I'm rather enjoyed the story line, but the last mission is hard, they throw all the cops at you.
But does this game have replay value like gta5? It might, but I doubt I will continuing playing after a few more online skirmishes and finish this last mission. So was the game worth 60 dollars? I have over 30 hours of gameplay for 60 bux, does seem expensive to me but it was enjoyable.
The problem isnt plan facts, its the missing facts editors delete. And the issue are not what facts are deleted, its the reasons behind the deletions.
Take politics, the theme now is to direct the narative in news. This is what is being done in articles, its not facts, its a view of the facts from a group with interests. This is the reason they dont want paid editors, they change the narative.
One mans terrrorist is another mans freedom fighter. Its the narative.
We have wars going on all over wikipedia due to different views and beliefs that far outweigh the business and pr companies. Many non paid editors have very in-depth political viewpoints, and they attack other groups reporting on information in articles they disagree with.
The worst I've seen are the feminists against male rape statistics and anything male related. I can only assume its because colleges promote such a militant viewpoint on feminism it runs over into other areas of sexual statistics and thus becomes political.
I've seen many editors who are members of originations who delete anything that could be considered a counter argument with the established, but can often be incorrect due to education and their circle of influence related to their school or organization.
Another example. An amateur historian who would find common misconceptions and provide articles to show the common viewpoint is not correct by using government links. Many editors that are enrolled in college history courses would remove his work. He finally just used his personal page and put up the corrections so at least they are online. The point was he was correction known flaws taught in higher education with GOVERNMENT backed evidence.
It sickens me, that the truth can be deleted by editors with agendas. I've seen the history re-written due to lack of publications of news and tv reportings that are from the early 80's and older. But we can have entire animated tv show episodes articles with great detail, as thats the level of knowledge as historically important.
This is why we need all magazines and newspapers online also, the history and reporting of opnion is harder to argue when the only source is wikipedia.
I had the same problem with netflix on comcast, used my AWS instance as socks proxy and was back up to HD speeds. I finally bought a vpn service and problem was solved. Also came in handy for content that was geographically limited. Amusing how I can bounce my netflix through multiple VPNs, Socks proxies and always get HD, but when it was straight to netflix over comcast it was crappy quality. Also, no idea why, but apple tv on my buddies comcast would always get HD but his browser wouldn't.
At least all the whistle blowers are giving us the transparency Obama promised but failed to deliver.
I cant even watch the news, its all playing the public for fools. Democrats this, Republicans that. Corporation ABC gets approval to fuck more customers with blessing of its bought and paid for chairmen in power. Corruption in our courts and police are on par with third world countries. Every day we have more innocent people being slaughtered by police officers.
Where are the Military men with honor running our Country? We get lawyers, LAWYERS, the scum of the earth who sold their soul and ideals for money.
There is no Honor in our Government. How many people are still going to prison for minor drug offenses for non violent use, Obama said he would stop that, he hasn't.
And all you people will still vote a Democrat or Republican into office thinking things will change.
Why anyone thinks they can get a fair trial, a system that makes you plead so you dont get LIFE in prison. We have the largest prison population in the world and its not from finding people innocent. We have an estimated 12-15% of innocent men in prison so what, 220,000 thousand innocent people in prison. How many extra are there for non violent drug use? 50%?
I'd like to bitch more, but Game of Thrones is on. Maybe I'll rant on facebook, that will do just as good as my slashdot post.
Amusing you blame one party, but the commission is democrat controlled and a democrat president who can ask criminal investigations on the commissioners, executive orders and much much more...
Both sides are shitting all over you and you like the flavor of one groups shit over the other....
After taxes, medical and 6% retirement, what about 55k (or more depending if you have state taxes, local taxes, house taxes, etc).. .
4.5K a month. Nice apartment close to work will cost 1500 bux, insurance/gas/car payment 500 bux, leave you 2500 a month, basic utils 500 bux. 2K a month. After food, eating out, pub, movies. Comfortable life but I wouldnt say rich.
And you'll need around 200K to live in the Bay area to make up for the Rent, state taxes, etc.
>Obama is part of the system that created the problem in the first place.
Funny you can mention that now and get upvoted. If you mentioned that back during the first election it was "racist this, and racist that" you just dont want a black president! Then he got the Nobel peace prize, and few of us said, he didnt do anything to warrant it and was down voted.
So we have the Republicans how act like Daddy and tells you what is morally correct and tries to force it with laws. Then we have Mommy Democrats who tells you how to behave with others and spend your money. How about we get a 3rd party (maybe a few) that agree to stay out of or personal and finacial lives.
