That's kind of insane - you're basically conditioning yourself to snipe random people in a real setting, which is highly divorced from sitting in an arcade messing with a game (or at home). Basically, it's one step removed from senseless slaughter, and yes, you'd probably get shot for your stupidity. Hell, I get nervous contemplating stuff like this
could you really hold an executive liable for something like a data center breach?
Sure, if you can demonstrate that their policies made the breach inevitable. I'm not suggesting that every mistake be punished, only the ones born of negligence.
Corporations were constructed ~500 years ago specifically for the purpose of shielding people from personal liability.
Financial liability. Officers are criminally liable for their actions, while silent investors (normal stockholders) are shielded.
Ok, you put these executives in jail for losing data. Who is going to be an executive?
Someone willing to do the necessary work to make things work right. Besides, you have to prove negligence - armed robbery of a datacenter isn't really covered, while letting some idiot load a customer DB onto a laptop is.
A service like that would need to keep your Name, Birthday, Social Security Number, address, next of kin, etc until you died and someone collected. And what about Banks and Loan offices?
So what? They don't need your ssn and other info for every little thing. SSN data should legally be treated like a credit card number - series 70 data that has no business being a PK in a database or published anywhere.
Most companies have a lot of stuff that outside hackers would like to access - try a fast connection and several PCs that can launch whatever attack you like.
I was at amazon during the SOX implementation; we honestly didn't have that bad a time of it, largely due to us being paranoid about losing CC info already.
I know it's a joke on the Java logo, but really, I wouldn't rely on a Java developer for anything critical.
Likewise, a C++ developer is completely useless. Much better to have a developer who builds solutions with whichever tool is suited to the job; in the right environment, it's a simple perl script.
This reminds me of something from 1994: I was in Vienna, VA, and there was a guy getting permits for a cell tower; the total output was something like 50W, and it was probably 850MHz stuff, but he was required to post these obnoxious radiation warning signs, even though it was going on a tower.
This isn't a gentle nudge, it's an automated nag message that shows up every day until you give in or neuter it. It's also set by default to autoupdate and install without any sort of confirmation, which is just dirty pool.
what's interesting is that if something like Iraq were to happen here (with the local army), there'd probably be far more concentration on high value targets as opposed to 'kill everyone that cooperates with americans, and also whichever religious faction you don't like'. Hell, we've got a few hundred people who specialize in that sort of thing in the army today - some of them will certainly take offense to a full on subjugation.
Getting that bent out of shape over an occasional reminder is taking things waaaaaay too far.
Not at all. It betrays the attitude that people are just sheep to be pushed around - that's a fundamental lack of respect. It's also the sort of attitude that leads to overly intrusive government set up 'for my own good'.
I hold that the main reason that C++ is used so much for large desktop applications on Other Platforms is inertia, pure and simple. Programmers hate change. I realize that this is a purely a statement of opinion and I have no way to back it up.
It's because it works pretty well for writing apps and doesn't need a runtime environment. Why should we change something that works?
write the intensive kernel in both and measure the performance. It should be a tiny part of the overall code, and if that's too expensive, you probably shouldn't care about the difference anyway.
No i'm not; we're involved in a war, but we aren't at war - there's no war effort, we aren't rationing anything, and Iraq has no credible chance of invading us. Further, Congress hasn't declared war - there's really no justification for the things BushCo is pulling, and you saying that lincoln suspended Habeaus Corpus during the civil war is not relevant.
Those examples happened during wartime. We are not at war, we are fucking around with a third world country and getting bogged down in it. The last time we were at war was 1945.
Sounds like you've been drinking the wrong beer. Dogfishhead 90 minute IPA is 9%, and so is old rasputin. But yeah, if you aren't pissed at BushCo, you're a fool, plain and simple.
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That's kind of insane - you're basically conditioning yourself to snipe random people in a real setting, which is highly divorced from sitting in an arcade messing with a game (or at home). Basically, it's one step removed from senseless slaughter, and yes, you'd probably get shot for your stupidity. Hell, I get nervous contemplating stuff like this
could you really hold an executive liable for something like a data center breach?
Sure, if you can demonstrate that their policies made the breach inevitable. I'm not suggesting that every mistake be punished, only the ones born of negligence.
