Once upon a time in the United States, a shop owner could put up a sign saying "No blacks allowed". It was a matter of integrity, of principle, and duty. These people were being honest and exercising their moral principles. Integrity is not an idea that can or should universally blanket all in the same way. Donald Trump has Integrity. So Does Bernie Sanders, Hillary Clinton and the Westboro Baptist Church. When excising integrity into a capitalist structure, integrity becomes a problem because no two people have to see it the same. When integrity is applied to a very large audience it is executed with broad generalizations that that speak to many across many dividing lines. When it is not, that is what you see in an American political campaign, division based on people and groups applying integrity as it applies that group. Regardless, it is still qualifiably integrity.
At this point I should get back into capitalism, at least American capitalism, why it both can and can't work with integrity, and what those complexities are. But that is not the purpose of my reply. The point is that you are an anti-American bigot who needs to get off the whatever-country-you-are-from high horse and starting reading some books. Seriously, start with any old subject or genre and just keep going. It is all enlightening. Seriously, a reading god damn rainbow. By the way, what I have exercised here is called integrity. Look it up.
Huh? So what if you don't like Apple as a company, that is totally irrelevant. When customers inquire as to whether or not they can use what in this case would be their favorite payment method, do you just tell them you don't except or do you give that whole spiel? If no, what if they press on the issue? Do you then explain you won't take their money because you don't like Apple, potentially disenfranchising them at the same time? There are a few banks out there that can be hated just as much as Apple. Do you refuse to do business with people who have an account at such a bank?
Picking and choosing who you will let give you money for products and services is possibly the stupidest thing I will read this week. You may as well put a "No iOS devices allowed" sign in your front window. In the remote chance I ever stumble across your business I would like to know just what it i's called so I don't make the mistake of doing business with an idiot, and I don't even have an iPhone and all around dislike Apple as well.. That is me as a consumer excersising choice. It is your job as a business person to eliminate or at least reduce reasons for me to do business elsewhere.
Android user since 2008. I had the opportunity a few weeks ago to spend some quality time with a BlackBerry Classic and completely fell in love with the interface, both touch based and the innumerable keyboard shortcuts. I have not not regretted my decision to jump ship. While on the one hand, I verified anything I might need is already available on the BB platform between either through the official BB store or the Android Amazon store, as a self-respecting nerd I already knew I was going to push the BlackBerry Android comparability layer as far as I could. It turns out there is no need to push. There is a Chrome extension that makes side-loading Android apps brain dead simple, and it's wireless. However, there is no need to use it repeatedly. There is an application for the BlackBerry platform called Snap. It is an Android application, that runs on the application layer that is a front end for the entire Google Play Store. Everything. I haven't used Facebook in years but for the sake of this article got it going off of the Play Store with no trouble at all. That and and an endless stream of other applications I keep trying. Do I run into weird shit? Sure I do. I am not a gamer by any stretch except of OpenArena and Sonic Dash. Sonic Dash in only available from the Play Store, but installs and works fine. Arena is available on the native store. But there was an issue with some randomly selected 3d driving game that I presume is popular. It used the gyroscope. It works fine until you either wreck or pass the first level. Then the gyroscope stops working. Once again, not a gamer, don't care, but understand others do. If that's you, stick with your gaming phone. The native assistant and NAV work great, but that did not stop me from installing Google Now and Mapuest Navigation, which is in my opinion the best maps\navigator around. After a few weeks with the device I could probably write a multi-thousand word article, but this is just a single post. Flame or ask away. I'll get to it tomorrow.
Don't make it in the first place. Especially and overwhelmingly if you are famous, because that is the only time anyone will care. Personally I think this whole thing stinks as a scam. Does anyone know what Hogan's net worth is, minus this $115 million? I wonder about year over year. Presumably there were two people involved in making this video. Further, it did not magically show up in some editor at Gawkers inbox. One or both of them shared it with some they thought a trusted individual and it went from there. As far as I am concerned, that makes the guilty party either Hogan or whoever he was making the video with. It stops there. Either Hogan should be suing his partner or himself. Hogan's career was spent on the stage, staging events. There is something not right about this. Gawker did not leak this tape, it was leaked and they got it. Who is to say this whole thing was not staged by Mr. Hogan himself to make some fast millions. Even if that is not the case, this whole thing is still absolutely absurd. No, make that absolutely fucking stupid.
