I hope the student ends up able to retire on the punitive damages he gets
OK, I'm risking being burnt at the stake her but what the heck.
I speak for Europe and possibly for a whole lot of other countries outside of northern America. Over here we try and put stuff into perspective and not to overreact. I agree that the student in question's privacy was harmed. In fact that's the main point here. So, with respect to damages, all pupils that were spied upon are entitled to some. The fact that the surveillance officer made a judgment error can happen and should be forgivable or constitute a minor punishment.
But why should the student be able to retire on the punitive damages he gets? Sure, the whole situation stinks but an apology and maybe a box of candy should suffice as punitive damages. You seem to covet a juridical system where you're extremely happy someone make a minor error. Already with minor arguments the winner thrives and the looser parishes.
I'm not saying we all should become tree hugging hippies but I sure advocate right perspective, common sense and less fear of doing something wrong.
Anybody doing any sort of human research, say from the medicine, biomedical and psychology faculties, shouldn't be using GMail, because it involves sending privileged information to a third party corporation and, in this case, a corporation that has a vested interest in using the information they're gathering.
Outside of that, many people like to protect their own privacy.
Sure, and the campus sys admin is completely reliable. Of course, he has been screened and he has signed an agreement to become a true email-man. Give me a brake. Email privacy is almost always based on people's decency. When I was the sys admin of the dept I worked, I developed a skill to NOT look into other people's emails, to shy away when passwords are typed and certainly NOT to gove anyone access to the user data, etc... I'm not so sure everyone is like that.
The argument that Google would be less discrete with your data than some other provider is flimsy.
Or that your frail human form might not desire to remain exposed to the cold any longer than necessary.
Ah well, that explains everything. Many thanks for taking the trouble and inform us of the poor sods that do not own a garage for keeping one's car warm and sheltered. Yes, it can be a harsh world. Or so I'm told anyway by a very remote acquaintance.
First, why USD 71? I Bet I can get a phone for USD 20 where I live. If something is worth doing cheaply then it's worth going Scrooge.
Second, what's this thing with starting the car remotely? I mean, suddenly we can't be arsed to get into a car with the engine shut off?
Or is it because you want to run the air conditioning and cool the car down when it's hot? Well, open the fecking doors for 3 minutes and experience a temperature drop. It'll be quicker than running the air conditioning and -for what it's worth- save a bit on the environment.
I did an SAS course around 20 years ago. Had to support it on my SunOS system. Then, it was basically an OS360 environment ported to X11. It was horrible to look at and no single "modern" -that was 1992- concept was to be seen. The "concept" of supporting both STDOUT and STDERR was wildly exotic.
Most SAS users I met were completely clueless about programming and were basically summoned by their depts to perform some wild additions on homogeneous data sets. The statistical functions were probably used by the small base of power users. Back then I'd had wager that a handful of Perl scripts -that was Perl 4 back then- would have solved most problems at a fraction of the cost and would have constituted in more generally trained developers. However, in SAS' niche, product decisions are hardly ever taken by tech savvy people but mostly by accountants that are overwhelmed by (non-)features from ads.
Anyway, the software was sold and SAS made loads of money out of it. Good for them. Stating that the founder's first love is programming is stretching it a bit.
Either your client wants to redistribute your code without restrictions, they don't understand licensing or they are persuaded by certain business partners that open source should be avoided.
If the client wants to redistribute, charge as many fees as you possibly can. Base license fee, sold site fee, per host sold fee, per user sold fee, think of anything else fee... Some organizations actually like that. If you have an ethical problem with that, see it as a price they pay for purification of their sorry souls.
Is your client by any chance an MS business partner?
This, however, does not prevent him [Lukashenko] from having a reasonably good popularity among citizens.
Silvio too is received pretty well in Italy. Hell the people elected him. The fact that he basically owns the media isn't unfortunate either.
