In my case, I get company email on my personal phone. I know for fact that they do not monitor anything on it (though they do have the ability to wipe the email off it, and require a PIN). I'm pretty sure they could have cranked up AirWatch (urgh) and gone all Big Brother on it, but in my own experience, most companies don't.
Usually, it's (ironically) cheaper in time, headaches, and in some cases even money, for the company to issue you, say, a Blackberry or similar cheap mid-range phone, and control the whole thing (especially when it comes to related legal issues outside of the US). Worked for a lot of corps where they issue you a phone, and you did absolutely *no* personal business/calls/etc on it, for any reason.
It must be nice to live in a capitalist country with a market economy, unlike the United States.
Actually... I live in a rural area, and I use Satellite (Wildblue) as my main connection, in addition to using my phone as a 4G tether for DR reasons (I barely use 1GB/mo on the phone anyway, so I have bags of spare bandwidth for any outage on the main sat. connection.) It's slower than most (12Mbps at best on the sat), but ironically, it still runs a shitload faster than Comcast on any given weekday evening (at least once you discount the lag - FPS gaming is out, but torrents? That would be no sweat).
Similarly, I can see a suburban/urban user having Cable, DSL, 4G tethering, and in a few areas Google Fiber - all running to the same home. You'd just have to know how to configure a frickin' home router.
While not successful in its original goal (that is, to destroy Linux) it did last long enough to serve Microsoft's purpose (to at least keep Linux off the mainstream user's desktop and blunt server adoption).
Didn't Disney end up reverting a good portion of the layoffs?
They did - when they got caught and called-out on it in public. Can't sell as many animated DVDs if you have a bad reputation, after all.
I'm fairly sure it has had another bad benefit for them as well. For instance, I remember a recruiter cold-calling me and asking if I wanted to work for them as a DevOps/Automation engineer. I politely told him that he can tell his client to collectively fuck themselves with a pole-ax, and specifically named their H1-B policy as the reason why.
I'm pretty sure that it wasn't the first time he's been turned down that day, and I'm very certain that Disney is going to have a damned hard time hiring anyone that they cannot-so-easily replace (seriously - would you work for them in a capacity where they've demonstrated a complete disregard for employee retention?)
Exactly. It used to be Apple who dictated what was taught in high school computer science courses, but it looks like they let Microsoft take over.
Umm, yes and no.
I did the teaching thing for a living (HS and Collegiate-level CS, no less), and here's how it really works:
Option A: Write your own curriculum, your own syllabus, your own tests, your own labs, select your own textbooks (within an approved list, from state-approved vendors), insure your classroom and your school both have the budget for it (doubly so if any of it relies on equipment such as desktops, servers, networking gear, etc), insure that it all tracks with state education standards for your subject matter and level of competence, get it all approved by the state office of education... And then maybe next year you can start teaching it, but note that you'll have to do it all over again as soon as newer information and technologies come out. Also note that anyone in the bureaucratic morass can (and sometimes often will) happily veto the whole thing with a long list of objections, causing you to spend countless hours and metric tons of paper in justifying it.
--or--
Option B: Have $megacorp arrive and provide all the syllabi, curricula, tests, labs, and in some cases even the textbooks - for free! Hell, they'll even give you a massive discount on the equipment. The state board of education (never known for their technical acumen) has already rubber-stamped approval for it, and as a bonus you, your managers, your principals/administrators... they're all salivating at the massive PR (and potential career) boost they'll get when they present it to the public with lots of pomp and circumstance. Oh, and the school board will just love you to death - maybe even give you a plaque for your wall at home, calling you an 'innovator' or suchlike.
Now... throw in the fact that most (not all, but disturbingly "most") teachers are career-oriented folks (to be too charitable about it), and they are inherently averse to either rocking the boat, or to doing more work than they already do.
So, in light of those facts, guess which option gets chosen the most? Note that I've done Option A, and I gotta tell you; it's not the class-side grunt work that's so intensive - it's the bureaucracy that sucks down all your time (and your soul, etc). But then, a labor of love is exactly that, so I don't regret it... however, way too may teachers out there, sadly, think differently on the subject.
1) find some ultra-shitty ultra-amateur goregrind song on Spotify and/or Pandora... 2) get up an AWS farm (say, one per/. member)... 3) load up appropriate script and fire for effect 4) [...] 5) Profit! as we discover a really interesting new entry (or better yet, guest band) at next year's Emmys...
(shit - I think the 4chan crowd could pull this off quick enough, no?)
Iran's Ayatollah Ruhollah Khomeini issued a fatwa 198...
I see that you fall for propaganda all too easily. Now how about contacting and conversing with folks in Iran who are homosexual and/or surgically altered. Betting that you won't have an easy time doing that...
