Entry level grunt coders and junior level designers. Implementers, not lead innovators.
Fresh game design grads should be implementing someone else's innovations until the cream of that junior designer crop rises and their idea actually bears fruit and does not just stink like fertilizer the likes of which cannot be abided(sp?).
If you post someone's personal information on the web, it enables all sorts of point and click crazies out there to more easily find said person and light a FIRE in their living room.
The problem is we're crippling the Government's power to take people in secret (already a fact of life re: Guantanamo), and giving every nutcase on Earth the power to hunt down someone that's given them a bug up their butt.
Government nazi's locking me up, bad thing. Common nutballs hunting me down, bad thing.
Outing alleged criminals is downright crazy. I've had to rethink my views on outing spammers because of that.
You're right, of course - arrest records should be sealed until a verdict is reached, and then destroyed upon acquittal. I wonder what religious rightist or corporate statist argument that runs up against?
When someone posts your address online over an alleged crime or slight, and you're the one whose tires are slashed or who has to confront a crazed gunman breaking down your door, you'll understand.
Whether this was a real story or not, that woman did no one any harm; if she did Megan any harm, that's for law enforcement to deal with, not the rest of us.
By digging up her personal information - for which no one had any real, legitimate use - much less posting it online - these bloggers have negligently put this entire family's safety at serious risk.
Yes, information wants to be free blah blah blah - wait until the media puts the unwanted spotlight on you for some minor b.s. (that most of us don't even care to read about) and some Jezebel-esque nutball digs up your personal information - including where you live - and puts it out there for any unbalanced, easily enraged headcase to come dot your forehead with a 9mm shell. Or maybe they'll stalk and kidnap your kid instead.
These bloggers ought to have their information put out there by law enforcement - as convicted criminals. Aiding and abetting, for starters, then implied terroristic threats.
Here's the kicker, folks: when you put up the personal information of one person in the house, you put everyone ELSE there, at risk. Even their neighbors.
Crashing in high speed into another car: Both drivers die, people in the vicinity get hurt. Crashing in high speed into another small plane: Both drivers die, people in the vicinity get hurt. Safety will increase by magnitudes when you are not restricted to driving in an almost 1-dimensional space, but rather have full access to the air.
You can also fall out of the sky for no known good reason and crash into someone's house. (Except if the car is made in China, in which case you will have a known good reason. And the obvious question "Imagine a Beowulf cluster of falling air cars..." will be answered. Butidigress.)
A falling object of that size is more likely to kill people in the vicinity, not just hurt them.
Cars involved in road crashes do not normally plow through houses, which makes your home fairly secure from being involved in most collisions. Falling air cars will invariably involve houses. In many many many cases. And worse off, you won't have any idea that it's coming until WHAM! it crashes through your roof and kills your family.
hiding their jammers and using them with impugnity without any hope of accountability.
Cell phone users can be confronted; but jammers can't.
With God as my witness, I rarely use a cell phone when around other people (for privacy reasons), but I'd give anything to get my hands on one of those cowardly lurking jammers.
I'm up for some Old Testament style "let the dude with the fastest fists win" confrontation over that. In fact, I've told cell phoners to STFU in the theater more than once.
I can go to the Blockbuster store with my online rental packaging and use that to rent 3 new free in-store rentals AND also get 3 more free online rentals (although you pay the monthly fee, blah blah) when the brick and mortar store returns my DVDs. That's right - three online rentals can generate six free rentals in return.
Netflix, can you ever hope to match that?
I'm going to be pissed if my consumer choice is ruined and I can't get the service I get now because of this "competition".
When Netflix is the only show in town, their customers will come to regret it.
We've notice you studying the moon with a certain high powered telescope.
This telescope has enabled you to see things that you are not authorized to observe, and thus it puts you in violation of certain top secret Homeland Security directives. This incurs certain... penalties, which we may have to discuss with you later.
Now, on the other hand, Mr. Anderson, we're willing to wipe your slate clean... if you tell us who sent you this telescope...
That was done during the Republican majority years.
I sincerely doubt that if Hillary or Obama get into office, that these laws will survive in any part.
I'm more worried about their penchant for persecuting right wing culture. I REALLY hope they don't use the PATRIOT Act to go after militia people (even though I detest that bunch of yahoos); wouldn't that be a funny case of Republicans' own weapons being used against them!
is large enough that they can sustain a Bush veto of anything the Democrats do.
Repeat: the DEMOCRATS in Congress have not failed us. Often. Most of the time, the problem is that they lack the supermajority needed to overwhelm a united front of Republicans standing behind Bush's vetoes.
I'm a manager at a tech outfit, a fairly large one.
What we are looking for are high end techies, and the wage inflation is due to our desperation to get high end techies - programmers and network admins the like.
