What do I say about Germany going after Facebook? About time someone did!
IBM used to be all that and then became just another company. Now I can say the same for Microsoft. Nobody cares about Gates or Ballmer anymore, but they LOVE seeing Zuckerberg getting it. Zuckerberg is the new Gates, the new IT sector villain people love to hate.
I'm sure the Chinese company is screening on other things than just IQ. I've met plenty of people over the years who claim to be geniuses, but you don't see it reflected anywhere in their lives. Intelligence alone doesn't make a good worker.
The Intel guy is mostly right; we just differ on how the imbalance should be corrected. I'd much rather a natural, market-driven return to mean, than a politically dangerous (taxing imports) one.
But would that, alone, be enough to make offshoring financially ?
If the answer is "no", I would say do it anyway. Tax breaks are really taxes put onto someone else...American citizens. If fewer American citizens are earning money from these companies ( to be taxed ) I see no reason why Americans should subsidize these companies with gifts.
You are writing about other people being naive, but have you considered that not all of the "spying" issues in Chrome are have visible controls for the users to turn off by their choice?
Yes, the browser is open source but maybe the people examining the source code make mistakes, miss things or have a vested interest in not telling everyone.
Maybe Google has two sets of source code. One the publish and one with "spying" stuff in it they use to make binaries.
Google Buzz has already proven that Google is willing to take peoples private information without permission.
Things like these things happen in the business world.
Notice that IBM is not going with Chrome, though it is a faster and better browser for the moment.
IMHO that is partly because Google could become competition in other IT areas for IBM. Who wants the competitions browser, on their machines, possibly spying on them?
Even aside from that, though Google has been more responsive ( & apologetic ) than Facebook, they have been (rightfully) censured for making things public that people always felt would be private ( and without notice).
In that regards, they are in same category of trust as Facebook ( low trust ).
I asked a Chrome enthusiast coworker if Facebook made a web browser, would he use it.
His answer. "HELL NO!".
I think it would take a lot of big organizations and many regular people to trust Google to provide software on their desktop that doesn't snoop on them.
This is bad news for banks and other big orgs that dodge supporting browsers other than IE giving the "cover story" that other browsers are wildcards in term of security.
People will ask if IBM can do it, why can't they.
I guess the admins of such orgs could always say "Well, we do not have the resources of an IT company giant"
Yet, with all of those employees, going to all of those sites......
I *think* people can put captions in. Even if they can't it is still a problem.
Say you are a non-facebook person who has an active social life with people who are on facebook and who do upload pictures of you in a crowd.
Someone who recognizes you, even if you are not name, sees you in a compromising photo. You are cooked.
Maybe you aren't wearing a lamp shade on your head, but you are a wearing a politically radical t-shirt or are standing near some people who don't make the best impression. A friend of a friend of a friend etc eventually finds your pic.
Your reply has emotional power behind it, but going out, being with people, having fun and having a life in no way feels diminished by not posting every detail of it online.
I suspect that the victims from the original article would be enjoying life a lot more without the legal judgments they now have to live with thanks to divorce attorneys finding things on Facebook their common sense, had they used it, would have told them not to put up.
Good point. I know a very social person whose picture is all over facebook despite not even having an account. People take pictures with her in the scene and upload them.
I'm not a fan of black and white morality either. I am also a human being who has made mistakes and done things he regrets. People do end up with unsuitable partners and unmet needs. The thing to do is to end those relationships before taking up with someone else. Cheating is a choice.
The article said the bank is supporting Firefox and the useragent switcher is a firefox extension. How will that help Chase customers who want to use Chrome and Safari for Microsoft Windows?
How does this make sense with the rest of the news?
There was just an article in The Atlantic called "The End Of Men" about how fewer men and more women are going for higher education as well as getting the better paying jobs?
What is the deal with the article saying that IT jobs and good paying ones are growing? For years on IT sites anxiety producing stories of outsourcing are standard fare
Of all the strange crimes that humanity has legislated out of nothing, blasphemy is the most amazing - with obscenity and indecent exposure fighting it out for second and third place.
I have mixed feelings about remakes of classics, especially one where the time they were made seem to add to the films charm. Still, there have been some good remakes. I don't like the idea of adding 3D. DVD viewers will not that and the temptation for the producers to rely on that for entertainment versus a good story will be strong.
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What do I say about Germany going after Facebook? About time someone did!
IBM used to be all that and then became just another company. Now I can say the same for Microsoft. Nobody cares about Gates or Ballmer anymore, but they LOVE seeing Zuckerberg getting it. Zuckerberg is the new Gates, the new IT sector villain people love to hate.
I'm sure the Chinese company is screening on other things than just IQ. I've met plenty of people over the years who claim to be geniuses, but you don't see it reflected anywhere in their lives. Intelligence alone doesn't make a good worker.
Somehow, we get China to stop controlling the value of their currency, and we find more things to sell to them that they want to buy.
I asked the conservative, anti-government approach OP for a realistic and practical alternative in the spirit of having an open mind.
"Somehow" and "we find more things to sell to them" sounds vague, not a defined alternative that somebody can try now or investigate the results.
