Only you ignorant Americans think your laws apply to the whole world. The rest of the world just demands that foreign companies obey local laws while doing business there.
And if you think local laws don't apply because you're an American, you're just a fucking retard.
3. The willingness to risk your job to do "the right thing" on a project.
4. Acceptance that others in the business (not just the team) have valuable inputs that need to be respected.
5. Experience. Years and years of in-the-trenches experience with a variety of technologies and techniques.
6. (And perhaps most importantly) A background in the history of computing. The realization that "with a computer" or "on the web" does not make something "new" and patent-worthy.
Now if only Bell Media/CTV here in Canada would do the same. They are the ONLY family of websites I know of that won't work with the Linux versions of Flash, complaining that you need an update because they check for the WINDOWS version numbers.
And you've never heard of private chat clients? Peer-to-peer communications? Encrypted emails?
You don't have to talk about the personal details of your life on Crackbook where there is a record.
Your whole argument is premised on the theory that everything is recorded and tracked, regardless of encryption, regardless of HTTPS, regardless of SSL. All I'm saying is that you should be required to log in to a server to make public comments or to send messages to an individual. That's not to say you need to use your real name for the login; only that you be identified and that identity available to the server administrators in case they get subpoenaed.
My beef is with people who hide behind anonymity to commit abuses and atrocities, such as bullying people into suicide, spreading terrorist propaganda, sharing child porn, racist propaganda, and so on. People who know they aren't anonymous tend to think twice about what they're saying and posting -- and so they should, because we don't have the "stick" of a punch in the nose on the internet.
Go walking down the street of your hometown with a mask/costume or KKK robes on and see how that works for you. "Private citizen" does not mean anonymous in pretty much any part of the real world or real life. You can always be identified by your face.
When you walk the streets of your home town, do you wear a mask and costume to hide your identity? No -- your face is visible. You are a private citizen, you have the right to be left alone or to interact with others as you choose, but you are always identifiable by your face. I feel the internet should be the same way -- you should always be identifiable.
Anonymity is not "privacy" in my books. "Privacy" is being able to prevent anyone else from pretending to be you so you can rest assured that anything you say was said by you and only you.
Anonymous access to the internet is it's greatest downfall. It encourages trolls, keyboard warriors, and harassment. It enables kiddie porn, terrorism groups, and a whole host of other problems.
Given my druthers, everyone on the internet would be uniquely identified and held responsible for everything they say.
More to the point, there is no need to crack the communications to a client if you are in bed with the service provider and have access to their databases and logs.
Client-server encryption is about keeping the bad guys and only the bad guys from sniffing your data. It's up to the service provider to determine how secure your data is actually going to be in light of warrants and subpoenas.
Coding isn't even the new grammar. It's the new spelling. The magic lies in the structure of the data and the dance of the algorithms. Programming is writing a novel; coding is learning how to spell.
If you're not willing to take responsibility for what you say and accept the heat if people disagree with you, you shouldn't be saying what you are in the first place. Only cowards need to hide behind masks, the same as KKK and ISIL members.:(
I don't log in because I have "balls". I log in because I take responsibility for my comments and opinions. But you wouldn't understand anything about that, would you? No, you're just going to anonymously preach to people and demand that they respect and adjust to your viewpoint on security.
I pity you paranoid losers. I'm bi-polar. I know what paranoia is like. You need medication for that.
No, people like you are the real problem. Judgmental keyboard warriors who don't even have the balls to log in, and who scream and rant at anybody who doesn't think exactly the way they do. People who don't accept that other people's priorities are different. People who don't accept that other people have their own lives to live, and their own decisions to make.
More importantly, Microsoft seems hell bent on discarding the years of research IBM put into the Common User Access guide on which Windows was originally based. A lot of the "new" metaphors *were* tried out during that research, and users hated it as much back then as they do now.
Everywhere I worked in those days, there was Win98 on desktops throughout the corporations. Only the engineers and developers ran NT anywhere I worked.
Of course we're talking a period where "networking" meant file and printer sharing and nothing more.
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Careful. We want them kept south of the border longer than Americans want... :P
We're "getting there" in the same sense that the Wright brother's airplane was "getting there" compared to a modern passenger jet or fighter plane.
'nuff said.
Can they do it with corporate code where there are naming and style standards in abundance, and code reviews to ensure those guidelines are followed?
Only you ignorant Americans think your laws apply to the whole world. The rest of the world just demands that foreign companies obey local laws while doing business there.
And if you think local laws don't apply because you're an American, you're just a fucking retard.
