Someone's been reading Asimov and smoking dope again. Lets worry about it when we're capable of producing sentient machinery and if we give that machinery emotion. I still think we're a very long way off and that while these stories make for excellent sci fi and moral food for thought, serious discussion is premature and only shows that some people have lived in their parents basements a little too long.
You think you're cool but actually I go much further - I simply don't take photos of something I don't want other people to see. I don't photograph all my expensive possesions in one shot. I don't photograph cheques or credit cards, and if I do NEED to photograph something so importan tor private, such photos are kept so separate they're not going anywhere. Oh and I never sell or lend media I've owned.
The thing that REALLY gets my goat is people who want to protect their "privacy" when they're out in public. If you're in public and someone takes a happy snap that includes you, it quite simeply doesn't invade your privacy. Happy snaps of some dopey family in a theme park just aren't a danger to anyone.
He probably is. But only probably. Hiring shouldn't be based on sex at all. That means no affirmative action either. My experience is that when women are motivated they're very VERY capable in IT. The first company IT I worked for had about 50% of the programmers being female (mostly because the SOB I worked for hired people who had no more than high school educations so he could literally pay the developers less than they'd have earnt working at MacDonalds but that's a whole other story). In any case they were as good as or better than the guys were. However I've also worked some places where the women employed were useless and shouldn't have been coding. Regardless of sex you have to be able to think logically and you have to be interested.
....or if you were in that situation you could make some attempt to work for someone that's reasonably fair and honest. Expecting the boss to commit some noble act of self sacrifice to save you is unrealistic, but finding a fair boss isn't.
Honestly working with, or for, or associating with these kind of manipulative jerks just reflects badly on you both personally and professionally. If you're willing to work your butt off for approval or anything less than financial compensation there will always be some twit ready to take advantage of you. Leave them behind, develop the skills to recognise a boss that isn't a total dick, and apply for a job there.
I learnt a long time ago that I do a good job but I do a good job because I'm paid not out of some false sense of loyalty. Want to see what corporate loyalty is or how much anyone cares? Get seriously ill and see how long before you're out on your backside.
Anyway, it doesn't sound like you personally have that problem at work...though you might want to rethink who you spend your spare time with.
I'm sure a lot of people don't wipe the camera cards because they don't care if someone gets photos of their pets or disney vacation or drunken stupor. They figure most people - ie. those not interested in writing an alarmist privacy article - will simply wipe and use the card. Unless you're a celebrity, or have a stalker why would you care? You're probably photographed more by traffic cameras these days anyway.
That's what I'm tipping for this year. A DRM drunk OS and the acceleration of the political maddness we've seen over the last few years. I'm tipping we'll see harsh and draconian enforcement against individuals of the criminal IP laws we've allowed to pass over the last few years too. Happy f'ing new year.
Hey I do a lot of things that I'm not ashamed of that I don't want the whole world knowing about just so they can target their advertising at me. Targetted advertising is also somewhat manipulative even if that manipulation does have some benefit to me.
If you don't have a problem with it, fine, make it opt in so people like you can have your targetted ads. However saying that anyone that doesn't like this doesn't like the imagine their online behaviour paints of them is downright insulting, not to mention narrow minded.
I've studied Astronomy at Masters level. I'm glad an Astronomer put these together instead of just some random artist who would have just picked the most pretty ones. There's still some leaning towards the aesthetic mind you - and there's a lot of science that isn't spectacular but is revolutionary none the less. Number 9 and number 5 are the least scientifically interesting to me, though artistically/photographically and from the point of view of timing I can see why they were included.
I'm not surprised at quality here though. Bad Astronomy is an awesome web site.
What's the point? What questions would you ask? Please! Do you ask a lion how it sleeps at night after murdering an antelope and eating it for dinner, or killing it's rival's offspring? Do you ask a serial killer why? (Well you can but if you expect an answer that will satisfy you, you're nuts).
It's the rule of nature - a classic case of doing harm to another for your own benefit. The rule of law is suppose to prevent this but has been badly subverted through the sponsorship of those politicians meant to represent us all?
Asking questions about how it's done may have some logic to it - we'd all like to avoid being falsely accussed. Even then expecting someone who's out to do you harm for the own benefit to give away their methods is assinine.
