What does it feel like to design a game that can actually destroy lives? Is there any guilt? Is this taken into consideration at design meetings? Do you have a shrine to Skinner set up in the break room?
Ok ok, that's a little tongue in cheek... how about "how do the occasional news reports of people ruining themselves playing WoW affect life at Blizzard?"
If a person has their own site, should the hosting company or network provider, have the right to say what they can or cannot publish, on the basis that it is being published on that company's equipment?
I think a better question should be: "What did we expect to happen when all of our shit is on hardware owned by someone else?"
Crap like this will become increasingly common as we move info to "the cloud". Hope it was worth saving the $25/mo. hosting fee.
The simple fact is the management of key systems should be entrusted to skilled IT professionals whose primary responsibility is maintaining consistent, operational, available systems.
and, if you find someone like this, his integrity is likely to be his selling point and point of pride.
Can you become a bonded sysadmin now? That seems like a logical step.
Haha, yeah, I was just kind of riffing on this guy I know's "I can't be bothered to not infect our machines" attitude. Veterinarians in all-animal hospitals are a lot more impressive, IMHO.
Yes, but you do know why most government contracts (no matter what country you're in) are opened to bids, right? There's a reason things are done differently when public money is involved, and it has nothing to do with politics.
Google apps, flat out, are not HIPAA compliant, and google will be the first to tell you that.
And your insurance company and their lawyers will be the second.
Actually, this is hardly surprising. HIPAA compliance is for the geeks to worry about, not the HARDCORE ER STAFF who's job is SAVING LIVES you INSIGNIFICANT LITTLE NOBODY! Did you ever SAVE A LIFE with your applebook? Huh? Didn't think so. Now get out of my way while I manage to infect our network with spyware and trojans even after repeatedly being warned about russian ring-tone sites.
Speaking as someone who lived out in the country, miles and miles away from a gas station, I have to tell you that planning ahead is an essential part of not walking to work.
"do I have enough fuel? Where can I get more fuel? I will plan my route and time accordingly!" It's really not that hard, Einstein.
I find the anti-business sentiment around here to be annoying and naive[...]
I have to butt in on this. There is no anti-business sentiment on slashdot. There is an anti-getting-screwed-over sentiment. I don't know when we started equating "not buying their bullshit" with "anti-business", but it's a pretty scary trend.
Personally, I feel that this has been driven by an influx of young republicans (sorry, libertarians) without a lot of real world experience. If you've never worked in a corporate environment, it would be hard to believe how twisted some people are.
I'm trying to figure out exactly where your reasoning jumped the rails here. You seem to be implying that software isn't truly free if you have to buy the tools to use it, right?
Take that to it's logical conclusion, and I'm sure you'll see where you went wrong.
That's not the way it works. It is frightening that you'd think this was an acceptable or legal practice, but then I see plenty of pro-authoritarian posts on slashdot these days.
And if you came home and found such a note on your table, what would your reaction be?
It would be "who the fuck forgot to lock my military installation?"
Seriously, we get into this whole trespass argument all the time, but come on. If they didn't lock or guard an armory, would you be charging the guy who pointed it out?
And good god it tastes good, I can never go back to supermarket (or most butchered meat) again.
If anyone is interested in properly raised meat, check out your local county fair. The 4H will run auctions where you can bid on some kid's project. Go into it with a few friends and you'll end up with amazing food that's basically been hand-raised by a dedicated child.
The quality of this food is simply unbelievable, it's not that much more expensive, and you're supporting a young entrepreneur instead of a meat factory.
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Beautiful AND loving???
According to the "attractive, intelligent, sane: pick two" law, she'd have to be out of her gourd.
(hey, if you can throw around Godwin like it's some kind of holy writ, I want in)
Can anyone who's ever worked on an LMS explain what some of the challenges are?
Well, I worked on modifying CMS for a while, and it's basically the same situation. I'd say that it's a combination of feature creep and the absence of a bulletproof framework.
If I remember correctly, Yee was the guy who argued against a proposal to remove non-native species from certain state parks by drawing a comparison to the treatment of immigrants into California.
So, yeah, science might not be this guy's strong point. If you're operating on an emotional level, you don't really need external prompting from a special interest group to oppose violent video games. They're violent, and they're video games. Therefore they're bad. QED.
Actually, he has a very valid point. In your Toyota example, you are forgetting that in order to support Toyota, you have increased development costs and time in order to support a very, very small percentage of users, compounded by the fact that supported browsers are free and can be installed in a matter of minutes.
If you hire a good developer your site should work for all browsers. It's not fucking rocket science.
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this is interesting stuff
Hell, I read the article just because I thought Kuka Titan was an awesome name for a robot.
What does it feel like to design a game that can actually destroy lives? Is there any guilt? Is this taken into consideration at design meetings? Do you have a shrine to Skinner set up in the break room?
Ok ok, that's a little tongue in cheek... how about "how do the occasional news reports of people ruining themselves playing WoW affect life at Blizzard?"
For $25 a month "hosting fee" you're still going to be on someone else's hardware.
