First, I have already distinguished between an ongoing investigation, and a cover-up. If the US had been investigating the military actions instead of covering them up all these years, there would have been no reason for wikilieaks to leak anything.
Second, now that it is obvious that selective leaking by the government in the Assange case it taking place, a public inquiry into how it happened would make sense,
- or he could have thought with his big head instead of his little one.
Non-disclosure/non-competes still apply after you leave - more so when you're fired for cause. You *can* challenge them if you were terminated w/o cause, but that's not the case here.
Nope. The only common reason for deliberations to be relevant to overturning a conviction is that the jurors considered evidence not admitted at trial. The jurors can't comment during the trial, of course, but afterwards they have a First Amendment right to blab all they want.
No wonder you posted as an AC...
Here is what I wrote:
Up here, when a juror does that, they're looking at up to 2 years in jail, which is one reason why you don't see jurors talking about jury deliberations even decades after a trial - what is said in deliberations is forever secret.
I never said this applied to the USofA - which is only 5% of the world. I'll give you a hint as to where "Up here" is - we're bigger than you, and we're on top.
The only common reason for deliberations to be relevant to overturning a conviction is that the jurors considered evidence not admitted at trial
Where did I write anything about overturning convictions? Oh right, I didn't. We require jury deliberations to be secret forever because we see the jury as the ultimate deciders of facts - and also, when juries refuse to convict even when both the law and the judge says they must - the ultimate deciders of the law. Jury nullification is a right that our courts recognize. Funny how US courts shy away from it. You don't second-guess a jury, and as a juror you don't discuss what went on during deliberations - ever. That's why you don't see jurors being interviewed in the media, or them even being identified. They have the right to make their decision based only on the facts, untainted by the worry of future pressure or backlash from the community, or some crazy on a crusade, or the hope of a media deal.
Defendants have the right to be tried by a jury free of such considerations. Anything less is not a fair trial. In other words, the US definition of a "fair trial" falls far short of the ideal.
Ever wonder why even the Judge stands when the jury comes in, and stands again when the jury leaves? Respect for the jury is part of the system.
If you think 8 is "far too large", when it was fine back in the days of 80-column amber monitors, you're doing it wrong.
Code that requires 4- or 2-space tabs is inevitably a mess - or written in JavaWithWayTooLongClassAndMethodNamesBecause.theyDontHaveAPreprocessorOrProperIncludes(), but I repeat myself.
Sometimes the docs get it wrong - or we make invalid assumptions. I know of at least one system that I used that had such a limitation, but I found out that in reality it was that you could use much longer names, but only the first N characters were significant. As long as you didn't have any name dupes in the first N characters, your code was much more readable.
No. They are not compiled and therefore lag behind the state of the code in almost every software project I have encountered so far
True - for compiled code. For scripts, they're loaded every script run. Sure, they're ignored, but it still takes time for the parser to skip over them.
But no, they never lag behind, because we never make mistakes make mistakes make mistakes make mistakes make mistakes make mistakes make mistakes make mistakes make mistakes make mistakes make mistakes make mistakes make mistakes
(Yes, they almost always lag behind, because most of us are only human. And a wrong comment is worse than no comment when it comes to code maintenance and debugging - same as bad symbolic names)
Why should an Icelander be selectively leaked portions of an ongoing Swedish investigation?
The allegations were being investigated - there was no "cover-up", so it's not hypocritical for anyone to say that the contents of the investigation should not have been leaked. To selectively leak hem - and only portions of them - smells of someone with an agenda to push. That they chose to do so by leaking them through a 3rd party shows one thing - that they are not credible. Credible information of a crime is released by a police spokesperson, or the minister in charge of the department - not a private citizen, and certainly not a foreign national.
If it has negative impact on the company in a global scale I could possibly try and keep a low profile until it's resolved, but then I've never been accused of rape so what do I know (other than that no organization wants to be linked with a media shitstorm like that)?
So you have no problem with police sharing an ongoing investigation with the public? This isn't like where there's a cover-up going on, and it needs to be leaked.
Yes, comments are good, but NOTHING beats a good self-descriptive variable, struct, class, enum, function or typedef symbolic name.