If you have a healthy distance -I left Italy a long time ago- you perception gets less biased by opportunism. Silvio's policies do not convince me. And neither Lukashenko's or Bush's do and did for that matter. I see a perverted kind of charisma in Silvio and Lukashenko. In that respect, George and the US people are a complete enigma to me.
I rejoice to see Belarus coming to sense and to follow the brave example from my country Italy.
Instantly Belarus will become a culinary heart in the world, it will start producing magnificent sports cars and will have centuries worth of art stored in its churches. Surely it is for that reason they come up with such a law as I cannot see any other symptoms as to why Italy benefits from its laws.
Belarus has something going for it and they already have a president that challenges the eternal wisdom of our beloved Silvio.
Just the other week I downloaded the ISO, shoved it onto a USB disk, popped it into my notebook, clicked on "OK" when I was asked "Wanna do the Gnu?" and hey presto I was up and running.
All device drivers worked out of the box and even the GNU implementation of flash worked a charm. Now try that with Vista.
Not only that, but it magically knew I wanted to setup a DNS and a DHCP server and all user credentials were instantly available through LDAP. And ZFS, it had that too.
Now for the awesome kernel model loading. Don't need that really. I'm a man and I can concentrate on only one thing at the time. In fact I don't mind booting a new kernel every time I need some new module.
Finaly, in order to celebrate the good work done by FSF and the current benevolent nature of hardware producers, I went to my fav pr0n site, pointed to a flash-video and gave the old todger a thorough and exquisite yank. Orgasms with Hurd are so much better than with GNU/Linux.
I have huge respect of what the UK has brought us. But how is it that surrounding countries do not even consider checks any longer but the UK does?
Provide better alternatives and checks will vanish automatically. Shouldn't be too hard as the sole advantage of a check is that you have a bit of a credit for a limited time.
Where I live you mostly pay with a direct debit card with amounts up to USD 5'000. Larger purchases you pay through bank transactions that arrive on the booking day. I never ever have more than USD 200 in cash on me.
Don't wanna brag or boast. But, our clearly subsidized aeronautics conglomerate beat your more indirectly subsidized corporation in building a plane. Pah!
It's been already said in a somewhat different form here. I made the stupid mistake of trusting MS two times and both times I got screwed badly.
Third time? Don't think so. When push comes to shove I'll switch to some other provider. Bing is something like a women that, should she be the last remaining on the planet, would make me turn gay. (Or man that would turn gays into hetero. Or two other combinations. What ever your preference in wording is.)
I'm the meek kind a guy and I don't have anything to hide when push come to shove.
However, I completely despise the argument that if you're not a wrongdoer you have nothing to fear. Being a wrongdoer is mostly a definition of the government you fall under. Almost all god fearing and tax paying citizen are well off in the USA. But ideas you may freely express in the USA are considered as wrongdoing in certain bastard states.
If google were to comply by laws of bastard states it most likely would have to hand over data from "wrongdoers" who'd be completely innocent in democratic states.
Privacy from any government, not only from the bastards peeping Toms, is the minimum I'd be satisfied with.
So, my rule of thumb is that any critical arguments coming from my person will never be stored at an email provider.
The hard part is finding inspiration to criticize. Will do so in due time.
Well, lady IT-guy, I see 8 replies on your post and, without reading them, I suspect 5 are asking for a date, 2 come with irrelevant technicalities and 1 is the newbie doing a first post.
Don't you see what IT does to us! Run away while you can!
Besides, we collectively are plainly ugly, boringly eccentric, have bad hygiene and poor health. Our perception of romance is the girl in the other room repeatedly declaring to us that she'd rather date a dog while we remain hopeful.
When I graduated there was the programmer, technical designer, conceptual designer and analyst ladder to climb. And I tried it.
The you realize the tunnel view you get when following such a path. And after a couple of years of having tried to adopt a fancy name -senior consultant, senior anything- I resolved to name myself that what defines me. If people ask I'll tell them I'm a programmer. Doing well for years with a lovely family, a very good income and a sports car that turns heads. But still a programmer.
