Maybe they were not a moron. Maybe they were just technical people detached from the business needs--equally as dangerous.
Whenever I've done a rollout of a new version of a web site, we have always made sure that we have the ability to quickly revert to the old version in case something goes horribly wrong. It isn't something unique to the business needs of stock trading.
Your only chance this round to help at all is to vote with Republicans or other conservatives, whose angle is reduced federal government, and increasing state powers basically with Tea Party candidates). That is the only way to loose the noose (not misspelled).
With a reduced federal government comes reduced funds for mischief, and reduced power over you. It is the ONLY way out apart from violence.
Sadly, many people will not realize that this is sarcasm.
If the law made the situation possible which the Executive took advantage of, the court cannot alter the situation without some higher law to override it.
The intent of the penal system is to demonstrate to the rest of society that those who transgress societies rules will be punished, and therefore deter future events by people other than the people being punished. It's kind of lost its value as a deterrent these days, at least in the U.S., since punishment is neither swift, nor is it public, and we take great pains to protect the rights of the accused, rather than the purpose of the process, which could care less if you occasionally string up the wrong person.
Deterrence isn't the only intent. Separating convicted criminals from other potential victims is also a significant goal. In this case, wrongly imprisoning someone is a major failure of the system, because in no way does it separate a criminal from potential victims.
I didn't say it was a good policy. In fact, I'm completely in favor of firing the people that came up with it. If the support person confirmed all of the information that Apple's policy requires, then the fault should go to the people that set the policy, not the support person that followed it.
There are some Apple employees that ought to lose their job over this...
It shouldn't be the support person that answered the phone, though. Apparently they followed Apple's procedure of requiring only a billing address and the last four digits of a credit card number to gain access to the account.
Unfortunately, the series goes off a cliff not too long after that. Speaker for the Dead is also good, as is most of Xenocide. He completely failed at coming up with a solution to the story in Xenocide, though, and the ending made me refuse to read any more of his books. It ranks only slightly above the last episode of Voyager.
Land Lobsters.(They're both arthropods) Then you can charge a premium for them.
I think that would complete the circle. Lobsters used to be called the cockroaches of the sea. They were considered just barely good enough to give to your slaves.
You shouldn't able to patent a shape unless that shape advances science and the useful arts.
Despite the name, design patents aren't really what most of us around here would consider "patents". It helps to think of design patents as a subclass of trademark instead of a subclass of patent.
So suddenly the "manager" of said government branch can make and strike down "laws" at will, without being accountable to anyone - unless of course the rest of the government decides to call them on it.
So they aren't accountable to anyone, except for the people that they're accountable to. Got it.
If you stay away from anything related to sports, you'll notice a significant improvement in the asshole-ishness. Not dealing with rich, snobby undergrads from BU and BC also helps. The tech neighborhoods around MIT in Cambridge are usually fine.
parent didn't categorize anything as a 'blatant lie'. Parent didn't even use the words 'blatant' or 'lie'.
I know that starting a message in the subject line is highly annoying and far too frequent, so it's understandable that some people don't bother reading the subject lines anymore. When you're going to say that someone didn't use certain words, though, you might want to double check.
This is because the labels didn't think music from a 16 year old boy would sell, especially from a person that was previously unknown for anything.
And this after how many decades of "boy bands"? One could argue that The Beatles are the original boy band, although they actually had some amount of talent. Certainly it wasn't much less than 20 years ago when boy bands really became popular.
As for camoflage, folklore has it that during WWII a bomber was flying over the Pacific and one of the crew, colorblind, spotted an enemy ship that none of the others could see even when he pointed it out. But he convinced them to fly down for a closer look, and then they saw it.
TIME article from 1940, which unfortunately now requires a subscription (it didn't when I bookmarked it).
From my own experience, I describe it to people that I don't "see color". I know that different things are different colors, and if someone asks me what color a car is, I can usually get it close to correct, but after 10 seconds, I won't remember what color a car was if I don't deliberately commit it to memory. After spending my entire life not being able to accurately tell colors, my brain just doesn't bother processing that detail.
Like other posters said, maybe people that are color blind aren't fooled by camouflage as easily because the intensity is a more important detail than the hue. I've also wondered if it has to do with the brain focusing on shapes and edges more than normal because it isn't processing color as much.
...because they didn't create it in a commercial environment and let it grow and compete, they also didn't create it to prevent viruses and botnets.
So where is the commercial entity that has developed a network that is immune to malware? Alternatively, what is your proposal for a network with such an immunity.
So enlighten me, sensei. Why does "the government" deserve credit for the creation of anything more than the standards which other people used to create the Internet?
It is quite unreasonable to glibly dismiss "the standards". More or less by definition, the Internet (not to be confused with an internet) uses the Internet Protocol standard. Credit for developing the standards should be the majority of the credit for creating the Internet.
Your mention of damages made me think. My understanding is that you can only sue for provable damages. So how would a patent troll determine this amount if the patent is not being used in any products they produce? (this is not a rhetorical question)
One method is to figure out how much money the infringing party gained because of their illegal use of the patent. If the patent covers the entire infringing product, then it's pretty easy. If it isn't, then you can either try to estimate what percentage of the product the patent covers, or estimate what it would cost to alter the device so that it doesn't infringe.
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Maybe they were not a moron. Maybe they were just technical people detached from the business needs--equally as dangerous.
Whenever I've done a rollout of a new version of a web site, we have always made sure that we have the ability to quickly revert to the old version in case something goes horribly wrong. It isn't something unique to the business needs of stock trading.
In every Case, after the Choice of the President, the Person having the greatest Number of Votes of the Electors shall be the Vice President.
Article II, Section 1. Granted, it didn't last long (12th Amendment in 1804), but that's what was originally in the Constitution.
