This article and the comment above are both about federal prosecution. Your first sentence is a red herring.
Your second sentence mearly states that which the article states and that which the poster would change.
Your entire second paragraph actually supports the poster's contention that it is unfair to allow procecutorial venue shopping in these cases.
Your arguement is falacious on it's face. It is nothing more than a "slippery slope" arguement.
If something is "universally loathed", then there will be no place in the U.S. where it is acceptable. This makes your arguement a non sequitur.
Your entire post is logically as well as semantically null.
For fun, let's apply your logic to islamic terrorism.
Use your imagination: think of the worst case scario possible for islamic fundamentalists for something universally loathed like, say the use of nuclear weapons and the like for terrorsim; it would just be a matter of time before that worse case scenario happened.
That statement justifies ANY action against islamic fundamentalism including genocide, because the worst case senarios includes global nuclear war and the release of biological weapons capable of killing all life on Earth.
In 5 years, a truck driver will be making more than mnay IT graduates after 5 years. And the trucker will have no student loan, no cert and recert fees, and won't have to spend a significant portion of their spare time and income to stay up to date.
When I was driving, I would see doctors and lawyers who retired and decided to take up driving.
I worked with a guy who was a junior at university majoring in computer science. He couldn't even convert from binary to octal or hex. he was just a years worth credits shy of graduating and didn't know basic computer skills.
Save your money, start your own tech company doing sysadmin. Hire yourself out on the sly and develop a customer base. Then, when things start to slow down at the company, quit and offer the services of your company.
The recruiting agent has no idea what the job is, puts in an ad that does not specify required skills, doesn't know what is in the ad itself, and they server "a very useful purpose".
You are paying managers an effective rate of $1000/day. That is an effective salary of $365,000/yr. And, yet you are too busy being an hiring manager to review resumes, preferring to leave it to the hiring agent described above. Tell me, how much are you offering to pay?
The agent did not specify "Mac OS/X" as a needed skill and didn't know that OS/X little more than a version of UNIX. You should have done a better job hiring a recruiting agent, one that knows how to recruit for a technical position.
"You're asking me for a job, please don't tell me its my fault for not guessing when you said UNIX you meant Mac OSX". No it is your fault for not specifing in the ad that Mac OS/X was a required skill, not reading the CV, not reading the cover letter, and in general not doing your job as a hiring manager.
"I can teach most anyone to be a LAN tech or provide second level support for a client site. " I can teach anyone to hire someone the like. I can teach anyone to hire someone who is qualified for a position. You may be able to teach anyone to be a LAN tech, but will they be a good LAN tech? Probably not.
Your attitude of "Anyone can be trained to do that job" is part of the problem. You pay like it is true. If that were true, you would just go out and hire anyone off the street and train them. As it is, you don't do that. You try to hire someone that can actually do the job.
On the other hand, your job as you describe it: "Give employment agent some requirement, read the CVs they send, interview the people with the nicest CV and hire the ones you like." Anyone can do that.
If you advertise for a position, and people send you their resumes, business etiquette says you respond. For the record: If you solicit resumes, it is rude not to at least acknowledge receipt. Or perhaps business etiquette has gone the way of business ethics.
I would not doubt that you are also one these people who thinks that someone with 8 years of C coding experience is a "junior programmer", that a position that requires 2 years experience each on 3 different platforms is "entry level", or that $30K is competitive salary for a network or system administrator.
I am a highly-skilled technologist. Specifically, I am production support for an internal unix based websphere application at a major telecom company. I have over 10 years experience.
I have also been a truck driver. I have logged over 10,000 miles and still have my CDL. I was a trucker for one year.
As a trucker, I was out for 4 weeks, home for 4 days. I drove 10 hours a day. I spent a lot of money on the road, because you can't carry anything with you. It was lonely work. It was hard mentally, and often challenging considering the way people drive and the fact that one would have to back an articulated truck with a 50' trailer into a space designed for a 43' trailer. You pay is per mile, I was earning $.26 per mile. Some drivers earned much more, but your pay is limited by speed and the amount of hours you drive. This encourages speeding and driving illegally. Most companies have rules against unhooking your trailer, so going anywhere is a bit of a pain. And it can be damned near impossible to find a place to park and get some sleep.
As a technologist, I work 8 to 10 hours a day. I carry a pager on rotating on-call, and back up others in my department. I don't have much say in what is done even though I was hired specifically because of my experience and knowledge. I don't get near as much work done as I could, mostly because I am either being asked to deal with problems, or I am waiting for information. There is effectively no documentation and anyone who suggests the development of documentation is shouted down. I support internal business applications, but development cycles are extremely tight and there is a rush-to-market mentality in management. We spend 10K per server for an enterprise product that can do multiserver clustering, and we don't use the functionality so we have some interesting availablity problems with mission critical applications.
