Ok so I'm guessing you've never used a credit card. But in case you have, what makes you trust Visa/Mastercard more than google. Is it just because google's primary source of revenue is advertisement?
I have two google accounts, one for important stuff(communicating with potential employers when I decide to switch jobs, communicating with my bank etc.) and a second one for/., forums, facebook etc. On the first one I use my real name and I haven't joined G+, I have not noticed any degradation of any service because of that, can someone explain what am I losing except integration with G+? On the second one I use a nickname but it seems like a real name so I haven't had my account deleted etc. Can someone please tell me what the fuss is about? If you want to be anonymous just create a new online identity and for stuff that directly links to you don't use stuff like G+. Geeks worried about privacy? I wouldn't care until my browser started sending out headers with the info I registered with my ISP. As for Joe Average, I couldn't care less.
If the American government does it then it's not a very ridiculous thing for India? I'm sorry I totally don't get your point. Take care of your own shit, I don't give a rat's ass about what America's policies are on privacy of citizens(not completely true but you get the point).
I live in India and I've witnessed a lot of this asshattery by the clueless so called 'IT/ cybercrime' department of the goverment. Last month they were asking RIM to provide them access to any communication on BlackBerry phones(messenger and browsing) in India, I simply have no idea why they think 'terrorists' will use a particular medium when they have announced they are watching it. Almost all 'terrorist' communication is carried out on phones registered with fake IDs or encrypted email, nothing which they can control. Just sounds to me like a scam for saying 'we put Rs xxxxxxxxx into this effort' and pay.00000001% of it to some barely qualified programmer to write a few regexes on a single server which never is able to process the whole data of whatever they plan on monitoring.
I don't understand the fuss, if you wanted to keep copyrights you should have let your employer know your intentions and done the necessary paperwork *before* you were terminated.
I was in a similar situation about an year back. I wrote a GPL cross platform application(in my spare time) to interact with my employer's web services(their application was windows only, i didn't even have protocol reference, I reverse engineered the whole thing ). When I left my job, they had all the rights to it, I just renamed the project and maintained it in my spare time. I am working on the newer version of it since my ex employer has added some new features to the web service.
I code for fun, sometimes I do not get the credit I deserve but unless it's something that took me years to write, I won't be too bothered by the application being 'hijacked' as long as I have access to the code I wrote.
I agree completely. Only around 1 in 5 stories is worth reading on/. and hardly any of them has any insightful/interesting comments. I am seriously thinking of forking/. into/.fornerds with a clean UI, no stupid flash ads and most importantly 'stuff that matters'.
I seriously don't get your point. Do you mean we should not advocate evolution because it may not be 100% accurate? But that's not how science works. By your logic no one should have used Newtonian physics because that wasn't completely accurate as demonstrated by Albert Einstein. Hell, the guys working on M theory might even prove Einstein wrong, does that mean we should not use his theory for scientific applications?
I also don't believe that evolution is completely accurate but it sounds to me as the most logical one among the other theories so yes it should be taught and even if it is replaced by a new theory which better fits the data we have, it should be taught as it was the first scientific theory about our existence. Like Newtonian physics is still science even though it is not completely accurate.
I agree that people are not willing to take the risk of migrating to linux. But it isn't the installation headaches. I completely disagree with you about the point you make about downloading tons of libraries for installing any software. If you ever used any modern distro you would realize installing s/w is much much simpler than windows. I don't know how you can even compare windows install methods to apt/yum . I think windows is here to stay because a lot of stuff simply does not work on linux but it doesn't make it the better OS.
You my dear sir are among the most pathetic M$ fanbois.
I can understand and even respect people who love M$ because of a certain product they use. If you say Visual Studio is a great IDE you are making a point. If you say you cannot live without the latest hardware that only is compatible with windows and thus you love windows, even then you are making a valid point. Although I will rant about this stuff being bogus it does not make you an idiot. But when you say that you can commit a crime(using your monopoly in the way M$ has is a crime IMO) just because someone else would have does not make it right. There have been plenty of products that have been successful without using such practices.