No offense
The Intel guy is mostly right; we just differ on how the imbalance should be corrected. I'd much rather a natural, market-driven return to mean, than a politically dangerous (taxing imports) one.
What would be a realistic example of that?
That is already what is happening....more and more good jobs go overseas, Americans become more willing to accept lower standards of living.
But would that, alone, be enough to make offshoring financially ?
If the answer is "no", I would say do it anyway. Tax breaks are really taxes put onto someone else...American citizens. If fewer American citizens are earning money from these companies ( to be taxed ) I see no reason why Americans should subsidize these companies with gifts.
LordLimeCat;
You are writing about other people being naive, but have you considered that not all of the "spying" issues in Chrome are have visible controls for the users to turn off by their choice?
Yes, the browser is open source but maybe the people examining the source code make mistakes, miss things or have a vested interest in not telling everyone.
Maybe Google has two sets of source code. One the publish and one with "spying" stuff in it they use to make binaries.
Google Buzz has already proven that Google is willing to take peoples private information without permission.
Things like these things happen in the business world.
I share your surprise, but there was an article about such a bank on /. just the other day
Notice that IBM is not going with Chrome, though it is a faster and better browser for the moment.
IMHO that is partly because Google could become competition in other IT areas for IBM. Who wants the competitions browser, on their machines, possibly spying on them?
Even aside from that, though Google has been more responsive ( & apologetic ) than Facebook, they have been (rightfully) censured for making things public that people always felt would be private ( and without notice).
In that regards, they are in same category of trust as Facebook ( low trust ).
I asked a Chrome enthusiast coworker if Facebook made a web browser, would he use it.
His answer. "HELL NO!".
I think it would take a lot of big organizations and many regular people to trust Google to provide software on their desktop that doesn't snoop on them.
This is bad news for banks and other big orgs that dodge supporting browsers other than IE giving the "cover story" that other browsers are wildcards in term of security.
People will ask if IBM can do it, why can't they.
I guess the admins of such orgs could always say
"Well, we do not have the resources of an IT company giant"
Yet, with all of those employees, going to all of those sites......
I sure hope NASA does a better job with their finale, then the producers of Lost did with theirs.
I don't know.
I *think* people can put captions in. Even if they can't it is still a problem.
Say you are a non-facebook person who has an active social life with people who are on facebook and who do upload pictures of you in a crowd.
Someone who recognizes you, even if you are not name, sees you in a compromising photo. You are cooked.
Maybe you aren't wearing a lamp shade on your head, but you are a wearing a politically radical t-shirt or are standing near some people who don't make the best impression. A friend of a friend of a friend etc eventually finds your pic.
Your reply has emotional power behind it, but going out, being with people, having fun and having a life in no way feels diminished by not posting every detail of it online.
I suspect that the victims from the original article would be enjoying life a lot more without the legal judgments they now have to live with thanks to divorce attorneys finding things on Facebook their common sense, had they used it, would have told them not to put up.
Good point. I know a very social person whose picture is all over facebook despite not even having an account. People take pictures with her in the scene and upload them.
I'm not a fan of black and white morality either. I am also a human being who has made mistakes and done things he regrets. People do end up with unsuitable partners and unmet needs. The thing to do is to end those relationships before taking up with someone else. Cheating is a choice.
I'm still amazed by the Facebook users I meet who are complacement about or ignorant of the issues surrounding Facebook.
I rarely post anything in my account anymore as result of Facebook's actions.
Once the alternatives like Diaspora come out I'm going to encourage my Facebook friends to join me there and delete my account.
The article said the bank is supporting Firefox and the useragent switcher is a firefox extension. How will that help Chase customers who want to use Chrome and Safari for Microsoft Windows?
It's possible to be a day-job geek who never plays video games, doesn't own an iphone, and doesn't read xkcd, yet still thrive in high-tech.
Its also possible to be passionate about IT and not be into those things either. It is called being your own man.
I do agree with you about the tendencies of the IT culture.
I see it and get tired of it from time to time.
How does this make sense with the rest of the news?
There was just an article in The Atlantic called "The End Of Men" about how fewer men and more women are going for higher education as well as getting the better paying jobs?
What is the deal with the article saying that IT jobs and good paying ones are growing? For years on IT sites anxiety producing stories of outsourcing are standard fare
- Robert Heinlein, Notebooks of Lazarus Long
Is Amazon willing to foot the bill of keeping those deliveries going?
Pay attention to this phrase, you will here a lot of organizations who preach for reduced government involvement hypocritically ask for this:
"Socializing costs, Privatizing Benefits"
In other words, we the tax payers use our money to help a business run as it is and when they reap the benefits, they keep the benefits.
What about telling people you feel a bit under the weather and going home?
People have been saying for years that it is Steve Ballmer whose business sense made Microsoft a juggernaut.
Both the wikipedia page for this movie and the book it was derived from are very interesting.
I have mixed feelings about remakes of classics, especially one where the time they were made seem to add to the films charm. Still, there have been some good remakes. I don't like the idea of adding 3D. DVD viewers will not that and the temptation for the producers to rely on that for entertainment versus a good story will be strong.