I can develop products -which is much more than coding-, I can look through the organization and suggest improvements and I can tell anyone paying me he's brilliant. Still I'm a programmer.
Mainstream will never be able to keep cracks charlatans so don't set your hopes too high on job titles.
Consider job titles at Google. Naming Vint Cerf an Internet Evangelist is a way of telling the world that job titles don't really matter and that the substance matters way more.
Did you ever read the prince? It's the K+R C Programming Language for politics. The book in TFA is about being a spy. I wouldn't say the topics are unrelated but one is a practical handbook and the other is on concepts.
I was at a customer of mine working on a Windows PC and I needed to search something. Well, Bing was the standard search engine and anything else just didn't configure. So I accessed Bing unwillingly and after two/three times I punched in the Google URL and I was fine. I expect that the dilettante user will just stick with Bing and that is why the 10% is there. I absolutely loath the service. Even more so when I'm shotgunned into it.
All GUI experiences I had always were some combination of stuff that's around since ages. Artistic freedom in CS is at its best when it is heavily curbed. Hell, saving your document in MS Word has become an art form. Even my Mac, which allegedly comes with the most wonderful GUI on the planet, drives me up the wall. All I want and all we need is Firefox, Eclipse, a terminal and Openoffice and plain and simple menus with it. Anything else just plain and simple. Brothers unite and let's get back to the roots. I say "No more rotating, sliding, enlarging, diminishing menus!" Saving a document is best done using a simple key sequence:w
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I hope the student ends up able to retire on the punitive damages he gets
OK, I'm risking being burnt at the stake her but what the heck.
I speak for Europe and possibly for a whole lot of other countries outside of northern America. Over here we try and put stuff into perspective and not to overreact. I agree that the student in question's privacy was harmed. In fact that's the main point here. So, with respect to damages, all pupils that were spied upon are entitled to some. The fact that the surveillance officer made a judgment error can happen and should be forgivable or constitute a minor punishment.
But why should the student be able to retire on the punitive damages he gets? Sure, the whole situation stinks but an apology and maybe a box of candy should suffice as punitive damages. You seem to covet a juridical system where you're extremely happy someone make a minor error. Already with minor arguments the winner thrives and the looser parishes.
I'm not saying we all should become tree hugging hippies but I sure advocate right perspective, common sense and less fear of doing something wrong.
Anybody doing any sort of human research, say from the medicine, biomedical and psychology faculties, shouldn't be using GMail, because it involves sending privileged information to a third party corporation and, in this case, a corporation that has a vested interest in using the information they're gathering.
Outside of that, many people like to protect their own privacy.
Sure, and the campus sys admin is completely reliable. Of course, he has been screened and he has signed an agreement to become a true email-man. Give me a brake. Email privacy is almost always based on people's decency. When I was the sys admin of the dept I worked, I developed a skill to NOT look into other people's emails, to shy away when passwords are typed and certainly NOT to gove anyone access to the user data, etc... I'm not so sure everyone is like that.
The argument that Google would be less discrete with your data than some other provider is flimsy.
Or that your frail human form might not desire to remain exposed to the cold any longer than necessary.
Ah well, that explains everything. Many thanks for taking the trouble and inform us of the poor sods that do not own a garage for keeping one's car warm and sheltered. Yes, it can be a harsh world. Or so I'm told anyway by a very remote acquaintance.
January 2010 is an exciting month for x86 assembly language developers.
What? You mean both of them?
First, why USD 71? I Bet I can get a phone for USD 20 where I live. If something is worth doing cheaply then it's worth going Scrooge.
Second, what's this thing with starting the car remotely? I mean, suddenly we can't be arsed to get into a car with the engine shut off?
