1. I learned to drive by watching movies and playing video games! (consequently, I earned a lot of speeding tickets as a youth, now I just drive a better car so I am "looked" at less)
Which indicates to me you are probably not a "good" driver. I'm not talking just about how many accidents you have or have not been involved in. Constantly exceeding the speed limit suggests that there are other things which would make me think you are a poor driver.
I learned to shoot by playing CS, UT2K4, and Quake (1,2,3,4) My friend John loves to tell the story of my first time behind a rifle. Dead Center, First Shot.
I'm not much of a gun person, having only fired a number of hand guns at a shooting range on one occasion. Having played numerous FPS (CS, DoD, Quake, DN3D, etc), I can tell you, having played those games did not even remotely prepare me for shooting a realy gun.
A previous employer once did this with three separate vendors, IBM (Application), Microsoft (OS), and Compaq (Hardware). They had a wonderful circle of blame going on regarding Lotus Notes performing very poorly on a couple of servers.
I never did hear what the solution was.
Yup, it would be like learning to race by playing video games, or thinking you should be on the anti-terrorist teams because of your K:D ratio in Counter-Strike. Games are just that, entertainment. You may learn somethings, but its no substitute for real life.
Some sites use CAPTCHA... but I don't like it. I'll bet you I make a mistake in the CAPTCHA at least 30% of the time, which is just frustrating.
Verified email accounts - this is what I tend to use. User signs up, email with password gets sent. Some people don't like giving out their email for fear of SPAM and such.
Heavy user moderation - seems to work overall, look at/.
Bullshit. You help do something, you're responsible.
Okay, you used electricity and a computer to post that comment. Those are both polluters, unless you're on completely green energy (which I really doubt). That means you polluted simply to post a comment to slashdot. I hold you morally and ethically responsible for global warming.
Yeah, doing the right thing often hurts.
Hurts? I'm talking about being able to provide food and shelter for my family, not about having to give up picking up the next console or big screen TV.
If you only stop an unethical act when it is to your benefit, you haven't really made an ethical choice at all, have you? Who said you have to move to a better position? Or did you mean a less ethically repugnant position?
I guess my beliefs, ethics, and morals are a little different than yours. I've tried everywhere I've worked, to make changes to what I believe are the more "right" ways of doing things. I've had some success, but not lots. However, is it ethically "right" in your mind, to subject myself and my family to stress, frustration, and fewer perks for the privilege of fighting a battle that can't be won against management that refuses to see things my way? If so, I guess I just don't measure up on your moral yard stick.
The excuse "it's just business" to justify or distance oneself from unethical behavior. Guess what? It doesn't fly. Whether you're profiting from stocks you know are making money because of unethical act or whether you're performing the acts themselves, but claim to abdicate responsibility to a person higher up, it does not matter. You're still responsible for what the end result is.
I'm sorry, I will not claim responsibility for every action that remotely relates back to me. Extending you logic only slightly would mean that simply by paying taxes in my country means I support every action taken by my government. You've made investing money anywhere to almost be a guaranteed ethical nightmare. I certainly wouldn't be able to invest in any RRSP, which I guess means I couldn't work for most of the employers around here, since that's where their pensions are , that or in Government bonds which goes back to my previous point. In fact, I shouldn't even keep money in the bank since every bank I know of forecloses on good honest people who just can't make their payments, which is obviously an immoral act. Not to mention the service charges. Most car companies that I know of are doing horrible things to the environment, guess I can't buy a car. But wait, if I don't do all these things, I hurt the economy, so I'd better spend money. I know, organic foods. I'll buy those. Oh wait, some farms are known to have illegal immigrants working. Do you see where I'm going? If you try and find something unethical about everything you do, you probably can. You're (presumably) using a computer to browse slashdot. You don't really *need* to browse and comment on slashdot, so unless all your energy is from a green source, your polluting, which is unethical. Of course, that doesn't even take into account all the components in your computer that are harmful.
The question is, what is more important, monetary success or being a good person?
You make it out to be a black or white decision. Its not, at least not for me. Sure, some situations are easy. I see an old woman drop a $20 on the ground while trying to pay for her medications at the drug store, I pick it up and give it to her. Unfortunately, the rest of my life isn't so clean and simple. I've blacklisted myself at an employer because I stood up for employee rights. I've tried to make positive change in a company only to end up being treated like dirt. I've spent time and money with non-profit and charitable organizations because I believe in what they are trying to accomplish.
By working for a company, you express your approval of its policies and actions. It's that simple. See here for a good example of why your excuse just doesn't cut it.
