Where in the summary or in the article does it say that any of the authors thinks this is a bad thing? You imply it yourself but the sentence above reads,
"which were discovered by a Polish researcher who demanded Ã20,000 to disclose the information."
They are merely stating what occurred. Neither make a value judgement about his actions.
Verizon says no fire, not even smoke.. I'm sure that whenever theres a fire Verizon are first on the scene, their trusty technicians battling the burning blazes and rescuing babies from the 4th floor.
Now if only those pesky firefighters who are totally unqualified to determine what is and what isn't a fire would'nt go sticking their noses in where they're not wanted...
There are millions of users out there who just get on and use their PCs without any real difficulty. No. There are millions of people out there who believe that working with PC's there will be at least 2 reboots a day, every so often a virus will infect the machine, and after a while the registry will become so stuffed that you can go and make a cup of coffee while you boot.And they factor this into what their expectation of computers is. Not just windows machines...just all computers.
Then they see a a guy with a mac thats rebooted once in a month, and another guy who's got his landlady to donate a pentium 2 running apache openvpn etc etc and is running a whole small office network for no cost...and has been rebooted once in 6 months...and they think "you know what, maybe my user experience doesn't have to involve all the shit listed above".
but more often than not they dont see it actually. Because all....their...friends...run...windows...
"we don't want to do any scripting; we just want to make PHP web pages"
Well, theres pretty much all the justification you need for not giving them access right there...:)oh nice usage of the semi-colon by the way, such an under-utilised form of punctuation in this day and age:)
So....now besides going to work 9 to 5 monday to friday and beyond...you go on company branded organised excursions with your fellow employees and their families...at which you all bond and the company tries to let you know about how much they care about you?
I'm sorry, but this for me (and I'm sure quite a number of my generation) is pretty much what's putrid about western corporate culture today....when it suits companies, they want to have 'a positive one on one relationship with someone'[personifying probably the least personifiable construct on the planet] whether it be customer or employee, that 'lets them know they care'.
When it doesn't and a companies execs want to put the boot in its 'not personal, just business'.[my fellow programmer incidentally reckons the only way to deal with that line is to make it personal].
Western business culture today seems in practice at least to either use the company as a vehicle for overtly oily and condescending overtures to customers or employees, or as a shield to hide behind when extremely irresponible decisions have been made. Its why, if I cn help it, I never want to work for a large company in my life. Once the damn things pass a certain size, they take on a personality all of their own, and it's generally not nice.
Well, to give you a little perspective,one person, attending varsity on the tip of Africa, decided that there was a gap in the market for a paricular product...so he dropped out of varsity because he believed his idea would work....problem...he had no money.What happened? He and some of his friends started a compnay out of his parents garage...developing with OSS tools..python etc...and because these tools were free they were able to develop a workable and usable product..which a very well known US company bought out for millions of dollars. What happened next? The young man took the money that he had made developing his incredibly useful product..which he wouldnt have been able to afford to develop legally if he'd had to use proprietary software...and re-invested by amongst other things founding a company by the name of Canonical...
Now...because one guy had a great idea and was able to pull it off utilising open source software, which he wouldnt have been able to do if all the technology or development software he was utilising was proprietary, the world has a really great linux distro, kids in schools in South Africa who would otherwise never have seen a machine have labs (funded by this man), and get exposure to computers and how to utilise them, whereas in the past this opportunity would never have been presented to them.