Or is it because you want to run the air conditioning and cool the car down when it's hot? Well, open the fecking doors for 3 minutes and experience a temperature drop. It'll be quicker than running the air conditioning and -for what it's worth- save a bit on the environment.
whose first love is programming
I did an SAS course around 20 years ago. Had to support it on my SunOS system. Then, it was basically an OS360 environment ported to X11. It was horrible to look at and no single "modern" -that was 1992- concept was to be seen. The "concept" of supporting both STDOUT and STDERR was wildly exotic.
Most SAS users I met were completely clueless about programming and were basically summoned by their depts to perform some wild additions on homogeneous data sets. The statistical functions were probably used by the small base of power users. Back then I'd had wager that a handful of Perl scripts -that was Perl 4 back then- would have solved most problems at a fraction of the cost and would have constituted in more generally trained developers. However, in SAS' niche, product decisions are hardly ever taken by tech savvy people but mostly by accountants that are overwhelmed by (non-)features from ads.
Anyway, the software was sold and SAS made loads of money out of it. Good for them. Stating that the founder's first love is programming is stretching it a bit.
With news about human rights prevailing profit still being hot you'd expect the decency of Motorola to bloody well refrain from commenting.
Either your client wants to redistribute your code without restrictions, they don't understand licensing or they are persuaded by certain business partners that open source should be avoided.
If the client wants to redistribute, charge as many fees as you possibly can. Base license fee, sold site fee, per host sold fee, per user sold fee, think of anything else fee... Some organizations actually like that. If you have an ethical problem with that, see it as a price they pay for purification of their sorry souls.
Is your client by any chance an MS business partner?
This, however, does not prevent him [Lukashenko] from having a reasonably good popularity among citizens.
Silvio too is received pretty well in Italy. Hell the people elected him. The fact that he basically owns the media isn't unfortunate either.
If you have a healthy distance -I left Italy a long time ago- you perception gets less biased by opportunism. Silvio's policies do not convince me. And neither Lukashenko's or Bush's do and did for that matter. I see a perverted kind of charisma in Silvio and Lukashenko. In that respect, George and the US people are a complete enigma to me.
I rejoice to see Belarus coming to sense and to follow the brave example from my country Italy.
Instantly Belarus will become a culinary heart in the world, it will start producing magnificent sports cars and will have centuries worth of art stored in its churches. Surely it is for that reason they come up with such a law as I cannot see any other symptoms as to why Italy benefits from its laws.
Belarus has something going for it and they already have a president that challenges the eternal wisdom of our beloved Silvio.
Just the other week I downloaded the ISO, shoved it onto a USB disk, popped it into my notebook, clicked on "OK" when I was asked "Wanna do the Gnu?" and hey presto I was up and running.
All device drivers worked out of the box and even the GNU implementation of flash worked a charm. Now try that with Vista.
Not only that, but it magically knew I wanted to setup a DNS and a DHCP server and all user credentials were instantly available through LDAP. And ZFS, it had that too.
Now for the awesome kernel model loading. Don't need that really. I'm a man and I can concentrate on only one thing at the time. In fact I don't mind booting a new kernel every time I need some new module.
Finaly, in order to celebrate the good work done by FSF and the current benevolent nature of hardware producers, I went to my fav pr0n site, pointed to a flash-video and gave the old todger a thorough and exquisite yank. Orgasms with Hurd are so much better than with GNU/Linux.
I have huge respect of what the UK has brought us. But how is it that surrounding countries do not even consider checks any longer but the UK does?
Provide better alternatives and checks will vanish automatically. Shouldn't be too hard as the sole advantage of a check is that you have a bit of a credit for a limited time.
Where I live you mostly pay with a direct debit card with amounts up to USD 5'000. Larger purchases you pay through bank transactions that arrive on the booking day. I never ever have more than USD 200 in cash on me.
The more intrusive an add, the less likely I am to consider it seriously.
Google have a point here and I hope it will catch on at upper management who will communicate to middle management its endless wisdom.
I have never ever felt the urge to do about Google adds. "Eye catching" images or flash thingies piss me off completely and hence get blocked.
What's the guy's name, again?
Ted Alvin Klaudt
What?
