"We are hurtling back into a Soviet abyss, into an information vacuum that spells death from our own ignorance. All we have left is the internet, where information is still freely available. For the rest, if you want to go on working as a journalist, it's total servility. . . "
why the alarm? back in 2002, slashdotters were ranting and raving about the new airport security measures, as though somehow it would eventually lead to the physical inspection of babies. here we are in 2011, and the only 'inspection' of babies has been a simple, reasonable pat-down.
This will be an important development for our partners in countries like Syria, Uzbekistan, Thailand, Algeria, Egypt, and Iran, who are also having problems with wide spread hooliganism and the criminal element. Just last week, a troublemaker named Maikel Nabil Sanad went on a hunger strike in Egypt. That story is already being repeated on irresponsible websites who don't seem to care about protecting what really matters - the stability and security of the state.
apple advertised itself as 'open source', and darwin is based off of BSD, windows off of Xerox, the mouse off of Xerox, etc etc etc. apple owes everything it is to other people's work and inventions, and the open intellectual culture of places like Berkeley.
for it to get all anally draconian about IP law is the height of lunacy. its like watching a building implode its own foundation and expect to go floating off into space.
endangered species are mostly endangered by habitat destruction. you cannot have forest panther without the forest. you cant have a desert elephant without the desert. you cant have a polar bear without the polar. saving a single animal's DNA is just moronic.
the 'gang of four' is a phrase coined during the Culutral Revolution of the 60s in China, a horrifically brutal period in which millions of people died, filled with mass starvation, torture, rape, murder, anarchy, mob violence, chaos, destruction, and other things.
then some fucktard computer dick comes along and writes a book about some obscure software engineering bullshit. what do they title it? "Gang of Four". oh thats FUCKING HILARIOUS
what is their next book titled, "Himmler and Heydrich"? I've got an idea! Lets write a garbage collector and call it the "Holodomor"! How fucking tongue in cheek!
the first 'programming books' that i read were "family and home office computing magazine", typing shit into a ti-99/4a.
then there were the kids programming books with simple ass little projects.
later on, there was Babbage's , and the giant purple MSDOS book by Microsoft that nobody remembers
then the Turbo Pascal 7.0 manual, with its introduction to object oriented programming.
these grown up "classic" books are just a bunch of egg head bullshit. especially Knuth, the hipster's guide to fucking up software (TeX being the fixed gear cycling of the computer world)
You are describing software testing in the 1990s. Thomas Drake was heavily involved in software testing, and worked for NSA contractors until 2001, when he was hired at NSA itself.
After 9/11, he got disturbed with some of their wasteful practices . . . I am wondering if 'vendor friendly' software testing was one of the practices he might have had a problem with.
The DoD IG report on Trailblazer is still mostly redacted... the public is left in the dark about these things.
i think you might enjoy the book "Shadow Factory" by James Bamford, or maybe you might like the PBS Frontline special about his book, available online at pbs.org (the video is called Spy Factory for some reason)
where the student's dont dance, or an acting program where the students don't act, or a technical theatre department where the students don't set up lights and rigging, or a sports program where students don't ever play games.
however, software engineering requires computers. you cannot understand how a team works together with a source-code control system without being on a team, working on a project, with a source code control system.
professors to show people how to use open office, and oracle doesnt pay kickbacks to administrators to choose mysql based solutions for the bureaucracy.
of course, we wonder why this educational system produces corrupt government officials and corrupt corporate executives.
go through the fucking roof. the higher your budget as an administrator, the more power you have in the bureaucracy. if there was some bunch of think-tank eggheads writing papers about how faberge eggs were important historical educational tools, and the government granted the money, then administratosr would buy faberge eggs so that their budgets would continue to go up.
Slashdot Mirror
as long as there is Anonymous Coward, slashdot still has hope.
imagine if you took a conical bath...
????
"We are hurtling back into a Soviet abyss, into an information vacuum that spells death from our own ignorance. All we have left is the internet, where information is still freely available. For the rest, if you want to go on working as a journalist, it's total servility. . . "
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Assassination_of_Anna_Politkovskaya
jesus thats fucked
so in that case, i wonder what they go after, the copyright infringement of the picture? or the guys running the prostitution ring?
why the alarm? back in 2002, slashdotters were ranting and raving about the new airport security measures, as though somehow it would eventually lead to the physical inspection of babies. here we are in 2011, and the only 'inspection' of babies has been a simple, reasonable pat-down.