Not the "Hungarian notation" crap either - that's too strongly tied into the underlying type, and can cause confusion when you change the underlying type but not the symbolic name.
If you can't come up with a good descriptive name, it may indicate that there is something wrong with your underlying code - that it's either trying to be a "god class" or a "spaghetti monster" or some such.
Nothing worse than seeing test1(), test2(), test3(), etc., along with comments telling you what each test is. Every time you see it, you have to refer back to the comments. Stupid, but people still do this. "Oh, I'll clean it up tomorrow." Tomorrow never comes.
A member of Iceland's parliament and prominent organiser for whistle-blowing website WikiLeaks has turned on the site's founder, Julian Assange, demanding that he step down over rape allegations made against him in Sweden.
Jonsdottir, who speaks Swedish, said that she had reviewed Swedish police records and disputed Assange's claim that the allegations were politically motivated, suggesting instead that they may be the result of cultural misunderstanding.
How is it that a politician is reviewing the evidence in an ongoing police case and furthermore, commenting on it in public? In most civilized countries that would be cause for an investigation into the police, and the firing of the prosecutor for not running a tight ship with a clear separation between the judiciary and the executive brances.
This doesn't pass the "smell test." Not one bit.
Did Assange do anything wrong? I don't know - but this sort of tampering by politicians makes it sure seem like someone, somewhere, *is* out to get him.
Sorry - it got posted under the wrong parent - I guess we can call it my blonde moment of the day.. Obviously we both believe that the sort of place they want to build is a hell-hole in comparison to even a laptop in a cafeteria.
Video walls don't work. "Comfy chairs" so that people can remain in the same position for hours on end are cruel - just look at the increased rates of blood clots from sitting too long during long-distance airline travel. An environment where you know that every move you make is being recorded is par for the course for a criminal in a MaxSecure Prison, not someone who you've given decision-making responsibility.
Even the astronauts removed their monitoring equipment because they didn't want ground control to be able to look at the telemetry and go "He's just taken a piss."
Sometimes you need to cover for someone else; sometimes they need to cover for you. It's part of the give and take that builds robust systems. Theirs will have a higher rate of failure.
Sitting for too long a period if time, over time, will kill you - or didn't you read the story here on slashdot.
You want to make it a happy place? Don't have cameras on people all the time. It not only shows a lack of trust, but it's dehumanizing. get off YOUR butt and pay them a visit if you want to be kept in the loop.
What you have described is not conducive to continued alertness. People need variety. What you have described is a "show room", where people will be LESS alert, not more.
"It would have nothing to do with "he's gay," and everything to do with "this guy has clearly never learned the difference between private and professional behaviors.""
You're not on the clock 24 hours a day. What you do in your own time is your own business. As long as they act professional while on the job, unless they're doing something notoriously illegal outside the job, it's simply not the employers business.
In other words, it's employers who need to learn the difference between private and professional behaviours.
You should not be judged based on your gender, whether you have children living at home or not, marital status, skin colour, sexual preference, religion or lack thereof, mother tongue, ethnic background, physical appearance, handicap, or means to palliate a handicap, social status, financial state, or any other bogus "metric." As long as you are qualified to do the job, none of this matters, and employers should not be using this as part of their hiring criteria.
Example: Employers try to find out if women have children living at home - this *might* cause them to take a day off to tend to a sick kid. Funny how it's not an issue with men, isn't it?
No, it's the use of material that was for friends out of context that is sick.
Ever said "I'm so mad at you right now I could kill you?" Did you actually kill them? No. Context is important.
Ever tell a joke to someone that wouldn't be appropriate in mixed company? Ever curse?
Ever discuss your personal demons on-line, either to get help, or to help someone else?
What about making judgment include not just the postings, but the pictures? We talked about ageism in I.T. a week ago - how about sexism? It's kind of hard to make a point in a meeting when people are looking at your boobs or your legs or your ass, and not what you're writing on the white board, but this is a VERY common experience. Is someone going to be denied a job "because they'll just distract the guys?" (Don't laugh - one employer swore he would NEVER again hire a woman for that very reason. Illegal? Depends on how much money each side has for lawyers, and whether you were carrying a recorder at the time).
