If something is classified, there's a reason for it, even if that reason is "it's going to piss somebody off". The classified status is a nice big warning and guarantee that its release will bring trouble. The longer version of lesson #1 is "don't assume you have the right to make decisions about someone else's life, because they'll probably not like your choice, and they will seek to make your life worse in return. Therefore, by not releasing classified material without careful consideration and in the absolute minimal amounts possible, you minimize the risk to yourself."
He didn't just release information about dirty deeds, though. He got pissed at the military, so he released hundreds of documents, some of which related to dirty deeds. If he actually cared about just righting wrongs, there are official channels through which to do it, and unofficial channels that don't involve exposing unfiltered secrets to the world. I know the "fuck the government" viewpoint is popular, but let's not overlook the gross negligence of safety on the part of those who release such information.
Lesson 1 still stands: Don't release confidential information. Make some statements to journalists about what they should look into. Send anonymous complaints to superiors. Try absolutely everything else first before breaking trust, a contract, and security because you happen to think that's the right thing to do.
As someone who recently sought to fill one of those openings, I have some advice for companies looking to hire: Let your existing IT people write the job listing. A disturbing number of the listings I came across were ridiculous.
5 years experience required, for an entry-level position at $25,000 salary with weekends on-call? Nope. I might be unemployed, but I don't want to lose money on a job.
Looking for someone A+-certified with mainframe maintenance and 15 years of Java programming experience? I'm close to qualified, but now I'm scared.
Five programming tests and two phone interviews, and the face-to-face interviewer doesn't even get my name even close to right? I don't think the epitome of "faceless corporation" is the right fit...
Look, I understand that there are lots of IT folks out of work, and you think that if you ask for the world, you'll get it from them. You might meet some success, but is stripping your employees of dignity really the right way to get a productive workforce?
Both. That piece of wall-mounted paper has been publicly displaying the artwork for years, to every person who's passed by that window in front... According to my trade-secret formula, that is at least 27 billion people who've received an unlicensed viewing of the artwork, and at a reasonable rate of $200,000 per incident, the paper poster alone is responsible for $5.4 quadrillion in lost revenue, which is clearly backed up by the fact that the poster-printing company has not made $5.4 quadrillion in profit since the poster was printed.
With all due respect, I disagree with your "fix". If confidential information is released, it doesn't matter if you get caught or not. You've probably already made somebody's life miserable. Sure, you can argue that the person might deserve it, but that's an awful lot of judgement to make with no oversight.
If you feel it's your moral duty to make somebody's life worse for the good of society, fine. I certainly won't stop you, but I will recommend following the next few lessons, so you aren't brought down in the process.
As for relationships, the simple rule of "don't get involved" makes disproving false accusations a lot easier later. Especially if your celebrity status hinges on information being free, you could practice what you preach by having your life documented on publicly-available webcam and have another claim to fame, as well...
That poster on the wall behind the baby is copyrighted, so posting the video is infringement. Since the baby is repeating words from a copyrighted TV show, that's another violation. The hardwood floor the baby's sitting on was artistically arranged by the construction crew, and its artistic value must be preserved! While the baby's showing off his brilliance, a delivery man rings the doorbell, which plays a two-note sequence that's also used in a song from 1953, so that's another infringement.
With so many infringements of copyright, the violations are obviously willful, and the poster should be sued.
And from this, we can learn the following valuable lessons:
Don't release confidential information.
If you feel you must, don't trust someone who's already demonstrated lax ethics with their hacking activities.
If you must trust someone untrustworthy, at least realize that you'll be pissing off one of the most powerful governments on Earth, and you should make yourself practically untraceable first.
If you're making a business of releasing confidential information, don't be the only spokesman/target.
Don't get romantically or sexually involved with anyone while you're a target, regardless of how long a time they say they'll love you.
Don't try to use more confidential information to extort your way out of responsibility for releasing previous confidential information.
Never get involved in a land war in Arabia.
Never go in against a Swede when death is on the line.
Some of these are quite old lessons, indeed, yet people keep needing to be taught them again...
