But wikileaks is still a middleman. If there was simple free software that any would-be leaker (nongeek) could use to put raw information directly and untraceably on the web, then the ideal would be one step closer.
What do you call torrent software? Upload in your format of choice. Go for it. Suggest a new category on your favourite torrent tracker.
Symantec speculates a team size around 5-10 not including QA (whatever the heck that means).
Personally I think there is probably a "team" of 1-3 people sniggering to and congratulating themselves. (Probably adding "Stupid Americans"). That is if they haven't been shot.
Maybe future leaders will re-think their actions when they not only realize that future generations will consider them to be scumbags and tyrants, but there can be a very real and immediate danger to their own lives in the here and now.
Corruption is widespread and it needs to be revealed - names and all. It will serve as excellent deterrent in the future.
Yes, I'm sure that while rolling around on their bed literred with $100 bills, corrupt politiicians will feel horrible about what future generations might think of them if the truth gets out. Wake up man, you're living in a fantasy!
You may not, but apparently everyone else needs to RTFA a little more closely. It appears to me that it's very likely that the reason for omitting caps-lock is just to save space, and a little joke about message board comments was taken a little too seriously by the so-called writer at Gizmodo. It also seems very likely that a double-tap on the shift key will toggle on caps-lock, as it does on the iPhone.
I DON'T CARE ABOUT THE TRUTH!!!!! GO FUCK YOURSELF GOOGLE!!!!
I assumed the policy didn't mean 4 DAYS, but 4 ILLNESSES--as in you might be six a total of five days in two instances, one three days and one two days, which would count as calling in sick twice.
Of course, I have no idea, since the GP was a little vague, butt that was how I interpreted it.
The interpretation of "instances" notwithstanding it's still a horrible horrible policy, and probably illegal in most places.
Yes, and the most descriptive metrics measure the effect of CMEs in terms of the number of comments in articles posted about them on the Internet. Let's see how big this one can get.
Well if you had 0 articles posted, it may imply you've destroyed all Internet communications. That would be pretty big.;-)
Look up 'at will employment'. It's a beautiful libertarian dream, where the people in several states voted to reverse a hundred years of workers' rights and place the balance of power back entirely in the hand of employers, where it belongs.
With power should come responsibility. 'At will employment' is simply employers shirking that responsibility. Employers who sap the life out of their workers and discard them when they can no longer work are nothing but leeches. The idea that we'll have a better world when this is allowed to happen is nothing more than self-serving irrational hand-waving by those who stand to gain from this practice in the short term. Their businesses do not operate in a vacuum and their business operating and making profits rely on society permitting the business to operate.
Sounds to me like you're jealous of people that have more space. More space means you're capable of more things. There's room for hobbies, there's room for storage of things you use less frequently. YOU may consider that a waste, but it's not your space to govern and rule.
I use my "McMansion" space to house all sorts of things that enrich my family's life. Telescopes. Musical instruments. Shelves of books. Remote control planes. Sleeping quarters for 2 dogs. A home theatre. Computers. Spare stuff that I like but that you can no longer buy because it's the 5 year old model. I really don't give a fuck what you think about how I use that space or whether you think it's wasted.
Heck, even in surface ships, on early British destroyers the officers slept in armchairs on the deck. (Which would probably be a better explanation for why Picard is always in his chair when someone hails.)
I'm sticking with Firefox. I trust the Mozilla Foundation more than I trust Google.
I'll stick with that bloated piece of shit memory hog Firefox that I usually kill from the task manager because the extensions give me capabilities I don't find in other browsers. I have no loyalty to or trust for any of the companies. Ever since they removed the ability to switch off "awesome bar" without an extension because THEY think they have the right to dictate how I should browse and what I should want, the Firefox team have totally lost any confidence or love I had for the product. In fact I don't think I've ever felt so negative about something I got for free in my life.
The U.S. Military, which is known for working people a lot harder than most corporations, still gives 30 days a year of paid leave. No 'Sick Days'. You could not take days off and build up 60 days if you wanted to. Anything over that was just paid back to you at end of year. It was the best policy I have ever worked under.
Now you couldn't always take your leave when you wanted to, for obvious reasons, but it worked and it's good for morale.
That's fine if you are fit and never get sick. I believe once you truly get sick in the military you get an honorable discharge on medical grounds (assuming they are satisfied you're not faking your illness)
My company took the opposite stance: there is no distinction between sick and vacation days; they are all personal days. The only caveat is calling in sick on more than four different instances within a twelve month period is strongly discouraged. The wording is "grounds for termination," but I suspect that is a soft rule.
