If the "people doing the hiring" were all honest, efficient, unbiased people, then you'd be right right.
Most likely, though, this will facilitate discrimination by systematically rejecting arabs or blacks, but hide it behind a "screening process" that highlights those mistakes...
Plus the fact that people coming from poorer and harsher environments (immigrants and minorities, mostly) have more chances of finding their mistakes online than ivy-league offsprings. Redemption will become even harder for them.
This should have been classified under "YRO", not "Science".
Science disappeared a long time ago from Canada's tar sands industry discussions.
The Alberta and the Canadian governments try to call their approach "scientific" (a MP even used the expressions "based on facts" when talking about the conservatives' agenda - hilarious!) while forbidding scientists to present the results of their research, cutting their fundings and replacing their voices with marketing.
The head of UN's WIPO believes that the Internet (and obviously the stack on which it runs) should have been patented. How do you believe it would have evolved, would TCP/IP be protected by patents?
His contribution goes way beyond the ones of a recently celebrated "genius". I could make a list of what C gave us today, but I'd have to start it at 0.
"You get lots of $$££€€'s moving around but it all zero's out in the balances..."
Except that, in the meanwhile, you added thousands of dollars in litigation fees, making your lawyers richer, at the expense of shareholders or, most probably, consumers.
Why would this qualify as "white hat"? Because they sell their solutions to corporations? Corporations are often no better than the mafia: check how well established and still active corporations helped bring Hitler to power.
What would it be called if they sold their solutions to the "legitimate" government of Saudi Arabia? Or to Hamas (who was elected as the representatives of the Palestinian people)? Would it still be "White hat"?
I propose that "White hat hacking" be reserved only to those who use their skills for the good of the community as a whole. Just my 2 cents.
First, make it mandatory to disclaim when a breach occurs, with a criminal penalty (making their management accessory to the crimes in which this breached information may be used). When we'll make companies responsible for the damage they cause, they will be more careful with the information. Actually, I'd expect them to tackle the problem at its source and stop collecting unnecessary information altogether... or implement good security measures.
We have a situation where the cost of acquiring and possessing information is next to nothing, but using it has a value. Let's re-establish the balance by making sure that the cost of possession reflects the reality.
Trades should be based on the average price over a minute or even an hour.
This would allow ALL the players on a market to adjust to new information fairly, rather than benefit only those that can afford high-speed trading.
Instead of trying to impose new fees on every trade, which will result, in some way or another, in those higher fees being passed to the small investors, legislators must find ways to level the playing field. With a level-playing field, short term speculation, that generate profits for a limited few and creates no wealth, will disappear.
Further to the cultural pleasures you can get from learning another language, it can also help you develop analytical skills.
I am a native French speaker, who learned English for economical reasons and Swedish for erotical ones. I recently started Russian (at 40) and know that I will probably never master it. On the other hand, the use of the different declinations forces me to think differently than what I'm used to. I build my sentences in a more "passive" way, which presents an intellectual challenge that I couldn't experience since my University years.
Learning new languages is important, not only to improve your culture and your chances to find a better job, but also for the intellectual opportunities it brings.
Nothing would stop the provider to charge a decent price for licenses. In fact, this would be recommended, since support fees would likely be as a percentage of this licensing price.
The price should reflect the perceived value of the product offered. No customer, governmental or non-governmental, should reject a proposal based on its cost only. It should rather be based on the return it will get from the product (and take into account, of course, the risk linked to this purchase, its credits facilities and cost, if applicable, etc.) The only difference with governmental customers is the numbers of hoops through which you have to jump before you can make your point...
First, they'll include the icon.
Then, they'll improve it with a brand new mouse-over.
Finally, they'll require an upgrade to the OS to serve their spherical RSS icon that provides much more usability from a user's standpoint...
Overclassifying actually goes against the spirit, if not the word, of the american constitution. It is a crime. Classifying documents and hiding information from the public is an exceptional procedure, not the norm.
The fact that it is hard to prosecute the government when it acts inconstitutionally should not make those infrigement acceptable. In this case, the american public should verify that all information that was classified was justifiably so and, otherwise, sue the people that allowed breaching the right of the public to know.
I've had to manage Java and.Net projects that dealt with corporate applications (no imbedded or driver-dependant routine), so take this comment for what it's worth...
My philosophy is to let developpers quite free. Of course, they have to get authorized to run a newer version of the VM (and that version has to be part of the roadmap), but I give them flexibility for their configuration. This is done with the vision of helping innovation through trial and mistake. The key there is to have clear guidelines and a published roadmap, so that "innovation" pays off!
When we hit the first beta, things get serions... They are deployed on test environment. At that point, there is no compromise: the environment has to be as similar as possible to the production environment. This attitude payed off time and time again.
By having the applications run in a production-like environment, from the first beta, it helped us isolate problems due to overly-optimistic configuration changes, very early in the game, when it doesn't cost too much to fix. We even had a time where we modified the roadmap to allow a new version of Tomcat earlier than planned, because tests demonstrated that the great new features were more costly to back-port than the cost of crushing a config change.