Granted, 1993 might be a bit far back, but that was part of the point. If.NET and the CLR spec were mature (or at least functional) in the mid-90's, then by the time the rest of the Web was ready for it, it would have been able to be the platform of choice.
So it's like every other government poll/petition site, where the popular but shortsighted positions get replies that are politically-correct forms of "fuck off, dimwits", then people complain that their idiocy isn't being fairly represented?
It's the entire basis of Calvinism. It's the logical outcome of having an omnipotent god who sends bad people to Hell based on their reactions to the world he made for them . Either he's playing by rules you can't know (Calvin's stance, where some people are just damned from creation and others are blessed according to an unknown judgement), or he's a cruel deity playing with people as toys (where "perverse" is a good word for it).
Personally I prefer the Universalist position: everybody goes to Heaven. Taking that a step further leads to the conclusion that the only judgement to be concerned about is that of other humans, so I just try to not be too big of an asshole. Fortunately, there's a church for that, too, more or less.
But hey, I'm an agnostic. I don't know anything for certain.
Exactly. I read Slashdot not because I don't care about the non-tech world, but because I don't care about the pointless drivel that fills most "news" sources. I don't care about the some bimbo's annulled wedding, or the color of a pop star's shoes, or the 12 most adorable breeds of puppies. I want to know news about my interests, and things that will have a lasting effect on the world I live in. I want news for nerds and stuff that matters. I read Slashdot.
Like most R&D-heavy companies, Google will promote and hype their new product, but if it doesn't take off, it'll die a quiet death. Their successful products will be promoted continually, as a means to build up the brand.
Microsoft, on the other hand, promotes its new technology, and when nobody cares, they promote it more, deprecate the old system, tack on a new name, integrate it with their next new project, then finally declare it deprecated (but still fully supported) when the new replacement comes out.
Potential that could have been useful in, say, 1993...
Silverlight was supposed to be Microsoft's answer to Flash, but HTML 5 is already the generally-accepted answer to Flash. It was supposed to enable web-based applications to run on the desktop, but the widespread adoption of AJAX and other browser technologies has made that goal unnecessary, too. It was supposed to be a mechanism for Microsoft to claim dominance of up-and-coming technologies, but it's just yet another failure on Ballmer's running list of "too little, too late" achievements.
"Lead by example" is not God's way. He tends to go by "lead by fear, cruelty, and vague cryptic instructions delivered every few hundred generations to a random powerless victim of persecution".
Whether they overcome the temptations of not is entirely dependent on the circumstances of the person's life, which is all planned by God. From the start, he's given some folks lives that lead them to accept temptation, and there's nothing they can do about it. It's their destiny to be damned.
FOSS: $1000 to $10000 per custom application that needs a compatibility interface, porting project, or data migration, plus $200 per employee for training because "it's different", plus $3000 per IT staffer per year for having a less common skill set.
I personally love FOSS solutions, and use them where possible, but the economics just don't work out that well. It sucks.
Kids today and their video games! And their rock music! And their short leggings! And their science! And their disrespect for the Church of England! And their their caring for the slaves! And their rebellion against the Holy Roman Empire!
It's a terrible shame that the modern kids of the 400's won't be able to attract women with their service to the Empire. If he hasn't conquered a few cities, what good is he as a man, anyway?
...
More seriously, it's called a "generation gap". Today's young adults have different common standards for finding a mate, and every generation before has had other different standards. That's not even accounting for variance within the population, which in something as personal as mating preference is very widespread.
This psychologist's notions seem to go beyond merely "sensationalized" and into the realm of "utterly insane".
$150-$250, plus the labor cost for managing licenses, plus another $100 average at each upgrade cycle because installs do get lost, plus another $100 per employee when a "licensing expert" comes in and says your perfectly legal software really should have been purchased differently (despite the advice of the last expert) and it all now needs to be bought again through his particular favorite reseller.
One is also a sarcastic way of saying "I'm not sure of the number, and I don't have the time to correlate the research others have done again, but last I checked the estimate was on the order of four digits, so I'd like to emphasize that there are much more severe risks that are more easily mitigated by comparing it to the worldwide death rate of something nastier."
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Certain moral stances have practical application.
