Laziness is the father of invention. - tm Jake, ca 1980
Larry Wall, who created the Perl programming language, and several coauthors wrote that one of the key virtues of a programmer is "laziness" -- of the variety where your unwillingness to perform rote actions inspires you to do the work to automate them.
You guys both think you're funny, but you're actually highlighting the really horrifying facet of this problem here. You might be able to tell yourselves "It's fine I'll just use GPG too." but for the vast majority of the population and major institutions, security is effectively dead now, and they're trying to alter their business plans to adapt to making money in an environment where the forgone conclusions are that no system is secure-able and the only thing left with any value is your stolen identity.
If they're just doing that now they're at least a decade too late.
Yeah I've thought about that too. In metaphorical terms, a personal "digital lockbox" with very-fine-grained controls on who exactly gets what.
The problem is this: once you're data is out there how do you control it? At best you could control one, maybe two hops from your lockbox. After that it's in the world, where anyone and everyone can get at it, with no say at all on your part....
100% this. It's silly there's even an argument. Perhaps the arguers weren't around when computers had to load the OS from disk - every time you turned it on?
The one best reason not to impeach Trump is named Mike Pence. Last person you want as president is a right-wing fundamentalist fascist Christian controlling all of the nukes.
That's the thing, that day will never arrive. It is absolutely astonishing to me how so many people seem to have become little more than sci-fi futurists, and the absolute horse sh*t that flys out of their mouths. Technology is useful, hyperbole and fantasy, not so much.
The military doesn't need to be at the forefront of social change. There is nothing wrong with the military lagging, and by doing so in minimizes internal disruption. Heck, greater society is still fighting bathroom policy, the military has other stuff to occupy its time.
If nothing else, this.
Of course, the notion that government departments have something better to do with their time hardly starts here....
Unfortunately, we seem to have made "never enough time to do it right, plenty of time to do it over" the overarching mantra of... well... everything.
I still haven't been given a reasonable response to the question "why does it have to become a law before it can be declared unconstitutional?" Seems to to me that question should be considered before bothering the pres to get out his pen....
Whatever happened to doing homework before class? Whatever happened to due diligence? Are these just more lies taught to us in childhood?
Whatever happened to advertising a product? Spend money to make money and all that jazz.
Costs too much. Just like in-house beta-testing. That's why the idea was born to release purposely-buggy software and let your (ahem) customers pay for the privilege of doing it for you. It's a small step from there to get people to do your shil... er, advertising for you for free.
The 21st century version is "Spend less and make more."
Meh. The guy started out sorta well, but then the clips got longer and longer, and less and less on point, and were clearly not vetted....
He could have trimmed the videos to include the necessary sounds and maybe a few seconds on either side. And SEVEN MINUTES of Pong?!?!? I didn't go past about a minute or so, but surely he could have done better. And is the only existing sample of a TV channel sign-off something that sounds like an old hand-held cassette player during a brownout? And yeah - WTF with the Cat Stevens?
Oh fer cryin' out loud. Would someone please find a link to Tim Stryker's Superdemocracy and forward it to PK before someone tries to patent this idea? I'm too tired right now.
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- tm Jake, ca 1980
Larry Wall, who created the Perl programming language, and several coauthors wrote that one of the key virtues of a programmer is "laziness" -- of the variety where your unwillingness to perform rote actions inspires you to do the work to automate them.
There never was.
You guys both think you're funny, but you're actually highlighting the really horrifying facet of this problem here. You might be able to tell yourselves "It's fine I'll just use GPG too." but for the vast majority of the population and major institutions, security is effectively dead now, and they're trying to alter their business plans to adapt to making money in an environment where the forgone conclusions are that no system is secure-able and the only thing left with any value is your stolen identity.
If they're just doing that now they're at least a decade too late.
Yeah I've thought about that too. In metaphorical terms, a personal "digital lockbox" with very-fine-grained controls on who exactly gets what.
