Do you suppose that there might be just a touch of "We can jack up profits by making everybody buy our latest card, because Microsoft will absorb the blame for the missing drivers by just standing close, leaving our reputation blemish-free." in that decision not to produce drivers for existing hardware?
It's no different here: the attorneys are just doing what is, to them, a job. Yes, it would be nice if these lawyers had an ethical bone in their bodies and just told their bosses, "no, that would be wrong."
Huh. I wonder why that argument didn't work at Nuremberg?
Admittedly, the people who have come out of the nation's B-schools and law schools over the last three decades use that precise argument as camouflage and justification for unethical and amoral - and often immoral - behavior.
But that still doesn't make it right - and what is not right, is wrong, and should be stopped before all laws and social mores are tossed aside with the sneer that "They're just a g-dd----d bunch of idealistic crap."
The negative impact that lawyers have upon our economy
The resistance of a not-insignificant part of our population to the idea of "government handouts" that go to anything that is not a corporate entity or to anybody who is not already wealthy
I conclude that it is time to place a bounty on lawyers and issue hunting licenses to the poor.
That division of range necessarily requires more cell towers to compensate, which is unlikely to happen yielding a cell phone that is only good in "most of" the city.
Judging from all of the remarks that contain words like "nerds" and "nerdy" (on a site whose comments typically reflect a focus on capabilities rather than "office politics", no less), contempt for intelligence is firmly embedded in the American psyche and this nation is doomed to be left in the dust of history.
I would suggest that she move to a country with a future, where intelligence and abilities in the science and engineering fields are still respected and admired.
A nation cannot become spacefaring simply because its people maintain an awareness of what's "hot", who's "in", and how to "network". Given current population growth, pollution emission, and resource consumption rates, I suspect that a people or nation that does not develop the capability to leave this planet is doomed to die with it.
I see a lot of complaining about "having" to pay for the education of others. Quite often, I subsequently see the same people using the lack of an educated work force as their rationale for outsourcing their production - to countries with average education levels that are far worse than America's.
The human mind is a fascinating thing, don't you think?
If the current approach to programming in things Microsoft is any example, by Windows 7 Microsoft will have insisted that all Windows developers transition to their latest attempt to obfuscate and prolong the Windows programming experience,.fish.n.NET, and we remaining Windows programmers will have begun a mass migration to Linux.
Am I reading that claim wrong, or is Symbian attempting to get a cut from anybody who uses logic that passes through more than one preloaded DLL before hitting the O/S kernel?
I want a patent on road detours, in that case.
Anybody who doesn't take the shortest path home from the office or who stops for a six-pack along the way shall pay me a royalty henceforth.
A Japanese newspaper and the AP report that China plans to demand source code from hardware manufacturers, and ban the sale of products from companies that don't comply. China is calling this an "obligatory accreditation system for IT security products."
What I would immediately suspect is that China knows quite well that is is possible to put back doors, sniffers, and data sentries in firmware and the end user will never know.
Remember that, the next time you are concluding a frantic night's work on a breakthrough process on your Lenovo PC.
The good thing about rural areas not getting a TV signal any more is they will now get their election advice from Billy Bob, who is a farrrrrr better source of information than any e-media that offers multiple perspectives.
How do you get to be CEO of a large corporation - which is really just a closed system of interlocking parts - and be incapable of understanding that the Earth itself is a closed system? How can a CEO not understand that just because he or she puts something poisonous way over there, it does not obligate the Earth and natural forces to keep it way over there?
Maybe we should start using terms that CEOs can understand:
Think of pollution like you would that letter from your largest customer informing you that they are thinking about dumping you. If you don't keep it safely locked up, before long it is all over the corporation, and then all over Wall Street, and the next thing you know, your accumulated shares are worth 90% less - and your future is uncertain at best. Only with pollution, your carelessness forces others to share your uncertain future.
Saying that the latecomers should be "allowed" to not use pollution controls because we once didn't should be accompanied by the latecomers not using the other things that we learned along the way - like automation, CAD, and so on - don't you think?
Cherry-picking only those things that make you money while ignoring those things that add costs but save your homeworld is the epitome of greed-motivated self- and world-destructive behavior.
lolll...open a website promising something expensive to its users, use captchas to validate username and passwords, then monitor incoming IP addresses..even with the use of proxy servers sited in the U.S. (ahhh, capitalism...), you'll note enough offshore addresses to affect your impromptu conclusion that the story lacks "verisimilitude"...
The Internet isn't supposed to have a "hub". It's supposed to be completely distributed and decentralized.
[...]
The US invented the Internet. We should be exporting equipment and expertise, so the rest of the world can do business with us (and with each other our way), and get paid right to do it.
