A good IT department tries to figure out what the person they stopped was trying to accomplish and tries to find a secure way of doing that.
This assume you have the resources to do that But when you are seen as a “cost factor” by higher manglement, you often keep running after fires to extinguish, so never mind evaluating new stuff...
Oh yes, they do. Education makes people citizens, people who evaluate situation and ask themselves questions about what they are thrown at.
By contrast, republicans have nothing to do with citizens. They want consumers; that is, docile, gullible people who will not question the stuff they are advertised so they buy it, making republicans richer. And, in addition, since they do not question marketing, they will not question the “wisdom” of their bosses, and thus will readily accept what they throw at them, be it illegal or unethical business practices, decreasing work conditions and renumeration, bank bailouts, wars abroad, and environmental vandalism, all in the name of making the rich richer.
There is a cult of ignorance in the United States, and there always has been. The strain of anti-intellectualism has been a constant thread winding its way through our political and cultural life, nurtured by the false notion that democracy means that "my ignorance is just as good as your knowledge."
Let's assume I publicly post on Facebook a picture of my face looking angry at the camera, with my hair loose, partially covering my face and a black background. Nothing else. Let's say this is my profile picture.
Then this picture of me in a specific posture (say, an imitation of whichever metal singer I like) is being looked at by my company XYZ prospective boss, who's a Michael Bolton fan who despises metalheads. He's going to reject my application for absolutely no business reason. Of course, nobody's going to even hint to the true reason, they'll say "your skills are not exactly what we need" or whatever bullshit they have to say to make the rejection look legal
Which is why you never post pictures of yourself online.
In my case, (I have a sufficiently generic name), when you search for my name, the real text result is sufficiently down the page to be inconspicuous, and for pictures, you have to scroll a long time to find the first reference.
And I have been on the internet for 25 years (look at my/. #)...
There's no way they'd force people to take existing cars off the road.
Sure, they’ll do it by taxing gas up the wazoo. And where are you going to buy it when there are no longer service stations? You’ll have to buy it by the tin
Like all punctuation, it is a bit of Belt and Braces (haha!) redundancy that removes any ambiguity and which you'll be grateful of should you ever need to reformat your code.
The whole idea of using white space for context means that you do not have to reformat your code, ever.
We're only going to reduce errors if it's a programming language that makes errors harder to make.
I worked with Pascal & Delphi for at least 15 years, and despite having made to “make errors harder to make” (with enforced structure & strict type checking), there are still many ways for bugs to creep in such a language
Some weeks ago, I was walking on some city property right next to some old factory, and I heard "no trespassing" a few times. Turns out that some zealous property tender installed security lights with motion detectors that shouted "no tresspassing" when activated. I never felt before such an urge to pummel those lights into oblivion as I felt it at that moment.
A lot of people are not going to take it kindly when a machine comes to them and starts giving them shit, or simply stand there and watch them
And not as clean as C? They’re smoking crack or what?
Pascal is so clean you can’t shoot yourself in the foot like you can with C!
Ever wondered why there were no exploits in MacOS like there are in Windows? Because MacOS is written in Pascal! Good luck doing a string buffer overrun in Pascal!
Here is on what I wrote my first program ever: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/...
A wire-wrapped homemade 6809 system, bought from a friend when he got his first IBM PC
The thing had 168K of RAM, two floppies and managed to run Unix with 3 users
The computer was built aound 1980.
I once crossed into the US in a tiny crossing, way out in the woods.
As we were 4 hours into a 12 hours drive, we stepped out of the car. Since we were the only car, all the officers were out, one for each occupant of the car.
I was wearing a fanny pack, and “my” officer asked me what’s in there. “My money and papers and keys” (back then, we did not need passports to go in the US). But I handed him the pack, and he looks at the wallet, then hits the small change compartment. While he was running his finger through the coin, he made the face that you expect from an old pervert would do while sniffing out used japanese schoolgirl panties. The only thing that wasn’t there were the drooling sounds, but maybe I didn’t hear them because I wasn’t really paying attention for that kind of thing
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They must be prudes themselves Well, what’s gonna happen is that the rest of the world will firewall limeys instead.
A good IT department tries to figure out what the person they stopped was trying to accomplish and tries to find a secure way of doing that.
This assume you have the resources to do that But when you are seen as a “cost factor” by higher manglement, you often keep running after fires to extinguish, so never mind evaluating new stuff...
It's not that republicans hate education.
Oh yes, they do. Education makes people citizens, people who evaluate situation and ask themselves questions about what they are thrown at.
