Just goes to show... For every person seeking to push the edge of human achievement, there will be 1000 bureaucrats and lawyers trying to stop it, or at least make the journey fraught with red tape and roadblocks.
If legal bureaucracy had been around in Biblical times, Moses would have needed to get a permit and do an environmental impact study to part the Red Sea.
Bombs tend to have an explosive payload of some kind, and they also tend to be too heavy to simply dangle from a shirt without some means of securing them. I'm surprised AIRPORT SECURITY doesn't know this. I am also alarmed at the "assume something is a bomb until proven otherwise" mentality.
It was a bunch of wires sticking out of a breadboard. I know people in general aren't that bright, but come on. We aren't talking about a to-scale gun replica here.
Osama bin Laden must be laughing his beard off watching us Americans collectively shit our pants over a breadboard with some wires sticking out of it.
The home of the brave, the same country that introduced the world to John Wayne, is now terrorized out of its mind over a girl carrying a device where "there were wires attached to a battery that actually lit up".
There's no hope for us anymore. They need to start handing out diapers at airports now.
I never claimed this is the same level of importance as the civil rights fight, obviously. But the basic principle is the same.
1. Authority figure tells you to do some innocuous little thing you don't legally have to do. 2. Societal pressure to "just do it and stop being a douchebag". 3. Victim (within their rights) chooses not to do it, and gets arrested/detained as a result.
Am I saying this is an earth-shattering precedent-setting case? Of course not. This is a tiny, stupid little example that we're all going to forget in a few days. But we are talking about the same principle.
Sure, there are more tactful ways of being right, but I don't see anything wrong with vocally expressing your anger about someone who is trying to illegally search you. If anything the store owner was the ass, for pushing the issue where he has no authority to push it.
Personally, I just walk right past these bag-checkers and ignore their requests. Nobody has ever given me an ounce of trouble. One or two "HAY! GET BACK HERE!" that I also ignore. Now if they tried to detain me without any suspicion that I committed a crime, I don't see anything wrong with loudly telling them to stuff it.
This guy is really doing civil rights leaders of past and present proud here. I'll bet Rosa Parks is looking down, really admiring this person for their courage.
Funny you bring up Rosa Parks. I think most of the people in this thread, had they been alive during the civil rights era, would have taken your stance:
"That Rosa Parks, what a social misfit. What was she thinking? She should have just given up her seat. Sheesh, it's not like they're asking her to carry the bus!! Just play the game and do what the authority figure tells you to. She'll lose in court anyway, judges don't like her kind, and the police are respected."
Then the shopper was an ass for not playing along in a social environment he choose to be a part of.
How does refusing an illegal search make one an ass? Should the manager be allowed to search his pockets? Pat him down? Even worse? Where do you draw the line?
Hey, just play along in the social environment! Spread those cheeks and don't be an ass!
'If there is something good in the world then we copy with pride.'
Remember, kids. Copying someone's "intellectual property" is A-OK if you're a mega-corporation, but a crime if you're trading MP3's in your basement. Got that? Good.
But the kids these days -- anything they might want to know is sitting there in the computer room. They will never know a world of informationlessness. Everything from obscure programming langauges to Hatian Gods to currrent events, right in front of them.
On the flip side, however, this generation is useless when the power goes out. Most of them can't recall basic historical facts, spell properly, or do basic arithmetic without a machine to help them.
It's the "I don't need to know---I'll google it!" generation.
As others have pointed out, no one would want to run a corporation where they are liable not just for doing their job, but being sure that no mistakes were made by anyone else (like the IT worker turning off a firewall, or the janitor that doesn't put down a wet floor sign).
More liability and accountability is a good thing, as it ultimately benefits shareholders and customers. It's happening for accounting. Why not for other aspects of the business such as the security of personal information?
Seems like one of the popular business fads of the moment is "having a sense of urgency". Have you heard this one? Your boss or executive manager probably has this buzz-phrase in his vocabulary. Everything is "urgent" now: From project completion to making your numbers, to handling unexpected events, to your everyday communication. URGENT! URGENT!! Every E-mail MUST be responded to, instantly! URGENT! Your competitors check their E-mail 20 times an hour, so it's urgent that you check 40 times an hour!! Every communication is of top importance, every bug is priority one, every E-mail is URGENT!
I've seen offices where you'd get an E-mail, and if you didn't respond within a few minutes, you'd get an I.M. and if you didn't respond to that within a few seconds, it's a telephone call, and if you don't answer, someone will breathlessly rush to your desk to ask you face-to-face what flavor of coffee should get brewed next in the break room.
No wonder people are getting stressed out. I think it's URGENT that we all take a break and realize that your business is not going to go up in flames if you relax and have normal paced communications.
So, release yours as open source, assuming it works. There's clearly demand for an open protocol such as this, and one that "did things right" and outperformed BitTorrent would probably become quite popular.