You are one of those people who believe 'might is right'. But we are a civilized society. Your neighbour cannot kick the crap out of you just because he is bigger and stronger, we have laws to protect against that happening so why should corporations be any different. Why should they be allowed to behave in an uncivilized way?
I am Indian about to complete my CS degree. The Indian education system is one big mess. The criteria for evaluation of students is really simple The more slave like qualities you have, the more likely you are to 'succeed'. I saw a lot of comments saying Indian grads lack of judgement and free thinking, this exactly is the reason. You are punished for being different.
<rant> I never wanted to go to college but you simply can't find a job in IT without having a degree(Since I couldn't do well in a 3 hour exam I couldn't get into a better college). I spent most of my time in college learning stuff I liked and never memorized anything resulted in having a less than average score in my degree which disqualifies from appearing in most interviews. It doesn't matter I know more computer languages or have worked on some useful projects or did great at internship or worked in diverse environments unlike my competitors, what matters is I am simply not eligible. </rant>
But I believe it is not the education system that's at fault. The IT industry (In India) does not need people with good skills, they want slaves and the education system is just providing that.
The very point of spam is it is almost zero cost to the spammer. When you pay people to answer to captchas the zero cost factor disappears. I don't think cheap computers and internet will make the problem dangerous
Not everyone in the third world is going to get computers
Every computer is not going to get internet connected
Not everyone on the internet is going to be spamming
Also consider the fact how much can a single person spam. If the dude with the new cheap computer answers captchas for even 15 hours a day they would hardly generate over a 1000 spam messages which is likely to get the spammer one or two hits. Do you think the spammer is stupid enough to pay for this much profit?
Rampant piracy, especially in Asia, has MS worried.
Let me tell you one thing, if it wasn't for piracy M$ wouldn't exist in Asia. 90% of people here do not buy windows. But they are using it anyway and they are not trained in other Oss. This leads to cheap labor for M$ and also the big cooperations use M$ s/w because there is trained supporting staff for it and that is the place M$ earns their $$ from in Asia. Since most people don't care whether they are using legitimate or pirated s/w do you think they give a fuck about the EULA. M$ knows pushing anti piracy in Asia is only going to harm them whereas in the richer countries they are going to squeeze anything they can from the end user.
In India almost no one uses licensed windows. The activation thing is trivial to break(tons of s/w floating around that will do this). I wait for the time when M$ creates some protection scheme that is impossible to break, that will be the time when migration away from windows actually begins.
Preventing access to external content(like most free web hosting providers do) will reduce security risks significantly but then that might be 'too much control'
As someone still in college(last year) I am kind of trying to achieve the same thing 'taking my skills to next level'. This discussion has been of tremendous help(thanks/.). Ive learned a few varied languages and I am able to 'solve' most problems but I don't write 'good code'. I mean I do get the job done but its rather ugly. I do not see myself helping with GPLed works because I simply do not have that level of expertise but as a lot of comments suggested maybe studying the code will help me a lot.
This leaves them with three options: 1) Build it themselves, 2) Pirate it, 3) Open Source.
1.Build it themselves, there aren't enough resources for doing that.
2.Open source, it is slowly gaining ground but its too slow to make an effect till now
3.Pirate it, thats what's happening, piracy is perhaps the biggest reason for computer usage here.
IT is booming overseas, and there's many more jobs than qualified people to fill them.
I completely agree. Right now the situation in India is that the companies are almost hiring anyone that can read and write as 'programmers' because a lot of work is being outsourced to them. Although what you are being paid is quite low even by Indian standards(somewhere around Rs 200,000 i.e around $4.5K a year). I don't see how long can this continue, these people aren't magically going to turn super intelligent and I don't think the low quality of work is really acceptable.
It took them some time to get it right, but eventually IE took over.
You mean M$ is going to make security in windows as good as they made their browser. Now this is what scares the shit out of me. Until now M$'s security was well almost non existant, now its going to be a big bloated mess which will be forced on you.
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The title of the article is incredibly misleading.
You must be new here.
Off topic why is there a 'Preview' button on the 'Preview' screen something xen?
I always use facebook in Chrome's incognito mode. Works well for me. This is also available in firefox but don't remember the name of the feature.