By contrast, republicans have nothing to do with citizens. They want consumers; that is, docile, gullible people who will not question the stuff they are advertised so they buy it, making republicans richer. And, in addition, since they do not question marketing, they will not question the “wisdom” of their bosses, and thus will readily accept what they throw at them, be it illegal or unethical business practices, decreasing work conditions and renumeration, bank bailouts, wars abroad, and environmental vandalism, all in the name of making the rich richer.
There is a cult of ignorance in the United States, and there always has been. The strain of anti-intellectualism has been a constant thread winding its way through our political and cultural life, nurtured by the false notion that democracy means that "my ignorance is just as good as your knowledge."
— Isaac Asimov, 1980
If a boss requires his livestock to be within sight all day long, he is incompetent because he cannot effectively measure work output.
Looks like a fine way to boost Chinese industry by refusing to fill demand It’s kinda like walking around with a ”kick me” sign taped to your back
Let's assume I publicly post on Facebook a picture of my face looking angry at the camera, with my hair loose, partially covering my face and a black background. Nothing else. Let's say this is my profile picture. Then this picture of me in a specific posture (say, an imitation of whichever metal singer I like) is being looked at by my company XYZ prospective boss, who's a Michael Bolton fan who despises metalheads. He's going to reject my application for absolutely no business reason. Of course, nobody's going to even hint to the true reason, they'll say "your skills are not exactly what we need" or whatever bullshit they have to say to make the rejection look legal
Which is why you never post pictures of yourself online.
In my case, (I have a sufficiently generic name), when you search for my name, the real text result is sufficiently down the page to be inconspicuous, and for pictures, you have to scroll a long time to find the first reference.
And I have been on the internet for 25 years (look at my /. #)...
Why not let things unfold naturally if possible?
Because experience shows that the free market **NEVER** finds the most ecologically-sound solution.
There's no way they'd force people to take existing cars off the road.
Sure, they’ll do it by taxing gas up the wazoo. And where are you going to buy it when there are no longer service stations? You’ll have to buy it by the tin
They’ll keep killing each other because some do not properly worship their pedophile prophet.
Lol, I took a look at it, and it looks like the child Pascal would have had if he married Python
Moof!
Like all punctuation, it is a bit of Belt and Braces (haha!) redundancy that removes any ambiguity and which you'll be grateful of should you ever need to reformat your code.
The whole idea of using white space for context means that you do not have to reformat your code, ever.
We're only going to reduce errors if it's a programming language that makes errors harder to make.
I worked with Pascal & Delphi for at least 15 years, and despite having made to “make errors harder to make” (with enforced structure & strict type checking), there are still many ways for bugs to creep in such a language
https://www.youtube.com/watch?...
Yet having remote workers on a different continent, in a different time zone, who don't necessarily speak the same language, is perfectly logical.
Only when you can pay them less than half you would to pay them here
Will artificial intelligence ever be able to mimic natural stupidity?
Has the robot been fitted with a fleshlight?
A lot of people are not going to take it kindly when a machine comes to them and starts giving them shit, or simply stand there and watch them
Just pay COBOL programmers big enough salaries to attract younger talent Pay them, and they will come
If it has a "mute" button and can make sandwiches, that is even better.
The deluxe version will squirt beer.
And not as clean as C? They’re smoking crack or what? Pascal is so clean you can’t shoot yourself in the foot like you can with C! Ever wondered why there were no exploits in MacOS like there are in Windows? Because MacOS is written in Pascal! Good luck doing a string buffer overrun in Pascal! Here is on what I wrote my first program ever: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/...
A wire-wrapped homemade 6809 system, bought from a friend when he got his first IBM PC The thing had 168K of RAM, two floppies and managed to run Unix with 3 users The computer was built aound 1980.
Utah is a chickenshit state anyways full of morons.
I once crossed into the US in a tiny crossing, way out in the woods.
As we were 4 hours into a 12 hours drive, we stepped out of the car. Since we were the only car, all the officers were out, one for each occupant of the car.
I was wearing a fanny pack, and “my” officer asked me what’s in there. “My money and papers and keys” (back then, we did not need passports to go in the US). But I handed him the pack, and he looks at the wallet, then hits the small change compartment. While he was running his finger through the coin, he made the face that you expect from an old pervert would do while sniffing out used japanese schoolgirl panties. The only thing that wasn’t there were the drooling sounds, but maybe I didn’t hear them because I wasn’t really paying attention for that kind of thing
These creeps are seriously fucked-up in the head.