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by bediger 17y ago
I knew it! This was written by a salesman! You could smell it all along.
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by bediger 17y ago
What do you expect? He is from Microsoft. He may never have used anything other than Windows.
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by bediger 17y ago
He's correct: PCI is about Visa, MasterCard, Discover and Amex covering themselves, and shifting the blame (and penalties) to merchants. Sure, PCI is written in a way that when you read it you think "random collection of best practices from
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by bediger 17y ago
Really. What do we expect after gutting the aerospace industry in 1970, and approximately every 8 years after that. Sure, it keeps profits high for (more-or-less hourly) engineering work, as you have beginners doing it, at beginner's rates
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by bediger 17y ago
I took the Official Counterintelligence Training at a major aerospace contractor in the late 80s. It was bunk. The korean war vet who ran the class gave us some cock-and-bull story about Bulgarians flying ultralights at the state park not
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by bediger 17y ago
Doesn't this sort of thing put lie to the idea of patenting algorithms, as mathematics is unpatentable, types are theorems and programs are proofs?
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by bediger 17y ago
This article is just a bit too gushingly complimentary. PR Hit for Wagg-Ed, right?
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by bediger 17y ago
I would like Liebowitz and Margolis work more if they'd actually done any research. If you bother to go find the original Journal of Law and Economics paper, you will see that the paper consists only of hand-waving criticism, and has no
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by bediger 17y ago
This article really, really rings true for my experience with outsourcing. It's also totally ignored by anyone above bottom-manager in Giant Immoral MegaCorps. And by "ignored" I mean "taboo to speak of". One problem with outsourcing main
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by bediger 17y ago
Wait, wait! Are you trying to tell us that NYTimes' content is as valuable as porn ? I beg to differ, Sirrah! Also, if you, ah, investigate online porn, you'll find that the on-line porn sites seem to have a gentleman's agreement to not
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by bediger 17y ago
Isn't this just another example of Forbes pandering to the ultra-rich? You know: "Any improvement of services/policies towards the riff-raff will bring down the Country!" Forbes: Crypto-fascist puppet of the Imperialistic Elite since 1955!
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by bediger 17y ago
Right, but at least let's not do really stupid things like build-in wiretapping capability, or have "law enforcement keys" or something like that. It would probably help to have decently encrypted telephone protocols, instead of merely outl
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by bediger 17y ago
Dude. Microsoft lost an anti-trust trial, at least partially due to the Extreme Marketing of IE. We're allowed to read some ethically borderline behavior into that period's PM's resume. I mean, I like Microsoft and Windows as much as th
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by bediger 17y ago
I've had things like "management will stay onshore" and "capital work will stay onshore" given to me too. Given that at least in India, there's a career path from programmer to tech manager to ... and in the US there isn't, I don't see how
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by bediger 17y ago
Cohen's comment about lawyers not grasping The Business side, and generally being overcautious rings true even for those of us who work for Giant Immoral MegaCorps. A lot of what Giant Immoral MegaCorps don't do is because of over cautiou
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by bediger 17y ago
SPQR
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by bediger 17y ago
I worked in the US aerospace engineer as a stress analyst: I can confirm that bit about feedback cycles. For missiles, the feedback cycle is years .
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by bediger 17y ago
Don't easier-to-access porn sites (with not-so-picky models) exist?
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by bediger 17y ago
I notice that they didn't bother to say (or deliberately left out, at the orders of their corporate overlords) what operating system(s) this computing behemoth runs.
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by bediger 17y ago
It's great that they corrected themselves and all, but why didn't this come out in public? It seems to have taken an FOIA to get it out there. Also, the "error" is particularly egregious and Stasi-like: collect info on people doing somethi
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by bediger 17y ago
You know what? You're correct: GPL suits have been copyright suits - but only because the terms of the LICENSE have been violated. Apparently the SFLC (main GPL litigator) hasn't done any of their suits under contract law. Perhaps the ov
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by bediger 17y ago
Indeed, some copyright infringement IS fine: casual whistling of a tune, quoting passages of books for reviews, copying the cut and fit of stylish trousers, things like that. Since copyright is enforced by the state, for the purposes of adv
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by bediger 17y ago
An English Octopus or an African Octopus?
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by bediger 17y ago
vim for everything, everywhere. Vim rules.
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by bediger 17y ago
De luxe! Have they scheduled "Operation Screaming Fist" yet?
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by bediger 17y ago
It crashes more, too!
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by bediger 17y ago
Big deal. Unix got all the malware first, from a /bin/login trojan pre-Version 6, to Fred Cohen's 1984 virus, to the '88 RTM worm. Heck, rootkits were invented for Unix, and only later migrated to Windows. Whatever resistance is conferred
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by bediger 17y ago
Why, specifically? Because they don't know what SarbOx really and truly demands of them. They only know what the consultant said long ago, and they know when the PM says they would be "out of compliance" with SarbOx if they did so-and-so i
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by bediger 17y ago
Among other things, SarbOx has become a boogey man to scare IT rank-and-file with. IT managers use SarbOx to deskill IT work.
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by bediger 17y ago
A number of problems with "Word" exist. Actually, problems with "Word"'s choice of storage format exist. 1. No other program really, truly understands it, although large steps have been made in other "word processors". 2. Can't do a "diff"

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