.. but this is one of the cases where the Open Source model
works well.
Any truly paranoid geek out there can pull down the source tree and watch all of the changes to any of the crap the FF developers decide to throw in. They can then apply their own patches-of-paranoia and remove untrusted suspect code, build it and run it behind however many firewalls and proxies they
have set up.
Any reasonable person who wants to sunbathe nude in their backyard is going to build a fence. A "privacy geek" would build a fence just to build the fence.
And I, for one, do not want to see a nude privacy geek.
If you want to kick your former employer in the ass, a person blessed with wisdom and maturity would choose a method that didn't involve committing a felony, or at the very least could not be traced back to them.
Not only was what he did childish, it was thoroughly unprofessional.
I agree he was unprofessional, but that is not a big deal. Not everyone is hung up on being "professional". If I were in his shoes, I would have done the same thing, if only to gain the attention towards the injustices in the industry similar to the hubbub that happened at Electronic Arts for employees overworking. The IT industry attempts to get people to work like slaves and be their bitches, and then when they find cheaper people to work for them they fire/layoff in mass numbers. These professionals you speak of are the blue collar workers of the white collar world, and their actions of retaliation are MORALLY justified if not legally.
So now not only is he out of a job and off to jail, but after he gets out he will have a VERY hard time finding another job in his chosen field.
Losing a job is not the end. He can always contract for a while before getting another gig. I know a few people who have been canned for various reasons, and if they are talented find a way to bounce back.
The time, money and effort he spend earning a degree and establishing himself in his profession are now flushed down the drain, all because he wanted to act like a 3 year old.
No, no it isn't. He still has the degree, and still has the experience. If he has talent and skills he will be able to bounce back. People have gotten fired for a lot worse things and still manage to land on their feet.
I hope he likes hamburgers, because he's going to be flipping them from here on out.
Nice speculation here, but based on what? Some people say that you can tell how good an economy is by the correctness of your hamburger order. When your orders are right, the economy is bad because you have degreed/PhDs taking them.
If he had simply lost his job, he'd have an easy time to bounce back. Now that these bozos in backwater MI have decided to make it criminal it might be a little bit harder, but I can't agree that it *should* be criminal, nor that he should be unable to find work if it isn't.
There is a higher risk of him not being able to find work because there is a tighter job market due to outsourcing than there is of him not getting a job because he pissed off a previous employer.
I would hire the guy, because he has conviction to stand up for himself because he wasn't treated well. If you treat your employees well, they aren't as likely to be spiteful or mean. His employer lacked common decency and common decency is an uncommon thing.
You see his actions as a weakness, and I see it as strength.
Is it? Or is it more childish for a company to try to do everything CHEAPER, and cause ill will amongst its former employees that CAN and WILL do anything to return screwing them by all means necessary?
"Wah, you're too expensive, we're going to take our ball and go home." is essentially what companies are DOING.
Just because the workplace has emasculated most people from attacking their employers doesn't mean they don't DESERVE a good kick in the pants, nor does it mean they are being childish for doing so.
Welcome a self-governing metamoderating of upcoming Slashdot news articles.
Give them away with 24 hour windows at random to a few hundred people who don't have bad karma and a history for trouble, and have been active on the site for over a year.
Prune down the wheat from the chaff (so to speak).
There was no mention of Sony's UMD format which is used in the Sony PSP. I'd love to see the UMD toughened up and ruggedized (ala MiniDisc) and shrink down the shelving requirements in stores so there is more room in the isles during the next Christmas season.
If possible we should aim for higher density, smaller space, not higher density same space requirements.
I may be wrong, but I believe this was discussed a little in 'The Biological Time Bomb' in the late 60's by Gordon Rattray Taylor, and it does represent a big step in this area of technology.
You can learn the latest fad programming language and keep it on your
resume' for a 10+, (Java),20+ (C, C++), or 50 (COBOL) year lifespan, but why must it be one-or-the-other?
Every program in a programming language has its purpose; to get system to behave in a certain way in a finite number of steps. School is there to teach you the fundamentals; that you can use as a basis to expand your knowledge with new knowledge, and get a feel for the idioms and syntax. Ask not what
language to learn, but what can you do with the language.
