Non-IT News Thread
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My question is how does this happen by accident? That's such a specific thing that is designed to kill. There had to be ill-intent right?
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@wirestyle22 said in Non-IT News Thread:
My question is how does this happen by accident? That's such a specific thing that is designed to kill. There had to be ill-intent right?
Why would someone think accident? Ten years ago when this happened last time, it was rat poison and it turned out that the Chinese rice suppliers were adding rat poison because it was a protein and the government only checked protein content of the food, not if it has rat poison in it. So they got top dollar for poisoned food because it was "high in protein." Thankfully China executed the guy who thought of that scheme, but until a lot of animals and people had been poisoned in the US, including my dog.
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@Dashrender said in Non-IT News Thread:
Wow - this story coming after you hear that so many states are having a hard time getting those drugs for executions... WTH?
It's a street drug. What's legal to obtain and easy to get on the street are very different things. Impossible for states to get cocaine, too. But on the street, you can get it pretty casually.
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@scottalanmiller said in Non-IT News Thread:
@Dashrender said in Non-IT News Thread:
Wow - this story coming after you hear that so many states are having a hard time getting those drugs for executions... WTH?
It's a street drug. What's legal to obtain and easy to get on the street are very different things. Impossible for states to get cocaine, too. But on the street, you can get it pretty casually.
Casually stroll up and ask the apothecary for the deadliest of poisons
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@wirestyle22 said in Non-IT News Thread:
@scottalanmiller said in Non-IT News Thread:
@Dashrender said in Non-IT News Thread:
Wow - this story coming after you hear that so many states are having a hard time getting those drugs for executions... WTH?
It's a street drug. What's legal to obtain and easy to get on the street are very different things. Impossible for states to get cocaine, too. But on the street, you can get it pretty casually.
Casually stroll up and ask the apothecary for the deadliest of poisons
You could call the apothecaries
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@scottalanmiller said in Non-IT News Thread:
@wirestyle22 said in Non-IT News Thread:
@scottalanmiller said in Non-IT News Thread:
@Dashrender said in Non-IT News Thread:
Wow - this story coming after you hear that so many states are having a hard time getting those drugs for executions... WTH?
It's a street drug. What's legal to obtain and easy to get on the street are very different things. Impossible for states to get cocaine, too. But on the street, you can get it pretty casually.
Casually stroll up and ask the apothecary for the deadliest of poisons
You could call the apothecaries
Good grief. What year are we in? You should either IM or Snapchap the apothecary.
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http://techrights.org/2017/02/05/patent-bubble-strategy/
Patent trolls are starting to lose!
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University of Buffalo graduate and Erie Community College professor is now the president of Somalia.
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http://www.theverge.com/2017/2/9/14558418/ai-deepmind-social-dilemma-study
I for one welcome our future robot overlords.
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@PenguinWrangler said in Non-IT News Thread:
@StrongBad https://www.linux.com/news/how-newegg-winning-battle-against-patent-trolls-video
Well I made my money off of newegg, time to target TigerDirect....
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Not sure if it was talked about already. I'm sure this has nothing to do with Microsoft moving their German headquarters and investing in Munich at all.
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@coliver said in Non-IT News Thread:
Not sure if it was talked about already. I'm sure this has nothing to do with Microsoft moving their German headquarters and investing in Munich at all.
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I posted an article to Scott yesterday - he asked if it was real. He then said that there have been a lot of fake stories claiming this a lot.
What I want to know is, what's failing? Why would they go back? What legitimate reason do they have for going back to Windows? Or is it all just political agenda?
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@Dashrender said in Non-IT News Thread:
I posted an article to Scott yesterday - he asked if it was real. He then said that there have been a lot of fake stories claiming this a lot.
What I want to know is, what's failing? Why would they go back? What legitimate reason do they have for going back to Windows? Or is it all just political agenda?
There have been a few fake stories but I'm guessing this may be a bit blown out the water, not saying someone didn't say something but that it was probably in passing and is being investigated as an alternative. They were setting this up for failure, they hired a Microsoft partner to investigate if moving to Microsoft was going to save them money. One of the findings is that the majority of issues brought forward were due to using out of date software.
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@Dashrender said in Non-IT News Thread:
I posted an article to Scott yesterday - he asked if it was real. He then said that there have been a lot of fake stories claiming this a lot.
