Whilst lesser mortals would simply start coding, for PhD holders there's work to be done beforehand - analyses, case studies, lots of graphs, research down the pub...
Well there's crucial differences between personal and professional responsibility.
In the case of personal responsibility, you may well disregard cautions, and in doing so you expose yourself to risk. In the case of professional responsibility, your position may enable you to do far more damage than burn your tongue or feed fat kids unhealthy burgers.
I'm very uncomfortable with mistakes that are made professionally resulting in "no further atcion being taken". This is especially true in government where they can be judge, jury and defendent, and dismiss the prosecutor.
four were fired for security breaches, one chose to resign under the threat of termination and seven others received various formal reprimands
All too often these matters are concluded by way of "well mistakes were made, lets just leave it at that and forget about it".
As a US taxpayer (which I'm not) I'd want an investigation into the basis for the allegations and who made them. If someone is wrongly accused then the accusators have to be held responsible for their errors.
The idea that someone should be ridiculed for not being familiar with US culture could be modded funny. Were it not for the fact that I think you actually mean it.
If you're saying that the staff at google are on a par with the people working at your subway on this, then I'm in agreement.
In fact, a "philly" is probably philadelphia soft cheese? That's fine but the majority of the connected population still doesn't share the same geography as Google. Or you local sandwich shop.
regions other than mid-West USA, I'll take an interest in this facility.
Personally, I wouldn't know Wichetaw County from Wisconsin, and neither would the majority of the people on the planet, connected or otherwise.
In fact, if they wanted to catch a high density of people, they should've mapped somewhere in central Japan which has half the US population in a hundredth of the area! So they chose their own backyard. To be honest, "we think outside the box" has never sounded so trite as coming from Google.
C++ allowed you to do arbitrary casting, arbitrary adding of images and pointers, and converting them back and forth between pointers in a very, very unstructured way.
Unstructured? Yes. A huge security hole? No more than any other language using COM objects. You can write crappy spaghetti code in any language. The type interface for.NET and the unsafe keyword for managed code are there to restrict how you use native objects.
What Gosling is really criticising is the way.NET handles managed code, which java can't do so easily (remember jini? Me neither) - so what.NET should really do according to Gosling is have a sandbox runtime with no severely restricted access to the native interfaces - to hell with performance compared no native methods? Oh, that'll be just like ummm.. java then.
Tell that to the people who were missold endowment mortgages or who invested in pensions schemes only for the pension company to foreclose on them, or the people who paid into comapny schemes only for the company to liquidate just before many of them retire.
Maybe you don't quite understand what capitalism is. It's about protecting the capital-generating mechanism, not looking after it's architects. Who are it's architects? The workers.
Unless you are a business owner, you are doomed to fail to get your true worth from a company. If you don't understand that, you're not quite grasping how companies work and how they actually make themselves money.
Reading Paul Graham's excellent essay on what you need to know in highschool, I was left with an unanswered question. Teaching high school kids to look for difficult questions and choose challenging careerpaths is fine, but how do they cope with what is now an extrememly fickle job market? This is the real question I think.
It used to be simpler - companies valued talented people. Nowadays, companies value hot and cold-running talent - there's no concept of nurture, and this is largely due to the nature of capitalism.
As Adam Smith said, "capitalism is a financial workhorse, with blinkers to the past and future. It knows only now and sees only the present."
This has become our reality, and yes, it's ugly. You most likely won't program until retirement, you'll more likely be left out to graze in your early fifties to live off the state.
Is that a waste? Most definitely yes. But no-one ever said capitalism was an efficient workhorse.
I just clicked the link and it downloaded the EXP/Phel-A virus (only when I use IE, not Firefox). Sophos Anti-Virus picked it up and gives this advisory.
If Sophos isn't mistaken, the Secunia site is infecting visitors with viruses?!
As of Jan 1 2005, the FIA comes into force. But its very watered down. So much so that the European Commissioner has strongly criticised it for being one of the weakest implementations in the EU.
Only if you can wade through the tonne (US:ton) of exemptions under the Act and persuade the Information Commissioner that there's a case for releasing them.
Actually they're nothing to do with the 2005 FIA, neither the DPA 1998 as they affect a financial interest. Yep, if a company can claim to stake a financial interest in not releasing the informaiton it's exempt from the FIA and the DPA. Shocking isn't it?
Then it's probably a very cosy relationship between the tax accounting software companies and the Inland Revenue Service. They pay ahem... "subscription charges" for the documentation and specifications, the tax accounting software companies get to call their software "fully IR/IRS compliant".
Is it time to blow the whistle on the scam by asking for specs without the fees? Damn right it is. Will they listen? Not unless you can get some mainstream media behind you.
Slashdot Mirror
The "Why?" link on the site says that in the 1930s, we were able to type at 50WPM and now in 2004 the Alphagrip allows us to type at ... up to 50WPM.
Whilst lesser mortals would simply start coding, for PhD holders there's work to be done beforehand - analyses, case studies, lots of graphs, research down the pub ...
You said it more eloquently than I was able to.
The whole concept of social responsibility in most developed countries is presently defunct.
Well there's crucial differences between personal and professional responsibility.
In the case of personal responsibility, you may well disregard cautions, and in doing so you expose yourself to risk. In the case of professional responsibility, your position may enable you to do far more damage than burn your tongue or feed fat kids unhealthy burgers.