Ummm...but manufacturing in the U.S. does not yield the profits that manufacturing in China, India, Vietnam et do - so we will continue manufacturing elsewhere, thus continuing to finance the conversion of the U.S. into an industrial, technological, and - now - information backwater.
It has been an interesting journey, watching "trickle down" economics and "free trade" transform the U.S. of A. from a "hub" to a "home run" in three short decades.
And amusing, in a gallows humor fashion. Who knew that America, "the capitalists to the world", would be foolish enough to cut their own throats with the knife of "profit"?
Even I have gone through these decades thinking "Surely this is the year we will wake up?"
Of course, there will be some exceptions, like jobs that require a security clearance. But, for the most part, the demand for US IT workers in nearly zero.
Methinks relying upon background vetting and security clearances for your stateside employees when some or all of your data resides offshore and there are high-bandwidth pipes between that data and the guts of your U.S. operation makes any "security clearance" nothing more than that lucky horseshoe you have hanging over your wide-open door.
Assuming that it has not happened already...I wonder how long it will be before some or all PCs and motherboard components manufactured offshore come with their own custom little TCP/IP stack in hardware that queues, say, the contents of memory and bursts it off elsewhere during CPU idle time?
I know one thing: When I was working for the ASA, the very thought of suggesting that our potential enemies could be manipulated into gleefully and trustingly accepting electronics and computational equipment manufactured by us for their use across the entire width and breadth of their economy because it was cheap was never even considered as a possible information gathering tactic - it was simply too ludicrous of a concept.
As it turns out, capitalism is much more naive/arrogant/blinded by greed.
I never thought to ask for a "take-home" 984 when I quit the last job where I routinely used Schnieder Modicon devices, and I suspect that same lack of a rack of PLCs and I/O at home affects the open source movement's involvement in Modicon's Modbus protocol, too.
Apple will lose, and move to Dubai where unions are illegal and which has no extradition arrangements with the U.S. of A. Americans will ignore the slap in the face and continue to buy things Apple because "They're just tooo kewl, dude!" and/or "At least they're not Microsoft!".
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On the other hand, if you combine the two businesses the uptick in donut sales should take the risk out of the coffee shop business.
Amusing, to see someone who defends government agencies that ignore individual rights and Constitutional protections post anonymously.
( They can follow the electrons in Anonymous Coward home, you know.)
Try tearing a page off your laptop or e-book when you belatedly realize that you are out of T/P.
Do you suppose that there might be just a touch of "We can jack up profits by making everybody buy our latest card, because Microsoft will absorb the blame for the missing drivers by just standing close, leaving our reputation blemish-free." in that decision not to produce drivers for existing hardware?
Georgia: The USSR with a southern drawl.
It's no different here: the attorneys are just doing what is, to them, a job. Yes, it would be nice if these lawyers had an ethical bone in their bodies and just told their bosses, "no, that would be wrong."
Huh. I wonder why that argument didn't work at Nuremberg?
Admittedly, the people who have come out of the nation's B-schools and law schools over the last three decades use that precise argument as camouflage and justification for unethical and amoral - and often immoral - behavior.
But that still doesn't make it right - and what is not right, is wrong, and should be stopped before all laws and social mores are tossed aside with the sneer that "They're just a g-dd----d bunch of idealistic crap."
Given:
I conclude that it is time to place a bounty on lawyers and issue hunting licenses to the poor.
That division of range necessarily requires more cell towers to compensate, which is unlikely to happen yielding a cell phone that is only good in "most of" the city.
long time no see...
Judging from all of the remarks that contain words like "nerds" and "nerdy" (on a site whose comments typically reflect a focus on capabilities rather than "office politics", no less), contempt for intelligence is firmly embedded in the American psyche and this nation is doomed to be left in the dust of history.
I would suggest that she move to a country with a future, where intelligence and abilities in the science and engineering fields are still respected and admired.
A nation cannot become spacefaring simply because its people maintain an awareness of what's "hot", who's "in", and how to "network". Given current population growth, pollution emission, and resource consumption rates, I suspect that a people or nation that does not develop the capability to leave this planet is doomed to die with it.
Just when the deer are going crazy, they make us drive in the dark. The things are hard enough to see in daylight.
I see a lot of complaining about "having" to pay for the education of others. Quite often, I subsequently see the same people using the lack of an educated work force as their rationale for outsourcing their production - to countries with average education levels that are far worse than America's.
The human mind is a fascinating thing, don't you think?
If the current approach to programming in things Microsoft is any example, by Windows 7 Microsoft will have insisted that all Windows developers transition to their latest attempt to obfuscate and prolong the Windows programming experience, .fish.n.NET, and we remaining Windows programmers will have begun a mass migration to Linux.
