I fundamentally disagree. We can (and should) change government policies, even secret ones. We do not have to be under the surveillance of our own government. We do not have to give up personal privacy to the policy of all encompassing safety from terrorism. We could simply vote the matter away. We could change the secrecy of these organizations to a more transparent and controlled nature. The rub comes with this notion:
I don't give a crap what the spy agencies know, or what my government knows, because you like to think they have bigger things to worry about than me.
And that notion combined with the completely irrational fear of terrorist threats (The cost of 9/11 was less than the cost of Katrina and all other terrorist activities on American soil combined add up to very little compared to almost any natural disaster you care to mention). I'm btw not saying we should do nothing about global terrorism. But, we should be rational about its real cost and threat and act accordingly.
As long as the citizenry of the US are cowering in fear of terrorism and do not see the long term threat that government surveillance of is own citizenry contains nothing will change. Let us hope that we still control the government through the ballot box when we finally realize that our current direction leads to totalitarian rule.
My point is that the data is rife for abuse. It does not matter if the subjects are doing anything wrong. Having the data set in the governments hands can lead to all kinds of bad outcomes. The excuse that if your not doing anything illegal you have nothing to fear is BS.
I don't know about that. I live in Missouri on the border with Kansas. Folks around love their guns and hate the government and all that, but oh my are they war hawks and terror haters. They all think "I don't have anything to hide; If it gets them turban headed bad guys I'm in favor of it". The far right in Kansas is in favor of not paying taxes and guns without boarders, but they support both the military and security industrial complexes.
You don't even need to go there to see how the data can be abused. Try these on for size:
-- If you track the phone calls of the CEO of BigOlCorp and he is talking to the CEO of NewButGrowingInc a lot then purchasing NewButGrowing stock will probably be a good deal when the buyout happens.
-- If you are, say, Walmart and you don't want to be unionized. Just have the NSA tell you which employees are calling the AFL/CIO and quietly let them go.
-- If rival companies were working to get a contract that was at bid, knowing who called whom and when would give a competitive advantage.
-- Hate gays. You could out every phone number that called a gay chat line.
-- Hate porn. You could publish a list of porn watchers. (OK that would be everybody but...)
Everyone who says that if you have done nothing illegal have nothing to fear has not thought the issue through. And as has been said here before we ALL have something to hide.
I lived in India for a year. What I can tell you of the eduction system there is that it is not the juggernaut of higher ed that we are told it is in America. I had one person working for me as a developer who had a degree in Computer Science. We were getting ready to set up some servers with our application server software. He was very excited since he had taken several courses in UNIX but had never actually been on one. They had done all the course work with pen and paper:
What does "ls -l" do? Please describe below.
That kind of thing. So, I'm not surprised if institutions are manipulating test scores. India is more about the perception of computer savvy developers than the reality of it.
Who cares what Julian Assange Says again? He may have had a hand in some events that I am glad took place, but some good leaks and a little rape does not make one an expert on anything.
Kind of sad that they killed three people to pull it off, but, well, I don't think anyone has ever accused Obama of having scruples.
What is the matter with you? What goes through your head to think that the President (any president) could/would somehow arrange a terrorist act to outlaw gunpowder? Because the pro-gun lobby is keeping him from passing gun control. You need to take you meds and calm yourself my friend.
I think I have read everything he has written. I hate to think that soon he will be on the list of science fiction authors I love that will never publish again. Vonnegut, Heinlein, Asimov, Bradbury, Adams, Burgess, Clarke, Farmer, Herbert I miss them all. To think that we will never be transported to the "Culture" again makes me sad. Good luck to him. I hope that modern medicine and luck can pull him through. If not I am thankful that he spent his time creating the worlds and adventures that I have spent so many hours enjoying.
Still the above is the only cogent reason I have ever heard for the rule. It is pretty clear that my phone or laptop is not going to crash the plane. But, it makes some sense that I need to pay attention at take off and landing in case the plane does crash for some other reason.
This is completely on point. Technology is great! I have been in the business for a long time and we can make many things better through the use of technology. But, pushing IT off on every supposed problem (what was wrong with the classroom that we are trying to fix) does not make things better. For instance I like to cook, but putting my oven on the internet doesn't make me a better cook. It is just a waist of technology. A solution looking for a problem. A teacher has stood in front of students and taught them to understand a subject matter for literally millennia. Adding high tech online line cloud based learning solutions is an answer to a problem that does not exist.