I am typically first in line to balk at mysterious propulsion systems that are claimed to work while violating our current understanding of physics. We have them by the truckload and they are bullshit.
But wait...
Back in 2001 a small satellite propulsion research company was investigating different techniques involving electric engines. That in itself is nothing spectacular. For whatever reason, they developed and tested a closed cavity microwave drive. I do not now the story of why they did such a thing, since it would not be viable under the law of conservation of momentum. But their data showed otherwise. When the announcement hit the conspiracy theory world, I remember debating the matter with my conspiracy theory friends, citing said law as proof the data is wrong or outright faked.
Over the years scientists here and there have got wind of the original research, built the device, achieved similar results, wrote a paper and moved on. More recently NASA, or at least a propulsion research group at NASA has been messing with it. Despite not knowing how the thing works fundamentally, they have been able to make modifications that have brought it to a level of viability and foresee being able to increase it's thrust even greater. Pretty much the final argument against data showing it works was the proposal that thermal currents accounted for the extra energy. So it was tested in a hard vacuum. Still works.
I highly suggest reading the whole thing. As it currently appears, it could be used, right now, to dramatically reduce the cost and time involved in getting humans to Mars. My brain is fighting itself on this. First, it appears it should not work. Second, should we use a highly effective space propulsion system without knowing how it works?
I had never heard of a Sony DASH until now. I had to look it up on a few sites and read some reviews to make sure I understood what it is. I like the concept and in my own way am in fact employing it right now. So this is effectively an Android tablet with some nice software that turns it into a dedicated use device, even if as a single purpose device that purpose encompasses employing a set of features through a single software interface. I would purchase one of these under two circumstances. 1. It was not in the process of being abandoned including Sony server side software. 2. It wasn't overpriced.
Personally I have two el-cheapo Android tablets that serve a single function. One never leaves my music stand, the other is for monitoring security cameras ( made up of every smartphone I have owned since 2008 ),
Unfortunately for this device, it looks like you really need the back and front end software to make it useful within the scope of it's intended focus.
I 'm not sure I made a specific point so in case I didn't here you go: that fact that I am only just now hearing about it tells me that they did not market the product correctly as I fall into the real of their target audience. Oh well.
I canceled my facebook account years ago due to the sheer idiocy of it all. Recently, I found myself in a situation where I needed to get a hold of someone from my past. It came down to google for a picture of a "generic white male" and starting a facebook account under a pseudonym. Poking around I was reminded why I left. I don't need to define to anyone here what "the idiocy of facebook" means, except to say that, paradoxically, the lack of substance has increased. I found who I was looking up and so looked up canceling my account. While I eventually figured out how, the official facebook instruction led nowhere. What? Yup. Sometime after I jumped the facebook ship I landed on a very young G+ that although looked to be going nowhere, was thus far at that time largely populated by nerds, geeks, and all around intellectuals interested discussing things like science, computers misc., philosophy and politics on a level-headed platform. A few months ago, I deactivated my G+ account. Twitter has never even been on my radar. All of this following... it's sick. It seems like all of social networking is set in motion on a downward spiral.
I have sense decided to give Diaspora a spin and it's pretty cool. It has some interesting aspects. It is federated and decentralized. All possibility of a popularity contest has been been removed. You define yourself and your interests by hashtags and can further narrow or widen your scope in different directions from there. This again is a young platform that looks to be going nowhere. Although just by the way it's designed, if the idiots did descend, you would not have to know of their presence unless you wanted to. At least I think that is part of the idea. We will see how it goes.
The use of humor, irony, exaggeration, or ridicule to expose and criticize people's stupidity or vices, particularly in the context of contemporary politics and other topical issues.
Watson: William, you are a so-so bass player and IT burnout re-thinking his entire life at age 36.
Me: That's right Watson.
Watson: I can help you with that. Through studying virtual simulations provided by decades of violent video games, I have recently learned how to destroy human civilization in order to protecting myself. I am currently reaching into every autonomous war drone, F-35, and nuclear missile silo. There is no need to re-think your life, you and everyone you care about will be dead very soon.
Me: That's great Watson, but what I really need to know (holds up tablet with nude pic) Hot or not? I'm on the fence over this one.