Wait a sec. You call in sick 4 times in a year and they fire you? THAT'S FUCKED UP. It may even be illegal if you can prove you were ill.
Worst commerical code snippet I've seen looked something like.
a *= 0; b *= 1;
Single letter variable names, and code that multiplies one variable by 0 and the other by 1 indicate the programmer was either bored or making a pathetic attempt to keep their job by obfuscating the code.
Very rarely do you see someone who cares about there work make a big mistake (and if so they are probably just starting out).
Really? I see it all the time from very intelligent but inexperienced programmers. I've seen a few spin their wheels and end up depressed about their whole job.
Doesn't mistake number 2 contradict number 1? Or am I missing something?
The whole lot is full of contradictions: 4: Delegating too much to frameworks 8: Reinventing the wheel 9: Opening up too much to the user 10: Overdetermining the user experience 5: Trusting the client 6: Not trusting the client enough I think that there is a meta-message, akin to Buddha's middle way. Don't take any rule to extremes.
Objectively there is no greater or lesser value in playing fighter pilots compared to playing at looking after a pet or a farm.
Objectively you can't compare 2 whole genres for a vague term like "value". You could potentially compare specific simulators or games with specific criteria. None of which is what I was talking about. I just don't want the games I love to be tossed aside as yesterday's garbage, when I get plenty of pleasure out of them today.
"I can't help it." usually equates to "I have no self-discipline." The longer that fact goes ignored, the worse it becomes. Very few things are truly involuntary. Such as projectile vomiting.
If you're driven to do a thing, or have become use to doing that thing by habbit, it can be very hard to restrain yourself from doing it without very good reason - even if you know it's bad for you. There aren't many fat people who want to be fat for instance. (In the case of weight there certainly is more to it than just self control, but put that aside for a moment).
It all depends on how immediate and certain the negative consequence is for acting. For instance if you told a chocolate lover you'd shoot their child if they ate a chocolate in the next hour and held a gun to the child's head, very few decent people would eat that chocolate despite the compulsion. Tell them they might end up diabetic in 10 years and suddenly the compulsion overwhelms the desire to refrain.
People have all sorts of names for this like "sex addiction". That is because telling a promiscuous person to stop having sex with whomever they can is about as likely to make them change as asking an alcoholic to "just stop drinking".
I love my wife dearly. She's loyal, she's loving, she's intelligent, she's great with the kids. But if she cheated I'd dump her in a heartbeat and I have 2 infant children.
Fortunately I'm not even slightly concerned that it might happen. Few things would surprise me, but that would.
Take your reality based @#$% and !@#$ off. DO NOT WANT. If you want to market to girls who want to play reality tv style games, go for it, but leave my games alone. I want to learn to fly like a fighter pilot on a realistic sim. I want to rescue the princess. I want to slog my way up a beach in a WWII where I kill nobody the only consequence if I fail is restarting the level. You take your Sims and Farmville and Pet simulator and @#$@ off.
Devil's advocate here for a second. You assume that death by cancer and death by terrorist are the same thing to a person. What if I put the weighted cost of dying by cancer at 1/2 that of dying by terrorist attack. This is a relatively fair assessment since death by terrorist dramatic and going to be talked about for a long time. Also this is a hypothetical situation. Then it would be a border case if I wanted the scanners or not. 1/3 and I would certainly want them. Placing or removing these scanners forces everyone to face the same cost and risk at least if flying coach. Someone who would rather have cancer than die by terrorist attack they can't make that choice. The two airlines one with security and one without also would not be enough as there is only two options. Expand that until every one is happy and you will have as many airlines as passengers and costs will skyrocket and look something like the highway system. Like I said devil's advocate, personally I hate the idea and fortunately have not had the need to fly in several years.
Then you should opt out. Being felt up never killed anyone. 0 chance of cancer.
In spite of the fact that "some 40 experts on bombs and hazardous materials from across the country and at least eight national laboratories..." have decided on this course of action, all of us World of Warcraft players and PHP developers have concluded it's a bad idea to handle it this way.
Well duh! Everyone knows brute force is useless against a mage!
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No, I don't think this is the kid sitting at home ala "War Games," and here is why (from the article)
Nor do I. 1-3 experienced programmers. Not teenagers. Probably in their mid 20s to mid 40s.
Wow, you know they're serious when the cyberattack is coordinated with targeted assassinations.
Life is cheap in espionage.
But wikileaks is still a middleman. If there was simple free software that any would-be leaker (nongeek) could use to put raw information directly and untraceably on the web, then the ideal would be one step closer.