I'm sorry, what illegal acts are you implying our fictional IT guy has committed? Surely you're not comparing the corporate policies of a company with the Holocaust? Paypal, to the best of my knowledge, isn't committing genocide. Now, while you may not agree with the policies of Paypal, our IT guy might. If he does, he's not guilty of any crime and sure as hell does not deserve to be killed or have is life endangered because of it. Even if he doesn't agree with the policies, that doesn't mean as an employee he endorses them. Do you agree with absolutely everything your employer does?
Resigning from a job because of differing beliefs between employee and employer is admirable. However, its not as easy as handing in your resignation when you've got a family to feed and a mortgage to pay. I've been there, it can take years to find a new and better position.
Just following orders - only applies to legal proceedings. If they asked an employee to do something illegal that's one thing. The guy maintaining the OS isn't doing anything illegal, and arguably, nothing immoral either.
I just don't find any of this funny. Planting a bomb anywhere but in strict controlled testing areas is not a joke. Obviously this was at least meant to damage the building, and possibly even to harm people. Imagine for a minute that you're a tech at this location, regardless of who it is. You're not responsible for corporate policy. Yet you're in as much, or more danger from an attack like this than those who do make the decisions.
I'm just glad nobody was hurt, and that the damage was relatively minor. I hope the culprit or culprits are caught quickly, and dealt with harshly.
Pick a penny stock, but it cheap. SPAM a bunch of people, and hopefully, get them to buy the stock. The increased demand for the stock causes it to go up. Spammer sells, and thus profits.
Well, it depends on how you set things up. It can be set to remove them, but personally, I just let it mark the commercials. Basically, it puts timestamps in the database for the start and end of a commercial. You can then set myth to automatically skip them during playback, or, as I do, play them, and then I use the remote to skip the commercial. I find myth to be probably around 85% accurate on its detection. Pretty good, but far from perfect.
Not 100%. From Wikipedia "there is a procedure to reverse vasectomies using vasovasostomy (a form of microsurgery). It is, however, not effective in all cases".
Given that this is a life altering decision, I'm of the opinion that you shouldn't opt for a vasectomy if you think you might want it reversed later on.
Well, as you said, someday. My wife and I have a boy who's about 2-weeks short of his first birthday. We'd like a second, but not yet. Once we have the second, I will most likely get a vasectomy (its easier for a guy to get "fixed" than a woman).
Unless you believe that people should only have sex for the purposes of reproduction, then there are lots of reasons to use birth control, and an extra option like this, for guys, is a good thing. I'm sure we've all heard stories of the girl trapping the guy by getting pregnant by forgetting to take her pill. Well, maybe now those guys will have another option.
Steam has offline play. Once the game is installed and unlocked, you no longer need to connect to the servers for any reason. You can connect when you want to get updates and such, but you don't HAVE to connect.
There is a definite and ongoing need for sites that connect coders with project managers (or whomever). My thought of what a site that caters to both would be the following:
Simple straightforward method for posting positions at a nominal fee
A rating system, both for employers and coders
The ability for the site to provide arbitration services in case of dispute (for a reasonable fee)
some sort of escrow system, again, reasonable fees
None of this is that difficult to do by any stretch. I guess you could always use other escrow services, and the "ideal" site should allow that without penalty. Or maybe it shouldn't offer escrow at all and let other sites handle it. The arbitration and rating systems I think are the biggest things.
I have no idea if there are sites out there that provide this service or not. If not, and anyone is interested, I'd certainly be willing to help build it. The key is to keep all expenses to bidders and buyers low, to encourage more users, but they have to exist to keep away scammers and such.
No, misleading and advertising are very common... the surprise here is that its the advertisers that are being mislead. Its like a Soviet Russia thing.
Well, in Canada, they may have some problems. PIPEDA says that "the law requires an organization to... supply you with a product or a service even if you refuse consent for the collection, use or disclosure of your personal information unless that information is essential to the transaction"
I'm not sure if this would apply to collecting personal information off your computer (and browsing history and such could definitely be considered personal information) after the transaction, but hopefully someone will bring this up before the privacy commissioner. With any luck, she could cause some serious headaches for EA.
There is some other good news here. Suppose Tucows is ordered to, and does suspend spamhaus.org, all Spamhaus has to do is use (or register) a domain registered through a non-us based registrar. We'll have to update our RBL rules, but it will continue to operate, and the US court won't be able to interfere.
I could live with it if you said 3-4, but 3-5? The fifth last movie is The Undiscovered Country, usually considered the second best move (after The Wrath of Khan). Though it had one major error (the equipment for cataloging gasious anomalies was on Excelsior, not on the Enterprise) it was still a great movie with a wonderful storyline.
