Are we hearing about this more, or is it happening more?
We're hearing about it more because California passed a new law requiring disclosure of privacy breaches. California citizens get notified and that opens the story to the news media. By the way, this is the same California that the conservatives love to bash for being "anti-business".
That is a fairly content-free sentence. When Wal-Mart decides to stop selling VHS, the press release will read, "our customers have told us they no longer want them". When exactly did journalism become merely aggregating press releases?
...in practice every single DNS-RBL eventually comes under the control of power-hungry weenies
He is 100% correct about this but it is 100% irrelevant. I use blacklisting extensively. When a list stops being effective because of the P-HWs, I quit using it. This is my first line of defense and it stops ~ 90% of my spam. Oh, and never complain to P-HWs, it's like arguing with a Republican.
You actually could. Of course, you'd need a big marketing budget. As the old saying says: with enough of a budget, you can sell dead cats to the health department.
Contrary to popular belief, no species has a right to exist.... including homo sapiens.
Before you so blithely dismiss extinction, let me pass along an analogy the late Carl Sagan used to use. Our earth is like an airplane and each one of the species is a rivet in the airplane. Losing a few here or there makes no discernible difference. A rivet may be lost in the natural course of events and then can be replaced. If humans begin casually popping rivets out, however, there will eventually be a big problem. One moment the airplane is fine and, at some point, one too many rivets are removed and we have catastrophic failure.
...I am upset by the frequent unscientific articles posted on slashdot relating to my field.
It's unscientific, but I suspect getting upset by trivia is also bad for your brain. Seriously though, when I read the article, I saw several places where they pointed out that the data was unsupported or that their was no causal relationship. For example: "Hard evidence for this is still thin on the ground..." "Evidence is mounting in favour of..." "Not everyone who has looked for the Mozart effect has found it" "Nobody knows for sure." "There is also some evidence..."... and so forth.
I would bet it's holes in the implementation due to a rushed implementation with shifting requirements. I know little of AdSense and nothing of Google's internal processes. However, AdSense sounds like something the marketing nitwits are in charge of. I think we all know about trying to code an application with the requirements being changed on an hourly basis. I have yet to meet a marketing exec that was capable of formulating a plan and following it. If that's the case here, I'd bet this isn't the last we'll see of bugs in the feature.
...advertisers and readers don't seem to mind that the editorial product is assembled in this manner.
This reader does. The only sys-con mag I subscribe to is the Java Developer's Journal, which is a bunch of crap. Even though my employer will pay for it, I won't renew my subscription. It's a waste of tiem to read. It's nothing but a collection of marketing fluff - advertising masquerading as journalism.
I think it's really important to differentiate "fire"..." and lay off"
The only difference in the two is the number of letters. In both cases, it is a matter of "we have to get rid of this guy because he is costing more than he is producing". You can cause all the "actionable offenses" you want as long as it's profitable (i.e. Ken Lay). On the other hand, you can be the most honest, productive persion the company has but if you're not generating profit, you're toast. This notion that there is some sort of moral weight involved is ridiculous.
The more time you spend "responding furiously" to "anonymous posts on OSNews.com", the less time you're spending actually being productive.
I suspect that the wrong people are being fingered here. I only have rumors to go on but I would suspect a large part of the delay is due to the PHBs. They have to develop complicated spreadsheets, write tons of emails, give approvals to other people's approvals, take twenty seven 8 x 10 color glossy photographs with circles and arrows and a paragraph on the back of each one explaining what each one is. You can't hurry a good bureacracy.
B.) Apple's sort of doing it so they want to keep up.
Right. Like they stay up nights worrying about a company that builds portable music players.
C.) It's easy to cry vaporware. All you need is for a few people to despise the target of your accusation to nod their heads and donate a few mod points to the cause.
It helps to have the target of your accusations repeatedly using vaporware to keep themselves in the gullible technology press.
How many times have we seen breathless articles all slack-jawed over some new technology that Microsoft is getting ready to unveil.... only to have it never appear. Vaporware anyone?
...require my kids to use at least 14 character passwords on our home network
What do you want to bet I can find the passwords written on a post-it under the keyboard? A security policy that doesn't take usability into account is worse than no security policy at all.
It comes down to the fact that many people don't want to pay for someone else to download porn or commit copyright infringement.
That's a simplistic statement that is not useful beyond getting a politician elected. What it comes down to is, "what is porn"? The moralisitc crowd will lump any discussion of birth control or sexuality into the porn category. Is a news report about a gay pride parade porn? Many fundamentalists will tell you that it is. So who gets to decide what is porn? You? George W. Bush? Rush Limbaugh? You want to use tax dollars to pay someone to decide what is and what is not porn? There's a good use of my money.
