I didn't interpret Connie as claiming to be a victim, and indeed she's explicitly stated what she's doing to get work and earn a living.
That's not self pity, that's not "bemoaning your fate" and your condescending 'holier than thou' attitude pisses me off.
Why volunteer time with schools? How about earning a fucking living - especially given how hard it clearly is to get a job, that takes a lot of effort and then you work hard to keep it afterwards.
Or maybe that hadn't occurred to a sanctimonious cunt like you?
Sadly not the British. We don't even want to pay to put both of the rather smaller carriers we're currently building into service. Paying for a Gerald Ford class ship is beyond us, let alone all the aircraft needed to make it effective or the battle group needed to keep it that way.
I hunt for days, weeks, and finally find a carrier battle group (instead of, I don't know, looking in San Diego or the Suez Canal).
I manage to outwit the massed defences and get a single missile through to the carrier itself. Maybe I had to sink the whole fleet, maybe I overwhelmed them with volume, maybe I just got lucky.
Do you not think it would be awfully embarrassing if that missile was targeted at the bow, when the stern is most vulnerable. Or vice versa. Or aimed to take out the flight deck instead of the command room?
It's because it's fucking hard to land a hit on a carrier that knowing where to land it is so fucking important. If you could stick 20 missiles into one with nonchalant ease it's rather less important where any of them individually hits.
I don't know about the person you responded to, but yeah, I'm clueless about targeting things like a 21st century nuclear carrier. That's why before attempting to sink one I'd like to do some fucking research.
Clearly you're clueless in a far more generalised sense.
No. Not by any definition of that term I've ever seen used.
You don't know who they are, or what they're prepared to do. We don't even know if the emails are from the same group that perpetrated the data breach.
That group though need to be taken seriously. They're not script kiddies, not even close.
If one surgery takes one hour you get more surgeries done in ten hours than in eight.
You get higher failure rates too.
How are you measuring productivity here, people put under the knife, rather than people walking out of hospital alive? You're the sort of fuckwit that shouldn't be allowed to make business decisions.
1 - yep, that's my job 2 - yep, that's my job 3 - no authority, but I delegate to people all the time, so close enough 4 - yep ("higher bracket" applies when I'm earning over twice the national average wage)
Well, I'm an IT professional. Sounds like you've just justified me being exempt from overtime.
That's fine, I work in the UK where almost nobody on a salary gets overtime. Unless they're in IT and asked to provide 'out of hours' support, in which case they get a small payment for being available and a large payment if they have to come into the office.
My career has averaged 40-50 hour weeks, with only a year at one job averaging 60. 40-45 is very sustainable, I'm averaging nearer 40 at the moment and although that translates at times to 4 ten hour days and Friday barely responding to emails the company measures me on contribution not time sat at my desk. I like that.
The most reliable stats I've seen suggest the 40/60 split for non-reciprocal violence - but also suggest that a lot of the violence is reciprocal.
The main problem isn't a lack of awareness, it's a lack of equality. I got assaulted by a woman last night and people watching laughed. If I'd hit her back I'd have spent the day in a police cell and/or talking to HR (it was a work event).
(I actually got assaulted twice, both times by women. The other one could be construed as physical comedy - although again, not had it been me hitting her)
The rewards for violence against female prostitutes in the game are: You get the cash they're carrying.
The rewards for violence against EVERY FUCKING NPC in the game are: You get the cash they're carrying. Sometimes items too.
Can you please post a rant about how the game is misandrist by rewarding players for walking up to a car stopped at lights, opening the door and killing the male driver? I mean, you get his money AND his car; that's far more reward than you get from the female prostitutes.
Good move. After all, employing three times the staff to cover for the lost productivity and constantly training new hires after you've sacked people for breaching processes is definitely going to make you competitive with companies that take a more balanced risk based approach to their security.
Incidentally just what the fuck are you installing on the virtual machines if it isn't an operating system (e.g. Windows 8).
If the Chief InfoSec Officer doesn't at least get fire
Grep the 40 gig to see if you can find the risk log and/or the emails from the CISO to the CEO going, "We need 30 times the investment or you're going to get a career ending data breach"?
Justification? No, unless you subscribe to an Abrahamic faith.
Delicious irony? Hell yes. If this takes Sony down then it's no more than they risked happening to anybody that was unfortunate enough to insert a certain Sony music CD into their computer.
I'm not going to hack Sony because of their obnoxious business practices but I'm definitely enjoying their current problems. Someone somewhere was going to suffer catastrophic data loss and Sony would've been one of the front runners if we'd run a poll of "Which company should get fucked like this first?"
