Posts by Don Jefe 5059 publicly visible posts • joined 30 Nov 2011
There really aren't any worthwhile apps for RT. That's a major part of its problem. You can't even see all the available apps without having RT which is another problem...
You can look on the Win8 blog and search for RT apps to see some of them though:
http://blogs.windows.com/windows/b/windowsexperience/archive/tags/App+roundup/default.aspx
Ok, so they're canning a bunch of admins. But they're SharePoint admins... At first scaling back HR sounded like a good idea for their security, but then I remembered the amount of resources we dedicate to keeping our SharePoint system working properly.
This will end badly for the NSA.
At secure US facilities you are let go at the security shack when you come in to work. You always know people are getting let go when there's a civilian (HR drone) and extra security at the guard shack in the morning.
Your belongings are mailed to you after they've been reviewed. You never get close to the building again.
Alexander isn't in control of his agency. He hasn't had a clue since day one of the whole Snowden affair. He's been all over the board, saying contradictory things and flat out being a dumbass. At first I thought he was being clever and covering up other things, but no. He's just a dumbass and needs to be replaced.
Bribery is a part of doing business in many parts of the world. Anti-bribery laws have absolutely no effect on that. It is supremely arrogant for people to even believe they do.
What those laws do effect is how the bribing gets done. Instead of a business paying a cash bribe to get a job, government officials push preferential financing or relaxed export controls and they get the kickbacks. All the laws do is remove the middle man so officials can big up their credit and rewards. It's the same game, but its OK because government is doing it.
Maybe they're like the NSA and don't know how to search their own internal information:
http://www.propublica.org/article/nsa-says-it-cant-search-own-emails
Incompetence is designed into the system here in the States to allow the goverment to sidestep oversight. Don't know why it'd be any different over there.
Big research labs are basically gone now, Wall Street doesn't approve of R&D anymore. That's why it's hard to be creative and innovative from inside a large tech company: R&D can't get approval from the highest levels because the shareholders won't allow it. Even Intel, a historic leader in R&D, has talked about how the days of blue-sky R&D are over.
It's really sad to see the era end, but everyone is so focused on today's dollar they can't see tomorrow. After all the profits have been finally been squeezed out of the decades old inventions of Bell Labs and PARC true innovation will make a comeback. Right now people are still figuring out how to maximize WWII era technology so it is likely to be a while before it happens.
I always assumed the same as you. I wonder if it originally started as a term for baiting people but was misunderstood to be just acting like a dick? I'm not sure many denizens of the Internet are familiar with fishing terms. You have to go outside for that and all... There was room for confusion.
I'm not sure the BP/Deep Water Horizon event has had much of an impact on safety. Transocean profits are soaring and BP is well on its way to wriggling out of its settlement payments. They've already been granted injunctions for some individual payments and are using that as leverage to prove all the payments are unjustified. It's a big, big mess. It isn't getting much front page coverage but a little Googling will bring it up.
Excess resources only lead to reduced consumer bills in a supply and demand environment. The global energy sector hasn't been a true supply and demand environment in a very, very long time. Supply is regulated to maximize demand, not allowed to flow unregulated.
Here in the States we've been fracking heavily for a while and the non commercial consumer impact has been either minimal or nonexistent to most individuals.
I'd be all for another, valid, mobile phone option but $32M seems like an awfully small figure for the design, manufacture, sales, distribution and warranty of, what I assume, is supposed to be a mass market product. More power to them if they can get it done for that, but $32M doesn't go as far as you'd think when you're cranking out physical product.
There's a nasty thing happening in this discussion. The term 'troll' is being equated to bullying and that simply isn't the case. It is an effort to control conversation and prevent conversation: It is a very effective way to prevent satire, which has been the bane of political and public types for centuries.
Control of the populace by hiding behind children - The true mark of the modern politician.
That really sucks the bully beat the boy into the hospital. That's just cowardly. However, is rather my kid get the shit beat out of him than cower in fear from a bully. You can get new teeth and scars are no big deal, you can't replace pride or the shame you feel in your heart from not standing up for yourself.
Going outside really isn't safe. You could be kidnapped, raped, photographed, killed, catch cancer from second hand smoke, killed by a terrorist or speeding motorist, irradiated by WiFi or be decapitated by a wind turbine. Best to stay indoors and take your vitamins.
I say it in jest, but far too many people are scared of absolutely everything and it is bad for society and the offspring of those that live in fear. It is the mindset that allows government to walk all over the people.
Targeted, non monetary, Assistance programs are nearly always clusterfucks. They spend as much or more time and resources limiting the assistance to 'those who qualify' as they do on actual assistance. The smart money is in making programs like this available to any and all. No privacy concerns, less expense and it raises the bar for the entire country instead of a subset of the population.
The assumption that only the poor and unfortunate benefit from guidance through 'the system' is extremely shortsighted.
Makes perfect sense. If illegal streaming is a felony they can get a better return on all the systems that were put in place to stop terrorism, but don't stop terrorism. No point letting them go to waste and they can't use them for misdemeanors.
I guess water boarding will be permitted too, "tell us who the other pirates are". Maybe they'll just execute you if you're smoking a joint & watching Game of Thrones simultaneously.
What I really fail to understand in all this is why it is so difficult to deliver decent broadband to the whole island. It is a small space with no truly rugged or wilderness areas. Is it just corporate infighting or political incompetence or a combination of those things?
That's a patent troll tactic. Ideally you get the vaguest wording possible approved then use it to attack as many people as possible. Actual technology companies are occasionally guilty of this too, but 'real' patents tend to be far more specific. More specific patents tend to hold up better but don't offer as many ways to attack.
Allowing the vagaries is a failure on the part of the USPTO. At the end of the day their internal rules are responsible for all this bullshit.
He gets so much exposure because the big fat dickhead is a product placement genius. He strolled right into the radios of the 'forgotten' AM listeners. Most of the stations that carry him are small time local AM stations that are desperate for a syndicated national show.The older middle class white Republican base believe he's looking out for the Everyman because nobody else wants anything to do with AM. The 'Liberal Elite' sure don't do AM.
I can't stand the bastard and I think he's bad for the country, but he gets credit and $500M contracts for catering to a market even the giant ad whores like ClearChannel ignore.
I think the artists impressions serve a rather important purpose. They give people something to latch onto and see where all the money goes. The artists impressions are to Congresspeople what pie charts are to dim bulb management.
They also give the younger generations something to see. Convincing kids to embark on a science career is hard enough without letting on too early that their career will be spent looking at spreadsheets. That's one of the unpleasant truths that kids should be spared from, for a while anyway.
Just my two cents worth. I support artists impressions of 'space stuff'.
The US laws say that the job has to pay at least market rate, as defined by the labor statistics people. In addition you have to show that you have attempted to fill the role using citizens or work authorized permanent residents.
The only way I can see to cheat the requirements would be if they advertised a market rate, but negotiated a backroom rate which was lower. The govt doesn't verify what you're actually paying them, just what you say you're going to pay them. I guess that would work until something went wrong.
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