"It is not an infringment" or "it is not illegal" means that it IS legal and you have a right to it. Jesus Christ, you're just as bad as that dipshit attorney general we had. The one that argued the prohibition against removing the writ of habeus corpus in the constitution means that you don't actually have it, because it's never granted.
It doesn't work about half of the time. There's various reasons it doesn't work. You've changed hardware, you've been offline too long, it thinks there's updates for the game and you MUST install them even to play in single player more.
And that's exactly the problem with game and media execs these days, they completely fail to realize that there is absolutely no way to stop piracy and that adding more DRM just encourages more illegal activity. Ignoring reality doesn't make it go away.
Of course, you're assuming that the DRM is legal in the first place, which it isn't. It removes your ability to make back-up copies as allowed by law.
That works ONLY until they find someone with slightly lesser ethics to replace you, then you're "laid off due to budgetary concerns". You have absolutely NO legal recourse unless you're naive enough to think that you can actually win against a company, with company lawyers, and claim that laying you off due to budgetary concerns, in the middle of a recession, was actually their way of firing you for failing to do things that may or may not have actually been questionably ethical.
Not a troll, but beyond pessimistic. People with this kind of attitude do nothing but perpetuate the unethical behavior that we keep hearing about every time someone with some sense of ethics decides to report it. The whole "keep your head down" might be necessary if you have a family or some other circumstances and you absolutely cannot afford to lose your job, but if that isn't the case then failing to report unethical behavior makes you just as bad as those doing it.
"I don't steal money from the company, therefore I'm completely ethical even though i know that Jim is stealing tens of thousands per year to buy fancy cars even if I don't report it." Bullshit.
It's more like "Oh, you're that guy that has no problem disclosing the unethical doings of companies". Now, that might seem like a good thing but take a look at it from a manager's perspective.
There are two people, one with a record of reporting and then publicly disclosing unethical behavior and one without and they both want the same job. Who do you hire?
If your company is doing nothing unethical than either choice will work fine. However, if there is ANY chance that your company MIGHT be doing something unethical then you have one guy that won't cause problems and one that MIGHT cause problems. Now, even if you know for a fact that there is no unethical activity happening anywhere in your company you can't guarantee that it won't happen tomorrow or sometime down the road. Thus, the more ethical guy MIGHT present a risk that you can't anticipate. Obviously you're going to hire the less risky guy.
A previous article was posted here that mentioned the LED. Because the webcam is only taking a picture, not recording video, the light is only on for perhaps one second at a time. A lot of the students DID notice this but were told/assumed that it was "glitching out" and chalked it up to hardware malfunction. Apparently a few got paranoid and covered it with tape. (turns out they weren't actually paranoid at all)
To a computer illiterate user a blinking light probably doesn't attract a large amount of attention.
You're also assuming that you're supposed to throw these in the middle of the fucking ocean. Think about this for more than ten seconds next time.
You could use these on and around the shores of places affected by oil spills in order to trap it as it washes up on the beaches. Put a lot of mats in large mesh bags (I mean large, like tens of feet long) and then chain these up on beaches. Every so often, change out these bags. Have volunteers wring out the mats, repack the bags, etc.
I'm not saying this is the most efficient solution, but it's preferable to your idiotic assumption that you're supposed to simply chuck these on top of oil in the middle of an ocean with no plan to recover them.
Why is this modded insightful? This is nothing more than anti-American university garbage being spewed by someone with no idea how college actually works. This should be modded troll.
Yes, there are a couple problems with college, but nowhere near the level you claim. Professors fail students all the time, this isn't like high school. Even in public universities people fail out all the time. Do you have any evidence to support your allegations of universities being sued every time they fail a student? Yes, high school has become a system for students to sit through and receive passing grades for simply showing up to class, but not the college system.
Colleges do not just hand out diplomas to anyone who shows up to class, they actually base their grades off of your test scores.
Exactly. It makes absolutely NO sense to have Cameron on this project. Cameron USES these cameras very well, he knows absolutely NOTHING about how to DESIGN them.
Exactly. It's a simple issue, DON'T BRING PERSONAL MACHINES TO WORK. That's why they're called PERSONAL MACHINES instead of COMPANY MACHINES.
As for checking email from home: Your work email shouldn't be used for personal things and you shouldn't check it from home. If you told people to use your work email to send you personal messages then you're pretty stupid.
That said, if they expect you to be able to work from home or expect you to be able to check your email at home then they should provide you with a COMPANY laptop.
You should never have to allow anyone other than yourself to touch your personal machine. The corollary to that is that you shouldn't ever touch someone else's network unless they're OK with it... which obviously the hospital isn't.
