The Debian constitution looks like nothing more than normal club bureaucracy. Without it, I would expect Debian wouldn't have survived as long as it has.
Without specific concerns about such a constitution, I'm inclined to not make much of this. People change, projects change, people leave, people join. It doesn't matter how vital the participant, things change.
No offense to anyone involved... I'm more interested in learning what's wrong with the constitution so that I can avoid similar problems in my own clubs.
"The responses here prove what she was writing about. People here (who very likely resemble her coworkers at Google and other places) have no empathy and no clue about anything outside their little circle, they're social morons."
People here have been called a lot of names. Mysoginists, knuckle-draggers, priviliged, racist, sexist, social morons etc.
They're here to talk about technology and read articles about technology. Many, or most, have had no issue working with people of any colour or gender. They're still called all these names. When they try to defend themselves, they're told they're ignorant.
I'm happy to do whatever is needed to bring women into tech. I've done so for years. They're not coming and it's not clear why.
People listen for a while, and quietly swallow all the insults. But eventually people get sick of being accused of excluding people they've never met for reasons which are pure speculation.
Then *some* of them get ticked off, mouth off, and somebody will jump in to say "OMG, it's all true! Look at the nasty geeks!"
The responses here prove nothing.
She doesn't need proof, her story doesn't speculate much. She's living her life, written her story and is helping the people she feels need help.
I reluctantly gave the article a read. It's written from the first person and describes her own experiences.
I don't see a huge amount of speculation on the problem in the article. She's just saying what happened and how she felt. She even said that she felt comfortable at one company, but left becuase of pay.
I think her reaction to this is overwhelmingly positive.
"I’m volunteering with organizations that will help the younger generation get involved in tech, so we can change the ratio (Black Girls Code, Hack The Hood) and those who come after me won’t have to feel how I’ve felt. I’ve stopped trying to assimilate at work. I’m no longer trying to make people comfortable with my existence. I am trying to connect with other black women in technical roles. I’m standing up for what I believe in and standing up for myself, instead of sitting quietly by, so as not to not make waves."
What I don't know... is if she's aware of how other people in tech feel. Some of us like boozy events, but some of us like non-boozy events too. I'm not a gamer, not into sports, I don't like dirty jokes at the office. I like tech stuff, I talk tech stuff and I find it really cool and interesting. I like doing creative stuff with tech. I come off a bit weird, so it usually takes me 6 months to "fit in" to a group.
I think most people in tech feel like outsiders. She's part of that crowd whether she likes it or not.
This looks like it might actually be a good product. I clicked "buy" and it actually has a caution about the sizing... and recommends I go to a "Microsoft Store", whatever that is. I guess I should look for one.
Could Ballmer have been so bad for MS that we forgot they could produce good products?
I'm going to check it out, but I simply can't believe it will be acceptable until version 3.
I like these projects, they have a "throw it on the wall and see if it sticks." None of it is going to stick, but we'd never have had Clippy or Comic Sans if it wasn't for MS Bob.
... on second thought, MS shouldn't try to innovate.
Steve Job was friends with Steve Wozniac, they're two normal guys who get a lot of strange mail. They live next to Mike Roe, the founder of Mikeroesoft.
It wasn't long ago that South Korea wasn't so advanced, and Daewoo was corrupt.
The national identity has been trying to raise standards in everything, but it still has horrible reminders of its recent past. The Sewoul disaster where hundreds died needlessly, the subway crash where 200 people died, the recent collapse of a sidewalk grate where 16 concert goers just... died.
By "national identity" I mean the health, safety and anticorruption standards are considered part of the national identity and distinct from the standards of many neighbouring countries.
In the past 20 years Korea has been rebuilding everything and has good standards. These stories are making the country obsessive over safety and quality, but there's still junk from the recent past, or people who are wrapped in nepotism and corruption who shouldn't be responsible for anything involving public safety, but can't be removed.
As long as the ship builders are not part of that past, then it's a boon for the country and another milestone for Korea's advancement.
It's kind of insane that the unions are such a burden to transit, that it's easier to accept the safety risks and enormous costs of driverless trains than to accept a non-union driver.
I'm speaking from the marketer's perspective, and totally hypothetically. I'm pretty sure I've got what you're saying: you want nothing to do with them because they've already violated your trust.
They're already keeping a profile on you. It's probably renewing with your IP and cookies and not actually linked to your identity. You're already contributing to your profile by blocking ads. You've said to them that their medium is so offensive and useless to you that you're doing everything in your power to avoid it.
They know there are lots of people who do this. Right now your search results are tainted with SEO crap and reviews are stacked with shills. The advertisers are trashing your information sources to try to sell you stuff. The only reason you would buy anything from them would be because you couldn't find the information you were looking for and took a shot at thier product out of frustration.
It's only a matter of time before the ad blockers stop working. Many ads are already included as part of the content and are difficult to filter. Some sites detect adblockers and refuse to show their content. It's not technically complex to circumvent all adblockers. Don't serve the ads from the CDN, but instead have the server embed it in the CMS, and randomize some of the content.