I cant see any reason we need to make it easier for companies to turn metadata or straight up personal data to the government. And both parties fall over themselves when it comes to self serving federal laws.
And for those people complain that a libertarian party are the ones who would allow EPA disasters, schools to go unfunded, no fire/police departments are just using scare tactics to keep the status quo. So damn simple... Keep the gov outta our personal, private and capitalist transactions. Why is this so hard to understand?
I'm more interested in AR than VR. Oculus is VR, and Google Glass and CastAR which seems useful for daily life. Most of the VR I see are either modeling or video games. AR I can see additional information on my current work, personal assistant providing information in my daily life, assisting in my current job and providing additional information to any task I'm doing.
Exactly this, bandwidth caps, lack of network connectivity. Physical media isnt going away. Also most people want to own their entertainment, not lease.
Many many decades ago, I went to a charter school for k-6th grade. The school had to allow everyone in the area as part of its opening up in a richer suburb. I lived along the border and was included in the school map. School had computers while only the jr high and high schools. My parents could have never afforded to to send me to a private school with lower population sizes and computers. I was lucky. And being a poor rowdy kid, they never kicked me out. Lucky that's where I got my introduction into computers.
Only thing I'd like to see is smaller classes, and charter schools on average have higher. This is supposedly with them kicking poor performing kids out. But charter schools differ so much, there is no "standard" model used. I think we can all agree smaller classrooms with more individual help is what schools should have, but thats gets very expensive. I'd rather take all those billions of dollars in state taxes on alcohol and marijuana taxes go to directly fund schools instead...
Bullshit. Potus has WAY more power than you think. He can ask the Justice department to investigate why the judges only rubber stamp, he can use presidential orders to direct departments or how to interpretation the law, he can fire US attorneys, he has his cabinet members he can fire, he could even fire the the head of the CIA/FBI and Homeland security for misconduct by asking the AG to fire them, and so much more powers.
I'm rather tired an annoyed how SCOTUS can wreck and change laws by simply interpreting them differently.
Yes sometimes they rule in societies best interests. As they legalized being gay. Example, Texas tells the court Its legal to be gay but not have gay sex, SCOTUS's comment "and the difference is?" and now being gay is legal.
Eminent domain and how they think the public use now means private use as in developers taking land is ok. And being paid fair market value? No, sorry.
The Whitehouse went to SCOTUS for ACA (Obamacare) for its "mandate" payments that under the tax code are taxes, but told the court it wasnt a tax. The court could have easily agreed with the whitehouse and said "if you say its not a tax, is thrown out" But they said, smells like a tax, its written under tax law, its a tax. Thats the fine line, but making people buy unregulated products aka healthcare and calling it a tax? Cherry pick which pieces to of law to rule on.
Now, pot is legal in Washington and Colorado. An act that could have landed you in PRISON, something how will the court rule on that? Are we suppose to believe something illegal yesterday that could ruin your life if the law was concerned, is no perfectly ok.
Taking the real world action and moving it to the "cloud", the same thing anyone can do legally, but since a company can do it on a mass scale its a crime. We make all thes laws, rules and regulations to try to protect the public from abusive laws, whats more abusive that keeping technology in the dark ages under some corporate greed?
If we can see federal courts on different sides of the United states DISAGREE on the same cases, maybe we can relialize these courts are holding back innovation and growth with negative laws.
Take patent trolls, some courts kiss patent trolls asses, then some courts rule against them like the Nintendo case.
Then there is Apple suing everying in the world that mentions Android. Android is so big of a tech boost in so many markets in so many diverse sectors, its creating new businesses and ideas.
Bah, its Friday and after 5, enough of this and time to goto the pub.
This is anti-net neutrality under a different name. The throttle mechanism is supra-data cap charges instead of literal throttling.
No it isn't. Since bandwidth is now a metered product, this is noting more than a network 800 number. The speeds are the same, it is just a question of who pays.
Its really simple, as an ISP, if you make your own services faster by purposly making others slow or cost more, thats against net neutrality.
AT&T is including their own services as unmetered so customers will want to use them over others. AT&T offers owncloud an online storage you pay for monthly, yet now bandwidth is excluded. They even let you back up your home PC and Phone's internal/external storage.
This is the the heart of network nuterality, an ISP's (Which AT&T is), charging more to use competitors services. So now AT&T can offer Email, Storage, Video/Picture sharing, for FREE yet charge you to use Google, Microsoft, Apple, etc using bandwidth costs.
