No, it really wasn't. I was just trying to avoid being called a troll by Windows lovers. I have been doing Windows Server admin now for 3 years. Linux, it may take some effort to get everything to work the first time, especially if you don't mess with automation a lot but, once you get it to work, it always works. With Windows, it's always about success rates. Even under ideal conditions, you can't get above 97% successful on large user base. Then you have to manually fix the 3%+ that failed. You spend a lot of time using remote desktop. I don't care if it is hard to set up if it'll run the same way every time. The WMI interface that many people have repeatedly brought up fails a lot more than they would like to admit. The only thing that can be relied upon to run 100% of the time is the cmd shell which is very limited. KIX helps a lot but, even it doesn't return 100% and you have to write more debug code than code if you want to find out who failed and why (assuming it was able to launch). Even piling on using Altiris, BixFix and AutoIT, at a ridiculous cost, can't seem to crack that 97% rate but, it'll keep you closer to it. If it was the same machines failing all the time, we'd just replace them but, it's always random and that's the fucking problem.
I'm still floored that I got first post. I wasn't expecting that...
USPS, why not simply give up the Saturday delivery?
To do this requires congressional approval. They have asked for this multiple times and congress has refused to approve it. Congress is part of the problem.
That's what virtual machines are for. You can use whatever OS you want for your day to day stuff and then have setups for whatever your development and testing requirements are. Plus, for web development, you could then test with Safari on Mac, Safari/Firefox/IE/Opera on Windows and Konqueror/Firefox/Iceweasal on Linux and have all your bases covered. (Hell, you could even test on Lynx if you wanted!)
What's sad is we were used to doing this. Then the companies decided to switch to plastic to save money and damn the consumer (plastic tastes like crap compared to glass) and the environment. Now that it's fashionable for a company to be green, they come up with a plant based bottle that you still have to throw away. Better than what they are currently using but, it's still inferior to what they were doing in the past.
It would be a trivial matter to add a clause "no person may collect revenue from a corporation dissolved due to criminal acts if they were participants or conspirators in the criminal act(s) to the suggested law.
It appears that whoever is in charge over there is looking at short-term revenue gains instead of long term growth which is what they really need. Although the CEO who is doing this will leave in a few years taking his severance package (he met his marks on revenue gains) and leave the problem for someone else.
This is where the government's and courts' assertion that every law that currently applies in the US is null and void by adding the words '...with a computer' bites them in the ass. Irony that the reason the government took this position because they wanted to get around search and seizure, privacy and fair use laws.
See, I'm the kind of person marketers hate. I never click on any ads... ever. If I see something I want, I manually go to the web site and look it up, bypassing the ad entirely.
I would revise that to "patent should expire after 6 months if they haven't made a reasonable effort to utilize the product." Otherwise, every corporation and manufacturer would simple refuse to produce it for 6 months and when the patent expires, start producing it royalty free. Corporations are soulless entities that only care about money. They will abuse the rules and screw anybody they have to in order to make a dollar.
The big problem with you idea is that users have proven time and time again that no matter how nasty you make the warning, they'll click "Yes" on anything to get to those "family" greeting cards.
Note: I don't like the trend any more than you do. For the companies that are doing this, the more likely objective is to cut out open source and protect their business model.
"Either find some other way to use the device, or simply return the device."
There's a big, big hole in your theory. "Either find some other way to use the device" now often violates either the DMCA, patents or the companies last resort, the EULA. As far as returning the device, most of this applies to software which is pretty universally non-refundable. So the company gets your money whether you use the product or not. They're even successfully attacking the first sale doctrine so you can't even eBay it if you decide that you don't want to use it due to the EULA. As far as other electronic devices, return policies are getting less and less friendly. Most stores have restricted return periods on electronics and rules for return, some absurd, that don't apply to any other products in the store, even the more expensive ones (so it's not about cost).
What's worse is that we're being forced into these technologies and EULA's regardless of whether we want them or not. Want a phone, cell or landline? Sign this agreement that you sign away your right to sue for grievances. Want health insurance, same thing. Want a TV? They only support encrypted connections now. Any attempt to alter the data (for multiple screens or any other purpose) is a DMCA violation. Plus they will only play on certified equipment that has paid for the "privilege" of using the HDCP software artificially inflating prices. Don't even get me started on Apple, Microsoft and Oracle. So unless you want to go off the grid and become a modern hobo, your only choice is to accept these ridiculous terms.