"* Brattle : The Brattle Theatre in Cambridge, Mass. is in trouble. If they can't put together enough funding to pay past debts and future leases, they will be closed by February 2006. This is unacceptable- the Brattle is one of few truly independent movie theatres in the country. Without Brattle I would have never seen Casablanca on the big screen and would not have the opportunity to see the 1930s King Kong on the big screen next month."
Oh c'mon... calling the Brattle 'the big screen' is like calling an iPod a 'home theater'.
Independent and cheesy, yes, but the Brattle is at best like going to a movie in a high school auditorium.
How do we know that these drowning polar bears aren't liberal Democrats
on one of those "roughing it" getaway weekends while the Republican polar bears are slowly dying a death from The Conspiracy of high fructose corn syrup Coca-Cola? They must be trying to get to Canada
to find some cane sugar Coke.
Every species must have its political factions as well as its Darwin awards.
So, somatic cell nuclear transfer cloning works because
we put embryos in a starved state.
Life extension now is also coming about because we are entering a starved state. At a lecture in a conference on complexity by NECSI (http://www.necsi.org/ a few years back there was also a correlation on multiple generations of fruit flies they longer they deferred having offspring the longer they will live.
We do have a lot more to learn here, between starvation
of food and sex to gain increased longevity.
Is there anything other than the 'starvation' angle that
will help us break new ground?
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.. but this is one of the cases where the Open Source model works well. Any truly paranoid geek out there can pull down the source tree and watch all of the changes to any of the crap the FF developers decide to throw in. They can then apply their own patches-of-paranoia and remove untrusted suspect code, build it and run it behind however many firewalls and proxies they have set up.
So I guess Leon Starr is going to have to update
his Executable UML Elevator example.
The models are the code...the models are the...wait..
Did someone say models?
Any reasonable person who wants to sunbathe nude in their backyard is going to build a fence. A "privacy geek" would build a fence just to build the fence.
And I, for one, do not want to see a nude privacy geek.
No, but you will need to recompile another 30k license file into all your applications, call it a "patch", and notify CERT.
You're going to have a hard sell convincing me
;)
and many others that if Pentium is old and used,
that D480 is the 'new hotness'.
Ah, screw it. I'll just buy an AMD.
If you want to kick your former employer in the ass, a person blessed with wisdom and maturity would choose a method that didn't involve committing a felony, or at the very least could not be traced back to them.
Not only was what he did childish, it was thoroughly unprofessional.
I agree he was unprofessional, but that is not a big deal. Not everyone is hung up on being "professional". If I were in his shoes, I would have done the same thing, if only to
gain the attention towards the injustices in the industry
similar to the hubbub that happened at Electronic Arts for
employees overworking. The IT industry attempts to get people to work like slaves and be their bitches, and then
when they find cheaper people to work for them they fire/layoff in mass numbers. These professionals you speak
of are the blue collar workers of the white collar world,
and their actions of retaliation are MORALLY justified if
not legally.
So now not only is he out of a job and off to jail, but after he gets out he will have a VERY hard time finding another job in his chosen field.
Losing a job is not the end. He can always contract for
a while before getting another gig. I know a few people
who have been canned for various reasons, and if they
are talented find a way to bounce back.
The time, money and effort he spend earning a degree and establishing himself in his profession are now flushed down the drain, all because he wanted to act like a 3 year old.
No, no it isn't. He still has the degree, and still has the
experience. If he has talent and skills he will be able
to bounce back. People have gotten fired for a lot worse
things and still manage to land on their feet.
I hope he likes hamburgers, because he's going to be flipping them from here on out.
Nice speculation here, but based on what?
Some people say that you can tell how good an economy
is by the correctness of your hamburger order. When your
orders are right, the economy is bad because you have
degreed/PhDs taking them.
If he had simply lost his job, he'd have an easy time to bounce back. Now that these bozos in backwater MI have decided to make it criminal it might be a little bit harder, but I can't agree that it *should* be criminal, nor that he should be unable to find work if it isn't.
There is a higher risk of him not being able to find work
because there is a tighter job market due to outsourcing than there is of him not getting a job because he pissed
off a previous employer.