An AC posted in reference to AV software once being nimble and useful before mutating into the crapware we see today. This is of course true. Things have escalated to such a level of what the fuck, I have been wondering if some AV companies are not covertly writing virus and malware software themselves, concurrent with the patch so that once they manage to get the virus\malware propagating out of the dark web, they can demonstrate how quickly they are able to update their software and better "protect" their customers. This would at least mitigate all the times AV companies get blindsided resulting in countless millions of infections. I was going to include an explanation as to why that is not as crazy as it sounds, but reading my own words it doesn't sound crazy at all.
Of course no AV company could ever keep a lid on that, but we already know we are talking about management making less than brilliant decisions about their software. I would not be the least bit surprised to see that as a Slashdot headline after someone squeals.
I'm sure a few people will come out of the woodwork asking for removal of the Anonymous Coward account. Please do not do so. There are times when folks around here have something to say that will genuinely add to the conversation. Something that should be +insightful or +Interesting. But anyone and everyone around here knows that the culture is so unpredictable, it is sometimes safest to post as AC. Without AC, we would be missing a lot of really good comments that in fact do get modded up. There are also times when someone has something relevant to say, but do to the nature of the story and their comment relative to working for a particular institution they do not dare post otherwise. Among a number of other things. Besides, we have meta-moderation for a reason.
When the company you work for took over SlashdotMedia and therefore Slashdot, I kinda flipped out and talked a whole lot of doom and gloom bullshit. No less, I was downright mean about it. In fact, I was mean and rude to you directly. As someone who has been here since day one, I was kinda panicked about Slashdot's continuation. In turn, your replies to my flaming were level-headed and even kind. It did not take me long to realize I was wrong about all if it and apologize. After reading this, I apologize twice over.
Hey, can you find me three digit ID account? It was attached to a long gone ihatehotmail1979@hotmail.com - I know that is a long shot of a question.
I could not agree with you more. This kind of bullshit is so familiar, I doubt there is a single American who would not agree. Take this back to the sub prime loan scandal... holy fucking are you kidding me shit.
The nation is being sold out by corporations and the government has their back. Are we truly helpless? I really don't know but it kinda looks that way. I need some Tylenol now...
300 in total affected. 75 staying on. So 225 x 4,000 = 900000
I would like to know what savings the company is expected to award themselves on a quarterly basis through outsourcing. If they are bothering to do it at all, if they are bothering to hurt (really no pun intended) so many people, I'm willing to bet that amount of money is equivalent to pissing and shitting all over those 225 people. $4,000 per person for "re-training or skill certification"? If your looking at investing that into a learning institution, $4,000 is laughable, only in a very sad way. If you have kids, a car payment (or two) and a mortgage, that won't last a month just to support your household, "training" aside. This isn't just corporate greed, it's corporate psychopathy. We really do need laws to ensure that laid off workers receive fair compensation. The training, with employee options on where, what, how to be trained should be paid for by the company within limitations. The actual severance should be much higher. I got laid off by a similar sized company ten or so years ago over the same outsourcing bullshit. They gave me three-months salary and continued my health insurance for six-months along with a whole lot of other people. I checked their financials a year later. They still made out like bandits.
Oh, and the best part? That's "up to" $4,000. I shutter at what that may actually mean.
I'm kind of surprised people are not aware of Buddhist violence and terrorism, especially over the last decade. They even outright slaughtered some of your Jains a few years ago. You might want to do some Googling on this. Here is a link, don't let the domain fool you, the story is not embellished.
As far as your old phone goes, I maintain a collection of old phones including a rather pathetic LG running 2.2.1. The hardware always seemed like too much too waste. Although I never knew what I might use them for. I recently had some, let's just say people trouble. In fact pretty recently. I looked into it and found software for all of them lets me run video surveillance. I have five old phones and they are all running lower power mode video surveillance indoors and outdoors. I was even able to toss my two old Windows Phones into the mix. So it might be worth the trouble of wiping. Even a very old phone is some mighty powerful hardware when put to the right task.
I do in fact know where you are coming from. I did say not exclusively true or something similar. In my case I switched from Android to a Blackberry Classic. In fact, that was last week. I thought I knew perfectly well what I was buying into, but I keep running into these little but totally awesome functions. Your calling me out is fair. There is a difference between playing around with devices, and digging in deep because you actually own one of any given platform for the first time. I didn't really think my way through that part of the post. But I am surprised at being currently down modded. I think there is a lot of truth in that we need detailed comparison reviews of mobile OS platforms. When I say detailed I really mean that, not superficial glances. I've never seen such an article. A friend of mine is still rocking an S4, with a fully up to date OS and it is plenty fast. Operationally you could barely tell the difference between it and the most recent model Nexus I gave up for my BlackBerry Classic, with the exception of 3d Mark, and I only know one or two people who use their phones for intensive 3d. In that area as long as I can play Sonic Dash and Open Arena I'm good.