So I'm sorry but, I cannot support or agree with your argument in any way,
You can only delegate if you have someone to delegate to.
This is from a lone employee in charge of 4 servers and over 1,000 desktops. Taking a sick day causes hell and three times the work is waiting for me when I get back.
First off, you mixed apples and oranges. If person X wants to make a website that has a limited audience and exclude blind people, smart phones, etc. they may do so to a point. It sounds like this proposal takes that into account. However, if company Y wants to do the same thing, they can't. Companies do not get all the same rights as people. (And, in my opinion, this is a very good thing.) They have to abide by additional non-discrimination laws that include that they are not allowed to discriminate against the blind. For a long time, it has never been defined what that means on the web. This is just simply to establish one set of guidelines as to what that means rather than leaving it to a mis-mash of different court cases and give a time frame for companies to meet these guidelines.
You know it's bad when you need to post as AC just to even speak such 'blasphemy'. The additional effect that has happened is anyone defending an accused 'pedophile', for any reason, is assumed to be a pedophile themselves and attacked accordingly. We may actually be watching the end of the age of reason.
Though I doubt anyone would dispute that the person(s) that emailed in the bomb threat need to be found and prosecuted, I think the grandparent post was referring to the government using this to label anyone involved in the anti-copyright movement as a terrorist to round them all up. Anonymous is a bunch of unassociated geeks with a mob mentality, not a unified organization. On top of that many of them are teenagers or younger therefore not a group of the most responsible individuals.
What we're suggesting is the same strategy police use to break up traditional protests they don't like. They wait (or antagonize) until one or more members of the group cross the line then they use that as justification to tear gas and/or arrest the entire crowd.
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No, it really wasn't. I was just trying to avoid being called a troll by Windows lovers. I have been doing Windows Server admin now for 3 years. Linux, it may take some effort to get everything to work the first time, especially if you don't mess with automation a lot but, once you get it to work, it always works. With Windows, it's always about success rates. Even under ideal conditions, you can't get above 97% successful on large user base. Then you have to manually fix the 3%+ that failed. You spend a lot of time using remote desktop. I don't care if it is hard to set up if it'll run the same way every time. The WMI interface that many people have repeatedly brought up fails a lot more than they would like to admit. The only thing that can be relied upon to run 100% of the time is the cmd shell which is very limited. KIX helps a lot but, even it doesn't return 100% and you have to write more debug code than code if you want to find out who failed and why (assuming it was able to launch). Even piling on using Altiris, BixFix and AutoIT, at a ridiculous cost, can't seem to crack that 97% rate but, it'll keep you closer to it. If it was the same machines failing all the time, we'd just replace them but, it's always random and that's the fucking problem.
I'm still floored that I got first post. I wasn't expecting that...
Just don't. [/sarcasm]
USPS, why not simply give up the Saturday delivery?
To do this requires congressional approval. They have asked for this multiple times and congress has refused to approve it. Congress is part of the problem.
Touche
It's comments like this that make you lament that the moderation system only goes up to '5'.
That's what virtual machines are for. You can use whatever OS you want for your day to day stuff and then have setups for whatever your development and testing requirements are. Plus, for web development, you could then test with Safari on Mac, Safari/Firefox/IE/Opera on Windows and Konqueror/Firefox/Iceweasal on Linux and have all your bases covered. (Hell, you could even test on Lynx if you wanted!)
What's sad is we were used to doing this. Then the companies decided to switch to plastic to save money and damn the consumer (plastic tastes like crap compared to glass) and the environment. Now that it's fashionable for a company to be green, they come up with a plant based bottle that you still have to throw away. Better than what they are currently using but, it's still inferior to what they were doing in the past.
Unless you mean that the brains might become the scarce resources?
They already are. Haven't you been able to tell from all the cable news and reality shows?
If there is an accident, software of all cars can be updated, reducing the chance of that accident.
Then you either have an auto update program that can be hacked to download malware or you have drivers failing to patch their car's AI.
It would be a trivial matter to add a clause "no person may collect revenue from a corporation dissolved due to criminal acts if they were participants or conspirators in the criminal act(s) to the suggested law.
It appears that whoever is in charge over there is looking at short-term revenue gains instead of long term growth which is what they really need. Although the CEO who is doing this will leave in a few years taking his severance package (he met his marks on revenue gains) and leave the problem for someone else.