The company isn't the victim, the consumer is, so your analogy, while inflammatory, isn't accurate.
Corporations were constructed ~500 years ago specifically for the purpose of shielding people from personal liability.
Financial liability. Officers are criminally liable for their actions, while silent investors (normal stockholders) are shielded.
Ok, you put these executives in jail for losing data. Who is going to be an executive?
Someone willing to do the necessary work to make things work right. Besides, you have to prove negligence - armed robbery of a datacenter isn't really covered, while letting some idiot load a customer DB onto a laptop is.
A service like that would need to keep your Name, Birthday, Social Security Number, address, next of kin, etc until you died and someone collected. And what about Banks and Loan offices?
So what? They don't need your ssn and other info for every little thing. SSN data should legally be treated like a credit card number - series 70 data that has no business being a PK in a database or published anywhere.
Why would you post about an accused murderer in NZ? This is an event of local interest, and a good idea to boot, so what's the big deal?
Most companies have a lot of stuff that outside hackers would like to access - try a fast connection and several PCs that can launch whatever attack you like.
What's an internet investigator?
I was at amazon during the SOX implementation; we honestly didn't have that bad a time of it, largely due to us being paranoid about losing CC info already.
I know it's a joke on the Java logo, but really, I wouldn't rely on a Java developer for anything critical.
Likewise, a C++ developer is completely useless. Much better to have a developer who builds solutions with whichever tool is suited to the job; in the right environment, it's a simple perl script.
This reminds me of something from 1994: I was in Vienna, VA, and there was a guy getting permits for a cell tower; the total output was something like 50W, and it was probably 850MHz stuff, but he was required to post these obnoxious radiation warning signs, even though it was going on a tower.
This isn't a gentle nudge, it's an automated nag message that shows up every day until you give in or neuter it. It's also set by default to autoupdate and install without any sort of confirmation, which is just dirty pool.
what's interesting is that if something like Iraq were to happen here (with the local army), there'd probably be far more concentration on high value targets as opposed to 'kill everyone that cooperates with americans, and also whichever religious faction you don't like'. Hell, we've got a few hundred people who specialize in that sort of thing in the army today - some of them will certainly take offense to a full on subjugation.
Getting that bent out of shape over an occasional reminder is taking things waaaaaay too far.
Not at all. It betrays the attitude that people are just sheep to be pushed around - that's a fundamental lack of respect. It's also the sort of attitude that leads to overly intrusive government set up 'for my own good'.
My technical solution is to kill the autoupdate service. I'll reboot when I feel like it. It's my hardware, I'll admin it as I see fit.
you'd think that people had never heard of crypto that has two decrypt keys - this stuff is not new.
Besides, I don't think it's "humanly" possible to transport this amount of information with absolutely no spillage at all.
Amazon does it with their credit card info. Ever hear of a compromise of that data?
I believe it is the *right* thing to do, since this will benefit both the majority of its user base and Mozilla itself
Screw you. You don't get to do things to me for my own good.
I hold that the main reason that C++ is used so much for large desktop applications on Other Platforms is inertia, pure and simple. Programmers hate change. I realize that this is a purely a statement of opinion and I have no way to back it up.
It's because it works pretty well for writing apps and doesn't need a runtime environment. Why should we change something that works?
write the intensive kernel in both and measure the performance. It should be a tiny part of the overall code, and if that's too expensive, you probably shouldn't care about the difference anyway.
You don't have the right to not be afraid. Sorry, but your phobias aren't my concern.
That's fair. We're both latent lisp hackers.
No i'm not; we're involved in a war, but we aren't at war - there's no war effort, we aren't rationing anything, and Iraq has no credible chance of invading us. Further, Congress hasn't declared war - there's really no justification for the things BushCo is pulling, and you saying that lincoln suspended Habeaus Corpus during the civil war is not relevant.
Those examples happened during wartime. We are not at war, we are fucking around with a third world country and getting bogged down in it. The last time we were at war was 1945.
The American dollar is weaker than American beer.
Sounds like you've been drinking the wrong beer. Dogfishhead 90 minute IPA is 9%, and so is old rasputin. But yeah, if you aren't pissed at BushCo, you're a fool, plain and simple.