So tell me, precisely what part of those proposed rules sounds as if it would hamper a bona-fide company from carrying out its bona-fide processing of personal data they obtained with consent?
It would hamper bona-fide companies that wish to resell everything they know about you without restriction from doing so. Waaaah! Evil commie alert!:)
I completely agree with you though - this seems like a fairly normal set of rules to me. If you value your privacy, that is.
While I disagree with the premise of your post, I do think it is a shame the whole "placebo effect" is not understood in more detail. If we could reliably trigger the placebo effect in everyone, it would certainly do a lot to help us control our bodies and ultimately, our lives.
We had a song over here about a little rabbit that made nr. 1 I believe, and you could hear it was made by two guys heavily under the influence of something a lot stronger than mere alcohol or marihuana (which they admitted to:)). I think that would be a wonderful tune with this show:)
Someone over 35 who is prejudiced against *good* new ideas isn't bright. You'll recognize them pretty soon and can then discard their prejudice while making use of their experience.
And with the whole client-server oh no component based development oh no SOA oh no.. new fad coming in... stuff... it really helps if you are experienced to give you some perspective. While someone fresh out of university may *think* webbased services are the greatest thing since sliced bread, people with real world experience can also provide some perspective on the areas where you DON'T want to use it.
In my experience, the people who actually know most about structured environments and development in those, are mainframe COBOL coders. They had too. And they're a treasure trove of experience if you care to listen. Imagine: transaction control, virtual machines, batch control that still makes me jealous, backup/restore that works, version control on everything... these are things that were there in the 70's and 80's and only now begin to become mainstream for other environments.
When at university I don't think I ever completed a project I was working on. But it was fun to build my own game (I still have code for a postal write-in game where you can order fleets of spaceships around), some utilities to calculate odds against my friends in boardgames, some other stuff to help me program. Nothing big, nothing fancy (except my 4th year graduation project which was 30.000 lines of C++) but still showing an interest in programming.
Don't bother coding a new mailclient. But do look at Thunderbird which most certainly needs improvement in the account-creation department before I'm going to try it again. Or something else that interests you.
Basically: if nothing interests you in programming except USING the code, perhaps the best choice for a profession would be as intermediary between business and IT. We need those too, you know. But I wouldn't hire you for serious, day-to-day code monkey stuff. You'd hate it pretty soon which would hurt us both.
Actually, in The Netherlands more and more IT-professionals with enough experience to make it work, become freelancer. Better pay, more control over your own life, but also a few downsides ofcourse (if you don't like uncertainty, acquisition, talking to people or doing bookkeeping, it's not for you). The thing that makes this possible is comprehensive and general health care + insurance that doesn't discriminate between normal and self-employed people (which is the major inhibitor in the US, as far as I've understood).
So what is left for bigger companies are NOT the people with experience, but (a) the juniors and (b) the experienced people who can't be bothered to do bookkeeping or acquisition and (c) people who can't compete. Trying to hire experienced and good developers in NL right now is almost futile - they just aren't there. So a company that won't hire juniors will eventually run up the wall OR has to increase its wages a lot.
We did experiments on mutating fruit flies in our last year in high school. In a few weeks we had nice results. A very clear demonstration of evolution in action.
Pray tell: what *is* the difference between a religion and a cult?
The organization, the number of followers, the adoption by the rulers, and whether it hinges on the worship of a living person (cult) or a dead one - not a great defining feature but a lot of cults don't survive the death of their founder.
The operative word in your statement is "yet". Before 9/11, no one had committed large scale murder with airplanes. There's always a first time for everything and when a lot of the people looking at this immediately conclude "assassination tool" you bet there will be others that actually will use it like that.
with government authorised combatants use it, an assassination device.
Totally tangentially -- why is killing hundreds of grunts encouraged, killing hundreds of civilians is frowned upon but tolerated, but killing one specific leader is illegal?
It's not illegal. But leaders don't like it because it tends to invite retaliation in kind. And leaders don't usually lead from the front. That would be dangerous. They prefer to let other people do the dying.
True about visual programming, but I've always found it a great shame that Web never took off. You write your code as a story and then the compiler separates your explanation into documentation and the code into a compiled program. Way ahead of its time. One of Donald Knuth's ideas. See http://www.literateprogramming.com/ for more information.
Heh - comparing waterbear to literate programming is sort of like comparing a donald duck comic with War and Peace, come to think of it:)
True - and my guess is that a lot of people within the three-letter-acronyms are watching the SWIFT bankrecords. I'd suspect we'd see at least some money moving out of suspected accounts into fresh ones.
Uhm... how many people come as close as he did to pulling in a country into a war succesfully, and getting them to spent gazillions of dollars they don't have? Anyone coming this close to his stated intentions is (or was) a very dangerous strategist.
The problem being that "later" means "useless" because it's not exactly a secret that OBL was killed and all his information retrieved. All procedures will have to be changed, safehouses abandoned, banking accounts switched... it's a major blow for Al Qaeda even without any information actually being readable, even without the impact of OBL's death. Decrypting it in a few months will mean you will catch a few idiots who didn't get the message to pack up and leave, but not much else.
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So tell me, precisely what part of those proposed rules sounds as if it would hamper a bona-fide company from carrying out its bona-fide processing of personal data they obtained with consent?
It would hamper bona-fide companies that wish to resell everything they know about you without restriction from doing so. Waaaah! Evil commie alert! :)
I completely agree with you though - this seems like a fairly normal set of rules to me. If you value your privacy, that is.
While I disagree with the premise of your post, I do think it is a shame the whole "placebo effect" is not understood in more detail. If we could reliably trigger the placebo effect in everyone, it would certainly do a lot to help us control our bodies and ultimately, our lives.
