Even if the company "does no evil"(tm), no system is perfect. I remember fiddling with Facebook's API a while back. I was astounded by by what I had access to. I could see friend ids/names that I am not so sure should have been accessible to me given the privacy options selected by those people.
So, even if a company's morality is perfect, this isn't to say that their software is. Don't expect anyone to protect your privacy except you.
I'm actually reluctant to do that. I remember liking that show a lot. I suspect it's because it was simple and had a cartoony feel to it. I can only suspect it will be bad and it will ruin my memory of it. Like the time I found a zip file of every atari 2600 game ever created.
Then again, in that case, it may not be that the games were bad. It may have been the fact that I was able to sample and discard them all so rapidly that it cheapened their real value. So, yeah, I saw the graphics and heard the bleeps, but I didn't re-live the challenge and the skill involved with playing that one cartridge for weeks.
Forgot my point. Oh, yeah. Let me know if that show is as bad as I fear.
This is mainly a "hind-site" phenomenon. Someone idiotic tries to stop getting attention by trying to silence someone over the Internet. Because of this, it spreads like wild fire. That's because people love to mock idiocy. Often it's because a notable person or entity is trying to stifle free speech, and we love to get all up in arms about it. That's because the news is interesting in some way.
Don't let this fool you into thinking that information cannot be kept down. And don't think that it isn't happening every day in millions of ways. The Streisand Effect is a cute name for something rare. Censorship is real, and it happens. The reason you don't hear about most of it is because, well, it has been successfully censored. You can only pray that the manner of censorship is so asinine that it causes a stir. Normally it doesn't. People get paid off, killed or threatened with merit-less lawsuits.
Don't let these false phenomenon allow complacency to set in. Speak out where you can about what you think is important.
A lot of posts here simplify the situation. People are staying late because of the Manager, or people staying late because of crappy code.
In my experience, people always seem to stay late when there's a deadline. It's just the way it works. Because no matter how reasonable the deadline or how awesome the code, there's always more that can be squeezed in or improved at the 11th hour.
In practice, deadlines are always unreasonable and code is often crappy (or can be improved). If we waited until things were perfect, nothing would ever go out.
So as far as the Management issue goes, do whatever it takes to make your team happy and productive. Stay late for whatever reason so long as that reason is helpful to your team. Be ready to advocate that developers be compensated for putting in extra effort.
All in all, reading through these responses, it's clear who the biggest beneficiary is. Pizza companies.
> Unfortunately, if there is any life, it is almost certainly microbial. So no one is appreciating the view from the planet. UNFORTUNATELY? Uggh. I'd call it a relief. I'm quite happy here on Earth with no natural predators. Sure, it's just because we humans taste aweful, but aliens may have a different sense of taste.
> Which simply shows that the lack of Linux malware isn't because Linux is somehow magically superior, but simply because nobody has taken the time to write any.
And why would that be? Maybe because there isn't money in it. Or if there is, Windows malware gives more bang for the buck in terms of conversions. I could write a linux worm, but I'm pretty confident I could make one more easily for Windows. Hell, I wouldn't even have to code it.. I could just find one and re-purpose it. It's easier and would hit more computers.
Given that, it's also that an arbitrary Windows machine would likely have a more predictable array of software than would a linux machine. That, however, will start to become less true as we become successful at unifying Linux on the Desktop.
If Linux were as popular as Windows is on home PCs, we'd surely start to see the difference between the two in terms of security. I'd be willing to bet that we'd find some surprises, be it that Linux is more secure than we thought or possibly less.
A counter argument to all this; the Mac. They exist for sure, but I don't hear about OSX virii all that much.
One reason the link-rot threat is very real is the little guy.
I run a url-shortner (ish) service because it's fun and I can.
While, I would love to defend url shortners, my advice to a friend would be : don't use these for anything important. They are not to be used in place of bookmarks. If you have a site or a blog.. just use the real URL in the href. You can beautify it any way you would like inside the "Anchor" tag itself. We've been doing that for two decades now.
Also, the link-rot threat is quite real. SoCuteUrl is simply a fun way to send an otherwise cumbersome link. It's more memorable.. easy to write down, text, etc.
I run the site because it costs very very little to do so and is a very easy to thing to have set up. And, it's fairly easy to maintain.
This is where the problem lies. These are so easy to engineer that virtually anyone can do it. Yes, even slackers like myself with a tendency to flake out on personal projects.
