Snooping on your employees is a terrible policy, even putting aside the obvious point that employees have less trust for employers who don't trust them.
How much time do these managers spend on making sure the minions aren't doing anything non-work-related? Wouldn't the managers' time be better spent MANAGING?
An intellectual snob is someone who can listen to the William Tell Overature and not think of The Lone Ranger.
If that's the definition of an intellectual snob, then what do you call someone who knows the proper spelling of "overture" and condescendingly points it out to people?
Also, the Bible's been in print for thousands of years while almost any other book on the shelves had its first printing mere centuries, if not decades or mere years, ago.
Not to mention that most Sys admins at schools are Minesweeper solitaire cert experts, who believe anything MS says.
This situation could be assuaged if universities paid more than $35K/yr for a junior sysadmin position. Or worse, they hire workstudy students to do the work at $8/hr.
How does open source (and by your inference, Linux) teach kids about how computers work? It's just software. And very complicated software at that.
My public-school computer programming courses in grades 3-8 consisted mainly of writing rudimentary BASIC and LOGO programs on the school's room full of TRS-80's.
The downside is, when the 6-week project you farmed out to a team of developers in Russia is still incomplete after 12 weeks and you can't get them to respond to any of your attempts to contact you... suddenly $10/hr doesn't seem like such a bargain anymore.
The AC (analog computer) is so large and advanced that its technicians have only the vaguest idea of how it operates.
So it's kind of like a Microsoft operating system, is it?
Makes sense that when the Universe blue-screens at the End of Time, you can just reboot it and the Universe will come back online (though you'll have lost all the work and have to start over)
You also forgot to click "Make sure I know what the hell I'm talking about".
It startles me that anyone would wave their flag and cry "freedom of speech!" without the very simple understanding that the right to freedom of speech is NOT unlimited.
You've heard of shouting "Fire!" in a crowded movie theater, right? If speech convinces people to behave unlawfully or with disregard for safety, it is not protected.
The old joke about the manager in a hot air balloon and the technician on a mountaintop comes to mind, only in this case the manager is right.
Your solution does nothing to solve the immediate problem, which is that existing CC validation software is now broken because the Mozilla developers have pulled a Microsoft on the HTTPS protocol and extended it with a non-standard behavior.
Whether or not the the validation software is 'truly' secure or not is irrelevant to the point; the reason this particular system work with other browsers but not with Mozilla is because Mozilla's broken.
If we're talking about the isolationist tendencies of American culture, then geographical factors have to be taken into consideration.
The United States is bordered by only two other countries, and the culture of one of these is extremely similar to the US. If an American wants to visit another country, in almost every case he or she has to buy a pricey plane ticket, putting international travel out of the reach of the lower classes. Not that people typically have time to go on holiday anyway -- most Americans get 2 weeks or less of paid vacation per year.
Contrast this with the situation in Europe, where many small nations are next to each other, and workers typically enjoy more vacation time. It's easier for a British citizen to visit Spain, France, Italy, and Germany than it is for an American to visit any one of those countries.
This is all extremely off-topic to the state of Science education in the United States, though.
You sound just like most of the posters from alt.tv.simpsons in the past 5 years, just repeating "It was good a few seasons ago, but this season has just SUCKED" over and over again, every season.
Now allow me to mimic the other posters in a.t.s. by saying, if you think the show sucks now, stop watching it. Why waste your time on something you don't like?
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As an HTML and ASP/JSP developer I know it would be extremely dumb if this is how the dynamic form is being encoded.
(assuming the lameness filter doesn't prevent me) which code is more elegant?
checked>Sign me up!
or
checked>Sign me up!
Snooping on your employees is a terrible policy, even putting aside the obvious point that employees have less trust for employers who don't trust them.
How much time do these managers spend on making sure the minions aren't doing anything non-work-related? Wouldn't the managers' time be better spent MANAGING?
Wait, is this David Packard fellow related to the co-founder of HP? The submission didn't really say anywhere.
An intellectual snob is someone who can listen to the William Tell Overature and not think of
The Lone Ranger.
If that's the definition of an intellectual snob, then what do you call someone who knows the proper spelling of "overture" and condescendingly points it out to people?
Just a piece? Why not pool your money with some pals and buy them all?
Then you'll be able to say
ALL YOUR eBAYS ARE BELONG TO US.
*groan* I'm sorry.
Also, the Bible's been in print for thousands of years while almost any other book on the shelves had its first printing mere centuries, if not decades or mere years, ago.
Not to mention that most Sys admins at schools are Minesweeper solitaire cert experts, who believe anything MS says.