If something is classified, there's a reason for it, even if that reason is "it's going to piss somebody off". The classified status is a nice big warning and guarantee that its release will bring trouble. The longer version of lesson #1 is "don't assume you have the right to make decisions about someone else's life, because they'll probably not like your choice, and they will seek to make your life worse in return. Therefore, by not releasing classified material without careful consideration and in the absolute minimal amounts possible, you minimize the risk to yourself."
He didn't just release information about dirty deeds, though. He got pissed at the military, so he released hundreds of documents, some of which related to dirty deeds. If he actually cared about just righting wrongs, there are official channels through which to do it, and unofficial channels that don't involve exposing unfiltered secrets to the world. I know the "fuck the government" viewpoint is popular, but let's not overlook the gross negligence of safety on the part of those who release such information.
Lesson 1 still stands: Don't release confidential information. Make some statements to journalists about what they should look into. Send anonymous complaints to superiors. Try absolutely everything else first before breaking trust, a contract, and security because you happen to think that's the right thing to do.
As someone who recently sought to fill one of those openings, I have some advice for companies looking to hire: Let your existing IT people write the job listing. A disturbing number of the listings I came across were ridiculous.
5 years experience required, for an entry-level position at $25,000 salary with weekends on-call? Nope. I might be unemployed, but I don't want to lose money on a job.
Looking for someone A+-certified with mainframe maintenance and 15 years of Java programming experience? I'm close to qualified, but now I'm scared.
Five programming tests and two phone interviews, and the face-to-face interviewer doesn't even get my name even close to right? I don't think the epitome of "faceless corporation" is the right fit...
Look, I understand that there are lots of IT folks out of work, and you think that if you ask for the world, you'll get it from them. You might meet some success, but is stripping your employees of dignity really the right way to get a productive workforce?
So this is a Geiger counter... on a computer?
That means any patent on such technology is obvious and clearly just a derivative of a real Geiger counter! Reform the patent office! Woo!
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Both. That piece of wall-mounted paper has been publicly displaying the artwork for years, to every person who's passed by that window in front... According to my trade-secret formula, that is at least 27 billion people who've received an unlicensed viewing of the artwork, and at a reasonable rate of $200,000 per incident, the paper poster alone is responsible for $5.4 quadrillion in lost revenue, which is clearly backed up by the fact that the poster-printing company has not made $5.4 quadrillion in profit since the poster was printed.
There is no "Depressingly true" mod, so "Funny" is close enough alphabetically.
With all due respect, I disagree with your "fix". If confidential information is released, it doesn't matter if you get caught or not. You've probably already made somebody's life miserable. Sure, you can argue that the person might deserve it, but that's an awful lot of judgement to make with no oversight.
If you feel it's your moral duty to make somebody's life worse for the good of society, fine. I certainly won't stop you, but I will recommend following the next few lessons, so you aren't brought down in the process.
As for relationships, the simple rule of "don't get involved" makes disproving false accusations a lot easier later. Especially if your celebrity status hinges on information being free, you could practice what you preach by having your life documented on publicly-available webcam and have another claim to fame, as well...
(Offtopic: Nukees is old... so very old...)
That poster on the wall behind the baby is copyrighted, so posting the video is infringement. Since the baby is repeating words from a copyrighted TV show, that's another violation. The hardwood floor the baby's sitting on was artistically arranged by the construction crew, and its artistic value must be preserved! While the baby's showing off his brilliance, a delivery man rings the doorbell, which plays a two-note sequence that's also used in a song from 1953, so that's another infringement.
With so many infringements of copyright, the violations are obviously willful, and the poster should be sued.
And from this, we can learn the following valuable lessons:
Some of these are quite old lessons, indeed, yet people keep needing to be taught them again...
Granted, 1993 might be a bit far back, but that was part of the point. If .NET and the CLR spec were mature (or at least functional) in the mid-90's, then by the time the rest of the Web was ready for it, it would have been able to be the platform of choice.
So it's like every other government poll/petition site, where the popular but shortsighted positions get replies that are politically-correct forms of "fuck off, dimwits", then people complain that their idiocy isn't being fairly represented?
What are you saying? Are you trying to imply that 4chan isn't the best choice for President?
