The Slashdot article seems to be a way of getting people to see ITworld; is it a paid ad? It was not clear from the ITworld article what problems the Facebook V.P. had with AMD and Intel. If what he wanted to say could be understood better, I doubt it would be controversial.
"... you seem to be bordering on TrueCrypt advertising..."
I didn't mean to be "bordering on advertising". I meant to be extremely intensely advertising.
I don't have any connection with the people who make TrueCrypt. I am only a very, very happy user. I've been using TrueCrypt for more than 3 years, through many versions, with no problems.
TrueCrypt is an excellent resolution of a huge problem.
All computers with sensitive information should have partitions entirely encrypted with TrueCrypt. Then a stolen computer would yield no information.
TrueCrypt can encrypt even the OS partition.
From Cornell's weak excuses, June 2009 Data Theft - Frequently Asked Questions, a quote: "In June, 2009, a Cornell-owned computer that contained a large amount of administrative data was stolen. Our review of a current backup of the files on the system revealed that confidential personal data for about 45,000 current and former staff and students, and some dependents, had been present."
TrueCrypt is so fast that there is no noticeable change in speed of the computer.
My completely uninformed guess about how this happened. Panasonic executives: "How can we sink the company?" Their answer: "Get a story about us doing something abusive on Slashdot. Slashdot readers understand technology and will make sure everyone knows."
Thanks. In my opinion, that's the most sensible discussion of Steve
Jobs' illness that I've seen.
Jobs has a great sense of design. It seems to me that he has also
helped create a culture of abusiveness at Apple, and that there may be a
connection between his abusiveness and his illness. See the comment, Deliberately dishonest?, and the comments added beneath that comment.
Quote: "The couple have three children. Jobs also has a daughter, Lisa Brennan-Jobs (born 1978), from his relationship with Bay Area painter Chrisann Brennan.[43] She briefly raised their daughter on welfare when Jobs denied paternity, claiming that he was sterile; he later acknowledged paternity.[43]"
Wikipedia's reference 43 is page 2 of Fortune Magazine's March 5, 2008 article, The trouble with Steve Jobs.
Quote: "When Jobs had his own illegitimate child, also at the age of 23, he too struggled with his responsibilities. For two years, though already wealthy, he denied paternity while Lisa's mother went on welfare. At one point Jobs even swore in a signed court document that he couldn't be Lisa's father because he was "sterile and infertile, and as a result thereof, did not have the physical capacity to procreate a child." He later acknowledged paternity of Lisa, married Laurene Powell, a Stanford MBA, and fathered three more children. Lisa Brennan-Jobs, now 29, graduated from Harvard and is a writer."
From page 1 of that article: 'Pondering this issue, Stanford management science professor Robert Sutton discussed Jobs in his bestselling 2007 book, "The No Asshole Rule: Building a Civilized Workplace and Surviving One That Isn't." "As soon as people heard I was writing a book on assholes, they would come up to me and start telling a Steve Jobs story," says Sutton. "The degree to which people in Silicon Valley are afraid of Jobs is unbelievable. He made people feel terrible; he made people cry'
Another quote from page 1: "... his deployment of stock options at Apple and Pixar, which exposed both companies to backdating scandals."
From page 2: 'Jobs' break-the-rules attitude extends to refusing to put a license plate on his Mercedes. "It's a little game I play," he explained to Fortune in 2001.'
'One former board member described Anderson's role as "tantrum controller." '
'The company discovered "irregularities" with 6,428 grants between 1997 and 2001 - roughly one in six that Apple issued during that period. (New disclosure requirements after that time caused backdating to dry up.) The company also found no instances of backdating before Jobs took over as CEO. Apple was forced to restate its earnings, taking a pretax charge for unreported compensation expenses of $105 million.'
"Disney, which bought Pixar in 2006, also investigated and found a backdating problem there during Jobs' time as CEO."
Page 3: "Anderson, in an extraordinary public statement he issued after settling his case with the SEC, disputed Apple's exoneration of Jobs. Through his lawyer, he said he alerted Jobs to the accounting implications even as the CEO was in the process of picking a retroactive date for the grant to his top lieutenants. He also said Jobs assured him that the award had been properly approved by Apple's board."
