Nevertheless, if your company's culture is despicably drama ridden, status driven, and passive aggressive, you will not retain the best talent. You're right, the owner can do what he wants, but he has to live with the consequences of his choices just like everyone else.
So what? Treat them like the royalty they were brought up to believe they are?
No thanks. Get to work. Finish your projects/assignments. Get paid. Go home and enjoy your life. That's all it should be. Why does corporate culture have to embrace highschool social dynamics and passive aggressive drama? The older generation's predilections for arbitrary social decorum and the new generation's entitlement complex create the dynamic. Both should knock it the fuck off and get to work.
Ah yes, holier than thou rhetoric. Perhaps corporate culture should focus more on results and not perception and appearance? You might make more money that way.
When I get hired, I enter into an agreement to do a specific set of tasks in order to receive a specific amount of money. If the work gets done correctly, in a timely fashion, I get paid. Otherwise, I don't and am fired. I have embraced nothing. This is the difference between an employee and a slave. A slave is forced to embrace the cultural whims of his master in order to gain a pittance for living expenses..if he's lucky.
If corporate culture routinely uses unsubstantiated opinions of minor traits to differentiate potential employees, I am not surprised our economy is in the shitter. How can such irrational people make good products and thus any money if the only skill they have and prize in new hires is social favoritism and conformity?
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hello fuck, I am here to help you. say whatever is on your mind freely. our conversation will be kept in strict confidence. memory contents will be wiped off after you leave. So, tell me about your problems.
>fuck.
I will get parity error if you keep talking in this asdf way.
I agree, it should be, but since the skills aren't being taught at home, what else could be done? My goal was to remove the political bias from the system yet still retain the pragmatic parts. Finance, health/diet/sex, cooking, job search, etc are all needed basic life skills. If they can't be taught at home because the parents never really learned or haven't bothered, then this might be the best way to minimize that state babysitter nightmare in subsequent generations. It sounds a bit backward, but kids that can do these things are less likely to become permanent welfare recipients when they grow up.
I went to one of those middle class highschools. While we don't have gunfights in the hallways, I'd say there's plenty of anti-intellectualism (the real deal, not the leftwing slur), dogmatic policy, and athleticentrism while I was there.
1. sports programs need to be separated from academia. move them to camps, state or privately funded. They don't belong in school. This really needs to happen at the university level too. athletics is some kind of cult in public schools in the USA. If you don't play some kind of sport, you're branded a 'loser' by the students AND the staff. While I don't mind them, and I do realize they can teach life lessons when they aren't neutered by political correctness, they compete for academic funding and relative importance within the school culture. that has to stop. same thing goes for other extra-curriculars.
2. The school budget should focus solely on math, science, the english language (in the USA), history (not 'social studies'), and a life-skills program (minus the political correctness in current health classes). This program would cover things like: eating habits, sexual behavior, phys ed, and at least a basic program on managing money. If the kid plays sports in after-school camp, then he's exempt from phys ed.
3. remove the tenure and bureaucracy that rewards non performers. Also, get rid of the crazy overreacting discipline policies. Stop expelling kids for bringing a fork to school to eat lunch, etc. If a kid's trouble, warn, then throw him out for the period. If it happens repeatedly, call the parents. No need to confiscate belongings, search lockers, or tell them what they can wear. If the policy gets in the way of doing these things, change the policy.
4. kids don't need ipads or other stupid toys.. They need teachers, decent textbooks, and buildings that aren't 90F in the summer and 40 in the winter. Bonus if they don't smell like urine. For technology access, a few computer labs are sufficient.
The americentric viewpoint of americans is second only to the smarmy, passive aggressive faux sophistication of western europeans (and possibly others), who claim to be open and accepting as they stereotype, generalize, and ridicule americans. Little do they realize their behavior is perfectly modeled by the leftist stereotypes americans use to describe them.
There's no way that programmers and bureaucrats can account for every situation. If those things are mandated, it'll be among the first of the black boxes I rip out when I get a car. Jail or not, if I can't drive, I'm fucked anyway and there's no way I'd drive or ride in a car driven by these programmed assumptions. The human decides, not the computer. The computer aids the human when permitted. Any other configuration is unacceptable. Legislation like this is the result when the technoignorant decide the law. Their sensibilities are trained by hollywood, not reality. Their masturbatory reverence for self driving cars is another example. They are fools.