This is no different than Comcast wanting to charge more for Netflix bandwidth, they found a work around by capping the data, and excluding their own Comcast Video On Demand service from the data cap. They would love to slow down the service and make HD unusable, but the horse is out of the barn, people are more educated now.
The end goal is customer lock in. They get you using their services, you dont want to move due to the hassle of data migration and costs. AT&T wants to lock customers in so badly they are offering to buy out your T-Mobile contract to get you to move.
AT&T isnt listening to its customers on what services they want or need, they are offering competing services but not new or improved services. Where is the core funcationality upgrades to voicemail and access controls. Where are the automated phone answering services with features? Overlay features such as temporary phone numbers for craiglist/ebay sales?, Location based services open to app developers, high priority data for business needs, bluetooth enabled services, payment services?
They are at the core of everything mobile related, yet they sit on their asses until its too late then try to limit other businesses by deceptive practices. They cripple phones for their own business purposes, they dont disable data roaming and people get hit with tens of thousands in data roaming charges, they over charge lines to the elderly, they charge for basics in a way to nickle and dime customers.
They should offer a good business model that enables services and growth, not try to be the big duoploy (verizon/att) and cripple competition.
They only make recommendations, nobody has to implement them.
Police chiefs do this all the time for police corruption. Look I'm putting a panel together to look into these problems and make recommendations. See! I'm doing something about it! Oh, the Union/Mayor/DA/etc wont agree, sad panda, I tried, vote for me again....
Thats one thing I loved about Winamp, all the plugins. Nothing really compares to the visual plugin workshops and the huge selection is awesome. But for simple day 2 day playing of mp3s I've moved onto foobar, I had to tweak a plugin to add ratings to mp3s idtag but its fast and works great. For android, poweramp is great and works well with bluetooth metadata. Always thought a full screen classic winamp display on android would have been awesome, but they didnt do that as an option.
I remember back on my 60mhz pentium desktop barely able to play high quality mp3s using Winplay3. Ahh the memories.
Doesnt do any good, if the law enforcement organizations (etc), have a warrant they can record all traffic from your IP/Phone. Depends on the company, but at AT&T Wireless they could turn on full sniffing from a mobiles internet traffic and record all TCP/UDP and even overlay it with location based service (tower strength triangulation). My boss said they had a group to assist in warrants, but after I setup the servers and routers, I NEVER saw an email, name or department identified, and I worked there for years setting up hardware from old packet data to 3G routers before I left.
So anyways, they record the entire SSL handshake so they can decrypt the session. You too can even try it for yourself in wireshark.
And who knows what is going on at the AT&T datacenters in those secret rooms...
As a Washington State resident, there are many counties that are wood only heating. Pierce and Tacoma have large suburbs and are not exactly off the grid living. They are bigger and can force the smaller population to upgrade. The counties like Stevens, Ferry and Okanogan are mostly wood heated homes. I have no real numbers but out of the 39 counties in Washington, I'd say at least 1/2 have majority of wood only heated homes, we still are a big wild state.
My mothers county has many people that are wood only, and if they went around giving $1000 dollar fines for people burning, they would tar and feather and hold a recall election. Those urban counties are gray haired monsters who know each other and would put pressure to any elected official.
Those poor gray haired women are the Majority of voters, tell them they cant heat their homes. Most of these people live in urban areas that dont have fire departments, police or or trash pick up. Tacoma I'd say is much different, its urban sprawl.
HOW!(!) is this a surprise to anybody? It's extortion, plain and simple.
Extortion for what? Money? Sexual favors?
You send junior techs out to reset the password on the server by console. Its that easy. And then you put a password policy in place and a password keeper that the employee must use.
And fire the manager who didnt know what a password policy was or a console to a server/router.
No wonder he the guy didn't want to turn over a password to a PHB.
Slashdot Mirror
I'm rather enjoyed the story line, but the last mission is hard, they throw all the cops at you.
But does this game have replay value like gta5? It might, but I doubt I will continuing playing after a few more online skirmishes and finish this last mission.
So was the game worth 60 dollars? I have over 30 hours of gameplay for 60 bux, does seem expensive to me but it was enjoyable.
The problem isnt plan facts, its the missing facts editors delete. And the issue are not what facts are deleted, its the reasons behind the deletions.
Take politics, the theme now is to direct the narative in news. This is what is being done in articles, its not facts, its a view of the facts from a group with interests. This is the reason they dont want paid editors, they change the narative.
