That could possibly come true someday if, and this is a huge Mount Everest sized if, project managers were capable of gathering useful requirements that didn't require the engineers to personally invest time doing a project managers job. Since we all know this is an impossibility, I'm not too worried about the future.
IBM and other large corporations, along with the congressman and senators in their pockets are the ones pushing this lie. There are plenty of very capable American IT workers that are out of work. There isn't a shortage of skilled U.S. labor to fill IT jobs but I guess making up statistics in "studies" makes it easier to justify paying an unnecessary H1-B Visa applicant $8 an hour to do a job in the U.S. where we have a "shortage".
Lycos and Altavista are still around and kicking and they've been here almost 10 years or more. Google is currently the top search engine in the world so I don't see it going away in 5 years.
Oh, and kudos on finally posting a Google article on Slashdot. I think it has been 10 minutes since the last Google article was posted and I was starting to worry:).
The 25th anniversary of Pac Man was over looked for one, if you're looking for news for nerds. I'd much rather read a Pac Man article than a daily dose of "Google exec blows nose. Is Kleenex with lotion really better?"
Maybe I'm just becoming jaded but the whole charm of Slashdot is starting to wear thin. New Google articles every day and at least one Bill Gates borg post a day too. The inane fighting to be the first person to post something "witty" at the beginning of every article wears thin too. I think the whole Karma thing leads to people posting BS posts to get +5 Karma for some "funny" comment they make and I see a lot of people using moderation to troll by giving anyone that disagrees with their point of view a troll rating. When I moderate and meta moderate I always give a fair rating to what I'm rating whether I agree with the person's viewpoint or not.
This is the last article I'm ever reading about Google on here. Does Google pay Slashdot to cover them every day? I'm personally sick of seeing Google articles. It's a search engine, it's not a cure for cancer. I don't see any noticeable improvements in finding things on the web between Google and Alta Vista yet every day a new article hailing Google as the search engine to end all search engines appears on Slashdot. The short-lived NlightN search engine back in the mid 90's indexed a lot more than Google does and it included indexing of phrases and individual words, including stop words like 'the'. So lets all herald Google for not being as good as a search engine that was out in 1995.
I welcome the national ID and I look forward to it helping alleviate the massive illegal alien problems we have here in the U.S. I live in Northern Virginia and the police and local governments turn a blind eye to illegal aliens here. I can only imagine how bad it is in places like Texas and California.
I was afraid that Slashdot had stopped running articles about Google. I'm glad to see that someone is still taking an avid interest in a search engine.
Because the recidivism rate of sexual predators is much higher than the rates for other criminals? If you commit heinous acts against a civilized society you deserve to pay the price. If your particular heinousness involves raping children and women, then you shouldn't be surprised if one day you society makes you wear a sign around your neck that says "I rape children".
I don't have any problems with monitoring a sexual predator's every movement after they get out of prison. I would have a problem if this was applied to someone that sold pot or stole a car.
It hasn't mattered much in the 10 or so years since AltaVista was at the top of the search engine heap. What troubles me most about Google is that they do accept pay for rankings in a lot of cases. This makes their rankings less trust worthy to me than AltaVista was 10 years ago when they were just indexing what their web spiders brought back. Of course any big search engine is going to be looking to make a profit and that's understandable.
Money aside, I don't need to look up the credibility of my searches when I'm doing keyword searches for technical issues. I also don't need to look up the credibility when I'm looking up information on current movies, local restaurants, news articles on current events, or doing something like looking up a synopsis of "Othello" or "MacBeth". Everything I look up is very limited by the multiple keywords I use in my search.
I use Google a LOT at work and at home. Google is a great search engine that most people use every day. We're going to read about the new functionality on their site when they implement it. I don't understand the obsessive need that some people feel to follow everything that Google does. This is like writing a new article every time a car manufacturer adds a new feature. "The New Corvette to feature a digital clock on the dashboard...".
This kind of blind horn blowing for a company is why Google's stock is $220 a share even though the company isn't worth any where near $220 a share. I hope when the stock finally comes down to earth to a value that the company can back up (and it will) it won't cause another tech blowout like in 2000.
That's a great site for looking up your Senators and Representatives. I wrote Virginia's senators and Pennsylvania's senators over this issue. I probably got the link from Slashdot originally so I'm returning the favor if this is where I originally found it.