The reaction to me as an individual will be based on a number of factors including my stunning good looks, my sparkling wit, my friendly charisma and my well paid career.
The reaction to everybody I know working in IT is "oh. IT."
When ladies that started dancing so that they could find a boyfriend complain (to me) that "why are all the men here in IT?!" it's not because they can't find a nice man, it's because they're applying preconceptions and prejudice. Incidentally the response to their complaint is "for the same reason that all the women here are teachers and/or single mothers".
Back on topic: As noted by another poster, Mike Weatherley has a conflict of interest on this topic.
I would say that he's corrupt, taking bribes and betraying his constituents but as that could be libellous I shall merely state that he's a Conservative MP.
No. The DRM has worked: It's stopped me playing the game.
To be fair, it was the DRM in Dragon Age: Origins which did that. It frequently stopped me playing the game that I'd bought. As a result I refuse to buy the new Dragon Age, and I refuse to install Origin, and EA have successfully prevented me from playing their games.
They've also prevented me from giving them any of my money, but there are plenty of other game creators out there and I'm happy to fund them instead.
I genuinely don't know whether obnoxious DRM boosts overall revenues or not, but I do know that EA and Ubisoft would rather prevent paying customers playing their games than deliver accessible entertainment. I choose not to support businesses with that attitude.
VAT is 20%, but Google offers its services for free to its users (actually, the users are the product for they sell to the advertisers). So that's not going to raise a lot.
Erm. Advertisers pay money to Google. That involves a transaction. Which could be taxed.
(it's still a flawed idea, but not for the reason you stated)
It's difficult though: What's the country of origin?
If Starbucks sell me a £2 coffee, is the country of origin: - the UK, because I drank the coffee here - the US, because I went into Starbucks because I recognise the brand and it's licenced from the US - Ireland, because the person serving my coffee needs HR, Finance, legal and other corporate support and all of those staff are based in Ireland - Luxembourg, because Starbucks in the UK bought the coffee beans from Starbucks in Luxembourg - Jamaica, because Starbucks in Luxembourg bought the beans from there
Frankly after paying for premises, staff costs, licensing the brand, buying the beans and paying corporate overheads we're lucky Starbucks in the UK even stays in business. Where the hell is the profit you think they're shifting overseas, legally or otherwise?
Transfer pricing is horrendously abused, but it's actually very difficult writing tax laws that properly acknowledge global business operations and interdependencies but prevent abuse of the system. I'm actually intrigued to find out how the UK Treasury think they can achieve that.
You're a police man, you see a man raping a 4 year old girl so you arrest him. You go to his home and confiscate his computer, and find a dozen images (or more likely tens of thousands) of images of small girls being abused.
Do you know who the dozen small girls are? Do you know whether they're still all 4 years old, or whether they're now in their 50s?
So you're a policeman, so you want to know who those small girls are. They may need help. They may still be getting abused. Sadly the criminal hasn't built a large metadata index matching the abused girls to their name, address, date of birth...
Knowing that 90% of the images have already been investigated because they were found on a previous criminal's hard drive means you can focus your resources on the remaining 10%. That's kind of useful.
Being a paedophile is a crime in the UK. For example, you can produce hand drawn images or written stories about paedophilia and be convicted of a crime for doing it
Being a paedophile is not a crime in the UK. Actions resulting from it are.
Hand drawn images are illegal, and it's fucking insane. I'm tempted to create a website that shows you an image of a stick man and stick woman shagging, with the label "Man fucking woman". Add a button that changes the word 'woman' to '12 year old girl' and anybody clicking that button will break the law by producing what in the UK is legally defined as child pornography.
I don't however believe that written stories are illegal in the UK. Apparently they are in Australia, but not to my knowledge in the UK.
Leaving the testing aside, raising bug reports is surely a fucking nightmare for them?
Completing forms is anathama. I can't spell anaethama. Anathaema. Bah. (Quick google). Anathema. Completing forms is anathema to a lot of people on the autism spectrum. Last time I had to complete an expenses form at work I was nearly in tears, had to ask for help from bemused colleagues and went home at lunchtime to get a hug. It shouldn't cause such distress but it does.
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I didn't interpret Connie as claiming to be a victim, and indeed she's explicitly stated what she's doing to get work and earn a living.
That's not self pity, that's not "bemoaning your fate" and your condescending 'holier than thou' attitude pisses me off.
Why volunteer time with schools? How about earning a fucking living - especially given how hard it clearly is to get a job, that takes a lot of effort and then you work hard to keep it afterwards.
