the press may only get to make ONE mistake before i'm killed.
True, just like your fellow soldiers may make only ONE mistake before you get killed.
This will probably sound cold, but risk is a part of the price we pay for living in a free society. For example, if we restricted ownership of weapons to the government we'd be safer as far fewer criminals would have guns. However, we as a society value freedom and thus we accept that criminals can use guns (and possibly kill people with them) in order for law abiding citizens to use guns.
if somehow information on my location gets leaked to the press and the press reports it
Just like you trust your commanders, you have to trust the press to not report such things. The amount of information the press DOES NOT report just might amaze you.
Is it really possible to classify an illegal program?
Absolutely.
Those who violate the Constitution, especially those who have sworn a public oath to to uphold the Constitution, must be held accountable.
In theory at least, that's the responsibility of Congress with things like this. You remember, checks and balances? Of course, it only works when you have a Congress that takes its responsibilities seriously. Not like the spineless group we've had for the last six years who.
Actually, they are. They are specifically cited as a special protected group in the first amendment of the U.S. Constitution. Congress is specifically prevented from making any law abridging the freedom of the press.
There was a big todo a couple of years ago about some information being leaked and the Senate was going to investigate. Then Senator Richard Shelby, REPUBLICAN, let it quietly be known that he was the source of the leak and the investigation was stopped faster than you can ping localhost...
Classified information is definitely not defined as something that anybody can talk about.
That's true. People who have clearance, and thus have signed agreements with the government to not reveal classified information, cannot legally tell classified information to people without sufficient clearance.
Now, in what law does it say that people who have not signed such agreements cannot tell classified information?
How much courage does it take to be rude to President Bush?
Watch the video? He wasn't rude, he used biting humor. And it was directed not only at Bush, but at the media, Tony Snow, Scott McClellan, Jesse Jackson, etc.
but does a poor showing in a programming competition really mean we're not producing good programmers?
Having participated in the contest, I can say it certainly does not. The contest mostly measures your ability to think. Come up with a program that produces the correct output and you're done. You don't need to have a good design, you don't need to have an extensible design, you don't have to use good coding standards - just produce the correct output.
What evidence do you have that it increases in a particular manner?
A couple of examples:
Look at the number of people who are still using Microsoft Office 97. Why don't they upgrade when "better" versions are available? Because the version they have fulfills their needs.
Similarly, the number of companies still using Exchange 5.5 is staggeringly high. Why haven't they upgraded? Because the version they have fulfills their needs.
There will always be some customers that want/need faster/better, but rarely can you build a $13 billion (Oracle's revenues last year) company on them.
You're both partially correct. While the high-end does increase as you say, it typically does it not increase linearly. Thus, the number of users that something like MySQL or PostgreSQL can satisfy will grow more quickly than the those that need or even want high-end features. This will leave an ever dwindling number of users whose needs Oracle can uniquely satisfy.
It's probably a Myers-Briggs Type Indicator (MBTI) test. Combined with the types of the existing workers, it can suggest how well you might interact with potential co-workers.
Oracle wants a distro aimed at enterprise servers. Ubuntu is aimed at the desktop. Admittedly, Ubuntu could morph, but then you'd lose a lot of what makes Ubuntu popular.
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Echelon complied with FISA. Bush's wiretapping program doesn't.
It's funny how the party that used to talk about "the rule of law" doesn't want to actually comply with the law...
True, just like your fellow soldiers may make only ONE mistake before you get killed.
This will probably sound cold, but risk is a part of the price we pay for living in a free society. For example, if we restricted ownership of weapons to the government we'd be safer as far fewer criminals would have guns. However, we as a society value freedom and thus we accept that criminals can use guns (and possibly kill people with them) in order for law abiding citizens to use guns.
Just like you trust your commanders, you have to trust the press to not report such things. The amount of information the press DOES NOT report just might amaze you.
Absolutely.
Those who violate the Constitution, especially those who have sworn a public oath to to uphold the Constitution, must be held accountable.
In theory at least, that's the responsibility of Congress with things like this. You remember, checks and balances? Of course, it only works when you have a Congress that takes its responsibilities seriously. Not like the spineless group we've had for the last six years who.
Actually, they are. They are specifically cited as a special protected group in the first amendment of the U.S. Constitution. Congress is specifically prevented from making any law abridging the freedom of the press.
Liberty lies in the hearts of men and women. When it dies there, no law, no court, no Constitution can save it.
--- Learned Hand
There was a big todo a couple of years ago about some information being leaked and the Senate was going to investigate. Then Senator Richard Shelby, REPUBLICAN, let it quietly be known that he was the source of the leak and the investigation was stopped faster than you can ping localhost...
To a certain extent, it does.
You might want to re-read the first amendment to the U.S. Constitution. Specifically, the part about Congress making no law abridging the freedom of the press.
LOL!
You might want to re-read the post you replied to. Nowhere does the person advocate that.
That's true. People who have clearance, and thus have signed agreements with the government to not reveal classified information, cannot legally tell classified information to people without sufficient clearance.
Now, in what law does it say that people who have not signed such agreements cannot tell classified information?
To increase the pressure on Sun to get Java open sourced ASAP.
Is it possible that Microsoft WANTED Symantec to sue them in order to have an excuse to ship Vista late?
Walmart is not asking for a patent, they're asking for a trademark.
Sure they can, that's why the telecoms give large donations to politicians. Laws don't have to make sense (though they should).
You take incorrectly. To use biting humor in that venue took courage.
Watch the video? He wasn't rude, he used biting humor. And it was directed not only at Bush, but at the media, Tony Snow, Scott McClellan, Jesse Jackson, etc.
Having participated in the contest, I can say it certainly does not. The contest mostly measures your ability to think. Come up with a program that produces the correct output and you're done. You don't need to have a good design, you don't need to have an extensible design, you don't have to use good coding standards - just produce the correct output.
Thanks for agreeing with me ;-)
A couple of examples:
There will always be some customers that want/need faster/better, but rarely can you build a $13 billion (Oracle's revenues last year) company on them.
You're both partially correct. While the high-end does increase as you say, it typically does it not increase linearly. Thus, the number of users that something like MySQL or PostgreSQL can satisfy will grow more quickly than the those that need or even want high-end features. This will leave an ever dwindling number of users whose needs Oracle can uniquely satisfy.
It's probably a Myers-Briggs Type Indicator (MBTI) test. Combined with the types of the existing workers, it can suggest how well you might interact with potential co-workers.
They don't want to, after all Oracle can't own Linux either.
Are you saying they're both clowns?
Oracle wants a distro aimed at enterprise servers. Ubuntu is aimed at the desktop. Admittedly, Ubuntu could morph, but then you'd lose a lot of what makes Ubuntu popular.