disregard

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Editorial note

I'm not saying disregard it, just that...your mileage will vary.

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Quick take

lack of attention and due care

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noun

lack of attention and due care

noun

willful lack of care and attention

verb

refuse to acknowledge; "She cut him dead at the meeting"

Definitions

Core meanings and parts of speech for disregard.

noun

lack of attention and due care

noun

willful lack of care and attention

verb

refuse to acknowledge; "She cut him dead at the meeting"

verb

bar from attention or consideration; "She dismissed his advances"

verb

give little or no attention to; "Disregard the errors"

Example sentences

I'm not saying disregard it, just that...your mileage will vary.

Most of us disregard the fact that wealth is not remotely correlated with happiness and still hunt for the big payday.

Or blatant tax avoidance and disregard for building code and hotel regulations is a matter of importance for the state of New York.

This reckless disregard for memory usage caused more problems in terms of performance, and it wasn't apparent what was happening until things started OOM'ing.

So much of what the NSA does is enabled by high technology, and their continued disregard of the US Constitution will continue via digital channels.

But more than anything else, I would fault them for building their entire ecosystem with total disregard for standards, their refusal to work with whatever community existed outside.

Meanwhile, there are plenty of startups and essentially irrelevant companies that already disregard the rules and write their own freaking wikipedia pages anyway.

Similarly with the patent for controlling the plane, the Wright Brothers understood flight at a deeper level and I think they thought there patents should reflect that knowledge and disregard 'workarounds' such as what Curtiss came up with.

If anything, we should be upvoting them as much as possible so that others can see this blatant disregard for their users---------You are quickly making the case for having one of the worst responses I've ever seen, to a huge security flaw.

It makes you wonder if those of us in wealthy democracies are actually experiencing a peculiarly 21st century form of passive aggressive oppression where we may be "free" but monitored and essentially feel helpless and the fact that these unknown hackers are able to duck and evade the same forces that can hunt and kill terrorists with disregard of sovereignty makes them look like folk heroes.