A 9/11 event would have to happen twice a week or more to crack the top 5 causes of death in the US. Why is it so important to give up on fundamental freedoms (i.e. the 4th Amendment)? Does it seem more or less important to you after considering that by the NSA's own admission, not a single terrorist has been caught or a citizen's life saved by this surveillance?
This mentality makes me sad. More people will pay money to vote for an American Idol candidate on their own time than will vote for free in a presidential election with legally-mandated free time off work to do so.
It's no wonder that our government is so screwed up.
The point in the first go-round is less to get someone in with the proper views and more about sending a message to the current crop of politicians that they are not secure in their seats. With the re-election rate of Congressional seats, it is more important in the beginning to do this than to worry about getting the perfect person in. No matter who you vote in, it will end up badly for you if they never have to fear being voted back out.
It seems pretty silly to ask whether Jobs would have gone to jail. Of course he wouldn't.
Between his celebrity status and bankroll, there's a snowball's chance in hell that he could get convicted of anything, barring committing the crime right there in the courtroom.
The best part is when you find out that the "other guy" who put in the stupid code is you from months or years ago. You start to get incensed and rant about what idiot would write such awful code, check the commit logs, then facepalm as you realize it was you.
I occasionally wonder if that kind of thing would happen less frequently if our profession wasn't so quick to fire the guys whose gems turned black.
That's only because for some reason, the news of coal seam fires is virtually non-existent. Everyone can point out Chernobyl or Three Mile Island, but very few people are aware of Centralia (except perhaps Silent Hill enthusiasts).
I'm not so sure that it's that AT&T doesn't know the fiber is there. They just do not offer fiber services currently. It's the same story here in Kansas City. I can see plenty of orange fiber markers along some of the major streets, but the service is not offered.
It's quite possible that AT&T is going to roll out fiber service, and it won't cost much: in some areas, they merely have to switch on the lines already in place.
I'm sure he means quality-of-life things from a worker's perspective. This includes (but is not limited to) things like flex hours, telecommuting, normal hours (sad that a 40-hour workweek is a perk in IT-related fields), and other benefits.
Money is still important, but once the salary passes a minimum threshold, I have no problem choosing a lower-paid job if it comes with other benefits I feel make up the difference.
A big cash hoard is a bad thing. It represents money which could be re-invested in R&D, given to investors as dividends, used to increase salaries/benefits to make it a more attractive employer, given to charity to increase PR, or any number of things.
Technology isn't always moving forward in the field of cleaning-shit-up.
IT technology isn't always moving forward. Occasionally, it just moves sideways, or it even moves backwards. This is largely due to how immature IT is as a discipline, which is ironically because IT workers are disposable.
Also, why in God's Green Earth are we talking about regressing to the 1920s? When did we give up on progress? When did poverty become an acceptable condition?
It became acceptable (to those making the statement) around the time it became obvious that you cannot concentrate the wealth of the world much more than it already is without placing most of the population into poverty.
Devalued content helps the consumer all the way up until the flow of new content stops, and there is no indication that it would, even in a world where all content was distributed for free. I might have more sympathy for the guy if the big content producers didn't also bribe Congress to extend copyright duration to a point where something produced in an average person's lifetime will not enter the public domain until after they're long dead.
Sharing a hyperlink is no different than pointing at a bulletin board in plain view of the public. Neither the bulletin board nor the act of pointing to it should be illegal.
Despite the prior news story about a guy getting off for upskirt photos, this law seems like a solution looking for a problem. Has upskirt photography been such a large problem in Massachusetts that a law was required?
I would have thought basic social pressures and shaming (lets admit - people doing this *are* particularly creepy) would do a better job at limiting the number of offenders, and the rest would do it anyways.
With a law on the books, particularly one with the possibility for felony charges, I wonder how many times we are going to read about misapplication of the law. Do you technically run afoul of the law anytime you take a photo where a woman in a skirt is elevated from your current location, such as a place with an elevated walkway? Do you risk arrest for taking a picture in a location with an escalator or glass-walled elevator like many shopping malls? even if you are close to neither one?
You don't have to teach web developers DELETE or DROP - many web sites will happily let anyone run either statement from the comfort of the login page.
I would want to see a copy of the script before I performed one take of the movie. I just assumed any actor or actress would do the same.
The only scenario for which I could feel sympathy for Ms. Garcia would be if the script was radically changed during the course of filming to the point where it was completely different. Even then, my sympathy is limited because I would personally insist in having a clause in the contract to terminate early when big script changes occur.
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A 9/11 event would have to happen twice a week or more to crack the top 5 causes of death in the US. Why is it so important to give up on fundamental freedoms (i.e. the 4th Amendment)? Does it seem more or less important to you after considering that by the NSA's own admission, not a single terrorist has been caught or a citizen's life saved by this surveillance?
This mentality makes me sad. More people will pay money to vote for an American Idol candidate on their own time than will vote for free in a presidential election with legally-mandated free time off work to do so.