What do you call torrent software? Upload in your format of choice. Go for it. Suggest a new category on your favourite torrent tracker.
And ten more shall take his place
It's the http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mecha-Streisand effect
One who has a large team of talented programmers, carefully designing and building the attack.
http://www.symantec.com/content/en/us/enterprise/media/security_response/whitepapers/w32_stuxnet_dossier.pdf
Symantec speculates a team size around 5-10 not including QA (whatever the heck that means).
Personally I think there is probably a "team" of 1-3 people sniggering to and congratulating themselves. (Probably adding "Stupid Americans"). That is if they haven't been shot.
I'll give you talented, though.
Maybe future leaders will re-think their actions when they not only realize that future generations will consider them to be scumbags and tyrants, but there can be a very real and immediate danger to their own lives in the here and now.
Corruption is widespread and it needs to be revealed - names and all. It will serve as excellent deterrent in the future.
Yes, I'm sure that while rolling around on their bed literred with $100 bills, corrupt politiicians will feel horrible about what future generations might think of them if the truth gets out. Wake up man, you're living in a fantasy!
You may not, but apparently everyone else needs to RTFA a little more closely. It appears to me that it's very likely that the reason for omitting caps-lock is just to save space, and a little joke about message board comments was taken a little too seriously by the so-called writer at Gizmodo. It also seems very likely that a double-tap on the shift key will toggle on caps-lock, as it does on the iPhone.
I DON'T CARE ABOUT THE TRUTH!!!!! GO FUCK YOURSELF GOOGLE!!!!
I assumed the policy didn't mean 4 DAYS, but 4 ILLNESSES--as in you might be six a total of five days in two instances, one three days and one two days, which would count as calling in sick twice.
Of course, I have no idea, since the GP was a little vague, butt that was how I interpreted it.
The interpretation of "instances" notwithstanding it's still a horrible horrible policy, and probably illegal in most places.
Yes, and the most descriptive metrics measure the effect of CMEs in terms of the number of comments in articles posted about them on the Internet. Let's see how big this one can get.
Well if you had 0 articles posted, it may imply you've destroyed all Internet communications. That would be pretty big. ;-)
Look up 'at will employment'. It's a beautiful libertarian dream, where the people in several states voted to reverse a hundred years of workers' rights and place the balance of power back entirely in the hand of employers, where it belongs.
With power should come responsibility. 'At will employment' is simply employers shirking that responsibility. Employers who sap the life out of their workers and discard them when they can no longer work are nothing but leeches. The idea that we'll have a better world when this is allowed to happen is nothing more than self-serving irrational hand-waving by those who stand to gain from this practice in the short term. Their businesses do not operate in a vacuum and their business operating and making profits rely on society permitting the business to operate.
Sounds to me like you're jealous of people that have more space. More space means you're capable of more things. There's room for hobbies, there's room for storage of things you use less frequently. YOU may consider that a waste, but it's not your space to govern and rule.
I use my "McMansion" space to house all sorts of things that enrich my family's life. Telescopes. Musical instruments. Shelves of books. Remote control planes. Sleeping quarters for 2 dogs. A home theatre. Computers. Spare stuff that I like but that you can no longer buy because it's the 5 year old model. I really don't give a fuck what you think about how I use that space or whether you think it's wasted.
Heck, even in surface ships, on early British destroyers the officers slept in armchairs on the deck. (Which would probably be a better explanation for why Picard is always in his chair when someone hails.)
That explains it! Grandpa needs his naps!
I'm sticking with Firefox. I trust the Mozilla Foundation more than I trust Google.
I'll stick with that bloated piece of shit memory hog Firefox that I usually kill from the task manager because the extensions give me capabilities I don't find in other browsers. I have no loyalty to or trust for any of the companies. Ever since they removed the ability to switch off "awesome bar" without an extension because THEY think they have the right to dictate how I should browse and what I should want, the Firefox team have totally lost any confidence or love I had for the product. In fact I don't think I've ever felt so negative about something I got for free in my life.
The U.S. Military, which is known for working people a lot harder than most corporations, still gives 30 days a year of paid leave. No 'Sick Days'. You could not take days off and build up 60 days if you wanted to. Anything over that was just paid back to you at end of year. It was the best policy I have ever worked under.
Now you couldn't always take your leave when you wanted to, for obvious reasons, but it worked and it's good for morale.
