... even achieving transparency between departments is difficult. When I used to work there you should have seen what we went through to get code from other teams. In spite of the fact that the company rewards cross-group collaboration (which was the main reason we were doing it).
Exactly - don't poison your enemy, spy on his colon!
We would still need a ragtag band of misfits and renegades and a chainsmoking Russian refueling station attendant.
Exactly. In other news, 4 out of 5 IT people admit they'd like to be time-traveling superheroes and save the universe.
In 30 years as a software dev I don't think I've known more than a couple computer geeks who might have the guts to steal data, let alone the personality to locate a buyer, negotiate a price and actually follow through on the deal. Sure we've all seen Office Space and talked trash about what we'd like to do to a company, but at the moment of truth, no way. And managers tend to be even more gutless -- something tells me the survey results were heavily skewed by false bravado.
Apart from the joy of eccentricity I don't see any real advantage in only one copy of the game existing, as opposed to multiple copies each residing on its own USB stick. You'd have the same effect of a world passing from person to person, maintaining all the modifications made by previous players. Each copy would be unique. More people would get to participate.
You are in a maze of twisty passages, all alike.
Bing uses Hadoop? Wow, that's kind of funny. Reminds me of when Hotmail ran on Apache, which it still might be doing for all I know.
Any law is automatically an incentive for people not to admit breaking it. That's no rationale against making laws. The reason for any business regulation is that there's a tendency for business owners not to be altruistic unless there are tangible consequence hanging over their heads.
I sure hope you're not lumping local TV news into the category of "professional journalism." Local news is like a high school version of "real" news -- for example, the ubiquitous "Live Report!" in which a reporter goes out to a location where nothing is happening at the moment, and narrates a tape about something that happened earlier in the day. What a joke.
Pick almost any free-time activity people used to do before the Internet, and I'll bet they're doing less of it today, because free time is a finite resource. New alternatives always compete with older ones.
Variables don't; constants aren't.