301Works Looks like a decent solution. I will be evaluating it for my own site (socuteurl.com).
However, the membership fee, which does not exist now could prove problematic. My site makes no money. $1,000 a year may not be a lot of money for a site that makes some kind of profit, but it's a lot to support a hobby. I think 301works may have to come up with a better way to support their costs. Since the biggest threat to link rot.. are the sites that don't make money! I think the membership fee if instated should be optional, and donations should be accepted. Or, perhaps the membership fee can be scaled down for sites with small dbs to upload.
This is nothing new. I've strapped many an unsuspecting robot to a pair of skis and shoved it down a hill. They get down just fine without any of your fancy whirring gizmo's.
Turns out it works for other things too. Campers, bears, trick-or-treaters and the Law.
The game is tongue in cheek, but I think they've made a pretty neat step towards a style of MMO and RTS. s/massive/many/ It should be possible to make a more serious (and perhaps less chaotic game) in that style that is also a persistent world.
I did for once read TFA. Was elaborating on some of their points. Just a poor phrasing on my part. Probably a little more focused on my pun than on being more articulate.
But, I don't think you can see other people's pokes on FaceBook.
[comcast senses new p2p activity coming from a home IP] Comcast Pop: Dear User, you recently installed a networked application. This application is spyware and is probably stealing your credit card information as we speak. For your safety, remove the software and any corrupted media downloaded by it.
Slashdot Mirror
Hi. I (a US Citizen) am the owner of these copyrights. As being a such, I hereby grant permission for anyone to use this material freely.
Snark Snark.
Thanks for clarifying that for me. Cuz, I would have thought you was just referring to Yo Momma's Nephew.
Even if the company "does no evil"(tm), no system is perfect. I remember fiddling with Facebook's API a while back. I was astounded by by what I had access to. I could see friend ids/names that I am not so sure should have been accessible to me given the privacy options selected by those people.
So, even if a company's morality is perfect, this isn't to say that their software is. Don't expect anyone to protect your privacy except you.
Which, most likely means it's a browser exploit, but the problem is much deeper. And why a browser's code has to go that deep? Beyond me.
echo '75% of Linux Code Now Written By Paid Developers' | sed 's/Written/Copy\/Pasted/g' > there-fixed-it.txt
KillerFS may be more subtle!
I'm actually reluctant to do that. I remember liking that show a lot. I suspect it's because it was simple and had a cartoony feel to it. I can only suspect it will be bad and it will ruin my memory of it. Like the time I found a zip file of every atari 2600 game ever created.
Then again, in that case, it may not be that the games were bad. It may have been the fact that I was able to sample and discard them all so rapidly that it cheapened their real value. So, yeah, I saw the graphics and heard the bleeps, but I didn't re-live the challenge and the skill involved with playing that one cartridge for weeks.
Forgot my point. Oh, yeah. Let me know if that show is as bad as I fear.
Oh wait. That'd be Heros.
This is mainly a "hind-site" phenomenon. Someone idiotic tries to stop getting attention by trying to silence someone over the Internet. Because of this, it spreads like wild fire. That's because people love to mock idiocy. Often it's because a notable person or entity is trying to stifle free speech, and we love to get all up in arms about it. That's because the news is interesting in some way.
Don't let this fool you into thinking that information cannot be kept down. And don't think that it isn't happening every day in millions of ways. The Streisand Effect is a cute name for something rare. Censorship is real, and it happens. The reason you don't hear about most of it is because, well, it has been successfully censored. You can only pray that the manner of censorship is so asinine that it causes a stir. Normally it doesn't. People get paid off, killed or threatened with merit-less lawsuits.
Don't let these false phenomenon allow complacency to set in. Speak out where you can about what you think is important.
A lot of posts here simplify the situation. People are staying late because of the Manager, or people staying late because of crappy code.
In my experience, people always seem to stay late when there's a deadline. It's just the way it works. Because no matter how reasonable the deadline or how awesome the code, there's always more that can be squeezed in or improved at the 11th hour.
In practice, deadlines are always unreasonable and code is often crappy (or can be improved). If we waited until things were perfect, nothing would ever go out.
So as far as the Management issue goes, do whatever it takes to make your team happy and productive. Stay late for whatever reason so long as that reason is helpful to your team. Be ready to advocate that developers be compensated for putting in extra effort.
All in all, reading through these responses, it's clear who the biggest beneficiary is. Pizza companies.
> Unfortunately, if there is any life, it is almost certainly microbial. So no one is appreciating the view from the planet.
