I think you underestimate the influence of profit. Pure simple greed. That is mostly likely what is driving prices...
Perhaps also, the fall of the US dollar, it's not worth the same...
Indeed, or one for each country... Especially when travelling around in Europe... Or living in the US, but still have a Danish phone number and simcard I want to maintain:)
Another big part of the problem is the lack of accountability.
More likely it's too much accountability, everything being defined in water-fall style specifications, which can't possibly be implemented.
Less accountability, trust and iterative development have been identified to provide higher project success rates...
the responsible government employee would lose his job (and pension)
WTF? Pension is money saved up. Why should anybody ever loose that. In any line of work, that's just messed up.
There is talk of criminal neglect, do a criminal case...
But this kind of "accountability", which is more about assigning blame to someone and ruining their career, is exactly why nobody wants to do government contracts.
and the contractors would finish the job on their own dime, things would change
Yes, contractor would factor in the risk of failure, or risk of going over price and raise his prices by a factor of 10.
Or just use a shell company and let that go bankrupts if he fails to deliver the contract.
Bottom line: software development is high risk, from a study of 4500 projects over $15M, 45% of it projects goes above budget and 17% threatens the existence of the company.
See: http://www.mckinsey.com/insigh...
The inflexibility of contract and specification governed software development is at the heart of the problem here. More accountability isn't going to fix that. More punishment will only cause officials and contractors to do more work to cover their own ass... Instead of taking an actual risk, which is what software project management is all about, it's about managing risk and uncertainty.
So.. you would have no problem with not knowing that the person who is "giving you a ride" was twice convicted of rape, and spent some time in the hokey for kidnapping?
If you do that in the US... They'll never let you out of prison.
My country paid for my education as well as 1k / month in educational support. So I had no debt leaving school.
I had some money on my account, the rest was just standing credit, of which I have 10k at 5% per year (if I wanted more I could probably just call my bank).
From what I hear US banks doesn't have concept of standing credit... it's like a credit card, except you don't have to pay it at the end of the month and interest are very reasonable.
US banks are quite shitty, I have high income, ~30k in the bank right now, but I have trouble getting a credit card, or a even a reliable debit card. I've had transactions cancelled on me because I travelled to another state, or tried to buy a 1.5k bike... I even had petty transactions cancelled on my at wallgreens, for no good reason.. So I always carry around one of my foreign credit card, they always work. It's just ridiculous that American banks can't handle day-to-day operations reliably.
landlords will simply pass you by! its absurd, but they all demand to see 3mos of income (at least) or they won't consider you.
I moved to SF in October (yes, H1B), and got an apartment without showing any statements. I had to put down 6k in deposit, and finding an apartment in SF is hard. But far from impossible, even without proof of income.
we owe more to our own people - ones that were born and raised here - than we do for others. I'm sorry, but that's just how I feel.
Fair enough. I'm not sure I fully agree... I have mixed feeling about this kind of thing... I'm from a country with LOTS of social benefits, that surely wouldn't be feasible if we just let anybody in. So I understand the pragmatic side of this. However, H1Bs aren't taking up social services.
That said, I don't think the bay area would be the same tech center it is today without immigration. In fact I worked for the same employer from home before I relocated, the compensation was about the same. I get paid a little bit more in the US, but get a lot less pension, no termination notice, no sick days, fewer vacation, no legal representation from my union, and I get nothing for my taxes.
My point is, without H1B I would have moved somewhere else, Toronto or London.
Either way, I hope you have luck hunting jobs. From where I'm sitting there is no lack of people trying to get me interested in a job ad. But I suspect that a lot of those is more talk than people interested. I also hear that in the US, being unemployed makes potential employers think less of you. Because people never choose to be unemployed for a while, due to how benefits are linked to employment.
Technically they didn't leak private files, because the files weren't ever private. They were public with the URLs not published in an index anywhere, so you had to know the URL to access them.
Yeah, but this is quite useful... I suspect the solution though is to do a redirect from the static access-url to a temporary content-url.
I do, however, still fear that history would leak... Maybe two redirects would do the trick. As the content wouldn't possible to able to see the static access-url.
Sure, authentication is nice... but sending non-published URLs is really nice.
actual basic policing, substations, and other items needed to process all but murders and attempted murders are not funded.
Murders, attempted murders and copyright violators; don't forget the last one...
