This is the most unethical and/or idiotic argument I have ever seen in/. . You sir, besides being an Anonymous Coward, are also a complete idiot. I do not know what is your fucking degree is, but it obviously was granted by mistake, during an examination that does not require existence of a brain in your skull. I can write programs in several languages, and this is my profession for the last 24 years. By your argument, while I should be able to use my rights, 99% of human population would need to learn coding in order to be able to use theirs, in a society which spent more time to type on a keyboard than write using a pen.....
Unfortunately, it is easier for some people to let other people to think for them, instead of doing it themselves. Such as, some people have difficulty to see RMS' is not the only ethical analysis of the current political and technical situation of IT.
At the most basic level; If there is a software utility exist in a platform I use,I can choose to use or not to use it, so I have the freedom. If such utility does not exist I cannot decide to use it so I do not have the freedom....
I have not realized that we had one.... Interesting, I wonder which verb is irregular.
When it is your native language peculiarities of the language tend to be overlooked. For example, in Turkish vocalization of vowels are horrible. We kid ourselves that it is very simple and regular. They might be simpler than English, but there are strange variations. I became aware of those modifications only in University while trying to explain my English teacher, how we understand particular homonyms' different meanings out of context. It turned out that they were not homonyms, but homographs.
And yes, I cheated by using Google now, it is not possible to remember homonym, homograph and homophone after 20 years:)
Do you remember DEC? If they could see the potential in search engine market, they would end up buying Compaq and HP, with the head start they have. For the sake of fairness, I do not think nobody could see search services as a major product before Google showed us.
maintaining a Facebook page has much to do with what kind of employee I want, unless perhaps those "tweets" particularly socially unacceptable.
Unfortunate point you seem to be missing is that HR do not care about "what you need". And maybe due to my increasing age, I can understand their PoV. They do not understand, or they do not believe that it is their job to understand what you and your future co-worker, assistant, slave would be doing while working. I have spent maybe hundreds of precious working hours to explain, if a network team could find time to play a networked FPS, it is a good network team. In short IT definition of work is not compatible to suits' definition of work. HR mainly concerns with turnover rates, costs and business ethics etc.
HR people usually believe that sociable candidates are better that not so sociable ones. So that, regardless of the qualifications related to technical abilities, they are looking for such activities. So a good social networking presence is a better start for any job applicant. Fortunately Linkedin and slashdot are also acceptable as social networking environments for most HR experts.
That is why I love Action Point limited systems. After wasting so much time that could be devoted to study, work or family in NannyMud I was away from multiplayer games for a long while. Then I found Pardus (not the Linux distro but the game at www.pardus.at) Pardus limits your daily activity with a set amount of APs which regenerates very slowly, thus you cannot kill your whole day in front of it.
I have a serious count of friends(!) both in facebook (even after I left it) and in linkedin. Maybe 10% or at most 30% of them knows me in person. Maybe 5% knows me as a real friend.
I do not have many real friends, who has them I do not know...
This is an obviously needed utility for C programmer community, in order to gain some "friends" on ????book. What good would come from a "friend on ????book database" is another and completely unrelated question.
I guess "secure" means more than "secret" in the context of TFA. As it is mentioned that regular radio can be triangulated, hence I am assuming that "secure radio" should be protected from that. Which might mean serious frequency hopping and probably bouncing signal from big birds flying above etc...
I used to think like, that there is a threshold, a stage of development, after which the machines would start developing so fast. It was going to modify Moore's Law as instead of "every two years" it would be "every two minutes".... Now I think there is a problem with that approach. The efficiency of computing resources are dropping. I am writing this message on a computer which has maybe ten times of storage and computing power, that my whole school had back in 1996, when I was graduated. I used to be responsible of such statistics there; 13 k undergrads, 4 k masters and above level students and maybe 300 full professors with lots of lower levels and assistants were both making scientific research and use those devices from Internet to games. At the moment, aside from writing to/. most serious thing I use this computer is reading mail, and some gaming.
In short we are producing and using serious amount of IT resources, but those are not being utilized as efficient as expected in the past....
Who asked a permission to run any software on a device bought and paid for? You might not have permission (especialy for Apple) to run a software you obtained a license to, on each hardware you wanted to do so. You cannot run iOS image you have lifted of your iPhone on a Nokia or God forbid, on a Samsung. However when you buy a hardware (and assuming it is not a Ferrari), you can run any software on it. You can use it as a door-stop if you like. Thus if like to do so and able to do so, you can run Android, or Linux on a Macbook.