In summary:
- Development: Let them play, but with a nanny around;
- Test: Bring-in the confuguration-nazi;
- Production: This is what pays your salary, trust this anal administrator...
Not so long ago, my wife had been tricked into buying a cruise in Florida - I can't remember the name of the company, but it's a well-known rip-off. (She's from northern Europe where consumers' protection is more decent than in north america, and she hasn't been raised to distrust people calling at home...)
When I got home, I called back the company (that wouldn't refund me) and used the on-hold time to start a phony conversation with the local police that was listening to the conversation (in fact, it was my brother - not in the police - that was on another phone.)
Sure enough, after the "detective" had confirmed that he had enough evidence to arrest both the agent and her boss, and that he would place a call to the local authorities, the agent came back on the phone to apologize for the mistake...
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You obviously are not staying at the office after 5 p.m.!
A lot of people are using their company's paper to print out personnal stuff (pictures, books, etc.) It is often tolerated, since people figure that nobody would print a 600 pages book... But once you're on this path, you usually end up with some people abusing their employer's generosity.
That is why I recommend to IT directors reading this to always include in their company policy, along with the normal restrictions on internet use, a more general restriction like "The company's equipment can only be used for a personnal purpose with the explicit approval of your supervisor. This approval is limited to specific material within a limited timeframe and must be described in writing. If the material is used for any illegal activity, including breach of copyright law, both the employee and the supervisor that approved the use of the material can be fired immediately." (I'm not a lawyer, and never had this text verified.)
On topic
Of course, I doubt that Google implemented this to satisfy employers complaining about paper consumption after hours, but reproductions of paintings and photographs are definitely something where printing 1 page could hurt, and writing it down is not an option.
The quotes from Microsoft seem to indicate that they won't be releasing the XP2 enhancements. It doesn't necessarily mean that IE won't be patched anymore.
Even Firefox (which I am using) doesn't offer an integrated firewall. Anyway, it would probably make little sense to integrate this kind of applications into browsers... It would be as strange as integrating the browser into the OS!
There has already been articles about the fact that XP2 wouldn't be released for W2K, W98, W95, etc. This is just a new spin on it...
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If the "people doing the hiring" were all honest, efficient, unbiased people, then you'd be right right.
Most likely, though, this will facilitate discrimination by systematically rejecting arabs or blacks, but hide it behind a "screening process" that highlights those mistakes...
Plus the fact that people coming from poorer and harsher environments (immigrants and minorities, mostly) have more chances of finding their mistakes online than ivy-league offsprings. Redemption will become even harder for them.
This should have been classified under "YRO", not "Science".
Science disappeared a long time ago from Canada's tar sands industry discussions.
The Alberta and the Canadian governments try to call their approach "scientific" (a MP even used the expressions "based on facts" when talking about the conservatives' agenda - hilarious!) while forbidding scientists to present the results of their research, cutting their fundings and replacing their voices with marketing.
The head of UN's WIPO believes that the Internet (and obviously the stack on which it runs) should have been patented. How do you believe it would have evolved, would TCP/IP be protected by patents?
Goodbye world
His contribution goes way beyond the ones of a recently celebrated "genius". I could make a list of what C gave us today, but I'd have to start it at 0.
"You get lots of $$££€€'s moving around but it all zero's out in the balances..."
Except that, in the meanwhile, you added thousands of dollars in litigation fees, making your lawyers richer, at the expense of shareholders or, most probably, consumers.
So, now I have to get a smartphone and increase my risk of getting cancer in order to detect if I have cancer?
Why would this qualify as "white hat"? Because they sell their solutions to corporations? Corporations are often no better than the mafia: check how well established and still active corporations helped bring Hitler to power.
What would it be called if they sold their solutions to the "legitimate" government of Saudi Arabia? Or to Hamas (who was elected as the representatives of the Palestinian people)? Would it still be "White hat"?
I propose that "White hat hacking" be reserved only to those who use their skills for the good of the community as a whole. Just my 2 cents.
First, make it mandatory to disclaim when a breach occurs, with a criminal penalty (making their management accessory to the crimes in which this breached information may be used). When we'll make companies responsible for the damage they cause, they will be more careful with the information. Actually, I'd expect them to tackle the problem at its source and stop collecting unnecessary information altogether... or implement good security measures.
We have a situation where the cost of acquiring and possessing information is next to nothing, but using it has a value. Let's re-establish the balance by making sure that the cost of possession reflects the reality.
... and most importantly, does it support conversion between metric and imperial units of measure?
... barely a month before the Year of the Linux Desktop begins!
Thanks, this was a nice posting. Just took a couple of minutes to go through and read the comments.
It was a good break from work, and I guess I should soon go back to it... Wait, just one game of sudoku, and then I'll really start!
Trades should be based on the average price over a minute or even an hour.
This would allow ALL the players on a market to adjust to new information fairly, rather than benefit only those that can afford high-speed trading.
Instead of trying to impose new fees on every trade, which will result, in some way or another, in those higher fees being passed to the small investors, legislators must find ways to level the playing field. With a level-playing field, short term speculation, that generate profits for a limited few and creates no wealth, will disappear.