I make about 60K as a techie. I made 28K as a trucker.
I may yet go back to trucking. I am definately thinking about a career change.
How many are using OpenSSH? I can think of quite a few off the top of my head. Maybe they, and you, should support the organization that developed and maintains OpenSSH.
This is all about rush-to-market. Companies don't want to be best, they want to be first. "We need to get it on the market NOW. Who cares about a few bugs? Besides, consumers are used to buying crap, they won't care."
The last part of that statement is true. Most consumers would rather buy a piece of crap for $39.99 than something of high quality for $59.99. Consumers think that a "good" item is one that is cheap and will break in 6 months or a year.
Until people start expecting quality, crap will be the norm and bugs will be rampant.
Do you really need to ask? It is GCS (Greed, cynicism, self-grandizement)
What will get you more notice:
World enters high activity party of 30-year hurricane cycle.
or
Global warming may cause stronger hurricans
Basically, a self-appointed expert can now go on TV, write a book, and charge big money to say "I believe global warming is responsible for the increased strength and frequency of hurricanes. Never mind the data behind the 30 year mark."
Everyone forgets some important facts about the Three Laws. The first and foremost is that originally robots were not made with the three laws. In fact, I think there is mention of that fact in at least one of Asmiov's stories.
The three laws were hard-wired into the positronic elements of the brains of intelligent robots, presumably with basic definitions of the terms. But, that was a design feature and not a "natural law". It may be in the Asimov universe of the robot stories, there is a legal law requiring all positronic brains be made with said laws, but in the real world there is no such thing.
You are right that implementation of these "laws" is not a trivial matter, but then neither is creation of fully autonomous, programmed, bipedal robots. It is assumed that one is solved with the rest, and thus would be solved in our future. We don't even have fully automonous robots yet.
My biggest problem with the Three Laws is that the first law does not contain the word "directly". Without that word, a robot literally could not function because one can not determine if one's action will indirectly cause harm to anyone else. Thus, robot would be unable to do anything, even nothing at all.
Well, after having been in the U.S. Navy for eight years, I can attest to the fact that when they can ask for R&R in Tokyo, they will be treated like the enlisted, that is they will still be treated like tools
In my mind, a robot operates on it's own. It is a mechanical device that can be programmed to perform specific function in advance and then operates independantly.
A lot of what are called robots are just fancy remote controled cars. In this case, a fancy remote controled car with guns. Fun, but not a robot.
He used his definition, I used mine. And, as he would be the aggressor, here in the state of Florida, I would be allowed to use upto and including deadly force to protect myself and mine. Unlike many states that require people to backdown and run away from criminals, Florida has a law that protects those that defend themselves.
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Your second sentence mearly states that which the article states and that which the poster would change.
Your entire second paragraph actually supports the poster's contention that it is unfair to allow procecutorial venue shopping in these cases.
Your arguement is falacious on it's face. It is nothing more than a "slippery slope" arguement.
If something is "universally loathed", then there will be no place in the U.S. where it is acceptable. This makes your arguement a non sequitur.
Your entire post is logically as well as semantically null.
For fun, let's apply your logic to islamic terrorism.
That statement justifies ANY action against islamic fundamentalism including genocide, because the worst case senarios includes global nuclear war and the release of biological weapons capable of killing all life on Earth.
And which city is this?
yeah I believe I did... that should be over 100,000 miles.
Well, there is always the possiblity you got your position via favoritism, ass kissing, and backstabbing.
I am 38. My job will not lead to a career. I am working towards self-employment instead. Probably out of the IT field.
Or driving a truck.
In 5 years, a truck driver will be making more than mnay IT graduates after 5 years. And the trucker will have no student loan, no cert and recert fees, and won't have to spend a significant portion of their spare time and income to stay up to date.
When I was driving, I would see doctors and lawyers who retired and decided to take up driving.
I worked with a guy who was a junior at university majoring in computer science. He couldn't even convert from binary to octal or hex. he was just a years worth credits shy of graduating and didn't know basic computer skills.
You forgot that "Junior" can be attached to any of those job descriptions and dramatically lower the salary without lowering the skills required.
Save your money, start your own tech company doing sysadmin. Hire yourself out on the sly and develop a customer base. Then, when things start to slow down at the company, quit and offer the services of your company.
Your attitude of "Anyone can be trained to do that job" is part of the problem. You pay like it is true. If that were true, you would just go out and hire anyone off the street and train them. As it is, you don't do that. You try to hire someone that can actually do the job.
On the other hand, your job as you describe it: "Give employment agent some requirement, read the CVs they send, interview the people with the nicest CV and hire the ones you like." Anyone can do that.
If you advertise for a position, and people send you their resumes, business etiquette says you respond. For the record: If you solicit resumes, it is rude not to at least acknowledge receipt. Or perhaps business etiquette has gone the way of business ethics.
