Well... Under those conditions, he may not have committed a treason and he might just win that case. Just a note, that military is a very, very, very special case. So his actions are not as easy to judge right or wrong, but what is clear - Assange did not perform an act of espionage.
Defining a PhD as an expert is incorrect. Even PhDs amongst themselves have people of authority in certain areas. So extrapolating expertise of a person based on his degree is plain wrong. I don't even have a BSc, yet am able to argue with PhDs and win those arguments(Granted, 10 years of CS studies outside of normal academic institutions is my background). I'm not even talking about MSc.
Here are some hints. There's a TLA corp behind the scenes when:
- you swipe your CC at a store
- you reserve/buy an airline ticket (online or at the travel agent's)
- you look at a lot of airport departure boards
- you check in your baggage
- you wait for the traffic light(in densely populated areas)
- you turn on your XBox360, PlayStation or Nintendo console
- you do the most mundane things that you don't even think about
And I think that Facebook is the right way for seeking investments. I wish all investors would be committed to their investment when investing into a company. I think that those 3 second investors are "playing the market" yet bring nothing to the table.
Some will say that those players bring liquidity to the market, but I believe that liquidity in the market results in shareholders that care about "the quarter" and don't care about the future.
Well when the guy defines a PhD as an expert, he's literally out of his mind. PhD means so little in practical terms, that it's no longer funny.
But on the other hand, only a degree is worthless in today's job market. You have to participate in some publicly visible project, GSoC for some opensource project does a good job or just plain contribute to an opensource project.
I am honestly not a troll here, but most of the big companies prefer Indian workers who can work for much cheaper and can't leave for better working conditions as easily. Many fortune 500 companies only have 6 or 7 employees that even deal with I.T. as they switch to salesforce.com and outsourcers and leave it very lean and barebones to satisfy Wall Street investors.
A) A lot of companies are starting to see that it's not cheaper using Indians in the long run. Not for all work, but for the work that requires a lot of analytical skills. Indian job market does not offer those kind of people.
B) You really don't know how easy it is for an Indian guy to switch a job. A 50% yearly employee turnover rate is not uncommon in Indian companies. So they not only can leave, but do switch jobs very often.
They don't work alone BTW. They asked a lot of organisations to help them in redacting things. It's just Wikileaks employees have access to the most confidential information of them all. And US should have a law that has the same penalties for banks and other confidential and personal information holders when they "leak" their customer overwhelming information.
FYI: Diplomats found nothing new in the diplomatic cables. What they found is mentions of people they know. But nothing really new. The impact of these cables is more making it visible to broader public what lies behind diplomatic facade. Because a diplomat can insult you and your whole family and you will thank him for his compliments afterwards.
I have some diplomats in the family and boy do they tell some dirty stories about "the people in power". Presidents, prime ministers, ambassadors, military attaches and the other "cultural attaches"...
Ahhh.... You didn't even bother reading the link you gave...
Tivoization refers to the configuring by the manufacturer or vendor of a digital electronic product that uses free software so that the product will operate only with a specific version of such software
Now how is this TiVolization? Withholding code has nothing to do with TiVilisation. I don't think there is a term for that yet.
But yeah, Moto are really to blame here. I don't think there are many other companies that do hardware locking. Google's stance is clear - bootloaders should be unlockable(can't find the tweet on the topic). There is another fun part that people forget - due to regulations in a lot of countries you are not allowed to tamper with software that operates radios (It's similar to a restriction on ECU software tampering)
This is pure capitalism. You're thinking of free market and competition, those are different concepts. The Apple platform is the "means of production" for that business, which is owned by Apple. Apple decided to extract rent. Sounds very much like the definition of capitalism, doesn’t it?
Android uses WebKit proper and V8. WebCore and JavaScriptCore are not used there. And the source for Chrome on Android is in the chromium sources, not android.
Risk what? They are openly a consumer oriented corporation. I doubt that they care what developers that don't write software for their own platform care. And by the way, Apple is pretty firmly in the Windows side of the divide. As for LLVM, it's pretty obvious that they are releasing stuff they deem no longer important in their strategies. And they need as much interoperability on the computer side of business to stay in that business, otherwise who in their right mind would buy a Mac and leave MacOSX on it? It's akin buying an Itanium Windows box as desktop.
You seem to think that none of today's writers will be tomorrow's decision makers.The first thing I would do after seeing an invoice from Oracle on my table would call a tech meeting to discuss how to reduce the reliance on them. And spin it off as cost cutting measures to the finance dept - they love it!
And guess what? I'm already advising clients in removing as much Oracle as possible.
Slashdot Mirror
Well... Under those conditions, he may not have committed a treason and he might just win that case. Just a note, that military is a very, very, very special case. So his actions are not as easy to judge right or wrong, but what is clear - Assange did not perform an act of espionage.
Defining a PhD as an expert is incorrect. Even PhDs amongst themselves have people of authority in certain areas. So extrapolating expertise of a person based on his degree is plain wrong.
I don't even have a BSc, yet am able to argue with PhDs and win those arguments(Granted, 10 years of CS studies outside of normal academic institutions is my background). I'm not even talking about MSc.