Or maybe that hadn't occurred to a sanctimonious cunt like you?
Sadly not the British. We don't even want to pay to put both of the rather smaller carriers we're currently building into service. Paying for a Gerald Ford class ship is beyond us, let alone all the aircraft needed to make it effective or the battle group needed to keep it that way.
So lets say that I'm a hostile nation state.
I hunt for days, weeks, and finally find a carrier battle group (instead of, I don't know, looking in San Diego or the Suez Canal).
I manage to outwit the massed defences and get a single missile through to the carrier itself. Maybe I had to sink the whole fleet, maybe I overwhelmed them with volume, maybe I just got lucky.
Do you not think it would be awfully embarrassing if that missile was targeted at the bow, when the stern is most vulnerable. Or vice versa. Or aimed to take out the flight deck instead of the command room?
It's because it's fucking hard to land a hit on a carrier that knowing where to land it is so fucking important. If you could stick 20 missiles into one with nonchalant ease it's rather less important where any of them individually hits.
I don't know about the person you responded to, but yeah, I'm clueless about targeting things like a 21st century nuclear carrier. That's why before attempting to sink one I'd like to do some fucking research.
Clearly you're clueless in a far more generalised sense.
They're script kiddies
No. Not by any definition of that term I've ever seen used.
You don't know who they are, or what they're prepared to do. We don't even know if the emails are from the same group that perpetrated the data breach.
That group though need to be taken seriously. They're not script kiddies, not even close.
If one surgery takes one hour you get more surgeries done in ten hours than in eight.
You get higher failure rates too.
How are you measuring productivity here, people put under the knife, rather than people walking out of hospital alive? You're the sort of fuckwit that shouldn't be allowed to make business decisions.
1 - yep, that's my job
2 - yep, that's my job
3 - no authority, but I delegate to people all the time, so close enough
4 - yep ("higher bracket" applies when I'm earning over twice the national average wage)
Well, I'm an IT professional. Sounds like you've just justified me being exempt from overtime.
That's fine, I work in the UK where almost nobody on a salary gets overtime. Unless they're in IT and asked to provide 'out of hours' support, in which case they get a small payment for being available and a large payment if they have to come into the office.
My career has averaged 40-50 hour weeks, with only a year at one job averaging 60. 40-45 is very sustainable, I'm averaging nearer 40 at the moment and although that translates at times to 4 ten hour days and Friday barely responding to emails the company measures me on contribution not time sat at my desk. I like that.
You appear to have restricted identification to a distance of 50mm.
This is somewhere in the region of several thousand miles less than current imperfect options allow.
See also: viability, cost, privacy.
The most reliable stats I've seen suggest the 40/60 split for non-reciprocal violence - but also suggest that a lot of the violence is reciprocal.
The main problem isn't a lack of awareness, it's a lack of equality. I got assaulted by a woman last night and people watching laughed. If I'd hit her back I'd have spent the day in a police cell and/or talking to HR (it was a work event).
(I actually got assaulted twice, both times by women. The other one could be construed as physical comedy - although again, not had it been me hitting her)
Are you stupid or trolling? I can't tell.
The rewards for violence against female prostitutes in the game are: You get the cash they're carrying.
The rewards for violence against EVERY FUCKING NPC in the game are: You get the cash they're carrying. Sometimes items too.
Can you please post a rant about how the game is misandrist by rewarding players for walking up to a car stopped at lights, opening the door and killing the male driver? I mean, you get his money AND his car; that's far more reward than you get from the female prostitutes.
You fuckwit.
If you can recommend a superior mechanism then there are a lot of people, companies and countries very interested in hearing from you.
Don't forget to factor in cost, convenience, viability, privacy and human stupidity.
Good move. After all, employing three times the staff to cover for the lost productivity and constantly training new hires after you've sacked people for breaching processes is definitely going to make you competitive with companies that take a more balanced risk based approach to their security.
Incidentally just what the fuck are you installing on the virtual machines if it isn't an operating system (e.g. Windows 8).
If the Chief InfoSec Officer doesn't at least get fire
Grep the 40 gig to see if you can find the risk log and/or the emails from the CISO to the CEO going, "We need 30 times the investment or you're going to get a career ending data breach"?
He was quoting a film - admittedly one published by Miramax rather than Sony.
Justification? No, unless you subscribe to an Abrahamic faith.
Delicious irony? Hell yes. If this takes Sony down then it's no more than they risked happening to anybody that was unfortunate enough to insert a certain Sony music CD into their computer.
