hey, I like this - but maybe we should mod the posts too, with synthetic mutation or some sillifying processor...(snork).
Why not just have only positive votes? Then it wouldn't be censorship, per se. You like the article, you vote for it. You hate it, you ignore it. If the person has a clue, eventually they will post something which gets more than one yes. Otherwise they'll have to use some other medium to get the message out.
I didn't go to college because, well, I had an entertaining life programming and reading science fiction and gaming...I did matriculate/take a few courses, but it was hard to fit into the day/night job as a programmer. I must mention I'm an autodidact...spent many years following the threads of ACM/IEEE et al in order to keep up. University libraries and refereed journals aren't as useful now as then.
Many of my contemporaries (even after 20 years) do not seem stunted for their college experience, despite all the heavy drinking, drugs, and partying with MOTAS. On the other hand, only a few of the folks who skipped college later went on to (what they considered) meaningful careers. The latter were a self-selecting lot, implying a successful geek who skips college didn't need it anyway, and well, the unsuccessful one wasn't really a geek anyway.
Over the last 30 years I think few IS/CS/EE programs have done well at preparing graduates for career relevancy. But does this really matter when many IT-related job ads consider a person w/3-years experience as senior/expert?
There's nothing that says they have to be the *ONLY* root servers. DNS is somewhat more flexible than that. It's perfectly possible to set up alternative roots - look at alternic.
And of course DNS can be replaced - there are other directory schemes in the works.
At best, NSI is attempting to exploit a temporary imbalance. When people wise up - we'll all look like idiots for giving them so much money and pretending there was a reason for it.
Ok, I listen to people like you and RMS, and yeah, you sound like extremist ideologues. But every once and a while y'all say something and I sit up and take notice - without extremists, we'll all be subliminated by the grey men. ESR in my view is slacking on the ideology. His public "let a hundred flowers bloom"/"think of it as evolution in action" sangfroid appeals to my fad-jaded perspective on computing, but I see no originality - he's observing, not creating.
I will always appreciate people who are willing to step up with a well-reasoned and critical dissent, no matter how it rocks the boat. After all, this universe is consensual, not physical, reality - we can be fooled or fool ourselves and not notice we've compromised our ethos. So, if you feel you have to distance yourself, fine. But don't be afraid to criticise.
Absolutely. Speaking as a dumb-ass consultant, I find it encouraging for GG to spread the gospel of "don't-trust-your-people" - leads to more F-500 consulting jobs for me! Who said there was no fud in this!
The folks who take GG seriously are people who are too dumb to figure it out for themselves or notice. GG caters to paternalistic MIS groups, is subject to Sturgeon's law, and caveats everything to death. I'm sure GG means well, but it's still the road to hell....
Considering my current personal tax bite approaching 60% I need all the help I can get. It's not my fault the US tax system is screwed up this way! The US tax system favors nonsense input to every financial decision.
What difference does this make if you don't contribute good software anyway?
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hey, I like this - but maybe we should mod the posts too, with synthetic mutation or some sillifying processor...(snork).
Why not just have only positive votes? Then it wouldn't be censorship, per se. You like the article, you vote for it. You hate it, you ignore it. If the person has a clue, eventually they will post something which gets more than one yes. Otherwise they'll have to use some other medium to get the message out.
I didn't go to college because, well, I had an entertaining life programming and reading science fiction and gaming...I did matriculate/take a few courses, but it was hard to fit into the day/night job as a programmer. I must mention I'm an autodidact...spent many years following the threads of ACM/IEEE et al in order to keep up. University libraries and refereed journals aren't as useful now as then.
Many of my contemporaries (even after 20 years) do not seem stunted for their college experience, despite all the heavy drinking, drugs, and partying with MOTAS. On the other hand, only a few of the folks who skipped college later went on to (what they considered) meaningful careers. The latter were a self-selecting lot, implying a successful geek who skips college didn't need it anyway, and well, the unsuccessful one wasn't really a geek anyway.
Over the last 30 years I think few IS/CS/EE programs have done well at preparing graduates for career relevancy. But does this really matter when many IT-related job ads consider a person w/3-years experience as senior/expert?
There's nothing that says they have to be the *ONLY* root servers. DNS is somewhat more flexible than that. It's perfectly possible to set up alternative roots - look at alternic.
And of course DNS can be replaced - there are other directory schemes in the works.
At best, NSI is attempting to exploit a temporary imbalance. When people wise up - we'll all look like idiots for giving them so much money and pretending there was a reason for it.
Ok, I listen to people like you and RMS, and yeah, you sound like extremist ideologues. But every once and a while y'all say something and I sit up and take notice - without extremists, we'll all be subliminated by the grey men. ESR in my view is slacking on the ideology. His public "let a hundred flowers bloom"/"think of it as evolution in action" sangfroid appeals to my fad-jaded perspective on computing, but I see no originality - he's observing, not creating.
I will always appreciate people who are willing to step up with a well-reasoned and critical dissent, no matter how it rocks the boat. After all, this universe is consensual, not physical, reality - we can be fooled or fool ourselves and not notice we've compromised our ethos. So, if you feel you have to distance yourself, fine. But don't be afraid to criticise.
.../jmo
Absolutely. Speaking as a dumb-ass consultant, I find it encouraging for GG to spread the gospel of "don't-trust-your-people" - leads to more F-500 consulting jobs for me! Who said there was no fud in this!
The folks who take GG seriously are people who are too dumb to figure it out for themselves or notice. GG caters to paternalistic MIS groups, is subject to Sturgeon's law, and caveats everything to death. I'm sure GG means well, but it's still the road to hell....
Considering my current personal tax bite approaching 60% I need all the help I can get. It's not my fault the US tax system is screwed up this way! The US tax system favors nonsense input to every financial decision.
What difference does this make if you don't contribute good software anyway?