Consider a CS student from the 80's who had spent years learning COBOL, Simula, Fortran and Pascal, only to find themselves unemployable 10 years down the road unless they learn new languages.
Big deal - learn C and C++. In 5 years, Java and C# or whatever floats your boat - 10 years and you can't spend a couple weekends screwing around with something new?
In art, you have to make a metric ton of garbage before you're capable making anything good. And everything that comes out good looks easy and obvious, until you try to actually do it.
The measure of quality is when the product looks easy and obvious, but only after you've seen it.
If you push 10-20 threads down to -1, I can see a ban. Given the amount of care slashadmins take, they might just look at the stats and drop the banhammer. Oh well, it's just slashdot - I'd rather have rabid fans pester be here than follow me around IRL.
/currently has a disassembled powerbook on his couch
So you got banned for close-mindedly bashing Apple, and the people that called you out are the zealots?
Yes, how dare you not like apple. Did you read what you wrote? Calling apple out on their lock-in is automatically closeminded (it's not a monopoly when we do it) and bashing.
In other words, the Anti-Apple-anti-lock-in crowd are the zealous ones here
They're not the ones camping a slashdot account for months to enforce a groupthink.
Could be worse. When I first read that statement, I misread it as "I _own_ a mortgage company". Which is WAY worse nowadays.
As long as you aren't a fool at running the company, you're fine. This means that you don't throw money at people who can't afford the house they're buying.
You can fake closures with interfaces or anonymous instances of abstract classes (with abstract methods defined). I don't think allowing the closure to ref stuff in the calling function works that well in tightly typed languages like Java.
If the original sale is at a loss, then this is currently illegal (wash sale). Otherwise, deliberate market manipulation is the sort of thing that can cause an SEC investigation.
I am just saying that, if what they did boils down to finding the obscure *public* document or webpage which described that service, then they acted just as boinboing when it finds some cool looking roadsing in Japan: intersting, but not a leak.
Don't slam them for investigative reporting - someone's got to do it.
He's right - you're an ass. If I saw my parents' generation reap the benefits of free education and dentistry, then stop paying for it when they got old, I'd be pissed too. It's not entitlement to expect the same deal the previous generation got. If it is, then the behavior of the boomers is just rapacious, which makes entitlement downright civilized.
I only need one port open - port 443. HTTP Proxy is fine just let me do the CONNECT a.b.c.d:).
Oh look, all your traffic is on port 443 (at least outside of the company). Let's go see how your box is set up. I bet it wouldn't be too hard to do a network monitoring app that forwards suspicious PCs to a different app that checks for proxies and crap like that.
You can't do that kind of crap in a business environment. It's like the guy who sets up the unauthorized wireless router on the network, just by plugging it into the wall and getting an address through dhcp...Now I've gotta turn fucking DHCP off because of dumbasses who are perfectly willing to plug a wireless router into a secure network, and then I've got to lock the IPs to mac addresses
No, you just have to set up two classes within DHCP - one is mac-lookup with IPs in the normal range. The other is handed out like candy and goes to a jail subnet where all you get is a webpage saying that you should call tech support/helpdesk. DHCP is a great way to manage mac-locked addresses.
If I as a hacker, working for another company, or even for myself, got access to your company computers and copied those designs, I could then either give them to my company to give them an advantage over yours, or if working alone, I could offer to sell them to every company that competes with yours, giving them all a leg up on your company, plus making a tidy profit for myself.
And if the company you stole from finds out, they'll stomp you flat. This is why no ethical company will steal like this.
We almost exclusively do try-to-buy contracts here for that reason, usually 6 mos to a year before someone will get hired on full-time.
I don't do contract to hire, mainly because I associate it with people trying to screw their new hires out of reasonable salary with the promise of permanence, then tossing them shortly before the contract period ends.
The guy upthread who was bitching about HR could just be an asshole. He could also be bitter about his industry and region being 90% contractor for cheapness reasons - lord knows there are enough reasons to hate HR, at least when they gate hiring and also post job ads with 15 technologies required.
There is no "little" clause in the "aiding and abetting the enemy" law...
That's irrelevant. Lots of people in most countries could design a nuke. The point is that it isn't hard.
I would prefer WikiLeaks to forward such information -- along with the information about the leak -- to the FBI and/or CIA. Then disclose the fact, that it has it without disclosing details. Newspapers and other media have dealt with such questions for decades and centuries...
Sure, that'd be nice, but are they obligated? They have the right to publish that stuff, even if it's reckless.
So, you don't think, a CEO has a right to privacy?
Maybe you do, but a Fortune 500 CEO, not so much. Regardless, wikileaks has the right to publish your diary and you have the right to sue them to get them to stop.
John F. Kennedy did not understand this and so committed an act of war against a Soviet ally to prevent nuclear weapons from being placed in Cuba. Had the weapons been placed the Soviets would have been less likely to start anything, as they knew they could respond within minuets.
I dunno, if you assume that the USSR is aggressive, they might be willing to sacrifice Cuba for the sake of a first strike on washington. At least, that was the fear.
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I looked him up - sure, he's famous, but if there's no real 'up' to the painting, is it really upside down?
Consider a CS student from the 80's who had spent years learning COBOL, Simula, Fortran and Pascal, only to find themselves unemployable 10 years down the road unless they learn new languages.
Big deal - learn C and C++. In 5 years, Java and C# or whatever floats your boat - 10 years and you can't spend a couple weekends screwing around with something new?
Most places I've been, I could understand my boss.
My paper comparing Hidden Fortress to Star Wars scored especially well.
