBox360 games is like comparing a gnat to a pterodactyl. Yes they both fly, but one is a beast while the other is a nuisance. This article holds no merit.
There's a joke in here about which one of those has gone extinct...
I disagree - to the end user, there's no difference. I would argue that that the couple hundred MB of KDE, Qt, and GTK libs downloaded under linux/are/ a part of the OS updates to the end user -- the provide the foundation of more-or-less equivalent functionality that Windows provides.
For the other apps that the user might update - yes, those are included in the standard ubuntu updates. On the other hand, most apps used by end users on Windows don't update with anything approaching the same frequency that they will under Linux. When they do, the updates are self-contained. Firefox, Quicken, Quicktime, iTunes, etc -- most "modern" apps will self-update in place in the Windows world.
Not really. Try to install Ubuntu then run apt-get update/upgrade. You're waiting for tons of downloads after the installation is completed, depending on what you installed.
Damn, that's a complicated path. WHile clearly it's no "apt-get update" , it is more often than not a matter of going to Windows Update from your start menu, which does a pretty good job of getting hardware drivers. In this case, it's a bit more complicated due to the LAN itself being what's broken.
So if you take a comparable situation and strip out the drama (most manufacturers use.msi, or.zip containing an exe at worst), your steps on the two OS's are as follows:
Go to backup PC
Download driver (installer|package) from (company|repository)
Transfer driver (installer|package) from PC a to PC b.
Execute (installer|package manager).
If you know where the package repository is, it will be a little faster to get that for linux than the installer in Windows -- one stop shopping. I'd argue that most people would not know, but there's no way to prove that.
Other than that, the two experiences are comparable - I still don't see that Linux has a clear advantage; conversely that means that Windows also doesn't have a clear advantage.
Well... reducing fever has (AFAIK) no impact on whether it is communicable. And since stopping the spread of the disease is the goal, it would seem to me that the fever check is just to identify the most easily scannable symptom.
That said, it's less clear whether these people even knew that they had H1N1 - if not, it's hardly reasonable to demonize them as "cheaters".
Okay, so to get this straight:
linux installed fine, but without working sound. You killed your linux installation through attempting to update video drivers.
windows installed fine, but without working LAN drivers. I am assuming you corrected this and installed proper ATI drivers without crashing your system.
Objectively, how is your Linux experience any better than Windows? It sounds like overall, it was worse (assuming you had a need to upgrade to ATI drivers. ). I'm not saying that linux can't be easily installed and working, obviously that is not true. However, your anecdotal experience -- if anything --- seems to say you should stay with Windows.
We're on XP...
They are thinking of going Vista because of the 1 on 1 MS support we have.
Most techs here are well against any move away from XP...
Vista II or 7 depending what your take is is not an option.
We want out of the M$ revenue tree...
Just code something that works and we'll pay for the patches/upgrades.
Stop trying to sell us new stuff that just takes up more CPU cycles for no good reason.
This industry is going nowhere fast.
Also, using boxen in a sentence is cause for automatic suspension of your nerd license. On the other hand, it also qualifies you to receive a script kiddie license at no charge.
Any who participate or who knows someone who participates are sinners and will go straight to the Pit upon death, to live an eternal existence in utmost torture.
To Christians, acceptance of Christ guarantees forgiveness of any sin. If this is true, you're lying. If it's not true, you're deluded - but we won't hold that against you since if it's not true you're one among millions. Either way, please peddle your personal judgment elsewhere -- your beliefs as posted have nothing to do with the religion you [apparently] claim to follow.
The people who were not prepared for the completely predictable irregularities in this election need to hunker down and ride it out, and perhaps next time they will pay attention before it is too late.
...
And in 2016, there were no elections.
Seriously. Think through the logic of what you said: They should hunker down and prepare for next time. What could possibly make you think they have a chance at a "next time"?
So, most people see the choice as this: either buy the product as its offered and accept its limitations, or go to the black market to get what you want and send a message to the producer that their product is not acceptable.
And therein lies the false dichotomy. There's another option:
DON'T OBTAIN THE MATERIAL.
You don't need the movie that much. You can choose neither, and still send the message that the product is not acceptable.
Indeed. I've given up on trying to convince anyone on that line of reasoning though. The idea of doing without seems rather foreign.
You're arguing that people should purchase a product they don't want to legitimize receiving a product they do want. It's not a totally unfair argument, but it's not cut-and-dried.
More or less, I suppose that is my point. What other choice is given? "Acquire" for free and ensure that the people behind it receive/nothing/ for their parts in its creation -- or pay for it in what way we can, while still enjoying use as we should be able to.