PS: as for the whole gender-bending thing? I prefer to stick with DNA as the arbiter (that is, XX versus XY) - the rest of that controversy is mentally-oriented (mind, I won't assign a judgement value to that mental orientation, just stating it for what it actually is.) For the incredibly rare among us who have chimeric/hermaphroditic DNA? They are the few who can rightly (at least in biological terms) determine which gender they prefer to become (though sadly their parents often make that decision for them at or near birth).
There are more references to violence in the Old Testamant than in the Koran.
Partially correct. There are more references to violence in general, but not much in the way of condoning violence, and very few after the first five books.
Meanwhile, the Quran is chock-a-block with exhortations to kill, torture, rape, deceive, etc... unless of course your victim is Muslim.
Remember that Christians during ante-bellum South defended the most brutal form of slavery using the Bible, probably the biggest religious schism in America came from protestant churches dividing over the issue of slavery.
That schism should have told you something, especially considering that said schism kind of destroys your argument that "Christians" were responsible for pre-Civil-War slavery.;) Also note that the whole Abolitionist movement relied on Christianity itself as the philosophical and ideological basis for abolishing slavery.
Meanwhile, slavery is still practiced fairly widely in too may parts of the world today. Care to guess how nearly all of the modern slave-owners pray?
Jesus' silence on the issue of owning people speaks for itself.
I can tell you're a bit ignorant on the subject of how slavery worked in Israel...
Jewish slavery was a system of being voluntarily owned in order to pay off debts. If you owed Joe Hebrew 600 bucks and couldn't pay it, you became his servant in exchange for writing the debt off. As a bonus, according to Judaic law, the term could only last for seven years, as every Jubilee (which happened every seven years) automatically freed anyone bound to this servitude.
The only lifetime-involuntary-type slaves were those owned by the Romans.
As for speaking out against slavery, well, you'd be fairly wrong on that count too:
"... to proclaim release to the captives to set free those who are oppressed"
-Luke 4:18
A better explanation of the philosophical opposition to slavery in principle can be explained thus:
"New Testament writers, like Jesus their Master, opposed the dehumanization and oppression of others. In fact, Paul gave household rules in Ephesians 6 and Colossians 4 not only for Christian slaves but for Christian masters as well. Slaves are ultimately responsible to God, their heavenly Master. But masters are to “treat your slaves in the same way” — namely, as persons governed by a heavenly Master (Ephesians 6:9). Commentator P.T. O’Brien points out that “Paul’s cryptic exhortation is outrageous” for his day.2
Given the spiritual equality of slave and free, slaves even took on leadership positions in churches. Paul’s ministry illustrates how in Christ there is neither slave nor free, when he greeted people by name in his epistles. Some of these people had commonly used slave and freedman names. For example, in Romans 16:7,9, he refers to slaves such as Andronicus and Urbanus (common slave names) as “kinsman,” “fellow prisoner,” and “fellow worker” (NASB). The New Testament’s approach to slavery is contrary to aristocrats and philosophers such as Aristotle, who held that certain humans were slaves by nature (Politics I.13).
Paul reminded Christian masters that they, with their slaves, were fellow-slaves of the same impartial Master. Thus, they were not to mistreat them but rather deal with them as brothers and sisters in Christ. Paul called on human masters to grant “justice and fairness” to their slaves (Colossians 4:1, NASB). In unprecedented fashion, Paul treated slaves as morally responsible persons (Colossians 3:22–25) who, like their Christian masters, are “brothers” and part of Christ’s body (1 Timothy 6:2).3 Christians — slave and master alike — belong to Christ (Galatians 3:28; Colossians 3:11). Spiritual status is more fundamental and freeing than social status."
You might want to read the final chapter in the bible - the apocalypse.
Indeed - though that particular book is chock-a-block full of metaphors (unless you want to contend that, say, 1/4 of the planet's surface area will literally be on fire...)
* some overheated and breathless clickbait that stretches the ideological-but-otherwise-mundane true story well beyond credibility (e.g. the example you posted), and...
* actual, no-shit instances of overt and government-sanctioned discrimination (e.g. TFA).
So, please, knock off the false equivalency; it serves no beneficial purpose, and actually masks the fact that there are some no-shit barbarians out in the world, some of whom run whole governments.
Let me put it this way - geography aside, would you rather live in a nation generally run by Judeo-Christian values (e.g. US), or Islamic ones (e.g. Saudi Arabia)?
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Actually, it depends.
In my case, I get company email on my personal phone. I know for fact that they do not monitor anything on it (though they do have the ability to wipe the email off it, and require a PIN). I'm pretty sure they could have cranked up AirWatch (urgh) and gone all Big Brother on it, but in my own experience, most companies don't.
