It is not political suicide but inertia. The general public would rather cut the defense budget than Social Security(SS), but all the talk is how much SS is going to be cut. The general public would rather increase taxes for wealthier Americans, instead they game them a big cut.
We have elected people who cannot actually fix any problems, just point fingers at this or that because they are believe themselves infallible because they got elected.
While an ideal attribute, civil disobedience is often weak tea. If someone who is protesting something unjust, has to take all the risks to bring about a level playing field, it often just does not work. Unless a HUGE number of people are involved, it does not work.
Take the protests in Egypt, Mubarak has been president for 30 years! He has ruled completely for that time. It is taking over 2 million protesters showing up at once to even make a grudging change at all. And there is no guarantee that any of the changes being promised will be more than cosmetic at this point.
Anonymous is not going to organize a protest to actions taken against Wikileaks, (which has been anonymously DoS itself but unknown agencies), so they do a DoS at least for a noble ideal if not noble in action.
So you have a company that figures they can make a buck off of it. Should they expect their actions to be ignored? That their actions should not have consequences as well (actually, that is the whole point of a corporation, to avoid individual liability). The hacking by Anonymous to retaliate is really the only option they have.
I hate to flame, but "Your the idiot here!" You say you want to show your little girl the science of evolution, you do know Charles Darwin theory has been around for 150 years, right? And you have the INTERNET which has a ton of resources on the subject!
Also evolution is a theory, like in science theory, not like in Perry Mason, courtroom drama theory. You know the difference don't you?
It is people like you that let science get bum-rushed by some religious wacko because while it seems like you want to believe in evolution, you don't really understand yourself and therefore cannot explain it or defend it
It will not be long before pirates will implement their own counter measures. In related news, the price of mirrors has gone up in the last 2 months...
When I 10 years old, there was a commercial that said that if you roll a 6-sided die 60 times and you correctly guessed the results more than 10 times you were precognitive. Well I guess correctly 11 times, so there are your scientific results. Now I move into my new career as a stock market analyst.
I see replacing equipment as less of issue than purchasing new equipment for additional capacity. Assuming you are doing backups, you can always move hard drives from old-system to a new-system. Yeah that is some work to get it back in running, but it is still a possibility.
However, if you have servers running at capacity, and they refuse to purchase new equipment, you are asking for problems.
I wish I could mod this up. There are two types of programmers, those that can take criticism and those who can't. The truly bad programmers don't want to hear it, and don't want to change anything. The other type are willing to listen, but cannot improve on their own; they need oversight to make them productive.
It also does not help when a large number of managers who are hired cannot do, more or less understand how, the work that needs to get done. Usually they don't want to get involved because they are busy in meetings being "productive".
The US should be the leader in IT, instead we want to ignore it because for a management, to get involved is too much like work. Everyone just wants to be paper pusher and makes life for programmers just hell because you can never get solid decisions on anything. If I had to start my career again, I would not get involved in IT; there are too many people who just have no idea what they are their doing and just pass the buck.
we may be sabotaging the very people we sought to empower all those years ago
The people who we sought to power(the artists) have been sublimed by lawyers, accountants, publishers, and over-paid executives. While I am sorry the artist is being deprived of his earnings, they were being deprived by these other people who contributed nothing to the actual writing of the material and end up taking a bigger share of the pie than the original author will ever earn.
You are ignoring the other half of the equation. Debt can be bad or good, it is a lever to multiply the effect of a situation. If I borrow 1 million dollars and it becomes 1.1 million, I am 100 K ahead. What has been happening in the world is everyone betting nothing will go down. So I borrow 1 million dollars, and then it becomes 500 K. Now I can't pay that back! I also borrowed that 1 million dollars from a bank which *surprise* had also borrowed that money from someone else. So technically, I have two parties which have lost 500 K or 1 million dollars total.
You think that Europe was going to outsource production of their European built Airbus planes to China? So who else is going to sell the tools but Boeing themselves.
Lenin had it right, Boeing sold them the rope, now they are going to hang.
So some program you wrote, to do some speed comparisons showing Perl was slower. There was another guy who did the same thing here showing Java was faster than Perl. Of course he used regular expressions in Perl and substrings in Java but why worry about details!
Perl has lots of things going for it, someone just suggested that it is only good for web programming or such while Java is used for business applications. I hate to tell you folks, a lot of business is getting done on the web. Perl has never really had a problem with performance and considering Slashdot gets web traffic that continually crushes other web sites just by posting a link on the front page you might consider that there might be something to what I said.
Perl, Python, and Ruby unable to match Java's performance
I don't know about Ruby, but Perl has damn good performance, such that it still runs a number of major web sites, including this one. The ONLY reason Java is as popular is because Corporate America loves a corporate solution and Java was being sold as a solution by major vendors(think IBM, Sun and for a while Microsoft).
You cannot really sell Perl, or Python, or Ruby as a corporate solution because they cannot hijack a version, edit it and claim it is special. Hell, Perl runs on EVERYTHING what more can IBM add to it? This is really why good open source languages are neglected by large companies, they cannot charge anything for it.
