So this along with the tetris hack basically says if you are a retailer and have access to a terminal or other means of getting hold of a persons credit or debit card then you can potentially do lots of dodgy stuff. Who knew!!!
Too right. you can start by not differentiating between differnet classes of employees. Especially not using names which while embraced within a community can as often as not be used in a disparaging or patronising tone outside it. Do you call your accountants "Bean Counters" or your receptionists "Desk Jockeys". No? then why call your techie people Geeks.
First and foremost make your employees know that you run a professional organisation where everyone is respected and valued for the work they do and that the rewards are there for those who conduct themselves in a professional manner. After that apply large limits on a per-project basis, be it techie or non-techie and encouraging people to work towards project (and personal) goals, with options of flexi time etc on a per project basis. It is much more fun and rewarding to work 9-5 on a well managed project, and throw in the odd weekend here and there, than to stay up all night coding towards disaster. More long term beneficial for the compnay as well.
Watching SKY news earlier I noted that by 14:00 GMT that Iraq had fired max 4 missles into Kuwait. The allies had fired better than 40 into Iraq.
1 person had been reported killed in Iraq with some more injured. Nobody had been reported killed in Kuwait.
So thats a US:Iraq ratio of better than 10 to 1 in ordinance delivered and subsequent casualties. From SKY you would be led to believe the opposite happened. I assume CNN was the same.
I wonder if SKY/CNN/FOX etc whoever were to give equal coverage to every missle and every casualty and every threat, no matter the side, what would puclic opinion would be then. At least it would be informed.
Likewise; right now the Iraqis are being accused of igniting oil wells near Basra. Is a more likely explanation for the fires is that the allies are throwing tons of explosives around the area? But you won't see that on network news!
Newton lived in a world before the scientific revolution had gotten off the ground, or the enligtenment. He was expected as an educated person of his day to be learned in philosophy and greek and latin and theology as well as mathematics and natural philososphy, not to mention alchemy and divination. There just wasn't any distiction between them.
Its thanks to people like Newton, and Kepler and Copernicus and a host of other scientists and philosphers (Thomas Aquinas anyone!) that the boundaries between faith and reason were identified and defined by later generations.
"Going in, I understand the risks. I assume the responsibility if problems occur. This is 180 degrees different from microsoft, since they make plenty of claims, and since there is a legal agreement between a company and microsoft, and because they are marketing a product with known liabilities."
I don't see that there is any difference from what you propose and what MS are doing, other than you buy the MS software. You still have no come back on service. And MS do not (currently) make any statements about guaranteeing security, reliability etc that is not covered/contradicted by the "as is" clause.
So acquiring SW is a risk. And a lemon law should make it less of a risk. And this counts for Open Source as much, if not more than for non open source products. Worst case scenario is that the GNU license allows people to modify and re-distribute code without taking as much care and effort as the original author to check for bugs. Those people are guilty of negligence in supplying bad product. And MS can countet that argument through a centrailsed (expensive, slow, conservative) quality control.
What the Open Source Movement really needs is that everyone adopts proper SW Engineering design, documnetation and test processes. Then not only can we push forward an open, flexible reliable method for providing SW, we can prove it as well.
It seems to me, at a quick glance at files 1995+, in the US, in the archive, that when a censorship case is taken to the courts the censors lose.
So censorship isn't a problem as long as the courts respect the constitution and the right to free speech.
And yes, it maybe be necessary to keep fighting for those rights. But then thats the point isn't it -if its not worth fighting for it shouldn't be a right.
I don't think the point of the article is that code is art. Rather it is that technology enables art.
And that the net is somewhat-unique in that it is both an enabler and a medium. Granted many techs that enables art are themselves mediums (architecture and photography for example) but the net may be unique in having global reach
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Plus, if its made an international law then the US will probably resent its enforcement, opt out and stop gathering data
So this along with the tetris hack basically says if you are a retailer and have access to a terminal or other means of getting hold of a persons credit or debit card then you can potentially do lots of dodgy stuff. Who knew!!!
Are you saying that WorldNetDaily is not a conservative organistaion. If it is then how is conservative then identifying it as such discrimination.
Too right. you can start by not differentiating between differnet classes of employees. Especially not using names which while embraced within a community can as often as not be used in a disparaging or patronising tone outside it. Do you call your accountants "Bean Counters" or your receptionists "Desk Jockeys". No? then why call your techie people Geeks.
First and foremost make your employees know that you run a professional organisation where everyone is respected and valued for the work they do and that the rewards are there for those who conduct themselves in a professional manner. After that apply large limits on a per-project basis, be it techie or non-techie and encouraging people to work towards project (and personal) goals, with options of flexi time etc on a per project basis. It is much more fun and rewarding to work 9-5 on a well managed project, and throw in the odd weekend here and there, than to stay up all night coding towards disaster. More long term beneficial for the compnay as well.
Watching SKY news earlier I noted that by 14:00 GMT that Iraq had fired max 4 missles into Kuwait. The allies had fired better than 40 into Iraq.
1 person had been reported killed in Iraq with some more injured. Nobody had been reported killed in Kuwait.
So thats a US:Iraq ratio of better than 10 to 1 in ordinance delivered and subsequent casualties. From SKY you would be led to believe the opposite happened. I assume CNN was the same.
I wonder if SKY/CNN/FOX etc whoever were to give equal coverage to every missle and every casualty and every threat, no matter the side, what would puclic opinion would be then. At least it would be informed.
Likewise; right now the Iraqis are being accused of igniting oil wells near Basra. Is a more likely explanation for the fires is that the allies are throwing tons of explosives around the area? But you won't see that on network news!
mgb
Oh Come on!
Newton lived in a world before the scientific revolution had gotten off the ground, or the enligtenment. He was expected as an educated person of his day to be learned in philosophy and greek and latin and theology as well as mathematics and natural philososphy, not to mention alchemy and divination. There just wasn't any distiction between them.
Its thanks to people like Newton, and Kepler and Copernicus and a host of other scientists and philosphers (Thomas Aquinas anyone!) that the boundaries between faith and reason were identified and defined by later generations.
mgb
"Going in, I understand the risks. I assume the responsibility if problems occur. This is 180 degrees different from microsoft, since they make plenty of claims, and since there is a legal agreement between a company and microsoft, and because they are marketing a product with known liabilities."
I don't see that there is any difference from what you propose and what MS are doing, other than you buy the MS software. You still have no come back on service. And MS do not (currently) make any statements about guaranteeing security, reliability etc that is not covered/contradicted by the "as is" clause.
So acquiring SW is a risk. And a lemon law should make it less of a risk. And this counts for Open Source as much, if not more than for
non open source products. Worst case scenario is that the GNU license allows people to modify and re-distribute code without taking as much care and effort as the original author to check for bugs. Those people are guilty of negligence in supplying bad product. And MS can countet that argument through a centrailsed (expensive, slow, conservative) quality control.
What the Open Source Movement really needs is that everyone adopts proper SW Engineering design, documnetation and test processes. Then not only can we push forward an open, flexible reliable method for providing SW, we can prove it as well.
mgb
It seems to me, at a quick glance at files 1995+, in the US, in the archive, that when a censorship case is taken to the courts the censors lose.
So censorship isn't a problem as long as the courts respect the constitution and the right to free speech.
And yes, it maybe be necessary to keep fighting for those rights. But then thats the point isn't it -if its not worth fighting for it shouldn't be a right.
I don't think the point of the article is that code is art. Rather it is that technology enables art.
And that the net is somewhat-unique in that it is both an enabler and a medium. Granted many techs that enables art are themselves mediums (architecture and photography for example) but the net may be unique in having global reach
mgb