Exactly. I would much rather see this legislated instead. Carriers should be forced to be device neutral. If I want to use a fancy smartphone as a dumb SMS terminal, that should be my decision, not theirs.
Developers should work with internal build/version numbers. The public version number is a marketing tool. Using it otherwise would be a waste of a marketing opportunity.
Assuming there will be a version 81 isn't very smart on your part. It's like expecting a brand to stick to pastel colors forever because that was their theme last year. It doesn't work that way. Engineering logic may inspire marketing decisions, but no more than that.
Typically we pay these types of employees a delayed bonus. If after 6 months they did nothing to harm the company, it's paid, otherwise it's not. This usually buys IT enough time to have fully replaced all passwords, etc.
I have TV on my Chinese cell too. They call it CMMB, but it's digital and pretty good. I'm sure the Chinese tablets will start having it sooner or later. Looking forward to it.
I'm sorry, but haven't most of us, in the back of our minds, known all along that the whole SSL thing is just a money scam?!
Even if the commercial CA's get there act together, there are still plenty of CA's that my browsers trust by default but are in fact highly suspect. SSL can provide real security, but not through public CA's that are blindly included in your browser/OS.
The issue is that this money just disappears in a big black hole. If it were properly tracked, accounted and appropriated towards medical care, we would at least know what we're talking about. Now we have no clue, making these kind of discussions much less useful.
Indeed. I'm all for making the willingly unhealthy pay for their own care, but it doesn't seem like those who are healthy or pursue a healthy lifestyle to their best abilities are in any way relieved here. If money is not somehow earmarked, it's just going to end up in the wrong pockets at no benefit to us.
This is the thing many people, especially Americans, refuse to see. The only reason their government is relatively relaxed on speech etc, is because the real legislators and enforcers are corporations. They are the true overlords and even the Chinese government doesn't come near their level of oppression of the general populous.
Please note that Baidu is mostly owned and operated by Goldman Sachs, not by the Chinese government. Also the majority of it's board members are US citizens.
There is a government sponsored search engine, but the fact that you don't even know it's name says enough.
How's voluntary check up on the hospital propaganda? Oh wait, you read the Aussie version, which claims destroying clothes and other things which didn't happen.
Why can't people see this for what it is? Australian anti-nuclear propaganda. Are the immune to criticisms because they're supposedly western?
You don't think that's weird when even measurements in Europe and US show heightened radiation likely to be from Japan? In this particular case I'm going with the Chinese measurements rather than the Japanese ones.
Regarding the Chinese having better detectors, that's unlikely but certainly possible. Don't forget China is building fairly modern nuclear plants like they are McDonalds franchises.
* Nobody has actually died from this incident yet. (Versus regular deaths in coal mines, etc.) * The incident can be learned from and other reactors can be improved accordingly. (Again versus the situation in many coal mines, etc. which are unlikely to see any further improvement.) In fact, many claim the risks of these particular reactors were known but not acted upon, something which can be handled with stricter rules.
Obviously they can't come out and say directly that Google doesn't protect your from CIA BS, nor from the CIA's Wikileaks media outlet. They would be considered conspiracy nuts (as you consider me after reading this).
While Google is making nice press with their "good" things, they're still running their recently introduced service where they report China based VPN users to the Chinese government, incl. what they search for. No other search engine does this. Google has gone form great to most evil in my book, just because of this. I've posted this to a number of places, but nobody seems to care about the lives of people who use VPN's in China and the risk of the Chinese government being made aware of the controversial things these people Google for. But low and behold and when Gmail feels "slow" for a few days in China, then it's front page news.
So they didn't make cards, maybe even didn't think about it. Rookie mistake. Happens to many. How is this news? What makes these two rookies so special that them forgetting cards is a sign of a new era, whereas other rookies forgetting them is a sign of, well, rookies.
How would that help? The US would just proxy everything through a friendly-sounding US agency and the Europeans would have no way to really now where the data ended up.
We don't hate them just because we don't know them. The Americans we meet on "our" side of the world are unlikely to be representative for the "average American".
Make no mistake though, it's the Americans that vote their politicians into place, nobody else.
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Exactly. I would much rather see this legislated instead. Carriers should be forced to be device neutral. If I want to use a fancy smartphone as a dumb SMS terminal, that should be my decision, not theirs.
Developers should work with internal build/version numbers. The public version number is a marketing tool. Using it otherwise would be a waste of a marketing opportunity.