Joke a side, it's a shame, and not only the case for US police officers. Even well-founded police departments in Europe won't go for iPhones or computers. Mostly, because they have already been sold, so you won't catch the thief, just the idiot who bought a cheap iPhone, laptop or whatever.
Otherwise,it would be a great way to catch people early in their criminal career, where juvenile detention might actually change them. I'm not suggesting that this would work in the US where prisons are all about punishment, but there places where the term "correctional facility" isn't fully compromised.
Germany does put high taxes on energy in order to subsidize green energy production and projects.
They don't just hand out taxes breaks, they also raises taxes on fossil fuel...
Taxes is a tool to be used here.. The US is using it, but not enough, and the US probably doesn't have the will/strength/ability to do because of all the money involved in politics and big corporations lobby against it...
Then they end up leaving and this now critical piece is a nightmare to maintain.
I'm not saying that this is the solution for everything. But it's a hammer that could be used more often than it is...
Specifically, I'm saying that when it becomes a monster, you just let it crash, burn and die...
I see let's of office people maintaining semi-critical client lists in excel... They would be a lot better of hacking up something ugly in access, php, asp3, ruby or whatever. Even if it crashes and burns some day... Their excel spreadsheet is slow to use (because it's all manual) and easy to mess up, it'll crash and burn all the time.
I'm not suggestion that things now implemented as nice solutions should be hacked... But that things currently implemented as stupid manual processes ought to be hacked.
4. Pumping these students out suggests there will be soon a glut in the market. There is only so much software needed in the world.
Hmm... We'll see. Imagine what would happen if you hired secretaries who could code. I'm not saying CS graduates as secretaries.
But people who can write some horribly ugly and unmaintainable php/mysql applications.
There are so many work processes that could be automated. And the current manual implementation of these processes is so buggy, that a poor software implementation would likely be better..
Maybe it's okay to write software that solves the job here and now... And that you don't try to maintain:)
You can't build giant core products like this. But you can make many useful tools, very fast, very cheap, and enhance productivity of your organization.
I think there is a big market for shitty code that solves problems. Today many processes aren't digitized, because it's too expensive.
Then I'm not interested. Seriously, chrome has gotten me way to lazy in this regard. And FF has frustrated me on this since (and yes, I know there is an add-on).
it's basically, privacy issue... chrome will send everything you type in the address bar to servers. That is who search and address bar are split in Firefox.
The NSA is an important component in understanding the world around us.
Nobody complains about good old fashion spying... Such as hiring a PI to follow a suspect around.
The invasion of privacy conducted at the hands of the NSA is so extensive that it makes whatever records Stasi was making look like childs play.
It's the unprecedented scale that is the big problem.... Then there is the legality of industrial espionage in a civilized world, etc... And the fact that you normally don't conduct criminal activities within the territory of your allies.
So what would this proposed change in regulation possibly have to do with preventing food poisoning? I'm honestly at a loss for what problem this would fix.
Like I said, I'm not expert... And certainly not qualified for risk analysis in this field.
But I suspect that as a guiding principle, regulation tries to ensure that all parts of the industrialized food chain are traceable. Such that a steak can be traced to butcher, farm, cow, food, original of food... etc.
Presumably there is a limit to how far back it makes sense to go... And presumable, it doesn't make sense to regulate traceability and testing of of small food sources, hence, the previous exception. But with industry growth, maybe they are reconsidering the previous exception.
We know that mad-cow disease has origins in food. I suspect there are other diseases that spread through food too...
It isn't hard to imagine a brewery that doesn't clean it's disposal trucks between loads and suddenly starts poisoning the food chain with something nasty.
They couldn't use the DMCA, Lexmark put an authentication chip on their toner cartridges and sued SCC for reverse engineering their chip for cheaper cartridges. The supreme court sided with SCC in 2004 and then sided with them in 2014 when SCC asked for damages from Lexmark for the false copyright claims. Essintally you can't claim copyright infringement because you are granting access with your protocol so accessing with a copy of your protocol is no different.
Interesting... But in the case of a messenger service, AIM could probably modify their EULA and claim copyright on all messages exchanged over the network.
In which case DMCA would apply.
privacy abuses have been so bad (although admittedly still better than some other countries)
Out of curiosity: which countries do you think of?:)
Even stasi, east german secret policy during the cold war, didn't conduct surveillance at the scale as US government.