I'm very uncomfortable with mistakes that are made professionally resulting in "no further atcion being taken". This is especially true in government where they can be judge, jury and defendent, and dismiss the prosecutor.
four were fired for security breaches, one chose to resign under the threat of termination and seven others received various formal reprimands
All too often these matters are concluded by way of "well mistakes were made, lets just leave it at that and forget about it".
As a US taxpayer (which I'm not) I'd want an investigation into the basis for the allegations and who made them. If someone is wrongly accused then the accusators have to be held responsible for their errors.
a valuable lesson from this. "Building Communities Course 101", page one, paragraph one could read
"Thou shalt not close the community at the expense of diversity of opinion".
I'm not sure why it took them so long to work this one out. Just goes to show that there's nothing common about common sense.
The one they never include.
The idea that someone should be ridiculed for not being familiar with US culture could be modded funny. Were it not for the fact that I think you actually mean it.
Thanks, but no thanks, "bud".
If you're saying that the staff at google are on a par with the people working at your subway on this, then I'm in agreement.
In fact, a "philly" is probably philadelphia soft cheese? That's fine but the majority of the connected population still doesn't share the same geography as Google. Or you local sandwich shop.
regions other than mid-West USA, I'll take an interest in this facility.
Personally, I wouldn't know Wichetaw County from Wisconsin, and neither would the majority of the people on the planet, connected or otherwise.
In fact, if they wanted to catch a high density of people, they should've mapped somewhere in central Japan which has half the US population in a hundredth of the area! So they chose their own backyard. To be honest, "we think outside the box" has never sounded so trite as coming from Google.
Good analogy. Mod up.
C++ allowed you to do arbitrary casting, arbitrary adding of images and pointers, and converting them back and forth between pointers in a very, very unstructured way.
.NET and the unsafe keyword for managed code are there to restrict how you use native objects.
.NET handles managed code, which java can't do so easily (remember jini? Me neither) - so what .NET should really do according to Gosling is have a sandbox runtime with no severely restricted access to the native interfaces - to hell with performance compared no native methods? Oh, that'll be just like ummm .. java then.
Unstructured? Yes. A huge security hole? No more than any other language using COM objects. You can write crappy spaghetti code in any language. The type interface for
What Gosling is really criticising is the way
Of course, this comes off as a bit of a joke
..."
Yes, it does but only because the author actually meant to say "It should be pointed out that
Even Jason Kottke speculated on this in ummm, last September.
Is it more credible now that Slashdot's found the story?
Dupe.
... hidden somewhere else.
This only confirms that the finger of this site isn't on the pulse, it's errr
"It should be pointed that Slashdot (and OSTG) have a partnership with Speakeasy."
It is very pointed, but not relevant.
Tell that to the people who were missold endowment mortgages or who invested in pensions schemes only for the pension company to foreclose on them, or the people who paid into comapny schemes only for the company to liquidate just before many of them retire.
Maybe you don't quite understand what capitalism is. It's about protecting the capital-generating mechanism, not looking after it's architects. Who are it's architects? The workers.
Unless you are a business owner, you are doomed to fail to get your true worth from a company. If you don't understand that, you're not quite grasping how companies work and how they actually make themselves money.
Reading Paul Graham's excellent essay on what you need to know in highschool, I was left with an unanswered question. Teaching high school kids to look for difficult questions and choose challenging careerpaths is fine, but how do they cope with what is now an extrememly fickle job market? This is the real question I think.
It used to be simpler - companies valued talented people. Nowadays, companies value hot and cold-running talent - there's no concept of nurture, and this is largely due to the nature of capitalism.
As Adam Smith said, "capitalism is a financial workhorse, with blinkers to the past and future. It knows only now and sees only the present."
This has become our reality, and yes, it's ugly. You most likely won't program until retirement, you'll more likely be left out to graze in your early fifties to live off the state.
Is that a waste? Most definitely yes. But no-one ever said capitalism was an efficient workhorse.
For open source. Linus should play Tron.
Hey if the Hollywood mincemeat machine has it's way, a game would come out and it would probably look just like Armagetron.
Bill Gates should play MCP. "MCP" sounds alarmingly like a Microsoft "Cert" doesn't it?
As Charlton Heston, president of the National Rifle Association says.
Come to think of it, is he still alive?
I just clicked the link and it downloaded the EXP/Phel-A virus (only when I use IE, not Firefox). Sophos Anti-Virus picked it up and gives this advisory.
If Sophos isn't mistaken, the Secunia site is infecting visitors with viruses?!
Oh please tell me you don't work for the government.
Why do I think you work for the government?
a) You posted as AC.
b) You (almost) sincerely believe that lack of revenue is a valid excuse for not doing your job properly.
Yes the parent is absolutely correct.
As of Jan 1 2005, the FIA comes into force. But its very watered down. So much so that the European Commissioner has strongly criticised it for being one of the weakest implementations in the EU.
Oh well.
Only if you can wade through the tonne (US:ton) of exemptions under the Act and persuade the Information Commissioner that there's a case for releasing them.
Actually they're nothing to do with the 2005 FIA, neither the DPA 1998 as they affect a financial interest. Yep, if a company can claim to stake a financial interest in not releasing the informaiton it's exempt from the FIA and the DPA. Shocking isn't it?
Then it's probably a very cosy relationship between the tax accounting software companies and the Inland Revenue Service. They pay ahem ... "subscription charges" for the documentation and specifications, the tax accounting software companies get to call their software "fully IR/IRS compliant".
Is it time to blow the whistle on the scam by asking for specs without the fees? Damn right it is. Will they listen? Not unless you can get some mainstream media behind you.