I'm tired of paying for the soccer mom hamster utopia. The best thing we could do for safety is to ensure people know how to fucking drive and to rip down the cell towers along the highways.
Where does the idea come from that the job you're doing today is your eternal identity?
um, society? You can't change jobs too often or you're considered a flight risk and not considered hireable. You can't stay at one place too long or you're considered stagnant, and not hireable. If you're in your 30s and not in middle management, you're considered a failure, and not hireable (even if that's what you're applying for!). If you don't have a continuous job record for whatever reason, you're worse than a failure and can't get a job, even doing scutwork at min wage. Even the scutwork jobs have 'college' as a requirement now. wtf?
HR depts are using all these stupid metrics to decide candidacy, and that's why it's nearly impossible for them to fill jobs. 15% of the american population is out of work, while companies all want someone who is clean cut, has a college education, reliable transportation, and no legal record...even while they offer shit wages that cannot possibly pay for all of those things. Meanwhile, those 'lucky' enough to be employees are expected to work crazy hours so they can take out crazy loans just to make ends meet (car, college, home).
This modern life was supposed to be easier than that backbreaking rural labor lifestyle, right? Where did we go wrong?
Doesn't change the facts, though, does it? Despicable scum or patriotic hero, he leaked proof of illegal surveillance programs. If you want to criticize someone, why are you picking snowden? He's just the messenger. Regardless what the law says, it's obvious whistleblowing sometimes requires one to get into things he isn't supposed to know about. That comes with the territory.
There's nothing 'brilliant' about admins who can switch to other users. Just about every system allows that with one command. This 'official's' statement is a smear, plain and simple.
Not when these actions expose illegal behavior by the government... Remember, it was this government that created such law in the first place. The more of their own law they violate, the less legitimacy they have.
Law and ethics are not necessarily congruent.. in fact, a lot of times, they aren't, but are passed off to be by politicians and ideological zealots.
You do realize that today we live under the iron curtain of the 'liberal' oprah-tic soccermom mentality right?
biking is too dangerous.. same thing for sledding/boating/camping and the mosquitoes carry disease! That's why you see kids on bikes with 4000 protection devices...even when the kid's still on training wheels (even training wheels are lame)
Haven't you heard? chasing girls is 'sexual harassment.' Boys are rapists in training!! zomg
and no, this is not a troll. These attitudes are becoming more and more dominant every day.
Why? If you're looking for the selfish angle, maybe he/they just wanted the notoriety. However, he/they might've just wanted to do a public service. Most people trust dropbox to be secure. Of course, slashdot users should all know better than to trust the 'cloud' for anything sensitive, but a way to get this info to people who would not otherwise know this is to make a splash about a successful pen-test.
Lots of guys see it as a challenge; the digital equivalent of saying 'you can't have this.' Well, challenge accepted.
Actually, it's not dependent on whether the code is open or not. It's dependent on the design. If the design requires secret bits to stay hidden in the client, then open sourcing it would make it even more trivial to break, but with such designs, it would not matter whether it was open source or not. The huge library of cracked software out there speaks volumes to this.
Lawyers have trouble understanding that law doesn't dictate the limits of curiosity, greed, mathematics, or physics. If there is sufficient incentive, it WILL be cracked. In this case, I think they wanted to demonstrate that drop box is not secure. This should be a 'duh' experience for anyone in IT worth their salt.
even then, all it takes is someone versed in the assembly language of the platform your application runs on, a copy of IDA pro or something similar, and a few hours of his time. I know this is a bit of a lost art in today's world of python and javascript, but it's still valid.
Socialist countries heavily subsidize infrastructure at taxpayer expense, but either way, the bills have to be paid. I like my freedom and control over my income, so I don't mind paying going market rates. I realize it's not comparable to $10/mo for gigabit like it might be in stockholm because the other $60 is publically funded.
Tat said, I do believe the infrastructure could be improved, but that other things like rollbacks on data monitoring are more important.
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Nevertheless, if your company's culture is despicably drama ridden, status driven, and passive aggressive, you will not retain the best talent. You're right, the owner can do what he wants, but he has to live with the consequences of his choices just like everyone else.
you could try upgrading your kernel to get access to newer driver revisions.
So what? Treat them like the royalty they were brought up to believe they are?