That's fine if you are fit and never get sick. I believe once you truly get sick in the military you get an honorable discharge on medical grounds (assuming they are satisfied you're not faking your illness)
My company took the opposite stance: there is no distinction between sick and vacation days; they are all personal days. The only caveat is calling in sick on more than four different instances within a twelve month period is strongly discouraged. The wording is "grounds for termination," but I suspect that is a soft rule.
Wait a sec. You call in sick 4 times in a year and they fire you? THAT'S FUCKED UP. It may even be illegal if you can prove you were ill.
Worst commerical code snippet I've seen looked something like.
a *= 0;
b *= 1;
Single letter variable names, and code that multiplies one variable by 0 and the other by 1 indicate the programmer was either bored or making a pathetic attempt to keep their job by obfuscating the code.
Very rarely do you see someone who cares about there work make a big mistake (and if so they are probably just starting out).
Really? I see it all the time from very intelligent but inexperienced programmers. I've seen a few spin their wheels and end up depressed about their whole job.
Doesn't mistake number 2 contradict number 1? Or am I missing something?
The whole lot is full of contradictions:
4: Delegating too much to frameworks 8: Reinventing the wheel
9: Opening up too much to the user 10: Overdetermining the user experience
5: Trusting the client 6: Not trusting the client enough
I think that there is a meta-message, akin to Buddha's middle way. Don't take any rule to extremes.
Confucious say: This one skitzo mutherfucker
Objectively there is no greater or lesser value in playing fighter pilots compared to playing at looking after a pet or a farm.
Objectively you can't compare 2 whole genres for a vague term like "value". You could potentially compare specific simulators or games with specific criteria. None of which is what I was talking about. I just don't want the games I love to be tossed aside as yesterday's garbage, when I get plenty of pleasure out of them today.
"I can't help it." usually equates to "I have no self-discipline." The longer that fact goes ignored, the worse it becomes. Very few things are truly involuntary. Such as projectile vomiting.
If you're driven to do a thing, or have become use to doing that thing by habbit, it can be very hard to restrain yourself from doing it without very good reason - even if you know it's bad for you. There aren't many fat people who want to be fat for instance. (In the case of weight there certainly is more to it than just self control, but put that aside for a moment).
It all depends on how immediate and certain the negative consequence is for acting. For instance if you told a chocolate lover you'd shoot their child if they ate a chocolate in the next hour and held a gun to the child's head, very few decent people would eat that chocolate despite the compulsion. Tell them they might end up diabetic in 10 years and suddenly the compulsion overwhelms the desire to refrain.
People have all sorts of names for this like "sex addiction". That is because telling a promiscuous person to stop having sex with whomever they can is about as likely to make them change as asking an alcoholic to "just stop drinking".
Once a cheater, always a cheater.
I love my wife dearly. She's loyal, she's loving, she's intelligent, she's great with the kids. But if she cheated I'd dump her in a heartbeat and I have 2 infant children.
Fortunately I'm not even slightly concerned that it might happen. Few things would surprise me, but that would.
Once a cheater, always a cheater.
Take your reality based @#$% and !@#$ off. DO NOT WANT. If you want to market to girls who want to play reality tv style games, go for it, but leave my games alone. I want to learn to fly like a fighter pilot on a realistic sim. I want to rescue the princess. I want to slog my way up a beach in a WWII where I kill nobody the only consequence if I fail is restarting the level. You take your Sims and Farmville and Pet simulator and @#$@ off.
Devil's advocate here for a second. You assume that death by cancer and death by terrorist are the same thing to a person. What if I put the weighted cost of dying by cancer at 1/2 that of dying by terrorist attack. This is a relatively fair assessment since death by terrorist dramatic and going to be talked about for a long time. Also this is a hypothetical situation. Then it would be a border case if I wanted the scanners or not. 1/3 and I would certainly want them. Placing or removing these scanners forces everyone to face the same cost and risk at least if flying coach. Someone who would rather have cancer than die by terrorist attack they can't make that choice. The two airlines one with security and one without also would not be enough as there is only two options. Expand that until every one is happy and you will have as many airlines as passengers and costs will skyrocket and look something like the highway system. Like I said devil's advocate, personally I hate the idea and fortunately have not had the need to fly in several years.
Then you should opt out. Being felt up never killed anyone. 0 chance of cancer.
Everyone is an expert.
In spite of the fact that "some 40 experts on bombs and hazardous materials from across the country and at least eight national laboratories..." have decided on this course of action, all of us World of Warcraft players and PHP developers have concluded it's a bad idea to handle it this way.
Well duh! Everyone knows brute force is useless against a mage!
Am I the only one that finds it slightly humorous that people were pirating a product called Avast! ... ? :)
Arrrrrr!!!!!!!!!