Page 4: "It was a great speech, simple and moving - though it clearly left the false impression that Jobs had learned of his illness in mid-2004 and immediately proceeded to surgery, when in fact he had learned of it in October 2003."
I've studied the issues for many years, and have formed the theory that Job's abusiveness is possibly the cause of his illness.
You changed the subject. I wasn't talking about what is legal. I was saying that news reports indicate that Apple executives believe they can be deliberately dishonest.
This quote is interesting: "Philip Schiller, Apple's senior vice president for marketing, has held internal meetings about new products and provided incorrect information about a product's price or features, according to a former employee who signed an agreement not to discuss internal matters. Apple then tries to track down the source of news reports that include the incorrect details."
Also, "Four years ago, he said, a senior Apple executive directly told him the company had no interest in developing a cheap iPod with no screen. Soon after, the company released just that: the iPod Shuffle."
Translation: Apple top management believes that a publicly-owned company can be deliberately dishonest.
"You did your HOMEWORK." Yes, I did. So, here is a question for you: What is the lesson behind that?
This old music video of people dancing the Lambada gives an accurate picture of some sub-cultures in Brazil.
The children really are that socially sophisticated. In fact, children in Brazil are often far more socially sophisticated than anything shown in the video. The children really would be skilled at dancing the Lambada, back when it was popular. The children really would practice having adult involvement with the opposite sex. It's just practice, however; they aren't serious, of course.
The man has no concern whatsoever about a blond girl and a black boy dancing together, no one would think about that. His concern is probably partly that the blond girl will get pregnant, and he does not handle his feelings well, which seem to be partly jealousy that she has a partner and he doesn't.
Later in the video he realizes his mistake, with the help of a woman who chooses him as a partner, and he lets the children dance. A woman really would be that assertive toward a man. Notice that she chooses him with complete confidence.
The enormous differences between what would normally happen in the U.S. and what happens in Brazil helps create an understanding of how restrictive and anti-human is the U.S. culture. On the other hand, if you want something accomplished, especially something difficult, you want people who know the U.S. culture. It is no accident that Linus Torvalds lives in the United States (a few miles from where I am typing this).
People think "geek" means someone who has been psychologically damaged
by bad parenting. Maybe that happened to you, but you have grown a
lot
in recent years.
Use words carefully.
Often technically-knowledgeable people are self-defeating. On Slashdot,
you call yourself "JustShootMe". You say you are a "geek". You say,
"meatspace", a term sure to be misunderstood by most people.
Women want to meet you.
Single women partly have the same problems you have. They need to meet
a suitable person of the opposite sex. If you look like you are
seriously looking, they will sense that immediately. If you give the
impression you are only interested in seriously interesting women, a
seriously interesting woman will realize that immediately.
Resolve your unhealthy fears.
Talk with every woman who wants to talk with you.
Advertise your availability.
Finding a significant other is a huge problem. Most people can
sympathize. Make sure everyone, even people you meet casually, know you
are serious about finding a significant other.
The Los Angeles area is an extremely difficult place to meet a
woman who wants a serious relationship. I thought about this for
many years when I lived in Huntington Beach. My best theory is that
the phoniness and dishonesty and artificiality of the Hollywood film
industry has infected the entire culture of Los Angeles.
The U.S. culture is undergoing a cultural breakdown. No
one understands completely why, but sometimes countries become
self-destructive. When there is a cultural breakdown, the level of
anxiety increases. It becomes far more difficult to make stable
relationships.
The U.S. government has invaded or bombed 25 countries since the 2nd
world war, all apparently for profit for weapons and oil investors, and
other private interests. For example, read the book, House
of Bush, House of Saud. The Bush family supported the interests of
whomever gave it money, against the interests of the United States. The
Saudis were willing to provide 1.4 billion dollars, so they got what
they wanted.