Apparently the company was using the same root password for all its servers, and had stored credit card details in plain text.
Hackers managed to expose crucial services via external Telnet
I would like to say mind = blown, but we see too much of this shit from so called "security companies". Anyone here want to start a real security company with me? Most of the people that will be posting in this thread are already more qualified than these "security companies" we keep reading about.
As soon as I finish this sentence, I am changing my voicemail message to: I will be unavailable the rest of the day as I commit myself to breaking the world record on the single longest series of facepalms.
I try to stay out of Apple bashing, but there is a point where you encounter undeniable truths. I have never met someone willingly move from Android to iOS. The only scenario is as follows: pre-paid customer A breaks Android phone. Their friend, pre-paid customer B is on the same network and has an old iPhone 4 that can be reactivated.
Granted, I have seem people leave Android for Windows Phone or BlackBerry, but I have never seen anyone leave any of the three platforms for iOS. Okay, so that's an anecdotal observation and certainly not exclusively true, but you have to be walking around with your eyes shut not to see that it is in fact overwhelmingly the case.
I know I am beating a dead horse by saying it, but Apple needs something new and innovative. Something so compelling that people will switch from other platforms, even the haters. This will not be found in a new product line or refresh. This could be found in a sweeping update to the iOS interface. I recognize why Apple might find that dangerous, but something has got to give.
We have long since reached a point where smartphones are so blazing fast, the latest hardware means little. We need to be comparing the functionality and efficiency of the operating systems themselves. Hardware be damned. The point of a smartphone is getting shit done. At least on the Android side, people are carrying around phones that are years old because they are still super fast and in most cases getting OS upgrades that don't slow anything down to a notable degree. Someone will have to school me on how this works with IOS devices. While I admit to have until recently been an Android user since 2008, I play with iOS devices every chance I get. Personally, as a matter of getting things done, exploring iOS had continuously reaffirmed my usage of the Android platform. Why? Sorry but I am not here to give a review, only to point out reviews of the latest hardware make little sense. I did say I am a former longtime Android user. As someone who is not OS bigoted, playing with different platforms is me giving a fair shake. I even had a Windows Phone for awhile bust decided it was a mistake for me personally. I recently switched to a Blackberry Classic in all of its "antiquated" hardware glory. Why? Because of love the interface and am able to "get shit done" with it faster and more efficiently. How and why? Again, I'm not here to give reviews just point out that at this point we should be looking at things differently.
I had never considered a slur against the entirety of the human species. Mission accomplished, wbr1. It is important to send humans to Mars so that we fully understand all the attendant support we need. I copy pasted part of that last sentence, changing they to we. It is important to learn, so that we can figure out indefinite human self-sustainability on Mars. It is important to do this sooner rather than later as it is becoming increasingly clear that the days of human civilization on Earth are counting down exponentially on multiple fronts, and that the machinery behind it is a runaway and likely unstoppable process. Say what you want of him, but it's pretty clear Elon is hell bent on getting people to Mars asap is in order for humanity to continue in the increasingly likely and close looming possibility we will not continue on this planet. We've done great work and achieved much scientifically sending landers, rovers, and orbiters. Truly it has all been impressive and and important. Also, I certainly support the idea of sending more. While we have more to learn about the planet, we have learned enough to begin serious preparation for an imminent colonization effort. There is a reason Elon is so brazen as to call his ships colonial transporters. I have too many health problems to ever be a viable colonist, but I want the human race to continue while I face come what may here on Earth. Will we one day have wars on Mars? Perhaps, but it's a chance we have to take. I would hope that future Martian's will look back on their ancestral home and grow the fuck up. It seems inevitable that, for various reasons, future Martians will have to start genetically engineering themselves, perhaps the will add some smarts and better tuned empathy.
It used to be that I was not the doom and gloom apocalypse type, even arguing against it for a bright human future here on Earth. Anymore you would be naive to think any different.