I would hire the guy, because he has conviction to stand up for himself because he wasn't treated well. If you treat your employees well, they aren't as likely to be spiteful or mean. His employer lacked common decency and common decency is an uncommon thing.
You see his actions as a weakness, and I see it as strength.
This article is flamebait.
Is it? Or is it more childish for a company to
try to do everything CHEAPER, and cause ill will amongst
its former employees that CAN and WILL do anything
to return screwing them by all means necessary?
"Wah, you're too expensive, we're going to take our
ball and go home." is essentially what companies are
DOING.
Just because the workplace has emasculated most people
from attacking their employers doesn't mean they don't
DESERVE a good kick in the pants, nor does it mean
they are being childish for doing so.
Could this mean we could see a light emitting fluorescent liquid tube without a 60 (or 50)Hz hum?
The effects of phase shif flickering are known to be horrible for ergonomics.
Science has certain procedures and formalities, by which every detail must be checked until it can be declared as a fact.
So are you implying that religion, by not going through procedures and formalities is a more efficient bureaucracy?
Welcome a self-governing metamoderating of upcoming
Slashdot news articles.
Give them away with 24 hour windows at random to a few
hundred people who don't have bad karma and a history
for trouble, and have been active on the site for over a
year.
Prune down the wheat from the chaff (so to speak).
It's easier to gain forgiveness than to get permission.
There was no mention of Sony's UMD format which is used
in the Sony PSP. I'd love to see the UMD toughened up and ruggedized (ala MiniDisc) and shrink down the shelving requirements in stores so there is more room in the
isles during the next Christmas season.
If possible we should aim for higher density, smaller space, not higher density same space requirements.
So does this mean mama doesn't love Mambo?
"Son, there just aren't enough games out on the XBox 360 yet to make it worthwhile."
welcome our new man-amplifier overlords.
I may be wrong, but I believe this was discussed a little in 'The Biological Time Bomb' in the late 60's by Gordon Rattray Taylor, and it does represent a big step in this area of technology.
Somewhere ... deep within the hollows of suburbia ... a logging company executive is feeling cautiously optimistic for 2006.
You can learn the latest fad programming language and keep it on your resume' for a 10+, (Java),20+ (C, C++), or 50 (COBOL) year lifespan, but why must it be one-or-the-other?
Every program in a programming language has its purpose; to get system to behave in a certain way in a finite number of steps. School is there to teach you the fundamentals; that you can use as a basis to expand your knowledge with new knowledge, and get a feel for the idioms and syntax. Ask not what language to learn, but what can you do with the language.
1. Round up bored pre-Christmas slump lawyers.
2. Devise plan to terminate undesirable employees and make them disgruntled.
3. Wait for someone aggravated enough to vent on public forum.
4. Put the buzz in the ear of News Editor of
Light Reading to publish yellow article and hope the buzz generates interest in ailing stock.
5. Profit!?
Oh c'mon... calling the Brattle 'the big screen' is like calling an iPod a 'home theater'.
Independent and cheesy, yes, but the Brattle is at best like going to a movie in a high school auditorium.
How do we know that these drowning polar bears aren't liberal Democrats on one of those "roughing it" getaway weekends while the Republican polar bears are slowly dying a death from The Conspiracy of high fructose corn syrup Coca-Cola? They must be trying to get to Canada to find some cane sugar Coke.
Every species must have its political factions as well as its Darwin awards.
So does this mean we can drop the already dead H.323 protocol and replace it with Jingle in Asterisk?
Close, but in sterotypical anime' it's more like a schoolgirl
covering her mouth going:
Hiiiihihihiihihiihihihiihihiiiii! *breath* hhihihihiihihihii!*splat*
So, somatic cell nuclear transfer cloning works because we put embryos in a starved state.
Life extension now is also coming about because we are entering a starved state. At a lecture in a conference on complexity by NECSI (http://www.necsi.org/ a few years back there was also a correlation on multiple generations of fruit flies they longer they deferred having offspring the longer they will live.
We do have a lot more to learn here, between starvation of food and sex to gain increased longevity.
Is there anything other than the 'starvation' angle that will help us break new ground?
OK, you can die when the time comes, just going get in the way of the rest of us living on.