It's no wonder that our government is so screwed up.
The point in the first go-round is less to get someone in with the proper views and more about sending a message to the current crop of politicians that they are not secure in their seats. With the re-election rate of Congressional seats, it is more important in the beginning to do this than to worry about getting the perfect person in. No matter who you vote in, it will end up badly for you if they never have to fear being voted back out.
It seems pretty silly to ask whether Jobs would have gone to jail. Of course he wouldn't.
Between his celebrity status and bankroll, there's a snowball's chance in hell that he could get convicted of anything, barring committing the crime right there in the courtroom.
The best part is when you find out that the "other guy" who put in the stupid code is you from months or years ago. You start to get incensed and rant about what idiot would write such awful code, check the commit logs, then facepalm as you realize it was you.
I occasionally wonder if that kind of thing would happen less frequently if our profession wasn't so quick to fire the guys whose gems turned black.
That's only because for some reason, the news of coal seam fires is virtually non-existent. Everyone can point out Chernobyl or Three Mile Island, but very few people are aware of Centralia (except perhaps Silent Hill enthusiasts).
I'm not so sure that it's that AT&T doesn't know the fiber is there. They just do not offer fiber services currently. It's the same story here in Kansas City. I can see plenty of orange fiber markers along some of the major streets, but the service is not offered.
It's quite possible that AT&T is going to roll out fiber service, and it won't cost much: in some areas, they merely have to switch on the lines already in place.
I'm sure he means quality-of-life things from a worker's perspective. This includes (but is not limited to) things like flex hours, telecommuting, normal hours (sad that a 40-hour workweek is a perk in IT-related fields), and other benefits.
Money is still important, but once the salary passes a minimum threshold, I have no problem choosing a lower-paid job if it comes with other benefits I feel make up the difference.
A big cash hoard is a bad thing. It represents money which could be re-invested in R&D, given to investors as dividends, used to increase salaries/benefits to make it a more attractive employer, given to charity to increase PR, or any number of things.
Besides, there are all *kinds* of ways to make someone deaf again if they really want to be.
After all, everyone knows that free pizza makes everything better after an event like this.
Maybe you should watch it again. Forward the video to 2:54, where it narrates the following quotation:
During the lifetime of the patent, its disclosure may inspire other inventions.
As the quote is read, it shows an Appe II, then a Macbook. Immediately afterwards, it shows an iPad and an iPhone.
Technology isn't always moving forward in the field of cleaning-shit-up.
IT technology isn't always moving forward. Occasionally, it just moves sideways, or it even moves backwards. This is largely due to how immature IT is as a discipline, which is ironically because IT workers are disposable.
Why not? They know all about gaping holes... in security, among other things.
Also, why in God's Green Earth are we talking about regressing to the 1920s? When did we give up on progress? When did poverty become an acceptable condition?
It became acceptable (to those making the statement) around the time it became obvious that you cannot concentrate the wealth of the world much more than it already is without placing most of the population into poverty.
Devalued content helps the consumer all the way up until the flow of new content stops, and there is no indication that it would, even in a world where all content was distributed for free. I might have more sympathy for the guy if the big content producers didn't also bribe Congress to extend copyright duration to a point where something produced in an average person's lifetime will not enter the public domain until after they're long dead.
I'll take a correct comment over no comment any day.
The comment I am reading is still valid and accurate.
The beatings will continue until morale improves.
Sharing a hyperlink is no different than pointing at a bulletin board in plain view of the public. Neither the bulletin board nor the act of pointing to it should be illegal.
Despite the prior news story about a guy getting off for upskirt photos, this law seems like a solution looking for a problem. Has upskirt photography been such a large problem in Massachusetts that a law was required?
I would have thought basic social pressures and shaming (lets admit - people doing this *are* particularly creepy) would do a better job at limiting the number of offenders, and the rest would do it anyways.
With a law on the books, particularly one with the possibility for felony charges, I wonder how many times we are going to read about misapplication of the law. Do you technically run afoul of the law anytime you take a photo where a woman in a skirt is elevated from your current location, such as a place with an elevated walkway? Do you risk arrest for taking a picture in a location with an escalator or glass-walled elevator like many shopping malls? even if you are close to neither one?
You don't have to teach web developers DELETE or DROP - many web sites will happily let anyone run either statement from the comfort of the login page.
Never attribute to malice that which can be explained by incompetence. If ever there was a case for incompetence, it is with the patent office.
To err is human, but to truly screw up requires a computer.
I would want to see a copy of the script before I performed one take of the movie. I just assumed any actor or actress would do the same.
The only scenario for which I could feel sympathy for Ms. Garcia would be if the script was radically changed during the course of filming to the point where it was completely different. Even then, my sympathy is limited because I would personally insist in having a clause in the contract to terminate early when big script changes occur.
Apple is just as bad but apple has to use more open standards in order to compete.
USB might like to have a word with you.