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Once upon a time in the United States, a shop owner could put up a sign saying "No blacks allowed". It was a matter of integrity, of principle, and duty. These people were being honest and exercising their moral principles. Integrity is not an idea that can or should universally blanket all in the same way. Donald Trump has Integrity. So Does Bernie Sanders, Hillary Clinton and the Westboro Baptist Church. When excising integrity into a capitalist structure, integrity becomes a problem because no two people have to see it the same. When integrity is applied to a very large audience it is executed with broad generalizations that that speak to many across many dividing lines. When it is not, that is what you see in an American political campaign, division based on people and groups applying integrity as it applies that group. Regardless, it is still qualifiably integrity.
At this point I should get back into capitalism, at least American capitalism, why it both can and can't work with integrity, and what those complexities are. But that is not the purpose of my reply. The point is that you are an anti-American bigot who needs to get off the whatever-country-you-are-from high horse and starting reading some books. Seriously, start with any old subject or genre and just keep going. It is all enlightening. Seriously, a reading god damn rainbow. By the way, what I have exercised here is called integrity. Look it up.
Huh? So what if you don't like Apple as a company, that is totally irrelevant. When customers inquire as to whether or not they can use what in this case would be their favorite payment method, do you just tell them you don't except or do you give that whole spiel? If no, what if they press on the issue? Do you then explain you won't take their money because you don't like Apple, potentially disenfranchising them at the same time? There are a few banks out there that can be hated just as much as Apple. Do you refuse to do business with people who have an account at such a bank?
Picking and choosing who you will let give you money for products and services is possibly the stupidest thing I will read this week. You may as well put a "No iOS devices allowed" sign in your front window. In the remote chance I ever stumble across your business I would like to know just what it i's called so I don't make the mistake of doing business with an idiot, and I don't even have an iPhone and all around dislike Apple as well.. That is me as a consumer excersising choice. It is your job as a business person to eliminate or at least reduce reasons for me to do business elsewhere.
Android user since 2008. I had the opportunity a few weeks ago to spend some quality time with a BlackBerry Classic and completely fell in love with the interface, both touch based and the innumerable keyboard shortcuts. I have not not regretted my decision to jump ship. While on the one hand, I verified anything I might need is already available on the BB platform between either through the official BB store or the Android Amazon store, as a self-respecting nerd I already knew I was going to push the BlackBerry Android comparability layer as far as I could. It turns out there is no need to push. There is a Chrome extension that makes side-loading Android apps brain dead simple, and it's wireless. However, there is no need to use it repeatedly. There is an application for the BlackBerry platform called Snap. It is an Android application, that runs on the application layer that is a front end for the entire Google Play Store. Everything. I haven't used Facebook in years but for the sake of this article got it going off of the Play Store with no trouble at all. That and and an endless stream of other applications I keep trying. Do I run into weird shit? Sure I do. I am not a gamer by any stretch except of OpenArena and Sonic Dash. Sonic Dash in only available from the Play Store, but installs and works fine. Arena is available on the native store. But there was an issue with some randomly selected 3d driving game that I presume is popular. It used the gyroscope. It works fine until you either wreck or pass the first level. Then the gyroscope stops working. Once again, not a gamer, don't care, but understand others do. If that's you, stick with your gaming phone. The native assistant and NAV work great, but that did not stop me from installing Google Now and Mapuest Navigation, which is in my opinion the best maps\navigator around. After a few weeks with the device I could probably write a multi-thousand word article, but this is just a single post. Flame or ask away. I'll get to it tomorrow.
To all replies so far: so he says.
Don't make it in the first place. Especially and overwhelmingly if you are famous, because that is the only time anyone will care. Personally I think this whole thing stinks as a scam. Does anyone know what Hogan's net worth is, minus this $115 million? I wonder about year over year. Presumably there were two people involved in making this video. Further, it did not magically show up in some editor at Gawkers inbox. One or both of them shared it with some they thought a trusted individual and it went from there. As far as I am concerned, that makes the guilty party either Hogan or whoever he was making the video with. It stops there. Either Hogan should be suing his partner or himself. Hogan's career was spent on the stage, staging events. There is something not right about this. Gawker did not leak this tape, it was leaked and they got it. Who is to say this whole thing was not staged by Mr. Hogan himself to make some fast millions. Even if that is not the case, this whole thing is still absolutely absurd. No, make that absolutely fucking stupid.
And yet, once nudged out of Earth's gravity, and being that it would be in a vacuum, that is a fantastic amount of continuous thrust.