Other examples: 1) The Savings
and Loan crisis was arranged to steal money from taxpayers. 2) It
was arranged that, instead of pensions managed by professionals,
taxpayers would have "IRAs" they managed themselves. Since only highly
trained professionals who spend all day thinking about investments can
compete in the stock market, most taxpayers lose money to the
professionals. 3) Warren Buffett very
publicly called derivatives "financial
weapons of mass destruction" beginning in 2002. However, the laws
designed to prevent fraud were removed at the beginning of George W. Bush's first term. They were not re-instated. The forces of corruption were greater than the forces towar
Wo... Wor... Work? What is this "work" of which you speak?
In Portland, Oregon, we have the Ore-groan-ian, also known as the Bore-gonian, also known as the Whore-gonian for its ads that try to take advantage of people.
Newspapers do badly not just because they kill trees to communicate, but because they think only of advertising money. George W. Bush was wonderful until it became more profitable to discuss his destructiveness toward the country. Abusers eventually lose; in this case it has taken a long time.
Newspapers also do badly because, by the time you see the newspaper, you have already read the same story on Google News.
Another reason is that, while you are commuting, you can possibly find enough Wi-Fi to read Google News on your laptop.
Another reason is that the newspaper carries only enough of the story to fit between the ads. They ABSOLUTELY do not care about educating you about the story. They care ONLY about their ad revenue. Did I mention that?
Then I made a mistake not explaining the mistake! Slashdot should have
disclosed that the story submitter was paid to write the article to which
Slashdot linked.
The Slashdot editor should also have mentioned that the article to
which Slashdot linked apparently unreasonably promotes Nvidia over ATI. See,
for example, the explanation of ATI's Crossfire
X, which competes with Nvidia's SLI. In that sense, the Slashdot story is
apparently an advertisement.
It seems to me that Slashdot editors should make statements whether
money or favors were given to run a story.
Quote: "In July 2008, NVIDIA publicly acknowledged a higher than normal failure rate for some of their graphics processors due to a packaging defect. At that same time, NVIDIA assured Apple that Mac computers with these graphics processors were not affected. However, after an Apple-led investigation, Apple has determined that some MacBook Pro computers with the NVIDIA GeForce 8600M GT graphics processor may be affected."
Here are two lawsuits alleging that Nvidia was dishonest:
Nvidia asked to pay up for defective chips Quote: '... accuses Nvidia of a series of misrepresentations and omissions that "actively concealed and failed to disclose the unusually high failure rates of Nvidia's mobile video adapters...'
I've found that when managers are ignorant about technology they often pretend that they understand. Chris Kukulski, Bozeman City Manager, seems to be one of those. Yet he says, "Integrity, leadership, service, and teamwork are the core values of our organization..."
Although he has stopped asking for passwords, there is no evidence that he actually understands, because the story says this: "... although the city will stop asking for passwords Kukulski says the passwords already given by previous applicants will remain the confidential property of the city." That's a surprisingly ignorant position to take, since site owners can change their passwords at any time.
Some people can see that technology is re-shaping our world in an exciting way and want to be part of that, but they don't want to do the work of actually understanding how and why.
It would be interesting if someone would collect all the Slashdot stories about managers pretending they understand the more complicated world surrounding technology, but actually being very ignorant. For example, yesterday there was this story about a university needlessly losing money: IT: Univ. of Wisconsin's 30-Year-Old Payroll System Needs a $40 Million Fix.
Slashdot Mirror
2nd Vote: MOD PARENT UP.
Excellent article at CNET.
The Slashdot article seems to be a way of getting people to see ITworld; is it a paid ad? It was not clear from the ITworld article what problems the Facebook V.P. had with AMD and Intel. If what he wanted to say could be understood better, I doubt it would be controversial.
"... you seem to be bordering on TrueCrypt advertising..."
I didn't mean to be "bordering on advertising". I meant to be extremely intensely advertising.
I don't have any connection with the people who make TrueCrypt. I am only a very, very happy user. I've been using TrueCrypt for more than 3 years, through many versions, with no problems.
TrueCrypt is an excellent resolution of a huge problem.
There are versions of TrueCrypt for Windows Vista/XP/2000, Mac OS X, and Linux.
I forgot to mention that TrueCrypt is completely free and open source. TrueCrypt has a history of being very reliable.