The idea that one can break a "social contract" with a corporation is ridiculous. A corporation is a thing and, as such, is amoral. You might as well talk about breaking a social contract with a rock or a tree.
Beer isn't the only thing. California has banned GM rice because the largest consumer of California rice is Japan and they will NOT buy GM rice. Personally, I haven't made up my mind one way or another. However, having been lied to any number of times by people whose only motivation is profit, the burden of proof beyond reasonable doubt is on the corporations.
Wolfe is worried that...[environmentalists]... are going to regulate nanotech out of existence
It all depends on who will be making money off of it. If their are profits to be taken, public safety will have to take a back seat. If it threatens a current business' profits, "public safety" will be the rallying cry. And, of course, the radical fundamentalists will somehow work "God's Law" into the whole debate.
To follow the usual java method naming conventions, your method should be named performAce(). Also, from a readability standpoint, a method named performXXX() should probably return void. Secondly, any C programmer worth his salt will remove some (but not all) of the vowels from a method name to mark his territory (i.e. c.prfrmce). Lastly, would you like fries with that hat?
Does it HAVE to be where they broke into someone's house? You could try reading, "The Union Station Massacre: The Original Sin of J. Edgar Hoover's FBI" for a well-documented account of murder committed by the Federal BI.
So, if you're a New York company that hires programmers, consider relocating (either in toto or a subsidiary) to Texas, where your dollar goes further, and you get to keep more of it.
Actually, I thought about relocating my business to someplace with a lighter income tax burden. The only problem is the I would have to replace all my gay employees after the Texans killed them so it wouldn't really be profitable.
I'm just wondering which three states can't be bothered to prosecute for false and misleading sales tactics? I just want to be sure and not trust any claims made by businesses in those three states.
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Are we hearing about this more, or is it happening more?
We're hearing about it more because California passed a new law requiring disclosure of privacy breaches. California citizens get notified and that opens the story to the news media.
By the way, this is the same California that the conservatives love to bash for being "anti-business".
You're welcome.
Gartner is known for its dubious research.
Small correction: Gartner is known among tech people for its dubious research. Amongst the suits, Gartner is a credible source.
That is a fairly content-free sentence. When Wal-Mart decides to stop selling VHS, the press release will read, "our customers have told us they no longer want them".
When exactly did journalism become merely aggregating press releases?
...in practice every single DNS-RBL eventually comes under the control of power-hungry weenies
He is 100% correct about this but it is 100% irrelevant. I use blacklisting extensively. When a list stops being effective because of the P-HWs, I quit using it. This is my first line of defense and it stops ~ 90% of my spam. Oh, and never complain to P-HWs, it's like arguing with a Republican.
You actually could. Of course, you'd need a big marketing budget. As the old saying says: with enough of a budget, you can sell dead cats to the health department.
Contrary to popular belief, no species has a right to exist. ... including homo sapiens.
Before you so blithely dismiss extinction, let me pass along an analogy the late Carl Sagan used to use. Our earth is like an airplane and each one of the species is a rivet in the airplane. Losing a few here or there makes no discernible difference. A rivet may be lost in the natural course of events and then can be replaced. If humans begin casually popping rivets out, however, there will eventually be a big problem. One moment the airplane is fine and, at some point, one too many rivets are removed and we have catastrophic failure.
...I am upset by the frequent unscientific articles posted on slashdot relating to my field.
..." ... and so forth.
It's unscientific, but I suspect getting upset by trivia is also bad for your brain.
Seriously though, when I read the article, I saw several places where they pointed out that the data was unsupported or that their was no causal relationship.
For example:
"Hard evidence for this is still thin on the ground..."
"Evidence is mounting in favour of
"Not everyone who has looked for the Mozart effect has found it"
"Nobody knows for sure."
"There is also some evidence..."
I would bet it's holes in the implementation due to a rushed implementation with shifting requirements.
I know little of AdSense and nothing of Google's internal processes. However, AdSense sounds like something the marketing nitwits are in charge of. I think we all know about trying to code an application with the requirements being changed on an hourly basis. I have yet to meet a marketing exec that was capable of formulating a plan and following it. If that's the case here, I'd bet this isn't the last we'll see of bugs in the feature.
...advertisers and readers don't seem to mind that the editorial product is assembled in this manner.
This reader does. The only sys-con mag I subscribe to is the Java Developer's Journal, which is a bunch of crap. Even though my employer will pay for it, I won't renew my subscription. It's a waste of tiem to read. It's nothing but a collection of marketing fluff - advertising masquerading as journalism.