We had a song over here about a little rabbit that made nr. 1 I believe, and you could hear it was made by two guys heavily under the influence of something a lot stronger than mere alcohol or marihuana (which they admitted to :)). I think that would be a wonderful tune with this show :)
Someone over 35 who is prejudiced against *good* new ideas isn't bright. You'll recognize them pretty soon and can then discard their prejudice while making use of their experience.
And with the whole client-server oh no component based development oh no SOA oh no.. new fad coming in... stuff... it really helps if you are experienced to give you some perspective. While someone fresh out of university may *think* webbased services are the greatest thing since sliced bread, people with real world experience can also provide some perspective on the areas where you DON'T want to use it.
In my experience, the people who actually know most about structured environments and development in those, are mainframe COBOL coders. They had too. And they're a treasure trove of experience if you care to listen. Imagine: transaction control, virtual machines, batch control that still makes me jealous, backup/restore that works, version control on everything... these are things that were there in the 70's and 80's and only now begin to become mainstream for other environments.
When at university I don't think I ever completed a project I was working on. But it was fun to build my own game (I still have code for a postal write-in game where you can order fleets of spaceships around), some utilities to calculate odds against my friends in boardgames, some other stuff to help me program. Nothing big, nothing fancy (except my 4th year graduation project which was 30.000 lines of C++) but still showing an interest in programming.
Don't bother coding a new mailclient. But do look at Thunderbird which most certainly needs improvement in the account-creation department before I'm going to try it again. Or something else that interests you.
Basically: if nothing interests you in programming except USING the code, perhaps the best choice for a profession would be as intermediary between business and IT. We need those too, you know. But I wouldn't hire you for serious, day-to-day code monkey stuff. You'd hate it pretty soon which would hurt us both.
Actually, in The Netherlands more and more IT-professionals with enough experience to make it work, become freelancer. Better pay, more control over your own life, but also a few downsides ofcourse (if you don't like uncertainty, acquisition, talking to people or doing bookkeeping, it's not for you). The thing that makes this possible is comprehensive and general health care + insurance that doesn't discriminate between normal and self-employed people (which is the major inhibitor in the US, as far as I've understood).
So what is left for bigger companies are NOT the people with experience, but (a) the juniors and (b) the experienced people who can't be bothered to do bookkeeping or acquisition and (c) people who can't compete. Trying to hire experienced and good developers in NL right now is almost futile - they just aren't there. So a company that won't hire juniors will eventually run up the wall OR has to increase its wages a lot.
We did experiments on mutating fruit flies in our last year in high school. In a few weeks we had nice results. A very clear demonstration of evolution in action.
Pray tell: what *is* the difference between a religion and a cult?
The organization, the number of followers, the adoption by the rulers, and whether it hinges on the worship of a living person (cult) or a dead one - not a great defining feature but a lot of cults don't survive the death of their founder.
Aha, a dissenter. Obviously, you're one of the bad guys :)
The operative word in your statement is "yet". Before 9/11, no one had committed large scale murder with airplanes. There's always a first time for everything and when a lot of the people looking at this immediately conclude "assassination tool" you bet there will be others that actually will use it like that.
They get even better surveillance capabilities and some aerial IEDs. That's about it. It's not like they are unable to kill people at present...
with government authorised combatants use it, an assassination device.
Totally tangentially -- why is killing hundreds of grunts encouraged, killing hundreds of civilians is frowned upon but tolerated, but killing one specific leader is illegal?
It's not illegal. But leaders don't like it because it tends to invite retaliation in kind. And leaders don't usually lead from the front. That would be dangerous. They prefer to let other people do the dying.
True about visual programming, but I've always found it a great shame that Web never took off. You write your code as a story and then the compiler separates your explanation into documentation and the code into a compiled program. Way ahead of its time. One of Donald Knuth's ideas. See http://www.literateprogramming.com/ for more information.
Heh - comparing waterbear to literate programming is sort of like comparing a donald duck comic with War and Peace, come to think of it :)
On a Z80, I think you had only 1K so that should about fit on a piece of paper.
And... 169, 0, 141, 208, 32, 141, 208, 33, 96
I'm sure a lot of people will know right away what this does - it's sort of a Hello World for a famous chip :)
I was thinking the same thing, when I read your reply...
Are you saying Anonymous is Al Qaeda? :)
Lol... that conjured up a really weird image of his dark sweater with a lot of white hairs all over it and his minions trying to clean the sweater :)
True - and my guess is that a lot of people within the three-letter-acronyms are watching the SWIFT bankrecords. I'd suspect we'd see at least some money moving out of suspected accounts into fresh ones.
Uhm... how many people come as close as he did to pulling in a country into a war succesfully, and getting them to spent gazillions of dollars they don't have? Anyone coming this close to his stated intentions is (or was) a very dangerous strategist.
Yes, blackmailing suspected members of lethal terrorist organizations looks like a profitable and risk-free venture :)
The problem being that "later" means "useless" because it's not exactly a secret that OBL was killed and all his information retrieved. All procedures will have to be changed, safehouses abandoned, banking accounts switched... it's a major blow for Al Qaeda even without any information actually being readable, even without the impact of OBL's death. Decrypting it in a few months will mean you will catch a few idiots who didn't get the message to pack up and leave, but not much else.
Now, if everything was in plaintext...
I can't decide whether this should be modded funny or insightful. I'm guessing the mods have the same problem.
Credit card companies have LOTS of systems to track violations. My bet would be that one of those companies warned Sony and then panic ensued.
The creditcards are just the icing on the cake :P
Interesting - I'm not doing much development work in that area but it sure looks interesting.