All computers with sensitive information should have partitions entirely encrypted with TrueCrypt. Then a stolen computer would yield no information.
TrueCrypt can encrypt even the OS partition.
From Cornell's weak excuses, June 2009 Data Theft - Frequently Asked Questions, a quote: "In June, 2009, a Cornell-owned computer that contained a large amount of administrative data was stolen. Our review of a current backup of the files on the system revealed that confidential personal data for about 45,000 current and former staff and students, and some dependents, had been present."
TrueCrypt is so fast that there is no noticeable change in speed of the computer.
"But anyway, what's wrong with it?"
It's dishonesty, which once allowed tends to spread throughout the company.
Certainly people have less trust in Apple than before.
Valuable analysis. Mod to +10.
It works for Apple.
This will cause the Don't Buy Panasonic movement to be even stronger.
My completely uninformed guess about how this happened. Panasonic executives: "How can we sink the company?" Their answer: "Get a story about us doing something abusive on Slashdot. Slashdot readers understand technology and will make sure everyone knows."
MOD PARENT UP!!
Thanks for bringing some logic into the conversation.
Just click on "Change", underneath the story, without or with changing something, and the junk goes away.
But... What is Slashdot management thinking???
MOD PARENT UP!!
Thanks. In my opinion, that's the most sensible discussion of Steve Jobs' illness that I've seen.
Jobs has a great sense of design. It seems to me that he has also helped create a culture of abusiveness at Apple, and that there may be a connection between his abusiveness and his illness. See the comment, Deliberately dishonest?, and the comments added beneath that comment.
Should be "Jobs' abusiveness", of course.
Interesting: Steven Paul Jobs.
Quote: "I have 3 kids (Lisa is not my daughter, enough of those rumors)."
Wikipedia: Steve Jobs.
Quote: "The couple have three children. Jobs also has a daughter, Lisa Brennan-Jobs (born 1978), from his relationship with Bay Area painter Chrisann Brennan.[43] She briefly raised their daughter on welfare when Jobs denied paternity, claiming that he was sterile; he later acknowledged paternity.[43]"
Wikipedia's reference 43 is page 2 of Fortune Magazine's March 5, 2008 article, The trouble with Steve Jobs.
Quote: "When Jobs had his own illegitimate child, also at the age of 23, he too struggled with his responsibilities. For two years, though already wealthy, he denied paternity while Lisa's mother went on welfare. At one point Jobs even swore in a signed court document that he couldn't be Lisa's father because he was "sterile and infertile, and as a result thereof, did not have the physical capacity to procreate a child." He later acknowledged paternity of Lisa, married Laurene Powell, a Stanford MBA, and fathered three more children. Lisa Brennan-Jobs, now 29, graduated from Harvard and is a writer."
From page 1 of that article: 'Pondering this issue, Stanford management science professor Robert Sutton discussed Jobs in his bestselling 2007 book, "The No Asshole Rule: Building a Civilized Workplace and Surviving One That Isn't." "As soon as people heard I was writing a book on assholes, they would come up to me and start telling a Steve Jobs story," says Sutton. "The degree to which people in Silicon Valley are afraid of Jobs is unbelievable. He made people feel terrible; he made people cry'
Another quote from page 1: "... his deployment of stock options at Apple and Pixar, which exposed both companies to backdating scandals."
From page 2: 'Jobs' break-the-rules attitude extends to refusing to put a license plate on his Mercedes. "It's a little game I play," he explained to Fortune in 2001.'
'One former board member described Anderson's role as "tantrum controller." '
'The company discovered "irregularities" with 6,428 grants between 1997 and 2001 - roughly one in six that Apple issued during that period. (New disclosure requirements after that time caused backdating to dry up.) The company also found no instances of backdating before Jobs took over as CEO. Apple was forced to restate its earnings, taking a pretax charge for unreported compensation expenses of $105 million.'
"Disney, which bought Pixar in 2006, also investigated and found a backdating problem there during Jobs' time as CEO."