I went to varsity with one guy who had never ever seen a machine before he got to first year...can you imagine having to pass a CS degree (you got good results in school and worked hard) never having had any experience with computers...This software movement and its representatives have the right to be self important...why?..because this movement gives anyone with a great idea the tools to make that idea happen...the freedom to package a great operating system, translated into all South Africans' languages, allowing children to make use of technology that they would never otherwise encounter...
many people who are not that computer literate start throwing out their machines in favour of new ones.....um thats pretty much how i bagged myself two desktops that had been sitting in my landladies house doing nothing for a couple of years....now she says she wants a new pc...
they were pentium 2's or whatever...anyway downloaded the dapper drake iso, and bobs your own personal work development server, no more apache or xmpp servers running on my laptop thank you:)
the post was a follow up to the gas company net connection article of a few weeks ago...
picture the newspaper headlines:"america invades [insert gas rich country name] as bandwidth slows to a crawl....NYSE crashes as tubes fail to maintain pressure...."
oh well...RTFA i spose:)
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Where in the summary or in the article does it say that any of the authors thinks this is a bad thing? You imply it yourself but the sentence above reads,
"which were discovered by a Polish researcher who demanded Ã20,000 to disclose the information."
They are merely stating what occurred. Neither make a value judgement about his actions.
Well, theres pretty much all the justification you need for not giving them access right there...:)oh nice usage of the semi-colon by the way, such an under-utilised form of punctuation in this day and age:)
So....now besides going to work 9 to 5 monday to friday and beyond...you go on company branded organised excursions with your fellow employees and their families...at which you all bond and the company tries to let you know about how much they care about you? I'm sorry, but this for me (and I'm sure quite a number of my generation) is pretty much what's putrid about western corporate culture today....when it suits companies, they want to have 'a positive one on one relationship with someone'[personifying probably the least personifiable construct on the planet] whether it be customer or employee, that 'lets them know they care'. When it doesn't and a companies execs want to put the boot in its 'not personal, just business'.[my fellow programmer incidentally reckons the only way to deal with that line is to make it personal]. Western business culture today seems in practice at least to either use the company as a vehicle for overtly oily and condescending overtures to customers or employees, or as a shield to hide behind when extremely irresponible decisions have been made. Its why, if I cn help it, I never want to work for a large company in my life. Once the damn things pass a certain size, they take on a personality all of their own, and it's generally not nice.
Beware of geeks bearing end user covenants not to sue....or something to that effect....
Well, to give you a little perspective,one person, attending varsity on the tip of Africa, decided that there was a gap in the market for a paricular product...so he dropped out of varsity because he believed his idea would work....problem...he had no money.What happened? He and some of his friends started a compnay out of his parents garage...developing with OSS tools..python etc...and because these tools were free they were able to develop a workable and usable product..which a very well known US company bought out for millions of dollars. What happened next? The young man took the money that he had made developing his incredibly useful product..which he wouldnt have been able to afford to develop legally if he'd had to use proprietary software...and re-invested by amongst other things founding a company by the name of Canonical...
Now...because one guy had a great idea and was able to pull it off utilising open source software, which he wouldnt have been able to do if all the technology or development software he was utilising was proprietary, the world has a really great linux distro, kids in schools in South Africa who would otherwise never have seen a machine have labs (funded by this man), and get exposure to computers and how to utilise them, whereas in the past this opportunity would never have been presented to them.
I went to varsity with one guy who had never ever seen a machine before he got to first year...can you imagine having to pass a CS degree (you got good results in school and worked hard) never having had any experience with computers...This software movement and its representatives have the right to be self important...why?..because this movement gives anyone with a great idea the tools to make that idea happen...the freedom to package a great operating system, translated into all South Africans' languages, allowing children to make use of technology that they would never otherwise encounter...
many people who are not that computer literate start throwing out their machines in favour of new ones.....um thats pretty much how i bagged myself two desktops that had been sitting in my landladies house doing nothing for a couple of years....now she says she wants a new pc...
:)
they were pentium 2's or whatever...anyway downloaded the dapper drake iso, and bobs your own personal work development server, no more apache or xmpp servers running on my laptop thank you
"with my curiosity peeked"... :)
actually that works out rather well though, don't you think?
the post was a follow up to the gas company net connection article of a few weeks ago... picture the newspaper headlines:"america invades [insert gas rich country name] as bandwidth slows to a crawl....NYSE crashes as tubes fail to maintain pressure...." oh well...RTFA i spose:)