I'm just suggesting that they may have never lost your trust if they gave you good content about their products rather than limiting themselves to car-commercial and magazine-like mindless impressions.
IMHO, this should be part of your profile. When it comes time for you to purchase something, instead of getting some flashy ad in your face, you would get a pile of specs veted by a third party.
If the product doesn't stand up to comparison in the specs, then they shouldn't bother advertising to you. If the product does stand up, it's an easy sell and well worth the effort for them to send you the ad.
Instead... sadly, they send you crap and you fight to tell them that you're not interested in their jingle, bluster or shiny copy.
Analysis by Check Point security researchers revealed how this particular vulnerability could be exploited by attackers:
1.The bug enables unknown users to gain administrative privileges
2.By using these admin credentials, attackers can then view and edit private and undisclosed bug details. Software bug tracking data is typically closely guarded as it exposes software vulnerabilities and known issues
3.Furthermore, this access allows attackers to exploit design weaknesses, or even irreversibly destroy bug data, slowing down development
And have info about their disclosure:
September 29th – Vulnerability discovered and verified by Check Point security researchers
September 30th – Report submitted to the Bugzilla team
September 30th – Acknowledgement and confirmation of vulnerability and severity received by Mozilla
September 30th – Bugzilla team privately shared preliminary patch with prominent Bugzilla installations
October 6th – Security advisory and final patch released
The Checkpoint article is a lot more professional than the Krebs article No jabs at FOSS either.
This looks like a major company which uses FOSS (IIRC, SPLAT is a Linux-based-platform) made a contribution in discovering a vulnerability in common software.
This shit is why I strongly prefer AirBnB or other alternative forms of hospitality.
I was at a hotel in London and found out that "Free wifi" meant it was freely available to reach the paid gateway. Sleezery seems to be in all large chains in large cities. You would think the high premium on staying there, and the economy of scale of the size of the hotel would mean that it's easier to provide good service to guests.
By contrast, with AirBnB you'll probably get secure, unrestricted residential wifi, or even an ethernet jack to plug into. Sure you might not, and you might not get a clean place. But there's no guarantee of cleanliness at the Mariott either, and you're certain not to get a free Internet connection.
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Previous story was about Barbie and sexism, this one is about pay equity. I think the next story should be about minorities in tech.
Maybe we'll find out Bill Cosby did a stint for Apple. That would wrap it all up nicely.
I'm as sure you're wrong as I'm sure the last digit of pi is 6.
A good devops team means that amazon vs. local is a flip of a command line parameter.
Those who think that images of women in lingerie are degrading need to visit a therapist. Female sexuality is not degrading.
The shirt is unprofessional. Sexuality is an awkward subject, and bringing it up in the workplace is delicate. Not a subject for t-shirts.
But holy crap I love the response shirt: https://twitter.com/SMLXist/status/532928903778934784/photo/1
"How hard would it have been to install a bright LED on the top that Rosetta could see from a few km away?"
If you were to drop the LED frequency into the radio spectrum you could reduce the power requirement further.
This can be a warning for other groups.
The Debian constitution looks like nothing more than normal club bureaucracy. Without it, I would expect Debian wouldn't have survived as long as it has.
https://www.debian.org/devel/constitution
Without specific concerns about such a constitution, I'm inclined to not make much of this. People change, projects change, people leave, people join. It doesn't matter how vital the participant, things change.
This is the only hint of what's wrong, I don't see how it has anything to do with the existence of a constitution: https://lists.debian.org/debian-devel/2014/11/msg00196.html
No offense to anyone involved... I'm more interested in learning what's wrong with the constitution so that I can avoid similar problems in my own clubs.
"...visible universe in 10^-32 seconds"
I'm not sure "size" or "seconds" have more than a very abstract mathematical meaning in this context.
"The responses here prove what she was writing about. People here (who very likely resemble her coworkers at Google and other places) have no empathy and no clue about anything outside their little circle, they're social morons."
People here have been called a lot of names. Mysoginists, knuckle-draggers, priviliged, racist, sexist, social morons etc.
They're here to talk about technology and read articles about technology. Many, or most, have had no issue working with people of any colour or gender. They're still called all these names. When they try to defend themselves, they're told they're ignorant.
I'm happy to do whatever is needed to bring women into tech. I've done so for years. They're not coming and it's not clear why.
People listen for a while, and quietly swallow all the insults. But eventually people get sick of being accused of excluding people they've never met for reasons which are pure speculation.
Then *some* of them get ticked off, mouth off, and somebody will jump in to say "OMG, it's all true! Look at the nasty geeks!"
The responses here prove nothing.
She doesn't need proof, her story doesn't speculate much. She's living her life, written her story and is helping the people she feels need help.
I reluctantly gave the article a read. It's written from the first person and describes her own experiences.
I don't see a huge amount of speculation on the problem in the article. She's just saying what happened and how she felt. She even said that she felt comfortable at one company, but left becuase of pay.
I think her reaction to this is overwhelmingly positive.