I would not doubt that you are also one these people who thinks that someone with 8 years of C coding experience is a "junior programmer", that a position that requires 2 years experience each on 3 different platforms is "entry level", or that $30K is competitive salary for a network or system administrator.
And this is a good thing?
I am a highly-skilled technologist. Specifically, I am production support for an internal unix based websphere application at a major telecom company. I have over 10 years experience.
I have also been a truck driver. I have logged over 10,000 miles and still have my CDL. I was a trucker for one year.
As a trucker, I was out for 4 weeks, home for 4 days. I drove 10 hours a day. I spent a lot of money on the road, because you can't carry anything with you. It was lonely work. It was hard mentally, and often challenging considering the way people drive and the fact that one would have to back an articulated truck with a 50' trailer into a space designed for a 43' trailer. You pay is per mile, I was earning $.26 per mile. Some drivers earned much more, but your pay is limited by speed and the amount of hours you drive. This encourages speeding and driving illegally. Most companies have rules against unhooking your trailer, so going anywhere is a bit of a pain. And it can be damned near impossible to find a place to park and get some sleep.
As a technologist, I work 8 to 10 hours a day. I carry a pager on rotating on-call, and back up others in my department. I don't have much say in what is done even though I was hired specifically because of my experience and knowledge. I don't get near as much work done as I could, mostly because I am either being asked to deal with problems, or I am waiting for information. There is effectively no documentation and anyone who suggests the development of documentation is shouted down. I support internal business applications, but development cycles are extremely tight and there is a rush-to-market mentality in management. We spend 10K per server for an enterprise product that can do multiserver clustering, and we don't use the functionality so we have some interesting availablity problems with mission critical applications.
I make about 60K as a techie. I made 28K as a trucker.
I may yet go back to trucking. I am definately thinking about a career change.
How many are using OpenSSH? I can think of quite a few off the top of my head. Maybe they, and you, should support the organization that developed and maintains OpenSSH.
If OpenSSH had been a commercial project, then they would be charging for the use of OpenSSH and wouldn't have this financial problem.
Perhaps a better title would be "When F/OSS fails those that develop it."
Oh wait, does that make too much sense?
This is all about rush-to-market. Companies don't want to be best, they want to be first. "We need to get it on the market NOW. Who cares about a few bugs? Besides, consumers are used to buying crap, they won't care."
The last part of that statement is true. Most consumers would rather buy a piece of crap for $39.99 than something of high quality for $59.99. Consumers think that a "good" item is one that is cheap and will break in 6 months or a year.
Until people start expecting quality, crap will be the norm and bugs will be rampant.
What will get you more notice:
or
Basically, a self-appointed expert can now go on TV, write a book, and charge big money to say "I believe global warming is responsible for the increased strength and frequency of hurricanes. Never mind the data behind the 30 year mark."
Actually, it would be any self-guided missle. Unguided, Este, and even bottle rockets are all pretty much fire and forget.
In some ways, I agree with you.
Everyone forgets some important facts about the Three Laws. The first and foremost is that originally robots were not made with the three laws. In fact, I think there is mention of that fact in at least one of Asmiov's stories.
The three laws were hard-wired into the positronic elements of the brains of intelligent robots, presumably with basic definitions of the terms. But, that was a design feature and not a "natural law". It may be in the Asimov universe of the robot stories, there is a legal law requiring all positronic brains be made with said laws, but in the real world there is no such thing.
You are right that implementation of these "laws" is not a trivial matter, but then neither is creation of fully autonomous, programmed, bipedal robots. It is assumed that one is solved with the rest, and thus would be solved in our future. We don't even have fully automonous robots yet.
My biggest problem with the Three Laws is that the first law does not contain the word "directly". Without that word, a robot literally could not function because one can not determine if one's action will indirectly cause harm to anyone else. Thus, robot would be unable to do anything, even nothing at all.
Nope, not a robot. A Predator is a remote controlled airplane with guns. Fun, but not a robot.
Um, small flaw with your plan. You are human and if you reprogram them to kill all humans... You see.
Besides, I am programing them to be my my personal enforcers. I am just waiting for the ED-209 model to come out.
Well, after having been in the U.S. Navy for eight years, I can attest to the fact that when they can ask for R&R in Tokyo, they will be treated like the enlisted, that is they will still be treated like tools
In my mind, a robot operates on it's own. It is a mechanical device that can be programmed to perform specific function in advance and then operates independantly.
A lot of what are called robots are just fancy remote controled cars. In this case, a fancy remote controled car with guns. Fun, but not a robot.
As I said, you seem to have no clue about pretty much everything.
He used his definition, I used mine. And, as he would be the aggressor, here in the state of Florida, I would be allowed to use upto and including deadly force to protect myself and mine. Unlike many states that require people to backdown and run away from criminals, Florida has a law that protects those that defend themselves.