Assuming there will be a version 81 isn't very smart on your part. It's like expecting a brand to stick to pastel colors forever because that was their theme last year. It doesn't work that way. Engineering logic may inspire marketing decisions, but no more than that.
Typically we pay these types of employees a delayed bonus. If after 6 months they did nothing to harm the company, it's paid, otherwise it's not. This usually buys IT enough time to have fully replaced all passwords, etc.
I have TV on my Chinese cell too. They call it CMMB, but it's digital and pretty good. I'm sure the Chinese tablets will start having it sooner or later. Looking forward to it.
While those apps were available, they didn't come pre-installed on my iPad. I still don't have them.
My 15 year old CRT however comes with Chess and some Tetris ripoff built-in.
Ask my grandma and she'll tell you anything that can display TV programs is obviously a TV of some kind!
One doesn't disagree with my grandma.
I'm sorry, but haven't most of us, in the back of our minds, known all along that the whole SSL thing is just a money scam?!
Even if the commercial CA's get there act together, there are still plenty of CA's that my browsers trust by default but are in fact highly suspect. SSL can provide real security, but not through public CA's that are blindly included in your browser/OS.
The issue is that this money just disappears in a big black hole. If it were properly tracked, accounted and appropriated towards medical care, we would at least know what we're talking about. Now we have no clue, making these kind of discussions much less useful.
Indeed. I'm all for making the willingly unhealthy pay for their own care, but it doesn't seem like those who are healthy or pursue a healthy lifestyle to their best abilities are in any way relieved here. If money is not somehow earmarked, it's just going to end up in the wrong pockets at no benefit to us.
This is the thing many people, especially Americans, refuse to see. The only reason their government is relatively relaxed on speech etc, is because the real legislators and enforcers are corporations. They are the true overlords and even the Chinese government doesn't come near their level of oppression of the general populous.
Please note that Baidu is mostly owned and operated by Goldman Sachs, not by the Chinese government. Also the majority of it's board members are US citizens.
There is a government sponsored search engine, but the fact that you don't even know it's name says enough.
Genius indeed. I love it. Anonymous for president!
Indeed. People should realize that how it was sold to them was not necessarily how it was intended. Which is a common "problem".
How's voluntary check up on the hospital propaganda? Oh wait, you read the Aussie version, which claims destroying clothes and other things which didn't happen.
Why can't people see this for what it is? Australian anti-nuclear propaganda. Are the immune to criticisms because they're supposedly western?
No clothing was disposed. Please read the original Chinese article, not the Aussie anti-nuclear propaganda.
You don't think that's weird when even measurements in Europe and US show heightened radiation likely to be from Japan? In this particular case I'm going with the Chinese measurements rather than the Japanese ones.
Regarding the Chinese having better detectors, that's unlikely but certainly possible. Don't forget China is building fairly modern nuclear plants like they are McDonalds franchises.
While certainly worrisome, please keep in mind:
* Nobody has actually died from this incident yet. (Versus regular deaths in coal mines, etc.)
* The incident can be learned from and other reactors can be improved accordingly. (Again versus the situation in many coal mines, etc. which are unlikely to see any further improvement.) In fact, many claim the risks of these particular reactors were known but not acted upon, something which can be handled with stricter rules.
Obviously they can't come out and say directly that Google doesn't protect your from CIA BS, nor from the CIA's Wikileaks media outlet. They would be considered conspiracy nuts (as you consider me after reading this).
While Google is making nice press with their "good" things, they're still running their recently introduced service where they report China based VPN users to the Chinese government, incl. what they search for. No other search engine does this. Google has gone form great to most evil in my book, just because of this. I've posted this to a number of places, but nobody seems to care about the lives of people who use VPN's in China and the risk of the Chinese government being made aware of the controversial things these people Google for. But low and behold and when Gmail feels "slow" for a few days in China, then it's front page news.
Just so you don't make another faux pax, the "both hands" thing is not limited to the Japanese.
It just means the later reference now comes sooner.
Indeed. Rookies will be rookies. Nothing new or newsworthy.
So they didn't make cards, maybe even didn't think about it. Rookie mistake. Happens to many. How is this news?
What makes these two rookies so special that them forgetting cards is a sign of a new era, whereas other rookies forgetting them is a sign of, well, rookies.
How would that help? The US would just proxy everything through a friendly-sounding US agency and the Europeans would have no way to really now where the data ended up.
We don't hate them just because we don't know them. The Americans we meet on "our" side of the world are unlikely to be representative for the "average American".
Make no mistake though, it's the Americans that vote their politicians into place, nobody else.