If it doesn't introduce anything, it's harmless and irrelevant. If it plugs loopholes, all the better. Can you see a way that the definition of the crime could be abused to criminalize innocent behaviour? Anyone?
In the middle of the CVS bashing, remember that lack of source code version control is listed as a classical mistake in most software engineering literature - at least in what I've read.
When things cool down (yeah, right), I'll look at the other projects. Until then, I'll live reasonably happily with CVS.
If the late 90s taught us anything, it would be "greed is bad" and "check your numbers". Now, companies are selling their integrity for access to the Chinese market. Sadly, it's a good business move.
Buses, buses, buses. Buses cram more people onto the roads, but in a more space-efficient manner. If you can persuade enough people Bloody 'ell, I thought you Londoners were smart people!
Of course, you could also invest a lot of money in the tube to expand it sufficiently. That would be years of construction, though. I bet that buses would be a good place to start, anyhow.
Alternatively, you can persuade people to start buddy-riding. Set up a service to hook up people who live and work in the same area, and have them share the car cost. Putting a toll on driving in the inner city would actually encourage this. If you went from 1.2 to 2 people in each car on average, you would have done a lot in terms of traffic.
How about mounting license cameras on taxi cabs? They run all day, and would cover ground that normal, mounted cameras wouldn't.
If you consider an alternate use, this technology could be ground-breaking in beating crime. Say you have these cameras mounted on taxi cabs and police cars. They would get a list of licence plates for stolen cars, and would continually monitor all license plates that are seen. The list would be maintained on whenever someone would file a stolen car report. I really don't see how that would violate my privacy - no alarm would go off unless I had reported my car as stolen, and I would be very interested in having it intercepted before it was shipped to Eastern Europe and sold for bargain price to the local mob connection.
On the other hand, the London proposal is worse. You are assumed guilty until you prove yourself innocent (listed as a paying driver). Still, consider the alternatives. More traffic means more deaths and more sickness. The big question is then "is it worth it?". Well, is it?
:-) I love the time arguement. "Society is forcing people to work themselves so hard." People could work as garbage collectors, make decent wages, and get afternoons off, but no, they become work-a-holics, because they want to succeed and want material goods. Again, it's their fault. Has it ever dawned upon you that there is a reason there are college classes in social psychology? We are definitely not rational, independent individuals.
Then again, I'm a workaholic myself, so I'm not gonna bitch too much about the error of your ways. If I had a possibility of a secure, dignified life without working my ass off, I would grab it, though.
The "this software is dangerous" warning does not cut it. There needs to be a sandbox of some kind, to prevent a worm or something worse but not yet created from wreaking havoc.
Re:modules, and why Rusty is wrong:
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Dude. If I had to compile in support for all possible hardware devices, my kernel would make xp look light.
Kernel modules are very cost-efficient things when you run a company. Rather than recompiling (or using a bloat-kernel), you can mostly run the same kernel on multiple computers from different vendors.
This is not going to stop until you clean up your justice system. I mean both in your courts and in your heads.
First off, let go off the revenge idea. The punishment should be punitive, in terms of making committing crimes a bad idea, not getting even. You never get even. Seeing the guy that raped your daughter being fried in the chair, will not bring your daughter back. For those people, I wish for them to live long lives in prison, tormented by regrets - alternatively with some hope if they have been wrongfully been found guilty.
Second, make it harder to sue someone. When you have people rushing into busses when they crash, to emerge later, holding their necks - well, you just have a big problem. Tort law has its perks, but you've let it go way too far.
Third, reduce the ability to compete by lawsuit. My impression is that a lot of companies use the court system for competititve purposes, suing their competitors as part of a larger strategy.
Fourth, put some regulations on severance packages and stock options. Those only encourage bad behavior. It is extremely dangerous to introduce badly thought out incentives anywhere, and giving a CEO an unconditional severance package is just folly. We'll see more of this, but I hope you'll learn some day.
I'm not an American, btw, but I studied there for three and a half years - 97 to 00. I'm actually Norwegian. Currently, the weak dollar looks to reduce the oil income that our social structures depend on substantially. So, your lack of control of your giant corporations is not only hurting yoruselves, but your allies as well. Not a good thing in these trying times..
No wonder the market is jittery. They know too well how over-the-edge the past 5 years have been.