I think this is a case of a Senator putting a business agenda ahead of the welfare of taxpayers. Our tax money pays for the National Weather Service and we have every right to see the weather data via our taxpayer funded organization.
I haven't had a landline in years. I live with just my cellphone and cable modem. If Verizon had offered naked DSL when I moved a few years back they'd have gotten my service instead of a cable company.
It's a lot harder to get away with the mass murder of millions of white or off-white people today than it was in the 1930's and 40's. Granted the U.S. and the rest of the world will turn a blind eye to genocide going on in African nations but some organizations actually recognize the problem and try to ineffectually address it. With the global media a nation isn't going to get away with the atrocities that Hitler could.
I was thinking more of it being a universal ID and required by everyone that enters the U.S. It would make it easier tracking who is entering the U.S. and it would make it easier to kick out people that are here under false pretenses. I'm not going to pretend to know how to implement such a system. I qualifed my original statement with an "If".
It goes against my libertarian leanings to support something like a biometric card but I do think it would help make the world safer in the long run. I'm sure the inevitable "Hitler made people have papers!" posts will soon follow but it's a much different world now.
It's a lot easier to perpetrate identity theft against Americans via Indian call centers than it is in the U.S. Also if the people providing the data are paid a substantial amount of money for it, that's more likely to mean something in an impoverished nation like India than it does in the U.S. Why does crime exist in the U.S.? By and large its based on socio-economic factors and someone wanting to improve their station in life. That's why you're a lot more likely to see someone without a job robbing a liquor store as opposed to than the manager of a bank. Now look at places like India where the vast majority of the population of nearly 1 billion people live in abject poverty. Getting thousands of dollars in one fell swoop would certainly mean more in a third world country under these conditions. It doesn't mean that Indians are more likely to commit crimes but it does mean that there are a LOT more people living under the socio-economic factors that lead to most of the crime in the U.S. That along with the fact that India is NOT under U.S. jurisdiction (regardless of extradition agreements) and its in the same part of the world as Pakistan and Afghanistan (where enemies of the of United States exist in abundance)and you've got a very bad mixture of elements ready to combine. Personally, I think it should be against federal law to send the personal data of U.S. citizens abroad. If you agree with me then you can look up your representatives here http://www.webslingerz.com/jhoffman/congress-email.html and write them telling them what you think.
He's more likely to steal the information because he's not governed by U.S. laws. I would have that was clearly spelled out in my original message. I wrote it using plain English and I was very clear about why someone would be more likely to commit a crime outside U.S. jurisdiction.
I called Capital One the other day (using the toll free number on the back of my credit card) and after repeating my name three times I asked the gentleman on the other end of the phone where he was located. He said "India" and I said "Thank You" and hung up. I then went to their webpage and looked up a different number there and called it. This time I got an American call center. Whether that is random or not, I don't know. I do know that I do not want someone in India having access to my personal information under any circumstances. Unless you personally come under direct jurisdiction of the laws of the United States of America I do not want you having access to my credit or my medical history. Now, that said, I don't think the fellow I talked with in India is going to steal my credit info but he's a hell of a lot more likely to do it and get away with it than someone in located in the United States.
I don't understand all the negative hype around SP2. Everyone I know has had a painless experience running SP2 and their Windows computers are more secure for having SP2 installed on it.
You obviously haven't been to the UK. I would say per capita London has more hotties than any U.S. city. On top of that the population over there is a lot more lean than us fat asses in the U.S.
What really happened was that the news made the story up or greatly exagerrated the extent of "toothing" as they tend to do with tech stories.
I can look at any piece of code in any project I've worked on and see what the code technically does. What I can't do is look at something and say "Ah, this criteria exists in the code because of business rule #275 for customer X." Almost all my comments are related to business rules and what I'm trying to accomplish. There is no way an autocomment tool could analyze the code for the business rules I use.
Very good post. I agree the internet is working just fine without UN intervention. I would guarantee the internet would be worse off under those bunch of idiots that can't even distribute food to people in need.
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That could possibly come true someday if, and this is a huge Mount Everest sized if, project managers were capable of gathering useful requirements that didn't require the engineers to personally invest time doing a project managers job. Since we all know this is an impossibility, I'm not too worried about the future.