Usually, it's (ironically) cheaper in time, headaches, and in some cases even money, for the company to issue you, say, a Blackberry or similar cheap mid-range phone, and control the whole thing (especially when it comes to related legal issues outside of the US). Worked for a lot of corps where they issue you a phone, and you did absolutely *no* personal business/calls/etc on it, for any reason.
It must be nice to live in a capitalist country with a market economy, unlike the United States.
Actually... I live in a rural area, and I use Satellite (Wildblue) as my main connection, in addition to using my phone as a 4G tether for DR reasons (I barely use 1GB/mo on the phone anyway, so I have bags of spare bandwidth for any outage on the main sat. connection.) It's slower than most (12Mbps at best on the sat), but ironically, it still runs a shitload faster than Comcast on any given weekday evening (at least once you discount the lag - FPS gaming is out, but torrents? That would be no sweat).
Similarly, I can see a suburban/urban user having Cable, DSL, 4G tethering, and in a few areas Google Fiber - all running to the same home. You'd just have to know how to configure a frickin' home router.
Use some of it to buy Ms. Pamela Jones a nice scotch.
If anyone has earned it...
Started in mid-2003, so not quite 13.
While not successful in its original goal (that is, to destroy Linux) it did last long enough to serve Microsoft's purpose (to at least keep Linux off the mainstream user's desktop and blunt server adoption).
Too late - I already made claim to C/C++, and everyone (including Mssrs. Kernighan and Ritchie) owes me a frigload of money. Pay up, suckas.
Didn't Disney end up reverting a good portion of the layoffs?
They did - when they got caught and called-out on it in public. Can't sell as many animated DVDs if you have a bad reputation, after all.
I'm fairly sure it has had another bad benefit for them as well. For instance, I remember a recruiter cold-calling me and asking if I wanted to work for them as a DevOps/Automation engineer. I politely told him that he can tell his client to collectively fuck themselves with a pole-ax, and specifically named their H1-B policy as the reason why.
I'm pretty sure that it wasn't the first time he's been turned down that day, and I'm very certain that Disney is going to have a damned hard time hiring anyone that they cannot-so-easily replace (seriously - would you work for them in a capacity where they've demonstrated a complete disregard for employee retention?)
Exactly. It used to be Apple who dictated what was taught in high school computer science courses, but it looks like they let Microsoft take over.
Umm, yes and no.
I did the teaching thing for a living (HS and Collegiate-level CS, no less), and here's how it really works:
Option A: Write your own curriculum, your own syllabus, your own tests, your own labs, select your own textbooks (within an approved list, from state-approved vendors), insure your classroom and your school both have the budget for it (doubly so if any of it relies on equipment such as desktops, servers, networking gear, etc), insure that it all tracks with state education standards for your subject matter and level of competence, get it all approved by the state office of education... And then maybe next year you can start teaching it, but note that you'll have to do it all over again as soon as newer information and technologies come out. Also note that anyone in the bureaucratic morass can (and sometimes often will) happily veto the whole thing with a long list of objections, causing you to spend countless hours and metric tons of paper in justifying it.
--or--
Option B: Have $megacorp arrive and provide all the syllabi, curricula, tests, labs, and in some cases even the textbooks - for free! Hell, they'll even give you a massive discount on the equipment. The state board of education (never known for their technical acumen) has already rubber-stamped approval for it, and as a bonus you, your managers, your principals/administrators... they're all salivating at the massive PR (and potential career) boost they'll get when they present it to the public with lots of pomp and circumstance. Oh, and the school board will just love you to death - maybe even give you a plaque for your wall at home, calling you an 'innovator' or suchlike.
Now... throw in the fact that most (not all, but disturbingly "most") teachers are career-oriented folks (to be too charitable about it), and they are inherently averse to either rocking the boat, or to doing more work than they already do.
So, in light of those facts, guess which option gets chosen the most? Note that I've done Option A, and I gotta tell you; it's not the class-side grunt work that's so intensive - it's the bureaucracy that sucks down all your time (and your soul, etc). But then, a labor of love is exactly that, so I don't regret it... however, way too may teachers out there, sadly, think differently on the subject.
Hrm... I like this idea:
1) find some ultra-shitty ultra-amateur goregrind song on Spotify and/or Pandora... /. member)...
2) get up an AWS farm (say, one per
3) load up appropriate script and fire for effect
4) [...]
5) Profit! as we discover a really interesting new entry (or better yet, guest band) at next year's Emmys...
(shit - I think the 4chan crowd could pull this off quick enough, no?)