What I don't know... is if she's aware of how other people in tech feel. Some of us like boozy events, but some of us like non-boozy events too. I'm not a gamer, not into sports, I don't like dirty jokes at the office. I like tech stuff, I talk tech stuff and I find it really cool and interesting. I like doing creative stuff with tech. I come off a bit weird, so it usually takes me 6 months to "fit in" to a group.
I think most people in tech feel like outsiders. She's part of that crowd whether she likes it or not.
Because it's not possible to run for the offices of power without money.
My Epson ran out of scanner ink, couldn't scan anything until I bought more cartridges.
This looks like it might actually be a good product. I clicked "buy" and it actually has a caution about the sizing... and recommends I go to a "Microsoft Store", whatever that is. I guess I should look for one.
Could Ballmer have been so bad for MS that we forgot they could produce good products?
I'm going to check it out, but I simply can't believe it will be acceptable until version 3.
Degree inflation.
Google Wave could have stuck around as a D&D app.
I like these projects, they have a "throw it on the wall and see if it sticks." None of it is going to stick, but we'd never have had Clippy or Comic Sans if it wasn't for MS Bob.
... on second thought, MS shouldn't try to innovate.
Steve Job was friends with Steve Wozniac, they're two normal guys who get a lot of strange mail. They live next to Mike Roe, the founder of Mikeroesoft.
It wasn't long ago that South Korea wasn't so advanced, and Daewoo was corrupt.
The national identity has been trying to raise standards in everything, but it still has horrible reminders of its recent past. The Sewoul disaster where hundreds died needlessly, the subway crash where 200 people died, the recent collapse of a sidewalk grate where 16 concert goers just... died.
By "national identity" I mean the health, safety and anticorruption standards are considered part of the national identity and distinct from the standards of many neighbouring countries.
In the past 20 years Korea has been rebuilding everything and has good standards. These stories are making the country obsessive over safety and quality, but there's still junk from the recent past, or people who are wrapped in nepotism and corruption who shouldn't be responsible for anything involving public safety, but can't be removed.
As long as the ship builders are not part of that past, then it's a boon for the country and another milestone for Korea's advancement.
"The day I found out you can use a 1x1 transparent GIF to fill any space by using "width=xx, height=yy" in the tag, was the greatest day of my life."
Things will get better.
It's kind of insane that the unions are such a burden to transit, that it's easier to accept the safety risks and enormous costs of driverless trains than to accept a non-union driver.
haha, sorry to hit a nerve.
I'm speaking from the marketer's perspective, and totally hypothetically. I'm pretty sure I've got what you're saying: you want nothing to do with them because they've already violated your trust.
They're already keeping a profile on you. It's probably renewing with your IP and cookies and not actually linked to your identity. You're already contributing to your profile by blocking ads. You've said to them that their medium is so offensive and useless to you that you're doing everything in your power to avoid it.
They know there are lots of people who do this. Right now your search results are tainted with SEO crap and reviews are stacked with shills. The advertisers are trashing your information sources to try to sell you stuff. The only reason you would buy anything from them would be because you couldn't find the information you were looking for and took a shot at thier product out of frustration.
It's only a matter of time before the ad blockers stop working. Many ads are already included as part of the content and are difficult to filter. Some sites detect adblockers and refuse to show their content. It's not technically complex to circumvent all adblockers. Don't serve the ads from the CDN, but instead have the server embed it in the CMS, and randomize some of the content.
I'm just suggesting that they may have never lost your trust if they gave you good content about their products rather than limiting themselves to car-commercial and magazine-like mindless impressions.
IMHO, this should be part of your profile. When it comes time for you to purchase something, instead of getting some flashy ad in your face, you would get a pile of specs veted by a third party.
If the product doesn't stand up to comparison in the specs, then they shouldn't bother advertising to you. If the product does stand up, it's an easy sell and well worth the effort for them to send you the ad.
Instead... sadly, they send you crap and you fight to tell them that you're not interested in their jingle, bluster or shiny copy.
Bill Gates? is that you?
You get administrative rights, it's in the Checkpoint report in the article: http://www.checkpoint.com/blog...
And have info about their disclosure:
The Checkpoint article is a lot more professional than the Krebs article No jabs at FOSS either.
This looks like a major company which uses FOSS (IIRC, SPLAT is a Linux-based-platform) made a contribution in discovering a vulnerability in common software.
Point taken. My outrage is misdirected.
Mariott + jamming hotspots filled me with rage.
This shit is why I strongly prefer AirBnB or other alternative forms of hospitality.
I was at a hotel in London and found out that "Free wifi" meant it was freely available to reach the paid gateway. Sleezery seems to be in all large chains in large cities. You would think the high premium on staying there, and the economy of scale of the size of the hotel would mean that it's easier to provide good service to guests.
By contrast, with AirBnB you'll probably get secure, unrestricted residential wifi, or even an ethernet jack to plug into. Sure you might not, and you might not get a clean place. But there's no guarantee of cleanliness at the Mariott either, and you're certain not to get a free Internet connection.
Oh and it's actually amazing at adding columns of numbers. No need to take your eyes off the paper. E.g., "What's 34+52+1324+53+6+23+11+43..."?
For smaller calculations, it's ridiculous.