At the risk of poking giant holes in your theory...
Super Big Client wants work to begin next week or they'll cancel their multi-bajillion dollar contract. They also sprang a requirement in the 11th hour to use some new stupid bleeding edge technology. Conflicted Manager doesn't have 3.6 months to gamble with while Sr. Programmer goes to classes. So, Conflicted Manager hires Jr. Programmer and pays through the nose for that bleeding edge technology.
I emailed the executive team at Sprint about this the day I got my HTC EVO - they had the audacity to reply back and claim that "it's not their fault, the hardware manufacturers decide what to pre-load".
Bull. Why would HTC have any interest in loading Sprint NASCAR, Sprint TV, Sprint NFL, etc. etc. etc.
... for a Fortune 50 company that received flack for something similar, I can assure it's not a safety thing so much as it is a laziness thing. The internal standard is IE6, therefore most developers have it on their machine and develop/test against it. To officially add support for other browsers would require QA to have all of the browser/machine combo's and likewise for development.
Use standards and you won't have that problem? Wrong, because MS doesn't follow the standards. Which means that we end up writing two versions (minimum) - one for standards compliant and one for IE.
Use a javascript package to make IE compliant? Can't. Corporate architecture doesn't allow us to use open source or third party libraries.
This experiment is about the same as infecting a jump drive, putting it in your pocket, then infecting some other PC and proclaiming it a miracle of science.
At no point was this virus ever "in" a human. It was being transported by a human, but it was still "in" a computer.
Spot on sir. Different strokes for different folks. What we did (and it works wonderfully), is give everyone laptops and set up several areas with docking stations. Some are round tables, some are cubes, some are open work areas... then just let the employee choose their seat as the current project demands.
I get the same value from my DVR and Time Warner's "watch on demand" feature (with the exception of commercials obviously). What Hulu offers me is convenience (watch on my PC)... but not $10 worth of convenience.
I've been following the story off and on, and the one thing I get hung up on is the crime charged. IANAL but if the crime he is accused of is "disrupting service" - shouldn't this have been thrown out a long time ago?
Disrupting service = outage. If no outage was incurred, what service was disrupted? Yes they could not make changes, but the system continued to run. If I abstract this to my personal network... forgetting my network password does not create a disruption of service. Certainly an inconvenience, but I remain connected to the interwebs.
Isn't this mentality sort of anti-agile / anti-peer-programming? I would think it would be encouraged since a large portion of the industry is moving in that direction?
I remember being accused of cheating in an EE class because my lab partner (my roommate) and me had the same graph stapled to our assignments. The reality is that we sat in front of a laptop in the living room assembling the data together... which, to this day, I do not consider cheating.
I wish I had mod points for this thread, I can't agree more.
Stop crying about "piracy" / trying to lock down your product (which will actually drive more folks towards piracy)... and start reaching out to those "pirates" and having a legitimate discussion with them. Ask them why they did what they did so you can learn from it instead of attacking them.
Example:
Moderator: "Why did you pirate this instead of buying it?"
Participant 1: "I didn't know if I would like it or not, and the demo was going to take 4 days to download anyways."
Participant 2: "It's not really that good of a game... I might have paid $30 for it, max."
etc. etc.
Wish I had mod points for the parent - this is 100% correct. I took an course on evolution in college just for fun and we had a guest lecture from someone who had spent their professional life researching this.
While larger brain/skull sizes do provide advantages AFTER birth, at a certain point they decrease the possibility of actually being born. Thus negating any benefit of sizes over x cc's (where x is something close to our current size). Evolution at it's finest, nature found the equilibrium.
Agreed. Whether it was a firecracker or bomb doesn't matter - things within the cabin caught fire, which could have triggered a rapidly accelerating cabin fire and done just as much civilian damage as a high explosive.
I disagree. I work in the IT dept. for a F100 company, and SOX is a complete barrier to getting anything done in a reasonable time-frame. It needs to be abandoned and reworked from ground zero.
For example, we are slowly phasing out an old mainframe system that used to "do it all" for the organization. To support each new sub-system we must create interfaces into and out of the mainframe to access legacy functions it may still retain.
If I make a change to one of the compartmentalized systems (say... the shipping ETA generator for example), my change must pass through multiple SOX audits before it can be released because that "Shipping ETA" interfaces to the mainframe, which in turn interfaces to the accounting system. There is no way my Shipping ETA system could access or modify anything about the accounting system... yet I'm blocked by the SOX controls surrounding it.
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At the risk of poking giant holes in your theory...
Super Big Client wants work to begin next week or they'll cancel their multi-bajillion dollar contract. They also sprang a requirement in the 11th hour to use some new stupid bleeding edge technology. Conflicted Manager doesn't have 3.6 months to gamble with while Sr. Programmer goes to classes. So, Conflicted Manager hires Jr. Programmer and pays through the nose for that bleeding edge technology.
It's not personal, it's business.
I emailed the executive team at Sprint about this the day I got my HTC EVO - they had the audacity to reply back and claim that "it's not their fault, the hardware manufacturers decide what to pre-load". Bull. Why would HTC have any interest in loading Sprint NASCAR, Sprint TV, Sprint NFL, etc. etc. etc.