I do not think the Author is a complete poseur, so asking him to leave the hall would not be 100% correct solution. He seemed to have some project management experience. However there is a problem with him that I cannot put my finger on (or an appropriate place). No programmer in his right (or left one for that matter) mind can believe that a "programming test" during an interview would provide any meaningful indicator about a coder's abilities. Maybe you can ask the difference between SET versus SELECT and INSERT, but the answer would show the philosophical position of candidate at best. He can say that SET is a three letter command and others are six letter (thus inefficient:) ) commands, that there is a need for a four letter command in between.... He would be right. He can talk about the differences between utilization of read and write pipes amongst those commands and he would be right again. If I were to answer I would talk about offloading some CPU tasks from application server to database server and I would be right too. However a programming test, to see if a programmer can code, especially if you are looking for a possible "cowboy" (which is more suitable to the case than "rock star" I assume) is absurd. It is like claiming that there are already people in staff who can evaluate the code from such people... It would be more likely a case of "You are not expected to understand this", if candidate is really a good programmer. My Assembly instructor used to tell us that "no good programmer can understand their code after a year"...
Just when I was thinking that I am really old. I always wondered that if it was a natural (!) odor of components, or if it is an intentional addition to the box. That smell was the smell of joy and despair, as in the anticipation of a new game, and suspicion of a problem happened during the (naturally illegal) copy process...
:) Producer of the unnamed toy OS, used to supply a toolkit free of charge (probably as an oversight) that provides UNIX utilities. I guess it was the part of their attempt to be POSIX compatible, back then. I fortunately am not with the company anymore, whose general manager believed that any UNIX jockey must be able to run M$ products as well, thus I lost track of the current status of tool box I mentioned....
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Most disappointing was Drobo's support- they just seemed to shrug a lot, and were hyper-agressive about closing trouble tickets.
You know, this is what I hate most about some tech support organisations. Some idiot in the support team managment with an engineering degree and a MBA on top of that, with no field experience, sets some aggressive KPIs for support jockeys. They try to meet their quota. For the first six-nine months he would have a very happy upper management. Then customer complaints reach upper managment via sales, in the form of customer threats for moving away the business. Upper magament fires support manager. KPI stays there, as they cannot believe a customer would prefer slower service, if it means quality -remembe those guys were the ones assigned MBA holder for support management at the first place-. Company would eventually fail....
Management by objectives my ass.....
More importantly, smartphones are expensive. My PC is 300 USD plus several HDDs, my Xperia is 650 USD. When I invest money like this into a device, I want to be sure that I would be able to receive my mail and such as long as the phone is in working order. Also I can pull some strings in my company so I can tell my system management to modify e-mail service if I cannot do what I want thru Outlook and/or one of mail servers I run as a hobby. I do not want to lose almost complete control on my data to a company, which (not if but when) went under would take my data and services with it. A company which is in financial trouble, with a CEO in denial. Also it is a company that is under investigation in several countries, as it denied lawful interception rights of legal authorities, a slow but sure way of suicide where nation states mean business.
Apple has every right to limit services they offer to both their customers, and their solution partners/providers. The interesting thing is that, Apple's business practices are still surprising some people after so many years. If the way they conduct their business is a problem, anybody/everybody is free to move away their own business from Apple platform.
I moved away from IOS to Android. I paid 50 bucks for a data recovery program by which I lifted all my SMS and similar data from my Iphone. The data I recovered includes the cache which keeps every location I went since the summer of 2010. Interestingly (for me at the least) 50 USD is more than I paid for programs in I-tunes during a period of four years. I paid something like 750 USD for a Sony Ericsson.
In short I am free from disturbing business practices by paying 800 bucks and have a better phone now. No one is forcing anybody to use Apple products, which has admitedly one of the best designs in market, but with lots of strings attached.
"Here goes your facebook ID, oops so bad, you had a bank account interconnected to it...."
I do not think it can be even sued properly, so many layers between you and the potential attacker... I am in the sector and so many (naive??) developers believe that the platform OS being Unix, mostly Linux, makes the device secure enough. This is due to the fact that most developers are from household appliance backgrounds, not from the jungle called Internet...
IANAL: Here (in Turkey) a private entity can neglect to follow required procedures to complete the ruling that grant some king of benefit to them, by not filing the ruling with proper authorities, if the case is a civil law case. For example after a divorce to keep track of alimony payments is the responsibility of receiving party. But this is applicable only to civil cases related to real people.