My argument is more that you're not paying for the useless crap - you're paying for the content you/do/ use.
Is that still around? Everywhere I see that carries any BR disks, the inventory is next to nothing now.
Just goes to show. The places I get video from carry more and more BR stock every month since HD-DVD died. BR in blockbuster is slowly taking over the DVD racks, encroaching from the outside in. Netflix adds more to their BR selection ever month too.
Also, they can take my SD CRT television when they pry it from my cold, dead hands. This forced upgrade to a technology with a terrible, inherent flaw (tearing and lagging from any significant motion, even with the best, most current technology) is unacceptable
Did you last look 10 years ago? Seriously, I have a sub-$1000 46" store brand LCD, the picture is great. I have never seen any tearing or other issues. While I think spending thousands of dollars on one of these is ridiculous, denying that there could possibly be any merit because you just want people to get off your lawn is equally so.
When they wise up and replace LCD/plasma with viable technology, I'll be on board but until then, to hell with this cheaply done forced upgrade crap to appease people who like shiny new things.
Yeah, dude, my last TV was a black and white. I totally know what you mean. Anything since black and white has been a waste of money, designed to appease peopelw ho like shiny new things.
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Just be careful - actually doing so and getting caught at it is a violation of your TOS.
Hmm. I stand corrected - the video attached to the article covers it...
That was the case for one person who applied for employment with the City. The anonymous viewer emailed the news station recently to express concern with a component of the city's background check policy, which states that to be considered for a job applicants must provide log-in information and passwords for social network sites in which they participate.
They did not provide a reference to this "component of the city's background check policy" anywhere. There's nothing here to say a password is required.
The requirement is included on a waiver statement applicants must sign, giving the City permission to conduct an investigation into the person's "background, references, character, past employment, education, credit history, criminal or police records."
So assuming they got a copy of this waiver statement, all they can say for sure is that the city can do a background check. Again, nothing that confirms that login information is required.
"Please list any and all, current personal or business websites, web pages or memberships on any Internet-based chat rooms, social clubs or forums, to include, but not limited to: Facebook, Google, Yahoo, YouTube.com, MySpace, etc.," the City form states.
So they saw the form, and they still can't quote specific text where it asks for a password?
There are then three lines where applicants can list the Web sites, their user names and log-in information and their passwords.
Or maybe they give a place to list websites, and a certain overzealous reporter decided that they also mean "private login information"? If you read the comments from the official interviewed, there's nothing there to give the impression that he's being asked about login credentials either.
It's certainly possible that the "reporter" is correct, but there's nothing cited in the article which says that he's doing anything more than a) taking a complaint from an anonymous source at face value and b) failing to do due diligence research on the topic at hand.
The conclusion? All but one, not even a whole one, of these problems would simply not exist if Java wasn't used. Many of us raised some warnings about that, but Java dev^H^H^Hfanboys who love their language because it's the only one they know dismissed the argument. Thankyou very much.
Erm... you make a very persuasive argument for a conclusion that reads like "the nvidia rep doesn't know what he's talking about, and I've demonstrated that". But the argument at hand has nothing to do with this conclusion... what can you give in support of "The problem is Java"?
Java is a nice toy, but unfit for production, get real.
Might help to do a bit of research before making posts like this one. You realize that Blackberry has been an all-java platform for years now, and nobody is complaining about performance? Even on their new systems, which directly compete with the iPhone.
The problem here isn't with the Java platform, it's in the fact that Android is a custom implementation that is not standards compliant. This, in turn, means that the tens of thousands (or more?) of J2ME applications that have been developed over the years are useless on this platform. By choosing not to support it, Google has greater control over the platform - but they also compete with the "real" JME platform for mindshare, while providing no measurable advantage other than marketing.
Realistically we can't test everything sufficiently to be absolutely certain, but we can test in a prudent manner to at least uncover the more obvious risks.
Yep, who would have though to test for the possibility that a product that you put up your nose might damage your nose!
comparing iPhone games to PS3 or XBox360 games is like comparing a gnat to a pterodactyl. Yes they both fly, but one is a beast while the other is a nuisance. This article holds no merit.
There's a joke in here about which one of those has gone extinct...
For the other apps that the user might update - yes, those are included in the standard ubuntu updates. On the other hand, most apps used by end users on Windows don't update with anything approaching the same frequency that they will under Linux. When they do, the updates are self-contained. Firefox, Quicken, Quicktime, iTunes, etc -- most "modern" apps will self-update in place in the Windows world.
I see what you did there.
Not really. Try to install Ubuntu then run apt-get update/upgrade. You're waiting for tons of downloads after the installation is completed, depending on what you installed.
