All of Australia, for one. The US's reliance on checks, "$15/$25 convenience fees" for check by phone, the inability of a consumer to initiate a interbank transfer by any other means than wire... very behind 8 ball.
Case in point: I work for an IT shop that supports many physicians offices. one of the primary methods of moving data between offices and hospitals is through EMR applications that USE FTP. Who is the ISP to tell me that my FTP traffic is less important than Disney's HTTP traffic?
Yikes, what the fuck hospitals and doctors do you work for?
Can we say major HIPAA violation? Clear text passwords, no data encryption for EMR?!?
Jesus. At the shop I work at, SCP, IPSec ONLY, for all of our HIPAA-covered data (EMR, claim and benefits).
As an aside, do you know that it's easier, quicker, and more importantly, CHEAPER, to enter the US on a tourist visa, and "Oops, I know I said I wouldn't, but look here, I got married, can I stay anyway?" than it is to apply for a fiancee visa and go that route? (I come from a low risk country, Australia, and the process took 11 months pre-arrival, and 2 1/2 years post-arrival, and has cost, directly, around $10,000+ in fees and costs).
Of course people are going to go that way (and the myriad of other ways, hoping/waiting for an amnesty, whatever), when it's far easier to do that than do it properly (multiple hour flights to US consulates in home countries for interviews, medicals, financial backgrounds... note that I am not disputing the need for these, but they're often not required if you 'beg forgiveness', rather than 'asking permission' - the US has really shot itself in the foot with some of its immigration policies).
Most literature I had said mentioned it not really leaking out past your main circuit breaker that even communication inside the house between different circuits could be flaky. Maybe that was first generation...
You don't even know what is being talked about. "Homeplug" style LAN around your home via powerline. Unequivocally NOT Broadband over Power Line, internet access.
As someone who is an EMT - agreed. "Real" HAMs, fine. But if I had a device that could be triggered to zap any "whacker" over his radio, the airwaves would be a much quieter, better, place.
A lot of them weren't. But many just talked in back channels to their admin friends.
There was an infamous email sent by a higher up admin, accidentally to the wikipedia-general mailing list (rather than to obviously another, private distribution list), where JayJG stated he wsa going to go in and remove some criticizing material from an Israel-Palestine article, and wanted to make sure some of his buddies would "have his back".
Sorry, 'were'. Both were there for years, until 'outrage' grew sufficiently (in the case of Jossi), and Chip grew outraged at the lack of support he was getting from former backers. Clarified.
Dangerous, unless you're in the inner circle, as posited by the article. Perhaps like Jossi, who belongs to a religious movement, is a personal assistant to the leader of that movement, is his PR and web person, and is openly allowed to edit, and heavily censor, most articles on that religious movement for several years before it pisses off enough people.
Or Chip Berlet, who regular cites his own writing with his heavily anti-La Rouche bias, and has no problems finding someone willing to ban people for protesting this.
Blogs typically aren't accepted. Unless you're Gary Weiss, talking about how naked short selling doesn't exist, and is a vicious lie besmirching the reputation of hedge funds, whilst being paid by hedge funds, whilst the SEC is busy drawing up rules to prevent it, and whilst you're running multiple sockpuppets protected by the inner clique of Wikipedia. That when someone finds you out, and blows the whistle to the inner clique, rather than investigating, not five minutes later, they send an email to you warning that your cover is blown.
Or maybe you're someone like Chip Berlet, who spends your time writing the Lyndon La Rouche articles on Wikipedia, lambasting him at every opportunity (I personally think LLR is a bit of a crank, but even so). When, on the rare occasion that an admonishment by someone random that your criticism isn't cited or verified isn't outright banned as a sockpuppet of a banned user, whether they are or aren't, hey, just remember, you've got a 'consulting' job for a think tank institute. Whip together an article for them, publish it on their website which you run, and voila, ready made citability.
There are large swathes of Wikipedia which are corrupt to the very core, even before you look at Jimbo and Rachel Marsden, Jimbo jumping on IRC and asking people to remove nasty things about his girlfriend (which happen to be true), and so on and so forth. Google Gary Weiss and Wikipedia, Mantanmoreland. What went on there should be a searing indictment to anyone who wants to claim that WP should be reliable.