You just contradicted yourself there. "He didn't say that games made people psychopaths, he just said that they make you enjoy killing people". That's the fucking definition of a psychopath.
If it requires no practice at all then why do you think that video games are a problem? If we assume that you're correct then anyone can pick up a gun and be a mass murderer, even if there aren't any video games involved.
No first person shooters? Are the scouts aware that they actually offer a merit badge in SHOOTING.
People are up in arms because these violent video games "train young people how to operate weapons". No, they don't. You know what does train young people to use guns? Learning to shoot in the boy scouts.
JESUS FUCKING CHRIST. No one is bitching about REAL guns with REAL bullets shooting REAL targets, but the second it becomes virtual everyone throws a fucking hissy fit.
"Seriously, assault rifles have point-and-click interfaces. Guns are ridiculously easy to operate." Spoken exactly like someone who has never handled a weapon in their life.
Why don't you go down to the range one day and say that to someone who actually owns a gun. See how many shots you can land with any respectable accuracy.
"Seriously, assault rifles have point-and-click interfaces. Guns are ridiculously easy to operate." Any dipshit can point and fire a rifle WITHOUT ANY VIDEOGAMES. A crazed man with a gun and videogames is no different from a crazed man with a gun.
"you certainly can't know or prevent them from buying an R-rated game or seeing an R-rated movie. Hence, the retailer should probably enforce it."
ABSOLUTELY NOT! It is not the job of retailers to prevent kids from getting into trouble. Being a good parent does NOT mean knowing where your kids are 100% of the time. Being a good parent means teaching your kids how to handle the responsibility of being able to go buy that video game without permission.
We live in a society now where everyone thinks kids should be monitored 100% of the time and yet people still complain about helicopter parents. MAKE UP YOUR FUCKING MINDS, PEOPLE! Kids should have some degree of freedom. Parenting is making sure your kids know how to handle that freedom. The ultimate purpose is that they know how to handle the freedom they receive when they turn 18.
We actually left several. I believe that every landing carried one. I can't be sure about that last point, but I do know there's more than one currently up there.
"What do you expect them to do instead of denying them access to flights"
Do the exact same thing that they would do if they received a "tip" that you were going to commit any other crime. If it's a credible tip then it's enough for an arrest and search warrant. If it's not a credible tip then it's not worth shit regardless of the circumstance.
There is a difference between anthrax that occurs naturally and anthrax specifically designed for use in biowarfare in a government lab. The strains of bioweapons that are kept in bioweapons labs are orders of magnitude more resistant and more deadly than anything you'll ever encounter on the face of this planet.
This doesn't have to do with management or efficiency due to social interaction, but do NOT use a round table like you mentioned in the article. Have you ever worked at a table that's round? Try it. There's a reason desks are RECTANGULAR. Your arms can't be supported on a circular table because the section under your elbows is missing due to the geometry of a circle. It sucks and causes massive arm pain. I don't care how efficient it makes your developers, your productivity will drop like a fucking stone if they're constantly bothered by pain in their arms.
Use a RECTANGULAR table if you want to fit 4 or more people around a desk.
There's a lot of problems, but no one has mentioned drunk drivers yet. The problem with drunk drivers is that they'll fixate on something in front of them and follow it. That's why you have to pay attention at night if you are parked on the side of the road with your lights on. Drunk drivers will hone in on your lights and hit you. Seems like this eye-drive would only make that easier. Then again I guess a drunk driver is pretty deadly even without this.
(Bonus points if you can tell me whether I'll get sued by apple or BMW first for the iDrive pun)
You're making the false assumption that the no fly list is there to prevent terrorism.
Think about this for 10 seconds. If you had evidence that someone was going to blow up an airplane then you should arrest the fucker. Just as if you had evidence that someone was going to rob a bank you'd arrest him. If you have NO evidence that someone was going to commit a crime then you shouldn't do shit and just let him on his way.
The no fly list says "we have no evidence regarding you, so you're not a threat in the eyes of the LAW, but we're going to restrict your freedom anyway." It's shit like this, the removal of our freedom for no reason, that seriously warrants armed rebellion against the government.
It's the emergency slide that deploys if you open the door that would work. The only problem is that there's no way to actually deploy the slide, board it, and THEN cut it loose while the plane is underway because the wind would rip it right off at those speeds.
It certainly isn't evil, but the number of requests really doesn't say a whole lot. How many were legitimate? Who exactly requested the takedown (FBI, NSA, CIA, local police, etc.)? Why was the request issued/granted? It's a step in the right direction and I hope to see them go further with it.
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You're an idiot.
