Do you stamp/sign every line of code you let go? Are you personally liable for anything you approve with your sign/stamp? If not, don't use the term professional engineer. If a "software engineer" screws up and is fire, they go somewhere else to work. If an engineer scews up and is fired, they most likely won't be able to find somewhere else to work in their field. I think you could say that committing code into a VCS *is* the effective 'signing' of every line of code you let go. So yes, professional engineer. If you screw up (in what you've committed) it depends on the seriousness of the screwup. Does it corrupt every customer's data? Time for a change of profession, most likely. A fair degree of blame would go to the testers also.
Are you really sure about the document's scope?
I suppose if you mean the physical territory of these United States, then anyone standing within the borders could be seen as "People of the United States".
Too, WRT Guantanamo Bay, the fact that the detainees are not in CONUS may be seen as keeping them out of legal theory range.
So you would be OK with the CIA assassinating you if you just happened to be on a trip to Mexico? Is this a straw-man I see?
The US Constitution, is, strangely enough, a constitution for the USA. Others of us may admire it, but that doesn't make it globally binding.
It allows them to sell chips with one of the cores broken, thereby getting higher yields from their production lines. If one has broken, does that increase the odds of another breaking, compared to one with none broken?
"a method to apply cheaper and wider access to music, albeit with restrictions."
In a free market competition drives cheaper prices. Intellectual monopoly products have no competition apart from the yarrr mateys. Prevent copying (or any form of competition) and you get more expensive, not cheaper, music.
So, no, DRM is never beneficial. It was free... So DRM makes it 100 times more expensive. 100 times 0 is still free... All the talk of free market, pirates, intellectual monopoly is so much wankery.
Yes, it isn't really free - you aren't free to copy it to other devices. But I'll take free music to listen to on the one device that I can
Now THAT is a wonderful idea. Make everything sunset after 10 years, and make them read the bill aloud prior to the vote. Are we sure they can all read?
I do not get it. On my Suse box I see Linux kernel updates all the time. So Microsoft Updated the kernel to match 2008. How do we not know the only difference between the two kernels was 10 lines of code or something? So the version/build number changed. We do not know what changed. Can a normal user tell exactly what the differences were between Windows 2000 and XP (NOTICE I SAID NORMAL USER!!!) no they can not. I do not think normal people (the majority of Microsoft's user base) will know the difference. By observation of what it does you're probably right. You can read the patch notes to find out what's been fixed. But maybe normal[1] users do not do that.
[1] Depends if you use normal in a statistical sense or in the corrupted meaning english language sense.
No, we need personal database software. The terabytes of data that homes will soon be accumulating require a better storage solution than a spreadsheet.
We do: we have MS Access.
Excuse me for a moment whilst I vomit into someone else's waste-paper basket.
Thinking of what SPAM does to avoid detection (or tries to) by Bayesian poisoning, it'd be interesting to devise one that has a 'guaranteed to set off' section for security. Yes, I know of one or two ppl that do this kind of stuff today, but it tends to be a fixed sig-like paragraph, rather easy to code around. And there aren't enough ppl doing it. Or use a one word trigger in plain text, with the body encrypted, to force resource wastage decrypting it.
Also, I think that people who work in IT often underestimate their ability to lead, and the amount of work that is required to lead.
Agreed. I think the GP post also shows narrowmindedness in calling a non-tech savvy CEO an "idiot."
I read it not that he's an idiot for being non-tech savvy, but an idiot for making a decision that a tech savvy person should be making. IOW, he's micro-managing.
They bill themselves as an encyclopedia.
They engineered the site to be the first hit on as many searches as they can. Engineered? Maybe Google should ban them for excessive SEO. I'd like to see that.
Commentary: "OK, why then can I find dozens of videos of people getting tasered by the police? If you ask me, a video of someone getting shocked with a high voltage weapon can definitely be described as graphic violence. And many will argue that the violence in such videos cannot be qualified as gratuitous...."
Remember, "A foolish consistency is the hobgoblin of little minds"
Besides, arguing that because something is allowed sometimes, it should always be allowed is one of the logical fallacies. Look it up if you want. I'm not your google-bitch.
