When I was working at Apple there was a 17 year old kid working there on Copland (MacOS 8.0 1.0) What's the difference? Oh maybe Apple is no longer an anything goes college dorm. (do they still do the weekly beer bash?)
Did I say that? No If you refer to the original post I said that as a company grows you can begin to implement proceses and begin documentation. Each product now has complete documentation but thats 7 years later. Had we been worried about documenting everything we'd be out of business right now.
I don't want to get into a pissing contest here. We've shiped 4.0 of one product line, 3.0 of another, 2.6 of another, 3.5 of yet another. Never laid anyone off. Never had a loosing quarter. We are hiring now. So your whole will thing is bogus.
Netscape is a perfect example of "right way" people bringing down a company. I was there.
I know this may sound evil but when a company is as small as yours, worrying about ANYTHING besides making money and pleasing the customer is detramental. You may get people who want do things "the right way". Fire them QUICKLY!! The "right way" people are always the ones who blow schedules and bring down companies. The only way is the way that ships your product and keeps customers calling. As you grow you can begin to focus on some level of procedure, documentation etc.
This comes from someone who has seen "right way" people destroy a company and keep those people out of his company which has not only survived but still flourishes.
Its well known inside the beltway that this bill will die in the Senate. No need to get up in arms about it now. Realistically is a big PR move by Tauzin, nothing more.
It seems to me that "premium content" means professional reports on a specific topic, like market research reports (which can be very pricey). It doesn't look like you'll get "Joe and Bob's Consummate List of the IMF Bailouts and Fried Chicken Recipes" hosted by GeoCities when looking up information on the current Argentinean crisis. If I was doing professional research I would probably turn to a premium search engine to get solid data without the chafe.
Google would not be able to provide the same reports unless they end up published on a public server somewhere.
I don't think the original e-mail, with the resume was SPAM. Niel Schwartzman seems to be a very uptight sort of person. E-mail programs do have a delete function. I don't understand the need to go crazy over every peice of e-mail one recieves that is unsolicited. I would totally uderstand if it was a LOOSE WEIGHT NOW AND ADD 3 INCHES TO YOUR PENIS ON A FREE CRUISE TO JAMACA WHILE CONSOLIDATING YOUR DEBT WITH A 3RD MORGAGE FROM MISS CLEO WHO WILL GIVE YOU HER 3 OTCBB STOCK PICKS kind of mail. Then sure, go after the bastard. But when someone sends you a resume?? Come On!.
Now what Bernard Shifman did after was totally moronic and I think he got what he deserved. But not all blame goes to him, just most of it.
If it works don't break it. Pointless rewrites do nothing but feed the programmers ego and knock the company out of business. Its happened over and over and over and over again.
Progress, not regress.
I had simular problems with my new credit card company's website (login system broke) After a while I realized that the site required a 128 bit secure browser (and didn't mention that anywhere). When I upgraded to 128, the login worked.
If the developers of TV and Radio thought this way I'd have to buy mulitple TVs to watch different shows and have different radios for different stations. Initial TV's did only "work" for their single stations but that changed quickly and now every TV in the world is practically the same and can receive the same programming as every other TV. Why can we just pick an OS and move forward rather then come up with a new one every so often because whats out there isn't good enough?
Any OS is just an OS. To geeks, one OS may be far superior for one reason or an other but to users they're all the same, they just look a bit different.
Any time some group decides to develop a new OS, all they are doing is deverting attention away from moving PAST the OS into something else, something NEW.
I love it when they talk about giving the artists their due. For the most part that's crap. Most record deals rip off the artist to begin with. Most bands make money from touring and merchandise such as concert T's etc. Free music swapping benifits them. The record companies trying to hold on to their outmoded models are the only ones who benifit from these kinds of things.
You equated it to the WTC. Not me. Not even implied.
The damage done is not over-stated. Once a server is down, its down for a while. For simplicity sake, if one server that generates $1000 an hour in revenue for its owner is infected and, in-turn, infects 2 others, it won't take long to reach the $1 billion mark. That's not even mentioning the costs to "repair" the infected machines and validate its data.
