Oh sweetheart. The moment a law like this gets passed in the UK, I immediately start the legal process to identify as a woman.
These laws are fucking useless, and racist sexists like you are going to have to find out the hard way that the only people they harm are the fuckwits that demand them.
I'm not sure you've properly explored the interaction of a fire hose and a lit cigarette, but keep failing miserably to understand my point if it helps you feel good about yourself.
the fact that a security engineer would fail to put the deadbolt on their own door while occupying it is a sad indictment of the entire tech industry
Her presence in the room was adequate physical security.
Proof: The unwanted visitor left upon discovering she was present.
I do tend to deadbolt hotel room doors, but I very rarely use the chain. However, if I was popping into my room for 20 minutes to change before leaving again, no, I wouldn't deadbolt. I'd quite happily do what the Google engineer did.
In other words, Ms Stone's behaviour is an indictment of nothing, and your comment merely shows your own poor risk assessment abilities.
If someone knocks on my door, I do not answer - but I do prepare myself for unauthorized entry.
If someone DOES enter
..then it's not an unauthorised entry, and you should be fucking delighted they're being nice to you instead of kicking you out for being abusive to the hotel staff.
Answer your fucking door when someone knocks you fucking psychopath.
A woman has reasonable expectation of harm from any man that enters her private living area, be it home or hotel, without invitation.
Bollocks. She has reasonable expectation of explanation, and should indeed be wary of the potential for harm, but presence is in itself not indicative of a threat of harm.
Stop teaching women to act like victims, you're doing nobody any favours.
Strange, I didn't see him state that at all. Could you perhaps quote the specific admission that this is indeed his view?
Security entering a room with the express intent of assuring the safety of guests and the public at large is a fucking long way away from attempted rape.
We even have a case study in the fucking article: The undressed lady that was interrupted adopted an ideal response, which was audibly making the hotel employee aware that they were not welcome. In response the hotel employee left the room.
No violence, nobody harmed, no attempted or actual rape. Although the hotel policy should include, "Knock before entry" that refers to the hotel door; the security staff clearly already apply that criteria to guests' vaginas.
If a man gains illegal entry to a private space occupied by a woman, then yes, the woman is justified in killing him in self defense.
No, she is not. Until and unless her safety is jeopardised (and the presence of someone she believes to be there illegally does not inherently jeopardise her) she isn't even justified in causing physical harm, let alone killing him.
Some stupid bitch tries to kill me because she's an idiot, there will indeed be a corpse.
The difference is that housekeeping has a reason to be there, and security doesn't, until they are alerted by housekeeping.
On what legal basis are security (employees of the hotel, paid to perform a task that includes entering guest rooms) different to housekeeping (employees of the hotel, paid to perform a task that includes entering guest rooms)?
They're both there for the benefit of guests, and their services are included in the fee you pay for your room.
The database is an irrelevance. Yes, it's fucking expensive, but it's not where Oracle are making their money.
It's the apps tier, and that's a fuck of a lot harder to migrate from. On the plus side, when you do migrate you can shift out of the Oracle database at the same time.
That's utter total bollocks. Outsourcing is a guaranteed way to change the cost structure but it sure as shit isn't guaranteed to save any money.
Cloud operations, even if it is a "lift and shift" or a "forklift" approach to the cloud, recognizes instant cost savings
Again, total utter bollocks. Again, it's a change in the cost structure and it can actually offer a range of interesting options, but it does not save costs.
If you're running at such a low scale that you can't afford good admin, don't have your own data centre and want to leverage the cloud providers' expertise then the cloud can be a great option, but at any scale at all, cheaper alternatives exist.
No more CAPEX on obsolete hardware, data centers, permits. Just pay your OPEX bill, and enjoy the savings
Capex isn't a cost, it's an investment. Hence being capex. The cost is the depreciation and amortisation, and oddly enough, guess what the Opex charge from the cloud provider is covering.
it looks a LOT better on quarterly statements, versus having to do a charge-off in a quarter
What the fuck is a charge-off and why the fuck didn't you sack your CFO if he hasn't avoided one relating to IT equipement investment?
When companies are looking to cut costs, they rather pay a $1,000,000 bill monthly than a $10,000,000 bill in equipment which lasts five years, because that ten million makes that quarter look like crap to stockholders, even though it is a lot cheaper than the total cost ($60,000,000) of the cloud services
You're comparing cash outlay and not cost. Shit, you've even acknowledged the cost differential is not backing your argument.
