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True on all counts - which is why I didn't cite a single one of them. I think those nations should be lessons learned on how not to handle a post-war scenario.
The "opening stages" of military action against Iraq have begun, White House press secretary Ari Fleischer announced Wednesday night.
I don't have a degree in Doublespeak, but I did take some of it in high school. In non-Beltway words, the "opening stages" of a vast military assault against a hopelessly undertrained and underequipped military are now underway.
My thoughts go out to all the involved combatants, American and Iraqi, and for anyone else who may come to harm. May this war be as brief and as painless as it can be made; and may we succeed afterward in rebuilding Iraq the way we succeeded in rebuilding Japan and Germany after World War II.
What a load of baloney. Last I checked, Google's owners hadn't decided to give up their bottom line for some "public good."
If you don't like the fact that Google obeys local laws--for example, banning Germans' access to results like Stormfront (a neo-Nazi website) which are banned by German Law, not by moral fiat--then use a different search engine. Altavista's still out there.
Probably not, but that's part of the moral issue. If you memorize (or transcribe) the book while you have it checked out, you're less likely to buy it, whether you liked it or not.
A couple ways, if you think about it. First, materials are donated to a library, at which point the donor no longer has access to the donated material. Second, you inevitably have to return any item you check out to the library, after which point you no longer have access to the material.
Damn tootin'! Mars is a dangerous rogue state with a stockpile of weapons of mass destruction. We have intelligence which proves Mars has worked with Al Qaeda to terrorize our world (but we can't share our information--it's classified). It is imperative that Mars dismantle its weapons of mass destruction; if they do not (or, heck, even if they do), we must disarm the Martians by force.
War is our last option (wink wink nudge nudge), but sanctions and inspections have proven ineffective. Mars' continued defiance of UN resolutions (and their rich, untapped oil fields) forces our hand in this matter.
If in the future I find myself coding something dubious for a government or corporation, what is the correct ethical choice?
If you're relying on someone else to answer that for you, then you've made the wrong choice already. Just follow whatever course of action is most ethical for you; because, at the end of the day, it's not your naysayers you'll see when you look in the mirror.
I use email almost exclusively now - if something is discussed face to face or over the phone, there's nothing in writing. We have something of a blame culture where I work, and so I find it necessary to have an audit trail of conversations.
My own survey of 267,000 passwords, here are the top ones.. If we've found them abused, they've already been changed, which I believe is why "password" is lowered from the #1 position to #2..:)
505 "1234"
That's amazing! I've got the same combination on my luggage!
Just like DivX was supposed to be the DVD-killer, right? I'm as likely to buy this as I was to buy into DivX--which is to say, not happenin'.
Industry seems to think it can lead consumers around by the nose, telling them, "We know what's best for you." Sometimes it succeeds; but when an obviously-good idea like Tivo beats drek like this to the punch, it's no contest.
Not only is it still in use--we used it for close air support in Afghanistan. The engineers who designed it probably shat bricks or turned in their graves to see a heavy bomber successfully used for CAS. ..
How many times have we all heard, duhh.... I forgot my admin password, but I cant reinstall, I need the data.
About as many times as I've heard, "my hard drive has crashed, but I need the data." The answer for both questions should be the same: Restore from backup.
Oh - they don't have a backup system? Shame, that - sell them one. Ideally, of course, they'd have a backup plan in place, something that their salesman suggested for them when he sold them whatever they can no longer access.
So, you see, you're costing yourself opportunity. You could make a program to automate the backup of data customers store on your systems and charge them for it as an extra feature; but you programmed a backdoor instead.
I think that's something we've brought along with us from the BBSing days. I can't see the university professors and military personnel that used the 'Net before commercial usage came along as the type of folks who would have needed any sort of anynomity.
I will say up-front that I'm not a fan of "real-time strategy." For that reason alone, I probably will not buy any LotR RTS game, no matter that I love the movies and the book both.
I think it would be possible to do this in a turn-based game; and it might even turn out better. Does anyone remember the strategy game "War of the Lance," based in the DragonLance universe and published some 12 or so years ago? The graphics obviously weren't as well-developed; but a lot of the concepts behind "War of the Lance" and this proposed "War of the Rings" game could be very similar.
There's such a glut of RTS games already - quite a few of them good on their own merits, that I fear this game faces an uphill battle to begin with. Better to let it shine in a genre that's been all but forgotten the last few years.
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True on all counts - which is why I didn't cite a single one of them. I think those nations should be lessons learned on how not to handle a post-war scenario.
The "opening stages" of military action against Iraq have begun, White House press secretary Ari Fleischer announced Wednesday night.
I don't have a degree in Doublespeak, but I did take some of it in high school. In non-Beltway words, the "opening stages" of a vast military assault against a hopelessly undertrained and underequipped military are now underway.
