How can you call your self a “news” organization when you knowingly misrepresent the facts because your owner got caught with his hands in the cookie jar?
Case in point, Fox is presenting the News of the World as the victim of hacking scandal. Isn’t the true, they are the perpetrators of the hacking? News of the World has been shutdown, but police in the UK and the FBI in the US are investigating the methods used by NOTW used to “gather” information with an eye on criminal prosecutions against NOFW staff. When law enforcement in two countries is on your back, you probably aren’t innocent. Know what I mean Sparky? Isn’t it also true the Fox and News of the World are both owned by Rupert Murdoch’s News Corp.?
http://www.theatlantic.com/national/archive/2011/07/the-most-incredible-thing-fox-news-has-ever-done/242037/
It’s called lying. No matter how you slice it. Fox is either lying to themselves and grossly negligent in their duties for fact checking or they are knowingly lying to the public.
I don’t know which is worse… The stupidity of News Corp or the stupidity of the public that buys the products that they sell.
Kind of reminds me of Orwell’s 1984 visa-vie selective rewriting of history to suit the goals of the powers that be. The real question is, “Will people believe the lies?” The sad fact is that it is easier to believe a lie than use your brain to ask meaningful questions.
Hey Sparky!
It might be a good idea if you don’t kill the explorer process while you’re RDP’d into a workstation from your VM. Being unable to send a Ctrl+Alt+Del to the remote machine makes it a little difficult to restart explorer or do much of anything for that matter…
Just a thought.
<sigh>
Crap! I guess I need to make a run to the office to manually reboot a machine or wait until Monday. I admit it. Some days I’m an idiot.
Why did this situation arise you may ask.
Read more…
From coding horror: The Only Truly Failed Project
Been there. Done that.
I guess my approach is to not even see failures as such. Failure is an opportunity learn a way to not solve a given problem. 10 failures? Nope. It’s learning 10 ways to do something that doesn’t fix your problem.
Software development is a process that requires continual forward movement. I try to learn something new with each and every line of code that I write, even the bad lines and expressions of much larger bad ideas. I don’t WANT to write bad code, but it happens. And sometimes it takes months before I realize the mistake. It’s all a learning process. And when I do “get it right” the first time, I’m unhappy, paranoid, and unsettled. You never want a successful first test, per TDD. The first pass through should result in a failure condition then when you have a successful test you have confidence that the issue has truly been resolved.
What was that cheese-ball line from Galaxy Quest? “Never give up. Never surrender.”
