I'm sorry to say, but your company might be an exception rather than the norm. I'm at my third investment bank now, and I see exactly the same things as the parent was talking about here.
The more SOX regs, the more audits, the harder it becomes to get things done legitimately, so people start to sneak them through back channels. This soon becomes a standard solution in some parts of the business.
Actually, I've got a better counter argument for you - a professional software house (at least, both of the ones I've worked for so far) will have people who are paid to do code reviews and audits. This actually increases the chances of someone doing this work, as not many people enjoy this deadly dull task, but getting paid for it means that you have to.
The 'many eyes make all bugs shallow' idea relies on lots and lots of people looking at the code all the time. This simply does NOT happen and there are loads of examples from the open source community over the last 10 years, not just the big ones we've seen this month to prove this.
I won't argue your statement of the probability of arriving to a satisfactory solution increases as the number of people trying to solve it increases - I'm just saying that your statement relies on a world that doesn't exist. I prefer to account for reality.
I tend to game in 30-40 minute blocks due to other hobbies and life taking up time. Last year I finished about 10 games on the Xbox 360 this way, including bioshock, Halo 3 and gears of war.
It might not preclude a link, but the parent is correct - the results of the public resolution of this problem have nothing to do with Open Source software.
Furthermore, many bugs do NOT make all bugs shallow - look at recent news, the 25 year old BSD bug, the Debian OpenSSL debacle. Why did the many eyes not make those bugs shallow? Partly because that isn't an interesting problem for nearly as many people as the fermilab stuff, and partly because code changes.
You see, I could fully audit some code tomorrow. My eyes would have made all the bugs shallow. But what is the likelihood of me going back and reauditing that SAME code time and time again, whenever a change is made? Far lower and far fewer people actually do that or enjoy doing it. That's how bugs creep in and stay, even in open source software.
Actually, you're wrong. The rights of an individual FAR outweigh the rights of a corporation, especially one convicted of anti-competitive practices and harming the market they trade in!
Yeah, but what are the odds on him writing a second piece of malware if we kill him after the first one? See - there IS an upside to this model of enforcement:)
I can definitely see how this would be of major benefit to all Linux users who don't use SLES or RHEL. By having a synchronised release, there would be a better chance of major libraries like glibc and compiler versions being in-sync. This would increase the chances of getting ISVs to support something other than just RHEL or SLES which is mostly the current case for large software apps.
No, but you would have violated their rights had you used those images for commercial purposes, which is exactly what google is doing.
Google streetview is part of the business offering of a publicly traded company. As such, any images used must be considered as being commercial in nature and images of this type generally require a model release from any people that are identifiable in the image.
Fuck national loyalty. When the country passes laws and sets up industry bodies that mean I can't get a job just because of the colour of my skin, loyalty goes out the window.
Feeding my family comes first, and there are plenty of companies in other countries that seem happy to employ me despite my lack of a degree or paper qualifications.
I served my time there - I got shot at for my troubles. I did my bit to change the place, signed on as a police reservist with all the shit that this brought with it for me and my family. Then the government started making rules that said I couldn't get a job with a big company because I didn't go to university, so I started my own business. Then the government made rules that said if I wanted to trade with certain bodies or made more than a certain amount of turnover per year, I had to give half my company to someone. So I left and took it all with me - well thought out there guys!
South Africa is absolutely NOT representative of Africa. I've been to Nigeria, Niger, Togo, Benin, DRC, Congo Brazzaville, Ivory Coast and Central African Republic in the last 6 months.
Not ONE of these places comes anywhere close to even swaziland!
The GPs issue was surrounding brain drain. As in, once these people have the degree, why won't they run off elsewhere. The above countries are absolutely shit with very redeeming features that I found and I know that most of the people that I was dealing with in these places are desperate to get out.
Hell, even SA is suffering from a major brain drain today with hundreds of thousands of young citizens of all races living and working in the UK, Canada, the USA and Australia just to name a few places.
Oh, and don't forget to pay your certificate provider because the key you used when generating your SSL certificate for your website needs to be re-done as well!
I can kinda understand why they didn't get involved. In the best case scenario, the kids would have found them later and beaten the crap out of them or killed them.
In this country, the difference between a 'have a go hero' as the press calls them and an evil monster is whether you survive or not. Take on a gang of teens and die, you're a hero. Give one of them a clip about the earhole, and you're an evil monster.