My thoughts go out to all the involved combatants, American and Iraqi, and for anyone else who may come to harm. May this war be as brief and as painless as it can be made; and may we succeed afterward in rebuilding Iraq the way we succeeded in rebuilding Japan and Germany after World War II.
I hope not, too. . . I never had any idea Mac software had such effective spam filters! Color me switched!
What's the going rate for having products advertised--err, reviewed--on Slashdot?
What a load of baloney. Last I checked, Google's owners hadn't decided to give up their bottom line for some "public good."
If you don't like the fact that Google obeys local laws--for example, banning Germans' access to results like Stormfront (a neo-Nazi website) which are banned by German Law, not by moral fiat--then use a different search engine. Altavista's still out there.
Probably not, but that's part of the moral issue. If you memorize (or transcribe) the book while you have it checked out, you're less likely to buy it, whether you liked it or not.
A couple ways, if you think about it. First, materials are donated to a library, at which point the donor no longer has access to the donated material. Second, you inevitably have to return any item you check out to the library, after which point you no longer have access to the material.
. . .those Martians tried to kill my Daddy!
Damn tootin'! Mars is a dangerous rogue state with a stockpile of weapons of mass destruction. We have intelligence which proves Mars has worked with Al Qaeda to terrorize our world (but we can't share our information--it's classified). It is imperative that Mars dismantle its weapons of mass destruction; if they do not (or, heck, even if they do), we must disarm the Martians by force.
War is our last option (wink wink nudge nudge), but sanctions and inspections have proven ineffective. Mars' continued defiance of UN resolutions (and their rich, untapped oil fields) forces our hand in this matter.
Great. So this gets to fail because it's noisy as all hell. I can hear him now...
Your hearing is better than mine. I couldn't hear anything over the racket of his little bike engine.
About US$20, I'd wager.
Not that I don't like making waves. . .
Ouch! No pun intended, I hope?
If in the future I find myself coding something dubious for a government or corporation, what is the correct ethical choice?
If you're relying on someone else to answer that for you, then you've made the wrong choice already. Just follow whatever course of action is most ethical for you; because, at the end of the day, it's not your naysayers you'll see when you look in the mirror.
I use email almost exclusively now - if something is discussed face to face or over the phone, there's nothing in writing. We have something of a blame culture where I work, and so I find it necessary to have an audit trail of conversations.
You work in government, too, huh?
My own survey of 267,000 passwords, here are the top ones.. If we've found them abused, they've already been changed, which I believe is why "password" is lowered from the #1 position to #2.. :)
505 "1234"
That's amazing! I've got the same combination on my luggage!
Just like DivX was supposed to be the DVD-killer, right? I'm as likely to buy this as I was to buy into DivX--which is to say, not happenin'.
Industry seems to think it can lead consumers around by the nose, telling them, "We know what's best for you." Sometimes it succeeds; but when an obviously-good idea like Tivo beats drek like this to the punch, it's no contest.
Yeah, but at least it's not a dupe. . .
Not only is it still in use--we used it for close air support in Afghanistan. The engineers who designed it probably shat bricks or turned in their graves to see a heavy bomber successfully used for CAS. . .
How many times have we all heard, duhh.... I forgot my admin password, but I cant reinstall, I need the data.
About as many times as I've heard, "my hard drive has crashed, but I need the data." The answer for both questions should be the same: Restore from backup.
Oh - they don't have a backup system? Shame, that - sell them one. Ideally, of course, they'd have a backup plan in place, something that their salesman suggested for them when he sold them whatever they can no longer access.
So, you see, you're costing yourself opportunity. You could make a program to automate the backup of data customers store on your systems and charge them for it as an extra feature; but you programmed a backdoor instead.
I think that's something we've brought along with us from the BBSing days. I can't see the university professors and military personnel that used the 'Net before commercial usage came along as the type of folks who would have needed any sort of anynomity.
It's not so far-fetched as that. Didn't Apple do something similar with either System 7 or System 8, several years ago?
I will say up-front that I'm not a fan of "real-time strategy." For that reason alone, I probably will not buy any LotR RTS game, no matter that I love the movies and the book both.
I think it would be possible to do this in a turn-based game; and it might even turn out better. Does anyone remember the strategy game "War of the Lance," based in the DragonLance universe and published some 12 or so years ago? The graphics obviously weren't as well-developed; but a lot of the concepts behind "War of the Lance" and this proposed "War of the Rings" game could be very similar.
There's such a glut of RTS games already - quite a few of them good on their own merits, that I fear this game faces an uphill battle to begin with. Better to let it shine in a genre that's been all but forgotten the last few years.
I don't think it's a race issue. . . those are probably Microsoft's five largest customers, is all.
I was intrigued by the note at the bottom: Oracle having a security flaw, taking six months to fix it, and charging for the patch.
Ehh, that's pretty much standard operating procedure for Oracle.
Not to mention which, programmers aren't experts on military matters.
Well, military programmers are. . . :)