It is yet to be seen how effective an insurance program it is, as it also provides incentives to any nation who dislikes the US to kill him simply so the information gets released.
If you order a PB&J sandwich and don't tell them to hold the peanut butter because you have a peanut allergy, that is not a case of peanuts being force upon you. Just as you could tell people giving you food not to give you anything with peanuts in it, you could set your browser (or pick a different one) so as to not request that code.
To bring your analogy into present-day, everything on the menu has peanuts in it. You can order water, but peanut oil might have accidentally gotten onto the glass.
There are precious few websites anymore that work completely with JavaScript disabled.
That's not entirely true. Tesla had its first profitable quarter this year, though admittedly that was due to selling emissions credits pushing them into the black. Over time, the company has continually driven down the cost of production, and you can see from the financials that revenue and gross profit is growing, so it looks promising that it might finally be able to stand on its own soon.
Interrupting a 1-week sprint occasionally due to business needs is fine. Doing so on such a regular basis that a member of the development team feels the need to beg for help in a public forum (Slashdot, no less) is indication of a rather large management failure. Blaming schedule slips on the devs after arbitrarily changing direction shows that management has no concern or respect for them.
I know the submitter doesn't want to hear this, but if his description is even remotely accurate, he needs to start looking for another job (yes, it is *always* an option).
I have had multiple times in just the last few weeks where I will be sitting at a light, get the green, and a driver in the left turn lane on the opposite side will creep out, look directly at me, wait for me to start going, and *then* start to turn in front of me. Good times.
You seem to be under the impression that most people have the job they have because they want to "do good."
Aye. We have a word for people who work a job to "do good". We call them "volunteers". When it comes to paid employment, "doing good" is a perk, but like any other perk, it can be happily eliminated if compensated for in another fashion (more money works well).
His administration bears some blame, yes. Obama's administration bears some blame for continuing (and perhaps expanding) this rampant abuse of power. And, the American public bears some blame for continuing to vote Democrat and Republican despite every indication that doing so is against their best interests.
While the program may or may not be any good at catching terrorists, I'm sure it works fantastically well against political opponents who use regular avenues of communication because they feel they have nothing to hide.
There's a slight difference between a person whose entire philosophy is based upon the worship of sociopathic behavior and someone who simply doesn't take crap from people over how he maintains the largest distributed project in the world. That, and the open source nature of the Linux kernel shatters any hope of making a strong parallel with Ayn Rand, no matter how much of a dick Linus can be sometimes.
You might have noticed that your latest approval rating is 10%.
They probably noticed, but they don't care. Why should they? House Representatives have had a >80% re-election rate for the last 50 years, and Senators have had a >=75% re-election rate for the last 30.
Congressmen will start caring about approval rate when it starts to correlate with re-election rates, and not before. Until then, campaign contributions and promises of cushy post-Congress jobs account for far more influence, and Congressional votes reflect that fact.
Entrapment has no requirement that the officer identify him- or herself as such. Rather, the primary definition of entrapment deals more with the idea that the otherwise law-abiding individual committed the crime due to the officer's actions, identified or not. If self-identification of the officer were a component, then there would never be any question of entrapment by undercover officers.
Rather than flamebait, I would salute the GP for the ingenious satire of the very thought process which led to the sentences being as lopsided as they are.
As 9/11 was the only significant terrorist-based airline disaster in my lifetime (and I have more years before 2001 than after), I am quite comfortable saying that we don't need the TSA.
But even if we say that there's a slightly increased chance of a disaster without the TSA... terrorists could detonate a bomb aboard two 747 flights every day, every year, and it would still be a distant third cause of death for US citizens.
It's not that agile encourages laziness from the client... it's more that agile realizes that many (most?) clients don't really know what they want up front.
I find mention of the car design up above particularly useful, as you may have a client go through a lot of trouble to explain that they want a car and work with you to design a beautiful station wagon. You produce that station wagon perfectly to spec, and the user grudgingly accepts the station wagon but is never fully satisfied with it because what he/she *really* wanted was a sports car, but the user was unable to fully realize it until you handed over the station wagon.
Now that the process is over, though, the user is stuck with the station wagon unless he/she is willing to start the process again and throw more money at it (and at least in my contrived example, they got a working car).
The underlying goal of agile is to get the user to realize he/she wanted the sports car at a point early enough in the process to either change course and make the sports car with minimal extra overhead or realize the end product is simply going to be a station wagon and live with it or cancel the project early.
Very good point, no news source has ever been in existence that didn't have an ulterior motive. Weather it was for profit, pander or ideals. The news has always been spoon fed to us.
Well, the bias has manifested itself in different ways and severity. I'm sure that there have been some egregious cases of bias in the past. In past decades though, many news stations took their job seriously and strove for objective news, with biases creeping in mostly as a result of subconscious slips when putting together stories.
Today, because echo chamber news has shown to be more profitable than real news, the bias is mostly mandated by company policy. Fox started first by pandering to the right, MSNBC came next by pandering to the left, and CNN... well, I think CNN just has a gas leak somewhere in their office.
Slashdot Mirror
Attack of the Killer Tomatoes!
Innocent until proven broke.
It is yet to be seen how effective an insurance program it is, as it also provides incentives to any nation who dislikes the US to kill him simply so the information gets released.
I don't remember C or C++ having these kinds of gotchas.