I think they are trying to keep it from degenerating into a blog, or a chat space, or an encyclopedia of trivial things like the Star Wars universe. Some wikis, like Wookiepedia, started out because Wikipedia kept kicking out certain stuff, like exhaustive detail of the Star Wars universe.
Perhaps. But they used to be quite happy to be so. Then, perhaps entirely by coincidence, the co-founder, Jimmy Wales, started a for profit Wiki business on the side, Wikia. Devoid of content, it needed ad revenue, and lo, there came forth an edict, moving huge swathes, 100s of thousands of pages, to Wikia, which also became, completely coincidentally, the only external (and "independent") site that was able to get past the spam filters.
Name Matthew G. Bisanz
Age 23
Height 5 ft 6 in (1.68 m)
Gender Male
Orientation Straight
Religion Roman Catholic
Marital status Single
Degrees Georgetown Juris Doctor '12 (expected)
NYU Grad. Cert. in Strategy & Leadership '09
Hofstra MBA in Acct. '08
Hofstra BBA in Acct., Mgt, & Legal Stud. '07
Hofstra BA in Poli. Sci./w a minor in Eng. '07
Excelsior BS in Liberal Stud./w a focus in Admin. Mgt. '06
DCC AS in Hum. and Soc. Sci. '04
DCC AS in Sci. '04
DCC AS in Business '04
DCC Cert. in Career Planning '04
OLL HS Regents diploma '04
Exams
LSAT: 178/180-99% MAT: 471/600-99%
GRE: Q-800/800-94%
V-680/800-96%
AW-5.5/6-88%
GMAT:
Total-710/800-94%
V-45/60-99%
Q-43/60-70%
AW-5.5/6-88%
MFAT
PSC: 176/200-94%
SAT:
V-730/800-97%
M-760/800-98%
LNAT:
PSAT:
PLAN:
21/30-87%
209/240-98%
29/34-99%
STS:
CSQ-732-99.9%
TBS-680-96.9%
C-717-98.9%
V-781-99.9%
Q-659-95.8%
Colleges
Earned degree
New York University Hofstra University
Excelsior College Dutchess Community College
Attended
American University Brigham Young University
Univ. of Nebraska-Lincoln Marist College
Colorado State - Pueblo SUNY Fredonia
Herkimer County CC Ulster County CC
Tompkins Cortland CC Broome CC
Finger Lakes CC
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And many other gems. Thoughts on personality type?
It breaks really shittily configured VPN clients/networks in a BIG way.
WTF is your VPN doing attempting to resolve VPNed hostnames through your default ISP connection, rather than using a nameserver on the VPN? I'd fire your network security guy, before you get bitten in a big way by a DNS "MITM" - I use quotes because it's really Man In The Wrong Place At The Right Time Who Gets Lucky Because Of An Insecure VPN, but that's not quite as catchy.
Valid points, but if you have a project that takes a "team" "months" to complete, I'd expect there to be an informal project manager, at the least, if not a dedicated PM. If I have those, for a project like that, I don't look for "handwaving gut feel"s - though I understand that as an option.
I'd say there were issues on both sides, the asshole VP, and a PM that didn't present a compelling enough time estimate (though I am willing to concede that there can be times when never the two shall meet).
LMAO. Everyone's a bad ass on the internet. In the highly unlikely event you're actually serious and sincere, I ask you this. You may think you're a bad ass and "not a pussy", but if your key to success and security throughout life is extorting and blackmailing people who are in the habit of treating you and others like shit, what is your grand plan for the day you meet one who has little qualm about putting you in hospital or at the bottom of the river as soon as you threaten to expose their secrets?
When I worked at a large studio in west LA, the VP, a recently retired Army Colonel, asked how long a project would take a group of programmers. He was given an estimate, but cut it in half, saying that people always lied about how long it would take. The project took months, and came in one week late.
So what in fact he should have done was take a third off, not half?
The VP was/is an asshole (not at all surprising for a Hollywood exec).
But if the project took "months" (let's say 4) and was a week late, that means your original estimate was 8 months. At the very least, I'd fire a Project Manager who quoted me 8 months on a 4 month project.