It's the entire basis of Calvinism. It's the logical outcome of having an omnipotent god who sends bad people to Hell based on their reactions to the world he made for them . Either he's playing by rules you can't know (Calvin's stance, where some people are just damned from creation and others are blessed according to an unknown judgement), or he's a cruel deity playing with people as toys (where "perverse" is a good word for it).
Personally I prefer the Universalist position: everybody goes to Heaven. Taking that a step further leads to the conclusion that the only judgement to be concerned about is that of other humans, so I just try to not be too big of an asshole. Fortunately, there's a church for that, too, more or less.
But hey, I'm an agnostic. I don't know anything for certain.
Exactly. I read Slashdot not because I don't care about the non-tech world, but because I don't care about the pointless drivel that fills most "news" sources. I don't care about the some bimbo's annulled wedding, or the color of a pop star's shoes, or the 12 most adorable breeds of puppies. I want to know news about my interests, and things that will have a lasting effect on the world I live in. I want news for nerds and stuff that matters. I read Slashdot.
Like most R&D-heavy companies, Google will promote and hype their new product, but if it doesn't take off, it'll die a quiet death. Their successful products will be promoted continually, as a means to build up the brand.
Microsoft, on the other hand, promotes its new technology, and when nobody cares, they promote it more, deprecate the old system, tack on a new name, integrate it with their next new project, then finally declare it deprecated (but still fully supported) when the new replacement comes out.
Potential that could have been useful in, say, 1993...
Silverlight was supposed to be Microsoft's answer to Flash, but HTML 5 is already the generally-accepted answer to Flash. It was supposed to enable web-based applications to run on the desktop, but the widespread adoption of AJAX and other browser technologies has made that goal unnecessary, too. It was supposed to be a mechanism for Microsoft to claim dominance of up-and-coming technologies, but it's just yet another failure on Ballmer's running list of "too little, too late" achievements.
Jesus says you're not supposed to.
"Lead by example" is not God's way. He tends to go by "lead by fear, cruelty, and vague cryptic instructions delivered every few hundred generations to a random powerless victim of persecution".
So God can make destinies for man, but not (fallen) angels? They get real free will, to cause whatever mayhem they want?
Or is it that God makes the angels do whatever he wants, but doesn't have to take responsibility for it?
Don't forget the opposite viewpoint.
Whether they overcome the temptations of not is entirely dependent on the circumstances of the person's life, which is all planned by God. From the start, he's given some folks lives that lead them to accept temptation, and there's nothing they can do about it. It's their destiny to be damned.
FOSS: $1000 to $10000 per custom application that needs a compatibility interface, porting project, or data migration, plus $200 per employee for training because "it's different", plus $3000 per IT staffer per year for having a less common skill set.
I personally love FOSS solutions, and use them where possible, but the economics just don't work out that well. It sucks.
Kids today and their video games! And their rock music! And their short leggings! And their science! And their disrespect for the Church of England! And their their caring for the slaves! And their rebellion against the Holy Roman Empire!
It's a terrible shame that the modern kids of the 400's won't be able to attract women with their service to the Empire. If he hasn't conquered a few cities, what good is he as a man, anyway?
...
More seriously, it's called a "generation gap". Today's young adults have different common standards for finding a mate, and every generation before has had other different standards. That's not even accounting for variance within the population, which in something as personal as mating preference is very widespread.
This psychologist's notions seem to go beyond merely "sensationalized" and into the realm of "utterly insane".
$150-$250, plus the labor cost for managing licenses, plus another $100 average at each upgrade cycle because installs do get lost, plus another $100 per employee when a "licensing expert" comes in and says your perfectly legal software really should have been purchased differently (despite the advice of the last expert) and it all now needs to be bought again through his particular favorite reseller.
Microsoft: Evil by design
Facebook: Evil by proxy
Google: Evil by accident
Apple: Evil by tyranny
One is also a sarcastic way of saying "I'm not sure of the number, and I don't have the time to correlate the research others have done again, but last I checked the estimate was on the order of four digits, so I'd like to emphasize that there are much more severe risks that are more easily mitigated by comparing it to the worldwide death rate of something nastier."