The problem is this: once you're data is out there how do you control it? At best you could control one, maybe two hops from your lockbox. After that it's in the world, where anyone and everyone can get at it, with no say at all on your part....
IMO that's the real issue here.
things change....
100% this. It's silly there's even an argument. Perhaps the arguers weren't around when computers had to load the OS from disk - every time you turned it on?
The one best reason not to impeach Trump is named Mike Pence. Last person you want as president is a right-wing fundamentalist fascist Christian controlling all of the nukes.
This, this, a hundred times this.
Conflict-Free Batteries for Everyone!
That's the thing, that day will never arrive. It is absolutely astonishing to me how so many people seem to have become little more than sci-fi futurists, and the absolute horse sh*t that flys out of their mouths. Technology is useful, hyperbole and fantasy, not so much.
FTFY.
Why? They clearly weren't incompetent at insider trading....
The military doesn't need to be at the forefront of social change. There is nothing wrong with the military lagging, and by doing so in minimizes internal disruption. Heck, greater society is still fighting bathroom policy, the military has other stuff to occupy its time.
If nothing else, this.
Of course, the notion that government departments have something better to do with their time hardly starts here....
See your answer just below....
There's nothing interesting with organizations demonstrating just how fucking stupid and ignorant the average consumer really is.
Heh, this.
Of course this is the root of most of the problem.
Even solving the latter would get us a great deal of the way there....
By that logic, I should receive no more of a penalty for stealing your car than I would for copying a picture file off of your computer.
At least we can be sure the source isn't the President....
12 'best practices' IT should avoid at all costs
3. Tell dumb-user stories
Is this really a best practice somewhere?
Agree with you both.
Unfortunately, we seem to have made "never enough time to do it right, plenty of time to do it over" the overarching mantra of... well... everything.
I still haven't been given a reasonable response to the question "why does it have to become a law before it can be declared unconstitutional?" Seems to to me that question should be considered before bothering the pres to get out his pen....
Whatever happened to doing homework before class? Whatever happened to due diligence? Are these just more lies taught to us in childhood?
One of the fraudulent distortions of the anti-vax crowd is heir claim that disease rates were going down anyway.
Sounds familiar... Oh yeah: "We don't need the IT people anymore - the machines are running fine!"
I'd like to continue feeling safe on the ground, thankyouverymuch.
You feel safe on the ground??! Huh....
And dependence on other nations for oil is not a concern as long as access to supply is certain [...]
And we will spend trillions of dollars of tax money and hundreds of thousands of lives to keep that access available.
FTFY.
Whatever happened to advertising a product? Spend money to make money and all that jazz.
Costs too much. Just like in-house beta-testing. That's why the idea was born to release purposely-buggy software and let your (ahem) customers pay for the privilege of doing it for you. It's a small step from there to get people to do your shil... er, advertising for you for free.
The 21st century version is "Spend less and make more."
Meh. The guy started out sorta well, but then the clips got longer and longer, and less and less on point, and were clearly not vetted....
He could have trimmed the videos to include the necessary sounds and maybe a few seconds on either side. And SEVEN MINUTES of Pong?!?!? I didn't go past about a minute or so, but surely he could have done better. And is the only existing sample of a TV channel sign-off something that sounds like an old hand-held cassette player during a brownout? And yeah - WTF with the Cat Stevens?
Not that this hasn't already been posted a dozen times, but:
"We felt another candidate would be a better fit with our company/culture/team. Good luck in your future endeavors."
You're welcome to join the current mostly-agreed-upon reality any time....
.... This is more like offering up constant home movies and, in return, getting a free goat that's constantly staring at you.
"The Goats Who Stare At Men" (TM my gf Carole)
Oh fer cryin' out loud. Would someone please find a link to Tim Stryker's Superdemocracy and forward it to PK before someone tries to patent this idea? I'm too tired right now.