I work at a university research lab and Fortran is still very much present. If nothing else, students need to be able to work with legacy code. I agree, however, that new projects should make use of more modern languages. Special consideration should be given to functional programming which naturally fits many science problems and is easily parallelizable due to its "no side effects" philosophy.
> Ah. So are your credit card numbers, expiration dates, and billing addresses public information?
Someone who stole your credit card would be committing a crime and because he is being watched, he will be prosecuted. One less criminal = safer world.
> Oh, and we'll be forwarding every message you ever posted or e-mailed to all your prospective employers. That goes double for all your politically related correspondence; wouldn't want to have controversy in the workplace, would we? And your present one just fired you because you were working on your resume.
I have nothing to hide. If my prospective employer doesn't like what I have to say, then I don't want to work for him. If he illegally descriminates against me, then he will be seen and prosecuted. If he can fire me because I broke the rules, then I shouldn't be breaking the rules.
> And to the World Church of the Creator and the wonderful folks at Stormfront, who'd like to know if you've been associating with non-whites, and to the fringes of the Nation of Islam, who'd like to know who opposes the idea of racially separate states.
I stand by my political views and they are already public. What's the point of having an oppinion if you are afraid to share it.
> Those, er, gentleman's magazines you order? Or even those violent R-rated Hollywood thrillers that you feel that your kids are mature enough to watch? Your pastor now knows. So does the village gossip.
If I am ashamed to let my pastor know what I'm up to, then I shouldn't be doing it or I should find a new religion. Fortunately, Catholics have a thing called Confession.
I pick my nose. If that embarasses me, then I'll stop. I wipe my butt (as hopefully you do, too). I won't be giving that up but I can accept that it is nothing to be ashamed of. If you really want to watch, what harm does it cause me. If you go over the line and violate me, you will be seen and prosecuted.
Frankly, I don't think anyone would care to watch me wipe, but if they did, I'd feel safe because they wouldn't be able to get away with anything that would harm me.
Consider a nudist colony. I think many would argue that yielding a bit of privacy INCREASES freedom.
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I work at a university research lab and Fortran is still very much present. If nothing else, students need to be able to work with legacy code. I agree, however, that new projects should make use of more modern languages. Special consideration should be given to functional programming which naturally fits many science problems and is easily parallelizable due to its "no side effects" philosophy.
> We need to keep them from watching because we don't trust the watchers.
But we can watch the watchers because they have no privacy.
Zen
> Ah. So are your credit card numbers, expiration dates, and billing addresses public information?
Someone who stole your credit card would be committing a crime and because he is being watched, he will be prosecuted. One less criminal = safer world.
> Oh, and we'll be forwarding every message you ever posted or e-mailed to all your prospective employers. That goes double for all your politically related correspondence; wouldn't want to have controversy in the workplace, would we? And your present one just fired you because you were working on your resume.
I have nothing to hide. If my prospective employer doesn't like what I have to say, then I don't want to work for him. If he illegally descriminates against me, then he will be seen and prosecuted. If he can fire me because I broke the rules, then I shouldn't be breaking the rules.
> And to the World Church of the Creator and the wonderful folks at Stormfront, who'd like to know if you've been associating with non-whites, and to the fringes of the Nation of Islam, who'd like to know who opposes the idea of racially separate states.
I stand by my political views and they are already public. What's the point of having an oppinion if you are afraid to share it.
> Those, er, gentleman's magazines you order? Or even those violent R-rated Hollywood thrillers that you feel that your kids are mature enough to watch? Your pastor now knows. So does the village gossip.
If I am ashamed to let my pastor know what I'm up to, then I shouldn't be doing it or I should find a new religion. Fortunately, Catholics have a thing called Confession.
I pick my nose. If that embarasses me, then I'll stop. I wipe my butt (as hopefully you do, too). I won't be giving that up but I can accept that it is nothing to be ashamed of. If you really want to watch, what harm does it cause me. If you go over the line and violate me, you will be seen and prosecuted.
Frankly, I don't think anyone would care to watch me wipe, but if they did, I'd feel safe because they wouldn't be able to get away with anything that would harm me.
Consider a nudist colony. I think many would argue that yielding a bit of privacy INCREASES freedom.
I'll play Devil's Advocate among this largely Libertarian crowd. Why is privacy important to us?
If we are not ashamed of our actions, why do we care if anyone observes them?
If we are ashamed of our actions, shouldn't we change our behavior? (Either don't do it or don't be ashamed of it.)
Don't you think this world would be a better, safer place if everyone behaved as if they were being watched?
Zen