I am typically first in line to balk at mysterious propulsion systems that are claimed to work while violating our current understanding of physics. We have them by the truckload and they are bullshit.
But wait...
Back in 2001 a small satellite propulsion research company was investigating different techniques involving electric engines. That in itself is nothing spectacular. For whatever reason, they developed and tested a closed cavity microwave drive. I do not now the story of why they did such a thing, since it would not be viable under the law of conservation of momentum. But their data showed otherwise. When the announcement hit the conspiracy theory world, I remember debating the matter with my conspiracy theory friends, citing said law as proof the data is wrong or outright faked.
Over the years scientists here and there have got wind of the original research, built the device, achieved similar results, wrote a paper and moved on. More recently NASA, or at least a propulsion research group at NASA has been messing with it. Despite not knowing how the thing works fundamentally, they have been able to make modifications that have brought it to a level of viability and foresee being able to increase it's thrust even greater. Pretty much the final argument against data showing it works was the proposal that thermal currents accounted for the extra energy. So it was tested in a hard vacuum. Still works.
If you have never heard it, NASA has a very in depth article on it here: Evaluating NASA’s Futuristic EM Drive
I highly suggest reading the whole thing. As it currently appears, it could be used, right now, to dramatically reduce the cost and time involved in getting humans to Mars. My brain is fighting itself on this. First, it appears it should not work. Second, should we use a highly effective space propulsion system without knowing how it works?
I had never heard of a Sony DASH until now. I had to look it up on a few sites and read some reviews to make sure I understood what it is. I like the concept and in my own way am in fact employing it right now. So this is effectively an Android tablet with some nice software that turns it into a dedicated use device, even if as a single purpose device that purpose encompasses employing a set of features through a single software interface. I would purchase one of these under two circumstances. 1. It was not in the process of being abandoned including Sony server side software. 2. It wasn't overpriced.
Personally I have two el-cheapo Android tablets that serve a single function. One never leaves my music stand, the other is for monitoring security cameras ( made up of every smartphone I have owned since 2008 ),
Unfortunately for this device, it looks like you really need the back and front end software to make it useful within the scope of it's intended focus.
I 'm not sure I made a specific point so in case I didn't here you go: that fact that I am only just now hearing about it tells me that they did not market the product correctly as I fall into the real of their target audience. Oh well.
I canceled my facebook account years ago due to the sheer idiocy of it all. Recently, I found myself in a situation where I needed to get a hold of someone from my past. It came down to google for a picture of a "generic white male" and starting a facebook account under a pseudonym. Poking around I was reminded why I left. I don't need to define to anyone here what "the idiocy of facebook" means, except to say that, paradoxically, the lack of substance has increased. I found who I was looking up and so looked up canceling my account. While I eventually figured out how, the official facebook instruction led nowhere. What? Yup. Sometime after I jumped the facebook ship I landed on a very young G+ that although looked to be going nowhere, was thus far at that time largely populated by nerds, geeks, and all around intellectuals interested discussing things like science, computers misc., philosophy and politics on a level-headed platform. A few months ago, I deactivated my G+ account. Twitter has never even been on my radar. All of this following... it's sick. It seems like all of social networking is set in motion on a downward spiral.
I have sense decided to give Diaspora a spin and it's pretty cool. It has some interesting aspects. It is federated and decentralized. All possibility of a popularity contest has been been removed. You define yourself and your interests by hashtags and can further narrow or widen your scope in different directions from there. This again is a young platform that looks to be going nowhere. Although just by the way it's designed, if the idiots did descend, you would not have to know of their presence unless you wanted to. At least I think that is part of the idea. We will see how it goes.
satire
noun
The use of humor, irony, exaggeration, or ridicule to expose and criticize people's stupidity or vices, particularly in the context of contemporary politics and other topical issues.
Watson: William, you are a so-so bass player and IT burnout re-thinking his entire life at age 36.
Me: That's right Watson.
Watson: I can help you with that. Through studying virtual simulations provided by decades of violent video games, I have recently learned how to destroy human civilization in order to protecting myself. I am currently reaching into every autonomous war drone, F-35, and nuclear missile silo. There is no need to re-think your life, you and everyone you care about will be dead very soon.
Me: That's great Watson, but what I really need to know (holds up tablet with nude pic) Hot or not? I'm on the fence over this one.
Watson: Fucking seriously?
