American citizen might be puzzled or even shocked (mainly GOP affiliates) to hear the news from Oslo. As an European (Swiss), I must say that Barak Obama stands for the America we love, as much as George W. Bush and his administration stood for the America we hate.
We have a dream of America. An America witch stands for freedom and democarcy. An America where everybody gets his chance, even the offspring of an affair between an African student and a white anglo saxon.
We have the dream of an America which stands for the firm belief "that all men are created equal, that they are endowed by their Creator with certain unalienable Rights, that among these are Life, Liberty and the pursuit of Happiness." (Declaration of Independence)
Barak Obama gave us hope. The hope that America will stand for its basic values and that America will accept Europe as an equal partner.
That is what the price is for. A prize for a promise not a price for an achievment. Surely Barak Obama will disappoint us from time to time, as America has allways disappointed us from time to time. But, we have to admit that disappointment belongs to love as hope belongs to love.
So the real laureate of this years peace price is not Barak Obama - it is the United States of America which elected him for president and made the world believe that there is hope.
Information Ethics has to be considered as a serious branch in ethics. A good foundation is given by Luciano Floridi: Information Ethics: On the Philosophical Foundation of Computer Ethics. The text might be difficult to understand a first attempt, when without some knowledge in moral philosophy (or without computer science background). Nevertheless it is worth reading since it really gives the fundamentals of a consistent information ethics.
- chribo
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1. Ethics is not legislation. Some laws are derived from moral, but by no means ethics and legislation are the same. 2. IT is one of the technical fields with a long history in ethical consideration. The current code of ethics of the ACM (http://www.acm.org/about/code-of-ethics) has been preceded a early as 1966 by a concise 'modern' code of conduct.
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Just wanted to say the same. Furthermore the ACM code of ethics fulfills high standards.
Even the predecessor of the code of ethics, the ACM code of conduct dating from 1966 (!) is more concise than what you see to today in business ethics or in science ethics (cf. Parker D.B., Rules in Information Processing, Comm. ACM 11 (March 1968), 198).
And just to remember, IT-Ethics is older than IT. As far as I know the first "code of ethics" Asimov's three laws of robots date from 1942.
Even worse, it can take quite a long time (10 minutes or more) until the network recovers after the mad NIC has been unplugged (I wouldn't belive that if I hadn't experienced this situation in a cluster).
The quoto from the article is definitly wrong. Should be: "the physics is complex, but the controls are so simple, even a theoretical physicist can use it.";) - chribo
IMHO a system developper needs (at least) two machines.
One to do his developpment work and a general purpose computer to do the daily chores like E-mails, messaging, accesing intranet, writing useless reports and so on.
Only syadmins need to have adminstrative access to the machines used as general purpose computers.
Who said that FOSS hampers national security? Not finding a critical bug for seven years and waiting 7 month to fix it hampers the national security all over the world. And it mokes about enterprise security in allmost all companies around the globe.
I know this problem too well, but since I changed into a Unix environment it is out of my sight (not for my collegues adminstering Windows though). One point is that mangers think it can't be to hard to control a windows server, since it is the same thing their kiddies are playing with. They don't know that Windows Server are scaling very badly (in contrast to *nix systems). On the other hand it is easyer for sys-admins (most of them with higher education) of 'real' computers to get more resources since, the mangement has no idea about 'real' computing.
Nevertheless the whole problem is for a big part M$'s fault. They make the managment belive that their systems are easy to control. The contrary is the case! Windows is a nightmare for sysadmins and the very expensiv M$ support is worthless.
I had this problems a few years ago in delevery between providers (technical & politcal problems). But now it is very reliable. Delevery reports should be used to control the success. Nowadays it SMS even works reliable between Switzerland and India
If yes than you would know that the big disadvantege of W2K is that also the adminstrating tasks are bound to the GUI and that the scripting quality is poor. Thus adminstrative work on W2K scales with the number of serveres you have to maintain. Linux on the other hand stands in the long Unix tradition. It might be more difficult in to learn the first primtives but it is much easyer to administer a bunch of Linux server than a bunch of W2K server. Considering this facts and considering other studies, there must be something wrong with the study.
This has been tried somtimes ago in 1793 during french revolution. The metric (m,kg,s)system was a great success but not on time measurment in spite of a powerful enforcing machine called guillotine.
The public Computer rooms at the University of Zurich and the e-learning facilities are controlled by Linux and - still - AIX. There are plans to migrate the whole lot to Linux (the public Computers are Mac and PC and will remain that due to the wishes of students). The main reason of still using AIX is the possiblity to index the passwd (nearly 40'000 accounts!) and the better performance of a big IBM server. But this should be managed by a Linux cluster in future. Details: http://www.access.unizh.ch and http://www.zi.unizh.ch (in German but you'll find contacts there).
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American citizen might be puzzled or even shocked (mainly GOP affiliates) to hear the news from Oslo. As an European (Swiss), I must say that Barak Obama stands for the America we love, as much as George W. Bush and his administration stood for the America we hate.