AFAIK USA is the only country that treats companies as real people. In Turkey and again AFAIK our regulations are compatible with EU rules, if a company neglects to follow up such a rule, responsible managers of said company will face charges of criminal misconduct due to, either neglecting duty for protecting shareholders, or even tax evasion, as such lack of activity would cause a loss to the company hence loss of taxes of government, depending on the mood of prosecutors at the day they were given the file...
"toll quality" basically means that whatever path your voice takes thru operator's network, QoS, CoS or whatever the service management method applied to your frames, package, signal etc. the end result would be identical to the performance of a legacy twisted pair cable that phone systems used to be built on. A toll quality connection as a general rule:
1) Would not require any specific equipment other than a native phone device (assuming that PRI ports are native to the phone system, which is a subject of never ending discussions amongst some old farts like me around here...)
2) Would not cause any digital disturbance to voice quality like packet loss, jitter etc.
A world famous telecommunications equipment provider (a company from North America with a rhyming name:) ) claimed to our management suits that their products are five nines, including maintenance window (!). Naturally after a short while in our (non North American) local conditions they started to pop like corn in a hot oven. Their explanation was (and this was somehow implied in colored pieces of papers they provided to upper echelons of our management) that their power bus (provided that supplies connected to different fuses, preferably of different phases of line) is five nines, thus the box is always online, regardless of the status of CPU:) We started to change CPUs, then supplies of boxes started to pop as well. The new explanation was although it was the recommended practice to connect PSs to different phases, the actual frequency shift in our local conditions (50 Hz 220 V) was far above the conditions in their R&D environment (60 Hz 110 V), thus our local level of variations has a greater absolute value than expected. Shocking, mentally and physically as 90 V respective voltage to the real ground manifested on chassis:)
What I am trying to tell, as an old fart, is that redundancy starts at the bare metal level. Any design on an upper level must be supported by the hardware. Also it is important to know what is being made redundant. You can have multiple Internet connections but if your UPS is not redundant and is located near brown water facilities, you can find yourself in deep shit...
Even our crappy (pseudo-)government run telco offers 1-N real-time backup for E1 trunks, they even provide geographical redundancy (with no surcharge), if you are willing to distribute your ingress... All CLECs on the other hand are offering SIP trunks, with all the bells and balls attached... Albeit it is a crappy service in general, we prefer incumbent operator's E1 based service, because they know what "toll quality" really means... Moral of the story, if a telco cannot offer redundant E1 or SIP trunks you need to consider changing operator, before starting to think about servers...
Then neither you are not working with web developers who change their mind daily about basic system design nor you are working in an environment where uptime is not a concern nor you have very expensive load balance boxen that protects you from mundane facts of life. Either way, you are a very lucky person... OTOH we, of lesser levels of humanity, are grateful for one more tool that would make our lives easier.
I am keeping my account over there, as it would be taken if I will try to re-register for some reason in the future. But using their service is just another issue. Every modification they made in last few years took the quality lower then before levels.
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This is the most unethical and/or idiotic argument I have ever seen in /. . You sir, besides being an Anonymous Coward, are also a complete idiot. I do not know what is your fucking degree is, but it obviously was granted by mistake, during an examination that does not require existence of a brain in your skull. I can write programs in several languages, and this is my profession for the last 24 years. By your argument, while I should be able to use my rights, 99% of human population would need to learn coding in order to be able to use theirs, in a society which spent more time to type on a keyboard than write using a pen.....
Unfortunately, it is easier for some people to let other people to think for them, instead of doing it themselves. Such as, some people have difficulty to see RMS' is not the only ethical analysis of the current political and technical situation of IT. At the most basic level; If there is a software utility exist in a platform I use,I can choose to use or not to use it, so I have the freedom. If such utility does not exist I cannot decide to use it so I do not have the freedom....
I have not realized that we had one.... Interesting, I wonder which verb is irregular. :)
When it is your native language peculiarities of the language tend to be overlooked. For example, in Turkish vocalization of vowels are horrible. We kid ourselves that it is very simple and regular. They might be simpler than English, but there are strange variations. I became aware of those modifications only in University while trying to explain my English teacher, how we understand particular homonyms' different meanings out of context. It turned out that they were not homonyms, but homographs.