So, did we ever learn anything from the 80s? 20s? Can you all say no? The stock markets are all feeling, with a tad of analysis thrown in for good measure. There is little rationality there, just all poor leadership. That is part of the reason why the dot-com was allowed to happen, and that is why they are overreacting when one large company has fucked up (unless I am right in paragraph one).
The stock markets are all mass hysteria. We should be very worried that they have such impact on our lives.
If you run chroot, a root exploit will have limited impact. In this case, I bet running sshd chroot is not very useful. It sure helps with other applications, though.
Well. Every once in a while, I'll get an email forward of some (un)fortunate scot who had the wind uncover his jewels. So, I've looked even though I didn't really want to.
I bet it's the haggis. You guys need extra ventilation, right? Or is it so that the farts get that racecar-muffler sound when performed bottomless?
Hey, that's a pretty good way of putting it. God created the concept of evolution, truly showing what a bright entity he is.
Too bad the sequence in Genesis is slightly irregular. Then again, whoever reads the bible to the letter anyway? It's self-contradictory and by multiple authors (however divinely inspired they were).
considering the amount of money wasted on the ISS (which has no clear function IMHO).
The ISS does research in a micro-gravity environment, is a unifying force in space exploration and a good platform for testing if the life support systems for a mission to mars is up to the task.
Basically, the ISS can reduce the risk of wasting a lot of money on a doomed mission to mars.
Oh, and it'll be a really bright, shining object when it's done. Expect cults to evolve around it.
He was yelling things in an improvised tribal language, dancing as if he was possessed by the spirit in the mask. Since you asked. Unfortunately, I'm not good at understanding improvised tribal languages.
Moby is becoming an adult, and thusly the suckage starts. Admitting he's no longer quite the vegan christian out to save the world that he once was, he's lost his uniqueness. In addition, he's admitted he's trying to make commercial music, claiming it's more challenging.
Moby was a quirky, cool guy with a good head on him. Now, he's reduced to producing uninspired songs with porn stars in the video, and complains about not selling enough records. Moby - you left the techie crowd when you sold out. Get your head back on, eat some tofu and wreak some havoc.
I saw him live at a festival in about 96. He was touring for his "Everything is wrong" album. Punk, techno and general groovyness. Some guy threw an african tribal mask up on stage, Moby put it on and did some unforgettable stuff, the details of which escape me. It was energetic.
Before you apply for project manager, read up on project management. To me, it sounds like the entire company is fundamentally flawed, and becoming more senior will only worsen your day-to-day life. This book will help you figure out if there's hope. Carefully assess the situation before you make a dangerous leap.
Version fatigue from bad initial design
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If you change your design around so much, you might not have done a good design in the first place. So, you met the deadline, but the design was inadequate. What do you do? You rush for the next deadline, trying to redesign the interface a bit as you go, making it smoother.
Iterate sufficient times, and what you get is version fatigue.
If you had spent enough time in the design phase, possibly with some prototyping, you might have escaped a bit of all these changes.
That said, if you look at Microsoft Word, I would argue that the version fatigue is not that great. Type at the keyboard, change the fonts with the dropdowns, and hit the printer icon. The floppy icon for saving. The looks are slightly changed, but almost everything is done in the same way as before (which is why I'm relatively happy with Word97). Gimme a good reason to get Word XP! If you can, I bet I wouldn't get version fatigue, since the fundamental functionality is relatively stable.
Changing the interface when the interface is flawed is an unpopular but necessary task. Changing the interface for the sake of changing the interface is a PR nightmare.
If you look aside from the obvious reasons to boycott Walmart, low wages, goods manufactured in sweat shops, etc, etc, you will still find other good reasons to boycott Walmart.
Walmart censors records. In their high moral stance, they sell records which bleep out the bad words. I dunno if they're gonna blur out Kirsten Dunst's nipples when they sell the Spider-man DVD, but I wouldn't be surprised.
Preloading Mandrake is just a cheap ploy for us to look the other way on their crappy moralism.
I am having a bit of a QA problem myself. After reading up (Steve McConnel, etc), I'm looking to spend more time in pre-code, and also implement inspections (a code review technique).
The disadvantage to testing is that you detect errors, but need to spend time finding the source. If you avoid the error by detecting it at design-time or during code review, you will spend less time dealing with it, since you will know more about the root cause to begin with.
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If it doesn't introduce anything, it's harmless and irrelevant. If it plugs loopholes, all the better. Can you see a way that the definition of the crime could be abused to criminalize innocent behaviour? Anyone?