We could go back to the way it was supposed to be. That would be pretty interesting.
Your only chance this round to help at all is to vote with Republicans or other conservatives, whose angle is reduced federal government, and increasing state powers basically with Tea Party candidates). That is the only way to loose the noose (not misspelled).
With a reduced federal government comes reduced funds for mischief, and reduced power over you. It is the ONLY way out apart from violence.
Sadly, many people will not realize that this is sarcasm.
If the law made the situation possible which the Executive took advantage of, the court cannot alter the situation without some higher law to override it.
Some higher law like the Fourth Amendment?
it's driven up costs, and as someone that believes in economics it has therefore lowered abuse.
Am I the only one that heard Stephen Colbert's voice when reading this?
The intent of the penal system is to demonstrate to the rest of society that those who transgress societies rules will be punished, and therefore deter future events by people other than the people being punished. It's kind of lost its value as a deterrent these days, at least in the U.S., since punishment is neither swift, nor is it public, and we take great pains to protect the rights of the accused, rather than the purpose of the process, which could care less if you occasionally string up the wrong person.
Deterrence isn't the only intent. Separating convicted criminals from other potential victims is also a significant goal. In this case, wrongly imprisoning someone is a major failure of the system, because in no way does it separate a criminal from potential victims.
I didn't say it was a good policy. In fact, I'm completely in favor of firing the people that came up with it. If the support person confirmed all of the information that Apple's policy requires, then the fault should go to the people that set the policy, not the support person that followed it.
There are some Apple employees that ought to lose their job over this...
It shouldn't be the support person that answered the phone, though. Apparently they followed Apple's procedure of requiring only a billing address and the last four digits of a credit card number to gain access to the account.
Unfortunately, the series goes off a cliff not too long after that. Speaker for the Dead is also good, as is most of Xenocide. He completely failed at coming up with a solution to the story in Xenocide, though, and the ending made me refuse to read any more of his books. It ranks only slightly above the last episode of Voyager.
Land Lobsters.(They're both arthropods) Then you can charge a premium for them.
I think that would complete the circle. Lobsters used to be called the cockroaches of the sea. They were considered just barely good enough to give to your slaves.
I'm not sure why you think that the vast hoards of the marketing departments are a fringe margin of society. They seem all too common to me.
Isn't an ad campaign basically a self-measuring practice? Either their sales will go up, or they wont.
Half of the money spent on marketing is wasted. The problem is figuring out which half.
You shouldn't able to patent a shape unless that shape advances science and the useful arts.
Despite the name, design patents aren't really what most of us around here would consider "patents". It helps to think of design patents as a subclass of trademark instead of a subclass of patent.
So suddenly the "manager" of said government branch can make and strike down "laws" at will, without being accountable to anyone - unless of course the rest of the government decides to call them on it.
So they aren't accountable to anyone, except for the people that they're accountable to. Got it.
If you stay away from anything related to sports, you'll notice a significant improvement in the asshole-ishness. Not dealing with rich, snobby undergrads from BU and BC also helps. The tech neighborhoods around MIT in Cambridge are usually fine.
Name one.
Boston!
parent didn't categorize anything as a 'blatant lie'. Parent didn't even use the words 'blatant' or 'lie'.
I know that starting a message in the subject line is highly annoying and far too frequent, so it's understandable that some people don't bother reading the subject lines anymore. When you're going to say that someone didn't use certain words, though, you might want to double check.
This is because the labels didn't think music from a 16 year old boy would sell, especially from a person that was previously unknown for anything.
And this after how many decades of "boy bands"? One could argue that The Beatles are the original boy band, although they actually had some amount of talent. Certainly it wasn't much less than 20 years ago when boy bands really became popular.
As for camoflage, folklore has it that during WWII a bomber was flying over the Pacific and one of the crew, colorblind, spotted an enemy ship that none of the others could see even when he pointed it out. But he convinced them to fly down for a closer look, and then they saw it.
TIME article from 1940, which unfortunately now requires a subscription (it didn't when I bookmarked it).
From my own experience, I describe it to people that I don't "see color". I know that different things are different colors, and if someone asks me what color a car is, I can usually get it close to correct, but after 10 seconds, I won't remember what color a car was if I don't deliberately commit it to memory. After spending my entire life not being able to accurately tell colors, my brain just doesn't bother processing that detail.
Like other posters said, maybe people that are color blind aren't fooled by camouflage as easily because the intensity is a more important detail than the hue. I've also wondered if it has to do with the brain focusing on shapes and edges more than normal because it isn't processing color as much.
I am not dismissing the standards, but the standards bodies didn't build the internet.
Are you suggesting that the credit for building the Internet should go to the backhoe drivers?
...because they didn't create it in a commercial environment and let it grow and compete, they also didn't create it to prevent viruses and botnets.
So where is the commercial entity that has developed a network that is immune to malware? Alternatively, what is your proposal for a network with such an immunity.
Take your time, we'll wait.
So enlighten me, sensei. Why does "the government" deserve credit for the creation of anything more than the standards which other people used to create the Internet?
It is quite unreasonable to glibly dismiss "the standards". More or less by definition, the Internet (not to be confused with an internet) uses the Internet Protocol standard. Credit for developing the standards should be the majority of the credit for creating the Internet.
Hey, even a one in a million chance will come through now and then...
One-in-a-million chances come through nine times out of ten.
Your mention of damages made me think. My understanding is that you can only sue for provable damages. So how would a patent troll determine this amount if the patent is not being used in any products they produce? (this is not a rhetorical question)
One method is to figure out how much money the infringing party gained because of their illegal use of the patent. If the patent covers the entire infringing product, then it's pretty easy. If it isn't, then you can either try to estimate what percentage of the product the patent covers, or estimate what it would cost to alter the device so that it doesn't infringe.