IBM and other large corporations, along with the congressman and senators in their pockets are the ones pushing this lie. There are plenty of very capable American IT workers that are out of work. There isn't a shortage of skilled U.S. labor to fill IT jobs but I guess making up statistics in "studies" makes it easier to justify paying an unnecessary H1-B Visa applicant $8 an hour to do a job in the U.S. where we have a "shortage".
Lycos and Altavista are still around and kicking and they've been here almost 10 years or more. Google is currently the top search engine in the world so I don't see it going away in 5 years. Oh, and kudos on finally posting a Google article on Slashdot. I think it has been 10 minutes since the last Google article was posted and I was starting to worry :).
The 25th anniversary of Pac Man was over looked for one, if you're looking for news for nerds. I'd much rather read a Pac Man article than a daily dose of "Google exec blows nose. Is Kleenex with lotion really better?"
Maybe I'm just becoming jaded but the whole charm of Slashdot is starting to wear thin. New Google articles every day and at least one Bill Gates borg post a day too. The inane fighting to be the first person to post something "witty" at the beginning of every article wears thin too. I think the whole Karma thing leads to people posting BS posts to get +5 Karma for some "funny" comment they make and I see a lot of people using moderation to troll by giving anyone that disagrees with their point of view a troll rating. When I moderate and meta moderate I always give a fair rating to what I'm rating whether I agree with the person's viewpoint or not.
This is the last article I'm ever reading about Google on here. Does Google pay Slashdot to cover them every day? I'm personally sick of seeing Google articles. It's a search engine, it's not a cure for cancer. I don't see any noticeable improvements in finding things on the web between Google and Alta Vista yet every day a new article hailing Google as the search engine to end all search engines appears on Slashdot. The short-lived NlightN search engine back in the mid 90's indexed a lot more than Google does and it included indexing of phrases and individual words, including stop words like 'the'. So lets all herald Google for not being as good as a search engine that was out in 1995.
I welcome the national ID and I look forward to it helping alleviate the massive illegal alien problems we have here in the U.S. I live in Northern Virginia and the police and local governments turn a blind eye to illegal aliens here. I can only imagine how bad it is in places like Texas and California.
I was afraid that Slashdot had stopped running articles about Google. I'm glad to see that someone is still taking an avid interest in a search engine.
But there is a Grand Canyon wide line between an alcoholic and an animal that would willingly harm a child for sexual pleasure.
Because the recidivism rate of sexual predators is much higher than the rates for other criminals? If you commit heinous acts against a civilized society you deserve to pay the price. If your particular heinousness involves raping children and women, then you shouldn't be surprised if one day you society makes you wear a sign around your neck that says "I rape children".
I don't have any problems with monitoring a sexual predator's every movement after they get out of prison. I would have a problem if this was applied to someone that sold pot or stole a car.
It hasn't mattered much in the 10 or so years since AltaVista was at the top of the search engine heap. What troubles me most about Google is that they do accept pay for rankings in a lot of cases. This makes their rankings less trust worthy to me than AltaVista was 10 years ago when they were just indexing what their web spiders brought back. Of course any big search engine is going to be looking to make a profit and that's understandable.
Money aside, I don't need to look up the credibility of my searches when I'm doing keyword searches for technical issues. I also don't need to look up the credibility when I'm looking up information on current movies, local restaurants, news articles on current events, or doing something like looking up a synopsis of "Othello" or "MacBeth". Everything I look up is very limited by the multiple keywords I use in my search.
I use Google a LOT at work and at home. Google is a great search engine that most people use every day. We're going to read about the new functionality on their site when they implement it. I don't understand the obsessive need that some people feel to follow everything that Google does. This is like writing a new article every time a car manufacturer adds a new feature. "The New Corvette to feature a digital clock on the dashboard...".
This kind of blind horn blowing for a company is why Google's stock is $220 a share even though the company isn't worth any where near $220 a share. I hope when the stock finally comes down to earth to a value that the company can back up (and it will) it won't cause another tech blowout like in 2000.
http://www.webslingerz.com/jhoffman/congress-email .html
That's a great site for looking up your Senators and Representatives. I wrote Virginia's senators and Pennsylvania's senators over this issue. I probably got the link from Slashdot originally so I'm returning the favor if this is where I originally found it.