Anyone who has ever witnessed an all-female sales office, and how everyone treats each other in THAT environment, is laughing hysterically at this thread, ney, at this entire article.
You and I common Citizens are only allowed to live free because of our >50% probability of making rich people richer. Our society is set up so that as soon as it looks like we are not going to be a net positive benefit to the wealthy/powerful we are conveniently found violating some law and thrown into jail.
Not so amazing. Voters are irrational, and, again and again, elect people who operate against their (the voters') interests. Mostly because they are told by the TV that the politicians who WOULD work for their interests are unelectable.
I wouldn't like to be subdued by any of them, thank you very much.
What are you, a... TERRORIST?!?!?
This is the USA. The police are always right. They never have bad intentions. So if they are subduing you, they have a good reason to. Be glad they're only blinding you, and not beating you or sodomizing you with a broomstick. If you immediately curl up in a ball and obey their orders, they might just let you live (in jail for the next 5 years, that is). It's really for your own good, what with all the terrorists all over the place, hiding in every shadow, waiting to pounce.
Be a good little citizen and obey your government. Remember, authority figures are always right.
Interesting. Volume is one of the controls where I'd say the "button" interface is totally inappropriate. There's nothing worse than having some loud section come on and having to sit there HOLDING DOWN the "volume down" button until your ears stop bleeding. Volume should always be a knob that will change the volume at a speed proportional to the speed at which you are turning the knob.
There are a lot of controls that are more intuitive as knobs that you can control with varying speeds, but knobs are not as cheap to make as buttons. Thus the PITA 100 button remotes that come with home electronics nowadays.
What, CEO of their mom's basement? A "social network" is next to useless for building professional contacts if it's just full of other dumbass teenagers texting OMG WTF BBQ at each other all day.
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Just goes to show... For every person seeking to push the edge of human achievement, there will be 1000 bureaucrats and lawyers trying to stop it, or at least make the journey fraught with red tape and roadblocks.
If legal bureaucracy had been around in Biblical times, Moses would have needed to get a permit and do an environmental impact study to part the Red Sea.
None of your links seem to work, but here are a few of mine:
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Bombs tend to have an explosive payload of some kind, and they also tend to be too heavy to simply dangle from a shirt without some means of securing them. I'm surprised AIRPORT SECURITY doesn't know this. I am also alarmed at the "assume something is a bomb until proven otherwise" mentality.
It was a bunch of wires sticking out of a breadboard. I know people in general aren't that bright, but come on. We aren't talking about a to-scale gun replica here.
Osama bin Laden must be laughing his beard off watching us Americans collectively shit our pants over a breadboard with some wires sticking out of it.
The home of the brave, the same country that introduced the world to John Wayne, is now terrorized out of its mind over a girl carrying a device where "there were wires attached to a battery that actually lit up".
There's no hope for us anymore. They need to start handing out diapers at airports now.
One could argue that an act is not much of a crime in the first place, if people are willingly becoming "victims".
The single most important thing we can do in our IT jobs is to ask why?
"We need to buy some web 2.0. How much will that cost?"
"Why do we need it?"
In my experience, that's a great way to get fired, or at the very least met with the response:
"BECAUSE I SAID WE NEED TO BUY SOME FUCKING WEB 2.0! JUST TELL ME HOW MUCH!"
So, how the hell is an IT guy qualified to decide whether something will "likely hurt the business"?
I never claimed this is the same level of importance as the civil rights fight, obviously. But the basic principle is the same.
1. Authority figure tells you to do some innocuous little thing you don't legally have to do.
2. Societal pressure to "just do it and stop being a douchebag".
3. Victim (within their rights) chooses not to do it, and gets arrested/detained as a result.
Am I saying this is an earth-shattering precedent-setting case? Of course not. This is a tiny, stupid little example that we're all going to forget in a few days. But we are talking about the same principle.
Same principle, but (obviously) different level of severity.
Hey, they can ask all they want. But they can't make you submit to a search without suspicion that you committed a crime.
A personal violation is a personal violation. We're only talking degrees here. Should they be allowed to take a peek under your jacket?
Sure, there are more tactful ways of being right, but I don't see anything wrong with vocally expressing your anger about someone who is trying to illegally search you. If anything the store owner was the ass, for pushing the issue where he has no authority to push it.
Personally, I just walk right past these bag-checkers and ignore their requests. Nobody has ever given me an ounce of trouble. One or two "HAY! GET BACK HERE!" that I also ignore. Now if they tried to detain me without any suspicion that I committed a crime, I don't see anything wrong with loudly telling them to stuff it.
This guy is really doing civil rights leaders of past and present proud here. I'll bet Rosa Parks is looking down, really admiring this person for their courage.