Unleashing a virus or worm on the Internet knowingly is an act that shows the complete disregard for society on the part of the perpetrator and shows a disposition for doing it, or something just as stupid again. That person gives up their right to be free and interact with society. This act can never be justified. Murder, in many circumstances, can be hence the penalties are adjusted to fit the circumstances of the crime.
The Internet is now serious business, no longer the playground of the elite hackers (or 377373 hax0rz). Any malicious valdalism of/on the net should send the creator to jail for life. These worms running around today cause billions of dollars of damage. They are not innocent pranks. Why is causing billions of dollars in damage while pulling a prank on a pyhsical object not the same as doing so on the Internet? Its time to grow up and stop idolizing hackers. It was fun in the begining now its just plain stupid.
Now bare with me a bit before selecting "Offtopic"...
There's an old story about a man and a woman hanging out in a really cool garden where they were well fed and completely protected 24/7. Their landlord was doing all the work keeping the bad guys out and making sure there's always enough food and fun things for the lucky couple to indulge in. The only rule was that they could not try to find out what their landlord was doing. Eventually, one of the happy animals in the garden started getting the woman all worked up wondering what the landlord did when he was away. Soon he made her so curious about her landlord's modous operandi, she grabbed her man and together they read their landlord's "how-to" book. quickly their awareness of their world grew. When the landlord found this out he was furious, and a bit hurt that his beloved tenants we're not enjoying what he had made for them but rather they wanted to know how he was doing it. "Maybe", he thought, "they're trying to get rid of me and do it all themselves." So, the landlord kicked the two pariahs out of his garden forever. The couple, now cold and hungry but completely aware stood awestruck outside of the garden gates. The first thing they realized with their new awareness was that they had it so much better inside and lamented their curiosity. Alas, no remorse or longing would open the gates and they lived sorrowfully ever after.
Could it be that this age-old story can be reapplied to us today? Were we happier (as a society, not as individuals) before we (US i.e. most of the people who read slashdot) put up the Internet and gave hundreds of millions of people various how-to books? Are today's events partially our doing? And are did we give everyone front row seats to help realize what's going on?
<disclaimer>this is not bible thumping. the writer suggests only reading the bible for pure entertainment from some pretty cool stories. the writer suggests to never take the stories themselves seriously. </disclaimer>
If strong encrytpion is legislated out of existance, there are other ways to secretly send data over the internet. If I wanted to send a secret message that would get past carnivore or any other monitoring tool all I would need to do is post a jpeg or any other image comtaining a simple message scrambled with a rot(n) alogrythm run recursively. If well placed, this data will look like bits of an image. Now that's not secure but it is seemingly innocent and will be ignored.
How many other ways can you come up with to get a secret message to someone(s)?
The only way to stop secret messages is to tear down the Internet and the phone system and the postal system and lock everyone in sound proof rooms with no windows. i.e. pointless and fruitless.
I'm not making a suggestion just an observation. Calling this a war means a lot of things. I would rather live my life free and in danger rather then captive and safe. Its a fantasy to believe that we can fight a war against a faceless and formless enemy, win that war (by proving a negative), and all the while uphold the Bill of Rights and the Constitution. During every war fought by the US, various rights were suspended.
There really is no solution that will maintain the ideals that The United States has stood for. The Vice President has already discussed getting down and dirty with the terrorists, playing at their level and I agree that this is the only way that we can fight them. There is no going back. We are plunging into a new world, unstoppably. The USA, as we have known it for the past 225 years is slipping away. There's little we can do about it. What we can do is be sure that our new world that arises from these ashes is a world that we would want to bring new children into. So long as the First Amendment stays in tact, at least free speech and press, the only thing we can do is point out what is going on and maintain our vigilance or start looking for our telescreens and find a place to hang a wall sized picture of George Bush.
The new enemy is practically undefined and is broadly described as "terrorist organizations and the states that support and harbor them". America, Joe Sixpack's America, cannot wage a war against this new enemy without first putting a face on it. That face is Osama Bin Laden, whether or not he had any involvement in New York and Washington.