No thanks. Get to work. Finish your projects/assignments. Get paid. Go home and enjoy your life. That's all it should be. Why does corporate culture have to embrace highschool social dynamics and passive aggressive drama? The older generation's predilections for arbitrary social decorum and the new generation's entitlement complex create the dynamic. Both should knock it the fuck off and get to work.
Ah yes, holier than thou rhetoric. Perhaps corporate culture should focus more on results and not perception and appearance? You might make more money that way.
When I get hired, I enter into an agreement to do a specific set of tasks in order to receive a specific amount of money. If the work gets done correctly, in a timely fashion, I get paid. Otherwise, I don't and am fired. I have embraced nothing. This is the difference between an employee and a slave. A slave is forced to embrace the cultural whims of his master in order to gain a pittance for living expenses..if he's lucky.
If corporate culture routinely uses unsubstantiated opinions of minor traits to differentiate potential employees, I am not surprised our economy is in the shitter. How can such irrational people make good products and thus any money if the only skill they have and prize in new hires is social favoritism and conformity?
What exactly did his desktop background disrespect? Why does it concern you? it's his desktop background, not yours.
No thanks.. we have enough 'collectivism' already. it's what bred the autocratic bureaucracies we now live under.
DR SBAITSO, by creative labs, please enter your name: fuck
hello fuck,
I am here to help you. say whatever is on your mind freely. our conversation will be kept in strict confidence. memory contents will be wiped off after you leave. So, tell me about your problems.
>fuck.
I will get parity error if you keep talking in this asdf way.
>fuck
BEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEP
PARITY
>lets talk about sexy stuffs.
How old are you?
>13
wait a few more years kid..
I agree, it should be, but since the skills aren't being taught at home, what else could be done? My goal was to remove the political bias from the system yet still retain the pragmatic parts. Finance, health/diet/sex, cooking, job search, etc are all needed basic life skills. If they can't be taught at home because the parents never really learned or haven't bothered, then this might be the best way to minimize that state babysitter nightmare in subsequent generations. It sounds a bit backward, but kids that can do these things are less likely to become permanent welfare recipients when they grow up.
I went to one of those middle class highschools. While we don't have gunfights in the hallways, I'd say there's plenty of anti-intellectualism (the real deal, not the leftwing slur), dogmatic policy, and athleticentrism while I was there.
1. sports programs need to be separated from academia. move them to camps, state or privately funded. They don't belong in school. This really needs to happen at the university level too. athletics is some kind of cult in public schools in the USA. If you don't play some kind of sport, you're branded a 'loser' by the students AND the staff. While I don't mind them, and I do realize they can teach life lessons when they aren't neutered by political correctness, they compete for academic funding and relative importance within the school culture. that has to stop. same thing goes for other extra-curriculars.
2. The school budget should focus solely on math, science, the english language (in the USA), history (not 'social studies'), and a life-skills program (minus the political correctness in current health classes). This program would cover things like: eating habits, sexual behavior, phys ed, and at least a basic program on managing money. If the kid plays sports in after-school camp, then he's exempt from phys ed.
3. remove the tenure and bureaucracy that rewards non performers. Also, get rid of the crazy overreacting discipline policies. Stop expelling kids for bringing a fork to school to eat lunch, etc. If a kid's trouble, warn, then throw him out for the period. If it happens repeatedly, call the parents. No need to confiscate belongings, search lockers, or tell them what they can wear. If the policy gets in the way of doing these things, change the policy.
4. kids don't need ipads or other stupid toys.. They need teachers, decent textbooks, and buildings that aren't 90F in the summer and 40 in the winter. Bonus if they don't smell like urine. For technology access, a few computer labs are sufficient.
The americentric viewpoint of americans is second only to the smarmy, passive aggressive faux sophistication of western europeans (and possibly others), who claim to be open and accepting as they stereotype, generalize, and ridicule americans. Little do they realize their behavior is perfectly modeled by the leftist stereotypes americans use to describe them.
no thanks.
There's no way that programmers and bureaucrats can account for every situation. If those things are mandated, it'll be among the first of the black boxes I rip out when I get a car. Jail or not, if I can't drive, I'm fucked anyway and there's no way I'd drive or ride in a car driven by these programmed assumptions. The human decides, not the computer. The computer aids the human when permitted. Any other configuration is unacceptable. Legislation like this is the result when the technoignorant decide the law. Their sensibilities are trained by hollywood, not reality. Their masturbatory reverence for self driving cars is another example. They are fools.