Page 3: "Anderson, in an extraordinary public statement he issued after settling his case with the SEC, disputed Apple's exoneration of Jobs. Through his lawyer, he said he alerted Jobs to the accounting implications even as the CEO was in the process of picking a retroactive date for the grant to his top lieutenants. He also said Jobs assured him that the award had been properly approved by Apple's board."
Page 4: "It was a great speech, simple and moving - though it clearly left the false impression that Jobs had learned of his illness in mid-2004 and immediately proceeded to surgery, when in fact he had learned of it in October 2003."
I've studied the issues for many years, and have formed the theory that Job's abusiveness is possibly the cause of his illness.
You changed the subject. I wasn't talking about what is legal. I was saying that news reports indicate that Apple executives believe they can be deliberately dishonest.
Another person's view: Apple Lies?. Quote: "I'll be interested to see if Apple is more honest post Jobs."
This quote is interesting: "Philip Schiller, Apple's senior vice president for marketing, has held internal meetings about new products and provided incorrect information about a product's price or features, according to a former employee who signed an agreement not to discuss internal matters. Apple then tries to track down the source of news reports that include the incorrect details."
Also, "Four years ago, he said, a senior Apple executive directly told him the company had no interest in developing a cheap iPod with no screen. Soon after, the company released just that: the iPod Shuffle."
Translation: Apple top management believes that a publicly-owned company can be deliberately dishonest.
"You did your HOMEWORK." Yes, I did. So, here is a question for you: What is the lesson behind that?
This old music video of people dancing the Lambada gives an accurate picture of some sub-cultures in Brazil.
The children really are that socially sophisticated. In fact, children in Brazil are often far more socially sophisticated than anything shown in the video. The children really would be skilled at dancing the Lambada, back when it was popular. The children really would practice having adult involvement with the opposite sex. It's just practice, however; they aren't serious, of course.
The man has no concern whatsoever about a blond girl and a black boy dancing together, no one would think about that. His concern is probably partly that the blond girl will get pregnant, and he does not handle his feelings well, which seem to be partly jealousy that she has a partner and he doesn't.
Later in the video he realizes his mistake, with the help of a woman who chooses him as a partner, and he lets the children dance. A woman really would be that assertive toward a man. Notice that she chooses him with complete confidence.
The enormous differences between what would normally happen in the U.S. and what happens in Brazil helps create an understanding of how restrictive and anti-human is the U.S. culture. On the other hand, if you want something accomplished, especially something difficult, you want people who know the U.S. culture. It is no accident that Linus Torvalds lives in the United States (a few miles from where I am typing this).
Russell,
Here are some ideas:
Size the job. In this case your focus is too narrow. You are focusing on yourself, when you should focusing on the entire human condition.
Examine your assumptions. Are you making assumptions? Are your assumptions justified?
In this case, you are making assumptions that are not justified. You think the problem is you, but look more closely. Is that actually true?
You are excellent at expressing yourself. You have made kind (1) (2) and gentle and humble (1) (2) statements.
People think "geek" means someone who has been psychologically damaged by bad parenting. Maybe that happened to you, but you have grown a lot in recent years.
Use words carefully. Often technically-knowledgeable people are self-defeating. On Slashdot, you call yourself "JustShootMe". You say you are a "geek". You say, "meatspace", a term sure to be misunderstood by most people.
Women want to meet you. Single women partly have the same problems you have. They need to meet a suitable person of the opposite sex. If you look like you are seriously looking, they will sense that immediately. If you give the impression you are only interested in seriously interesting women, a seriously interesting woman will realize that immediately.
Resolve your unhealthy fears. Talk with every woman who wants to talk with you.
Advertise your availability. Finding a significant other is a huge problem. Most people can sympathize. Make sure everyone, even people you meet casually, know you are serious about finding a significant other.
The Los Angeles area is an extremely difficult place to meet a woman who wants a serious relationship. I thought about this for many years when I lived in Huntington Beach. My best theory is that the phoniness and dishonesty and artificiality of the Hollywood film industry has infected the entire culture of Los Angeles.
The U.S. culture is undergoing a cultural breakdown. No one understands completely why, but sometimes countries become self-destructive. When there is a cultural breakdown, the level of anxiety increases. It becomes far more difficult to make stable relationships.