Considering credit card penetration in the US, etc. I would suspect you have better privacy in China. Though, you right to disagree might be slightly reduced:)
Simple laws that say something like, "Any company says they won't abuse your data gets shut down and all their assets siezed
What does it matter?
The company could put that in the EULA...
But what would it change. Even if the company is truly nice, and truly wants to do honor it's agreement. It can be force to disclose data to the NSA and not talk about it.
Even, if there was a law, there would be a secret law circumventing it. In the current political landscape this isn't far fetched.
In fact it's naive to think things like this don't take place.
The organization response does appear to be tone-deaf. I wouldn't care if they had perfect security. I care about what they're going to do with the information.
Exactly... And being US based, you can't trust what they say anyway, because they can be legally order to lie to you.
It really, doesn't matter what they say... At the end of the day, the US doesn't have a legal framework to support safe use of private data for good, without risks that it may end up at NSA (or big insurance companies).
Closing this was the only way, given the current political landscape in the US big data is never safe.
If I did this, I would likely be facing criminal charges...
In the US, yes....
Just imagine if AIM had encrypted the communication with a key hardcoded into their client... Then accessing the server with a third party client could be unauthorized access of computer system in violation of the computer fraud act, or at least violation of DMCA, by breaking DRM.
here you are, talking about how you asked a tough question to a leader who doesn't give a shit about looking hypocritical or lying
I like said it last time (http://slashdot.org/comments.pl?sid=5047921&cid=46783413) and Snowden just confirmed here (better worded though).
"If we are to test the truth of officials' claims, we must first give them an opportunity to make those claims"
In slashdot profit style:
1) Ask a question about which an official will lie,
2) Expose the truth,
3)......
4) Profit
Slashdot Mirror
>are moving away from finite fields altogether in favor of elliptic curves Umm, what about all the elliptic curves in finite fields?
It may have been 6 years since I played with the discrete logarithm problem over elliptic curves, but aren't all the fields finite?
so (quality/quantity) * price is constant?
I think you underestimate the influence of profit. Pure simple greed. That is mostly likely what is driving prices...
Perhaps also, the fall of the US dollar, it's not worth the same...
Indeed, or one for each country... Especially when travelling around in Europe... Or living in the US, but still have a Danish phone number and simcard I want to maintain :)
Another big part of the problem is the lack of accountability.
More likely it's too much accountability, everything being defined in water-fall style specifications, which can't possibly be implemented.
Less accountability, trust and iterative development have been identified to provide higher project success rates...
the responsible government employee would lose his job (and pension)
WTF? Pension is money saved up. Why should anybody ever loose that. In any line of work, that's just messed up.
There is talk of criminal neglect, do a criminal case...
But this kind of "accountability", which is more about assigning blame to someone and ruining their career, is exactly why nobody wants to do government contracts.
and the contractors would finish the job on their own dime, things would change
Yes, contractor would factor in the risk of failure, or risk of going over price and raise his prices by a factor of 10.
Or just use a shell company and let that go bankrupts if he fails to deliver the contract. Bottom line: software development is high risk, from a study of 4500 projects over $15M, 45% of it projects goes above budget and 17% threatens the existence of the company.
See: http://www.mckinsey.com/insigh...
The inflexibility of contract and specification governed software development is at the heart of the problem here. More accountability isn't going to fix that. More punishment will only cause officials and contractors to do more work to cover their own ass... Instead of taking an actual risk, which is what software project management is all about, it's about managing risk and uncertainty.
So.. you would have no problem with not knowing that the person who is "giving you a ride" was twice convicted of rape, and spent some time in the hokey for kidnapping?
If you do that in the US... They'll never let you out of prison.
Where did you get $6k??
My country paid for my education as well as 1k / month in educational support. So I had no debt leaving school.
I had some money on my account, the rest was just standing credit, of which I have 10k at 5% per year (if I wanted more I could probably just call my bank).
From what I hear US banks doesn't have concept of standing credit... it's like a credit card, except you don't have to pay it at the end of the month and interest are very reasonable.
US banks are quite shitty, I have high income, ~30k in the bank right now, but I have trouble getting a credit card, or a even a reliable debit card. I've had transactions cancelled on me because I travelled to another state, or tried to buy a 1.5k bike... I even had petty transactions cancelled on my at wallgreens, for no good reason.. So I always carry around one of my foreign credit card, they always work. It's just ridiculous that American banks can't handle day-to-day operations reliably.
landlords will simply pass you by! its absurd, but they all demand to see 3mos of income (at least) or they won't consider you.
