Are we supposed to be happy that the blood, sweat and tears of the thousands of developers who gave their time to an ideal of free software are now being used by the world's favorite rogue state to bring death and destruction to far flung corners of the globe?
Good points. I'm afraid that these finer distinctions need to be made after the dialog is forcibly shifted to the directions which address the severe imbalance of power and influence.
Troop movements should be an exceptional case, in a society where Government is a function of the people's self-determination. Rather, we exist in a time where this rhetoric of secrecy is used to cover the opaque operation of unaccountable government, in violation of actual laws, and the purpose of government as a social institution, deriving legitimacy from the consent of those so governed.
When government is so irreconcilably broken, and all channels for dialog so completely controlled by the private and narrow interests, which captured government function - then it is necessary to blow the lid of of everything. This is a stage 3 cancer. The negligible chance for a successful outcome is only possible through final and indiscriminate treatment.
What is the hardest thing "coders" have to do? Based on the evidence that I have seen, over more than 20 years?
Comment their code
Either that, or produce relevant, well-defined logging.
The other hard things they have to do are usually related to have a project to complex or ill-defined for producing a clear outcome. This is usually not the coder's doing, but a downstream problem derived from insufficient architecture role/guidance and probably a weak project management function.
Great, Bullwinkle. Watch me pull a rabbit out of MY hat.
RELEVANT EXTRACT: [Snowden] felt confident that he had kept the documents secure from Chinese spies, and that the N.S.A. knew he had done so. His last target while working as an agency contractor was China... adding that he had had "access to every target, every active operation mounted by the N.S.A. against the Chinese. Full lists of them," he said.
"If that was compromised," he went on, "N.S.A. would have set the table on fire from slamming it so many times in denouncing the damage it had caused. Yet N.S.A. has not offered a single example of damage from the leaks. They haven't said boo about it except "we think," "maybe", "have to assume" from anonymous and former officials. Not "China is going dark." Not "the Chinese military has shut us out."
His goal, according to verifiable first-person statements, was the SPECIFIC REMOVAL of US Military air bases from Saudi Arabia. This goal was achieved, and an almost immediate concession, after 9/11/01.
There were other, minor and vague references to Palestinian cause for justice, really related to the Al Aqsa, that did not define specific outcomes.
Any other objective or motivation has been either inserted or "interpreted" by mediating commentator of differing source and agenda.
Emmanuel Snowden and Emmanuel Assange are now unpersons, who's crimethink makes Citizen Cameron duckspeak. This is plusgood blackwhite for Cameron, making endings to the ownlife for Oceania.
Slashdot Mirror
Just because the mean was so bad, doesn't mean that there weren't significant outliers, with difference on orders of magnitude.
Agree, about the revelation. Then? There are folks in rural Wisconsin who've never been to Milwaukee, Des Moines or Chicago.
Why sales for tech needs to be technical. Why sales for tech need to be subject matter expert for customer domain.
Why good technology experiences by customer organizations are rarer than princess farts.
Are we supposed to be happy that the blood, sweat and tears of the thousands of developers who gave their time to an ideal of free software are now being used by the world's favorite rogue state to bring death and destruction to far flung corners of the globe?
Mod Up, x1000
People don't kill people. Linux kills people.
Good points. I'm afraid that these finer distinctions need to be made after the dialog is forcibly shifted to the directions which address the severe imbalance of power and influence.
Troop movements should be an exceptional case, in a society where Government is a function of the people's self-determination. Rather, we exist in a time where this rhetoric of secrecy is used to cover the opaque operation of unaccountable government, in violation of actual laws, and the purpose of government as a social institution, deriving legitimacy from the consent of those so governed.
When government is so irreconcilably broken, and all channels for dialog so completely controlled by the private and narrow interests, which captured government function - then it is necessary to blow the lid of of everything. This is a stage 3 cancer. The negligible chance for a successful outcome is only possible through final and indiscriminate treatment.
The Truth Shall Set You Free.
Rats. Crusades. Trade.
They had Silk in freaking Budapesht, Kiev, Oslo, Bruges, Orleans, Stuttgart and Florence. How isolated do you think the world was?
To be fair, it usually comes as pressure from sales.
Who don't understand the value of the software to a customer, and can only line up checkboxes next to price tags.
Value by feature. The great checkbox myth of management.
What is the hardest thing "coders" have to do? Based on the evidence that I have seen, over more than 20 years?
Comment their code
Either that, or produce relevant, well-defined logging.
The other hard things they have to do are usually related to have a project to complex or ill-defined for producing a clear outcome. This is usually not the coder's doing, but a downstream problem derived from insufficient architecture role/guidance and probably a weak project management function.
Great, Bullwinkle. Watch me pull a rabbit out of MY hat.
RELEVANT EXTRACT:
[Snowden] felt confident that he had kept the documents secure from
Chinese spies, and that the N.S.A. knew he had done so. His last
target while working as an agency contractor was China...
adding that he had had "access to every target, every active
operation mounted by the N.S.A. against the Chinese. Full lists of
them," he said.
"If that was compromised," he went on, "N.S.A. would have set the
table on fire from slamming it so many times in denouncing the damage
it had caused. Yet N.S.A. has not offered a single example of damage
from the leaks. They haven't said boo about it except "we think,"
"maybe", "have to assume" from anonymous and former officials. Not
"China is going dark." Not "the Chinese military has shut us out."
Absolute truth.
His goal, according to verifiable first-person statements, was the SPECIFIC REMOVAL of US Military air bases from Saudi Arabia. This goal was achieved, and an almost immediate concession, after 9/11/01.
There were other, minor and vague references to Palestinian cause for justice, really related to the Al Aqsa, that did not define specific outcomes.
Any other objective or motivation has been either inserted or "interpreted" by mediating commentator of differing source and agenda.
Defrag.
It's like "Centipede" on geological time.
I LOVE that game! Click once, and eventually, you always end up winning!
On bond, or recognizance?
Yeah. Like a fat, greasy turd...
Free Huey!
Now, OUT the Bastards!
PissTake(tm) The artificial kidney and bladder system, that gives as good as it takes!
Believe me, urine for a treat!
Drug Deal!
Should they call it a "pissmaker"?
"You might be living in a totalitarian regime if..." Truth is considered Treason by heads of State.
Thoughtcrime
Doubleplus Ungood.
Emmanuel Snowden and Emmanuel Assange are now unpersons, who's crimethink makes Citizen Cameron duckspeak. This is plusgood blackwhite for Cameron, making endings to the ownlife for Oceania.
Why do you keep trying to locate me, on your parochial little terrestrial sphere.
Excellent!
Poor Byron. A genius. And also as tortured...
No. That is par for Aristocrats. ;-)