They really do, though. It's only a matter of time before governments start paying out these randoms using taxpayer funds to cover up the cost of IT staff incompetence. If it were illegal to pay them out then we'd see more idiots get fired and more competent people hired to clean up the mess instead of paying randsom money to shady criminals.
Unfortunately, the people that most school districts can afford don't know what any of the stuff you just mentioned actually is. Most of the people willing to do IT for $15/hr. are the kind of people who list "good with computers" on their resume and think that tinkering with AD makes them qualified to work as a system administrator.
People are going to disagree with you, but this is true. Universities employ some good people, but K-12 education is the absolute bottom of the barrel for IT staff. The schools that buck this trend are few and very far between.
Right, but most republicans are too damn stupid to realize that the republican candidates are the very ones trying to cut their social security benefits and allow Comcast to charge more for terrible internet access. They completely buy into the right-wind propaganda that the "evil liberals" are the ones trying to do that.
I also don't remember a blood testing stick either. And what the hell does the stick or collar actually test for? The Tricorder could measure a crapload of medical conditions, but something tells me that this device won't even be capable of measuring someone's blood pressure.
They have no direct repercussions on you, me, or the guy next door. But what about the politician running for public office? How do you know that he hasn't received threats of blackmail? What about the rich person or celebrity who has the power to sway politicians through campaign donations? What about the heads of large corporations who routinely lobby?
It's also not actually legal. They claim its legal, but whatever laws that they claim allow them to do it are blatant violations of the constitution, at least it is here in the US. Not sure about the UK.
Of course, you're right, that doesn't matter because they break the law on a daily basis anyway.
>If they were interested, they'd have voted without it being mandatory
Nope. A lot of those people would have voted were it not for voter disenfranchisement, having to work (yeah, your employer has to let you vote, but they don't have to pay you while you're gone, and they don't have to give you any extra hours to make up the time missed while voting), not having an address (you didn't forget about the homeless who can't vote absentee and usually can't even register because they don't have an address, did you?).
Exactly, which is why they patch non-genuine versions. If there were a large number of compromised systems out there then legitimate users would suffer as well.
Given the choice between a video game corporation executive determined to rubber-stamp violent games a religious zealot hell-bent on pushing their version of "morality", I'll take the former. At least it results in more content being released rather than less.
Not to mention that the ESRB doesn't have any real authority. This isn't like the FCC where media CEOs have the power to dictate real law that actually affects people.
Yep. Many companies have gone bankrupt because some new executive decides to outsource production to China. The new executive is naive enough to believe that a Chinese company will honor the non-disclosure agreement and won't sell critical trade secrets to everyone else. Manufacturing is moved overseas, stateside employees are laid off, the business suffers initial losses because the Chinese company hasn't figured out how to actually perform the process correctly yet, and then a few months later the company goes entirely bankrupt because their trade secrets are now suddenly common knowledge in the entire industry.
The executive then gets another bright idea: they'll sue the Chinese company to recover damages! If the Chinese company still exists by this point (unlikely), they'll win in court because, to no one's surprise, the Chinese government doesn't give a fuck about protecting American IP rights. Much money is burned, legal fees are collected, the executive staff gets a golden parachute, and all the hard working American employees are shit out of luck and scrambling to find jobs at another American company that will make the same fucking mistakes as their previous employer.
Why are you blaming people who responded to your invitation for anyone to join? You can't advertise an open bar and then be surprised when a few angry alcoholics show up.
How about you make a product that I want to buy and then I'll give you money for it. There's no "patience" involved here, it's just the free market working like it should for once. Whoever releases a product that doesn't make users sick first will probably get a crapload of money.
No, it's not. That study you mentioned only compared a handful of super-scientific articles about which there is no controversy, only a single correct interpretation of the facts, and consists of entirely objective material. When you compare Wikipedia with other encyclopedias with regard to social science, history, or basically anything that isn't a list of math proofs, you find that Wikipedia is far worse off.
No. Most people won't ever come anywhere remotely close to needing to know how to code. Now, engineers, scientists, accountants, and various professionals that require a *college* degree might benefit from it, but that means that it should be taught in college, not in high schools.
You're looking for the wrong thing. You want your two-year-old and a toddler to be responsible for telling you when there's an emergency?! Are you fucking nuts? The solution here is not some unreliable piece of tech based on a homebrew solution susceptible to all the failures of internet service, IP cameras, and routing equipment. The solution here is nursing care or other medical devices. You need to talk to your doctor, but a bunch of IT nerds on the internet.
>As with most things, I think the truth lies somewhere in the middle
That's a myth. It's almost always perpetuated by those making asinine claims. It's simple, you make an absurd claim and then when the reasonable people show up, you simply attack them for being "too extreme".
You'd get more than that. By running these operations, they're driving away real users and making the information that Facebook collects less valuable. There would be some monetary damages as well.
Of course they can. Shady landlords have a habit of evicting people who report them. Yeah, it's illegal, but do you think that lawyers are free? Do you think that most people can afford to lose their place to live for 6 to 8 months while a trial takes place?
No, we aren't going to make a custom piece of software for your business, jackass. It's pretty obvious that you're in the business of buying collections of trading cards sold on ebay, etc. to then resell to other collectors at a profit. You need to pay for the services (in this case, software programming) you receive and ditch the sense of entitlement that you seem to have.
Go call a freelance software developer and pay them, or do it yourself.
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They had to get through 30 whole verdicts and some of them are less than intuitive. Less than half an hour per crime is plenty reasonable.
They really do, though. It's only a matter of time before governments start paying out these randoms using taxpayer funds to cover up the cost of IT staff incompetence. If it were illegal to pay them out then we'd see more idiots get fired and more competent people hired to clean up the mess instead of paying randsom money to shady criminals.