What I want to know is, what's failing? Why would they go back? What legitimate reason do they have for going back to Windows? Or is it all just political agenda?
According to the articles I looked at, nothing is failing and the move has nothing to do with what's good for the city but purely a political move (where political probably means kickbacks.)
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@coliver said in Non-IT News Thread:
@Dashrender said in Non-IT News Thread:
I posted an article to Scott yesterday - he asked if it was real. He then said that there have been a lot of fake stories claiming this a lot.
What I want to know is, what's failing? Why would they go back? What legitimate reason do they have for going back to Windows? Or is it all just political agenda?
There have been a few fake stories but I'm guessing this may be a bit blown out the water, not saying someone didn't say something but that it was probably in passing and is being investigated as an alternative. They were setting this up for failure, they hired a Microsoft partner to investigate if moving to Microsoft was going to save them money. One of the findings is that the majority of issues brought forward were due to using out of date software.
Yes, they asked a salesman what to do and the salesman told them to spend money. The very definition of IT corruption, some person claiming to be IT on the inside asked his vendor how they could siphon money out of the tax pool. Whether he is getting a cash kickback or he's just getting paid to not do his job, there is almost certainly no chance of there not being corruption here.
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@scottalanmiller said in Non-IT News Thread:
@coliver said in Non-IT News Thread:
@Dashrender said in Non-IT News Thread:
I posted an article to Scott yesterday - he asked if it was real. He then said that there have been a lot of fake stories claiming this a lot.
What I want to know is, what's failing? Why would they go back? What legitimate reason do they have for going back to Windows? Or is it all just political agenda?
There have been a few fake stories but I'm guessing this may be a bit blown out the water, not saying someone didn't say something but that it was probably in passing and is being investigated as an alternative. They were setting this up for failure, they hired a Microsoft partner to investigate if moving to Microsoft was going to save them money. One of the findings is that the majority of issues brought forward were due to using out of date software.
Yes, they asked a salesman what to do and the salesman told them to spend money. The very definition of IT corruption, some person claiming to be IT on the inside asked his vendor how they could siphon money out of the tax pool. Whether he is getting a cash kickback or he's just getting paid to not do his job, there is almost certainly no chance of there not being corruption here.
The funny thing is that the sales person didn't even do their job. The report pointed at an internal misstep (not using the most up-to-date software for the task) instead of pointing out that MS would be better. It seems like the only thing wrong with the LiMux deployment is the IT support team behind the deployment itself.
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@coliver said in Non-IT News Thread:
Not sure if it was talked about already. I'm sure this has nothing to do with Microsoft moving their German headquarters and investing in Munich at all.
This is clearly an issue of people being set in their ways, using Office 2000 and claiming that "It doesn't work on anything newer" (because they don't know how or refuse to upgrade).
They likely have applications built in Visual Basic from the same time that don't operate either. Might as well stick with Windows XP...
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@coliver said in Non-IT News Thread:
@scottalanmiller said in Non-IT News Thread:
@coliver said in Non-IT News Thread:
@Dashrender said in Non-IT News Thread:
I posted an article to Scott yesterday - he asked if it was real. He then said that there have been a lot of fake stories claiming this a lot.
What I want to know is, what's failing? Why would they go back? What legitimate reason do they have for going back to Windows? Or is it all just political agenda?
There have been a few fake stories but I'm guessing this may be a bit blown out the water, not saying someone didn't say something but that it was probably in passing and is being investigated as an alternative. They were setting this up for failure, they hired a Microsoft partner to investigate if moving to Microsoft was going to save them money. One of the findings is that the majority of issues brought forward were due to using out of date software.
Yes, they asked a salesman what to do and the salesman told them to spend money. The very definition of IT corruption, some person claiming to be IT on the inside asked his vendor how they could siphon money out of the tax pool. Whether he is getting a cash kickback or he's just getting paid to not do his job, there is almost certainly no chance of there not being corruption here.
The funny thing is that the sales person didn't even do their job. The report pointed at an internal misstep (not using the most up-to-date software for the task) instead of pointing out that MS would be better. It seems like the only thing wrong with the LiMux deployment is the IT support team behind the deployment itself.
Which is probably the same team that gets paid more if they sell and support Microsoft.
