i don't know if you were aware, but patent law has changed substantially for the worse in the last decade or two. since ground cars with four rubber wheels predates the current era of wealth extraction by crony capitalism, i think your strawman is pretty obvious.
We shouldn't defend him. We should spit him out, and say that he's a shame to the profession. Everybody has had her/his fair share of mismanagement, but it's not up to us the determine what good or bad management is.
really? but you yourself just said:
The right thing to do would be to hand over the passwd's and complain to the mayor / write a letter to a local newspaper, etc..
so which is it? sounds like you have an axe to grind here.
The first is "bite sized", the second is probably more relevant but way more wordy, but how many people even bother joining either?
We are unorganized as a group at large, and the lack of standards to adhere to is part of the problem that we, as a Profession; including Admins, Programmers/Developers, Support Techs; need to address somehow.
* Human rights activists use Tor to anonymously report abuses from danger zones. Internationally, labor rights workers use Tor and other forms of online and offline anonymity to organize workers in accordance with the Universal Declaration of Human Rights. Even though they are within the law, it does not mean they are safe. Tor provides the ability to avoid persecution while still raising a voice.
* When groups such as the Friends Service Committee and environmental groups are increasingly falling under surveillance in the United States under laws meant to protect against terrorism, many peaceful agents of change rely on Tor for basic privacy during legitimate activities.
* Human Rights Watch recommends Tor in their report, “ Race to the Bottom: Corporate Complicity in Chinese Internet Censorship.” The study co-author interviewed Roger Dingledine, Tor project leader, on Tor use. They cover Tor in the section on how to breach the “Great Firewall of China,” and recommend that human rights workers throughout the globe use Tor for “secure browsing and communications.”
* Tor has consulted with and volunteered help to Amnesty International's recent corporate responsibility campaign. See also their full report on China Internet issues.
* Global Voices recommends Tor, especially for anonymous blogging, throughout their web site.
* In the US, the Supreme Court recently stripped legal protections from government whistleblowers. But whistleblowers working for governmental transparency or corporate accountability can use Tor to seek justice without personal repercussions.
* A contact of ours who works with a public health nonprofit in Africa reports that his nonprofit must budget 10% to cover various sorts of corruption, mostly bribes and such. When that percentage rises steeply, not only can they not afford the money, but they can not afford to complain — this is the point at which open objection can become dangerous. So his nonprofit has been working to use Tor to safely whistleblow on government corruption in order to continue their work.
* At a recent conference, a Tor staffer ran into a woman who came from a “company town” in the eastern United States. She was attempting to blog anonymously to rally local residents to urge reform in the company that dominated the town's economic and government affairs. She is fully cognizant that the kind of organizing she was doing could lead to harm or “fatal accidents.”
* In east Asia, some labor organizers use anonymity to reveal information regarding sweatshops that produce goods for western countries and to organize local labor.
* Tor can help activists avoid government or corporate censorship that hinders organization. In one such case, a Canadian ISP blocked access to a union website used by their own employees to help organize a strike.
it was funded by both NRL and EFF concurrently. i am not making things up, you are denying reality.
10,000 tor nodes with hundreds going up and down every day in different locations would be as difficult to track through as physically going door-to-door searching the entire populace. that's part of why tor was built: to enable communication of persecuted minorities. when we built tor we were thinking post-tienanmen democracy advocates in china. our noble intentions in building tor don't keep the technology from being useful to other persecuted minorities that we don't like.
I think we need to print all this data to embody the authors' chosen analogy. It might be the fastest way to Alpha Centauri. If a few forests have to bite it in service of this noble goal then that's fine with me.
i did provide some sources, just not for that claim which i think is fairly uncontroversial given the expense and difficulties involved in extracting oil from shale and tar sands(certainly not the easiest of endeavours.) If there were still vast amounts of easily accessible oil then it wouldn't be economical to produce fromoil sands. since it is economical, i'd suggest you're wrong here.
you took exception because you disagree with the general premise and didn't even read my sources wherein the IEA (hardly a mouthpiece of the peak oil advocates) admits that peak oil has probably already occurred in 2006. here's another.
apparently you think resources are infinite. good luck with that.
all the easily accessible, cheap energy has been found. most of that has already been consumed. the rest is slow to access and requires an increasing amount of energy to extract. some of it will never be practical to extract. who cares if there's energy someplace if it takes more energy and resources to extract than it provides?
look at the geometric growth of both population and oil consumption over the past 100 years. is that growth sustainable? we need only look at the correlation between Egypt's uprising and its transition from net oil exporter to importer just to cover domestic demand.
at some point even if the entire earth were comprised of oil we will have burned through it all.
is it reasonable to argue that peak oil is a bit further out than now? sure. but you seem to be arguing that oil/gas/coal are infinite in supply.
you also neglect the incentive our leaders have to lie to us and give us reassurances that there are tons of reserves out there to maintain social order. e.g. recently released US diplomatic cables from the wikileaks trove rather dispute your assertions regarding reserves.