A newb trying to get into this field has absolutely NO CHANCE.
Go look at the job ads and see what they're looking for as far as experience is concerned. You can't even meet those requirements with internships.
The wages are rising because America's pool of experienced techies is drying up, and fast. There are few to no new tech 'masters' rising in America; they're all coming from Asia, because that is where all the newb jobs are.
Those H-1 visas are coming here to compete with rock bottom wages, too.
They used to be known as Qworst, for the hell people said they put them through.
Of course, recently I heard that they refused to comply with that NSA wiretap thing. Champion of freedom vs allegations of shitty service? The sheep go one way but if I lived in Qwest territory I'd be sorely tempted to go the other.
"You iknow, I'm a geezer; I don't remember businesses being run by thieves and sociopaths when I was young. Maybe my memory is bad, or I was naive. Or maybe we're heading for another world wide depression like tha 1930s?"
You grew up in the period between the 1930s and the 1980s? I'm sure there were corporate thieves and miscreants in that period, but the tale of the stats say they weren't as rampant as today. Not even close.
Before the 1930s, man, they were effin' brutal. These days, they're trying really hard to bring back those 'Good Old Days' of yankee 'caveat emptor' capitalism. Really really hard.
It's up to us, the people, to stop being so apathetic, turn off that stupid Nip/Tuck, and call for and vote in some corporate responsibility. Start with boycotts and then put pressure on politicians. Stop letting these people think we don't care.
Listen up, nonbelievers! Government-subsidized infrastructure is teh satan.
Look what the Japanese Government has done to their citizens. They can get from Yokohama to Tokyo in under an hour. Where I come from, you sit stuck in traffic for an hour just trying to get to the Bart station in the bay area. Pity we don't have toll roads in that area. Oh wait, they do. And they're jammed. That's capitalism, folks. Parked on the 80 listening to Rush Limbaugh. Megadittos!
I say the Government should never have funded DARPA much less the Internet. We should have stayed with what the free market could bear - BBSes. Now thanks to Communist Government subsidies I can listen to Rush Limbaugh online... hey wait. What a nice idea.
Maybe I could call Bush and get him to fund high speed internet to watch Rush Limbaugh live on IPTV. And have virtual circle jackoff sessions watching Michael Weiner..er, Michael Savage... online!
Yeehaw! I say we subsidize 100mpbs broadband NOW!!! For capitalism!
I was debunking the claim that rising Chinese technology and economic dominance is not something to be afraid of.
The reason why more Indian and Chinese students go to grad school is fairly simple, at least in any tech-related (IT, Biotech, etc.): fewer Americans are taking up those majors to begin with, because they know these jobs are going overseas.
As to India or China "surpassing" the US, what does that mean? Surpassing the US in what? Manufacturing? Good! That's economic specialization that creates efficiencies for everyone. Not only is talk of "surpassing" mere economic scare-mongering (did we learn nothing from such silliness when the Japanese were supposed to "surpass us" in the 1980s? Where are the Japanese today? Economic stagnation), it makes erroneous straight-line projections that ignore very important long term considerations of demographics and other factors. The US economy will be a large and important factor in the global economy for the foreseeable future. But the global economy continues to grow and evolve and the US economy continues to change from its post-WWII dominance (unsurprising since it was the only intact industrial economy on the planet) to an important player in a dynamic specialized global economy.
1) China is already attacking the United States electronically. They're hacking into our military systems and developing anti-satellite weaponry. An anti-democratic hyperfascist dictatorship that harvests its own prisoners for involuntary organ donations is not the kind of country any sensible person wants to surpass us technologically. Especially when they're attacking us on the sly. Documentation: http://www.ft.com/cms/s/0/9dba9ba2-5a3b-11dc-9bcd-0000779fd2ac.html
2) Japan has surpassed us. Have you seen the high tech gadgets they have, as compared to us? Hello, bullet train? If Japan were to militarize right now, we'd be in a heap of it up to our necks. Oh and let us not also discuss how Japan has utterly gutted America's automobile industry. Japan, surpass America? They did that long ago, economic stagnation or not. Do you need me to provide you documentation on the superiority of the Japanese automobile industry, and the insolvency of America's once dominant counterpart?
If China surpasses the US, they clearly intend to wield their power over us in a very hostile way.
But you being a greedy capitalism-at-all-cost fanatic cannot grasp the concept of national security. Just wait until oil is traded on the Euro. Then you'll understand.. the hard way.
The lesson that Darwin teaches is cause & effect. You keep fucking with someone and create a no holds barred environment, you get a no holds barred response.
Kids shooting up schools is not good nor am I endorsing it, but then again neither am I endorsing the explosion that occurs when you smoke at a petrol station.
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There's a place for those proverbial Devry grads:
Entry level grunt coders and junior level designers. Implementers, not lead innovators.