You're also miserably missing a very key factor here: If people want to use cloud services, there are better and cheaper options than Oracle. For generic hosting Amazon and Microsoft offer significantly superior options, for business systems SAP have some nice options, Salesforce and ServiceNow dominate their markets and other providers are available.
Oracle are expensive and a fucking nightmare to do business with, so even if you do want to go cloud, they're still sensible to avoid.
It's distressingly hard to avoid being an Oracle customer.
Ok, these days only a quarter of off the shelf business systems require Oracle, but lets say you use a different vendor for your HR system, for recruitment, in your call centre, for managing your IT service desk.. Next thing you know, Oracle have bought them, they're changing the licence terms and you're fucked.
About the only way to avoid them with any certainty is to stick with IBM and SAP, and lets face it, those aren't exactly cost effective alternatives.
Wait, I'm the moron? I'm not the fuckwit that carried a burning stick around without thinking about how to safely dispose of it without littering and/or causing a fire hazard.
People want to smoke, they should carry an ashtray.
Good fits tend to be pretty easy to find. If your corporate environment tolerates a diversity of views, allows people to work together despite their differences and doesn't try to impose a single culture on its staff then you'll find plenty of people that fit right in, engage cooperatively with their teams, contribute effectively and get the job done.
Weed out the noisily intolerant ones, the rest are just fine.
In theory the docking station will work with multiple phone generations.
In practice I'd be chary of that. I agree, this doesn't seem a sensible option to me either. But it exists (and the non-gaming Asus alternatives are cheaper).
Yep. The simple answer is for motherboard to not waste their cash sending a journalist who's going to be bored senseless and end up writing utter shite because he lacks the imagination find excitement in yet another product release.
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Oh sweetheart. The moment a law like this gets passed in the UK, I immediately start the legal process to identify as a woman.
These laws are fucking useless, and racist sexists like you are going to have to find out the hard way that the only people they harm are the fuckwits that demand them.
I'm not sure you've properly explored the interaction of a fire hose and a lit cigarette, but keep failing miserably to understand my point if it helps you feel good about yourself.
Umm. Why? Which unsafe hacking was she engaged in?
If you're abusive to the hotel staff I would expect and support the hotel in kicking you out and throwing your bags into the gutter after you.
You're right, you don't have to be nice or polite. You do have to avoid being a total cunt though, if you don't want consequences.
the fact that a security engineer would fail to put the deadbolt on their own door while occupying it is a sad indictment of the entire tech industry
Her presence in the room was adequate physical security.
Proof: The unwanted visitor left upon discovering she was present.
I do tend to deadbolt hotel room doors, but I very rarely use the chain. However, if I was popping into my room for 20 minutes to change before leaving again, no, I wouldn't deadbolt. I'd quite happily do what the Google engineer did.
In other words, Ms Stone's behaviour is an indictment of nothing, and your comment merely shows your own poor risk assessment abilities.
If someone knocks on my door, I do not answer - but I do prepare myself for unauthorized entry.
If someone DOES enter
..then it's not an unauthorised entry, and you should be fucking delighted they're being nice to you instead of kicking you out for being abusive to the hotel staff.
Answer your fucking door when someone knocks you fucking psychopath.
Erm. I think the reference was to the Scottish independence referendum, which was indeed known to be a very close proposition.
Sexual assault by a stranger in a hotel room is just not that common
I've noticed that people that think otherwise seem to have guilty secrets, or spend much of their time with those that do.
A woman has reasonable expectation of harm from any man that enters her private living area, be it home or hotel, without invitation.
Bollocks. She has reasonable expectation of explanation, and should indeed be wary of the potential for harm, but presence is in itself not indicative of a threat of harm.
Stop teaching women to act like victims, you're doing nobody any favours.
Strange, I didn't see him state that at all. Could you perhaps quote the specific admission that this is indeed his view?
Security entering a room with the express intent of assuring the safety of guests and the public at large is a fucking long way away from attempted rape.
We even have a case study in the fucking article: The undressed lady that was interrupted adopted an ideal response, which was audibly making the hotel employee aware that they were not welcome. In response the hotel employee left the room.
No violence, nobody harmed, no attempted or actual rape. Although the hotel policy should include, "Knock before entry" that refers to the hotel door; the security staff clearly already apply that criteria to guests' vaginas.
If a man gains illegal entry to a private space occupied by a woman, then yes, the woman is justified in killing him in self defense.
No, she is not. Until and unless her safety is jeopardised (and the presence of someone she believes to be there illegally does not inherently jeopardise her) she isn't even justified in causing physical harm, let alone killing him.