I'm tired of paying for the soccer mom hamster utopia. The best thing we could do for safety is to ensure people know how to fucking drive and to rip down the cell towers along the highways.
The 'common sense' for the wannabe tyrants is not the 'common sense' for the liberties of the rest of us.
Unlikely since even a drunk human has far more contextual awareness than an embedded computer.
Where does the idea come from that the job you're doing today is your eternal identity?
um, society? You can't change jobs too often or you're considered a flight risk and not considered hireable. You can't stay at one place too long or you're considered stagnant, and not hireable. If you're in your 30s and not in middle management, you're considered a failure, and not hireable (even if that's what you're applying for!). If you don't have a continuous job record for whatever reason, you're worse than a failure and can't get a job, even doing scutwork at min wage. Even the scutwork jobs have 'college' as a requirement now. wtf?
HR depts are using all these stupid metrics to decide candidacy, and that's why it's nearly impossible for them to fill jobs. 15% of the american population is out of work, while companies all want someone who is clean cut, has a college education, reliable transportation, and no legal record...even while they offer shit wages that cannot possibly pay for all of those things. Meanwhile, those 'lucky' enough to be employees are expected to work crazy hours so they can take out crazy loans just to make ends meet (car, college, home).
This modern life was supposed to be easier than that backbreaking rural labor lifestyle, right? Where did we go wrong?
Instead they'll be fixing people hurt by broken self 'driving' cars.
Doesn't change the facts, though, does it? Despicable scum or patriotic hero, he leaked proof of illegal surveillance programs. If you want to criticize someone, why are you picking snowden? He's just the messenger. Regardless what the law says, it's obvious whistleblowing sometimes requires one to get into things he isn't supposed to know about. That comes with the territory.
I wouldn't trust the news in your home country (where ever it is) any more than that coming from the US.
There's nothing 'brilliant' about admins who can switch to other users. Just about every system allows that with one command. This 'official's' statement is a smear, plain and simple.
Not when these actions expose illegal behavior by the government... Remember, it was this government that created such law in the first place. The more of their own law they violate, the less legitimacy they have.
Law and ethics are not necessarily congruent.. in fact, a lot of times, they aren't, but are passed off to be by politicians and ideological zealots.
You do realize that today we live under the iron curtain of the 'liberal' oprah-tic soccermom mentality right?
biking is too dangerous.. same thing for sledding/boating/camping and the mosquitoes carry disease! That's why you see kids on bikes with 4000 protection devices...even when the kid's still on training wheels (even training wheels are lame)
Haven't you heard? chasing girls is 'sexual harassment.' Boys are rapists in training!! zomg
and no, this is not a troll. These attitudes are becoming more and more dominant every day.
Why? If you're looking for the selfish angle, maybe he/they just wanted the notoriety. However, he/they might've just wanted to do a public service. Most people trust dropbox to be secure. Of course, slashdot users should all know better than to trust the 'cloud' for anything sensitive, but a way to get this info to people who would not otherwise know this is to make a splash about a successful pen-test.
Lots of guys see it as a challenge; the digital equivalent of saying 'you can't have this.' Well, challenge accepted.
Actually, it's not dependent on whether the code is open or not. It's dependent on the design. If the design requires secret bits to stay hidden in the client, then open sourcing it would make it even more trivial to break, but with such designs, it would not matter whether it was open source or not. The huge library of cracked software out there speaks volumes to this.
Lawyers have trouble understanding that law doesn't dictate the limits of curiosity, greed, mathematics, or physics. If there is sufficient incentive, it WILL be cracked. In this case, I think they wanted to demonstrate that drop box is not secure. This should be a 'duh' experience for anyone in IT worth their salt.
even then, all it takes is someone versed in the assembly language of the platform your application runs on, a copy of IDA pro or something similar, and a few hours of his time. I know this is a bit of a lost art in today's world of python and javascript, but it's still valid.
Socialist countries heavily subsidize infrastructure at taxpayer expense, but either way, the bills have to be paid. I like my freedom and control over my income, so I don't mind paying going market rates. I realize it's not comparable to $10/mo for gigabit like it might be in stockholm because the other $60 is publically funded.
Tat said, I do believe the infrastructure could be improved, but that other things like rollbacks on data monitoring are more important.