Yes, HELL YES, being a corporation means playing by our rules. EPA, FDA, Taxes, SEC; we have millions of rules about the behavior of corporations. They are not all good I will grant you, but we absolutely as the entity that creates their legal existence (government) have the right to enforce rules on them. The rules that control a corporation should be intended to force that corporation to act in a way beneficial to society while making a profit. I would say that we as a society are well within our any moral or legalistic code to force camera makers or car makers to sell to 3rd party repair shops at the same price that they sell to dealers. I continue to be amazed by people who want to allow corporations complete freedom of action. The laws that allow for the "personhood" of a corporate entity are there for the benefit of real people. We control those laws. We can certainly compel those fictional persons to act in any manner that we deem in the interest of the market or the wider society.
Honestly who cares about how the lawyers would argue about definition of the wording as applied to the patent and how the court case would come out.
The problem here is that the patent office clearly forgot to purchase a stamp with the word "Declined" on it. So, everything is "Approved" because that is the only stamp they own.
Can't we just patent getting a patent and be done with it. Then we could all just write one check a week to the company holding a patent on getting patents and not have to go through this craziness. Slide to unlock, one click ordering, A UI connected to a server connected to a mobile device, making a graphical element disappear, accelerating a scrolling list, a method of displaying an electronic list; all of these are patented. If I, as a developer, had to pay the patent trolls for every infringement of these obvious and ridiculous patents I would be millions of dollars in the hole. BTW Patents are meant to encourage innovation!
How about. But, it won't happen. The real incentive here is profit in the Tech Sector. American developers are paid a living wage (most of the time). This bill allows American tech companies to bring in workers who cannot compete in the open market for the best pay. This allows the tech companies to pay them much less than an American. The powers that be may want low unemployment, but they also want low wages.
Sunnis hate the apostate Shiites. Shiites hate the apostate Sunnis. They kill one another in a never ending battle over a schism 1400 years old. Oh, but, the Sunnis are moderate. They want to moderately destroy all who don't agree with them. The Shiite are not. They want to immoderately destroy all who don't agree with them.
They are obviously very different.
Just an FYI. There is nothing that prevents running Java + MS-SQL. It is a common back end stack and is used for all web applications at my current employer. It works very well. KISS is a good strategy and should be employed in any project. However, part of that strategy is to keep dependencies low across the project hence interfaces. Part of that strategy is to find bugs prior to integration hence unit testing. I have worked with Java for a long time and if you are conversant with it the "Eclipse + Tomcat + project + nant tasks + debug" setup doesn't take any longer than the "VS + solution/project + debug" setup. I think it is more of a matter of taste than anything.
Stop being logical and making sense. She is the key to life eternal. You just wanna kill our joy at the proposition of a pill that allows us to live forever.
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I don't give a crap what the spy agencies know, or what my government knows, because you like to think they have bigger things to worry about than me.
And that notion combined with the completely irrational fear of terrorist threats (The cost of 9/11 was less than the cost of Katrina and all other terrorist activities on American soil combined add up to very little compared to almost any natural disaster you care to mention). I'm btw not saying we should do nothing about global terrorism. But, we should be rational about its real cost and threat and act accordingly.
As long as the citizenry of the US are cowering in fear of terrorism and do not see the long term threat that government surveillance of is own citizenry contains nothing will change. Let us hope that we still control the government through the ballot box when we finally realize that our current direction leads to totalitarian rule.
My point is that the data is rife for abuse. It does not matter if the subjects are doing anything wrong. Having the data set in the governments hands can lead to all kinds of bad outcomes. The excuse that if your not doing anything illegal you have nothing to fear is BS.
I don't know about that. I live in Missouri on the border with Kansas. Folks around love their guns and hate the government and all that, but oh my are they war hawks and terror haters. They all think "I don't have anything to hide; If it gets them turban headed bad guys I'm in favor of it". The far right in Kansas is in favor of not paying taxes and guns without boarders, but they support both the military and security industrial complexes.
-- If you track the phone calls of the CEO of BigOlCorp and he is talking to the CEO of NewButGrowingInc a lot then purchasing NewButGrowing stock will probably be a good deal when the buyout happens.
-- If you are, say, Walmart and you don't want to be unionized. Just have the NSA tell you which employees are calling the AFL/CIO and quietly let them go.
-- If rival companies were working to get a contract that was at bid, knowing who called whom and when would give a competitive advantage.
-- Hate gays. You could out every phone number that called a gay chat line.
-- Hate porn. You could publish a list of porn watchers. (OK that would be everybody but...)
Everyone who says that if you have done nothing illegal have nothing to fear has not thought the issue through. And as has been said here before we ALL have something to hide.
What does "ls -l" do? Please describe below.
That kind of thing. So, I'm not surprised if institutions are manipulating test scores. India is more about the perception of computer savvy developers than the reality of it.
Who cares what Julian Assange Says again? He may have had a hand in some events that I am glad took place, but some good leaks and a little rape does not make one an expert on anything.
http://www.zyvex.com/nanotech/feynman.html or if you don't like to read. http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=4eRCygdW--c
Kind of sad that they killed three people to pull it off, but, well, I don't think anyone has ever accused Obama of having scruples.