I used to fix my own. Until it got too hard to get spares, and I imagine that applied somewhat to companies that were doing it. Rubber pinch rollers seemed to be the real killer. When they split, they were no longer available.
because monopolies don't naturally exist for a long period of time Why do we have anti-monopoly laws again? Oh right, the market doesn't fix everything. Monopolies don't last forever, the market does fix everything. We have anti-monopoly laws because we are too impatient to wait for the monopoly to collapse. And they can be worked around, as MS have demonstrated.
just like Microsoft has/had most of the market share because they are quite simply the best at offering OS users the compatibility and efficiency and reduced learning curve that they desire Reality distortion field detected... Yes.
one that is quickly going the way of the do-do Wishful thinking. do-do ? You mean dodo?
only because the people who spend time pretending that Microsoft has a temporary monopoly have forgotten about IBM, Compaq, Ford, and all the previous monopoly fears that were destroyed by competition. In reality, the future of the OS has Microsoft greatly scared of what likely will be a return to a client-server environment, the same environment that Microsoft temporarily destroyed because people wanted power on the desktop, and now they want power in an interactive environment. Who the hell forgot? WTF is your definition of temporary, and why should consumers suffer THAT long? You're confusing the definition of a monopoly with 'people abusing monopolies.' You don't have to use Windows for a server, and a lot of people/companies[citation?] don't.
Workstations? A case could be made that Apple are to blame here as much as MS, for making it so difficult to run OsX on a Wintel box.
Fuck, that's like saying slavery was a temporary social imbalance, but "the market works" so we should have waited until slavery was 'naturally' socially unacceptable, or nobody needed cotton & tobacco anymore.
Lets just overlook the whole damned problem because in time it will iron itself out? Fuck you.
Abusive monopolies deserve to be cut to pieces, PERIOD. Deserve and get are two different things.
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Curious that a computer room wouldn't have been protected by halon or inergen http://fm200.biz/inergen.htm systems
Are you really sure about the document's scope?
So you would be OK with the CIA assassinating you if you just happened to be on a trip to Mexico? Is this a straw-man I see?I suppose if you mean the physical territory of these United States, then anyone standing within the borders could be seen as "People of the United States".
Too, WRT Guantanamo Bay, the fact that the detainees are not in CONUS may be seen as keeping them out of legal theory range.
The US Constitution, is, strangely enough, a constitution for the USA. Others of us may admire it, but that doesn't make it globally binding.
Why stop at decimation, which would still leave us with 9 in 10 lawyers?
Hmmm. Would you be wanting the wise or the foolish virgins, sirrah?
In a free market competition drives cheaper prices. Intellectual monopoly products have no competition apart from the yarrr mateys. Prevent copying (or any form of competition) and you get more expensive, not cheaper, music.
So, no, DRM is never beneficial. It was free
Death, death lawsuits, Tax, tax lawsuits. And possibly lawsuit lawsuits. There are other combinations, but it's making me nauseous.
Are we sure they can all read?
We do: we have MS Access.
Excuse me for a moment whilst I vomit into someone else's waste-paper basket.Thinking of what SPAM does to avoid detection (or tries to) by Bayesian poisoning, it'd be interesting to devise one that has a 'guaranteed to set off' section for security. Yes, I know of one or two ppl that do this kind of stuff today, but it tends to be a fixed sig-like paragraph, rather easy to code around. And there aren't enough ppl doing it. Or use a one word trigger in plain text, with the body encrypted, to force resource wastage decrypting it.
Agreed. I think the GP post also shows narrowmindedness in calling a non-tech savvy CEO an "idiot."
I read it not that he's an idiot for being non-tech savvy, but an idiot for making a decision that a tech savvy person should be making. IOW, he's micro-managing.If there was a "View Source" button for Windows on the XO laptop, then you would need a vomit-proof keyboard.
You're trying to fix the wrong system, the medical system. Fix the legal system instead.
They engineered the site to be the first hit on as many searches as they can.
Engineered? Maybe Google should ban them for excessive SEO. I'd like to see that.
Remember, "A foolish consistency is the hobgoblin of little minds"
Besides, arguing that because something is allowed sometimes, it should always be allowed is one of the logical fallacies. Look it up if you want. I'm not your google-bitch.
I used to fix my own. Until it got too hard to get spares, and I imagine that applied somewhat to companies that were doing it. Rubber pinch rollers seemed to be the real killer. When they split, they were no longer available.
Escalation for that is RFID screening helmets.
You don't have to use Windows for a server, and a lot of people/companies[citation?] don't. Workstations? A case could be made that Apple are to blame here as much as MS, for making it so difficult to run OsX on a Wintel box. Fuck, that's like saying slavery was a temporary social imbalance, but "the market works" so we should have waited until slavery was 'naturally' socially unacceptable, or nobody needed cotton & tobacco anymore.
Lets just overlook the whole damned problem because in time it will iron itself out? Fuck you.
Abusive monopolies deserve to be cut to pieces, PERIOD. Deserve and get are two different things.
And thus was the adhesive for 3M's stickies developed.
Think bangers == SPAM, and you wont go wrong
An end to subliminal Christmas Carols! Damn, I'm going to miss that. :)
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