Wow. What a troll. Instead of following Occam's Razor, and assuming that the Apple-written driver for the touchpad doesn't pass the click through, as this Dell Latitude does, or my Sony Vaio, etc does, you presume that there's some magical code in the kernel that ignores touchpad click events "if deviceId == APPLE_MACBOOK_TOUCHPAD" or similar.
Amongst everything else, the fact that tens of thousands, at the least, of users are unable to use their displays at anywhere near their target resolutions, ever since 10.5.7 was released. I'm amazed that there has not been greater uproar. Bless the RDF.
Because, of course, "it just works" isn't really all that true, right? Funny, my Software Update never told me to "go download the Combo Update just in case...".
Me, I had to skip 10.5.7 (and let The Sims 3 sit uninstalled, because it required it), because I committed the heinous crime of having my LCD connected via a DVI-HDMI cable.
I and everyone else who'd done so lost most of our resolutions. My 1920x1200 LCD would only run at 1920x1080 interlaced.
This was broken for nearly FOUR MONTHS - and this is not a rare problem, there are THOUSANDS of Google hits on this issue.
Please point me to the codicil that states it is illegal to modify your own car. Alternatively, I can point you to the codicil of law that states that it is illegal to modify a device for the purposes of circumventing another tenet of law/society, that of copyright.
Your analogy is flawed, in no jurisdiction is AutoZone providing instruction on breaking the law. And in no jurisdiction would you find a reputable licensed mechanic willing to break the law, for example in regards to speed limiters, safety devices, emissions control, and so forth.
Evidently some notable part of the community believes that it should be illegal to breach copyright, and it should be illegal to profit from providing a service to enable that.
Regardless of what you or I think of the above, it is codified in law. You may have opinions on the concept of copyright, the people or organizations who desired from their lawmakers such laws be enacted, or their motivations, but it is there, in objective fact. It is not illegal to modify your own vehicle with AutoZone parts, so the analogy is flawed, fatally.
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All of Australia, for one. The US's reliance on checks, "$15/$25 convenience fees" for check by phone, the inability of a consumer to initiate a interbank transfer by any other means than wire... very behind 8 ball.
Wait, someone accuses you of attempted murder, so you figure the best way not to be hassled by the cops about it is to 'run and hide'?!?!?!?!
Why was a skip tracer hunting people in witness protection? Maybe he didn't care too much about where his paycheck came from...
Yikes, what the fuck hospitals and doctors do you work for?
Can we say major HIPAA violation? Clear text passwords, no data encryption for EMR?!?
Jesus. At the shop I work at, SCP, IPSec ONLY, for all of our HIPAA-covered data (EMR, claim and benefits).
Of course people are going to go that way (and the myriad of other ways, hoping/waiting for an amnesty, whatever), when it's far easier to do that than do it properly (multiple hour flights to US consulates in home countries for interviews, medicals, financial backgrounds... note that I am not disputing the need for these, but they're often not required if you 'beg forgiveness', rather than 'asking permission' - the US has really shot itself in the foot with some of its immigration policies).
"Just remember, if the milk turns out to be sour, I ain't the kinda pussy to drink it. Know what I mean?"
Most literature I had said mentioned it not really leaking out past your main circuit breaker that even communication inside the house between different circuits could be flaky. Maybe that was first generation...
You don't even know what is being talked about. "Homeplug" style LAN around your home via powerline. Unequivocally NOT Broadband over Power Line, internet access.
As someone who is an EMT - agreed. "Real" HAMs, fine. But if I had a device that could be triggered to zap any "whacker" over his radio, the airwaves would be a much quieter, better, place.
There was an infamous email sent by a higher up admin, accidentally to the wikipedia-general mailing list (rather than to obviously another, private distribution list), where JayJG stated he wsa going to go in and remove some criticizing material from an Israel-Palestine article, and wanted to make sure some of his buddies would "have his back".
Sorry, 'were'. Both were there for years, until 'outrage' grew sufficiently (in the case of Jossi), and Chip grew outraged at the lack of support he was getting from former backers. Clarified.
Or Chip Berlet, who regular cites his own writing with his heavily anti-La Rouche bias, and has no problems finding someone willing to ban people for protesting this.