The U.S. government has invaded or bombed 25 countries since the 2nd world war, all apparently for profit for weapons and oil investors, and other private interests. For example, read the book, House of Bush, House of Saud. The Bush family supported the interests of whomever gave it money, against the interests of the United States. The Saudis were willing to provide 1.4 billion dollars, so they got what they wanted.
Other examples: 1) The Savings and Loan crisis was arranged to steal money from taxpayers. 2) It was arranged that, instead of pensions managed by professionals, taxpayers would have "IRAs" they managed themselves. Since only highly trained professionals who spend all day thinking about investments can compete in the stock market, most taxpayers lose money to the professionals. 3) Warren Buffett very publicly called derivatives "financial weapons of mass destruction" beginning in 2002. However, the laws designed to prevent fraud were removed at the beginning of George W. Bush's first term. They were not re-instated. The forces of corruption were greater than the forces towar
FRN
Wo... Wor... Work? What is this "work" of which you speak?
In Portland, Oregon, we have the Ore-groan-ian, also known as the Bore-gonian, also known as the Whore-gonian for its ads that try to take advantage of people.
Newspapers do badly not just because they kill trees to communicate, but because they think only of advertising money. George W. Bush was wonderful until it became more profitable to discuss his destructiveness toward the country. Abusers eventually lose; in this case it has taken a long time.
Newspapers also do badly because, by the time you see the newspaper, you have already read the same story on Google News.
Another reason is that, while you are commuting, you can possibly find enough Wi-Fi to read Google News on your laptop.
Another reason is that the newspaper carries only enough of the story to fit between the ads. They ABSOLUTELY do not care about educating you about the story. They care ONLY about their ad revenue. Did I mention that?
All only my opinion, of course.
Then I made a mistake not explaining the mistake! Slashdot should have disclosed that the story submitter was paid to write the article to which Slashdot linked.
The Slashdot editor should also have mentioned that the article to which Slashdot linked apparently unreasonably promotes Nvidia over ATI. See, for example, the explanation of ATI's Crossfire X, which competes with Nvidia's SLI. In that sense, the Slashdot story is apparently an advertisement.
It seems to me that Slashdot editors should make statements whether money or favors were given to run a story.
Apple, for example, has reported problems: MacBook Pro: Distorted video or no video issues.
Quote: "In July 2008, NVIDIA publicly acknowledged a higher than normal failure rate for some of their graphics processors due to a packaging defect. At that same time, NVIDIA assured Apple that Mac computers with these graphics processors were not affected. However, after an Apple-led investigation, Apple has determined that some MacBook Pro computers with the NVIDIA GeForce 8600M GT graphics processor may be affected."
Here are two lawsuits alleging that Nvidia was dishonest:
Nvidia asked to pay up for defective chips
Quote: '... accuses Nvidia of a series of misrepresentations and omissions that "actively concealed and failed to disclose the unusually high failure rates of Nvidia's mobile video adapters...'
Nvidia hit with second suit over defective GPUs
Quote: '... Nvidia issued a "series of materially false statements that concealed and failed to disclose" unusually high failure rates...'
I've found that when managers are ignorant about technology they often pretend that they understand. Chris Kukulski, Bozeman City Manager, seems to be one of those. Yet he says, "Integrity, leadership, service, and teamwork are the core values of our organization..."
Although he has stopped asking for passwords, there is no evidence that he actually understands, because the story says this: "... although the city will stop asking for passwords Kukulski says the passwords already given by previous applicants will remain the confidential property of the city." That's a surprisingly ignorant position to take, since site owners can change their passwords at any time.
Some people can see that technology is re-shaping our world in an exciting way and want to be part of that, but they don't want to do the work of actually understanding how and why.
It would be interesting if someone would collect all the Slashdot stories about managers pretending they understand the more complicated world surrounding technology, but actually being very ignorant. For example, yesterday there was this story about a university needlessly losing money: IT: Univ. of Wisconsin's 30-Year-Old Payroll System Needs a $40 Million Fix.