If you order a PB&J sandwich and don't tell them to hold the peanut butter because you have a peanut allergy, that is not a case of peanuts being force upon you. Just as you could tell people giving you food not to give you anything with peanuts in it, you could set your browser (or pick a different one) so as to not request that code.
To bring your analogy into present-day, everything on the menu has peanuts in it. You can order water, but peanut oil might have accidentally gotten onto the glass.
There are precious few websites anymore that work completely with JavaScript disabled.
That's not entirely true. Tesla had its first profitable quarter this year, though admittedly that was due to selling emissions credits pushing them into the black. Over time, the company has continually driven down the cost of production, and you can see from the financials that revenue and gross profit is growing, so it looks promising that it might finally be able to stand on its own soon.
Well, you do have to be somewhat of a tight-ass to be a NSA spook...
There you go.
Interrupting a 1-week sprint occasionally due to business needs is fine. Doing so on such a regular basis that a member of the development team feels the need to beg for help in a public forum (Slashdot, no less) is indication of a rather large management failure. Blaming schedule slips on the devs after arbitrarily changing direction shows that management has no concern or respect for them.
I know the submitter doesn't want to hear this, but if his description is even remotely accurate, he needs to start looking for another job (yes, it is *always* an option).
I have had multiple times in just the last few weeks where I will be sitting at a light, get the green, and a driver in the left turn lane on the opposite side will creep out, look directly at me, wait for me to start going, and *then* start to turn in front of me. Good times.
That doesn't sound significantly different than traditional hierarchies. Just look at most politicians and CEOs.
You seem to be under the impression that most people have the job they have because they want to "do good."
Aye. We have a word for people who work a job to "do good". We call them "volunteers". When it comes to paid employment, "doing good" is a perk, but like any other perk, it can be happily eliminated if compensated for in another fashion (more money works well).
His administration bears some blame, yes. Obama's administration bears some blame for continuing (and perhaps expanding) this rampant abuse of power. And, the American public bears some blame for continuing to vote Democrat and Republican despite every indication that doing so is against their best interests.
While the program may or may not be any good at catching terrorists, I'm sure it works fantastically well against political opponents who use regular avenues of communication because they feel they have nothing to hide.
There's a slight difference between a person whose entire philosophy is based upon the worship of sociopathic behavior and someone who simply doesn't take crap from people over how he maintains the largest distributed project in the world. That, and the open source nature of the Linux kernel shatters any hope of making a strong parallel with Ayn Rand, no matter how much of a dick Linus can be sometimes.
You might have noticed that your latest approval rating is 10%.
They probably noticed, but they don't care. Why should they? House Representatives have had a >80% re-election rate for the last 50 years, and Senators have had a >=75% re-election rate for the last 30.
Congressmen will start caring about approval rate when it starts to correlate with re-election rates, and not before. Until then, campaign contributions and promises of cushy post-Congress jobs account for far more influence, and Congressional votes reflect that fact.
Entrapment has no requirement that the officer identify him- or herself as such. Rather, the primary definition of entrapment deals more with the idea that the otherwise law-abiding individual committed the crime due to the officer's actions, identified or not. If self-identification of the officer were a component, then there would never be any question of entrapment by undercover officers.
Rather than flamebait, I would salute the GP for the ingenious satire of the very thought process which led to the sentences being as lopsided as they are.
As 9/11 was the only significant terrorist-based airline disaster in my lifetime (and I have more years before 2001 than after), I am quite comfortable saying that we don't need the TSA.
But even if we say that there's a slightly increased chance of a disaster without the TSA... terrorists could detonate a bomb aboard two 747 flights every day, every year, and it would still be a distant third cause of death for US citizens.
It's not that agile encourages laziness from the client... it's more that agile realizes that many (most?) clients don't really know what they want up front.
I find mention of the car design up above particularly useful, as you may have a client go through a lot of trouble to explain that they want a car and work with you to design a beautiful station wagon. You produce that station wagon perfectly to spec, and the user grudgingly accepts the station wagon but is never fully satisfied with it because what he/she *really* wanted was a sports car, but the user was unable to fully realize it until you handed over the station wagon.
Now that the process is over, though, the user is stuck with the station wagon unless he/she is willing to start the process again and throw more money at it (and at least in my contrived example, they got a working car).
The underlying goal of agile is to get the user to realize he/she wanted the sports car at a point early enough in the process to either change course and make the sports car with minimal extra overhead or realize the end product is simply going to be a station wagon and live with it or cancel the project early.
Yes. It's an ingenious plan to drum up repeat business.
They're completing at how much cheating they can do without getting caught. The ones who are at the top of their game are excelling at cheating.
Going through the trouble to create a rootkit which just acts as a wrapper for a piece of software that always returns true seems like a waste.
It's not wrong because someone is doing it. It's wrong because they are doing it.
Very good point, no news source has ever been in existence that didn't have an ulterior motive. Weather it was for profit, pander or ideals. The news has always been spoon fed to us.
Well, the bias has manifested itself in different ways and severity. I'm sure that there have been some egregious cases of bias in the past. In past decades though, many news stations took their job seriously and strove for objective news, with biases creeping in mostly as a result of subconscious slips when putting together stories.
Today, because echo chamber news has shown to be more profitable than real news, the bias is mostly mandated by company policy. Fox started first by pandering to the right, MSNBC came next by pandering to the left, and CNN... well, I think CNN just has a gas leak somewhere in their office.