People are still judged on their appearance - extending that to who their on-line friends are is stupid. It's the same school of "new new economy analytics" that gave us the "financial tools" to melt down the economy in the first place. Snake-oil.
Create multiple dummy accounts, all saying what a wonderful person you are, the next Mother Theresa, hard-working, modest to a fault, inherited $N million but refuse to touch the capital, and donate the interest to charity and PACs for the tax deductions (along with some thank-yous from fake bishops and pastors, and a few aids to influential politicians for your generous financial contributions), etc. - throw in a couple of "previous employers" who still keep in touch because they want you to go back to work for them.
That's great. I think people should read up on WINE and why it's not like a conventional emulator or virtual machine.
I bought SimCity2k, 3000 and 4 Unlimited, but I don't play them because I don't use Windows much (this machine doesn't have Windows, my laptop does, but it's not the default OS). Maybe when I get around to updating opensuse (I downloaded the isos when they came out, but I haven't gotten around to updating my drives yet... soon!)
I for one have been awaiting the day when free and non-free software could mix and mingle in a safe environment free from the nasty comments and glares of those who would have us stay separated..
Try installing one of the linux distros - they shouldn't be too hard to find. There's even one mentioned in the article summary (oops, my bad, I keep forgetting how many slashdotters don't RTFS, never mind RTFA).
In 95 they were already doing affiliate marketing. One of my friends mentioned it and I said "That is stupid. You only get paid if you make a sale, but you're supplying the bandwidth, etc. And if someone goes back to the site afterwards instaed of passing through you, you get nothing."
Today. people hijack the persistent cookies so that they get credit even if you were the first one that sent a particular person to Amazon. Very profitable for the scammers, not so much for everyone else.
It's a suckers model. You don't see advertising companies (newspapers, billboards, direct mail, radio, tv) offering the same deal to advertisers. They say "you pay to advertise. The effectiveness is your problem - if your product sucks or your ad campaign is poorly implemented, that's your responsibility."
Not jerky at all, running on a 2.8ghz macbook pro with safari 5.0.1 (with lots of other stuff open too)...
You could also do games in Java, which is more open and cross platform than flash is.
I'm not the only one who complained about it being jerky and crap. Also, since it was running at a fixed "stage size", it sucks for those of us with 1920x1200 displays - so you don't even cover all the users on ONE platform.
Flash scales it, so it doesn't matter what res you run at.
You could also do games in Java,
... nobody's doing that. Java applets died a well-deserved death decade ago, except for dsl speed tests. And the few java-based stand-alone games tend to use swing, with it's butt-ugly default color scheme.
Flash is the platform of choice if you want to throw together something quickly and not worry about different platforms.
which is more open and cross platform than flash is.
Adobe has published the swf spec, and allows competing implementers to download the toolkit as well. They know that the way to stay on top is to be constantly encouraged to add more value, not lock people in (like Sun did with Java - "you can't change this or that or this either").
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Second, now that it is obvious that selective leaking by the government in the Assange case it taking place, a public inquiry into how it happened would make sense,
- or he could have thought with his big head instead of his little one.
Non-disclosure/non-competes still apply after you leave - more so when you're fired for cause. You *can* challenge them if you were terminated w/o cause, but that's not the case here.
No wonder you posted as an AC ...
Here is what I wrote:
I never said this applied to the USofA - which is only 5% of the world. I'll give you a hint as to where "Up here" is - we're bigger than you, and we're on top.
Where did I write anything about overturning convictions? Oh right, I didn't. We require jury deliberations to be secret forever because we see the jury as the ultimate deciders of facts - and also, when juries refuse to convict even when both the law and the judge says they must - the ultimate deciders of the law. Jury nullification is a right that our courts recognize. Funny how US courts shy away from it. You don't second-guess a jury, and as a juror you don't discuss what went on during deliberations - ever. That's why you don't see jurors being interviewed in the media, or them even being identified. They have the right to make their decision based only on the facts, untainted by the worry of future pressure or backlash from the community, or some crazy on a crusade, or the hope of a media deal.