So if you take a comparable situation and strip out the drama (most manufacturers use .msi, or .zip containing an exe at worst), your steps on the two OS's are as follows:
If you know where the package repository is, it will be a little faster to get that for linux than the installer in Windows -- one stop shopping. I'd argue that most people would not know, but there's no way to prove that.
Other than that, the two experiences are comparable - I still don't see that Linux has a clear advantage; conversely that means that Windows also doesn't have a clear advantage.
That said, it's less clear whether these people even knew that they had H1N1 - if not, it's hardly reasonable to demonize them as "cheaters".
I'm not sure what this has to do with what I posted, but... whatever does it for you.
linux installed fine, but without working sound. You killed your linux installation through attempting to update video drivers.
windows installed fine, but without working LAN drivers. I am assuming you corrected this and installed proper ATI drivers without crashing your system.
Objectively, how is your Linux experience any better than Windows? It sounds like overall, it was worse (assuming you had a need to upgrade to ATI drivers. ). I'm not saying that linux can't be easily installed and working, obviously that is not true. However, your anecdotal experience -- if anything --- seems to say you should stay with Windows.
We're on XP...
They are thinking of going Vista because of the 1 on 1 MS support we have.
Most techs here are well against any move away from XP...
Vista II or 7 depending what your take is is not an option.
We want out of the M$ revenue tree...
Just code something that works and we'll pay for the patches/upgrades.
Stop trying to sell us new stuff that just takes up more CPU cycles for no good reason.
This industry is going nowhere fast.
Burma-shave!
Also, using boxen in a sentence is cause for automatic suspension of your nerd license. On the other hand, it also qualifies you to receive a script kiddie license at no charge.
Any who participate or who knows someone who participates are sinners and will go straight to the Pit upon death, to live an eternal existence in utmost torture.
To Christians, acceptance of Christ guarantees forgiveness of any sin. If this is true, you're lying. If it's not true, you're deluded - but we won't hold that against you since if it's not true you're one among millions. Either way, please peddle your personal judgment elsewhere -- your beliefs as posted have nothing to do with the religion you [apparently] claim to follow.
The people who were not prepared for the completely predictable irregularities in this election need to hunker down and ride it out, and perhaps next time they will pay attention before it is too late.
...
And in 2016, there were no elections.
Seriously. Think through the logic of what you said: They should hunker down and prepare for next time. What could possibly make you think they have a chance at a "next time"?
Haven't had any problems with the FF feed, but I'm not using RSS through any other channels.
You could also argue that the premium on BluRay is for the HD content that you can't get on DVD...
So, most people see the choice as this: either buy the product as its offered and accept its limitations, or go to the black market to get what you want and send a message to the producer that their product is not acceptable.
And therein lies the false dichotomy. There's another option:
DON'T OBTAIN THE MATERIAL.
You don't need the movie that much. You can choose neither, and still send the message that the product is not acceptable.
Indeed. I've given up on trying to convince anyone on that line of reasoning though. The idea of doing without seems rather foreign.
I had to debate whether I wanted to click on it, for fear of a massive goatse prank...
.... lacking the cohones to give birth...
Heeeey, waitaminute...
You're arguing that people should purchase a product they don't want to legitimize receiving a product they do want. It's not a totally unfair argument, but it's not cut-and-dried.
More or less, I suppose that is my point. What other choice is given? "Acquire" for free and ensure that the people behind it receive /nothing/ for their parts in its creation -- or pay for it in what way we can, while still enjoying use as we should be able to.
My argument is more that you're not paying for the useless crap - you're paying for the content you /do/ use.
Is that still around? Everywhere I see that carries any BR disks, the inventory is next to nothing now.
Just goes to show. The places I get video from carry more and more BR stock every month since HD-DVD died. BR in blockbuster is slowly taking over the DVD racks, encroaching from the outside in. Netflix adds more to their BR selection ever month too.
Also, they can take my SD CRT television when they pry it from my cold, dead hands. This forced upgrade to a technology with a terrible, inherent flaw (tearing and lagging from any significant motion, even with the best, most current technology) is unacceptable
Did you last look 10 years ago? Seriously, I have a sub-$1000 46" store brand LCD, the picture is great. I have never seen any tearing or other issues. While I think spending thousands of dollars on one of these is ridiculous, denying that there could possibly be any merit because you just want people to get off your lawn is equally so.
When they wise up and replace LCD/plasma with viable technology, I'll be on board but until then, to hell with this cheaply done forced upgrade crap to appease people who like shiny new things.
Yeah, dude, my last TV was a black and white. I totally know what you mean. Anything since black and white has been a waste of money, designed to appease peopelw ho like shiny new things.