This will be an important development for our partners in countries like Syria, Uzbekistan, Thailand, Algeria, Egypt, and Iran, who are also having problems with wide spread hooliganism and the criminal element. Just last week, a troublemaker named Maikel Nabil Sanad went on a hunger strike in Egypt. That story is already being repeated on irresponsible websites who don't seem to care about protecting what really matters - the stability and security of the state.
apple advertised itself as 'open source', and darwin is based off of BSD, windows off of Xerox, the mouse off of Xerox, etc etc etc. apple owes everything it is to other people's work and inventions, and the open intellectual culture of places like Berkeley.
for it to get all anally draconian about IP law is the height of lunacy. its like watching a building implode its own foundation and expect to go floating off into space.
that did not care about 20th century concepts like nationalism (since the corporations have long ago abandoned those ideas)
way of calling someone a 'fag' i have ever seen.
it's like creating the venus de milo in order to make a poop joke.
i dont know whether to applaud or to throw up in my mouth
because goddamnit thats the free market!
endangered species are mostly endangered by habitat destruction. you cannot have forest panther without the forest. you cant have a desert elephant without the desert. you cant have a polar bear without the polar. saving a single animal's DNA is just moronic.
what we need is a free market solution. maybe if we started charging money for seawater, people wouldn't be so wasteful with it.
in the lego kit.
to the authors. i got a tiny fact wrong. they got an entire history of a nation of people wrong.
the soulless amorality of the computer science 'community' beggars belief sometimes.
the 'gang of four' is a phrase coined during the Culutral Revolution of the 60s in China, a horrifically brutal period in which millions of people died, filled with mass starvation, torture, rape, murder, anarchy, mob violence, chaos, destruction, and other things.
then some fucktard computer dick comes along and writes a book about some obscure software engineering bullshit. what do they title it? "Gang of Four". oh thats FUCKING HILARIOUS
what is their next book titled, "Himmler and Heydrich"? I've got an idea! Lets write a garbage collector and call it the "Holodomor"! How fucking tongue in cheek!
the first 'programming books' that i read were "family and home office computing magazine", typing shit into a ti-99/4a.
then there were the kids programming books with simple ass little projects.
later on, there was Babbage's , and the giant purple MSDOS book by Microsoft that nobody remembers
then the Turbo Pascal 7.0 manual, with its introduction to object oriented programming.
these grown up "classic" books are just a bunch of egg head bullshit. especially Knuth, the hipster's guide to fucking up software (TeX being the fixed gear cycling of the computer world)
You are describing software testing in the 1990s. Thomas Drake was heavily involved in software testing, and worked for NSA contractors until 2001, when he was hired at NSA itself.
After 9/11, he got disturbed with some of their wasteful practices . . . I am wondering if 'vendor friendly' software testing was one of the practices he might have had a problem with.
The DoD IG report on Trailblazer is still mostly redacted... the public is left in the dark about these things.
i think you might enjoy the book "Shadow Factory" by James Bamford,
or maybe you might like the PBS Frontline special about his book, available online at pbs.org (the video is called Spy Factory for some reason)
and do interviews in college. they dont just 'study books about writing'.
the experience of interacting with other people cannot be replaced by studying a book about it.
thats where software engineering education would completely fall down without access to real computers, with real compilers and real build systems.
where the student's dont dance, or an acting program where the students don't act, or a technical theatre department where the students don't set up lights and rigging, or a sports program where students don't ever play games.
imho
i agree with you.
however, software engineering requires computers. you cannot understand how a team works together with a source-code control system without being on a team, working on a project, with a source code control system.
professors to show people how to use open office, and oracle doesnt pay kickbacks to administrators to choose mysql based solutions for the bureaucracy.
of course, we wonder why this educational system produces corrupt government officials and corrupt corporate executives.
go through the fucking roof. the higher your budget as an administrator, the more power you have in the bureaucracy. if there was some bunch of think-tank eggheads writing papers about how faberge eggs were important historical educational tools, and the government granted the money, then administratosr would buy faberge eggs so that their budgets would continue to go up.