In the middle of the CVS bashing, remember that lack of source code version control is listed as a classical mistake in most software engineering literature - at least in what I've read.
When things cool down (yeah, right), I'll look at the other projects. Until then, I'll live reasonably happily with CVS.
If the late 90s taught us anything, it would be "greed is bad" and "check your numbers". Now, companies are selling their integrity for access to the Chinese market. Sadly, it's a good business move.
Buses, buses, buses. Buses cram more people onto the roads, but in a more space-efficient manner. If you can persuade enough people Bloody 'ell, I thought you Londoners were smart people!
Of course, you could also invest a lot of money in the tube to expand it sufficiently. That would be years of construction, though. I bet that buses would be a good place to start, anyhow.
Alternatively, you can persuade people to start buddy-riding. Set up a service to hook up people who live and work in the same area, and have them share the car cost. Putting a toll on driving in the inner city would actually encourage this. If you went from 1.2 to 2 people in each car on average, you would have done a lot in terms of traffic.
That requires that you know where all the cameras are. That's a rather big assumption, huh? Or were you aiming for "funny"?
How about mounting license cameras on taxi cabs? They run all day, and would cover ground that normal, mounted cameras wouldn't.
If you consider an alternate use, this technology could be ground-breaking in beating crime. Say you have these cameras mounted on taxi cabs and police cars. They would get a list of licence plates for stolen cars, and would continually monitor all license plates that are seen. The list would be maintained on whenever someone would file a stolen car report. I really don't see how that would violate my privacy - no alarm would go off unless I had reported my car as stolen, and I would be very interested in having it intercepted before it was shipped to Eastern Europe and sold for bargain price to the local mob connection.
On the other hand, the London proposal is worse. You are assumed guilty until you prove yourself innocent (listed as a paying driver). Still, consider the alternatives. More traffic means more deaths and more sickness. The big question is then "is it worth it?". Well, is it?
Has it ever dawned upon you that there is a reason there are college classes in social psychology? We are definitely not rational, independent individuals.
Then again, I'm a workaholic myself, so I'm not gonna bitch too much about the error of your ways. If I had a possibility of a secure, dignified life without working my ass off, I would grab it, though.
The "this software is dangerous" warning does not cut it. There needs to be a sandbox of some kind, to prevent a worm or something worse but not yet created from wreaking havoc.
Dude. If I had to compile in support for all possible hardware devices, my kernel would make xp look light.
Kernel modules are very cost-efficient things when you run a company. Rather than recompiling (or using a bloat-kernel), you can mostly run the same kernel on multiple computers from different vendors.
This is not going to stop until you clean up your justice system. I mean both in your courts and in your heads.
First off, let go off the revenge idea. The punishment should be punitive, in terms of making committing crimes a bad idea, not getting even. You never get even. Seeing the guy that raped your daughter being fried in the chair, will not bring your daughter back. For those people, I wish for them to live long lives in prison, tormented by regrets - alternatively with some hope if they have been wrongfully been found guilty.
Second, make it harder to sue someone. When you have people rushing into busses when they crash, to emerge later, holding their necks - well, you just have a big problem. Tort law has its perks, but you've let it go way too far.
Third, reduce the ability to compete by lawsuit. My impression is that a lot of companies use the court system for competititve purposes, suing their competitors as part of a larger strategy.
Fourth, put some regulations on severance packages and stock options. Those only encourage bad behavior. It is extremely dangerous to introduce badly thought out incentives anywhere, and giving a CEO an unconditional severance package is just folly. We'll see more of this, but I hope you'll learn some day.
I'm not an American, btw, but I studied there for three and a half years - 97 to 00. I'm actually Norwegian. Currently, the weak dollar looks to reduce the oil income that our social structures depend on substantially. So, your lack of control of your giant corporations is not only hurting yoruselves, but your allies as well. Not a good thing in these trying times..
No wonder the market is jittery. They know too well how over-the-edge the past 5 years have been.
So, did we ever learn anything from the 80s? 20s? Can you all say no? The stock markets are all feeling, with a tad of analysis thrown in for good measure. There is little rationality there, just all poor leadership. That is part of the reason why the dot-com was allowed to happen, and that is why they are overreacting when one large company has fucked up (unless I am right in paragraph one).
The stock markets are all mass hysteria. We should be very worried that they have such impact on our lives.