What is the matter with you? What goes through your head to think that the President (any president) could/would somehow arrange a terrorist act to outlaw gunpowder? Because the pro-gun lobby is keeping him from passing gun control. You need to take you meds and calm yourself my friend.
I'd mod you up for you sig alone if I had mod points.
I think I have read everything he has written. I hate to think that soon he will be on the list of science fiction authors I love that will never publish again. Vonnegut, Heinlein, Asimov, Bradbury, Adams, Burgess, Clarke, Farmer, Herbert I miss them all. To think that we will never be transported to the "Culture" again makes me sad. Good luck to him. I hope that modern medicine and luck can pull him through. If not I am thankful that he spent his time creating the worlds and adventures that I have spent so many hours enjoying.
Still the above is the only cogent reason I have ever heard for the rule. It is pretty clear that my phone or laptop is not going to crash the plane. But, it makes some sense that I need to pay attention at take off and landing in case the plane does crash for some other reason.
And the Secret Service would never lie or obfuscate to keep secrets secret.
If you find my key under a rock in my backyard, it is still theft if you break into my house with it and steal things.
This is completely on point. Technology is great! I have been in the business for a long time and we can make many things better through the use of technology. But, pushing IT off on every supposed problem (what was wrong with the classroom that we are trying to fix) does not make things better. For instance I like to cook, but putting my oven on the internet doesn't make me a better cook. It is just a waist of technology. A solution looking for a problem. A teacher has stood in front of students and taught them to understand a subject matter for literally millennia. Adding high tech online line cloud based learning solutions is an answer to a problem that does not exist.
Amen
If it is all F*#?ed up then pretty soon it will just be ignored.
Yes, HELL YES, being a corporation means playing by our rules. EPA, FDA, Taxes, SEC; we have millions of rules about the behavior of corporations. They are not all good I will grant you, but we absolutely as the entity that creates their legal existence (government) have the right to enforce rules on them. The rules that control a corporation should be intended to force that corporation to act in a way beneficial to society while making a profit. I would say that we as a society are well within our any moral or legalistic code to force camera makers or car makers to sell to 3rd party repair shops at the same price that they sell to dealers. I continue to be amazed by people who want to allow corporations complete freedom of action. The laws that allow for the "personhood" of a corporate entity are there for the benefit of real people. We control those laws. We can certainly compel those fictional persons to act in any manner that we deem in the interest of the market or the wider society.
Stupid Idea. I would like to see them brogram weather prediction or the control system of a jetliner. WFT. I guess we must endure stupid tech writers.
Honestly who cares about how the lawyers would argue about definition of the wording as applied to the patent and how the court case would come out.
The problem here is that the patent office clearly forgot to purchase a stamp with the word "Declined" on it. So, everything is "Approved" because that is the only stamp they own.
Can't we just patent getting a patent and be done with it. Then we could all just write one check a week to the company holding a patent on getting patents and not have to go through this craziness. Slide to unlock, one click ordering, A UI connected to a server connected to a mobile device, making a graphical element disappear, accelerating a scrolling list, a method of displaying an electronic list; all of these are patented. If I, as a developer, had to pay the patent trolls for every infringement of these obvious and ridiculous patents I would be millions of dollars in the hole. BTW Patents are meant to encourage innovation!
How about. But, it won't happen. The real incentive here is profit in the Tech Sector. American developers are paid a living wage (most of the time). This bill allows American tech companies to bring in workers who cannot compete in the open market for the best pay. This allows the tech companies to pay them much less than an American. The powers that be may want low unemployment, but they also want low wages.
Sunnis hate the apostate Shiites. Shiites hate the apostate Sunnis. They kill one another in a never ending battle over a schism 1400 years old. Oh, but, the Sunnis are moderate. They want to moderately destroy all who don't agree with them. The Shiite are not. They want to immoderately destroy all who don't agree with them.
They are obviously very different.
I agree completely. The java stack is very flexible and I've worked on plenty of projects that use MySQL and have had good luck.
Just an FYI. There is nothing that prevents running Java + MS-SQL. It is a common back end stack and is used for all web applications at my current employer. It works very well. KISS is a good strategy and should be employed in any project. However, part of that strategy is to keep dependencies low across the project hence interfaces. Part of that strategy is to find bugs prior to integration hence unit testing. I have worked with Java for a long time and if you are conversant with it the "Eclipse + Tomcat + project + nant tasks + debug" setup doesn't take any longer than the "VS + solution/project + debug" setup. I think it is more of a matter of taste than anything.
Stop being logical and making sense. She is the key to life eternal. You just wanna kill our joy at the proposition of a pill that allows us to live forever.