UNFORTUNATELY? Uggh. I'd call it a relief. I'm quite happy here on Earth with no natural predators. Sure, it's just because we humans taste aweful, but aliens may have a different sense of taste.
I hardly know her!
> Which simply shows that the lack of Linux malware isn't because Linux is somehow magically superior, but simply because nobody has taken the time to write any.
And why would that be? Maybe because there isn't money in it. Or if there is, Windows malware gives more bang for the buck in terms of conversions. I could write a linux worm, but I'm pretty confident I could make one more easily for Windows. Hell, I wouldn't even have to code it.. I could just find one and re-purpose it. It's easier and would hit more computers.
Given that, it's also that an arbitrary Windows machine would likely have a more predictable array of software than would a linux machine. That, however, will start to become less true as we become successful at unifying Linux on the Desktop.
If Linux were as popular as Windows is on home PCs, we'd surely start to see the difference between the two in terms of security. I'd be willing to bet that we'd find some surprises, be it that Linux is more secure than we thought or possibly less.
A counter argument to all this; the Mac. They exist for sure, but I don't hear about OSX virii all that much.
I cannot believe I passed up the opportunity to misspell "problematic" in my own post. :(
But, I just don't understand how that cutens ANYTHING!
One reason the link-rot threat is very real is the little guy.
I run a url-shortner (ish) service because it's fun and I can.
While, I would love to defend url shortners, my advice to a friend would be : don't use these for anything important. They are not to be used in place of bookmarks. If you have a site or a blog.. just use the real URL in the href. You can beautify it any way you would like inside the "Anchor" tag itself. We've been doing that for two decades now.
Also, the link-rot threat is quite real. SoCuteUrl is simply a fun way to send an otherwise cumbersome link. It's more memorable.. easy to write down, text, etc.
I run the site because it costs very very little to do so and is a very easy to thing to have set up. And, it's fairly easy to maintain.
This is where the problem lies. These are so easy to engineer that virtually anyone can do it. Yes, even slackers like myself with a tendency to flake out on personal projects.
301Works Looks like a decent solution. I will be evaluating it for my own site (socuteurl.com).
However, the membership fee, which does not exist now could prove problematic. My site makes no money. $1,000 a year may not be a lot of money for a site that makes some kind of profit, but it's a lot to support a hobby.
I think 301works may have to come up with a better way to support their costs. Since the biggest threat to link rot.. are the sites that don't make money! I think the membership fee if instated should be optional, and donations should be accepted. Or, perhaps the membership fee can be scaled down for sites with small dbs to upload.
Correlation/Causation and all that. The point is... unethical behavior is what leads to the bad smells.
This is nothing new. I've strapped many an unsuspecting robot to a pair of skis and shoved it down a hill. They get down just fine without any of your fancy whirring gizmo's.
Turns out it works for other things too. Campers, bears, trick-or-treaters and the Law.
All I wanna do is (BANG BANG BANG BANG!)
And (KKKAAAA CHING!)
And take your money
?!?
Test Harness:
function testRant($_EVIL_RANT) {
if($_EVIL_RANT) echo "Rant is Evil";
else echo "No evil Here";
}
>testRant("true");
Rant is Evil
>testRant("false");
Rant is Evil
Rats. There appears to be a bug. First to find it gets to sue someone.
Or, we could simply make the prepending ':' mandatory like: :slashdot.com
Then there's no ambiguity. All urls would have one or two colons. Anything preceding a colon is non-ambiguiously a protocol declaration.
If browsers wanted to be friendlier, they could allow colons to be ommitted all together in the event that neither port nor protocol are specified.
The game is tongue in cheek, but I think they've made a pretty neat step towards a style of MMO and RTS. s/massive/many/
It should be possible to make a more serious (and perhaps less chaotic game) in that style that is also a persistent world.
I did for once read TFA. Was elaborating on some of their points. Just a poor phrasing on my part. Probably a little more focused on my pun than on being more articulate.
But, I don't think you can see other people's pokes on FaceBook.
TFA didn't imply that the accuser furnished any actual proof of this. Is facebook required to hand over their "poke logs"?
1) File a restraining order
2) Download Firebug and alter web page
3) ??
4) Proof-it
[comcast senses new p2p activity coming from a home IP]
Comcast Pop: Dear User, you recently installed a networked application. This application is spyware and is probably stealing your credit card information as we speak. For your safety, remove the software and any corrupted media downloaded by it.