Funny you bring up Rosa Parks. I think most of the people in this thread, had they been alive during the civil rights era, would have taken your stance:
"That Rosa Parks, what a social misfit. What was she thinking? She should have just given up her seat. Sheesh, it's not like they're asking her to carry the bus!! Just play the game and do what the authority figure tells you to. She'll lose in court anyway, judges don't like her kind, and the police are respected."
Then the shopper was an ass for not playing along in a social environment he choose to be a part of.
How does refusing an illegal search make one an ass? Should the manager be allowed to search his pockets? Pat him down? Even worse? Where do you draw the line?
Hey, just play along in the social environment! Spread those cheeks and don't be an ass!
They are not asking to pat you down or strip search you.
And if they were, do you just bend over out of common courtesy? Where do you draw the line?
Wow, so now you're a social misfit for refusing to submit to an illegal search and complaining about an illegal detention?
What if they were demanding a full body cavity search? Just bend over and take it because you don't want to be a "social misfit"???
'If there is something good in the world then we copy with pride.'
Remember, kids. Copying someone's "intellectual property" is A-OK if you're a mega-corporation, but a crime if you're trading MP3's in your basement. Got that? Good.
But the kids these days -- anything they might want to know is sitting there in the computer room. They will never know a world of informationlessness. Everything from obscure programming langauges to Hatian Gods to currrent events, right in front of them.
On the flip side, however, this generation is useless when the power goes out. Most of them can't recall basic historical facts, spell properly, or do basic arithmetic without a machine to help them.
It's the "I don't need to know---I'll google it!" generation.
As others have pointed out, no one would want to run a corporation where they are liable not just for doing their job, but being sure that no mistakes were made by anyone else (like the IT worker turning off a firewall, or the janitor that doesn't put down a wet floor sign).
More liability and accountability is a good thing, as it ultimately benefits shareholders and customers. It's happening for accounting. Why not for other aspects of the business such as the security of personal information?
Seems like one of the popular business fads of the moment is "having a sense of urgency". Have you heard this one? Your boss or executive manager probably has this buzz-phrase in his vocabulary. Everything is "urgent" now: From project completion to making your numbers, to handling unexpected events, to your everyday communication. URGENT! URGENT!! Every E-mail MUST be responded to, instantly! URGENT! Your competitors check their E-mail 20 times an hour, so it's urgent that you check 40 times an hour!! Every communication is of top importance, every bug is priority one, every E-mail is URGENT!
I've seen offices where you'd get an E-mail, and if you didn't respond within a few minutes, you'd get an I.M. and if you didn't respond to that within a few seconds, it's a telephone call, and if you don't answer, someone will breathlessly rush to your desk to ask you face-to-face what flavor of coffee should get brewed next in the break room.
No wonder people are getting stressed out. I think it's URGENT that we all take a break and realize that your business is not going to go up in flames if you relax and have normal paced communications.
So, release yours as open source, assuming it works. There's clearly demand for an open protocol such as this, and one that "did things right" and outperformed BitTorrent would probably become quite popular.
Anyone who has ever witnessed an all-female sales office, and how everyone treats each other in THAT environment, is laughing hysterically at this thread, ney, at this entire article.
Are you kidding?
You and I common Citizens are only allowed to live free because of our >50% probability of making rich people richer. Our society is set up so that as soon as it looks like we are not going to be a net positive benefit to the wealthy/powerful we are conveniently found violating some law and thrown into jail.
Not so amazing. Voters are irrational, and, again and again, elect people who operate against their (the voters') interests. Mostly because they are told by the TV that the politicians who WOULD work for their interests are unelectable.
I wouldn't like to be subdued by any of them, thank you very much.
... TERRORIST?!?!?
What are you, a
This is the USA. The police are always right. They never have bad intentions. So if they are subduing you, they have a good reason to. Be glad they're only blinding you, and not beating you or sodomizing you with a broomstick. If you immediately curl up in a ball and obey their orders, they might just let you live (in jail for the next 5 years, that is). It's really for your own good, what with all the terrorists all over the place, hiding in every shadow, waiting to pounce.
Be a good little citizen and obey your government. Remember, authority figures are always right.
Interesting. Volume is one of the controls where I'd say the "button" interface is totally inappropriate. There's nothing worse than having some loud section come on and having to sit there HOLDING DOWN the "volume down" button until your ears stop bleeding. Volume should always be a knob that will change the volume at a speed proportional to the speed at which you are turning the knob.
There are a lot of controls that are more intuitive as knobs that you can control with varying speeds, but knobs are not as cheap to make as buttons. Thus the PITA 100 button remotes that come with home electronics nowadays.
They will just float from CEO job to CEO job.
What, CEO of their mom's basement? A "social network" is next to useless for building professional contacts if it's just full of other dumbass teenagers texting OMG WTF BBQ at each other all day.