I moved to SF in October (yes, H1B), and got an apartment without showing any statements. I had to put down 6k in deposit, and finding an apartment in SF is hard. But far from impossible, even without proof of income.
we owe more to our own people - ones that were born and raised here - than we do for others. I'm sorry, but that's just how I feel.
Fair enough. I'm not sure I fully agree... I have mixed feeling about this kind of thing... I'm from a country with LOTS of social benefits, that surely wouldn't be feasible if we just let anybody in. So I understand the pragmatic side of this. However, H1Bs aren't taking up social services.
That said, I don't think the bay area would be the same tech center it is today without immigration. In fact I worked for the same employer from home before I relocated, the compensation was about the same. I get paid a little bit more in the US, but get a lot less pension, no termination notice, no sick days, fewer vacation, no legal representation from my union, and I get nothing for my taxes.
My point is, without H1B I would have moved somewhere else, Toronto or London.
Either way, I hope you have luck hunting jobs. From where I'm sitting there is no lack of people trying to get me interested in a job ad. But I suspect that a lot of those is more talk than people interested. I also hear that in the US, being unemployed makes potential employers think less of you. Because people never choose to be unemployed for a while, due to how benefits are linked to employment.
Technically they didn't leak private files, because the files weren't ever private. They were public with the URLs not published in an index anywhere, so you had to know the URL to access them.
Yeah, but this is quite useful... I suspect the solution though is to do a redirect from the static access-url to a temporary content-url.
I do, however, still fear that history would leak... Maybe two redirects would do the trick. As the content wouldn't possible to able to see the static access-url.
Sure, authentication is nice... but sending non-published URLs is really nice.
actual basic policing, substations, and other items needed to process all but murders and attempted murders are not funded. Murders, attempted murders and copyright violators; don't forget the last one...
Joke a side, it's a shame, and not only the case for US police officers. Even well-founded police departments in Europe won't go for iPhones or computers. Mostly, because they have already been sold, so you won't catch the thief, just the idiot who bought a cheap iPhone, laptop or whatever.
Otherwise,it would be a great way to catch people early in their criminal career, where juvenile detention might actually change them. I'm not suggesting that this would work in the US where prisons are all about punishment, but there places where the term "correctional facility" isn't fully compromised.
For example, look at Germany...
Germany does put high taxes on energy in order to subsidize green energy production and projects.
They don't just hand out taxes breaks, they also raises taxes on fossil fuel...
Taxes is a tool to be used here.. The US is using it, but not enough, and the US probably doesn't have the will/strength/ability to do because of all the money involved in politics and big corporations lobby against it...
Then they end up leaving and this now critical piece is a nightmare to maintain.
I'm not saying that this is the solution for everything. But it's a hammer that could be used more often than it is...
Specifically, I'm saying that when it becomes a monster, you just let it crash, burn and die...
I see let's of office people maintaining semi-critical client lists in excel... They would be a lot better of hacking up something ugly in access, php, asp3, ruby or whatever. Even if it crashes and burns some day... Their excel spreadsheet is slow to use (because it's all manual) and easy to mess up, it'll crash and burn all the time.
I'm not suggestion that things now implemented as nice solutions should be hacked... But that things currently implemented as stupid manual processes ought to be hacked.
... I keep it loaded. It isn't much use in a home invasion if it isn't loaded.
Guns are for girls... I always carry a dead man's switch to the 500 pounds of TNT I keep under my bed.
Nobody robs me and gets away with it...
I think of it as the nuclear option (patent pending).
4. Pumping these students out suggests there will be soon a glut in the market. There is only so much software needed in the world.
Hmm... We'll see. Imagine what would happen if you hired secretaries who could code. I'm not saying CS graduates as secretaries. :)
But people who can write some horribly ugly and unmaintainable php/mysql applications.
There are so many work processes that could be automated. And the current manual implementation of these processes is so buggy, that a poor software implementation would likely be better..
Maybe it's okay to write software that solves the job here and now... And that you don't try to maintain
You can't build giant core products like this. But you can make many useful tools, very fast, very cheap, and enhance productivity of your organization.
I think there is a big market for shitty code that solves problems. Today many processes aren't digitized, because it's too expensive.