One mans terrrorist is another mans freedom fighter. Its the narative.
We have wars going on all over wikipedia due to different views and beliefs that far outweigh the business and pr companies.
Many non paid editors have very in-depth political viewpoints, and they attack other groups reporting on information in articles they disagree with.
The worst I've seen are the feminists against male rape statistics and anything male related. I can only assume its because colleges promote such a militant viewpoint on feminism it runs over into other areas of sexual statistics and thus becomes political.
I've seen many editors who are members of originations who delete anything that could be considered a counter argument with the established, but can often be incorrect due to education and their circle of influence related to their school or organization.
Another example. An amateur historian who would find common misconceptions and provide articles to show the common viewpoint is not correct by using government links. Many editors that are enrolled in college history courses would remove his work. He finally just used his personal page and put up the corrections so at least they are online. The point was he was correction known flaws taught in higher education with GOVERNMENT backed evidence.
It sickens me, that the truth can be deleted by editors with agendas. I've seen the history re-written due to lack of publications of news and tv reportings that are from the early 80's and older. But we can have entire animated tv show episodes articles with great detail, as thats the level of knowledge as historically important.
This is why we need all magazines and newspapers online also, the history and reporting of opnion is harder to argue when the only source is wikipedia.
I had the same problem with netflix on comcast, used my AWS instance as socks proxy and was back up to HD speeds. I finally bought a vpn service and problem was solved. Also came in handy for content that was geographically limited. Amusing how I can bounce my netflix through multiple VPNs, Socks proxies and always get HD, but when it was straight to netflix over comcast it was crappy quality. Also, no idea why, but apple tv on my buddies comcast would always get HD but his browser wouldn't.
Just pass a law and let the states or local federal courts deal with it. The government doesnt need anymore power.
At least all the whistle blowers are giving us the transparency Obama promised but failed to deliver.
I cant even watch the news, its all playing the public for fools. Democrats this, Republicans that. Corporation ABC gets approval to fuck more customers with blessing of its bought and paid for chairmen in power. Corruption in our courts and police are on par with third world countries. Every day we have more innocent people being slaughtered by police officers.
Where are the Military men with honor running our Country? We get lawyers, LAWYERS, the scum of the earth who sold their soul and ideals for money.
There is no Honor in our Government. How many people are still going to prison for minor drug offenses for non violent use, Obama said he would stop that, he hasn't.
And all you people will still vote a Democrat or Republican into office thinking things will change.
Why anyone thinks they can get a fair trial, a system that makes you plead so you dont get LIFE in prison. We have the largest prison population in the world and its not from finding people innocent. We have an estimated 12-15% of innocent men in prison so what, 220,000 thousand innocent people in prison. How many extra are there for non violent drug use? 50%?
I'd like to bitch more, but Game of Thrones is on. Maybe I'll rant on facebook, that will do just as good as my slashdot post.
Amusing you blame one party, but the commission is democrat controlled and a democrat president who can ask criminal investigations on the commissioners, executive orders and much much more...
Both sides are shitting all over you and you like the flavor of one groups shit over the other....
After taxes, medical and 6% retirement, what about 55k (or more depending if you have state taxes, local taxes, house taxes, etc).. .
4.5K a month. Nice apartment close to work will cost 1500 bux, insurance/gas/car payment 500 bux, leave you 2500 a month, basic utils 500 bux.
2K a month. After food, eating out, pub, movies. Comfortable life but I wouldnt say rich.
And you'll need around 200K to live in the Bay area to make up for the Rent, state taxes, etc.
Go ahead and correct me, I just guestimated.
>Obama is part of the system that created the problem in the first place.
Funny you can mention that now and get upvoted. If you mentioned that back during the first election it was "racist this, and racist that" you just dont want a black president! Then he got the Nobel peace prize, and few of us said, he didnt do anything to warrant it and was down voted.
Track record speaks volumes.
With everyone hating on the R's the D' President is allowing NSA spying and even went after whistle blowers....
All I hear on the news is people bitching about the issues and republicans, where is the outrage for D's?
The US has spousal abuse syndrome for politicians. He only hits me because he loves me. I stand by my elected official..
So we have the Republicans how act like Daddy and tells you what is morally correct and tries to force it with laws. Then we have Mommy Democrats who tells you how to behave with others and spend your money. How about we get a 3rd party (maybe a few) that agree to stay out of or personal and finacial lives.