Fresh game design grads should be implementing someone else's innovations until the cream of that junior designer crop rises and their idea actually bears fruit and does not just stink like fertilizer the likes of which cannot be abided(sp?).
Going by the same logic that says geeks are at fault for this...
I say let's outsource these jobs to Iran.
If you post someone's personal information on the web, it enables all sorts of point and click crazies out there to more easily find said person and light a FIRE in their living room.
Is that clearer for you?
The problem is we're crippling the Government's power to take people in secret (already a fact of life re: Guantanamo), and giving every nutcase on Earth the power to hunt down someone that's given them a bug up their butt.
Government nazi's locking me up, bad thing.
Common nutballs hunting me down, bad thing.
Enabling both? Very very bad thing.
Outing alleged criminals is downright crazy. I've had to rethink my views on outing spammers because of that.
You're right, of course - arrest records should be sealed until a verdict is reached, and then destroyed upon acquittal. I wonder what religious rightist or corporate statist argument that runs up against?
When someone posts your address online over an alleged crime or slight, and you're the one whose tires are slashed or who has to confront a crazed gunman breaking down your door, you'll understand.
Whether this was a real story or not, that woman did no one any harm; if she did Megan any harm, that's for law enforcement to deal with, not the rest of us.
By digging up her personal information - for which no one had any real, legitimate use - much less posting it online - these bloggers have negligently put this entire family's safety at serious risk.
Yes, information wants to be free blah blah blah - wait until the media puts the unwanted spotlight on you for some minor b.s. (that most of us don't even care to read about) and some Jezebel-esque nutball digs up your personal information - including where you live - and puts it out there for any unbalanced, easily enraged headcase to come dot your forehead with a 9mm shell. Or maybe they'll stalk and kidnap your kid instead.
These bloggers ought to have their information put out there by law enforcement - as convicted criminals. Aiding and abetting, for starters, then implied terroristic threats.
Here's the kicker, folks: when you put up the personal information of one person in the house, you put everyone ELSE there, at risk. Even their neighbors.
You can also fall out of the sky for no known good reason and crash into someone's house. (Except if the car is made in China, in which case you will have a known good reason. And the obvious question "Imagine a Beowulf cluster of falling air cars..." will be answered. Butidigress.)
A falling object of that size is more likely to kill people in the vicinity, not just hurt them.
Cars involved in road crashes do not normally plow through houses, which makes your home fairly secure from being involved in most collisions. Falling air cars will invariably involve houses. In many many many cases. And worse off, you won't have any idea that it's coming until WHAM! it crashes through your roof and kills your family.
I fear living under this kind of fascist government more than I fear their jackbooted thugs, guns and threats of imprisonment.
hiding their jammers and using them with impugnity without any hope of accountability.
Cell phone users can be confronted; but jammers can't.
With God as my witness, I rarely use a cell phone when around other people (for privacy reasons), but I'd give anything to get my hands on one of those cowardly lurking jammers.
I'm up for some Old Testament style "let the dude with the fastest fists win" confrontation over that. In fact, I've told cell phoners to STFU in the theater more than once.
I can go to the Blockbuster store with my online rental packaging and use that to rent 3 new free in-store rentals AND also get 3 more free online rentals (although you pay the monthly fee, blah blah) when the brick and mortar store returns my DVDs. That's right - three online rentals can generate six free rentals in return.
Netflix, can you ever hope to match that?
I'm going to be pissed if my consumer choice is ruined and I can't get the service I get now because of this "competition".
When Netflix is the only show in town, their customers will come to regret it.
We've notice you studying the moon with a certain high powered telescope.
This telescope has enabled you to see things that you are not authorized to observe, and thus it puts you in violation of certain top secret Homeland Security directives. This incurs certain... penalties, which we may have to discuss with you later.
Now, on the other hand, Mr. Anderson, we're willing to wipe your slate clean... if you tell us who sent you this telescope...
Rick Boucher.
That was done during the Republican majority years.
I sincerely doubt that if Hillary or Obama get into office, that these laws will survive in any part.
I'm more worried about their penchant for persecuting right wing culture. I REALLY hope they don't use the PATRIOT Act to go after militia people (even though I detest that bunch of yahoos); wouldn't that be a funny case of Republicans' own weapons being used against them!
Okay, you found some, can't take anything away from that.
Although I used to see that many ads just for IT newbs in Los Angeles in 1999; and you found 433 jobs spread all over the country.
is large enough that they can sustain a Bush veto of anything the Democrats do.
Repeat: the DEMOCRATS in Congress have not failed us. Often. Most of the time, the problem is that they lack the supermajority needed to overwhelm a united front of Republicans standing behind Bush's vetoes.
Show me a job ad looking for someone with a degree and no experience. Or someone who's taking interns.