Yes, yes, yes we have heard it all before, why not compile games for Mac, it must be EASY! I tell you what, why use a Mac when all the programs are available on Windows? I am sure that the Photoshop is the same on Windows as it is on Mac, right? That is an easy decision just use Windows instead!
***End Sarcasm***
If it were as easy as you make it sound, every 2 man operation would be making versions for Mac and Windows. The fact of the matter is that it is hard, and not necessarily productive. Sometimes you are going to acknowledge the truth, if you want to play those games, you are going to have to use the platform they picked because they cannot cater to everyone.
They won a court decision and got something from someone else. Is there a limit on the number of characters in their keyboard? Is it too much trouble to even research the story to find out what is going on? It is like watching the last 5 minutes of "Iron Man" and going WTF? Who is the good guy, Stark because he won, or because he blows up stuff?
This is why I hate to read the article, I am hoping some/. poster is going to do the work of posting the back history. The thing the "journalist" did not do.
It is already a pain to change AAA batteries, imagine what it is going to be like trying to change one of these things. Good forbid you drop the thing, or put it in the wrong way. Think, how many sides does a grain of salt have! That is going to the number of ways that someone is going to install it wrong!
Also, lets say you want to test it to see if it still has a charge. You put it on your tongue and it dissolves! Now your are stuck shelling out another 5 bucks to Energizer!
I was going to down-vote this, but I decide to post this instead.
UPS guy says he gets injured on your premises, you can lose 20 million easy
I want you to think about this, a mine in West Virginia blows up and KILLS 20+ people. They got a slap on the wrist in that they have to deal with inspections! Basically they killed people AND NOTHING HAPPENED. Lawsuits are always the boogeyman that businessmen like to use about costs in the US and it is crap. The fact is in the US businesses are not treated roughly at all.
The only thing that matters is costs, it is cheaper to hire labor in China and until they run out of cheap labor or the US stops subsiding outsourcing of production NOTHING is going to change.
Slashdot Mirror
It is not political suicide but inertia. The general public would rather cut the defense budget than Social Security(SS), but all the talk is how much SS is going to be cut. The general public would rather increase taxes for wealthier Americans, instead they game them a big cut.
We have elected people who cannot actually fix any problems, just point fingers at this or that because they are believe themselves infallible because they got elected.
While an ideal attribute, civil disobedience is often weak tea. If someone who is protesting something unjust, has to take all the risks to bring about a level playing field, it often just does not work. Unless a HUGE number of people are involved, it does not work.
Take the protests in Egypt, Mubarak has been president for 30 years! He has ruled completely for that time. It is taking over 2 million protesters showing up at once to even make a grudging change at all. And there is no guarantee that any of the changes being promised will be more than cosmetic at this point.
Anonymous is not going to organize a protest to actions taken against Wikileaks, (which has been anonymously DoS itself but unknown agencies), so they do a DoS at least for a noble ideal if not noble in action.
So you have a company that figures they can make a buck off of it. Should they expect their actions to be ignored? That their actions should not have consequences as well (actually, that is the whole point of a corporation, to avoid individual liability). The hacking by Anonymous to retaliate is really the only option they have.
From the article,
HBGary was victimized by a combination of social engineering and a shared password between systems
Evidently, being a security firm means not having to following good security practices.
Just charge Apple 30% on all game sales and call it even!
I hate to flame, but "Your the idiot here!" You say you want to show your little girl the science of evolution, you do know Charles Darwin theory has been around for 150 years, right? And you have the INTERNET which has a ton of resources on the subject!
Also evolution is a theory, like in science theory, not like in Perry Mason, courtroom drama theory. You know the difference don't you?
It is people like you that let science get bum-rushed by some religious wacko because while it seems like you want to believe in evolution, you don't really understand yourself and therefore cannot explain it or defend it
It will not be long before pirates will implement their own counter measures. In related news, the price of mirrors has gone up in the last 2 months...
When I 10 years old, there was a commercial that said that if you roll a 6-sided die 60 times and you correctly guessed the results more than 10 times you were precognitive. Well I guess correctly 11 times, so there are your scientific results. Now I move into my new career as a stock market analyst.
I see replacing equipment as less of issue than purchasing new equipment for additional capacity. Assuming you are doing backups, you can always move hard drives from old-system to a new-system. Yeah that is some work to get it back in running, but it is still a possibility.
However, if you have servers running at capacity, and they refuse to purchase new equipment, you are asking for problems.
I wish I could mod this up. There are two types of programmers, those that can take criticism and those who can't. The truly bad programmers don't want to hear it, and don't want to change anything. The other type are willing to listen, but cannot improve on their own; they need oversight to make them productive.
It also does not help when a large number of managers who are hired cannot do, more or less understand how, the work that needs to get done. Usually they don't want to get involved because they are busy in meetings being "productive".