This situation could be assuaged if universities paid more than $35K/yr for a junior sysadmin position. Or worse, they hire workstudy students to do the work at $8/hr.
You get what you pay for, especially in IT.
How does open source (and by your inference, Linux) teach kids about how computers work? It's just software. And very complicated software at that.
My public-school computer programming courses in grades 3-8 consisted mainly of writing rudimentary BASIC and LOGO programs on the school's room full of TRS-80's.
That was as good and introduction as any, really.
OS-9 emulators have been around for years... just ask any enthusiast of classic Tandy micro's.
Umm... laser printers and inkjet printers are completely different.
Just because it's acceptable to use refurbished toner carts doesn't mean that the same situation exists with ink cartridges.
Catastrophe Hedging Program 2.5?
If a catastrophe is ever to strike them, they better hope that now is not the time.
Everyone knows that Microsoft applications are completely unusable prior to version 3.0...
...there are more important things in knowledge/skill/education than college.
How can you know that unless you've gone to college?
The downside is, when the 6-week project you farmed out to a team of developers in Russia is still incomplete after 12 weeks and you can't get them to respond to any of your attempts to contact you... suddenly $10/hr doesn't seem like such a bargain anymore.
The AC (analog computer) is so large and advanced that its technicians have only the vaguest idea of how it operates.
So it's kind of like a Microsoft operating system, is it?
Makes sense that when the Universe blue-screens at the End of Time, you can just reboot it and the Universe will come back online (though you'll have lost all the work and have to start over)
2+2=4 has a loophole.
What if I'm using a ternary number system? 2+2=10 in that case...
Someone needs to go public calling the Turner network anti-american (Duh, it has been for years, look at who turner is married to)
Jane Fonda filed for divorce over a year ago.
Please check your facts before posting nonsense to Slashot. I always do!
Oh shit! I forgot to click "Post Anonymously"...
You also forgot to click "Make sure I know what the hell I'm talking about".
It startles me that anyone would wave their flag and cry "freedom of speech!" without the very simple understanding that the right to freedom of speech is NOT unlimited.
You've heard of shouting "Fire!" in a crowded movie theater, right? If speech convinces people to behave unlawfully or with disregard for safety, it is not protected.
The old joke about the manager in a hot air balloon and the technician on a mountaintop comes to mind, only in this case the manager is right.
Your solution does nothing to solve the immediate problem, which is that existing CC validation software is now broken because the Mozilla developers have pulled a Microsoft on the HTTPS protocol and extended it with a non-standard behavior.
Whether or not the the validation software is 'truly' secure or not is irrelevant to the point; the reason this particular system work with other browsers but not with Mozilla is because Mozilla's broken.
If it's really such an issue, check the HTTP_REFERRER
LEARN TO (mis)SPELL!
PLONK!
If we're talking about the isolationist tendencies of American culture, then geographical factors have to be taken into consideration.
The United States is bordered by only two other countries, and the culture of one of these is extremely similar to the US. If an American wants to visit another country, in almost every case he or she has to buy a pricey plane ticket, putting international travel out of the reach of the lower classes. Not that people typically have time to go on holiday anyway -- most Americans get 2 weeks or less of paid vacation per year.
Contrast this with the situation in Europe, where many small nations are next to each other, and workers typically enjoy more vacation time. It's easier for a British citizen to visit Spain, France, Italy, and Germany than it is for an American to visit any one of those countries.
This is all extremely off-topic to the state of Science education in the United States, though.
You sound just like most of the posters from alt.tv.simpsons in the past 5 years, just repeating "It was good a few seasons ago, but this season has just SUCKED" over and over again, every season.
Now allow me to mimic the other posters in a.t.s. by saying, if you think the show sucks now, stop watching it. Why waste your time on something you don't like?
Not in the cartoon show, they didn't.
As with Transformers, the G.I. Joe stories in the comic books and the TV show followed different continuities.
I recommend this great company I found out about, called "Poot's Security Shack".
I... um, I mean, we... I MEAN THEY do a great job, and they cost less than all the big fancy companies with offices and business plans!
Email them at poot@dork.com for more info. Sorry, no refunds.
... regardless of whether or not file sharing is WRONG. It's certainly illegal.
SURVEY SAYS..... BZZZZT!
Thanks for playing, have some rice.
The act of duplicating a file from one computer to another computer is not illegal, nor will it ever be.
Can we please put the "programmers lack social skills" stereotype to bed forever?
I've known coders who were great at communicating and managers who were terrible. The skill sets between the two jobs are NOT mutually exclusive.