Secondly, the worst case scenario is that you would have had to get involved with the cops. I recently reported someone stealing drain covers. The drain covers go missing around here every 6 - 9 months, and it takes forever to get them replaced. It makes riding my bike a little challenging while they're gone.
I had the misfortune to be home the day they went missing most recently and actually see the oiks lifting them. Over and above been told that I can't report the theft because it's not my property by the cops (http://blog.penguinpowered.org/2008/04/03/to-protect-my-free-time-and-serve-my-own-interests/), I've now lost over 13 hours of my life dealing with the outcome of this.
They caught the blokes with the truck with the registration I gave, with a load of drain covers in the back that they can't explain and it's has STILL taken 13 hours of my life in giving statements and back and forwards with the plod.
No good deed goes unpunished, so I don't plan to get involved any more either!
The crone sat here claiming benefits while writing the first book - that means she wrote it on my dime! Mine and the rest of the British public who were propping her up and supporting her. So what does she do as soon as the money rolls in? Runs off to LA!
AFAIK, she's not even paying tax on all of her movie revenue in the UK and the income from last several books have all been taxed in the USA.
Red Hat don't give that away either. You can't even get an eval to keep your skills up to date, even if you've contributed code changes to it in the past.
Red Hat are more closed than Microsoft in that way.
That's not actually a joke, it's a tragic commentary on our society today:(
Also, while this is a shite climate for finding new employment that pays well, it's a GREAT time to start your own business with the gaps in the market.
I grew up and realised that IT is just a job. I still code for fun, I get involved in open source projects and I do cool stuff. I just don't work for free anymore.
I also grabbed two hobbies so far away from IT that I just can't worry about work and careers while doing them. Since this, I've actually been more effective at work because I'm happier outside of work.
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And here I find myself without modpoints *shakes head*
Mind if I steal that, paraphrase it and repost it somewhere ?
2 letters surely...
I'm sorry to say, but your company might be an exception rather than the norm. I'm at my third investment bank now, and I see exactly the same things as the parent was talking about here.
The more SOX regs, the more audits, the harder it becomes to get things done legitimately, so people start to sneak them through back channels. This soon becomes a standard solution in some parts of the business.
I on the other hand will be happy with non utopia where everybody just tries to be a little polite to each other.
;)
Good luck with your fairy tale dreams, moron!
Actually, I've got a better counter argument for you - a professional software house (at least, both of the ones I've worked for so far) will have people who are paid to do code reviews and audits. This actually increases the chances of someone doing this work, as not many people enjoy this deadly dull task, but getting paid for it means that you have to.
The 'many eyes make all bugs shallow' idea relies on lots and lots of people looking at the code all the time. This simply does NOT happen and there are loads of examples from the open source community over the last 10 years, not just the big ones we've seen this month to prove this.
I won't argue your statement of the probability of arriving to a satisfactory solution increases as the number of people trying to solve it increases - I'm just saying that your statement relies on a world that doesn't exist. I prefer to account for reality.
Care to justify that statement?
I tend to game in 30-40 minute blocks due to other hobbies and life taking up time. Last year I finished about 10 games on the Xbox 360 this way, including bioshock, Halo 3 and gears of war.
It might not preclude a link, but the parent is correct - the results of the public resolution of this problem have nothing to do with Open Source software.
Furthermore, many bugs do NOT make all bugs shallow - look at recent news, the 25 year old BSD bug, the Debian OpenSSL debacle. Why did the many eyes not make those bugs shallow? Partly because that isn't an interesting problem for nearly as many people as the fermilab stuff, and partly because code changes.
You see, I could fully audit some code tomorrow. My eyes would have made all the bugs shallow. But what is the likelihood of me going back and reauditing that SAME code time and time again, whenever a change is made? Far lower and far fewer people actually do that or enjoy doing it. That's how bugs creep in and stay, even in open source software.
Actually, you're wrong. The rights of an individual FAR outweigh the rights of a corporation, especially one convicted of anti-competitive practices and harming the market they trade in!
Yeah, but what are the odds on him writing a second piece of malware if we kill him after the first one? See - there IS an upside to this model of enforcement :)
At which the original poster wouldn't really have provided the access he was supposed to :D
Actually, it can be a huge deal - badly written read queries can bring a database to its knees, slowing it down for the critical business writes.