Some stupid bitch tries to kill me because she's an idiot, there will indeed be a corpse.
By then the guest is already aware you're attempting entry and has stopped masturbating, got dressed and probably removed the door jamb anyway.
The difference is that housekeeping has a reason to be there, and security doesn't, until they are alerted by housekeeping.
On what legal basis are security (employees of the hotel, paid to perform a task that includes entering guest rooms) different to housekeeping (employees of the hotel, paid to perform a task that includes entering guest rooms)?
They're both there for the benefit of guests, and their services are included in the fee you pay for your room.
The database is an irrelevance. Yes, it's fucking expensive, but it's not where Oracle are making their money.
It's the apps tier, and that's a fuck of a lot harder to migrate from. On the plus side, when you do migrate you can shift out of the Oracle database at the same time.
Outsourcing is a guaranteed way to save costs
That's utter total bollocks. Outsourcing is a guaranteed way to change the cost structure but it sure as shit isn't guaranteed to save any money.
Cloud operations, even if it is a "lift and shift" or a "forklift" approach to the cloud, recognizes instant cost savings
Again, total utter bollocks. Again, it's a change in the cost structure and it can actually offer a range of interesting options, but it does not save costs.
If you're running at such a low scale that you can't afford good admin, don't have your own data centre and want to leverage the cloud providers' expertise then the cloud can be a great option, but at any scale at all, cheaper alternatives exist.
No more CAPEX on obsolete hardware, data centers, permits. Just pay your OPEX bill, and enjoy the savings
Capex isn't a cost, it's an investment. Hence being capex. The cost is the depreciation and amortisation, and oddly enough, guess what the Opex charge from the cloud provider is covering.
it looks a LOT better on quarterly statements, versus having to do a charge-off in a quarter
What the fuck is a charge-off and why the fuck didn't you sack your CFO if he hasn't avoided one relating to IT equipement investment?
When companies are looking to cut costs, they rather pay a $1,000,000 bill monthly than a $10,000,000 bill in equipment which lasts five years, because that ten million makes that quarter look like crap to stockholders, even though it is a lot cheaper than the total cost ($60,000,000) of the cloud services
You're comparing cash outlay and not cost. Shit, you've even acknowledged the cost differential is not backing your argument.
You're also miserably missing a very key factor here: If people want to use cloud services, there are better and cheaper options than Oracle. For generic hosting Amazon and Microsoft offer significantly superior options, for business systems SAP have some nice options, Salesforce and ServiceNow dominate their markets and other providers are available.
Oracle are expensive and a fucking nightmare to do business with, so even if you do want to go cloud, they're still sensible to avoid.
It's distressingly hard to avoid being an Oracle customer.
Ok, these days only a quarter of off the shelf business systems require Oracle, but lets say you use a different vendor for your HR system, for recruitment, in your call centre, for managing your IT service desk.. Next thing you know, Oracle have bought them, they're changing the licence terms and you're fucked.
About the only way to avoid them with any certainty is to stick with IBM and SAP, and lets face it, those aren't exactly cost effective alternatives.
Wait, I'm the moron? I'm not the fuckwit that carried a burning stick around without thinking about how to safely dispose of it without littering and/or causing a fire hazard.
People want to smoke, they should carry an ashtray.
Only if the fire hose misses them, and they're an ignorant fuck.
Putting bins by the entrance will encourage people to stand there, blocking the entrance and polluting the air.
Put the bins 200 yards away and use fire hoses on anything burning closer.
Fortunately we don't need to. Kalfman Isaacs has picked up that task.
Well, looks like he's fucked up on IM-4120-1 for a start, assuming he wasn't lying.
If he was lying that's likely actionable under more general fraud laws.
the person going long; that's the actual investor
Wrong on two counts. Someone investing in put options is still an investor. The person going long is the one buying call options.
Good fits tend to be pretty easy to find. If your corporate environment tolerates a diversity of views, allows people to work together despite their differences and doesn't try to impose a single culture on its staff then you'll find plenty of people that fit right in, engage cooperatively with their teams, contribute effectively and get the job done.
Weed out the noisily intolerant ones, the rest are just fine.
In theory the docking station will work with multiple phone generations.
In practice I'd be chary of that. I agree, this doesn't seem a sensible option to me either. But it exists (and the non-gaming Asus alternatives are cheaper).
Yep. The simple answer is for motherboard to not waste their cash sending a journalist who's going to be bored senseless and end up writing utter shite because he lacks the imagination find excitement in yet another product release.