So, business as usual?
This is where the government's and courts' assertion that every law that currently applies in the US is null and void by adding the words '...with a computer' bites them in the ass. Irony that the reason the government took this position because they wanted to get around search and seizure, privacy and fair use laws.
See, I'm the kind of person marketers hate. I never click on any ads... ever. If I see something I want, I manually go to the web site and look it up, bypassing the ad entirely.
I would revise that to "patent should expire after 6 months if they haven't made a reasonable effort to utilize the product." Otherwise, every corporation and manufacturer would simple refuse to produce it for 6 months and when the patent expires, start producing it royalty free. Corporations are soulless entities that only care about money. They will abuse the rules and screw anybody they have to in order to make a dollar.
Finally budget cuts that start at the top... what a concept!!!!
The big problem with you idea is that users have proven time and time again that no matter how nasty you make the warning, they'll click "Yes" on anything to get to those "family" greeting cards.
Note: I don't like the trend any more than you do. For the companies that are doing this, the more likely objective is to cut out open source and protect their business model.
"Either find some other way to use the device, or simply return the device."
There's a big, big hole in your theory. "Either find some other way to use the device" now often violates either the DMCA, patents or the companies last resort, the EULA. As far as returning the device, most of this applies to software which is pretty universally non-refundable. So the company gets your money whether you use the product or not. They're even successfully attacking the first sale doctrine so you can't even eBay it if you decide that you don't want to use it due to the EULA. As far as other electronic devices, return policies are getting less and less friendly. Most stores have restricted return periods on electronics and rules for return, some absurd, that don't apply to any other products in the store, even the more expensive ones (so it's not about cost).
What's worse is that we're being forced into these technologies and EULA's regardless of whether we want them or not. Want a phone, cell or landline? Sign this agreement that you sign away your right to sue for grievances. Want health insurance, same thing. Want a TV? They only support encrypted connections now. Any attempt to alter the data (for multiple screens or any other purpose) is a DMCA violation. Plus they will only play on certified equipment that has paid for the "privilege" of using the HDCP software artificially inflating prices. Don't even get me started on Apple, Microsoft and Oracle. So unless you want to go off the grid and become a modern hobo, your only choice is to accept these ridiculous terms.
So I'm sorry but, I cannot support or agree with your argument in any way,
You can only delegate if you have someone to delegate to.
This is from a lone employee in charge of 4 servers and over 1,000 desktops. Taking a sick day causes hell and three times the work is waiting for me when I get back.
First off, you mixed apples and oranges. If person X wants to make a website that has a limited audience and exclude blind people, smart phones, etc. they may do so to a point. It sounds like this proposal takes that into account. However, if company Y wants to do the same thing, they can't. Companies do not get all the same rights as people. (And, in my opinion, this is a very good thing.) They have to abide by additional non-discrimination laws that include that they are not allowed to discriminate against the blind. For a long time, it has never been defined what that means on the web. This is just simply to establish one set of guidelines as to what that means rather than leaving it to a mis-mash of different court cases and give a time frame for companies to meet these guidelines.
Are you sure it isn't E^4? Embrace, Extend, Extinguish, EPICFAIL
Two words: Feature Creep
and resisting the temptation of all the Lois Lane types throwing their bodies at you. You would have super babies all over the planet.
That's what super condoms are for!
You know it's bad when you need to post as AC just to even speak such 'blasphemy'. The additional effect that has happened is anyone defending an accused 'pedophile', for any reason, is assumed to be a pedophile themselves and attacked accordingly. We may actually be watching the end of the age of reason.
Yes, but with Linux and older editions of Windows you don't need 6BG of DDR3 RAM. That is the point.
Though I doubt anyone would dispute that the person(s) that emailed in the bomb threat need to be found and prosecuted, I think the grandparent post was referring to the government using this to label anyone involved in the anti-copyright movement as a terrorist to round them all up. Anonymous is a bunch of unassociated geeks with a mob mentality, not a unified organization. On top of that many of them are teenagers or younger therefore not a group of the most responsible individuals.
What we're suggesting is the same strategy police use to break up traditional protests they don't like. They wait (or antagonize) until one or more members of the group cross the line then they use that as justification to tear gas and/or arrest the entire crowd.