This creates an incentive for terrorism by insane individuals.
Remember the case where someone tried to manipulate the stock market by putting cyanide in Tylenol?
I might not have the facts exactly right, but the idea is the same. The potential exists for someone to use this to make money, by finding a way to encourage the terrorist acts to come true.
Removing the cobwebs.
People almost never remove old stuff. For example:
- old projects from sourceforge
- old module owners from the mozilla.org list of module owners
- old out of date documentation
The older a project our the community gets, the more bloated it will get with incorrect information. Try to do some work, and find you wasted a day because of out of date stuff.
Projects need a little, eek dare I say, management.
I agree -- it's better to devise a solution than to sue. And there is a solution out there.
This article was posted as flamebait and it is working as such. Because it contains the phrase "hinting at lawsuits" many people end up on one side of the issue. It could have been worded in a way that manipulated the majority in a different direction.
Noam Chomsky has written about this, specifically about the way the American news media manipulates the public. Make a few subtle language changes and people believe something utterly different.
Sometimes code is critiqued too much, and made into the ends instead of the means.
Yes, the code becomes more and more beautiful -- but sometimes engineers become obsessed with the code itself and forget about other important things, like... the user.
Putting oneself into the user's mindset while you write can be more important than having perfectly written code. Otherwise it all becomes an academic exercise, something to stroke the coder's ego.
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This creates an incentive for terrorism by insane individuals.
Remember the case where someone tried to manipulate the stock market by putting cyanide in Tylenol?
I might not have the facts exactly right, but the idea is the same. The potential exists for someone to use this to make money, by finding a way to encourage the terrorist acts to come true.
Removing the cobwebs. People almost never remove old stuff. For example: - old projects from sourceforge - old module owners from the mozilla.org list of module owners - old out of date documentation The older a project our the community gets, the more bloated it will get with incorrect information. Try to do some work, and find you wasted a day because of out of date stuff. Projects need a little, eek dare I say, management.
Sorry .. groan. I'm sure some news reporter already got to that one.
How about ... nanopayments
Even more affordable and futuristic!
I agree -- it's better to devise a solution than to sue. And there is a solution out there. This article was posted as flamebait and it is working as such. Because it contains the phrase "hinting at lawsuits" many people end up on one side of the issue. It could have been worded in a way that manipulated the majority in a different direction. Noam Chomsky has written about this, specifically about the way the American news media manipulates the public. Make a few subtle language changes and people believe something utterly different.
Sometimes code is critiqued too much, and made into the ends instead of the means.
... the user.
Yes, the code becomes more and more beautiful -- but sometimes engineers become obsessed with the code itself and forget about other important things, like
Putting oneself into the user's mindset while you write can be more important than having perfectly written code. Otherwise it all becomes an academic exercise, something to stroke the coder's ego.