Ok so I'm guessing you've never used a credit card. But in case you have, what makes you trust Visa/Mastercard more than google. Is it just because google's primary source of revenue is advertisement?
I have two google accounts, one for important stuff(communicating with potential employers when I decide to switch jobs, communicating with my bank etc.) and a second one for /., forums, facebook etc. On the first one I use my real name and I haven't joined G+, I have not noticed any degradation of any service because of that, can someone explain what am I losing except integration with G+? On the second one I use a nickname but it seems like a real name so I haven't had my account deleted etc. Can someone please tell me what the fuss is about? If you want to be anonymous just create a new online identity and for stuff that directly links to you don't use stuff like G+. Geeks worried about privacy? I wouldn't care until my browser started sending out headers with the info I registered with my ISP. As for Joe Average, I couldn't care less.
If the American government does it then it's not a very ridiculous thing for India? I'm sorry I totally don't get your point. Take care of your own shit, I don't give a rat's ass about what America's policies are on privacy of citizens(not completely true but you get the point).
I live in India and I've witnessed a lot of this asshattery by the clueless so called 'IT/ cybercrime' department of the goverment. Last month they were asking RIM to provide them access to any communication on BlackBerry phones(messenger and browsing) in India, I simply have no idea why they think 'terrorists' will use a particular medium when they have announced they are watching it. Almost all 'terrorist' communication is carried out on phones registered with fake IDs or encrypted email, nothing which they can control. Just sounds to me like a scam for saying 'we put Rs xxxxxxxxx into this effort' and pay .00000001% of it to some barely qualified programmer to write a few regexes on a single server which never is able to process the whole data of whatever they plan on monitoring.
I'm surprised the article isn't tagged troll.
I don't understand the fuss, if you wanted to keep copyrights you should have let your employer know your intentions and done the necessary paperwork *before* you were terminated.
I was in a similar situation about an year back. I wrote a GPL cross platform application(in my spare time) to interact with my employer's web services(their application was windows only, i didn't even have protocol reference, I reverse engineered the whole thing ). When I left my job, they had all the rights to it, I just renamed the project and maintained it in my spare time. I am working on the newer version of it since my ex employer has added some new features to the web service.
I code for fun, sometimes I do not get the credit I deserve but unless it's something that took me years to write, I won't be too bothered by the application being 'hijacked' as long as I have access to the code I wrote.
I agree completely. Only around 1 in 5 stories is worth reading on /. and hardly any of them has any insightful/interesting comments. I am seriously thinking of forking /. into /.fornerds with a clean UI, no stupid flash ads and most importantly 'stuff that matters'.
I seriously don't get your point. Do you mean we should not advocate evolution because it may not be 100% accurate? But that's not how science works. By your logic no one should have used Newtonian physics because that wasn't completely accurate as demonstrated by Albert Einstein. Hell, the guys working on M theory might even prove Einstein wrong, does that mean we should not use his theory for scientific applications? I also don't believe that evolution is completely accurate but it sounds to me as the most logical one among the other theories so yes it should be taught and even if it is replaced by a new theory which better fits the data we have, it should be taught as it was the first scientific theory about our existence. Like Newtonian physics is still science even though it is not completely accurate.
I agree that people are not willing to take the risk of migrating to linux. But it isn't the installation headaches. I completely disagree with you about the point you make about downloading tons of libraries for installing any software. If you ever used any modern distro you would realize installing s/w is much much simpler than windows. I don't know how you can even compare windows install methods to apt/yum . I think windows is here to stay because a lot of stuff simply does not work on linux but it doesn't make it the better OS.
I can understand and even respect people who love M$ because of a certain product they use. If you say Visual Studio is a great IDE you are making a point. If you say you cannot live without the latest hardware that only is compatible with windows and thus you love windows, even then you are making a valid point. Although I will rant about this stuff being bogus it does not make you an idiot. But when you say that you can commit a crime(using your monopoly in the way M$ has is a crime IMO) just because someone else would have does not make it right. There have been plenty of products that have been successful without using such practices.