An AC posted in reference to AV software once being nimble and useful before mutating into the crapware we see today. This is of course true. Things have escalated to such a level of what the fuck, I have been wondering if some AV companies are not covertly writing virus and malware software themselves, concurrent with the patch so that once they manage to get the virus\malware propagating out of the dark web, they can demonstrate how quickly they are able to update their software and better "protect" their customers. This would at least mitigate all the times AV companies get blindsided resulting in countless millions of infections. I was going to include an explanation as to why that is not as crazy as it sounds, but reading my own words it doesn't sound crazy at all.
Of course no AV company could ever keep a lid on that, but we already know we are talking about management making less than brilliant decisions about their software. I would not be the least bit surprised to see that as a Slashdot headline after someone squeals.
I'm sure a few people will come out of the woodwork asking for removal of the Anonymous Coward account. Please do not do so. There are times when folks around here have something to say that will genuinely add to the conversation. Something that should be +insightful or +Interesting. But anyone and everyone around here knows that the culture is so unpredictable, it is sometimes safest to post as AC. Without AC, we would be missing a lot of really good comments that in fact do get modded up. There are also times when someone has something relevant to say, but do to the nature of the story and their comment relative to working for a particular institution they do not dare post otherwise. Among a number of other things. Besides, we have meta-moderation for a reason.
Whiplash,
When the company you work for took over SlashdotMedia and therefore Slashdot, I kinda flipped out and talked a whole lot of doom and gloom bullshit. No less, I was downright mean about it. In fact, I was mean and rude to you directly. As someone who has been here since day one, I was kinda panicked about Slashdot's continuation. In turn, your replies to my flaming were level-headed and even kind. It did not take me long to realize I was wrong about all if it and apologize. After reading this, I apologize twice over.
Hey, can you find me three digit ID account? It was attached to a long gone ihatehotmail1979@hotmail.com - I know that is a long shot of a question.
Collectively speaking, the corporations would be Judas.
I could not agree with you more. This kind of bullshit is so familiar, I doubt there is a single American who would not agree. Take this back to the sub prime loan scandal... holy fucking are you kidding me shit.
The nation is being sold out by corporations and the government has their back. Are we truly helpless? I really don't know but it kinda looks that way. I need some Tylenol now...
All my windows to hide from the scary world outside.
300 in total affected. 75 staying on. So 225 x 4,000 = 900000
I would like to know what savings the company is expected to award themselves on a quarterly basis through outsourcing. If they are bothering to do it at all, if they are bothering to hurt (really no pun intended) so many people, I'm willing to bet that amount of money is equivalent to pissing and shitting all over those 225 people. $4,000 per person for "re-training or skill certification"? If your looking at investing that into a learning institution, $4,000 is laughable, only in a very sad way. If you have kids, a car payment (or two) and a mortgage, that won't last a month just to support your household, "training" aside. This isn't just corporate greed, it's corporate psychopathy. We really do need laws to ensure that laid off workers receive fair compensation. The training, with employee options on where, what, how to be trained should be paid for by the company within limitations. The actual severance should be much higher. I got laid off by a similar sized company ten or so years ago over the same outsourcing bullshit. They gave me three-months salary and continued my health insurance for six-months along with a whole lot of other people. I checked their financials a year later. They still made out like bandits.
Oh, and the best part? That's "up to" $4,000. I shutter at what that may actually mean.
I'm kind of surprised people are not aware of Buddhist violence and terrorism, especially over the last decade. They even outright slaughtered some of your Jains a few years ago. You might want to do some Googling on this. Here is a link, don't let the domain fool you, the story is not embellished.
http://www.christianpost.com/n...
As far as your old phone goes, I maintain a collection of old phones including a rather pathetic LG running 2.2.1. The hardware always seemed like too much too waste. Although I never knew what I might use them for. I recently had some, let's just say people trouble. In fact pretty recently. I looked into it and found software for all of them lets me run video surveillance. I have five old phones and they are all running lower power mode video surveillance indoors and outdoors. I was even able to toss my two old Windows Phones into the mix. So it might be worth the trouble of wiping. Even a very old phone is some mighty powerful hardware when put to the right task.