If your team is so bad it needs to be micromanaged daily because otherwise they lay about and do nothing till the last minute then you need weekly, perhaps even twice weekly deadlines. Let them know that once they learn how to work sustainably instead of doing nothing then doing the big crunch, that's what they get. Watch all the artificial crunch times fall away. There are legitimate crunches that are set by circumstances beyond the control of the team - legislative changes are a good example, tasks that fit into a larger plan are another. However in most work places it shouldn't be the norm that people work really hard for short periods and do nothing the rest of the time.
What a load of psychobabble. Starting is no good if you're not prepared to follow through. I'm not a starter that doesn't finish and any finisher requires a start. It's not about a specific task. It's about sustainability and getting the job done. That requires planning. It requires a good start, middle and finish and requires that the job is broken down correctly to do so. It also requires that you end up with a team at the end of the task who's still positive about it, unless you just want to burn through that task and end up with an unsustainable wreck of a work environment where everyone's there because they have to be and despises every minute of their life.
Can't do "systems programming"? I once taught a subject called Systems Programming and it involved teaching the students Perl. I kid you not. The subject was about Unix sys admin type work (including C, Perl, and sh). I take it you mean real time systems when you say systems programming?
Man am I glad you're not my manager. If you don't want your team to burn out you should be minimising those crunch times not resigning yourself to them being inevitable. How do you do that? Lots of intermediate deadlines. Then your team can't wait for the end and just crunch to get it in on time.
The way you're going you'll end up with a burnt out team that thinks you're a tyrant....and it gets modded up as insightful here on/. *shakes head*
I'd like a new Corvette for $10,000 - I think that's reasonable. That doesn't mean that I should be able to justify buying a stolen one for ten grand.
Oh please. Copyright infringement and theft are different animals. If you could get a copy of the owner's Corvette cheap without damaging his property in any way, would you? Note that you consider the OWNER first and foremost in this scenario (theft) where as the arguments are about the publisher and dealer (music store) when it comes to copyright.
Calling it theft is like calling murder rape or vice versa. Motivation for each is different. Solutions for an epidemic of each is different. It doesn't help your case to confuse them and it doesn't make you look righteous or moral - it just makes you look like a brainwashed moron.
Personally I think the whole system is utterly broken. You need a system that compensates the artist WITHOUT restricting copying of the art. No one seems interested in trying to develop that though. It's all about money.
I thought that was the last one. The new one is: Harry Potter: Ka-ching!!!$$$$$
Long as the kids enjoy it and you teach them about franchises and marketing when they first get hooked by this sort of thing, I'm not so sure it's that bad. Let them buy into all the commercial BS and you'll have a mindless drone albeit a literate one if they go for the book.
I'd argue after several hundred years and more changes in the last few decades than ever before, it's time for a reboot. Sure take bits of the existing code to come up with the new code.
Of course I have no confidence that any of this will happen in my life time, or without bloodshed.
Um, others chose to excercise their *SARCASM* "right" to threaten them unlawfully with death, which caused a retraction of their original free speech which in turn was retracted when the situation cooled and the threats were no longer as immediate a danger.
If I say "Kill _____" that's not free speech, it's incitement to do violence.
Life expectancy in China (1950): 32 years Life expectancy in China (2006): 73 years
Fantastic! The slaves are living longer! You get twice as much out of them. Yay! I see it's working.
You sir are an idiot and making the claim that this proves these people are climbing up out of poverty based on these questionable stats is ridiculous. These do NOT prove that life is worth living for these people, do they? Literacy up? Yes of course you're going to teach your slaves more so that they can do more complicated tasks and bring in more money. Do you know if they're beaten? Do you know if they're free to choose their own partners or whether they're allowed children?
There's a reason in the west that a union movement formed and pulled us out of the industrial revolution.
You want to compete with people that live like this? You think their standard of living is up? Watch yours go down. What's your argument? That it's not economically viable to pay someone a fair wage? Fuck off!
I'm saying that you shouldn't be permitted to purposefully set out to get people to rely on your product for free (or very cheap) then bump up the price. A free promo that lasts a week or two to let someone sample your product is not the same as running a promo for months or years so people will be hooked then realing them in.