I'm not going to hack Sony because of their obnoxious business practices but I'm definitely enjoying their current problems. Someone somewhere was going to suffer catastrophic data loss and Sony would've been one of the front runners if we'd run a poll of "Which company should get fucked like this first?"
The reaction to me as an individual will be based on a number of factors including my stunning good looks, my sparkling wit, my friendly charisma and my well paid career.
The reaction to everybody I know working in IT is "oh. IT."
When ladies that started dancing so that they could find a boyfriend complain (to me) that "why are all the men here in IT?!" it's not because they can't find a nice man, it's because they're applying preconceptions and prejudice. Incidentally the response to their complaint is "for the same reason that all the women here are teachers and/or single mothers".
We can only hope it turns nuclear.
Back on topic: As noted by another poster, Mike Weatherley has a conflict of interest on this topic.
I would say that he's corrupt, taking bribes and betraying his constituents but as that could be libellous I shall merely state that he's a Conservative MP.
No. The DRM has worked: It's stopped me playing the game.
To be fair, it was the DRM in Dragon Age: Origins which did that. It frequently stopped me playing the game that I'd bought. As a result I refuse to buy the new Dragon Age, and I refuse to install Origin, and EA have successfully prevented me from playing their games.
They've also prevented me from giving them any of my money, but there are plenty of other game creators out there and I'm happy to fund them instead.
I genuinely don't know whether obnoxious DRM boosts overall revenues or not, but I do know that EA and Ubisoft would rather prevent paying customers playing their games than deliver accessible entertainment. I choose not to support businesses with that attitude.
One reason I still read Slashdot is that the comment is already at +5.
Politically modding tends to be overwhelmed by good quality mods.
It could be worse. I got rickrolled via traceroute at the weekend.
tracert -h 255 204.244.252.35
VAT is 20%, but Google offers its services for free to its users (actually, the users are the product for they sell to the advertisers). So that's not going to raise a lot.
Erm. Advertisers pay money to Google. That involves a transaction. Which could be taxed.
(it's still a flawed idea, but not for the reason you stated)
It's difficult though: What's the country of origin?
If Starbucks sell me a £2 coffee, is the country of origin:
- the UK, because I drank the coffee here
- the US, because I went into Starbucks because I recognise the brand and it's licenced from the US
- Ireland, because the person serving my coffee needs HR, Finance, legal and other corporate support and all of those staff are based in Ireland
- Luxembourg, because Starbucks in the UK bought the coffee beans from Starbucks in Luxembourg
- Jamaica, because Starbucks in Luxembourg bought the beans from there
Frankly after paying for premises, staff costs, licensing the brand, buying the beans and paying corporate overheads we're lucky Starbucks in the UK even stays in business. Where the hell is the profit you think they're shifting overseas, legally or otherwise?
Transfer pricing is horrendously abused, but it's actually very difficult writing tax laws that properly acknowledge global business operations and interdependencies but prevent abuse of the system. I'm actually intrigued to find out how the UK Treasury think they can achieve that.
or the police don't have the name of the victim.
You're a police man, you see a man raping a 4 year old girl so you arrest him. You go to his home and confiscate his computer, and find a dozen images (or more likely tens of thousands) of images of small girls being abused.
Do you know who the dozen small girls are? Do you know whether they're still all 4 years old, or whether they're now in their 50s?
So you're a policeman, so you want to know who those small girls are. They may need help. They may still be getting abused. Sadly the criminal hasn't built a large metadata index matching the abused girls to their name, address, date of birth...
Knowing that 90% of the images have already been investigated because they were found on a previous criminal's hard drive means you can focus your resources on the remaining 10%. That's kind of useful.
Being a paedophile is a crime in the UK. For example, you can produce hand drawn images or written stories about paedophilia and be convicted of a crime for doing it
Being a paedophile is not a crime in the UK. Actions resulting from it are.
Hand drawn images are illegal, and it's fucking insane. I'm tempted to create a website that shows you an image of a stick man and stick woman shagging, with the label "Man fucking woman". Add a button that changes the word 'woman' to '12 year old girl' and anybody clicking that button will break the law by producing what in the UK is legally defined as child pornography.
I don't however believe that written stories are illegal in the UK. Apparently they are in Australia, but not to my knowledge in the UK.
Leaving the testing aside, raising bug reports is surely a fucking nightmare for them?
Completing forms is anathama. I can't spell anaethama. Anathaema. Bah. (Quick google). Anathema. Completing forms is anathema to a lot of people on the autism spectrum. Last time I had to complete an expenses form at work I was nearly in tears, had to ask for help from bemused colleagues and went home at lunchtime to get a hug. It shouldn't cause such distress but it does.