Maybe, just to ensure that this can't happen, he should join the PostgreSQL project and become a top contributor...
Further to the cultural pleasures you can get from learning another language, it can also help you develop analytical skills.
I am a native French speaker, who learned English for economical reasons and Swedish for erotical ones. I recently started Russian (at 40) and know that I will probably never master it. On the other hand, the use of the different declinations forces me to think differently than what I'm used to. I build my sentences in a more "passive" way, which presents an intellectual challenge that I couldn't experience since my University years.
Learning new languages is important, not only to improve your culture and your chances to find a better job, but also for the intellectual opportunities it brings.
We all expected this since the failed attempt to sabotage the Meter, in the 70s (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Superdupont).
Nothing would stop the provider to charge a decent price for licenses. In fact, this would be recommended, since support fees would likely be as a percentage of this licensing price.
The price should reflect the perceived value of the product offered. No customer, governmental or non-governmental, should reject a proposal based on its cost only. It should rather be based on the return it will get from the product (and take into account, of course, the risk linked to this purchase, its credits facilities and cost, if applicable, etc.) The only difference with governmental customers is the numbers of hoops through which you have to jump before you can make your point...
First, they'll include the icon.
Then, they'll improve it with a brand new mouse-over.
Finally, they'll require an upgrade to the OS to serve their spherical RSS icon that provides much more usability from a user's standpoint...
What that big state secret is, of course, I can't say, since most of the filings in the case are (duh) secret.
Just wait for tomorrow's edition of Italian newspapers: they'll have transcripted the parts that were printed in black on a black background...
It's not a crime to overclassify...
Overclassifying actually goes against the spirit, if not the word, of the american constitution. It is a crime. Classifying documents and hiding information from the public is an exceptional procedure, not the norm.
The fact that it is hard to prosecute the government when it acts inconstitutionally should not make those infrigement acceptable. In this case, the american public should verify that all information that was classified was justifiably so and, otherwise, sue the people that allowed breaching the right of the public to know.
I've had to manage Java and .Net projects that dealt with corporate applications (no imbedded or driver-dependant routine), so take this comment for what it's worth...
My philosophy is to let developpers quite free. Of course, they have to get authorized to run a newer version of the VM (and that version has to be part of the roadmap), but I give them flexibility for their configuration. This is done with the vision of helping innovation through trial and mistake. The key there is to have clear guidelines and a published roadmap, so that "innovation" pays off!
When we hit the first beta, things get serions... They are deployed on test environment. At that point, there is no compromise: the environment has to be as similar as possible to the production environment. This attitude payed off time and time again.
By having the applications run in a production-like environment, from the first beta, it helped us isolate problems due to overly-optimistic configuration changes, very early in the game, when it doesn't cost too much to fix. We even had a time where we modified the roadmap to allow a new version of Tomcat earlier than planned, because tests demonstrated that the great new features were more costly to back-port than the cost of crushing a config change.
In summary:
- Development: Let them play, but with a nanny around;
- Test: Bring-in the confuguration-nazi;
- Production: This is what pays your salary, trust this anal administrator...
Not so long ago, my wife had been tricked into buying a cruise in Florida - I can't remember the name of the company, but it's a well-known rip-off. (She's from northern Europe where consumers' protection is more decent than in north america, and she hasn't been raised to distrust people calling at home...)
When I got home, I called back the company (that wouldn't refund me) and used the on-hold time to start a phony conversation with the local police that was listening to the conversation (in fact, it was my brother - not in the police - that was on another phone.)
Sure enough, after the "detective" had confirmed that he had enough evidence to arrest both the agent and her boss, and that he would place a call to the local authorities, the agent came back on the phone to apologize for the mistake...
I can see these non-realistic photos replacing our passport photos very soon.
Offtopic
You obviously are not staying at the office after 5 p.m.!
A lot of people are using their company's paper to print out personnal stuff (pictures, books, etc.) It is often tolerated, since people figure that nobody would print a 600 pages book... But once you're on this path, you usually end up with some people abusing their employer's generosity.
That is why I recommend to IT directors reading this to always include in their company policy, along with the normal restrictions on internet use, a more general restriction like "The company's equipment can only be used for a personnal purpose with the explicit approval of your supervisor. This approval is limited to specific material within a limited timeframe and must be described in writing. If the material is used for any illegal activity, including breach of copyright law, both the employee and the supervisor that approved the use of the material can be fired immediately." (I'm not a lawyer, and never had this text verified.)
On topic
Of course, I doubt that Google implemented this to satisfy employers complaining about paper consumption after hours, but reproductions of paintings and photographs are definitely something where printing 1 page could hurt, and writing it down is not an option.
Use Lynx... Porn sites will be much safer!
The quotes from Microsoft seem to indicate that they won't be releasing the XP2 enhancements. It doesn't necessarily mean that IE won't be patched anymore.
Even Firefox (which I am using) doesn't offer an integrated firewall. Anyway, it would probably make little sense to integrate this kind of applications into browsers... It would be as strange as integrating the browser into the OS!
There has already been articles about the fact that XP2 wouldn't be released for W2K, W98, W95, etc. This is just a new spin on it...