"Google deleted files and made its employees work from home"
How do they know they "deleted files", if they were deleted?
How does an employee working from home hinder an investigation?
I work in IT and I'm fortunate enough to be able to work from home from time to time. My job also involves deleting files some times. You know, outdated code, and the like. So, suit me.
Documenting yourself will not hurt, but I think you must hire an expert to have that done correctly. Computer security is a field complex enough to warrant more than reading a couple books.
If your budget doesn't allow for this, then probably your client doesn't really need the kind of security they are asking for.
In this case car thieves actually don't need keys. They stole the cars, and remove the keys. And then sometimes sell cars with no keys (or show you ads while you enter their website, whatever). A cumbersome, intrusive, difficult to use car key is actually beneficial to car thieves.
"Congress. Because they have more resources and weapons at their disposal than all the geeks in the world combined."
It's not only the raw number that matters - effectiveness is also very important. If you need hundreds of millions of dollars to get rid of hundreds of afghans... and you want to get rid of 10 million people... that doesn't look very well).
"Do you know why the Berlin Wall fell? No, it wasn't because Reagan gave a speech at the Brandenburger Gate. Or because he managed to fool the USSR into bankrupting itself. It was because when push came to shove, Honecker and Krenz refused to shoot their own people on a scale similar to what China, North Korea or Syria did."
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In my free time, I like to do specialized, small libraries, for other people to use. I do it because I enjoy building something useful, and aesthetically pleasant, in its own way. I find pleasure in knowing that others use what I build to do more stuff.
MIT and BSD licenses allow me to get over with the legalese in seconds. Copy a file there, and BAM! Everyone will understand how they can use/not use the lib. I will not have to spend time answering legal questions about it in the future - or they will be very easily answered. With the GPL, I can't have that. I have read it several times, and I'm still not able to answer some questions about it.
I'm not sure a license is the right weapon to win the "fight for freedom" any more. Just like DRM is not the way to fight piracy. Convenience & usability are much more effective tools IMHO. Don't give me a 5-pages length document to read. Allow me to do what I want with one button. Give me a carrot, not a stick.
'Right' and 'wrong', although relative, always exist. Morality always exist. But it's like a muscle.
Once you start down the path of "not thinking about right or wrong", the 'illegal' and 'legal' distinction gradually mutates into in 'being caught' vs 'not being caught'. Stealing or killing other people don't look so "wrong" any more. "wrong" is something you just don't think about - you have trained yourself not to "think" about that concept - at least when it applies to what you do.
And one day, you either die like a stupid poor bastard or like a rich bastard. But you are still a fucking evil bastard.
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"Sport is for the proletariat"
That one would look great on a Sports t-shirt.
Correction: India will block all internet using just one of *those* $100 PCs that they are on the verge of releasing.
"India warned these websites it can block them just like China can"
The Big Wall of (Internet) China costed millions.
India will block all internet using just one of $100 PCs that they are on the verge of releasing.
Can you buy Internet Explorer and Visual Basic?
Thnx bye
The .mobi format comes with a very usable default design. There is no need to hire a designer for a kindle title.
If a programmer uses "programmer quotes" instead of “typographical quotes”, no one aside from designers will notice.
"Google deleted files and made its employees work from home"
How do they know they "deleted files", if they were deleted?
How does an employee working from home hinder an investigation?
I work in IT and I'm fortunate enough to be able to work from home from time to time. My job also involves deleting files some times. You know, outdated code, and the like. So, suit me.
You know, putting satellites in orbit is kind of expensive. Who is going to pay for all that?
Documenting yourself will not hurt, but I think you must hire an expert to have that done correctly. Computer security is a field complex enough to warrant more than reading a couple books.
If your budget doesn't allow for this, then probably your client doesn't really need the kind of security they are asking for.
In this case car thieves actually don't need keys. They stole the cars, and remove the keys. And then sometimes sell cars with no keys (or show you ads while you enter their website, whatever). A cumbersome, intrusive, difficult to use car key is actually beneficial to car thieves.
"The same basic functions of Google Health can be achieved with a spreadsheet and some organization (except the perhaps convenient share feature)"
Google Docs spreadsheets. They can be shared.
Interesting idea. Patenting troll patenting.
I'm not in USA and it's also meters for me. I had a USA English teacher.
Also, the libraries I use on my daily work (programming) all use meters, colors, and flavors.
It plays music. It stays out of the way.
"Congress. Because they have more resources and weapons at their disposal than all the geeks in the world combined."
It's not only the raw number that matters - effectiveness is also very important. If you need hundreds of millions of dollars to get rid of hundreds of afghans ... and you want to get rid of 10 million people... that doesn't look very well).
"Do you know why the Berlin Wall fell? No, it wasn't because Reagan gave a speech at the Brandenburger Gate. Or because he managed to fool the USSR into bankrupting itself. It was because when push came to shove, Honecker and Krenz refused to shoot their own people on a scale similar to what China, North Korea or Syria did."
Dude, no. That was David Hasselhoff's concert.
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The server that answered to your post request is powered by magic fairies.
I don't care.
"Sounds like they don't know how to run a Windows environment.."
Turn it off and on again. That's how windows is run.
In my free time, I like to do specialized, small libraries, for other people to use. I do it because I enjoy building something useful, and aesthetically pleasant, in its own way. I find pleasure in knowing that others use what I build to do more stuff.
MIT and BSD licenses allow me to get over with the legalese in seconds. Copy a file there, and BAM! Everyone will understand how they can use/not use the lib. I will not have to spend time answering legal questions about it in the future - or they will be very easily answered. With the GPL, I can't have that. I have read it several times, and I'm still not able to answer some questions about it.
I'm not sure a license is the right weapon to win the "fight for freedom" any more. Just like DRM is not the way to fight piracy. Convenience & usability are much more effective tools IMHO. Don't give me a 5-pages length document to read. Allow me to do what I want with one button. Give me a carrot, not a stick.
You didn't have alcohol, back in the day? :D
"You might as well compare apples with a car."
Not a great analogy. Apple might release a car one day.
"One project I've worked on has single files which cause GCC to take over 6 GB to compile when you compile with -O2. Who's bloated now?"
emm ... those single project files?
Your accountant was probably half-joking.
'Right' and 'wrong', although relative, always exist. Morality always exist. But it's like a muscle.
Once you start down the path of "not thinking about right or wrong", the 'illegal' and 'legal' distinction gradually mutates into in 'being caught' vs 'not being caught'. Stealing or killing other people don't look so "wrong" any more. "wrong" is something you just don't think about - you have trained yourself not to "think" about that concept - at least when it applies to what you do.
And one day, you either die like a stupid poor bastard or like a rich bastard. But you are still a fucking evil bastard.
"being the nice guy rarely pays off in business"
Maybe business itself is (mostly) evil.
"Government should stay out of the way of business" "We need savvy government that sets clear rules"
Decide yourself.
If it's dickish or deceptive it is evil. The fact that it's allowed by the system doesn't magically make it non-evil.