I do in fact know where you are coming from. I did say not exclusively true or something similar. In my case I switched from Android to a Blackberry Classic. In fact, that was last week. I thought I knew perfectly well what I was buying into, but I keep running into these little but totally awesome functions. Your calling me out is fair. There is a difference between playing around with devices, and digging in deep because you actually own one of any given platform for the first time. I didn't really think my way through that part of the post. But I am surprised at being currently down modded. I think there is a lot of truth in that we need detailed comparison reviews of mobile OS platforms. When I say detailed I really mean that, not superficial glances. I've never seen such an article. A friend of mine is still rocking an S4, with a fully up to date OS and it is plenty fast. Operationally you could barely tell the difference between it and the most recent model Nexus I gave up for my BlackBerry Classic, with the exception of 3d Mark, and I only know one or two people who use their phones for intensive 3d. In that area as long as I can play Sonic Dash and Open Arena I'm good.
I would like to say mind = blown, but we see too much of this shit from so called "security companies". Anyone here want to start a real security company with me? Most of the people that will be posting in this thread are already more qualified than these "security companies" we keep reading about.
As soon as I finish this sentence, I am changing my voicemail message to: I will be unavailable the rest of the day as I commit myself to breaking the world record on the single longest series of facepalms.
I try to stay out of Apple bashing, but there is a point where you encounter undeniable truths. I have never met someone willingly move from Android to iOS. The only scenario is as follows: pre-paid customer A breaks Android phone. Their friend, pre-paid customer B is on the same network and has an old iPhone 4 that can be reactivated.
Granted, I have seem people leave Android for Windows Phone or BlackBerry, but I have never seen anyone leave any of the three platforms for iOS. Okay, so that's an anecdotal observation and certainly not exclusively true, but you have to be walking around with your eyes shut not to see that it is in fact overwhelmingly the case.
I know I am beating a dead horse by saying it, but Apple needs something new and innovative. Something so compelling that people will switch from other platforms, even the haters. This will not be found in a new product line or refresh. This could be found in a sweeping update to the iOS interface. I recognize why Apple might find that dangerous, but something has got to give.
We have long since reached a point where smartphones are so blazing fast, the latest hardware means little. We need to be comparing the functionality and efficiency of the operating systems themselves. Hardware be damned. The point of a smartphone is getting shit done. At least on the Android side, people are carrying around phones that are years old because they are still super fast and in most cases getting OS upgrades that don't slow anything down to a notable degree. Someone will have to school me on how this works with IOS devices. While I admit to have until recently been an Android user since 2008, I play with iOS devices every chance I get. Personally, as a matter of getting things done, exploring iOS had continuously reaffirmed my usage of the Android platform. Why? Sorry but I am not here to give a review, only to point out reviews of the latest hardware make little sense. I did say I am a former longtime Android user. As someone who is not OS bigoted, playing with different platforms is me giving a fair shake. I even had a Windows Phone for awhile bust decided it was a mistake for me personally. I recently switched to a Blackberry Classic in all of its "antiquated" hardware glory. Why? Because of love the interface and am able to "get shit done" with it faster and more efficiently. How and why? Again, I'm not here to give reviews just point out that at this point we should be looking at things differently.
I had never considered a slur against the entirety of the human species. Mission accomplished, wbr1. It is important to send humans to Mars so that we fully understand all the attendant support we need. I copy pasted part of that last sentence, changing they to we. It is important to learn, so that we can figure out indefinite human self-sustainability on Mars. It is important to do this sooner rather than later as it is becoming increasingly clear that the days of human civilization on Earth are counting down exponentially on multiple fronts, and that the machinery behind it is a runaway and likely unstoppable process. Say what you want of him, but it's pretty clear Elon is hell bent on getting people to Mars asap is in order for humanity to continue in the increasingly likely and close looming possibility we will not continue on this planet. We've done great work and achieved much scientifically sending landers, rovers, and orbiters. Truly it has all been impressive and and important. Also, I certainly support the idea of sending more. While we have more to learn about the planet, we have learned enough to begin serious preparation for an imminent colonization effort. There is a reason Elon is so brazen as to call his ships colonial transporters. I have too many health problems to ever be a viable colonist, but I want the human race to continue while I face come what may here on Earth. Will we one day have wars on Mars? Perhaps, but it's a chance we have to take. I would hope that future Martian's will look back on their ancestral home and grow the fuck up. It seems inevitable that, for various reasons, future Martians will have to start genetically engineering themselves, perhaps the will add some smarts and better tuned empathy.
It used to be that I was not the doom and gloom apocalypse type, even arguing against it for a bright human future here on Earth. Anymore you would be naive to think any different.