Defendants have the right to be tried by a jury free of such considerations. Anything less is not a fair trial. In other words, the US definition of a "fair trial" falls far short of the ideal.
Ever wonder why even the Judge stands when the jury comes in, and stands again when the jury leaves? Respect for the jury is part of the system.
If you think 8 is "far too large", when it was fine back in the days of 80-column amber monitors, you're doing it wrong.
Code that requires 4- or 2-space tabs is inevitably a mess - or written in JavaWithWayTooLongClassAndMethodNamesBecause.theyDontHaveAPreprocessorOrProperIncludes(), but I repeat myself.
Always test assumptions :-)
True - for compiled code. For scripts, they're loaded every script run. Sure, they're ignored, but it still takes time for the parser to skip over them.
But no, they never lag behind, because we never make mistakes make mistakes make mistakes make mistakes make mistakes make mistakes make mistakes make mistakes make mistakes make mistakes make mistakes make mistakes make mistakes
(Yes, they almost always lag behind, because most of us are only human. And a wrong comment is worse than no comment when it comes to code maintenance and debugging - same as bad symbolic names)
Why should an Icelander be selectively leaked portions of an ongoing Swedish investigation?
The allegations were being investigated - there was no "cover-up", so it's not hypocritical for anyone to say that the contents of the investigation should not have been leaked. To selectively leak hem - and only portions of them - smells of someone with an agenda to push. That they chose to do so by leaking them through a 3rd party shows one thing - that they are not credible. Credible information of a crime is released by a police spokesperson, or the minister in charge of the department - not a private citizen, and certainly not a foreign national.
OraKILL disagrees - they just hired former HP CEO Hurd.. (or is it former CEO GNU/Hurd?).
Apparently Larry Ellison likes shitstorms.
Yes, comments are good, but NOTHING beats a good self-descriptive variable, struct, class, enum, function or typedef symbolic name.
Not the "Hungarian notation" crap either - that's too strongly tied into the underlying type, and can cause confusion when you change the underlying type but not the symbolic name.
If you can't come up with a good descriptive name, it may indicate that there is something wrong with your underlying code - that it's either trying to be a "god class" or a "spaghetti monster" or some such.
Nothing worse than seeing test1(), test2(), test3(), etc., along with comments telling you what each test is. Every time you see it, you have to refer back to the comments. Stupid, but people still do this. "Oh, I'll clean it up tomorrow." Tomorrow never comes.
How is it that a politician is reviewing the evidence in an ongoing police case and furthermore, commenting on it in public? In most civilized countries that would be cause for an investigation into the police, and the firing of the prosecutor for not running a tight ship with a clear separation between the judiciary and the executive brances.
This doesn't pass the "smell test." Not one bit.
Did Assange do anything wrong? I don't know - but this sort of tampering by politicians makes it sure seem like someone, somewhere, *is* out to get him.
So last Thursday, when perl was being its usual self, I decided to use python. Much cleaner code is the end result.
I've always liked python's "indenting counts!" model.
Sorry - it got posted under the wrong parent - I guess we can call it my blonde moment of the day.. Obviously we both believe that the sort of place they want to build is a hell-hole in comparison to even a laptop in a cafeteria.
Video walls don't work. "Comfy chairs" so that people can remain in the same position for hours on end are cruel - just look at the increased rates of blood clots from sitting too long during long-distance airline travel. An environment where you know that every move you make is being recorded is par for the course for a criminal in a MaxSecure Prison, not someone who you've given decision-making responsibility.
Even the astronauts removed their monitoring equipment because they didn't want ground control to be able to look at the telemetry and go "He's just taken a piss."
Sometimes you need to cover for someone else; sometimes they need to cover for you. It's part of the give and take that builds robust systems. Theirs will have a higher rate of failure.
Sitting for too long a period if time, over time, will kill you - or didn't you read the story here on slashdot.
You want to make it a happy place? Don't have cameras on people all the time. It not only shows a lack of trust, but it's dehumanizing. get off YOUR butt and pay them a visit if you want to be kept in the loop.