Well, when an organization is used to pulling figures out of their collective rectal orifice ('OAMG that download lost us $72TRILLION!!!111!!!BBQ!')?
Yeah - making up arbitrary stats to converts streams to sales isn't all that hard for 'em either. :)
Iran's Ayatollah Ruhollah Khomeini issued a fatwa 198...
I see that you fall for propaganda all too easily. Now how about contacting and conversing with folks in Iran who are homosexual and/or surgically altered. Betting that you won't have an easy time doing that...
PS: as for the whole gender-bending thing? I prefer to stick with DNA as the arbiter (that is, XX versus XY) - the rest of that controversy is mentally-oriented (mind, I won't assign a judgement value to that mental orientation, just stating it for what it actually is.) For the incredibly rare among us who have chimeric/hermaphroditic DNA? They are the few who can rightly (at least in biological terms) determine which gender they prefer to become (though sadly their parents often make that decision for them at or near birth).
There are more references to violence in the Old Testamant than in the Koran.
Partially correct. There are more references to violence in general, but not much in the way of condoning violence, and very few after the first five books.
Meanwhile, the Quran is chock-a-block with exhortations to kill, torture, rape, deceive, etc... unless of course your victim is Muslim.
Remember that Christians during ante-bellum South defended the most brutal form of slavery using the Bible, probably the biggest religious schism in America came from protestant churches dividing over the issue of slavery.
That schism should have told you something, especially considering that said schism kind of destroys your argument that "Christians" were responsible for pre-Civil-War slavery. ;) Also note that the whole Abolitionist movement relied on Christianity itself as the philosophical and ideological basis for abolishing slavery.
Meanwhile, slavery is still practiced fairly widely in too may parts of the world today. Care to guess how nearly all of the modern slave-owners pray?
You're welcome to your opinion, but I would have hoped for an opinion that wasn't plagiarized from the typical Atheist groupthink. ;)
Jesus' silence on the issue of owning people speaks for itself.
I can tell you're a bit ignorant on the subject of how slavery worked in Israel...
Jewish slavery was a system of being voluntarily owned in order to pay off debts. If you owed Joe Hebrew 600 bucks and couldn't pay it, you became his servant in exchange for writing the debt off. As a bonus, according to Judaic law, the term could only last for seven years, as every Jubilee (which happened every seven years) automatically freed anyone bound to this servitude.
The only lifetime-involuntary-type slaves were those owned by the Romans.
As for speaking out against slavery, well, you'd be fairly wrong on that count too:
-Luke 4:18
A better explanation of the philosophical opposition to slavery in principle can be explained thus:
ref: http://enrichmentjournal.ag.or...
Err, nitpick: you'd be talking about St John of Patmos, not Paul. ;)
You might want to read the final chapter in the bible - the apocalypse.
Indeed - though that particular book is chock-a-block full of metaphors (unless you want to contend that, say, 1/4 of the planet's surface area will literally be on fire...)
Hate to break this to you, but that's a ballot initiative, and not a bill.
Anybody with $200 and a paltry number of signatures can introduce a ballot initiative.
It's not a legislative action (that is, a bill), as you falsely stated in the beginning.
So the bill literally said "kill gays" or some variation thereof, right?
Oh, wait - it most likely didn't.
Here's a fun question: Would you rather live in a society dominated by Judeo-Christian values, or Islamic ones?
But I guess false equivalency is more comforting, no?
BULLSHIT
Who was killed over Piss Christ?
NO ONE.
Got the balls to say how many people were killed at Charlie Hebdo?
Got the stones to say how many people were killed of Mohammad cartoons?
Insults removed, but the salient point really should left intact for emphasis, as it is quite valid.
There's a *huge* difference between...
* some overheated and breathless clickbait that stretches the ideological-but-otherwise-mundane true story well beyond credibility (e.g. the example you posted), and...
* actual, no-shit instances of overt and government-sanctioned discrimination (e.g. TFA).
So, please, knock off the false equivalency; it serves no beneficial purpose, and actually masks the fact that there are some no-shit barbarians out in the world, some of whom run whole governments.
Let me put it this way - geography aside, would you rather live in a nation generally run by Judeo-Christian values (e.g. US), or Islamic ones (e.g. Saudi Arabia)?
You can't even listen to music on OS X or iPhone without the software contacting Apple.
Actually, yes I can.
The GNU GPL is only going to be as strong as Russia's adherence to the Berne Convention.... take of that what you will.
Given that you likely never did development, well, here you go.
The same dodges are just as exploitable now. It's not like Barter will suddenly be invented once the tax code changes...
Being that it's Russian, they will of course only have one binary on the box: EMACS. You'll have to do everything with it.