Am I reading that claim wrong, or is Symbian attempting to get a cut from anybody who uses logic that passes through more than one preloaded DLL before hitting the O/S kernel?
I want a patent on road detours, in that case.
Anybody who doesn't take the shortest path home from the office or who stops for a six-pack along the way shall pay me a royalty henceforth.
A Japanese newspaper and the AP report that China plans to demand source code from hardware manufacturers, and ban the sale of products from companies that don't comply. China is calling this an "obligatory accreditation system for IT security products."
What I would immediately suspect is that China knows quite well that is is possible to put back doors, sniffers, and data sentries in firmware and the end user will never know.
Remember that, the next time you are concluding a frantic night's work on a breakthrough process on your Lenovo PC.
The good thing about rural areas not getting a TV signal any more is they will now get their election advice from Billy Bob, who is a farrrrrr better source of information than any e-media that offers multiple perspectives.
...a universe of sandboxes.
How do you get to be CEO of a large corporation - which is really just a closed system of interlocking parts - and be incapable of understanding that the Earth itself is a closed system? How can a CEO not understand that just because he or she puts something poisonous way over there, it does not obligate the Earth and natural forces to keep it way over there?
Maybe we should start using terms that CEOs can understand:
Think of pollution like you would that letter from your largest customer informing you that they are thinking about dumping you. If you don't keep it safely locked up, before long it is all over the corporation, and then all over Wall Street, and the next thing you know, your accumulated shares are worth 90% less - and your future is uncertain at best. Only with pollution, your carelessness forces others to share your uncertain future.
Saying that the latecomers should be "allowed" to not use pollution controls because we once didn't should be accompanied by the latecomers not using the other things that we learned along the way - like automation, CAD, and so on - don't you think?
Cherry-picking only those things that make you money while ignoring those things that add costs but save your homeworld is the epitome of greed-motivated self- and world-destructive behavior.
Begs the question: How many of 'em were available in 1913?
lolll...open a website promising something expensive to its users, use captchas to validate username and passwords, then monitor incoming IP addresses..even with the use of proxy servers sited in the U.S. (ahhh, capitalism...), you'll note enough offshore addresses to affect your impromptu conclusion that the story lacks "verisimilitude"...
The Internet isn't supposed to have a "hub". It's supposed to be completely distributed and decentralized.
[...]
The US invented the Internet. We should be exporting equipment and expertise, so the rest of the world can do business with us (and with each other our way), and get paid right to do it.
Ummm...but manufacturing in the U.S. does not yield the profits that manufacturing in China, India, Vietnam et do - so we will continue manufacturing elsewhere, thus continuing to finance the conversion of the U.S. into an industrial, technological, and - now - information backwater.
It has been an interesting journey, watching "trickle down" economics and "free trade" transform the U.S. of A. from a "hub" to a "home run" in three short decades.
And amusing, in a gallows humor fashion. Who knew that America, "the capitalists to the world", would be foolish enough to cut their own throats with the knife of "profit"?
Even I have gone through these decades thinking "Surely this is the year we will wake up?"
Of course, there will be some exceptions, like jobs that require a security clearance. But, for the most part, the demand for US IT workers in nearly zero.
Methinks relying upon background vetting and security clearances for your stateside employees when some or all of your data resides offshore and there are high-bandwidth pipes between that data and the guts of your U.S. operation makes any "security clearance" nothing more than that lucky horseshoe you have hanging over your wide-open door.
Assuming that it has not happened already...I wonder how long it will be before some or all PCs and motherboard components manufactured offshore come with their own custom little TCP/IP stack in hardware that queues, say, the contents of memory and bursts it off elsewhere during CPU idle time?
I know one thing: When I was working for the ASA, the very thought of suggesting that our potential enemies could be manipulated into gleefully and trustingly accepting electronics and computational equipment manufactured by us for their use across the entire width and breadth of their economy because it was cheap was never even considered as a possible information gathering tactic - it was simply too ludicrous of a concept.
As it turns out, capitalism is much more naive/arrogant/blinded by greed.
I never thought to ask for a "take-home" 984 when I quit the last job where I routinely used Schnieder Modicon devices, and I suspect that same lack of a rack of PLCs and I/O at home affects the open source movement's involvement in Modicon's Modbus protocol, too.
But it would appear that the industry is not without resources: http://www.modbus.org/tech.php
Apple will lose, and move to Dubai where unions are illegal and which has no extradition arrangements with the U.S. of A. Americans will ignore the slap in the face and continue to buy things Apple because "They're just tooo kewl, dude!" and/or "At least they're not Microsoft!".