Our new war will have no victory. Soon, Americans will grow used to news reports of military actions in Middle Eastern countries more so then with the same from Kosovo and Iraq. This is because this war will be ongoing as will the state of war and its consequences on civil liberties and domestic tolerance. Getting to the point To win this war America, and its allies, need to prove a negative, that is that terrorism no longer exists. Does this mean that, eventually, the focus of this war could be "terrorists" in Montana? What about First Amendment protected Hate groups or far from center muckrakers. What comes after that? Double Plus Good Domestic Security? Telescreens? Thought Police? We're on a slippery slope here with Double Plus Crisco.
As an employer I once thought that telecomuting was a wonderful thing because we saved on office space and related support costs. Now after many abuses by everyone working at home I think its a horrible idea. Many others agree with me. If your employer is up to date on management journals etc. they will probably deny you, maybe even suspect you of wanting a permanent paid vacation. It just doesn't work, no matter what you do.
If you are so worried about AOL MegaConclomo Inc. taking over your cable think about backing a MUD (Municipal Utility District) where you live. A MUD once established takes control of local utilities and puts them in the hands of an elected board. Let AOL buy AT&T, then watch as municipal districts all over the country take it back piece by piece. There's no more small guy provider any more or at least not for very much longer. That's gone forever. The only recourse we have now is our local (LOCAL) government.
Call me a socialist? Well you get two choices these days, unfettered capitalism building monopolies more powerful then most nations or capitalism held on a leash by prevailing socialism. If a corporation grows too powerfull and holds a monopoly it should get taken by the people with the power of eminent domain.
After playing with the chart for a while and noticing the indication of an exodus from the bay area I began to get upset that all these "dot.com" people came to to bay area, jacked up the median rental and home prices, then bailed after things started going bad. Although rentals and home prices have started to level off they have, for the most part, not gone down. If they did that would accelerate our decent into resession. That sad thing is that's inevitable. Foreclosure rates have already gone up.
So now what I have to say to all the people who flocked here, threw high-test gasoline on the fires of the economy, burned everything to a crisp then took off, Thanks a whole lot from someone who was here a long time before you! I feel no pain for any of the dot.com loosers.
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When I was working at Apple there was a 17 year old kid working there on Copland (MacOS 8.0 1.0) What's the difference? Oh maybe Apple is no longer an anything goes college dorm. (do they still do the weekly beer bash?)
Did I say that? No If you refer to the original post I said that as a company grows you can begin to implement proceses and begin documentation. Each product now has complete documentation but thats 7 years later. Had we been worried about documenting everything we'd be out of business right now.
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I don't want to get into a pissing contest here. We've shiped 4.0 of one product line, 3.0 of another, 2.6 of another, 3.5 of yet another. Never laid anyone off. Never had a loosing quarter. We are hiring now. So your whole will thing is bogus. Netscape is a perfect example of "right way" people bringing down a company. I was there.
I know this may sound evil but when a company is as small as yours, worrying about ANYTHING besides making money and pleasing the customer is detramental. You may get people who want do things "the right way". Fire them QUICKLY!! The "right way" people are always the ones who blow schedules and bring down companies. The only way is the way that ships your product and keeps customers calling. As you grow you can begin to focus on some level of procedure, documentation etc. This comes from someone who has seen "right way" people destroy a company and keep those people out of his company which has not only survived but still flourishes.
Its well known inside the beltway that this bill will die in the Senate. No need to get up in arms about it now. Realistically is a big PR move by Tauzin, nothing more.
It seems to me that "premium content" means professional reports on a specific topic, like market research reports (which can be very pricey). It doesn't look like you'll get "Joe and Bob's Consummate List of the IMF Bailouts and Fried Chicken Recipes" hosted by GeoCities when looking up information on the current Argentinean crisis. If I was doing professional research I would probably turn to a premium search engine to get solid data without the chafe. Google would not be able to provide the same reports unless they end up published on a public server somewhere.
I don't think the original e-mail, with the resume was SPAM. Niel Schwartzman seems to be a very uptight sort of person. E-mail programs do have a delete function. I don't understand the need to go crazy over every peice of e-mail one recieves that is unsolicited. I would totally uderstand if it was a LOOSE WEIGHT NOW AND ADD 3 INCHES TO YOUR PENIS ON A FREE CRUISE TO JAMACA WHILE CONSOLIDATING YOUR DEBT WITH A 3RD MORGAGE FROM MISS CLEO WHO WILL GIVE YOU HER 3 OTCBB STOCK PICKS kind of mail. Then sure, go after the bastard. But when someone sends you a resume?? Come On!.