And yes, I cheated by using Google now, it is not possible to remember homonym, homograph and homophone after 20 years
Do you remember DEC? If they could see the potential in search engine market, they would end up buying Compaq and HP, with the head start they have. For the sake of fairness, I do not think nobody could see search services as a major product before Google showed us.
maintaining a Facebook page has much to do with what kind of employee I want, unless perhaps those "tweets" particularly socially unacceptable.
Unfortunate point you seem to be missing is that HR do not care about "what you need". And maybe due to my increasing age, I can understand their PoV. They do not understand, or they do not believe that it is their job to understand what you and your future co-worker, assistant, slave would be doing while working. I have spent maybe hundreds of precious working hours to explain, if a network team could find time to play a networked FPS, it is a good network team. In short IT definition of work is not compatible to suits' definition of work. HR mainly concerns with turnover rates, costs and business ethics etc.
HR people usually believe that sociable candidates are better that not so sociable ones. So that, regardless of the qualifications related to technical abilities, they are looking for such activities. So a good social networking presence is a better start for any job applicant. Fortunately Linkedin and slashdot are also acceptable as social networking environments for most HR experts.
That is why I love Action Point limited systems. After wasting so much time that could be devoted to study, work or family in NannyMud I was away from multiplayer games for a long while. Then I found Pardus (not the Linux distro but the game at www.pardus.at) Pardus limits your daily activity with a set amount of APs which regenerates very slowly, thus you cannot kill your whole day in front of it.
I do not have many real friends, who has them I do not know...
This is an obviously needed utility for C programmer community, in order to gain some "friends" on ????book. What good would come from a "friend on ????book database" is another and completely unrelated question.
Surely they could solve this using a verbal code.
I guess "secure" means more than "secret" in the context of TFA. As it is mentioned that regular radio can be triangulated, hence I am assuming that "secure radio" should be protected from that. Which might mean serious frequency hopping and probably bouncing signal from big birds flying above etc...
In short we are producing and using serious amount of IT resources, but those are not being utilized as efficient as expected in the past....
As the system should have been able to gain self awareness in 29 August 1997, way behind. Typical software project management failure........
Who asked a permission to run any software on a device bought and paid for?
You might not have permission (especialy for Apple) to run a software you obtained a license to, on each hardware you wanted to do so. You cannot run iOS image you have lifted of your iPhone on a Nokia or God forbid, on a Samsung. However when you buy a hardware (and assuming it is not a Ferrari), you can run any software on it. You can use it as a door-stop if you like. Thus if like to do so and able to do so, you can run Android, or Linux on a Macbook.
I do not think the Author is a complete poseur, so asking him to leave the hall would not be 100% correct solution. He seemed to have some project management experience. However there is a problem with him that I cannot put my finger on (or an appropriate place). No programmer in his right (or left one for that matter) mind can believe that a "programming test" during an interview would provide any meaningful indicator about a coder's abilities. Maybe you can ask the difference between SET versus SELECT and INSERT, but the answer would show the philosophical position of candidate at best. He can say that SET is a three letter command and others are six letter (thus inefficient :) ) commands, that there is a need for a four letter command in between.... He would be right. He can talk about the differences between utilization of read and write pipes amongst those commands and he would be right again. If I were to answer I would talk about offloading some CPU tasks from application server to database server and I would be right too. However a programming test, to see if a programmer can code, especially if you are looking for a possible "cowboy" (which is more suitable to the case than "rock star" I assume) is absurd. It is like claiming that there are already people in staff who can evaluate the code from such people... It would be more likely a case of "You are not expected to understand this", if candidate is really a good programmer. My Assembly instructor used to tell us that "no good programmer can understand their code after a year"...
Just when I was thinking that I am really old. I always wondered that if it was a natural (!) odor of components, or if it is an intentional addition to the box. That smell was the smell of joy and despair, as in the anticipation of a new game, and suspicion of a problem happened during the (naturally illegal) copy process...
:) Producer of the unnamed toy OS, used to supply a toolkit free of charge (probably as an oversight) that provides UNIX utilities. I guess it was the part of their attempt to be POSIX compatible, back then. I fortunately am not with the company anymore, whose general manager believed that any UNIX jockey must be able to run M$ products as well, thus I lost track of the current status of tool box I mentioned....
.................... Most disappointing was Drobo's support- they just seemed to shrug a lot, and were hyper-agressive about closing trouble tickets.