We have a dream of America. An America witch stands for freedom and democarcy. An America where everybody gets his chance, even the offspring of an affair between an African student and a white anglo saxon.
We have the dream of an America which stands for the firm belief "that all men are created equal, that they are endowed by their Creator with certain unalienable Rights, that among these are Life, Liberty and the pursuit of Happiness." (Declaration of Independence)
Barak Obama gave us hope. The hope that America will stand for its basic values and that America will accept Europe as an equal partner.
That is what the price is for. A prize for a promise not a price for an achievment. Surely Barak Obama will disappoint us from time to time, as America has allways disappointed us from time to time. But, we have to admit that disappointment belongs to love as hope belongs to love.
So the real laureate of this years peace price is not Barak Obama - it is the United States of America which elected him for president and made the world believe that there is hope.
-- chribo
Information Ethics has to be considered as a serious branch in ethics. A good foundation is given by Luciano Floridi: Information Ethics: On the Philosophical Foundation of Computer Ethics. The text might be difficult to understand a first attempt, when without some knowledge in moral philosophy (or without computer science background). Nevertheless it is worth reading since it really gives the fundamentals of a consistent information ethics. - chribo
1. Ethics is not legislation. Some laws are derived from moral, but by no means ethics and legislation are the same.
2. IT is one of the technical fields with a long history in ethical consideration. The current code of ethics of the ACM (http://www.acm.org/about/code-of-ethics) has been preceded a early as 1966 by a concise 'modern' code of conduct.
- chribo
Just wanted to say the same. Furthermore the ACM code of ethics fulfills high standards.
Even the predecessor of the code of ethics, the ACM code of conduct dating from 1966 (!) is more concise than what you see to today in business ethics or in science ethics (cf. Parker D.B., Rules in Information Processing, Comm. ACM 11 (March 1968), 198).
And just to remember, IT-Ethics is older than IT. As far as I know the first "code of ethics" Asimov's three laws of robots date from 1942.
- chribo
Even worse, it can take quite a long time (10 minutes or more) until the network recovers after the mad NIC has been unplugged (I wouldn't belive that if I hadn't experienced this situation in a cluster).
- chribo
The quoto from the article is definitly wrong. Should be: ;)
"the physics is complex, but the controls are so simple, even a theoretical physicist can use it."
- chribo
When you read the original EU commission document you'll see that they have choosen a wording which is release independent.
-- chribo
IMHO a system developper needs (at least) two machines.
One to do his developpment work and a general purpose computer to do the daily chores like E-mails, messaging, accesing intranet, writing useless reports and so on.
Only syadmins need to have adminstrative access to the machines used as general purpose computers.
chribo
Who said that FOSS hampers national security?
Not finding a critical bug for seven years and waiting 7 month to fix it hampers the national security all over the world.
And it mokes about enterprise security in allmost all companies around the globe.
chribo
Last week I tested SuSE Linux for AMD64.
....)
Yast (the installation program) just said:
"Please press a key to reboot".
(it also works pressing b
Honi soit qui mal y pense.
Why didn't they react earlier?
Chribo
I know this problem too well, but since I changed into a Unix environment it is out of my sight (not for my collegues adminstering Windows though).
One point is that mangers think it can't be to hard to control a windows server, since it is the same thing their kiddies are playing with. They don't know that Windows Server are scaling very badly (in contrast to *nix systems).
On the other hand it is easyer for sys-admins (most of them with higher education) of 'real' computers to get more resources since, the mangement has no idea about 'real' computing.
Nevertheless the whole problem is for a big part M$'s fault. They make the managment belive that their systems are easy to control. The contrary is the case! Windows is a nightmare for sysadmins and the very expensiv M$ support is worthless.
Why use M$ at all?
I had this problems a few years ago in delevery between providers (technical & politcal problems).
But now it is very reliable.
Delevery reports should be used to control the success.
Nowadays it SMS even works reliable between Switzerland and India
If yes than you would know that the big disadvantege of W2K is that also the adminstrating tasks are bound to the GUI and that the scripting quality is poor. Thus adminstrative work on W2K scales with the number of serveres you have to maintain.
Linux on the other hand stands in the long Unix tradition. It might be more difficult in to learn the first primtives but it is much easyer to administer a bunch of Linux server than a bunch of W2K server.
Considering this facts and considering other studies, there must be something wrong with the study.
This has been tried somtimes ago in 1793 during french revolution. The metric (m,kg,s)system was a great success but not on time measurment in spite of a powerful enforcing machine called guillotine.
Why repeating the errors of the past?
The public Computer rooms at the University of Zurich and the e-learning facilities are controlled by Linux and - still - AIX. There are plans to migrate the whole lot to Linux (the public Computers are Mac and PC and will remain that due to the wishes of students). The main reason of still using AIX is the possiblity to index the passwd (nearly 40'000 accounts!) and the better performance of a big IBM server. But this should be managed by a Linux cluster in future.
Details:
http://www.access.unizh.ch and http://www.zi.unizh.ch
(in German but you'll find contacts there).