I cant see any reason we need to make it easier for companies to turn metadata or straight up personal data to the government. And both parties fall over themselves when it comes to self serving federal laws.
And for those people complain that a libertarian party are the ones who would allow EPA disasters, schools to go unfunded, no fire/police departments are just using scare tactics to keep the status quo. So damn simple... Keep the gov outta our personal, private and capitalist transactions. Why is this so hard to understand?
I really wish you could edit posts. :(
I'm more interested in AR than VR. Oculus is VR, and Google Glass and CastAR which seems useful for daily life. Most of the VR I see are either modeling or video games. AR I can see additional information on my current work, personal assistant providing information in my daily life, assisting in my current job and providing additional information to any task I'm doing.
Apps like Augment need to take off. I'd love an overlay when I look at a back of a switch or router that the ports light up with names. Or looking at a EMC and the cables could change colors so I can see which are plugged in. Maybe look around the room, and my remote lights up with a big arrow so I know where its hiding. Could even have AR assist you while you type, just as pop up boxes or IDE dialogs.
Oculus seems to me more for entertainment, which facebook is.
Exactly this, bandwidth caps, lack of network connectivity. Physical media isnt going away. Also most people want to own their entertainment, not lease.
Many many decades ago, I went to a charter school for k-6th grade. The school had to allow everyone in the area as part of its opening up in a richer suburb. I lived along the border and was included in the school map. School had computers while only the jr high and high schools. My parents could have never afforded to to send me to a private school with lower population sizes and computers. I was lucky. And being a poor rowdy kid, they never kicked me out. Lucky that's where I got my introduction into computers.
Only thing I'd like to see is smaller classes, and charter schools on average have higher. This is supposedly with them kicking poor performing kids out. But charter schools differ so much, there is no "standard" model used. I think we can all agree smaller classrooms with more individual help is what schools should have, but thats gets very expensive. I'd rather take all those billions of dollars in state taxes on alcohol and marijuana taxes go to directly fund schools instead...
Bullshit. Potus has WAY more power than you think. He can ask the Justice department to investigate why the judges only rubber stamp, he can use presidential orders to direct departments or how to interpretation the law, he can fire US attorneys, he has his cabinet members he can fire, he could even fire the the head of the CIA/FBI and Homeland security for misconduct by asking the AG to fire them, and so much more powers.
I'm rather tired an annoyed how SCOTUS can wreck and change laws by simply interpreting them differently.
Yes sometimes they rule in societies best interests. As they legalized being gay.
Example, Texas tells the court Its legal to be gay but not have gay sex, SCOTUS's comment "and the difference is?" and now being gay is legal.
Eminent domain and how they think the public use now means private use as in developers taking land is ok. And being paid fair market value? No, sorry.
The Whitehouse went to SCOTUS for ACA (Obamacare) for its "mandate" payments that under the tax code are taxes, but told the court it wasnt a tax. The court could have easily agreed with the whitehouse and said "if you say its not a tax, is thrown out" But they said, smells like a tax, its written under tax law, its a tax. Thats the fine line, but making people buy unregulated products aka healthcare and calling it a tax? Cherry pick which pieces to of law to rule on.
Now, pot is legal in Washington and Colorado. An act that could have landed you in PRISON, something how will the court rule on that? Are we suppose to believe something illegal yesterday that could ruin your life if the law was concerned, is no perfectly ok.
Taking the real world action and moving it to the "cloud", the same thing anyone can do legally, but since a company can do it on a mass scale its a crime.
We make all thes laws, rules and regulations to try to protect the public from abusive laws, whats more abusive that keeping technology in the dark ages under some corporate greed?
If we can see federal courts on different sides of the United states DISAGREE on the same cases, maybe we can relialize these courts are holding back innovation and growth with negative laws.
Take patent trolls, some courts kiss patent trolls asses, then some courts rule against them like the Nintendo case.
Then there is Apple suing everying in the world that mentions Android. Android is so big of a tech boost in so many markets in so many diverse sectors, its creating new businesses and ideas.
Bah, its Friday and after 5, enough of this and time to goto the pub.
This is anti-net neutrality under a different name. The throttle mechanism is supra-data cap charges instead of literal throttling.
No it isn't. Since bandwidth is now a metered product, this is noting more than a network 800 number. The speeds are the same, it is just a question of who pays.
Its really simple, as an ISP, if you make your own services faster by purposly making others slow or cost more, thats against net neutrality.