Ted Alvin Klaudt
Again please?
Ted Alvin Klaudt
Next one, please write a hymn inspired by Ted Alvin Klaudt and Monty Pytthon's SPAM sketch.
Don't wanna brag or boast. But, our clearly subsidized aeronautics conglomerate beat your more indirectly subsidized corporation in building a plane. Pah!
Kidding aside, smooth looking plane. Well done!
It's been already said in a somewhat different form here. I made the stupid mistake of trusting MS two times and both times I got screwed badly.
Third time? Don't think so. When push comes to shove I'll switch to some other provider. Bing is something like a women that, should she be the last remaining on the planet, would make me turn gay. (Or man that would turn gays into hetero. Or two other combinations. What ever your preference in wording is.)
I'm the meek kind a guy and I don't have anything to hide when push come to shove.
However, I completely despise the argument that if you're not a wrongdoer you have nothing to fear. Being a wrongdoer is mostly a definition of the government you fall under. Almost all god fearing and tax paying citizen are well off in the USA. But ideas you may freely express in the USA are considered as wrongdoing in certain bastard states.
If google were to comply by laws of bastard states it most likely would have to hand over data from "wrongdoers" who'd be completely innocent in democratic states.
Privacy from any government, not only from the bastards peeping Toms, is the minimum I'd be satisfied with.
So, my rule of thumb is that any critical arguments coming from my person will never be stored at an email provider.
The hard part is finding inspiration to criticize. Will do so in due time.
Well, lady IT-guy, I see 8 replies on your post and, without reading them, I suspect 5 are asking for a date, 2 come with irrelevant technicalities and 1 is the newbie doing a first post.
Don't you see what IT does to us! Run away while you can!
Besides, we collectively are plainly ugly, boringly eccentric, have bad hygiene and poor health. Our perception of romance is the girl in the other room repeatedly declaring to us that she'd rather date a dog while we remain hopeful.
Yours,
An IT-Guy
When I graduated there was the programmer, technical designer, conceptual designer and analyst ladder to climb. And I tried it.
The you realize the tunnel view you get when following such a path. And after a couple of years of having tried to adopt a fancy name -senior consultant, senior anything- I resolved to name myself that what defines me. If people ask I'll tell them I'm a programmer. Doing well for years with a lovely family, a very good income and a sports car that turns heads. But still a programmer.
I can develop products -which is much more than coding-, I can look through the organization and suggest improvements and I can tell anyone paying me he's brilliant. Still I'm a programmer.
Mainstream will never be able to keep cracks charlatans so don't set your hopes too high on job titles.
Consider job titles at Google. Naming Vint Cerf an Internet Evangelist is a way of telling the world that job titles don't really matter and that the substance matters way more.
Did you ever read the prince? It's the K+R C Programming Language for politics. The book in TFA is about being a spy. I wouldn't say the topics are unrelated but one is a practical handbook and the other is on concepts.
Fellow geeks! We're save!
If only MS would be so proactive on their own stuff.
Idiots! They've got it the wrong way 'round.
Or have they?
I was at a customer of mine working on a Windows PC and I needed to search something. Well, Bing was the standard search engine and anything else just didn't configure. So I accessed Bing unwillingly and after two/three times I punched in the Google URL and I was fine. I expect that the dilettante user will just stick with Bing and that is why the 10% is there. I absolutely loath the service. Even more so when I'm shotgunned into it.
All GUI experiences I had always were some combination of stuff that's around since ages. Artistic freedom in CS is at its best when it is heavily curbed. Hell, saving your document in MS Word has become an art form. Even my Mac, which allegedly comes with the most wonderful GUI on the planet, drives me up the wall. All I want and all we need is Firefox, Eclipse, a terminal and Openoffice and plain and simple menus with it. Anything else just plain and simple. Brothers unite and let's get back to the roots. I say "No more rotating, sliding, enlarging, diminishing menus!" Saving a document is best done using a simple key sequence :w