Then I'm not interested. Seriously, chrome has gotten me way to lazy in this regard. And FF has frustrated me on this since (and yes, I know there is an add-on).
it's basically, privacy issue... chrome will send everything you type in the address bar to servers. That is who search and address bar are split in Firefox.
And that's exactly what it is, the dumbing down, making the Internet a TV set.
Well, Firefox 29 does also improve builtin web developer tools significantly.
The NSA is an important component in understanding the world around us.
Nobody complains about good old fashion spying... Such as hiring a PI to follow a suspect around.
The invasion of privacy conducted at the hands of the NSA is so extensive that it makes whatever records Stasi was making look like childs play.
It's the unprecedented scale that is the big problem.... Then there is the legality of industrial espionage in a civilized world, etc... And the fact that you normally don't conduct criminal activities within the territory of your allies.
Yeah, that seems pretty safe. I'd love to load your album into kernel space. Seems legit.
It's DRM'ed media on windows routed through kernel space? Then it must be the superior thing to do :)
So what would this proposed change in regulation possibly have to do with preventing food poisoning? I'm honestly at a loss for what problem this would fix.
Like I said, I'm not expert... And certainly not qualified for risk analysis in this field.
But I suspect that as a guiding principle, regulation tries to ensure that all parts of the industrialized food chain are traceable. Such that a steak can be traced to butcher, farm, cow, food, original of food... etc.
Presumably there is a limit to how far back it makes sense to go... And presumable, it doesn't make sense to regulate traceability and testing of of small food sources, hence, the previous exception. But with industry growth, maybe they are reconsidering the previous exception.
We know that mad-cow disease has origins in food. I suspect there are other diseases that spread through food too...
It isn't hard to imagine a brewery that doesn't clean it's disposal trucks between loads and suddenly starts poisoning the food chain with something nasty.
They couldn't use the DMCA, Lexmark put an authentication chip on their toner cartridges and sued SCC for reverse engineering their chip for cheaper cartridges. The supreme court sided with SCC in 2004 and then sided with them in 2014 when SCC asked for damages from Lexmark for the false copyright claims. Essintally you can't claim copyright infringement because you are granting access with your protocol so accessing with a copy of your protocol is no different.
Interesting... But in the case of a messenger service, AIM could probably modify their EULA and claim copyright on all messages exchanged over the network.
In which case DMCA would apply.
privacy abuses have been so bad (although admittedly still better than some other countries)
Out of curiosity: which countries do you think of? :)
:)
Even stasi, east german secret policy during the cold war, didn't conduct surveillance at the scale as US government.
Considering credit card penetration in the US, etc. I would suspect you have better privacy in China. Though, you right to disagree might be slightly reduced
Simple laws that say something like, "Any company says they won't abuse your data gets shut down and all their assets siezed
What does it matter?
The company could put that in the EULA...
But what would it change. Even if the company is truly nice, and truly wants to do honor it's agreement. It can be force to disclose data to the NSA and not talk about it.
Even, if there was a law, there would be a secret law circumventing it. In the current political landscape this isn't far fetched.
In fact it's naive to think things like this don't take place.
The organization response does appear to be tone-deaf. I wouldn't care if they had perfect security. I care about what they're going to do with the information.
Exactly... And being US based, you can't trust what they say anyway, because they can be legally order to lie to you.
It really, doesn't matter what they say... At the end of the day, the US doesn't have a legal framework to support safe use of private data for good, without risks that it may end up at NSA (or big insurance companies).
Closing this was the only way, given the current political landscape in the US big data is never safe.
If I did this, I would likely be facing criminal charges...
In the US, yes....
Just imagine if AIM had encrypted the communication with a key hardcoded into their client... Then accessing the server with a third party client could be unauthorized access of computer system in violation of the computer fraud act, or at least violation of DMCA, by breaking DRM.
here you are, talking about how you asked a tough question to a leader who doesn't give a shit about looking hypocritical or lying
I like said it last time (http://slashdot.org/comments.pl?sid=5047921&cid=46783413) and Snowden just confirmed here (better worded though).
......
"If we are to test the truth of officials' claims, we must first give them an opportunity to make those claims"
In slashdot profit style:
1) Ask a question about which an official will lie,
2) Expose the truth,
3)
4) Profit
Do you have a better plan?
Spot on :)
:)
It's easy to say "May increase the price", but considering that they didn't do the math. It's most likely just wild speculation