AT&T is including their own services as unmetered so customers will want to use them over others. AT&T offers owncloud an online storage you pay for monthly, yet now bandwidth is excluded. They even let you back up your home PC and Phone's internal/external storage.
This is the the heart of network nuterality, an ISP's (Which AT&T is), charging more to use competitors services. So now AT&T can offer Email, Storage, Video/Picture sharing, for FREE yet charge you to use Google, Microsoft, Apple, etc using bandwidth costs.
This is no different than Comcast wanting to charge more for Netflix bandwidth, they found a work around by capping the data, and excluding their own Comcast Video On Demand service from the data cap. They would love to slow down the service and make HD unusable, but the horse is out of the barn, people are more educated now.
The end goal is customer lock in. They get you using their services, you dont want to move due to the hassle of data migration and costs. AT&T wants to lock customers in so badly they are offering to buy out your T-Mobile contract to get you to move.
AT&T isnt listening to its customers on what services they want or need, they are offering competing services but not new or improved services. Where is the core funcationality upgrades to voicemail and access controls. Where are the automated phone answering services with features? Overlay features such as temporary phone numbers for craiglist/ebay sales?, Location based services open to app developers, high priority data for business needs, bluetooth enabled services, payment services?
They are at the core of everything mobile related, yet they sit on their asses until its too late then try to limit other businesses by deceptive practices. They cripple phones for their own business purposes, they dont disable data roaming and people get hit with tens of thousands in data roaming charges, they over charge lines to the elderly, they charge for basics in a way to nickle and dime customers.
They should offer a good business model that enables services and growth, not try to be the big duoploy (verizon/att) and cripple competition.
I thought netflix was for arm only. Will it even work in an emulator?
They only make recommendations, nobody has to implement them.
Police chiefs do this all the time for police corruption. Look I'm putting a panel together to look into these problems and make recommendations. See! I'm doing something about it! Oh, the Union/Mayor/DA/etc wont agree, sad panda, I tried, vote for me again....
Playing the public like fools.
SSDD
Thats one thing I loved about Winamp, all the plugins. Nothing really compares to the visual plugin workshops and the huge selection is awesome. But for simple day 2 day playing of mp3s I've moved onto foobar, I had to tweak a plugin to add ratings to mp3s idtag but its fast and works great.
For android, poweramp is great and works well with bluetooth metadata. Always thought a full screen classic winamp display on android would have been awesome, but they didnt do that as an option.
I remember back on my 60mhz pentium desktop barely able to play high quality mp3s using Winplay3. Ahh the memories.
Doesnt do any good, if the law enforcement organizations (etc), have a warrant they can record all traffic from your IP/Phone. Depends on the company, but at AT&T Wireless they could turn on full sniffing from a mobiles internet traffic and record all TCP/UDP and even overlay it with location based service (tower strength triangulation). My boss said they had a group to assist in warrants, but after I setup the servers and routers, I NEVER saw an email, name or department identified, and I worked there for years setting up hardware from old packet data to 3G routers before I left.
So anyways, they record the entire SSL handshake so they can decrypt the session. You too can even try it for yourself in wireshark.
And who knows what is going on at the AT&T datacenters in those secret rooms...
As a Washington State resident, there are many counties that are wood only heating. Pierce and Tacoma have large suburbs and are not exactly off the grid living. They are bigger and can force the smaller population to upgrade. The counties like Stevens, Ferry and Okanogan are mostly wood heated homes. I have no real numbers but out of the 39 counties in Washington, I'd say at least 1/2 have majority of wood only heated homes, we still are a big wild state.
My mothers county has many people that are wood only, and if they went around giving $1000 dollar fines for people burning, they would tar and feather and hold a recall election. Those urban counties are gray haired monsters who know each other and would put pressure to any elected official.
Those poor gray haired women are the Majority of voters, tell them they cant heat their homes. Most of these people live in urban areas that dont have fire departments, police or or trash pick up. Tacoma I'd say is much different, its urban sprawl.
The passwords are like the key to the office. You have to return them.
No they are not.
Its more like leaving the key in the door, the owner just walks up to the door and turn the knob himself.
Aka, you walk up the server/router and change the password.
Access was never denied, only easy access.
HOW!(!) is this a surprise to anybody? It's extortion, plain and simple.
Extortion for what? Money? Sexual favors?
You send junior techs out to reset the password on the server by console. Its that easy.
And then you put a password policy in place and a password keeper that the employee must use.
And fire the manager who didnt know what a password policy was or a console to a server/router.
No wonder he the guy didn't want to turn over a password to a PHB.