The US should be the leader in IT, instead we want to ignore it because for a management, to get involved is too much like work. Everyone just wants to be paper pusher and makes life for programmers just hell because you can never get solid decisions on anything. If I had to start my career again, I would not get involved in IT; there are too many people who just have no idea what they are their doing and just pass the buck.
we may be sabotaging the very people we sought to empower all those years ago
The people who we sought to power(the artists) have been sublimed by lawyers, accountants, publishers, and over-paid executives. While I am sorry the artist is being deprived of his earnings, they were being deprived by these other people who contributed nothing to the actual writing of the material and end up taking a bigger share of the pie than the original author will ever earn.
As I recall, isn't it illegal to hold onto Credit Card numbers after a transaction has occurred?
You are ignoring the other half of the equation. Debt can be bad or good, it is a lever to multiply the effect of a situation. If I borrow 1 million dollars and it becomes 1.1 million, I am 100 K ahead. What has been happening in the world is everyone betting nothing will go down. So I borrow 1 million dollars, and then it becomes 500 K. Now I can't pay that back! I also borrowed that 1 million dollars from a bank which *surprise* had also borrowed that money from someone else. So technically, I have two parties which have lost 500 K or 1 million dollars total.
You think that Europe was going to outsource production of their European built Airbus planes to China? So who else is going to sell the tools but Boeing themselves.
Lenin had it right, Boeing sold them the rope, now they are going to hang.
So some program you wrote, to do some speed comparisons showing Perl was slower. There was another guy who did the same thing here showing Java was faster than Perl. Of course he used regular expressions in Perl and substrings in Java but why worry about details!
Perl has lots of things going for it, someone just suggested that it is only good for web programming or such while Java is used for business applications. I hate to tell you folks, a lot of business is getting done on the web. Perl has never really had a problem with performance and considering Slashdot gets web traffic that continually crushes other web sites just by posting a link on the front page you might consider that there might be something to what I said.
Perl, Python, and Ruby unable to match Java's performance
I don't know about Ruby, but Perl has damn good performance, such that it still runs a number of major web sites, including this one. The ONLY reason Java is as popular is because Corporate America loves a corporate solution and Java was being sold as a solution by major vendors(think IBM, Sun and for a while Microsoft).
You cannot really sell Perl, or Python, or Ruby as a corporate solution because they cannot hijack a version, edit it and claim it is special. Hell, Perl runs on EVERYTHING what more can IBM add to it? This is really why good open source languages are neglected by large companies, they cannot charge anything for it.
Yes, yes, yes we have heard it all before, why not compile games for Mac, it must be EASY! I tell you what, why use a Mac when all the programs are available on Windows? I am sure that the Photoshop is the same on Windows as it is on Mac, right? That is an easy decision just use Windows instead!
***End Sarcasm***
If it were as easy as you make it sound, every 2 man operation would be making versions for Mac and Windows. The fact of the matter is that it is hard, and not necessarily productive. Sometimes you are going to acknowledge the truth, if you want to play those games, you are going to have to use the platform they picked because they cannot cater to everyone.
Don't you mean,
Kkkkoooonnnngggg!!!
They won a court decision and got something from someone else. Is there a limit on the number of characters in their keyboard? Is it too much trouble to even research the story to find out what is going on? It is like watching the last 5 minutes of "Iron Man" and going WTF? Who is the good guy, Stark because he won, or because he blows up stuff?
This is why I hate to read the article, I am hoping some /. poster is going to do the work of posting the back history. The thing the "journalist" did not do.
Nomen mihi Slashdot est, quia multi sumus
Have a good friend, Russell who broke both his arms. This might help give a new perspective on the issue.
I found it article which said that Sealand was for sale at 750 million Euros, about 1 billion American dollars, so yeah, unaffordable.
It is already a pain to change AAA batteries, imagine what it is going to be like trying to change one of these things. Good forbid you drop the thing, or put it in the wrong way. Think, how many sides does a grain of salt have! That is going to the number of ways that someone is going to install it wrong!
Also, lets say you want to test it to see if it still has a charge. You put it on your tongue and it dissolves! Now your are stuck shelling out another 5 bucks to Energizer!
CxO's did not get there because of their decision making abilities, they got to where they were by DOING stuff. Even if the stuff is fluff.
Having an A-Team makes it look like you are doing stuff.
Halo: The Reach for more Money!
They will beat this horse to death, and then render it and send it to glue factory while trying to find any more value in it
I was going to down-vote this, but I decide to post this instead.
UPS guy says he gets injured on your premises, you can lose 20 million easy
I want you to think about this, a mine in West Virginia blows up and KILLS 20+ people. They got a slap on the wrist in that they have to deal with inspections! Basically they killed people AND NOTHING HAPPENED. Lawsuits are always the boogeyman that businessmen like to use about costs in the US and it is crap. The fact is in the US businesses are not treated roughly at all.
The only thing that matters is costs, it is cheaper to hire labor in China and until they run out of cheap labor or the US stops subsiding outsourcing of production NOTHING is going to change.