Or use the appropriate PEAR classes with php, like MDB2, which documents how to do prepare/executes. Don't suggest that PHP is worse than PERL because PERL has DBI, PHP has addons as well.
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There's a big difference between learning to drive and learning a track.
1. I learned to drive by watching movies and playing video games! (consequently, I earned a lot of speeding tickets as a youth, now I just drive a better car so I am "looked" at less)
Which indicates to me you are probably not a "good" driver. I'm not talking just about how many accidents you have or have not been involved in. Constantly exceeding the speed limit suggests that there are other things which would make me think you are a poor driver.
I learned to shoot by playing CS, UT2K4, and Quake (1,2,3,4) My friend John loves to tell the story of my first time behind a rifle. Dead Center, First Shot.
I'm not much of a gun person, having only fired a number of hand guns at a shooting range on one occasion. Having played numerous FPS (CS, DoD, Quake, DN3D, etc), I can tell you, having played those games did not even remotely prepare me for shooting a realy gun.
A previous employer once did this with three separate vendors, IBM (Application), Microsoft (OS), and Compaq (Hardware). They had a wonderful circle of blame going on regarding Lotus Notes performing very poorly on a couple of servers. I never did hear what the solution was.
Yup, it would be like learning to race by playing video games, or thinking you should be on the anti-terrorist teams because of your K:D ratio in Counter-Strike. Games are just that, entertainment. You may learn somethings, but its no substitute for real life.
Bullshit. You help do something, you're responsible.
Okay, you used electricity and a computer to post that comment. Those are both polluters, unless you're on completely green energy (which I really doubt). That means you polluted simply to post a comment to slashdot. I hold you morally and ethically responsible for global warming.
Yeah, doing the right thing often hurts.
Hurts? I'm talking about being able to provide food and shelter for my family, not about having to give up picking up the next console or big screen TV.
If you only stop an unethical act when it is to your benefit, you haven't really made an ethical choice at all, have you? Who said you have to move to a better position? Or did you mean a less ethically repugnant position?
I guess my beliefs, ethics, and morals are a little different than yours. I've tried everywhere I've worked, to make changes to what I believe are the more "right" ways of doing things. I've had some success, but not lots. However, is it ethically "right" in your mind, to subject myself and my family to stress, frustration, and fewer perks for the privilege of fighting a battle that can't be won against management that refuses to see things my way? If so, I guess I just don't measure up on your moral yard stick.
The excuse "it's just business" to justify or distance oneself from unethical behavior. Guess what? It doesn't fly. Whether you're profiting from stocks you know are making money because of unethical act or whether you're performing the acts themselves, but claim to abdicate responsibility to a person higher up, it does not matter. You're still responsible for what the end result is.
I'm sorry, I will not claim responsibility for every action that remotely relates back to me. Extending you logic only slightly would mean that simply by paying taxes in my country means I support every action taken by my government. You've made investing money anywhere to almost be a guaranteed ethical nightmare. I certainly wouldn't be able to invest in any RRSP, which I guess means I couldn't work for most of the employers around here, since that's where their pensions are , that or in Government bonds which goes back to my previous point. In fact, I shouldn't even keep money in the bank since every bank I know of forecloses on good honest people who just can't make their payments, which is obviously an immoral act. Not to mention the service charges. Most car companies that I know of are doing horrible things to the environment, guess I can't buy a car. But wait, if I don't do all these things, I hurt the economy, so I'd better spend money. I know, organic foods. I'll buy those. Oh wait, some farms are known to have illegal immigrants working. Do you see where I'm going? If you try and find something unethical about everything you do, you probably can. You're (presumably) using a computer to browse slashdot. You don't really *need* to browse and comment on slashdot, so unless all your energy is from a green source, your polluting, which is unethical. Of course, that doesn't even take into account all the components in your computer that are harmful.
The question is, what is more important, monetary success or being a good person?
You make it out to be a black or white decision. Its not, at least not for me. Sure, some situations are easy. I see an old woman drop a $20 on the ground while trying to pay for her medications at the drug store, I pick it up and give it to her. Unfortunately, the rest of my life isn't so clean and simple. I've blacklisted myself at an employer because I stood up for employee rights. I've tried to make positive change in a company only to end up being treated like dirt. I've spent time and money with non-profit and charitable organizations because I believe in what they are trying to accomplish.
By working for a company, you express your approval of its policies and actions. It's that simple. See here for a good example of why your excuse just doesn't cut it.
I'm sorry, what illegal acts are you implying our fictional IT guy has committed? Surely you're not comparing the corporate policies of a company with the Holocaust? Paypal, to the best of my knowledge, isn't committing genocide. Now, while you may not agree with the policies of Paypal, our IT guy might. If he does, he's not guilty of any crime and sure as hell does not deserve to be killed or have is life endangered because of it. Even if he doesn't agree with the policies, that doesn't mean as an employee he endorses them. Do you agree with absolutely everything your employer does?