Well... You know.... Slashdot still uses intentionally encrypted source code for their CMS - it's called Perl.
Here are some hints. There's a TLA corp behind the scenes when :
- you swipe your CC at a store
- you reserve/buy an airline ticket (online or at the travel agent's)
- you look at a lot of airport departure boards
- you check in your baggage
- you wait for the traffic light(in densely populated areas)
- you turn on your XBox360, PlayStation or Nintendo console
- you do the most mundane things that you don't even think about
And I think that Facebook is the right way for seeking investments. I wish all investors would be committed to their investment when investing into a company. I think that those 3 second investors are "playing the market" yet bring nothing to the table.
Some will say that those players bring liquidity to the market, but I believe that liquidity in the market results in shareholders that care about "the quarter" and don't care about the future.
Not really. Both deal with rights to profit from results of intellectual activity.
+1
A lot of companies have those patents licensed, just because they had bulk licence from IV.
Those 45% deliver so much positive results, that it overshadows the 55% of morons out there.
Well when the guy defines a PhD as an expert, he's literally out of his mind. PhD means so little in practical terms, that it's no longer funny.
But on the other hand, only a degree is worthless in today's job market. You have to participate in some publicly visible project, GSoC for some opensource project does a good job or just plain contribute to an opensource project.
I am honestly not a troll here, but most of the big companies prefer Indian workers who can work for much cheaper and can't leave for better working conditions as easily. Many fortune 500 companies only have 6 or 7 employees that even deal with I.T. as they switch to salesforce.com and outsourcers and leave it very lean and barebones to satisfy Wall Street investors.
A) A lot of companies are starting to see that it's not cheaper using Indians in the long run. Not for all work, but for the work that requires a lot of analytical skills. Indian job market does not offer those kind of people.
B) You really don't know how easy it is for an Indian guy to switch a job. A 50% yearly employee turnover rate is not uncommon in Indian companies. So they not only can leave, but do switch jobs very often.
They don't work alone BTW. They asked a lot of organisations to help them in redacting things. It's just Wikileaks employees have access to the most confidential information of them all. And US should have a law that has the same penalties for banks and other confidential and personal information holders when they "leak" their customer overwhelming information.
Oh... Manning deserves to be found guilty of treason, he did break his oath. I just don't think that Assange should be charged with espionage.
FYI: Diplomats found nothing new in the diplomatic cables. What they found is mentions of people they know. But nothing really new. The impact of these cables is more making it visible to broader public what lies behind diplomatic facade. Because a diplomat can insult you and your whole family and you will thank him for his compliments afterwards.
I have some diplomats in the family and boy do they tell some dirty stories about "the people in power". Presidents, prime ministers, ambassadors, military attaches and the other "cultural attaches"...
And Linux kernel is opensourced. Go ahead, the Tegra 2 port of the kernel is there in the Git repo. It's been there for a while.
And Facebook itself lost a LOT of high profile developers recently. Big companies have that tendency, with Google having a better overall retention.
Pretty and maintainable code != bug free code. There is a correlation after the software is in maintenance mode for at least a year.
Tivoization refers to the configuring by the manufacturer or vendor of a digital electronic product that uses free software so that the product will operate only with a specific version of such software
Now how is this TiVolization? Withholding code has nothing to do with TiVilisation. I don't think there is a term for that yet.
But yeah, Moto are really to blame here. I don't think there are many other companies that do hardware locking. Google's stance is clear - bootloaders should be unlockable(can't find the tweet on the topic). There is another fun part that people forget - due to regulations in a lot of countries you are not allowed to tamper with software that operates radios (It's similar to a restriction on ECU software tampering)
I'd say that there are little highs on that front...
Er... Actually both points allow them to not release anything they like.
This is pure capitalism. You're thinking of free market and competition, those are different concepts. The Apple platform is the "means of production" for that business, which is owned by Apple. Apple decided to extract rent. Sounds very much like the definition of capitalism, doesn’t it?
Did you say the same about Honeycomb source?
Android uses WebKit proper and V8. WebCore and JavaScriptCore are not used there. And the source for Chrome on Android is in the chromium sources, not android.
Risk what? They are openly a consumer oriented corporation. I doubt that they care what developers that don't write software for their own platform care. And by the way, Apple is pretty firmly in the Windows side of the divide. As for LLVM, it's pretty obvious that they are releasing stuff they deem no longer important in their strategies. And they need as much interoperability on the computer side of business to stay in that business, otherwise who in their right mind would buy a Mac and leave MacOSX on it? It's akin buying an Itanium Windows box as desktop.
what happend to FerrorElectric RAM and all the other promising technologies?
FerrorElectric RAM had an error in it.
You seem to think that none of today's writers will be tomorrow's decision makers.The first thing I would do after seeing an invoice from Oracle on my table would call a tech meeting to discuss how to reduce the reliance on them. And spin it off as cost cutting measures to the finance dept - they love it!
And guess what? I'm already advising clients in removing as much Oracle as possible.