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Someone's been reading Asimov and smoking dope again. Lets worry about it when we're capable of producing sentient machinery and if we give that machinery emotion. I still think we're a very long way off and that while these stories make for excellent sci fi and moral food for thought, serious discussion is premature and only shows that some people have lived in their parents basements a little too long.
I think you left out 3 or possibly 4 of the currently most overused buzzwords in your article summary. Please fix.
You think you're cool but actually I go much further - I simply don't take photos of something I don't want other people to see. I don't photograph all my expensive possesions in one shot. I don't photograph cheques or credit cards, and if I do NEED to photograph something so importan tor private, such photos are kept so separate they're not going anywhere. Oh and I never sell or lend media I've owned.
The thing that REALLY gets my goat is people who want to protect their "privacy" when they're out in public. If you're in public and someone takes a happy snap that includes you, it quite simeply doesn't invade your privacy. Happy snaps of some dopey family in a theme park just aren't a danger to anyone.
He probably is. But only probably. Hiring shouldn't be based on sex at all. That means no affirmative action either. My experience is that when women are motivated they're very VERY capable in IT. The first company IT I worked for had about 50% of the programmers being female (mostly because the SOB I worked for hired people who had no more than high school educations so he could literally pay the developers less than they'd have earnt working at MacDonalds but that's a whole other story). In any case they were as good as or better than the guys were. However I've also worked some places where the women employed were useless and shouldn't have been coding. Regardless of sex you have to be able to think logically and you have to be interested.
....or if you were in that situation you could make some attempt to work for someone that's reasonably fair and honest. Expecting the boss to commit some noble act of self sacrifice to save you is unrealistic, but finding a fair boss isn't.
Honestly working with, or for, or associating with these kind of manipulative jerks just reflects badly on you both personally and professionally. If you're willing to work your butt off for approval or anything less than financial compensation there will always be some twit ready to take advantage of you. Leave them behind, develop the skills to recognise a boss that isn't a total dick, and apply for a job there.
I learnt a long time ago that I do a good job but I do a good job because I'm paid not out of some false sense of loyalty. Want to see what corporate loyalty is or how much anyone cares? Get seriously ill and see how long before you're out on your backside.
Anyway, it doesn't sound like you personally have that problem at work...though you might want to rethink who you spend your spare time with.
I'm sure a lot of people don't wipe the camera cards because they don't care if someone gets photos of their pets or disney vacation or drunken stupor. They figure most people - ie. those not interested in writing an alarmist privacy article - will simply wipe and use the card. Unless you're a celebrity, or have a stalker why would you care? You're probably photographed more by traffic cameras these days anyway.
That's what I'm tipping for this year. A DRM drunk OS and the acceleration of the political maddness we've seen over the last few years. I'm tipping we'll see harsh and draconian enforcement against individuals of the criminal IP laws we've allowed to pass over the last few years too. Happy f'ing new year.
Hey I do a lot of things that I'm not ashamed of that I don't want the whole world knowing about just so they can target their advertising at me. Targetted advertising is also somewhat manipulative even if that manipulation does have some benefit to me.
If you don't have a problem with it, fine, make it opt in so people like you can have your targetted ads. However saying that anyone that doesn't like this doesn't like the imagine their online behaviour paints of them is downright insulting, not to mention narrow minded.
I've studied Astronomy at Masters level. I'm glad an Astronomer put these together instead of just some random artist who would have just picked the most pretty ones. There's still some leaning towards the aesthetic mind you - and there's a lot of science that isn't spectacular but is revolutionary none the less. Number 9 and number 5 are the least scientifically interesting to me, though artistically/photographically and from the point of view of timing I can see why they were included.
I'm not surprised at quality here though. Bad Astronomy is an awesome web site.
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What's the point? What questions would you ask? Please! Do you ask a lion how it sleeps at night after murdering an antelope and eating it for dinner, or killing it's rival's offspring? Do you ask a serial killer why? (Well you can but if you expect an answer that will satisfy you, you're nuts).
It's the rule of nature - a classic case of doing harm to another for your own benefit. The rule of law is suppose to prevent this but has been badly subverted through the sponsorship of those politicians meant to represent us all?
Asking questions about how it's done may have some logic to it - we'd all like to avoid being falsely accussed. Even then expecting someone who's out to do you harm for the own benefit to give away their methods is assinine.