Now what Bernard Shifman did after was totally moronic and I think he got what he deserved. But not all blame goes to him, just most of it.
I don't think I got enough...
If it works don't break it. Pointless rewrites do nothing but feed the programmers ego and knock the company out of business. Its happened over and over and over and over again. Progress, not regress.
I'm not sure if this applies but...
I had simular problems with my new credit card company's website (login system broke) After a while I realized that the site required a 128 bit secure browser (and didn't mention that anywhere). When I upgraded to 128, the login worked.
No stupid Stawars.com user id needed either... Off you go
If the developers of TV and Radio thought this way I'd have to buy mulitple TVs to watch different shows and have different radios for different stations. Initial TV's did only "work" for their single stations but that changed quickly and now every TV in the world is practically the same and can receive the same programming as every other TV. Why can we just pick an OS and move forward rather then come up with a new one every so often because whats out there isn't good enough?
Any OS is just an OS. To geeks, one OS may be far superior for one reason or an other but to users they're all the same, they just look a bit different.
Any time some group decides to develop a new OS, all they are doing is deverting attention away from moving PAST the OS into something else, something NEW.
I love it when they talk about giving the artists their due. For the most part that's crap. Most record deals rip off the artist to begin with. Most bands make money from touring and merchandise such as concert T's etc. Free music swapping benifits them. The record companies trying to hold on to their outmoded models are the only ones who benifit from these kinds of things.
You equated it to the WTC. Not me. Not even implied.
The damage done is not over-stated. Once a server is down, its down for a while. For simplicity sake, if one server that generates $1000 an hour in revenue for its owner is infected and, in-turn, infects 2 others, it won't take long to reach the $1 billion mark. That's not even mentioning the costs to "repair" the infected machines and validate its data.
Unleashing a virus or worm on the Internet knowingly is an act that shows the complete disregard for society on the part of the perpetrator and shows a disposition for doing it, or something just as stupid again. That person gives up their right to be free and interact with society. This act can never be justified. Murder, in many circumstances, can be hence the penalties are adjusted to fit the circumstances of the crime.
I like you. You're funny. You make me laugh. Now be sure to not put the pickles on my burger next time I drive though? OK?
How's the tenth grade going?
The Internet is now serious business, no longer the playground of the elite hackers (or 377373 hax0rz). Any malicious valdalism of/on the net should send the creator to jail for life. These worms running around today cause billions of dollars of damage. They are not innocent pranks. Why is causing billions of dollars in damage while pulling a prank on a pyhsical object not the same as doing so on the Internet? Its time to grow up and stop idolizing hackers. It was fun in the begining now its just plain stupid.
Now bare with me a bit before selecting "Offtopic"...
There's an old story about a man and a woman hanging out in a really cool garden where they were well fed and completely protected 24/7. Their landlord was doing all the work keeping the bad guys out and making sure there's always enough food and fun things for the lucky couple to indulge in. The only rule was that they could not try to find out what their landlord was doing. Eventually, one of the happy animals in the garden started getting the woman all worked up wondering what the landlord did when he was away. Soon he made her so curious about her landlord's modous operandi, she grabbed her man and together they read their landlord's "how-to" book. quickly their awareness of their world grew. When the landlord found this out he was furious, and a bit hurt that his beloved tenants we're not enjoying what he had made for them but rather they wanted to know how he was doing it. "Maybe", he thought, "they're trying to get rid of me and do it all themselves." So, the landlord kicked the two pariahs out of his garden forever. The couple, now cold and hungry but completely aware stood awestruck outside of the garden gates. The first thing they realized with their new awareness was that they had it so much better inside and lamented their curiosity. Alas, no remorse or longing would open the gates and they lived sorrowfully ever after.
Could it be that this age-old story can be reapplied to us today? Were we happier (as a society, not as individuals) before we (US i.e. most of the people who read slashdot) put up the Internet and gave hundreds of millions of people various how-to books? Are today's events partially our doing? And are did we give everyone front row seats to help realize what's going on?