Resigning from a job because of differing beliefs between employee and employer is admirable. However, its not as easy as handing in your resignation when you've got a family to feed and a mortgage to pay. I've been there, it can take years to find a new and better position.
Just following orders - only applies to legal proceedings. If they asked an employee to do something illegal that's one thing. The guy maintaining the OS isn't doing anything illegal, and arguably, nothing immoral either.
I just don't find any of this funny. Planting a bomb anywhere but in strict controlled testing areas is not a joke. Obviously this was at least meant to damage the building, and possibly even to harm people. Imagine for a minute that you're a tech at this location, regardless of who it is. You're not responsible for corporate policy. Yet you're in as much, or more danger from an attack like this than those who do make the decisions.
I'm just glad nobody was hurt, and that the damage was relatively minor. I hope the culprit or culprits are caught quickly, and dealt with harshly.
Pick a penny stock, but it cheap. SPAM a bunch of people, and hopefully, get them to buy the stock. The increased demand for the stock causes it to go up. Spammer sells, and thus profits.
The same way they provide infrastructure for every other real world transaction. Its income, its taxable. Live with it.
Well, it depends on how you set things up. It can be set to remove them, but personally, I just let it mark the commercials. Basically, it puts timestamps in the database for the start and end of a commercial. You can then set myth to automatically skip them during playback, or, as I do, play them, and then I use the remote to skip the commercial. I find myth to be probably around 85% accurate on its detection. Pretty good, but far from perfect.
Not 100%. From Wikipedia "there is a procedure to reverse vasectomies using vasovasostomy (a form of microsurgery). It is, however, not effective in all cases".
Given that this is a life altering decision, I'm of the opinion that you shouldn't opt for a vasectomy if you think you might want it reversed later on.
Well, as you said, someday. My wife and I have a boy who's about 2-weeks short of his first birthday. We'd like a second, but not yet. Once we have the second, I will most likely get a vasectomy (its easier for a guy to get "fixed" than a woman).
Unless you believe that people should only have sex for the purposes of reproduction, then there are lots of reasons to use birth control, and an extra option like this, for guys, is a good thing. I'm sure we've all heard stories of the girl trapping the guy by getting pregnant by forgetting to take her pill. Well, maybe now those guys will have another option.
Steam has offline play. Once the game is installed and unlocked, you no longer need to connect to the servers for any reason. You can connect when you want to get updates and such, but you don't HAVE to connect.
There is a definite and ongoing need for sites that connect coders with project managers (or whomever). My thought of what a site that caters to both would be the following:
None of this is that difficult to do by any stretch. I guess you could always use other escrow services, and the "ideal" site should allow that without penalty. Or maybe it shouldn't offer escrow at all and let other sites handle it. The arbitration and rating systems I think are the biggest things.
I have no idea if there are sites out there that provide this service or not. If not, and anyone is interested, I'd certainly be willing to help build it. The key is to keep all expenses to bidders and buyers low, to encourage more users, but they have to exist to keep away scammers and such.
No, misleading and advertising are very common... the surprise here is that its the advertisers that are being mislead. Its like a Soviet Russia thing.
Well, in Canada, they may have some problems. PIPEDA says that "the law requires an organization to ... supply you with a product or a service even if you refuse consent for the collection, use or disclosure of your personal information unless that information is essential to the transaction"
I'm not sure if this would apply to collecting personal information off your computer (and browsing history and such could definitely be considered personal information) after the transaction, but hopefully someone will bring this up before the privacy commissioner. With any luck, she could cause some serious headaches for EA.
There is some other good news here. Suppose Tucows is ordered to, and does suspend spamhaus.org, all Spamhaus has to do is use (or register) a domain registered through a non-us based registrar. We'll have to update our RBL rules, but it will continue to operate, and the US court won't be able to interfere.
I could live with it if you said 3-4, but 3-5? The fifth last movie is The Undiscovered Country, usually considered the second best move (after The Wrath of Khan). Though it had one major error (the equipment for cataloging gasious anomalies was on Excelsior, not on the Enterprise) it was still a great movie with a wonderful storyline.
NO, MythTV is way overkill for something like this. He just needs a video player, possibly with a dynamic playlist.
Or use the appropriate PEAR classes with php, like MDB2, which documents how to do prepare/executes. Don't suggest that PHP is worse than PERL because PERL has DBI, PHP has addons as well.
I sense a disturbance... as if a million voices suddenly cheered all at once.
By downloading and installing it