You know, this is what I hate most about some tech support organisations. Some idiot in the support team managment with an engineering degree and a MBA on top of that, with no field experience, sets some aggressive KPIs for support jockeys. They try to meet their quota. For the first six-nine months he would have a very happy upper management. Then customer complaints reach upper managment via sales, in the form of customer threats for moving away the business. Upper magament fires support manager. KPI stays there, as they cannot believe a customer would prefer slower service, if it means quality -remembe those guys were the ones assigned MBA holder for support management at the first place-. Company would eventually fail.... Management by objectives my ass.....
More importantly, smartphones are expensive. My PC is 300 USD plus several HDDs, my Xperia is 650 USD. When I invest money like this into a device, I want to be sure that I would be able to receive my mail and such as long as the phone is in working order. Also I can pull some strings in my company so I can tell my system management to modify e-mail service if I cannot do what I want thru Outlook and/or one of mail servers I run as a hobby. I do not want to lose almost complete control on my data to a company, which (not if but when) went under would take my data and services with it. A company which is in financial trouble, with a CEO in denial. Also it is a company that is under investigation in several countries, as it denied lawful interception rights of legal authorities, a slow but sure way of suicide where nation states mean business.
I moved away from IOS to Android. I paid 50 bucks for a data recovery program by which I lifted all my SMS and similar data from my Iphone. The data I recovered includes the cache which keeps every location I went since the summer of 2010. Interestingly (for me at the least) 50 USD is more than I paid for programs in I-tunes during a period of four years. I paid something like 750 USD for a Sony Ericsson.
In short I am free from disturbing business practices by paying 800 bucks and have a better phone now. No one is forcing anybody to use Apple products, which has admitedly one of the best designs in market, but with lots of strings attached.
I do not think it can be even sued properly, so many layers between you and the potential attacker... I am in the sector and so many (naive??) developers believe that the platform OS being Unix, mostly Linux, makes the device secure enough. This is due to the fact that most developers are from household appliance backgrounds, not from the jungle called Internet...
AFAIK USA is the only country that treats companies as real people. In Turkey and again AFAIK our regulations are compatible with EU rules, if a company neglects to follow up such a rule, responsible managers of said company will face charges of criminal misconduct due to, either neglecting duty for protecting shareholders, or even tax evasion, as such lack of activity would cause a loss to the company hence loss of taxes of government, depending on the mood of prosecutors at the day they were given the file...
1) Would not require any specific equipment other than a native phone device (assuming that PRI ports are native to the phone system, which is a subject of never ending discussions amongst some old farts like me around here...)
2) Would not cause any digital disturbance to voice quality like packet loss, jitter etc.
A world famous telecommunications equipment provider (a company from North America with a rhyming name :) ) claimed to our management suits that their products are five nines, including maintenance window (!). Naturally after a short while in our (non North American) local conditions they started to pop like corn in a hot oven. Their explanation was (and this was somehow implied in colored pieces of papers they provided to upper echelons of our management) that their power bus (provided that supplies connected to different fuses, preferably of different phases of line) is five nines, thus the box is always online, regardless of the status of CPU :) We started to change CPUs, then supplies of boxes started to pop as well. The new explanation was although it was the recommended practice to connect PSs to different phases, the actual frequency shift in our local conditions (50 Hz 220 V) was far above the conditions in their R&D environment (60 Hz 110 V), thus our local level of variations has a greater absolute value than expected. Shocking, mentally and physically as 90 V respective voltage to the real ground manifested on chassis :)
What I am trying to tell, as an old fart, is that redundancy starts at the bare metal level. Any design on an upper level must be supported by the hardware. Also it is important to know what is being made redundant. You can have multiple Internet connections but if your UPS is not redundant and is located near brown water facilities, you can find yourself in deep shit...
Even our crappy (pseudo-)government run telco offers 1-N real-time backup for E1 trunks, they even provide geographical redundancy (with no surcharge), if you are willing to distribute your ingress... All CLECs on the other hand are offering SIP trunks, with all the bells and balls attached... Albeit it is a crappy service in general, we prefer incumbent operator's E1 based service, because they know what "toll quality" really means... Moral of the story, if a telco cannot offer redundant E1 or SIP trunks you need to consider changing operator, before starting to think about servers...
Then neither you are not working with web developers who change their mind daily about basic system design nor you are working in an environment where uptime is not a concern nor you have very expensive load balance boxen that protects you from mundane facts of life. Either way, you are a very lucky person... OTOH we, of lesser levels of humanity, are grateful for one more tool that would make our lives easier.
I am keeping my account over there, as it would be taken if I will try to re-register for some reason in the future. But using their service is just another issue. Every modification they made in last few years took the quality lower then before levels.