Please. I dare you.
I'm a manager at a tech outfit, a fairly large one.
What we are looking for are high end techies, and the wage inflation is due to our desperation to get high end techies - programmers and network admins the like.
A newb trying to get into this field has absolutely NO CHANCE.
Go look at the job ads and see what they're looking for as far as experience is concerned. You can't even meet those requirements with internships.
The wages are rising because America's pool of experienced techies is drying up, and fast. There are few to no new tech 'masters' rising in America; they're all coming from Asia, because that is where all the newb jobs are.
Those H-1 visas are coming here to compete with rock bottom wages, too.
They used to be known as Qworst, for the hell people said they put them through.
Of course, recently I heard that they refused to comply with that NSA wiretap thing. Champion of freedom vs allegations of shitty service? The sheep go one way but if I lived in Qwest territory I'd be sorely tempted to go the other.
"You iknow, I'm a geezer; I don't remember businesses being run by thieves and sociopaths when I was young. Maybe my memory is bad, or I was naive. Or maybe we're heading for another world wide depression like tha 1930s?"
You grew up in the period between the 1930s and the 1980s? I'm sure there were corporate thieves and miscreants in that period, but the tale of the stats say they weren't as rampant as today. Not even close.
Before the 1930s, man, they were effin' brutal. These days, they're trying really hard to bring back those 'Good Old Days' of yankee 'caveat emptor' capitalism. Really really hard.
It's up to us, the people, to stop being so apathetic, turn off that stupid Nip/Tuck, and call for and vote in some corporate responsibility. Start with boycotts and then put pressure on politicians. Stop letting these people think we don't care.
All they had to do was turn one of their execs upside down and shake the change out of his pants.
Sheesh.
Listen up, nonbelievers! Government-subsidized infrastructure is teh satan.
Look what the Japanese Government has done to their citizens. They can get from Yokohama to Tokyo in under an hour. Where I come from, you sit stuck in traffic for an hour just trying to get to the Bart station in the bay area. Pity we don't have toll roads in that area. Oh wait, they do. And they're jammed. That's capitalism, folks. Parked on the 80 listening to Rush Limbaugh. Megadittos!
I say the Government should never have funded DARPA much less the Internet. We should have stayed with what the free market could bear - BBSes. Now thanks to Communist Government subsidies I can listen to Rush Limbaugh online... hey wait. What a nice idea.
Maybe I could call Bush and get him to fund high speed internet to watch Rush Limbaugh live on IPTV. And have virtual circle jackoff sessions watching Michael Weiner..er, Michael Savage... online!
Yeehaw! I say we subsidize 100mpbs broadband NOW!!! For capitalism!
I was debunking the claim that rising Chinese technology and economic dominance is not something to be afraid of.
The reason why more Indian and Chinese students go to grad school is fairly simple, at least in any tech-related (IT, Biotech, etc.): fewer Americans are taking up those majors to begin with, because they know these jobs are going overseas.
1) China is already attacking the United States electronically. They're hacking into our military systems and developing anti-satellite weaponry. An anti-democratic hyperfascist dictatorship that harvests its own prisoners for involuntary organ donations is not the kind of country any sensible person wants to surpass us technologically. Especially when they're attacking us on the sly. Documentation: http://www.ft.com/cms/s/0/9dba9ba2-5a3b-11dc-9bcd-0000779fd2ac.html
2) Japan has surpassed us. Have you seen the high tech gadgets they have, as compared to us? Hello, bullet train? If Japan were to militarize right now, we'd be in a heap of it up to our necks. Oh and let us not also discuss how Japan has utterly gutted America's automobile industry. Japan, surpass America? They did that long ago, economic stagnation or not. Do you need me to provide you documentation on the superiority of the Japanese automobile industry, and the insolvency of America's once dominant counterpart?
3) Go look up China and "sterilization accounts". In short, they are preparing to be able to sell off US debt and dollars without themselves being harmed (whether they'll actually do it or not is another issue). In fact, China has threatened to do just that to America.
Documentation: http://www.telegraph.co.uk/core/Content/displayPrintable.jhtml?xml=/money/2007/08/07/bcnchina107a.xml&site=1&page=0
If China surpasses the US, they clearly intend to wield their power over us in a very hostile way.
But you being a greedy capitalism-at-all-cost fanatic cannot grasp the concept of national security. Just wait until oil is traded on the Euro. Then you'll understand.. the hard way.
shoots up the school.
The lesson we hear is the dork was imbalanced.
The lesson that Darwin teaches is cause & effect. You keep fucking with someone and create a no holds barred environment, you get a no holds barred response.
Kids shooting up schools is not good nor am I endorsing it, but then again neither am I endorsing the explosion that occurs when you smoke at a petrol station.