Or maybe you're someone like Chip Berlet, who spends your time writing the Lyndon La Rouche articles on Wikipedia, lambasting him at every opportunity (I personally think LLR is a bit of a crank, but even so). When, on the rare occasion that an admonishment by someone random that your criticism isn't cited or verified isn't outright banned as a sockpuppet of a banned user, whether they are or aren't, hey, just remember, you've got a 'consulting' job for a think tank institute. Whip together an article for them, publish it on their website which you run, and voila, ready made citability.
There are large swathes of Wikipedia which are corrupt to the very core, even before you look at Jimbo and Rachel Marsden, Jimbo jumping on IRC and asking people to remove nasty things about his girlfriend (which happen to be true), and so on and so forth. Google Gary Weiss and Wikipedia, Mantanmoreland. What went on there should be a searing indictment to anyone who wants to claim that WP should be reliable.
Perhaps. But they used to be quite happy to be so. Then, perhaps entirely by coincidence, the co-founder, Jimmy Wales, started a for profit Wiki business on the side, Wikia. Devoid of content, it needed ad revenue, and lo, there came forth an edict, moving huge swathes, 100s of thousands of pages, to Wikia, which also became, completely coincidentally, the only external (and "independent") site that was able to get past the spam filters.
And many other gems. Thoughts on personality type?
It breaks really shittily configured VPN clients/networks in a BIG way.
WTF is your VPN doing attempting to resolve VPNed hostnames through your default ISP connection, rather than using a nameserver on the VPN? I'd fire your network security guy, before you get bitten in a big way by a DNS "MITM" - I use quotes because it's really Man In The Wrong Place At The Right Time Who Gets Lucky Because Of An Insecure VPN, but that's not quite as catchy.
I'd say there were issues on both sides, the asshole VP, and a PM that didn't present a compelling enough time estimate (though I am willing to concede that there can be times when never the two shall meet).
LMAO. Everyone's a bad ass on the internet. In the highly unlikely event you're actually serious and sincere, I ask you this. You may think you're a bad ass and "not a pussy", but if your key to success and security throughout life is extorting and blackmailing people who are in the habit of treating you and others like shit, what is your grand plan for the day you meet one who has little qualm about putting you in hospital or at the bottom of the river as soon as you threaten to expose their secrets?
So what in fact he should have done was take a third off, not half?
The VP was/is an asshole (not at all surprising for a Hollywood exec).
But if the project took "months" (let's say 4) and was a week late, that means your original estimate was 8 months. At the very least, I'd fire a Project Manager who quoted me 8 months on a 4 month project.
LMAO. Don't even start me on 'internal Apple UI consistency'. That baby got thrown out years ago, in favor of 'looks purtier this way...'.
Get back under your bridge.
Amongst everything else, the fact that tens of thousands, at the least, of users are unable to use their displays at anywhere near their target resolutions, ever since 10.5.7 was released. I'm amazed that there has not been greater uproar. Bless the RDF.
Because, of course, "it just works" isn't really all that true, right? Funny, my Software Update never told me to "go download the Combo Update just in case...".
Me, I had to skip 10.5.7 (and let The Sims 3 sit uninstalled, because it required it), because I committed the heinous crime of having my LCD connected via a DVI-HDMI cable.
I and everyone else who'd done so lost most of our resolutions. My 1920x1200 LCD would only run at 1920x1080 interlaced.
This was broken for nearly FOUR MONTHS - and this is not a rare problem, there are THOUSANDS of Google hits on this issue.
But no, you're a Troll.
Your analogy is flawed, in no jurisdiction is AutoZone providing instruction on breaking the law. And in no jurisdiction would you find a reputable licensed mechanic willing to break the law, for example in regards to speed limiters, safety devices, emissions control, and so forth.
Evidently some notable part of the community believes that it should be illegal to breach copyright, and it should be illegal to profit from providing a service to enable that.
Regardless of what you or I think of the above, it is codified in law. You may have opinions on the concept of copyright, the people or organizations who desired from their lawmakers such laws be enacted, or their motivations, but it is there, in objective fact. It is not illegal to modify your own vehicle with AutoZone parts, so the analogy is flawed, fatally.