That should've been easy - Hidden Fortress was one of the main inspirations for Star Wars.
In art, you have to make a metric ton of garbage before you're capable making anything good. And everything that comes out good looks easy and obvious, until you try to actually do it.
The measure of quality is when the product looks easy and obvious, but only after you've seen it.
Forget the list - it's a bunch of horizintal bands of color. How can you tell if it's upside down?
Actually, I'm planning to go get a PhD from Evil U - my true calling is as a mad scientist, which usually requires a fair bit of engineering.
5 years ago called. Apparently you left your jacket at their house.
But if the film, say, encourages people to go out and punch a muslim, then yes, it should be banned.
That's prior restraint - go to hell.
Surely you can appreciate that some stuff should be banned. (Kiddie porn?)
Sure, but you have to let people publish whatever they want before it gets banned.
If you push 10-20 threads down to -1, I can see a ban. Given the amount of care slashadmins take, they might just look at the stats and drop the banhammer. Oh well, it's just slashdot - I'd rather have rabid fans pester be here than follow me around IRL.
/currently has a disassembled powerbook on his couch
So you got banned for close-mindedly bashing Apple, and the people that called you out are the zealots?
Yes, how dare you not like apple. Did you read what you wrote? Calling apple out on their lock-in is automatically closeminded (it's not a monopoly when we do it) and bashing.
In other words, the Anti-Apple-anti-lock-in crowd are the zealous ones here
They're not the ones camping a slashdot account for months to enforce a groupthink.
Go one better: require publishers to enable the general public to exercise their rights.
Could be worse. When I first read that statement, I misread it as "I _own_ a mortgage company". Which is WAY worse nowadays.
As long as you aren't a fool at running the company, you're fine. This means that you don't throw money at people who can't afford the house they're buying.
One of the joys of C is that it doesn't do this.
I guess you've never seen someone with a hardon for macros. You can make C look a whole lot like fortran if you really want to.
You can fake closures with interfaces or anonymous instances of abstract classes (with abstract methods defined). I don't think allowing the closure to ref stuff in the calling function works that well in tightly typed languages like Java.
If the original sale is at a loss, then this is currently illegal (wash sale). Otherwise, deliberate market manipulation is the sort of thing that can cause an SEC investigation.
I am just saying that, if what they did boils down to finding the obscure *public* document or webpage which described that service, then they acted just as boinboing when it finds some cool looking roadsing in Japan: intersting, but not a leak.
Don't slam them for investigative reporting - someone's got to do it.
He's right - you're an ass. If I saw my parents' generation reap the benefits of free education and dentistry, then stop paying for it when they got old, I'd be pissed too. It's not entitlement to expect the same deal the previous generation got. If it is, then the behavior of the boomers is just rapacious, which makes entitlement downright civilized.
I only need one port open - port 443. HTTP Proxy is fine just let me do the CONNECT a.b.c.d :).
Oh look, all your traffic is on port 443 (at least outside of the company). Let's go see how your box is set up. I bet it wouldn't be too hard to do a network monitoring app that forwards suspicious PCs to a different app that checks for proxies and crap like that.
You can't do that kind of crap in a business environment. It's like the guy who sets up the unauthorized wireless router on the network, just by plugging it into the wall and getting an address through dhcp...Now I've gotta turn fucking DHCP off because of dumbasses who are perfectly willing to plug a wireless router into a secure network, and then I've got to lock the IPs to mac addresses
No, you just have to set up two classes within DHCP - one is mac-lookup with IPs in the normal range. The other is handed out like candy and goes to a jail subnet where all you get is a webpage saying that you should call tech support/helpdesk. DHCP is a great way to manage mac-locked addresses.
If I as a hacker, working for another company, or even for myself, got access to your company computers and copied those designs, I could then either give them to my company to give them an advantage over yours, or if working alone, I could offer to sell them to every company that competes with yours, giving them all a leg up on your company, plus making a tidy profit for myself.
And if the company you stole from finds out, they'll stomp you flat. This is why no ethical company will steal like this.
We almost exclusively do try-to-buy contracts here for that reason, usually 6 mos to a year before someone will get hired on full-time.
I don't do contract to hire, mainly because I associate it with people trying to screw their new hires out of reasonable salary with the promise of permanence, then tossing them shortly before the contract period ends.
The guy upthread who was bitching about HR could just be an asshole. He could also be bitter about his industry and region being 90% contractor for cheapness reasons - lord knows there are enough reasons to hate HR, at least when they gate hiring and also post job ads with 15 technologies required.
Nah, Kim's got a movie fetish, so he kidnaps actors and directors.
There is no "little" clause in the "aiding and abetting the enemy" law...
That's irrelevant. Lots of people in most countries could design a nuke. The point is that it isn't hard.
I would prefer WikiLeaks to forward such information -- along with the information about the leak -- to the FBI and/or CIA. Then disclose the fact, that it has it without disclosing details. Newspapers and other media have dealt with such questions for decades and centuries...
Sure, that'd be nice, but are they obligated? They have the right to publish that stuff, even if it's reckless.
So, you don't think, a CEO has a right to privacy?
Maybe you do, but a Fortune 500 CEO, not so much. Regardless, wikileaks has the right to publish your diary and you have the right to sue them to get them to stop.
John F. Kennedy did not understand this and so committed an act of war against a Soviet ally to prevent nuclear weapons from being placed in Cuba. Had the weapons been placed the Soviets would have been less likely to start anything, as they knew they could respond within minuets.
I dunno, if you assume that the USSR is aggressive, they might be willing to sacrifice Cuba for the sake of a first strike on washington. At least, that was the fear.