Then consider the ramifications as you add in dynamic class loading, extensive libraries, etc, that may themselves depend upon these classes to behave in an expected manner.
Give the programmer the option. If one simply reimplemented something better, the items using them would benefits. If someone messed up, well, it would cause bugs, but it would be up to the programmer to not do that.
but Type 2 diabetics can get back to human weight levels and the diabetes goes away (I think this is true?),
Wrong, wrong, wrong! You don't know the first thing about diabetes. It is lifelong, dead beta cells stay dead, damaged nerves and small blood vessels and nephrons stay damaged or dead.
Employers can take the moral high ground and say "it doesn't matter and if you don't like it, go somewhere else". This is admirable and the right thing to do. It will also cost them money.
A company will lose more customers by being seen as intrusive (and it will be quite a few) than those it would lose by not being intrusive (which is very likely to be zero).
People might not like what an employee does off the clock, but very very very few would care enough to inconvenience themselves by boycotting the company as a result (which means finding a replacement product which might not be as good or might cost more, or might otherwise be undesirable (perhaps they'd have to go to a foreign company and they already are trying to buy American, and this issue is more important to them), or do without).
People protesting someone getting fired very well could anger them enough to boycott, and also scare them into wanting to stop the precedent before they are a victim. Also, a lot of politically incorrect things employees do the public does also. Someone is unlikely to boycott a company if an employee gets drunk if they themselves do it. People might be hypocritical enough to say they'd do that while still getting drunk themselves, but much less likely to ACT in a hypocritical manner.
How many people do you think would boycott a company if one of the employees had a drunken photo on MySpace? How many people do you think would boycott a company if one of the employees was fired for having a drunken photo on MySpace?
Which number is bigger?
You may be right, that companies are worried about the answer to #1. Our job is to make them aware the answer to #2 is even greater.
Agreed. I go by the 15 year rule. What we see today from the military, secret agencies, etc is what was cutting edge 15 years ago. So in 1992 they had then what we are seeing from them now. What they got now is what we'll be told about in 2022. In other words, WAY advanced.
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7 Tesla fields will be enough to CHANGE one's brain activity.
And we destroyed a lot of the usefulness of Maxwell's equations by shifting from quaternions to vector math, losing the scalar component.
Look up scalar wave theory.
Adam Smith's theories are nice for the textbooks, but we live in the Real World, even if some of us don't fully realize that.
Free market capitalism is broken. 100% communism is also broken, but for different reasons.
We need a mostly free market, WITH SIGNIFICANT EXCEPTIONS, to function efficiently without destroying resources.
I think he can be nominated for a Honorable Mention.
:)
People who didn't manage to win, but have come close.
Windows isn't 100% and Microsoft isn't anywhere near broke.
Then consider the ramifications as you add in dynamic class loading, extensive libraries, etc, that may themselves depend upon these classes to behave in an expected manner.
Give the programmer the option. If one simply reimplemented something better, the items using them would benefits. If someone messed up, well, it would cause bugs, but it would be up to the programmer to not do that.
That's the first I've heard of that angle to the story. Have a citation for that?
If true, it changes things a lot. Especially since it appears to involve ON the job conduct...
A little knowledge of the subject, lots of self confidence and good social skills so people can't tell your bullshitting. :)
True. People won't believe the DEA anymore, even if they say drugs can cause a 108 (or higher fever).
There's a drug, PMA, which has killed someone with a 115 degree fever.
Yes, 115 F (i.e. 46.1 C), that wasn't a typo. It would likely would hurt to touch someone that hot.
But people have heard so much anti-drug propaganda that they'd dismiss the above as more of the same.
I had a huge list, but they got corrupted when my Windows PC crashed. :)
No, but what they did to steal the wwf.com domain and WWF name is obscene.
I always resolve to not start smoking crack. (So far I'm batting 1000.)
:)
Let me guess, you don't get mod points here very often.
but Type 2 diabetics can get back to human weight levels and the diabetes goes away (I think this is true?),
Wrong, wrong, wrong! You don't know the first thing about diabetes. It is lifelong, dead beta cells stay dead, damaged nerves and small blood vessels and nephrons stay damaged or dead.
Prejudiced and uninformed.
"diabetes never goes away" (except gestational).
Stacy Snyder was denied a teaching certificate by the government (the public university that denied it is part of government).
So in that case the 1st Amendment DOES apply.
Just the fact that after the exec was given power the company couldn't turn a profit should be enough in and of itself.
:)
Unless we are talking SCO or something?
Which way you vote is secret in the US, and most other countries.
Employers can take the moral high ground and say "it doesn't matter and if you don't like it, go somewhere else". This is admirable and the right thing to do. It will also cost them money.
A company will lose more customers by being seen as intrusive (and it will be quite a few) than those it would lose by not being intrusive (which is very likely to be zero).
People might not like what an employee does off the clock, but very very very few would care enough to inconvenience themselves by boycotting the company as a result (which means finding a replacement product which might not be as good or might cost more, or might otherwise be undesirable (perhaps they'd have to go to a foreign company and they already are trying to buy American, and this issue is more important to them), or do without).
People protesting someone getting fired very well could anger them enough to boycott, and also scare them into wanting to stop the precedent before they are a victim. Also, a lot of politically incorrect things employees do the public does also. Someone is unlikely to boycott a company if an employee gets drunk if they themselves do it. People might be hypocritical enough to say they'd do that while still getting drunk themselves, but much less likely to ACT in a hypocritical manner.
How many people do you think would boycott a company if one of the employees had a drunken photo on MySpace?
How many people do you think would boycott a company if one of the employees was fired for having a drunken photo on MySpace?
Which number is bigger?
You may be right, that companies are worried about the answer to #1. Our job is to make them aware the answer to #2 is even greater.
Have someone trusted investigate the fix, the bug and what it does and see if that fix is appropriate, if not, write a better one.
Then you have a trusted source for the fix.
All your base are belong to Linux!
Gives a whole new meaning to Linux pwns you.
Agreed. I go by the 15 year rule. What we see today from the military, secret agencies, etc is what was cutting edge 15 years ago. So in 1992 they had then what we are seeing from them now. What they got now is what we'll be told about in 2022. In other words, WAY advanced.
The summary is highly misleading, almost to the point of outright lying.
:)
Here, on Slashdot, heavens no!
Careful admitting that, you could get an ADA lawsuit.
Bogus whois is cause for domain cancellation.
You don't even want to miss a benign (i.e. harmless murmur)!
:)
The echocardiogram to prove it was harmless will bring in $600 of revenue.
You misunderestimated him! :)
Merry Christmas!