No, 1/3 actually know that they are breaking policy. The other 2/3 don't realize that checking their personal email, reading a non-work-related site, or taking files home is a policy violation.
Is a great theoretical concept, but unfortunately it only makes sense in the context of assuming that everybody really thinks for themselves.
That's exactly what "wisdom of crowds" refers too. If you read any of the informed literature on it, one of the very first things that it does is explain this.
A mass of people are stupid, but the individuals in that mass are not. You must not try to reach a consensus, because then you will get the lowest common denominator, but instead find a way to harness the individual intelligences of those in the crowd.
3 -...don't even get recorded to a hard drive at any point.
It will.
The problem with this stuff is that there is a constant erosion or privacy. Every step is just one more little thing. What's the big deal about "a" when they are already doing b,c,d,e, and f. And once "a" is gone, you never get it back because the people already accepted giving it up. When people say "we don't have to worry about losing x because people would never accept it"... well... I don't think that the forefathers ever thought that people would give up habius corpus, or require national IDs to get into federal parks.
Are there really any memory problems that cannot be cured by strict adherance to the rule of "allocate memory at the beginging of a routine, deallocate same amount at the end"?
Yes, when "the end" is not clear due to a transfer of ownership.
I still want to know why all the books in the book store, and magazines, have the US price at 2/3 of the Canadian price, when the exchange rate hasn't been that bad in years.
Because they are following the cardinal rule of production and selling: charge what the market will bear.
I would suggest to Theo that if he wants those GPL slackers to give back to the BSD community and not run roughshod over the BSD license that he add a simple provision that forces the miscreants to give back their improvements.
You know, the GPL has no provisions that say that you have to give anything back. It says that you have to give source to those whom you distribute your binaries to, not that you have to give anything back to those whom you got it from. I could d/l you code and change it like crazy, but I don't have to give anything to you unless you get the binary. If I keep it for my own use, then I owe you nothing.
If you want people to have to give back, then you have to use the RPL.
However it raises more questions. Like if younger people are buying more old Pink Floyd albums (errr... CDs), why is HMV charging $10 dollars more than newer CDs? After 30 years on the market you would think that 'Dark Side of the Moon' or the 'Led Zepplin' CDs had made their money and maybe could be reduced to the price of say, a CD produced in 2007?
2 reasons...
1) Economy of scale. Pressing 1,000,000 units of Shakira costs less per unit than a run of 1,000 old Pink Floyd CDs. Shipping 500 units to one outlet costs less per unit than shipping 1 Pink Floyd. Storing a pallet of Shakira costs less per unit than storing a box of Pink Floyd.
2) Older music is typically bought by older patrons. They are more established, and have higher incomes. They have more to spend on a CD.
The proposed metric ignores costs, you only count benefits. There is no way to distinguish between work done by 1 SysAdmin versus a staff of 20. To pump up the metric, you just need to hire more people. It doesn't capture "efficiency" very well. Also, it ignores the severity of problems. A scheduled email outage at 4 am over a long weekend would carry the same weight as a power failure in the server closet the day before a major deadline... or some similar calamity. You need to capture true costs.
I would suggest: 1 / lost employee man-hours / (1 + SysAdmin hours on payroll)
So we fork over $49.95 for a CD player.... That is the essence of trade.... So where is the "deficit"? We have fewer pieces of green paper, but that's okay, we got something better in exchange.
Where did your piece of green paper come from?
Did the government just print it out of thin air for you? If so, then it has no value, and no one will accept it in the future. Your currency will crash and you will have massive inflation. Soon, your $50 will not even buy you a stick of gum from an overseas producer. Why would they accept it when it means nothing?
Did you take a loan to get it? If so, then you are going deeper and deeper into debt, and sooner or later, you wont be able to borrow any more. Who will lend to you when you have no ability to pay them back?
The deficit is that you didn't sell $50 worth of materials to create that $50 that you used to buy materials.
Yeah... I don't see the issue either. They weren't "banning" floppy discs 20 years ago. Or CDs 10 years ago.
If they don't want viruses coming in, install virus scanners or don't allow executables to be run from user drives... and have the machines re-image on a regular basis.
If they don't want sensitive data going out, banning media isn't going to stop some bonehead from using a floppy or emailing it to himself (or putting it on a "secret" part of his webpage).
With ATMs, both sides of the transaction get to audit it to make sure that they aren't getting ripped off. With voting, no party gets to audit. If anyone could audit that your vote was cast correctly, then they could also buy votes and audit that the vote was cast as bought, or you boss could just audit that you voted the way that he told you to, or the gang down the street could audit that you voted how they told you to... etc.
An ATM is a much simpler problem because it is more transparent.
