In reading the replies, I'm dumbfounded by the assumption that people with degrees have the ability to learn and autodidacts do not.
Many of the posts imply that a person with a degree has proven they have the ability to learn and will learn things more readily than their non-degreed counterparts. To them I say, look up the definition of autodidact.
As a general rule, management is an unethical occupation. You have been asked to do something that you know is wrong and have been put in the situation where if it's brought to the light of day and makes the company look bad, you will be used as a scapegoat.
In this situation, even pointing it out to you "boss" would make you a "non-team player".
In your shoes, I would drag my feet on it and find new work asap.
Source: Prior experience with one of these "corporations".
In my experience all large companies have posted ethical guidelines in order to cover their asses by providing scapegoats when they are caught. It's simple, the corporation can do no wrong, it was just a wayward employee violating policy.
Code of conducts don't apply to my child sitting in his/her bedroom, only on school property, during school hours and/or at school sponsored events. PERIOD. I have different standards for my child to follow at home, and expressing his/her opinion is part of it (granted, so is this thing called consequences for actions.)
It was a personal attack on the principal and the principal used his power and authority granted by the school district to punish this child. The principal's authority should end at the school doors. If he had a problem he should have sued her like any other American that had been attacked in this manner.
The worse outcome was applying a school disciplinary action to an event that took place outside school hours and off school grounds. The principal's authority should end at the school grounds and at 2'30pm.
Personal experience here, in the 5th grade I was disciplined (read spanked), for telling some little bitch to fuck off (mind you, she was instigating and I felt justified in the comments) It was after school and we were off school property. She went into school the next day and told the principal who deemed it was ok to dole out punishment. WTF?
If the principal took issue with what this student had written about him off school grounds and after school hours, he should have sued the student and her family for slander like anyone else would have done. To apply school discipline was an abuse of power an authority. This principal is damn lucky it wasn't my child.
UBid & Overstock Auctions are two off of the top of my head. One thing that people don't seem to do is change auction houses when ebay pisses them off. Ebay got as large as it is due to timing, luck, & and hard work . . . . the net is big enough for more than one auction house, someone just needs to figure out what it would take to start luring sellers. Buyers would automatically start showing up for the great deals before an equilibrium was reached.
Good ole boys club? Sorry, I actually have self respect.
Last place I worked at ran this way, good ole boys club spent all their time learning from the people who actually made the place run and spent the rest of the time at happy hour regurgitating it to the higher ups all the while sticking knives in the backs of the people who had the misfortune of actually enjoying working with technology and spending less time schmoozing.
Yea, having a good ole boys club makes for a "Great Place to Work" for everyone else.
Remember this, being in that club will make you the last person out the door, but will also make you looking for a new job after all the real techies have already had to move on . . . . I can't tell you how many times I've had a new employer say "say, you worked with so and so, what did you think of them?"
Everything just works . . . . . except users that lock their accounts or forget their passwords. Then they're pissed at not being able to find a site person to fix it RIGHT DAMNED NOW!
Let's see, what can be said . . ..BAD politician for abusing his power for a personal vendetta, STUPID city attorney for not realizing what a shitstorm he'd be walking into. It's truly up to the local population to tell them both that this kind of behavior against it's citizens won't be permitted. If they don't to anything about it then the get the type of representation they deserve.
I must be doing something wrong. I only pay $7 a year for mine, granted I only have two domains but I figure with more domains you should be able to buy in bulk and get a better rate than I.
That's because there are FAR more hypocrites than true prudes in this country. I often wonder why that is, why don't people just be who they are? Is it cowardice, or politics, or what? Maybe I'm just getting old and don't give a rat's ass anymore.
I could have swore we already fought this battle. As I recall, my first internet provider in 92 had caps and limits and due to popular demand eventually even the mighty AOL dropped them. Do the people that run these large corporations not understand Internet history??
With the exception of the fact that Bill Gates will not allow you to IMPROVE the product you buy from him. This person is saying "pay me a little bit of money for my time, and fix what you think is broken." I'm SO there on this idea, especially if the beginning product is functional, flexible, and priced accordingly.
So the fact that I own a 2000 model year vehicle that runs on diesel and gets 44mpg highway seems to indicate that this technology is already here. And in the 80's there were several models that achieved 50mpg, so why are we creating a standard for 13 years in the future for something that existed 20 years ago?
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In reading the replies, I'm dumbfounded by the assumption that people with degrees have the ability to learn and autodidacts do not.
Many of the posts imply that a person with a degree has proven they have the ability to learn and will learn things more readily than their non-degreed counterparts. To them I say, look up the definition of autodidact.
Unfortunately since we're not to that point yet, I've started using Notefrog on a flashdrive.