"It is not an infringment" or "it is not illegal" means that it IS legal and you have a right to it. Jesus Christ, you're just as bad as that dipshit attorney general we had. The one that argued the prohibition against removing the writ of habeus corpus in the constitution means that you don't actually have it, because it's never granted.
It doesn't work about half of the time. There's various reasons it doesn't work. You've changed hardware, you've been offline too long, it thinks there's updates for the game and you MUST install them even to play in single player more.
And that's exactly the problem with game and media execs these days, they completely fail to realize that there is absolutely no way to stop piracy and that adding more DRM just encourages more illegal activity. Ignoring reality doesn't make it go away.
Of course, you're assuming that the DRM is legal in the first place, which it isn't. It removes your ability to make back-up copies as allowed by law.
That works ONLY until they find someone with slightly lesser ethics to replace you, then you're "laid off due to budgetary concerns". You have absolutely NO legal recourse unless you're naive enough to think that you can actually win against a company, with company lawyers, and claim that laying you off due to budgetary concerns, in the middle of a recession, was actually their way of firing you for failing to do things that may or may not have actually been questionably ethical.
Not a troll, but beyond pessimistic. People with this kind of attitude do nothing but perpetuate the unethical behavior that we keep hearing about every time someone with some sense of ethics decides to report it. The whole "keep your head down" might be necessary if you have a family or some other circumstances and you absolutely cannot afford to lose your job, but if that isn't the case then failing to report unethical behavior makes you just as bad as those doing it.
"I don't steal money from the company, therefore I'm completely ethical even though i know that Jim is stealing tens of thousands per year to buy fancy cars even if I don't report it." Bullshit.
It's more like "Oh, you're that guy that has no problem disclosing the unethical doings of companies". Now, that might seem like a good thing but take a look at it from a manager's perspective.
There are two people, one with a record of reporting and then publicly disclosing unethical behavior and one without and they both want the same job. Who do you hire?
If your company is doing nothing unethical than either choice will work fine. However, if there is ANY chance that your company MIGHT be doing something unethical then you have one guy that won't cause problems and one that MIGHT cause problems. Now, even if you know for a fact that there is no unethical activity happening anywhere in your company you can't guarantee that it won't happen tomorrow or sometime down the road. Thus, the more ethical guy MIGHT present a risk that you can't anticipate. Obviously you're going to hire the less risky guy.
A previous article was posted here that mentioned the LED. Because the webcam is only taking a picture, not recording video, the light is only on for perhaps one second at a time. A lot of the students DID notice this but were told/assumed that it was "glitching out" and chalked it up to hardware malfunction. Apparently a few got paranoid and covered it with tape. (turns out they weren't actually paranoid at all)
To a computer illiterate user a blinking light probably doesn't attract a large amount of attention.
You're also assuming that you're supposed to throw these in the middle of the fucking ocean. Think about this for more than ten seconds next time.
You could use these on and around the shores of places affected by oil spills in order to trap it as it washes up on the beaches. Put a lot of mats in large mesh bags (I mean large, like tens of feet long) and then chain these up on beaches. Every so often, change out these bags. Have volunteers wring out the mats, repack the bags, etc.
I'm not saying this is the most efficient solution, but it's preferable to your idiotic assumption that you're supposed to simply chuck these on top of oil in the middle of an ocean with no plan to recover them.
Why is this modded insightful? This is nothing more than anti-American university garbage being spewed by someone with no idea how college actually works. This should be modded troll.
Yes, there are a couple problems with college, but nowhere near the level you claim. Professors fail students all the time, this isn't like high school. Even in public universities people fail out all the time. Do you have any evidence to support your allegations of universities being sued every time they fail a student? Yes, high school has become a system for students to sit through and receive passing grades for simply showing up to class, but not the college system.
Colleges do not just hand out diplomas to anyone who shows up to class, they actually base their grades off of your test scores.
Exactly. It makes absolutely NO sense to have Cameron on this project. Cameron USES these cameras very well, he knows absolutely NOTHING about how to DESIGN them.
Exactly. It's a simple issue, DON'T BRING PERSONAL MACHINES TO WORK. That's why they're called PERSONAL MACHINES instead of COMPANY MACHINES.
As for checking email from home:
Your work email shouldn't be used for personal things and you shouldn't check it from home. If you told people to use your work email to send you personal messages then you're pretty stupid.
That said, if they expect you to be able to work from home or expect you to be able to check your email at home then they should provide you with a COMPANY laptop.
You should never have to allow anyone other than yourself to touch your personal machine. The corollary to that is that you shouldn't ever touch someone else's network unless they're OK with it... which obviously the hospital isn't.
"And no, I do not consider BB guns REAL guns with REAL bullets."