I think this is a case of a Senator putting a business agenda ahead of the welfare of taxpayers. Our tax money pays for the National Weather Service and we have every right to see the weather data via our taxpayer funded organization.
I haven't had a landline in years. I live with just my cellphone and cable modem. If Verizon had offered naked DSL when I moved a few years back they'd have gotten my service instead of a cable company.
It's a lot harder to get away with the mass murder of millions of white or off-white people today than it was in the 1930's and 40's. Granted the U.S. and the rest of the world will turn a blind eye to genocide going on in African nations but some organizations actually recognize the problem and try to ineffectually address it. With the global media a nation isn't going to get away with the atrocities that Hitler could.
I was thinking more of it being a universal ID and required by everyone that enters the U.S. It would make it easier tracking who is entering the U.S. and it would make it easier to kick out people that are here under false pretenses. I'm not going to pretend to know how to implement such a system. I qualifed my original statement with an "If".
It must if Wikipedia has a definition of Godwin's Law. This thread is closed now. Nothing to see here.
It goes against my libertarian leanings to support something like a biometric card but I do think it would help make the world safer in the long run. I'm sure the inevitable "Hitler made people have papers!" posts will soon follow but it's a much different world now.
It's a lot easier to perpetrate identity theft against Americans via Indian call centers than it is in the U.S. Also if the people providing the data are paid a substantial amount of money for it, that's more likely to mean something in an impoverished nation like India than it does in the U.S. Why does crime exist in the U.S.? By and large its based on socio-economic factors and someone wanting to improve their station in life. That's why you're a lot more likely to see someone without a job robbing a liquor store as opposed to than the manager of a bank. Now look at places like India where the vast majority of the population of nearly 1 billion people live in abject poverty. Getting thousands of dollars in one fell swoop would certainly mean more in a third world country under these conditions. It doesn't mean that Indians are more likely to commit crimes but it does mean that there are a LOT more people living under the socio-economic factors that lead to most of the crime in the U.S. That along with the fact that India is NOT under U.S. jurisdiction (regardless of extradition agreements) and its in the same part of the world as Pakistan and Afghanistan (where enemies of the of United States exist in abundance)and you've got a very bad mixture of elements ready to combine. Personally, I think it should be against federal law to send the personal data of U.S. citizens abroad. If you agree with me then you can look up your representatives here http://www.webslingerz.com/jhoffman/congress-email .html and write them telling them what you think.
He's more likely to steal the information because he's not governed by U.S. laws. I would have that was clearly spelled out in my original message. I wrote it using plain English and I was very clear about why someone would be more likely to commit a crime outside U.S. jurisdiction.
I called Capital One the other day (using the toll free number on the back of my credit card) and after repeating my name three times I asked the gentleman on the other end of the phone where he was located. He said "India" and I said "Thank You" and hung up. I then went to their webpage and looked up a different number there and called it. This time I got an American call center. Whether that is random or not, I don't know. I do know that I do not want someone in India having access to my personal information under any circumstances. Unless you personally come under direct jurisdiction of the laws of the United States of America I do not want you having access to my credit or my medical history. Now, that said, I don't think the fellow I talked with in India is going to steal my credit info but he's a hell of a lot more likely to do it and get away with it than someone in located in the United States.
I don't understand all the negative hype around SP2. Everyone I know has had a painless experience running SP2 and their Windows computers are more secure for having SP2 installed on it.
You obviously haven't been to the UK. I would say per capita London has more hotties than any U.S. city. On top of that the population over there is a lot more lean than us fat asses in the U.S. What really happened was that the news made the story up or greatly exagerrated the extent of "toothing" as they tend to do with tech stories.
Damn you April Fool's Day! ;)
I can look at any piece of code in any project I've worked on and see what the code technically does. What I can't do is look at something and say "Ah, this criteria exists in the code because of business rule #275 for customer X." Almost all my comments are related to business rules and what I'm trying to accomplish. There is no way an autocomment tool could analyze the code for the business rules I use.
Very good post. I agree the internet is working just fine without UN intervention. I would guarantee the internet would be worse off under those bunch of idiots that can't even distribute food to people in need.