Slashdot Mirror
l2auction.
i don't know if you were aware, but patent law has changed substantially for the worse in the last decade or two. since ground cars with four rubber wheels predates the current era of wealth extraction by crony capitalism, i think your strawman is pretty obvious.
and this is also why we'll never see flying cars. Damn the practicalities, no company could establish a respectable monopoly through patent lawfare.
I can't allow your patent suit to proceed.
that which cannot be paid back, won't be. you should be more up front in your call for debtors prisons.
We shouldn't defend him. We should spit him out, and say that he's a shame to the profession.
Everybody has had her/his fair share of mismanagement, but it's not up to us the determine what good or bad management is.
really? but you yourself just said:
The right thing to do would be to hand over the passwd's and complain to the mayor / write a letter to a local newspaper, etc..
so which is it? sounds like you have an axe to grind here.
There should be a System Admin "Code of Ethics". The closest is the IEEE "Code of Ethics", or the ACM "Code of Conduct" if they happen to have joined.
The first is "bite sized", the second is probably more relevant but way more wordy, but how many people even bother joining either?
We are unorganized as a group at large, and the lack of standards to adhere to is part of the problem that we, as a Profession; including Admins, Programmers/Developers, Support Techs; need to address somehow.
(/rant) :)
computer professionals for social responsibility
cpsr.org
http://cpsr.org/issues/ethics/index.html
FTFY
An IT guy on a power trip acted like a prick and that resulted in serious consequences. Let's see what the slashdot community thinks. ;)
This might as well be a story about getting arrested for living in mom's basement.
he's paying the price for embarrassing the powerful?
https://www.torproject.org/about/torusers.html.en#activists
it was funded by both NRL and EFF concurrently. i am not making things up, you are denying reality.
last time i checked my pet rock didn't also run gulags in foreign countries.
train huh? well coming soon to a train near you is... TSA. Enjoy your complimentary grope for their grand opening.
http://swampland.time.com/2011/05/10/the-political-prospects-of-a-no-ride-list/
or at least wherein there are multiple courrier legs and/or dead drops. i mean this sounds simpler than a plot on a prime time crime show.
Pigeons are not halal.
pure win.
sure. but i herd tor was open-source and modifiable.
10,000 tor nodes with hundreds going up and down every day in different locations would be as difficult to track through as physically going door-to-door searching the entire populace. that's part of why tor was built: to enable communication of persecuted minorities. when we built tor we were thinking post-tienanmen democracy advocates in china. our noble intentions in building tor don't keep the technology from being useful to other persecuted minorities that we don't like.
I think we need to print all this data to embody the authors' chosen analogy. It might be the fastest way to Alpha Centauri. If a few forests have to bite it in service of this noble goal then that's fine with me.
i did provide some sources, just not for that claim which i think is fairly uncontroversial given the expense and difficulties involved in extracting oil from shale and tar sands(certainly not the easiest of endeavours.) If there were still vast amounts of easily accessible oil then it wouldn't be economical to produce fromoil sands. since it is economical, i'd suggest you're wrong here.
you took exception because you disagree with the general premise and didn't even read my sources wherein the IEA (hardly a mouthpiece of the peak oil advocates) admits that peak oil has probably already occurred in 2006. here's another.
http://green.blogs.nytimes.com/2010/11/14/is-peak-oil-behind-us/
i confronted his claims of reserves with the guardian story about the wikileaks cables. do you have a rebuttal to that? no i thought not.
who's the religious zealot again?
apparently you think resources are infinite. good luck with that.
all the easily accessible, cheap energy has been found. most of that has already been consumed. the rest is slow to access and requires an increasing amount of energy to extract. some of it will never be practical to extract. who cares if there's energy someplace if it takes more energy and resources to extract than it provides?
look at the geometric growth of both population and oil consumption over the past 100 years. is that growth sustainable? we need only look at the correlation between Egypt's uprising and its transition from net oil exporter to importer just to cover domestic demand.
http://www.theoildrum.com/node/7425
at some point even if the entire earth were comprised of oil we will have burned through it all.
is it reasonable to argue that peak oil is a bit further out than now? sure. but you seem to be arguing that oil/gas/coal are infinite in supply.
you also neglect the incentive our leaders have to lie to us and give us reassurances that there are tons of reserves out there to maintain social order. e.g. recently released US diplomatic cables from the wikileaks trove rather dispute your assertions regarding reserves.
http://www.guardian.co.uk/business/2011/feb/08/saudi-oil-reserves-overstated-wikileaks
and it's switched to only wearing dark matter until they find a darker color.
thus the song, though it did refer to coal rather than iron mining, i imagine the social dynamic was neigh identical:
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sixteen_Tons
http://www.ernieford.com/SixteenTons.htm
Hi Don Rumsfeld. How are you?
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/There_are_known_knowns
some of us live in the southern hemisphere, you insensitive clods!
regulations infrequently leave room for the latter.
and to prevent glory seekers from doing new things. to some notoriety and fame are more important than safety.
no, he never said "E-8." you still have one damage left... or that's your carrier.