Laughs all the way to the bank.
So . . . let's release this 'secure' os into the wild for a few months and see how many security exploits can be found in it.
As a general rule, management is an unethical occupation. You have been asked to do something that you know is wrong and have been put in the situation where if it's brought to the light of day and makes the company look bad, you will be used as a scapegoat.
In this situation, even pointing it out to you "boss" would make you a "non-team player".
In your shoes, I would drag my feet on it and find new work asap.
Source: Prior experience with one of these "corporations".
It seems more like a Denial Of Service attack to me.
In my experience all large companies have posted ethical guidelines in order to cover their asses by providing scapegoats when they are caught. It's simple, the corporation can do no wrong, it was just a wayward employee violating policy.
They can have my laptop. Not gonna do them much good without my decryption passphrase, unless they want to work REALLY hard at it. :D
Only because Americans are more concerned about pedophiles than cruelty to elephants.
Code of conducts don't apply to my child sitting in his/her bedroom, only on school property, during school hours and/or at school sponsored events. PERIOD. I have different standards for my child to follow at home, and expressing his/her opinion is part of it (granted, so is this thing called consequences for actions.)
It was a personal attack on the principal and the principal used his power and authority granted by the school district to punish this child. The principal's authority should end at the school doors. If he had a problem he should have sued her like any other American that had been attacked in this manner.
er, sorry, libel . . . . was on a webpage.
The worse outcome was applying a school disciplinary action to an event that took place outside school hours and off school grounds. The principal's authority should end at the school grounds and at 2'30pm.
Personal experience here, in the 5th grade I was disciplined (read spanked), for telling some little bitch to fuck off (mind you, she was instigating and I felt justified in the comments) It was after school and we were off school property. She went into school the next day and told the principal who deemed it was ok to dole out punishment. WTF?
If the principal took issue with what this student had written about him off school grounds and after school hours, he should have sued the student and her family for slander like anyone else would have done. To apply school discipline was an abuse of power an authority. This principal is damn lucky it wasn't my child.
UBid & Overstock Auctions are two off of the top of my head. One thing that people don't seem to do is change auction houses when ebay pisses them off. Ebay got as large as it is due to timing, luck, & and hard work . . . . the net is big enough for more than one auction house, someone just needs to figure out what it would take to start luring sellers. Buyers would automatically start showing up for the great deals before an equilibrium was reached.
Good ole boys club? Sorry, I actually have self respect.
Last place I worked at ran this way, good ole boys club spent all their time learning from the people who actually made the place run and spent the rest of the time at happy hour regurgitating it to the higher ups all the while sticking knives in the backs of the people who had the misfortune of actually enjoying working with technology and spending less time schmoozing.
Yea, having a good ole boys club makes for a "Great Place to Work" for everyone else.
Remember this, being in that club will make you the last person out the door, but will also make you looking for a new job after all the real techies have already had to move on . . . . I can't tell you how many times I've had a new employer say "say, you worked with so and so, what did you think of them?"
What comes around goes around.
Everything just works . . . . . except users that lock their accounts or forget their passwords. Then they're pissed at not being able to find a site person to fix it RIGHT DAMNED NOW!
Yes, and because the rest of us TRULY enjoy working with functional alcoholics.
Let's see, what can be said . . . .BAD politician for abusing his power for a personal vendetta, STUPID city attorney for not realizing what a shitstorm he'd be walking into. It's truly up to the local population to tell them both that this kind of behavior against it's citizens won't be permitted. If they don't to anything about it then the get the type of representation they deserve.
Which is even MORE amazing since the dollar is worth HALF what it was 5 years ago!!!
I must be doing something wrong. I only pay $7 a year for mine, granted I only have two domains but I figure with more domains you should be able to buy in bulk and get a better rate than I.
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That's because there are FAR more hypocrites than true prudes in this country. I often wonder why that is, why don't people just be who they are? Is it cowardice, or politics, or what? Maybe I'm just getting old and don't give a rat's ass anymore.
I could have swore we already fought this battle. As I recall, my first internet provider in 92 had caps and limits and due to popular demand eventually even the mighty AOL dropped them. Do the people that run these large corporations not understand Internet history??
I thought they went to two-way satellite years ago?
With the exception of the fact that Bill Gates will not allow you to IMPROVE the product you buy from him. This person is saying "pay me a little bit of money for my time, and fix what you think is broken." I'm SO there on this idea, especially if the beginning product is functional, flexible, and priced accordingly.
So the fact that I own a 2000 model year vehicle that runs on diesel and gets 44mpg highway seems to indicate that this technology is already here. And in the 80's there were several models that achieved 50mpg, so why are we creating a standard for 13 years in the future for something that existed 20 years ago?