WRITE TO YOUR GOVERNOR! Explain the situation and how you've found a way to save thousands of taxpayer dollars, they'll be eager to hear about that.
Unfortunately, the people that most school districts can afford don't know what any of the stuff you just mentioned actually is. Most of the people willing to do IT for $15/hr. are the kind of people who list "good with computers" on their resume and think that tinkering with AD makes them qualified to work as a system administrator.
People are going to disagree with you, but this is true. Universities employ some good people, but K-12 education is the absolute bottom of the barrel for IT staff. The schools that buck this trend are few and very far between.
This is nothing more than a press release for some software. It's literally an ad for something made by Pixar published on Pixar's website.
Right, but most republicans are too damn stupid to realize that the republican candidates are the very ones trying to cut their social security benefits and allow Comcast to charge more for terrible internet access. They completely buy into the right-wind propaganda that the "evil liberals" are the ones trying to do that.
I also don't remember a blood testing stick either. And what the hell does the stick or collar actually test for? The Tricorder could measure a crapload of medical conditions, but something tells me that this device won't even be capable of measuring someone's blood pressure.
They have no direct repercussions on you, me, or the guy next door. But what about the politician running for public office? How do you know that he hasn't received threats of blackmail? What about the rich person or celebrity who has the power to sway politicians through campaign donations? What about the heads of large corporations who routinely lobby?
It's also not actually legal. They claim its legal, but whatever laws that they claim allow them to do it are blatant violations of the constitution, at least it is here in the US. Not sure about the UK.
Of course, you're right, that doesn't matter because they break the law on a daily basis anyway.
>If they were interested, they'd have voted without it being mandatory
Nope. A lot of those people would have voted were it not for voter disenfranchisement, having to work (yeah, your employer has to let you vote, but they don't have to pay you while you're gone, and they don't have to give you any extra hours to make up the time missed while voting), not having an address (you didn't forget about the homeless who can't vote absentee and usually can't even register because they don't have an address, did you?).
Exactly, which is why they patch non-genuine versions. If there were a large number of compromised systems out there then legitimate users would suffer as well.
Given the choice between a video game corporation executive determined to rubber-stamp violent games a religious zealot hell-bent on pushing their version of "morality", I'll take the former. At least it results in more content being released rather than less.
Not to mention that the ESRB doesn't have any real authority. This isn't like the FCC where media CEOs have the power to dictate real law that actually affects people.
Yep. Many companies have gone bankrupt because some new executive decides to outsource production to China. The new executive is naive enough to believe that a Chinese company will honor the non-disclosure agreement and won't sell critical trade secrets to everyone else. Manufacturing is moved overseas, stateside employees are laid off, the business suffers initial losses because the Chinese company hasn't figured out how to actually perform the process correctly yet, and then a few months later the company goes entirely bankrupt because their trade secrets are now suddenly common knowledge in the entire industry.
The executive then gets another bright idea: they'll sue the Chinese company to recover damages! If the Chinese company still exists by this point (unlikely), they'll win in court because, to no one's surprise, the Chinese government doesn't give a fuck about protecting American IP rights. Much money is burned, legal fees are collected, the executive staff gets a golden parachute, and all the hard working American employees are shit out of luck and scrambling to find jobs at another American company that will make the same fucking mistakes as their previous employer.
Why are you blaming people who responded to your invitation for anyone to join? You can't advertise an open bar and then be surprised when a few angry alcoholics show up.
How about you make a product that I want to buy and then I'll give you money for it. There's no "patience" involved here, it's just the free market working like it should for once. Whoever releases a product that doesn't make users sick first will probably get a crapload of money.
No, it's not. That study you mentioned only compared a handful of super-scientific articles about which there is no controversy, only a single correct interpretation of the facts, and consists of entirely objective material. When you compare Wikipedia with other encyclopedias with regard to social science, history, or basically anything that isn't a list of math proofs, you find that Wikipedia is far worse off.
Call your congressman and ask them why they're using illegal surveillance tools to let criminals get away.
No. Most people won't ever come anywhere remotely close to needing to know how to code. Now, engineers, scientists, accountants, and various professionals that require a *college* degree might benefit from it, but that means that it should be taught in college, not in high schools.
You're looking for the wrong thing. You want your two-year-old and a toddler to be responsible for telling you when there's an emergency?! Are you fucking nuts? The solution here is not some unreliable piece of tech based on a homebrew solution susceptible to all the failures of internet service, IP cameras, and routing equipment. The solution here is nursing care or other medical devices. You need to talk to your doctor, but a bunch of IT nerds on the internet.
>As with most things, I think the truth lies somewhere in the middle
That's a myth. It's almost always perpetuated by those making asinine claims. It's simple, you make an absurd claim and then when the reasonable people show up, you simply attack them for being "too extreme".
You are the most deluded fuck I've heard from in the last month. Congratulations.
You'd get more than that. By running these operations, they're driving away real users and making the information that Facebook collects less valuable. There would be some monetary damages as well.
Of course they can. Shady landlords have a habit of evicting people who report them. Yeah, it's illegal, but do you think that lawyers are free? Do you think that most people can afford to lose their place to live for 6 to 8 months while a trial takes place?
No, we aren't going to make a custom piece of software for your business, jackass. It's pretty obvious that you're in the business of buying collections of trading cards sold on ebay, etc. to then resell to other collectors at a profit. You need to pay for the services (in this case, software programming) you receive and ditch the sense of entitlement that you seem to have.
Go call a freelance software developer and pay them, or do it yourself.