Why don't you go have someone shoot you with one and then see how you feel about that.
You just contradicted yourself there. "He didn't say that games made people psychopaths, he just said that they make you enjoy killing people". That's the fucking definition of a psychopath.
If it requires no practice at all then why do you think that video games are a problem? If we assume that you're correct then anyone can pick up a gun and be a mass murderer, even if there aren't any video games involved.
No first person shooters? Are the scouts aware that they actually offer a merit badge in SHOOTING.
People are up in arms because these violent video games "train young people how to operate weapons". No, they don't. You know what does train young people to use guns? Learning to shoot in the boy scouts.
JESUS FUCKING CHRIST. No one is bitching about REAL guns with REAL bullets shooting REAL targets, but the second it becomes virtual everyone throws a fucking hissy fit.
"Seriously, assault rifles have point-and-click interfaces. Guns are ridiculously easy to operate." Spoken exactly like someone who has never handled a weapon in their life.
Why don't you go down to the range one day and say that to someone who actually owns a gun. See how many shots you can land with any respectable accuracy.
"Seriously, assault rifles have point-and-click interfaces. Guns are ridiculously easy to operate."
Any dipshit can point and fire a rifle WITHOUT ANY VIDEOGAMES. A crazed man with a gun and videogames is no different from a crazed man with a gun.
"you certainly can't know or prevent them from buying an R-rated game or seeing an R-rated movie. Hence, the retailer should probably enforce it."
ABSOLUTELY NOT! It is not the job of retailers to prevent kids from getting into trouble. Being a good parent does NOT mean knowing where your kids are 100% of the time. Being a good parent means teaching your kids how to handle the responsibility of being able to go buy that video game without permission.
We live in a society now where everyone thinks kids should be monitored 100% of the time and yet people still complain about helicopter parents. MAKE UP YOUR FUCKING MINDS, PEOPLE! Kids should have some degree of freedom. Parenting is making sure your kids know how to handle that freedom. The ultimate purpose is that they know how to handle the freedom they receive when they turn 18.
We actually left several. I believe that every landing carried one. I can't be sure about that last point, but I do know there's more than one currently up there.
"What do you expect them to do instead of denying them access to flights"
Do the exact same thing that they would do if they received a "tip" that you were going to commit any other crime. If it's a credible tip then it's enough for an arrest and search warrant. If it's not a credible tip then it's not worth shit regardless of the circumstance.
"cattle with black leg"
There is a difference between anthrax that occurs naturally and anthrax specifically designed for use in biowarfare in a government lab. The strains of bioweapons that are kept in bioweapons labs are orders of magnitude more resistant and more deadly than anything you'll ever encounter on the face of this planet.
This doesn't have to do with management or efficiency due to social interaction, but do NOT use a round table like you mentioned in the article. Have you ever worked at a table that's round? Try it. There's a reason desks are RECTANGULAR. Your arms can't be supported on a circular table because the section under your elbows is missing due to the geometry of a circle. It sucks and causes massive arm pain. I don't care how efficient it makes your developers, your productivity will drop like a fucking stone if they're constantly bothered by pain in their arms.
Use a RECTANGULAR table if you want to fit 4 or more people around a desk.
There's a lot of problems, but no one has mentioned drunk drivers yet. The problem with drunk drivers is that they'll fixate on something in front of them and follow it. That's why you have to pay attention at night if you are parked on the side of the road with your lights on. Drunk drivers will hone in on your lights and hit you. Seems like this eye-drive would only make that easier. Then again I guess a drunk driver is pretty deadly even without this.
(Bonus points if you can tell me whether I'll get sued by apple or BMW first for the iDrive pun)
You're making the false assumption that the no fly list is there to prevent terrorism.
Think about this for 10 seconds. If you had evidence that someone was going to blow up an airplane then you should arrest the fucker. Just as if you had evidence that someone was going to rob a bank you'd arrest him.
If you have NO evidence that someone was going to commit a crime then you shouldn't do shit and just let him on his way.
The no fly list says "we have no evidence regarding you, so you're not a threat in the eyes of the LAW, but we're going to restrict your freedom anyway." It's shit like this, the removal of our freedom for no reason, that seriously warrants armed rebellion against the government.
No, they found that a raft would NOT work.
It's the emergency slide that deploys if you open the door that would work. The only problem is that there's no way to actually deploy the slide, board it, and THEN cut it loose while the plane is underway because the wind would rip it right off at those speeds.
It certainly isn't evil, but the number of requests really doesn't say a whole lot. How many were legitimate? Who exactly requested the takedown (FBI, NSA, CIA, local police, etc.)? Why was the request issued/granted? It's a step in the right direction and I hope to see them go further with it.