If your team is so bad it needs to be micromanaged daily because otherwise they lay about and do nothing till the last minute then you need weekly, perhaps even twice weekly deadlines. Let them know that once they learn how to work sustainably instead of doing nothing then doing the big crunch, that's what they get. Watch all the artificial crunch times fall away. There are legitimate crunches that are set by circumstances beyond the control of the team - legislative changes are a good example, tasks that fit into a larger plan are another. However in most work places it shouldn't be the norm that people work really hard for short periods and do nothing the rest of the time.
What a load of psychobabble. Starting is no good if you're not prepared to follow through. I'm not a starter that doesn't finish and any finisher requires a start. It's not about a specific task. It's about sustainability and getting the job done. That requires planning. It requires a good start, middle and finish and requires that the job is broken down correctly to do so. It also requires that you end up with a team at the end of the task who's still positive about it, unless you just want to burn through that task and end up with an unsustainable wreck of a work environment where everyone's there because they have to be and despises every minute of their life.
Can't do "systems programming"? I once taught a subject called Systems Programming and it involved teaching the students Perl. I kid you not. The subject was about Unix sys admin type work (including C, Perl, and sh). I take it you mean real time systems when you say systems programming?
Man am I glad you're not my manager. If you don't want your team to burn out you should be minimising those crunch times not resigning yourself to them being inevitable. How do you do that? Lots of intermediate deadlines. Then your team can't wait for the end and just crunch to get it in on time.
...and it gets modded up as insightful here on /. *shakes head*
The way you're going you'll end up with a burnt out team that thinks you're a tyrant.
I'd like a new Corvette for $10,000 - I think that's reasonable. That doesn't mean that I should be able to justify buying a stolen one for ten grand.
Oh please. Copyright infringement and theft are different animals. If you could get a copy of the owner's Corvette cheap without damaging his property in any way, would you? Note that you consider the OWNER first and foremost in this scenario (theft) where as the arguments are about the publisher and dealer (music store) when it comes to copyright.
Calling it theft is like calling murder rape or vice versa. Motivation for each is different. Solutions for an epidemic of each is different. It doesn't help your case to confuse them and it doesn't make you look righteous or moral - it just makes you look like a brainwashed moron.
Personally I think the whole system is utterly broken. You need a system that compensates the artist WITHOUT restricting copying of the art. No one seems interested in trying to develop that though. It's all about money.
...are belong to us! For great justice!!!!
Assassinations? Oh my. Mother told me having sex was nothing but trouble, but did I listen?
I thought that was the last one. The new one is: Harry Potter: Ka-ching!!!$$$$$
Long as the kids enjoy it and you teach them about franchises and marketing when they first get hooked by this sort of thing, I'm not so sure it's that bad. Let them buy into all the commercial BS and you'll have a mindless drone albeit a literate one if they go for the book.
Almost no one on /. would consider it relevant.
I'd argue after several hundred years and more changes in the last few decades than ever before, it's time for a reboot. Sure take bits of the existing code to come up with the new code.
Of course I have no confidence that any of this will happen in my life time, or without bloodshed.
Um, others chose to excercise their *SARCASM* "right" to threaten them unlawfully with death, which caused a retraction of their original free speech which in turn was retracted when the situation cooled and the threats were no longer as immediate a danger.
If I say "Kill _____" that's not free speech, it's incitement to do violence.
Life expectancy in China (1950): 32 years
Life expectancy in China (2006): 73 years
Fantastic! The slaves are living longer! You get twice as much out of them. Yay! I see it's working.
You sir are an idiot and making the claim that this proves these people are climbing up out of poverty based on these questionable stats is ridiculous. These do NOT prove that life is worth living for these people, do they? Literacy up? Yes of course you're going to teach your slaves more so that they can do more complicated tasks and bring in more money. Do you know if they're beaten? Do you know if they're free to choose their own partners or whether they're allowed children?
There's a reason in the west that a union movement formed and pulled us out of the industrial revolution.
You want to compete with people that live like this? You think their standard of living is up? Watch yours go down. What's your argument? That it's not economically viable to pay someone a fair wage? Fuck off!
I'm saying that you shouldn't be permitted to purposefully set out to get people to rely on your product for free (or very cheap) then bump up the price. A free promo that lasts a week or two to let someone sample your product is not the same as running a promo for months or years so people will be hooked then realing them in.