I can definitely see how this would be of major benefit to all Linux users who don't use SLES or RHEL. By having a synchronised release, there would be a better chance of major libraries like glibc and compiler versions being in-sync. This would increase the chances of getting ISVs to support something other than just RHEL or SLES which is mostly the current case for large software apps.
No, but you would have violated their rights had you used those images for commercial purposes, which is exactly what google is doing.
Google streetview is part of the business offering of a publicly traded company. As such, any images used must be considered as being commercial in nature and images of this type generally require a model release from any people that are identifiable in the image.
Fuck national loyalty. When the country passes laws and sets up industry bodies that mean I can't get a job just because of the colour of my skin, loyalty goes out the window.
Feeding my family comes first, and there are plenty of companies in other countries that seem happy to employ me despite my lack of a degree or paper qualifications.
I served my time there - I got shot at for my troubles. I did my bit to change the place, signed on as a police reservist with all the shit that this brought with it for me and my family. Then the government started making rules that said I couldn't get a job with a big company because I didn't go to university, so I started my own business. Then the government made rules that said if I wanted to trade with certain bodies or made more than a certain amount of turnover per year, I had to give half my company to someone. So I left and took it all with me - well thought out there guys!
South Africa is absolutely NOT representative of Africa. I've been to Nigeria, Niger, Togo, Benin, DRC, Congo Brazzaville, Ivory Coast and Central African Republic in the last 6 months.
Not ONE of these places comes anywhere close to even swaziland!
The GPs issue was surrounding brain drain. As in, once these people have the degree, why won't they run off elsewhere. The above countries are absolutely shit with very redeeming features that I found and I know that most of the people that I was dealing with in these places are desperate to get out.
Hell, even SA is suffering from a major brain drain today with hundreds of thousands of young citizens of all races living and working in the UK, Canada, the USA and Australia just to name a few places.
Oh, and don't forget to pay your certificate provider because the key you used when generating your SSL certificate for your website needs to be re-done as well!
I can kinda understand why they didn't get involved. In the best case scenario, the kids would have found them later and beaten the crap out of them or killed them.
In this country, the difference between a 'have a go hero' as the press calls them and an evil monster is whether you survive or not. Take on a gang of teens and die, you're a hero. Give one of them a clip about the earhole, and you're an evil monster.
Secondly, the worst case scenario is that you would have had to get involved with the cops. I recently reported someone stealing drain covers. The drain covers go missing around here every 6 - 9 months, and it takes forever to get them replaced. It makes riding my bike a little challenging while they're gone.
I had the misfortune to be home the day they went missing most recently and actually see the oiks lifting them. Over and above been told that I can't report the theft because it's not my property by the cops (http://blog.penguinpowered.org/2008/04/03/to-protect-my-free-time-and-serve-my-own-interests/), I've now lost over 13 hours of my life dealing with the outcome of this.
They caught the blokes with the truck with the registration I gave, with a load of drain covers in the back that they can't explain and it's has STILL taken 13 hours of my life in giving statements and back and forwards with the plod.
No good deed goes unpunished, so I don't plan to get involved any more either!
Actually, she doesn't.
The crone sat here claiming benefits while writing the first book - that means she wrote it on my dime! Mine and the rest of the British public who were propping her up and supporting her. So what does she do as soon as the money rolls in? Runs off to LA!
AFAIK, she's not even paying tax on all of her movie revenue in the UK and the income from last several books have all been taxed in the USA.
Red Hat don't give that away either. You can't even get an eval to keep your skills up to date, even if you've contributed code changes to it in the past.
Red Hat are more closed than Microsoft in that way.
Now if Red Hat would just get around to proving that they can support Linux, then we'd be golden :D
That's not actually a joke, it's a tragic commentary on our society today :(
Also, while this is a shite climate for finding new employment that pays well, it's a GREAT time to start your own business with the gaps in the market.
I grew up and realised that IT is just a job. I still code for fun, I get involved in open source projects and I do cool stuff. I just don't work for free anymore.
I also grabbed two hobbies so far away from IT that I just can't worry about work and careers while doing them. Since this, I've actually been more effective at work because I'm happier outside of work.
The journalist is just confused. ReiserFS is alive and well, it's Nina who's dead.
Ah crap, I'm lost again. Which way to Sparta ?
And I'm sure I read somewhere the other day that a new law will actually include this even for minor infractions.