I am not a networks guy... but it's my understanding that a switch acts like a hub when it sees a TO: MAC address that it doesn't know what port it's on. They learn the switching structure of a network by watching the FROM fields on the datagrams. When the switch powers up, it behaves exactly like a hub and just watches/learns what MAC addresses are on which ports and builds a switching table. If it starts getting garbage packets, it will look at the TO field and say "I don't know what port this should go out on, so I have to send it on all of them." So garbage packets would overwhelm a network even if it was switched.
It would take a router to stop this from happening. I don't think that there are many networks that use routers for internal partitioning. Even then, that entire network behind that router would be flooded.
You are expected to put in ridiculous amounts of hours, sometimes be on call 24/7, all for pay that's in many cases only somewhat better than that of a janitor.
Can we please put this one to rest? If you have a job that expects you to put in ridiculous hours, you have a crap job. Period. Any job that demands that you sacrifice your life for the sake of some company in which you have no stake is not sustainable.
The GP was making an important point (if he knew it or not) about the difference between men and women.
Men (when given strong leadership) are much more likely to be coerced into doing things for the good of their tribe and to conform to their leaders' wishes. They do it to fulfill their sense of tribal belonging. It is very difficult for a man to knowingly disappoint his leaders and his tribe by not fulfilling his duties. It originates from our primeval days as pack hunters.
In the workplace our duties are arbitrary, so they can be perverted into almost anything. What's the real difference between an 8 hour day or a 10 hour one? What does it mean to be on-call? If that's the difference between the tribe having a successful hunt and having enough food available, then the primeval man would gladly put in the extra effort. This urge has been exploited extensively by employers who have weak willed and more easily influenced employees.
Seriously, it seems like a major conflict of interest. Why is the president of the University making decisions like this anyway?
Presidents are only good for making decisions that have conflicts of interest to promote cronyism. You get into those positions because you have ties to important people.
Take a look at U.Waterloo.
Hello Mr. Lazaridis. Yes, you dropped out of our school, but thanks for that 100 Million dollars. How would you like to be our chancellor? You would? Great! What's that? You're company is having space issues? Please take one of our buildings!
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No, 1/3 actually know that they are breaking policy. The other 2/3 don't realize that checking their personal email, reading a non-work-related site, or taking files home is a policy violation.
But will he be able to produce the source code for the GPS when the police request it to check its accuracy?
Breathalyzer Source Code Revealed
Closed Source -> Charges Dismissed?
You've got the order of #1 and #2 reversed, and step 3 is clearly to pay for a slashvertisement.
That's exactly what "wisdom of crowds" refers too. If you read any of the informed literature on it, one of the very first things that it does is explain this.
A mass of people are stupid, but the individuals in that mass are not. You must not try to reach a consensus, because then you will get the lowest common denominator, but instead find a way to harness the individual intelligences of those in the crowd.
See:
One of us is smarter than all of us
The "Dumbness of Crowds"
So, they are paying Google royalties for the technology which Google invented, right?
The same thing happened to dodgeball when they were bought. Google buys companies for the people, not the product.
They won't.
It won't.
It will.
The problem with this stuff is that there is a constant erosion or privacy. Every step is just one more little thing. What's the big deal about "a" when they are already doing b,c,d,e, and f. And once "a" is gone, you never get it back because the people already accepted giving it up. When people say "we don't have to worry about losing x because people would never accept it"
Yes, when "the end" is not clear due to a transfer of ownership.
Because they are following the cardinal rule of production and selling: charge what the market will bear.
I would suggest to Theo that if he wants those GPL slackers to give back to the BSD community and not run roughshod over the BSD license that he add a simple provision that forces the miscreants to give back their improvements.
You know, the GPL has no provisions that say that you have to give anything back. It says that you have to give source to those whom you distribute your binaries to, not that you have to give anything back to those whom you got it from. I could d/l you code and change it like crazy, but I don't have to give anything to you unless you get the binary. If I keep it for my own use, then I owe you nothing.
If you want people to have to give back, then you have to use the RPL.
I'll tell you right after I finish looking up "money laundering."
...in three easy steps...
1) Get hired at Microsoft
2) Use your MS email address to offer bribes to public officials without management knowledge
3) Enjoy anti-trust actions
For anything to stick, they would have to show that there was some management involvement. A corporation is not one single mind.
Profiling makes sure you get the type of population that you want.
"So we're all clear on the rules, then? No Jews and no blacks." -Angus Griffin
However it raises more questions. Like if younger people are buying more old Pink Floyd albums (errr... CDs), why is HMV charging $10 dollars more than newer CDs? After 30 years on the market you would think that 'Dark Side of the Moon' or the 'Led Zepplin' CDs had made their money and maybe could be reduced to the price of say, a CD produced in 2007?