What you have described is not conducive to continued alertness. People need variety. What you have described is a "show room", where people will be LESS alert, not more.
You're not on the clock 24 hours a day. What you do in your own time is your own business. As long as they act professional while on the job, unless they're doing something notoriously illegal outside the job, it's simply not the employers business.
In other words, it's employers who need to learn the difference between private and professional behaviours.
You should not be judged based on your gender, whether you have children living at home or not, marital status, skin colour, sexual preference, religion or lack thereof, mother tongue, ethnic background, physical appearance, handicap, or means to palliate a handicap, social status, financial state, or any other bogus "metric." As long as you are qualified to do the job, none of this matters, and employers should not be using this as part of their hiring criteria.
Example: Employers try to find out if women have children living at home - this *might* cause them to take a day off to tend to a sick kid. Funny how it's not an issue with men, isn't it?
Ever said "I'm so mad at you right now I could kill you?" Did you actually kill them? No. Context is important.
Ever tell a joke to someone that wouldn't be appropriate in mixed company? Ever curse?
Ever discuss your personal demons on-line, either to get help, or to help someone else?
What about making judgment include not just the postings, but the pictures? We talked about ageism in I.T. a week ago - how about sexism? It's kind of hard to make a point in a meeting when people are looking at your boobs or your legs or your ass, and not what you're writing on the white board, but this is a VERY common experience. Is someone going to be denied a job "because they'll just distract the guys?" (Don't laugh - one employer swore he would NEVER again hire a woman for that very reason. Illegal? Depends on how much money each side has for lawyers, and whether you were carrying a recorder at the time).
People are still judged on their appearance - extending that to who their on-line friends are is stupid. It's the same school of "new new economy analytics" that gave us the "financial tools" to melt down the economy in the first place. Snake-oil.
My point? Any system they can make can be gamed.
I bought SimCity2k, 3000 and 4 Unlimited, but I don't play them because I don't use Windows much (this machine doesn't have Windows, my laptop does, but it's not the default OS). Maybe when I get around to updating opensuse (I downloaded the isos when they came out, but I haven't gotten around to updating my drives yet ... soon!)
They can - it's called WINE.
Sorry, not available on Windows :-p
Try installing one of the linux distros - they shouldn't be too hard to find. There's even one mentioned in the article summary (oops, my bad, I keep forgetting how many slashdotters don't RTFS, never mind RTFA).
I predict a total wipe-out. After all, if you use iTunes, you can get a free iPhone, or a free iPad - at least that's what they're saying.
How can this be? Are you going to be inserting the bullet into the spammer manually?
I'll see your single cold bullet and raise you with a spray of hot lead.
But since I don't own a gun, I'll have to go to the store and buy a whole mess of fishing sinkers, and melt them on the stove.
My way, it's only the hope of dying that keeps them alive.
Today. people hijack the persistent cookies so that they get credit even if you were the first one that sent a particular person to Amazon. Very profitable for the scammers, not so much for everyone else.
It's a suckers model. You don't see advertising companies (newspapers, billboards, direct mail, radio, tv) offering the same deal to advertisers. They say "you pay to advertise. The effectiveness is your problem - if your product sucks or your ad campaign is poorly implemented, that's your responsibility."
It's the source of a lot of click fraud, clickjacking attacks, spam, doorway page websites, etc.
I blame it on Amazon, who first pushed this as a way for ordinary people to "monetize their web site" back in the early 90s.
You're either misinformed or ... well, I'll be polite and say you're misinformed :-) If you charge for content, you have to pay a royalty.
Or did you not read the story last week?
I'm not the only one who complained about it being jerky and crap. Also, since it was running at a fixed "stage size", it sucks for those of us with 1920x1200 displays - so you don't even cover all the users on ONE platform.
Flash scales it, so it doesn't matter what res you run at.
Flash is the platform of choice if you want to throw together something quickly and not worry about different platforms.
Adobe has published the swf spec, and allows competing implementers to download the toolkit as well. They know that the way to stay on top is to be constantly encouraged to add more value, not lock people in (like Sun did with Java - "you can't change this or that or this either").