Look at how they censor pictures of breasts from the whole site to pander to American "morals", when most of the world has no problem with nudity.
It just goes to prove no one is irreplaceable; not even Jobs.
My key points on the subject are:
1. A love of the art and the job.
2. An eagerness to learn and try new things.
3. The willingness to risk your job to do "the right thing" on a project.
4. Acceptance that others in the business (not just the team) have valuable inputs that need to be respected.
5. Experience. Years and years of in-the-trenches experience with a variety of technologies and techniques.
6. (And perhaps most importantly) A background in the history of computing. The realization that "with a computer" or "on the web" does not make something "new" and patent-worthy.
Now if only Bell Media/CTV here in Canada would do the same. They are the ONLY family of websites I know of that won't work with the Linux versions of Flash, complaining that you need an update because they check for the WINDOWS version numbers.
I just installed glibc updates for Debian, so I presume the fix has been pushed.
The media inciting fear and panic over nothing?
That never happens.
"Terrorism Threat Levels", anyone?
I'm not an American, so I don't give a shit about your standards.
And you've never heard of private chat clients? Peer-to-peer communications? Encrypted emails?
You don't have to talk about the personal details of your life on Crackbook where there is a record.
Your whole argument is premised on the theory that everything is recorded and tracked, regardless of encryption, regardless of HTTPS, regardless of SSL. All I'm saying is that you should be required to log in to a server to make public comments or to send messages to an individual. That's not to say you need to use your real name for the login; only that you be identified and that identity available to the server administrators in case they get subpoenaed.
My beef is with people who hide behind anonymity to commit abuses and atrocities, such as bullying people into suicide, spreading terrorist propaganda, sharing child porn, racist propaganda, and so on. People who know they aren't anonymous tend to think twice about what they're saying and posting -- and so they should, because we don't have the "stick" of a punch in the nose on the internet.
It's a trade-off. No one is going to punch you in the face on the internet for mouthing off.
Go walking down the street of your hometown with a mask/costume or KKK robes on and see how that works for you. "Private citizen" does not mean anonymous in pretty much any part of the real world or real life. You can always be identified by your face.
When you walk the streets of your home town, do you wear a mask and costume to hide your identity? No -- your face is visible. You are a private citizen, you have the right to be left alone or to interact with others as you choose, but you are always identifiable by your face. I feel the internet should be the same way -- you should always be identifiable.
Anonymity is not "privacy" in my books. "Privacy" is being able to prevent anyone else from pretending to be you so you can rest assured that anything you say was said by you and only you.
Anonymous access to the internet is it's greatest downfall. It encourages trolls, keyboard warriors, and harassment. It enables kiddie porn, terrorism groups, and a whole host of other problems.
Given my druthers, everyone on the internet would be uniquely identified and held responsible for everything they say.
More to the point, there is no need to crack the communications to a client if you are in bed with the service provider and have access to their databases and logs.
Client-server encryption is about keeping the bad guys and only the bad guys from sniffing your data. It's up to the service provider to determine how secure your data is actually going to be in light of warrants and subpoenas.
Coding isn't even the new grammar. It's the new spelling. The magic lies in the structure of the data and the dance of the algorithms. Programming is writing a novel; coding is learning how to spell.
If you're not willing to take responsibility for what you say and accept the heat if people disagree with you, you shouldn't be saying what you are in the first place. Only cowards need to hide behind masks, the same as KKK and ISIL members. :(
I don't log in because I have "balls". I log in because I take responsibility for my comments and opinions. But you wouldn't understand anything about that, would you? No, you're just going to anonymously preach to people and demand that they respect and adjust to your viewpoint on security.
I pity you paranoid losers. I'm bi-polar. I know what paranoia is like. You need medication for that.
I mean, seriously you call the GP "cowardly" and you can't even identify yourself. What a fuckin' hypocrite.
No, people like you are the real problem. Judgmental keyboard warriors who don't even have the balls to log in, and who scream and rant at anybody who doesn't think exactly the way they do. People who don't accept that other people's priorities are different. People who don't accept that other people have their own lives to live, and their own decisions to make.
More importantly, Microsoft seems hell bent on discarding the years of research IBM put into the Common User Access guide on which Windows was originally based. A lot of the "new" metaphors *were* tried out during that research, and users hated it as much back then as they do now.
Everywhere I worked in those days, there was Win98 on desktops throughout the corporations. Only the engineers and developers ran NT anywhere I worked.
Of course we're talking a period where "networking" meant file and printer sharing and nothing more.