2 reasons...
1) Economy of scale. Pressing 1,000,000 units of Shakira costs less per unit than a run of 1,000 old Pink Floyd CDs. Shipping 500 units to one outlet costs less per unit than shipping 1 Pink Floyd. Storing a pallet of Shakira costs less per unit than storing a box of Pink Floyd.
2) Older music is typically bought by older patrons. They are more established, and have higher incomes. They have more to spend on a CD.
I bellyfeel this is doubleplussgood.
No, it's possible that that is the actual limit of the device.
you COULD have followed the link which would EVENTUALLY have led you to the comic.
Or they could have just linked to the comic. Because most of us are not going to bother to go looking in September for the other one.
comic
The proposed metric ignores costs, you only count benefits. There is no way to distinguish between work done by 1 SysAdmin versus a staff of 20. To pump up the metric, you just need to hire more people. It doesn't capture "efficiency" very well. Also, it ignores the severity of problems. A scheduled email outage at 4 am over a long weekend would carry the same weight as a power failure in the server closet the day before a major deadline... or some similar calamity. You need to capture true costs.
I would suggest:
1 / lost employee man-hours / (1 + SysAdmin hours on payroll)
Or some such structure.
So we fork over $49.95 for a CD player. ... ...
That is the essence of trade.
So where is the "deficit"? We have fewer pieces of green paper, but that's okay, we got something better in exchange.
Where did your piece of green paper come from?
Did the government just print it out of thin air for you? If so, then it has no value, and no one will accept it in the future. Your currency will crash and you will have massive inflation. Soon, your $50 will not even buy you a stick of gum from an overseas producer. Why would they accept it when it means nothing?
Did you take a loan to get it? If so, then you are going deeper and deeper into debt, and sooner or later, you wont be able to borrow any more. Who will lend to you when you have no ability to pay them back?
The deficit is that you didn't sell $50 worth of materials to create that $50 that you used to buy materials.
Yeah... I don't see the issue either. They weren't "banning" floppy discs 20 years ago. Or CDs 10 years ago.
If they don't want viruses coming in, install virus scanners or don't allow executables to be run from user drives... and have the machines re-image on a regular basis.
If they don't want sensitive data going out, banning media isn't going to stop some bonehead from using a floppy or emailing it to himself (or putting it on a "secret" part of his webpage).
because it's a different problem.
With ATMs, both sides of the transaction get to audit it to make sure that they aren't getting ripped off. With voting, no party gets to audit. If anyone could audit that your vote was cast correctly, then they could also buy votes and audit that the vote was cast as bought, or you boss could just audit that you voted the way that he told you to, or the gang down the street could audit that you voted how they told you to... etc.
An ATM is a much simpler problem because it is more transparent.
I am not a networks guy... but it's my understanding that a switch acts like a hub when it sees a TO: MAC address that it doesn't know what port it's on. They learn the switching structure of a network by watching the FROM fields on the datagrams. When the switch powers up, it behaves exactly like a hub and just watches/learns what MAC addresses are on which ports and builds a switching table. If it starts getting garbage packets, it will look at the TO field and say "I don't know what port this should go out on, so I have to send it on all of them." So garbage packets would overwhelm a network even if it was switched.
It would take a router to stop this from happening. I don't think that there are many networks that use routers for internal partitioning. Even then, that entire network behind that router would be flooded.
I once had a gay male nurse examine my penis and feel my testicles. I'm not sure if it was required.
/ not trolling
The GP was making an important point (if he knew it or not) about the difference between men and women.
Men (when given strong leadership) are much more likely to be coerced into doing things for the good of their tribe and to conform to their leaders' wishes. They do it to fulfill their sense of tribal belonging. It is very difficult for a man to knowingly disappoint his leaders and his tribe by not fulfilling his duties. It originates from our primeval days as pack hunters.
In the workplace our duties are arbitrary, so they can be perverted into almost anything. What's the real difference between an 8 hour day or a 10 hour one? What does it mean to be on-call? If that's the difference between the tribe having a successful hunt and having enough food available, then the primeval man would gladly put in the extra effort. This urge has been exploited extensively by employers who have weak willed and more easily influenced employees.
Presidents are only good for making decisions that have conflicts of interest to promote cronyism. You get into those positions because you have ties to important people.
Take a look at U.Waterloo.
Hello Mr. Lazaridis. Yes, you dropped out of our school, but thanks for that 100 Million dollars. How would you like to be our chancellor? You would? Great! What's that? You're company is having space issues? Please take one of our buildings!