I concur! I checked this out the day it was launched and about 50% of the images on that site were severely NSFW.
I'm with you - I think it's stupid we do things this way... but I'm just a lowly analyst that no one listens to.
Like I said, it's laziness and nothing more.
... for a Fortune 50 company that received flack for something similar, I can assure it's not a safety thing so much as it is a laziness thing. The internal standard is IE6, therefore most developers have it on their machine and develop/test against it. To officially add support for other browsers would require QA to have all of the browser/machine combo's and likewise for development.
Use standards and you won't have that problem? Wrong, because MS doesn't follow the standards. Which means that we end up writing two versions (minimum) - one for standards compliant and one for IE.
Use a javascript package to make IE compliant? Can't. Corporate architecture doesn't allow us to use open source or third party libraries.
End of the day... it's laziness, not security.
It moved PC > Computer Chip > PC.
This experiment is about the same as infecting a jump drive, putting it in your pocket, then infecting some other PC and proclaiming it a miracle of science.
At no point was this virus ever "in" a human. It was being transported by a human, but it was still "in" a computer.
Why don't you go ahead and diality-dial that number and let me know what department you land in.
More to the point, we know that he sold the STORY ABOUT A phone he didn't own to Gizmodo for $5000.
There, I fixed that for you.
Right - because he had a great chance at dialing up the R&D department directly. Customer Service is usually the only published number.
Spot on sir. I really fail to see why everyone believes the phone itself was sold (which would indeed be theft).
Newspapers used to pay for "scopes" all the time - that's all this was. A breaking story and the rights to be the one to break it.
We have some people who have chosen that route... but again, if that's how they work best - what's it matter? The goal is efficiency.
Spot on sir. Different strokes for different folks. What we did (and it works wonderfully), is give everyone laptops and set up several areas with docking stations. Some are round tables, some are cubes, some are open work areas... then just let the employee choose their seat as the current project demands.
I get the same value from my DVR and Time Warner's "watch on demand" feature (with the exception of commercials obviously). What Hulu offers me is convenience (watch on my PC)... but not $10 worth of convenience.
"Parody - to imitate (a composition, author, etc.) for purposes of ridicule or satire."
Sounds like fair use to me.
I've been following the story off and on, and the one thing I get hung up on is the crime charged. IANAL but if the crime he is accused of is "disrupting service" - shouldn't this have been thrown out a long time ago? Disrupting service = outage. If no outage was incurred, what service was disrupted? Yes they could not make changes, but the system continued to run. If I abstract this to my personal network... forgetting my network password does not create a disruption of service. Certainly an inconvenience, but I remain connected to the interwebs.
Isn't this mentality sort of anti-agile / anti-peer-programming? I would think it would be encouraged since a large portion of the industry is moving in that direction? I remember being accused of cheating in an EE class because my lab partner (my roommate) and me had the same graph stapled to our assignments. The reality is that we sat in front of a laptop in the living room assembling the data together... which, to this day, I do not consider cheating.
I stand corrected - I missed that sentence.
Where does TFA specify milk cows?
Wouldn't this force the cattle to build muscle, and thereby create tougher eating meat... thus reducing the demand for cattle meat?
I wish I had mod points for this thread, I can't agree more.
Stop crying about "piracy" / trying to lock down your product (which will actually drive more folks towards piracy)... and start reaching out to those "pirates" and having a legitimate discussion with them. Ask them why they did what they did so you can learn from it instead of attacking them.
Example:
Moderator: "Why did you pirate this instead of buying it?"
Participant 1: "I didn't know if I would like it or not, and the demo was going to take 4 days to download anyways."
Participant 2: "It's not really that good of a game... I might have paid $30 for it, max."
etc. etc.
Because my office is 2 stories above my media room with comfy chairs and surround sound... and running cables isn't a viable option.
Wish I had mod points for the parent - this is 100% correct. I took an course on evolution in college just for fun and we had a guest lecture from someone who had spent their professional life researching this. While larger brain/skull sizes do provide advantages AFTER birth, at a certain point they decrease the possibility of actually being born. Thus negating any benefit of sizes over x cc's (where x is something close to our current size). Evolution at it's finest, nature found the equilibrium.
Agreed. Whether it was a firecracker or bomb doesn't matter - things within the cabin caught fire, which could have triggered a rapidly accelerating cabin fire and done just as much civilian damage as a high explosive.
I disagree. I work in the IT dept. for a F100 company, and SOX is a complete barrier to getting anything done in a reasonable time-frame. It needs to be abandoned and reworked from ground zero.
For example, we are slowly phasing out an old mainframe system that used to "do it all" for the organization. To support each new sub-system we must create interfaces into and out of the mainframe to access legacy functions it may still retain.
If I make a change to one of the compartmentalized systems (say... the shipping ETA generator for example), my change must pass through multiple SOX audits before it can be released because that "Shipping ETA" interfaces to the mainframe, which in turn interfaces to the accounting system. There is no way my Shipping ETA system could access or modify anything about the accounting system... yet I'm blocked by the SOX controls surrounding it.
I think you missed the point there...