Yeah, but there's a difference between renting or leasing hardware (virtual or not) and using a service. A legal difference.
If a person has their own site, should the hosting company or network provider, have the right to say what they can or cannot publish, on the basis that it is being published on that company's equipment?
I think a better question should be: "What did we expect to happen when all of our shit is on hardware owned by someone else?"
Crap like this will become increasingly common as we move info to "the cloud". Hope it was worth saving the $25/mo. hosting fee.
The simple fact is the management of key systems should be entrusted to skilled IT professionals whose primary responsibility is maintaining consistent, operational, available systems.
and, if you find someone like this, his integrity is likely to be his selling point and point of pride.
Can you become a bonded sysadmin now? That seems like a logical step.
dammit guys, what's the first rule of usenet? AND the second?
Haha, yeah, I was just kind of riffing on this guy I know's "I can't be bothered to not infect our machines" attitude. Veterinarians in all-animal hospitals are a lot more impressive, IMHO.
Yes, but you do know why most government contracts (no matter what country you're in) are opened to bids, right? There's a reason things are done differently when public money is involved, and it has nothing to do with politics.
Google apps, flat out, are not HIPAA compliant, and google will be the first to tell you that.
And your insurance company and their lawyers will be the second.
Actually, this is hardly surprising. HIPAA compliance is for the geeks to worry about, not the HARDCORE ER STAFF who's job is SAVING LIVES you INSIGNIFICANT LITTLE NOBODY! Did you ever SAVE A LIFE with your applebook? Huh? Didn't think so. Now get out of my way while I manage to infect our network with spyware and trojans even after repeatedly being warned about russian ring-tone sites.
Hands down the worst analogy I've seen on slashdot.
Speaking as someone who lived out in the country, miles and miles away from a gas station, I have to tell you that planning ahead is an essential part of not walking to work.
"do I have enough fuel? Where can I get more fuel? I will plan my route and time accordingly!" It's really not that hard, Einstein.
I find the anti-business sentiment around here to be annoying and naive[...]
I have to butt in on this. There is no anti-business sentiment on slashdot. There is an anti-getting-screwed-over sentiment. I don't know when we started equating "not buying their bullshit" with "anti-business", but it's a pretty scary trend.
Personally, I feel that this has been driven by an influx of young republicans (sorry, libertarians) without a lot of real world experience. If you've never worked in a corporate environment, it would be hard to believe how twisted some people are.
I'm trying to figure out exactly where your reasoning jumped the rails here. You seem to be implying that software isn't truly free if you have to buy the tools to use it, right?
Take that to it's logical conclusion, and I'm sure you'll see where you went wrong.
Right, except that my point wasn't that EULAs aren't enforceable. It wasn't that judges void contracts easily.
That's not the way it works. It is frightening that you'd think this was an acceptable or legal practice, but then I see plenty of pro-authoritarian posts on slashdot these days.
It should be between the teachers and parents, not the teachers and the State.
Agreed.
Parents know better than the government.
This is demonstrably not true.
And if you came home and found such a note on your table, what would your reaction be?
It would be "who the fuck forgot to lock my military installation?"
Seriously, we get into this whole trespass argument all the time, but come on. If they didn't lock or guard an armory, would you be charging the guy who pointed it out?
And good god it tastes good, I can never go back to supermarket (or most butchered meat) again.
If anyone is interested in properly raised meat, check out your local county fair. The 4H will run auctions where you can bid on some kid's project. Go into it with a few friends and you'll end up with amazing food that's basically been hand-raised by a dedicated child.
The quality of this food is simply unbelievable, it's not that much more expensive, and you're supporting a young entrepreneur instead of a meat factory.
Beautiful AND loving???
According to the "attractive, intelligent, sane: pick two" law, she'd have to be out of her gourd.
(hey, if you can throw around Godwin like it's some kind of holy writ, I want in)
Can anyone who's ever worked on an LMS explain what some of the challenges are?
Well, I worked on modifying CMS for a while, and it's basically the same situation. I'd say that it's a combination of feature creep and the absence of a bulletproof framework.
But will he be able to overcome his addiction to alcohol/glue/porn in time?
If I remember correctly, Yee was the guy who argued against a proposal to remove non-native species from certain state parks by drawing a comparison to the treatment of immigrants into California.
So, yeah, science might not be this guy's strong point. If you're operating on an emotional level, you don't really need external prompting from a special interest group to oppose violent video games. They're violent, and they're video games. Therefore they're bad. QED.
Once again...
The old IT hands bash MS because they have experience with the company. They are NOT trolling, or apple or linux fanboys. They are _EXPERIENCED_.
Young Republicans: we're not anti-corporation, we're anti-getting-dicked-over. Thank you for understanding the difference.
The classic "giving way too much credit to our bumbling overlords" paranoid.
Actually, he has a very valid point. In your Toyota example, you are forgetting that in order to support Toyota, you have increased development costs and time in order to support a very, very small percentage of users, compounded by the fact that supported browsers are free and can be installed in a matter of minutes.
If you hire a good developer your site should work for all browsers. It's not fucking rocket science.