If you run chroot, a root exploit will have limited impact. In this case, I bet running sshd chroot is not very useful. It sure helps with other applications, though.
we're a pretty damned big cult. stop bothering us.
Well. Every once in a while, I'll get an email forward of some (un)fortunate scot who had the wind uncover his jewels. So, I've looked even though I didn't really want to.
I bet it's the haggis. You guys need extra ventilation, right? Or is it so that the farts get that racecar-muffler sound when performed bottomless?
I thought scotland was the land of the scared sheep? You guys don't even wear underwear under your kilts. Talk about convenience!
If the quality is higher than the free alternatives, there will be people willing to buy for that extra reliability.
Hey, that's a pretty good way of putting it. God created the concept of evolution, truly showing what a bright entity he is.
Too bad the sequence in Genesis is slightly irregular. Then again, whoever reads the bible to the letter anyway? It's self-contradictory and by multiple authors (however divinely inspired they were).
considering the amount of money wasted on the ISS (which has no clear function IMHO).
The ISS does research in a micro-gravity environment, is a unifying force in space exploration and a good platform for testing if the life support systems for a mission to mars is up to the task.
Basically, the ISS can reduce the risk of wasting a lot of money on a doomed mission to mars.
Oh, and it'll be a really bright, shining object when it's done. Expect cults to evolve around it.
He was yelling things in an improvised tribal language, dancing as if he was possessed by the spirit in the mask. Since you asked. Unfortunately, I'm not good at understanding improvised tribal languages.
Moby is becoming an adult, and thusly the suckage starts. Admitting he's no longer quite the vegan christian out to save the world that he once was, he's lost his uniqueness. In addition, he's admitted he's trying to make commercial music, claiming it's more challenging.
Moby was a quirky, cool guy with a good head on him. Now, he's reduced to producing uninspired songs with porn stars in the video, and complains about not selling enough records. Moby - you left the techie crowd when you sold out. Get your head back on, eat some tofu and wreak some havoc.
I saw him live at a festival in about 96. He was touring for his "Everything is wrong" album. Punk, techno and general groovyness. Some guy threw an african tribal mask up on stage, Moby put it on and did some unforgettable stuff, the details of which escape me. It was energetic.
Before you apply for project manager, read up on project management. To me, it sounds like the entire company is fundamentally flawed, and becoming more senior will only worsen your day-to-day life. This book will help you figure out if there's hope. Carefully assess the situation before you make a dangerous leap.
If you change your design around so much, you might not have done a good design in the first place. So, you met the deadline, but the design was inadequate. What do you do? You rush for the next deadline, trying to redesign the interface a bit as you go, making it smoother.
Iterate sufficient times, and what you get is version fatigue.
If you had spent enough time in the design phase, possibly with some prototyping, you might have escaped a bit of all these changes.
That said, if you look at Microsoft Word, I would argue that the version fatigue is not that great. Type at the keyboard, change the fonts with the dropdowns, and hit the printer icon. The floppy icon for saving. The looks are slightly changed, but almost everything is done in the same way as before (which is why I'm relatively happy with Word97). Gimme a good reason to get Word XP! If you can, I bet I wouldn't get version fatigue, since the fundamental functionality is relatively stable.
Changing the interface when the interface is flawed is an unpopular but necessary task. Changing the interface for the sake of changing the interface is a PR nightmare.
Is there some way of breaking Microsofts delay tactics? If you've read Kafka, you'll recognize the indefinite postponement technique.
Years pass, and Microsoft is left to self-regulate while the trial passes by. We all know how controlled and ethical the Redmond juggernaut is..
On the bright side, their products have admittedly improved quite a bit during the trial, if you look away from the security.
If you look aside from the obvious reasons to boycott Walmart, low wages, goods manufactured in sweat shops, etc, etc, you will still find other good reasons to boycott Walmart.
Walmart censors records. In their high moral stance, they sell records which bleep out the bad words. I dunno if they're gonna blur out Kirsten Dunst's nipples when they sell the Spider-man DVD, but I wouldn't be surprised.
Preloading Mandrake is just a cheap ploy for us to look the other way on their crappy moralism.
I am having a bit of a QA problem myself. After reading up (Steve McConnel, etc), I'm looking to spend more time in pre-code, and also implement inspections (a code review technique).
The disadvantage to testing is that you detect errors, but need to spend time finding the source. If you avoid the error by detecting it at design-time or during code review, you will spend less time dealing with it, since you will know more about the root cause to begin with.