<disclaimer>this is not bible thumping. the writer suggests only reading the bible for pure entertainment from some pretty cool stories. the writer suggests to never take the stories themselves seriously. </disclaimer>
If strong encrytpion is legislated out of existance, there are other ways to secretly send data over the internet. If I wanted to send a secret message that would get past carnivore or any other monitoring tool all I would need to do is post a jpeg or any other image comtaining a simple message scrambled with a rot(n) alogrythm run recursively. If well placed, this data will look like bits of an image. Now that's not secure but it is seemingly innocent and will be ignored.
How many other ways can you come up with to get a secret message to someone(s)?
The only way to stop secret messages is to tear down the Internet and the phone system and the postal system and lock everyone in sound proof rooms with no windows. i.e. pointless and fruitless.
I'm not making a suggestion just an observation. Calling this a war means a lot of things. I would rather live my life free and in danger rather then captive and safe. Its a fantasy to believe that we can fight a war against a faceless and formless enemy, win that war (by proving a negative), and all the while uphold the Bill of Rights and the Constitution. During every war fought by the US, various rights were suspended.
To fight this war, America needs to suspend Habeas Corpus and the Fourth Amendment , and suspend the "peacefully assemble" portion of the First Amendment.
There really is no solution that will maintain the ideals that The United States has stood for. The Vice President has already discussed getting down and dirty with the terrorists, playing at their level and I agree that this is the only way that we can fight them. There is no going back. We are plunging into a new world, unstoppably. The USA, as we have known it for the past 225 years is slipping away. There's little we can do about it. What we can do is be sure that our new world that arises from these ashes is a world that we would want to bring new children into. So long as the First Amendment stays in tact, at least free speech and press, the only thing we can do is point out what is going on and maintain our vigilance or start looking for our telescreens and find a place to hang a wall sized picture of George Bush.
To take this a bit further...
The new enemy is practically undefined and is broadly described as "terrorist organizations and the states that support and harbor them". America, Joe Sixpack's America, cannot wage a war against this new enemy without first putting a face on it. That face is Osama Bin Laden, whether or not he had any involvement in New York and Washington.
Our new war will have no victory. Soon, Americans will grow used to news reports of military actions in Middle Eastern countries more so then with the same from Kosovo and Iraq. This is because this war will be ongoing as will the state of war and its consequences on civil liberties and domestic tolerance. Getting to the point To win this war America, and its allies, need to prove a negative, that is that terrorism no longer exists. Does this mean that, eventually, the focus of this war could be "terrorists" in Montana? What about First Amendment protected Hate groups or far from center muckrakers. What comes after that? Double Plus Good Domestic Security? Telescreens? Thought Police? We're on a slippery slope here with Double Plus Crisco.
As an employer I once thought that telecomuting was a wonderful thing because we saved on office space and related support costs. Now after many abuses by everyone working at home I think its a horrible idea. Many others agree with me. If your employer is up to date on management journals etc. they will probably deny you, maybe even suspect you of wanting a permanent paid vacation. It just doesn't work, no matter what you do.
If you are so worried about AOL MegaConclomo Inc. taking over your cable think about backing a MUD (Municipal Utility District) where you live. A MUD once established takes control of local utilities and puts them in the hands of an elected board. Let AOL buy AT&T, then watch as municipal districts all over the country take it back piece by piece. There's no more small guy provider any more or at least not for very much longer. That's gone forever. The only recourse we have now is our local (LOCAL) government.
Call me a socialist? Well you get two choices these days, unfettered capitalism building monopolies more powerful then most nations or capitalism held on a leash by prevailing socialism. If a corporation grows too powerfull and holds a monopoly it should get taken by the people with the power of eminent domain.
After playing with the chart for a while and noticing the indication of an exodus from the bay area I began to get upset that all these "dot.com" people came to to bay area, jacked up the median rental and home prices, then bailed after things started going bad. Although rentals and home prices have started to level off they have, for the most part, not gone down. If they did that would accelerate our decent into resession. That sad thing is that's inevitable. Foreclosure rates have already gone up.
So now what I have to say to all the people who flocked here, threw high-test gasoline on the fires of the economy, burned everything to a crisp then took off, Thanks a whole lot from someone who was here a long time before you! I feel no pain for any of the dot.com loosers.