You are one of those people who believe 'might is right'. But we are a civilized society. Your neighbour cannot kick the crap out of you just because he is bigger and stronger, we have laws to protect against that happening so why should corporations be any different. Why should they be allowed to behave in an uncivilized way?
..the mistakes in my post are due to typing this message while writing something else at the same time.
I am Indian about to complete my CS degree. The Indian education system is one big mess. The criteria for evaluation of students is really simple The more slave like qualities you have, the more likely you are to 'succeed'. I saw a lot of comments saying Indian grads lack of judgement and free thinking, this exactly is the reason. You are punished for being different.
<rant> I never wanted to go to college but you simply can't find a job in IT without having a degree(Since I couldn't do well in a 3 hour exam I couldn't get into a better college). I spent most of my time in college learning stuff I liked and never memorized anything resulted in having a less than average score in my degree which disqualifies from appearing in most interviews. It doesn't matter I know more computer languages or have worked on some useful projects or did great at internship or worked in diverse environments unlike my competitors, what matters is I am simply not eligible. </rant>
But I believe it is not the education system that's at fault. The IT industry (In India) does not need people with good skills, they want slaves and the education system is just providing that.
The very point of spam is it is almost zero cost to the spammer. When you pay people to answer to captchas the zero cost factor disappears. I don't think cheap computers and internet will make the problem dangerous
Not everyone in the third world is going to get computers
Every computer is not going to get internet connected
Not everyone on the internet is going to be spamming
Also consider the fact how much can a single person spam. If the dude with the new cheap computer answers captchas for even 15 hours a day they would hardly generate over a 1000 spam messages which is likely to get the spammer one or two hits. Do you think the spammer is stupid enough to pay for this much profit?
You don't choose the things you believe in, they choose you!
and in Soviet Russia?
Rampant piracy, especially in Asia, has MS worried.
Let me tell you one thing, if it wasn't for piracy M$ wouldn't exist in Asia. 90% of people here do not buy windows. But they are using it anyway and they are not trained in other Oss. This leads to cheap labor for M$ and also the big cooperations use M$ s/w because there is trained supporting staff for it and that is the place M$ earns their $$ from in Asia. Since most people don't care whether they are using legitimate or pirated s/w do you think they give a fuck about the EULA. M$ knows pushing anti piracy in Asia is only going to harm them whereas in the richer countries they are going to squeeze anything they can from the end user.
In India almost no one uses licensed windows. The activation thing is trivial to break(tons of s/w floating around that will do this). I wait for the time when M$ creates some protection scheme that is impossible to break, that will be the time when migration away from windows actually begins.
Preventing access to external content(like most free web hosting providers do) will reduce security risks significantly but then that might be 'too much control'
As someone still in college(last year) I am kind of trying to achieve the same thing 'taking my skills to next level'. This discussion has been of tremendous help(thanks /.). Ive learned a few varied languages and I am able to 'solve' most problems but I don't write 'good code'. I mean I do get the job done but its rather ugly. I do not see myself helping with GPLed works because I simply do not have that level of expertise but as a lot of comments suggested maybe studying the code will help me a lot.
This leaves them with three options: 1) Build it themselves, 2) Pirate it, 3) Open Source.
1.Build it themselves, there aren't enough resources for doing that.
2.Open source, it is slowly gaining ground but its too slow to make an effect till now
3.Pirate it, thats what's happening, piracy is perhaps the biggest reason for computer usage here.
IT is booming overseas, and there's many more jobs than qualified people to fill them.
I completely agree. Right now the situation in India is that the companies are almost hiring anyone that can read and write as 'programmers' because a lot of work is being outsourced to them. Although what you are being paid is quite low even by Indian standards(somewhere around Rs 200,000 i.e around $4.5K a year). I don't see how long can this continue, these people aren't magically going to turn super intelligent and I don't think the low quality of work is really acceptable.
You are posting this at http:///..com
It took them some time to get it right, but eventually IE took over.
You mean M$ is going to make security in windows as good as they made their browser. Now this is what scares the shit out of me. Until now M$'s security was well almost non existant, now its going to be a big bloated mess which will be forced on you.