I am not really all that worried about the (lack) of privacy of Facebook all that much. (Selling out my info to corporate shills is another matter entirely; if anyone's going to make a profit off of me, I want it to be *me*). As more and more people are born into the "Facebook generation" and as they age and find careers and start running the world, this kind of stuff won't be all that important because nearly everyone will have this kind of documentation about them available in one form or another. It's just all that much more noise to process, without a whole lot of signal.
Funny that in our small, fewer than 50 people outfit, the woman with the BS in Comp Sci and a strong skillset in code and graphic design is out on the sales floor all day, while our one-person "IT department" has no clue what he's doing outside of "liking to tinker with computers."
When the program you're writing in Visual Basic to take care of the schedule is taking you weeks to finish, and you're using that buggy, incomplete program to generate employee schedules that are now terrible and unbalanced...you're doing it wrong.
Being an IT guy is more than drinking lots of coffee and dicking around with Linux.
>>> Agreeing that women should have the vote and be able to have property is a HUGE stretch from women should have lots of sex out of wedlock and never have children.
You make it sound like lots of sex out of wedlock and life-long childlessness is a BAD thing. =P
But on a more serious note, is the judgmental tone I'm picking up regarding contemporary feminism actually being implied, or have my ovaries gone on overtime? I would be inclined to say that the pill and sexual liberation is fantastic, but I see no point in bringing up a debate where none was intended.
Didn't you know? The entire Internet userbase consists of Harry Potter fanficcers and artists. Old IRC adages about men, women, children and FBI agents no longer apply.
More proof that with each passing year, NASA becomes more and more of a practical joke instead of a viable institution.
Other developed nations of the world better step up in that field--otherwise we're fucked.
Slashdot Mirror
I am not really all that worried about the (lack) of privacy of Facebook all that much. (Selling out my info to corporate shills is another matter entirely; if anyone's going to make a profit off of me, I want it to be *me*). As more and more people are born into the "Facebook generation" and as they age and find careers and start running the world, this kind of stuff won't be all that important because nearly everyone will have this kind of documentation about them available in one form or another. It's just all that much more noise to process, without a whole lot of signal.
Funny that in our small, fewer than 50 people outfit, the woman with the BS in Comp Sci and a strong skillset in code and graphic design is out on the sales floor all day, while our one-person "IT department" has no clue what he's doing outside of "liking to tinker with computers."
When the program you're writing in Visual Basic to take care of the schedule is taking you weeks to finish, and you're using that buggy, incomplete program to generate employee schedules that are now terrible and unbalanced...you're doing it wrong. Being an IT guy is more than drinking lots of coffee and dicking around with Linux.
Didn't you know? The entire Internet userbase consists of Harry Potter fanficcers and artists. Old IRC adages about men, women, children and FBI agents no longer apply.
USD what-you get-if-you-multiply-six-by-nine
If that's the case, the asteroid's going to become a pot of petunias anyway, so nothing to worry about.
More proof that with each passing year, NASA becomes more and more of a practical joke instead of a viable institution. Other developed nations of the world better step up in that field--otherwise we're fucked.
...look at all the racists coming out of the woodwork for this article. Or is it just one guy posting as AC over and over?