I think it's really important to differentiate "fire"..." and lay off"
The only difference in the two is the number of letters. In both cases, it is a matter of "we have to get rid of this guy because he is costing more than he is producing". You can cause all the "actionable offenses" you want as long as it's profitable (i.e. Ken Lay). On the other hand, you can be the most honest, productive persion the company has but if you're not generating profit, you're toast. This notion that there is some sort of moral weight involved is ridiculous.
So california voters decide to spend 300 Million a year for 10 years on a science project.
No, voters approved state backing for a bond sale to raise funds for research. A big difference.
The more time you spend "responding furiously" to "anonymous posts on OSNews.com", the less time you're spending actually being productive.
I suspect that the wrong people are being fingered here. I only have rumors to go on but I would suspect a large part of the delay is due to the PHBs. They have to develop complicated spreadsheets, write tons of emails, give approvals to other people's approvals, take twenty seven 8 x 10 color glossy photographs with circles and arrows and a paragraph on the back of each one explaining what each one is.
You can't hurry a good bureacracy.
Many gambling sites still have connections to, shall we say, respectible businessmen of the Italian or Asian pursuasion,...
You've been watching too much TV. When it was discovered how profitable legal gambling is, then the guys with the REAL muscle moved in.
A.) They've publically demo'd the technology.
Have you ever built a prototype?
B.) Apple's sort of doing it so they want to keep up.
Right. Like they stay up nights worrying about a company that builds portable music players.
C.) It's easy to cry vaporware. All you need is for a few people to despise the target of your accusation to nod their heads and donate a few mod points to the cause.
It helps to have the target of your accusations repeatedly using vaporware to keep themselves in the gullible technology press.
How many times have we seen breathless articles all slack-jawed over some new technology that Microsoft is getting ready to unveil
Vaporware anyone?
...require my kids to use at least 14 character passwords on our home network
What do you want to bet I can find the passwords written on a post-it under the keyboard?
A security policy that doesn't take usability into account is worse than no security policy at all.
It comes down to the fact that many people don't want to pay for someone else to download porn or commit copyright infringement.
That's a simplistic statement that is not useful beyond getting a politician elected. What it comes down to is, "what is porn"?
The moralisitc crowd will lump any discussion of birth control or sexuality into the porn category. Is a news report about a gay pride parade porn? Many fundamentalists will tell you that it is. So who gets to decide what is porn? You? George W. Bush? Rush Limbaugh? You want to use tax dollars to pay someone to decide what is and what is not porn? There's a good use of my money.
The idea that one can break a "social contract" with a corporation is ridiculous. A corporation is a thing and, as such, is amoral. You might as well talk about breaking a social contract with a rock or a tree.
Beer isn't the only thing. California has banned GM rice because the largest consumer of California rice is Japan and they will NOT buy GM rice.
Personally, I haven't made up my mind one way or another. However, having been lied to any number of times by people whose only motivation is profit, the burden of proof beyond reasonable doubt is on the corporations.
Wolfe is worried that ...[environmentalists]... are going to regulate nanotech out of existence
It all depends on who will be making money off of it. If their are profits to be taken, public safety will have to take a back seat. If it threatens a current business' profits, "public safety" will be the rallying cry.
And, of course, the radical fundamentalists will somehow work "God's Law" into the whole debate.
To follow the usual java method naming conventions, your method should be named performAce(). Also, from a readability standpoint, a method named performXXX() should probably return void. Secondly, any C programmer worth his salt will remove some (but not all) of the vowels from a method name to mark his territory (i.e. c.prfrmce).
Lastly, would you like fries with that hat?
Does the ATF count?
Does it HAVE to be where they broke into someone's house?
You could try reading, "The Union Station Massacre: The Original Sin of J. Edgar Hoover's FBI" for a well-documented account of murder committed by the Federal BI.
If people start disappearing without due process or his sites are shut down, then he has a legitimate gripe.
Poorly thought out.
If we wait until people start disappearing before we gripe, then by that time we won't be ALLOWED to gripe.
So, if you're a New York company that hires programmers, consider relocating (either in toto or a subsidiary) to Texas, where your dollar goes further, and you get to keep more of it.
Actually, I thought about relocating my business to someplace with a lighter income tax burden. The only problem is the I would have to replace all my gay employees after the Texans killed them so it wouldn't really be profitable.
I'm just wondering which three states can't be bothered to prosecute for false and misleading sales tactics?
I just want to be sure and not trust any claims made by businesses in those three states.