Harvesting the energy around houses and decentralizing the grid will have an impact on the IT industry to develop technology to manage it. It seems to me that adopting wind and solar would present some really interesting challenges and opportunities for manufacturing as well.
With politicians crapping on about jobs growth but not where it is coming from it seems to me this is the elephant in the room.
Longer sentences don't matter. Never have, never will. Especially not for white collar crime. You could put the death penalty, or lifetime in prison, behind it and it wouldn't make a difference.
Copying movies isn't really white collar crime though where peoples life savings are often defrauded from them. I'd like to see the courts *enforce* penalties against those who ruin the lives of so many for their own compulsive greed so that they are in prison for ten years.
Bur not people who copy movies.
Correction, it may change shit: People would actually cry out against the law because the alleged crime is very visibly in no relation whatsoever to the punishment. It already is. It just is way less public.
For sure. It's ridiculous that this is even an issue when corruption in corporate and government areas are treated as trivial when they affect a lot of peoples lives. Where are copying movies is affecting a few peoples lives, so existing punishments are not really equitable.
Nope. Violence is the problem, not the solution.
Exactly!
There isn't one solution. But every decision you make shapes the world, and the beginning is to be conscious of that.
Which is why the best thing we can do to help is probably just watch the doc and be aware of the situation so we can apply pressure to the Indian government to address the issues.
When the government insists that women are at fault for their own rapes, then there is provably an actual culture of rape. Period, the end.
Oh, there is no doubt about that however it's not the only problem that exists there. For a moment imagine driving on the roads of a country where the people can learn to drive but they can't read the road rules. Our perception of India is based on our perception of our own countries where as it should be based on barely controlled chaos that for some strange reason, works.
You do anything you would do in any western country but it's three times bigger than America's populace and still a democracy. Wonderful and dangerous at the same time. I wouldn't say uncivilised but it is wild.
Islam has the same issues with womens rights and rape, how can we fix it? The men of those cultures have to fix it the same way western cultures had to deal with domestic violence and rape in the 1970s. I'll also point out that the case of the Australian girl is different from the one mentioned in this story.
When these things can happen in public and no one gets in trouble, there is a culture of rape.
The fact that a small minority of Indians are protesting against it doesn't change the fact that they live in a culture which protects and even encourages rape.
You're right, I agree and I think a lot of *educated* Indian men would agree - but they are in the minority. But what do you want the culture to do - get a lynch mob and tear the rapists apart? It already happens to people in vehicle accidents and you will find dealing with the police there a rather unpleasant experience. Of which I can tell you, from experience, is something you would rather avoid as it is very corrupt, more opportunists only this time with automatic weapons.
Very bad business.
I was in Pune when a report of a rape of an Australian girl in New Dehli came through. Basically they dragged her into a bus and a mob raped her on the bus while they drove around the city, they threw her out at a hospital but she died from her injuries.
A week later another one happened to an American girl, a photographer who was with a guide. They beat up the guide and tied him up while 5 raped her over two days in a run down factory in Mumbai. What was pretty fucked up is that somehow the police made out that it was her fault...somehow. The police are corrupt and they have automatic weapons.
A quizzed some of my Indian colleagues and they hated the rapists and were ashamed that such a thing happened, who wouldn't? So when I walked around the city and found myself in some of the rougher parts of town I got a real idea of why. So many people, everywhere is a mass of annonimity. When I realised where I was and that I was looking a a phone to navigate I realised that I was a real target for being robbed. I put the phone away, held my head high and thought 'c'mon sisterfuckers'. I'm 200lbs and have been training a variety of martial arts for 20years plus - but I knew that some of these guys were prepared to have a go - even if they could tell some of them would be hospitalised. Being street smart in your own country is nothing compared to being street smart on Indian streets but it helps. The little people sleep in the rain and it's no place for a western woman who is a gora.
I did eventually get robbed, during Ganesha by two kids who hit me with a whip on the leg, dived for my pockets and grabbed the cash I had there - even waved it in my face - I let them go saying 'ok ok - you got me - now fuck off'. Everyone is trying to make a buck and it's not that Indian men are all rapists but I think the poor have to be master opportunists to survive and some of them are rapists.
I'll be happy if I can use this software to help.
If you can compose, out of your head, in under five minutes, a find -prune command that executes a gawk script that selectively runs bash commands, and successfully run that script against a 10 million node filesystem on a heavily loaded mission critical box, and nothing breaks, you are linux skilled.
Yeah, funny thing is I had to do that not so long ago but filling in the change request takes a whole lot longer!
Sure, but those VMs don't exactly create a ton of job opportunities (which is why they're so popular - you don't need a huge staff to run a server farm of VMs). Companies go to VMs in "the cloud" because it's cheaper - fewer people on the payroll. So, they lay off most of their linux workers and hire one VM specialist. Sounds like many linux jobs are in danger.
Whilst it is a perception that I can agree with my experiences are that the underlying issues created by using VM infrastructure is that it creates new classes of issues that frustrate organizations from utilizing the VM infrastructure that they get. Few people understand these issues until they come up to configuring CPU and IO schedulers in virtual environments.
It may be easy to build a VM but you have to configure it differently or it has an effect on other VMs that you didn't intend - some of those failure modes are difficult to detect and replicate (and the results are sometimes as amusing as they are annoying).
That said, Openstack and Xen are two really interesting technologies.
Within the weird world of weplicated wetware widgets.
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this is pretty wow to me!!
...is pretty important, and you should refactor when needed if only just for that. It'll spread all over rest of the code in many ways, in good ways.
Exactly, and that good way is reliability which is something I observe the study doesn't measure so whilst it's good to challenge the current wisdom, there seems to be a few holes here.
First up I don't think 4500 lines of code is a good was to asses the interaction complexity of applications where the codebase exceeds 10 or 20 times that number. Second I may write a functional prototype of code knowing full well that I or someone else will refactor later when we have a better idea of how things are functioning.
Unexpected failure modes are going to exist in the software. The whole point of doing things the 'Agile' way is to provide incremental improvement so things get better. The paper talks of XP but what if you are using DSDM instead of programming pairs, in that case you are *expecting* to refactor often as you explain the domain or new concepts are introduced. That's not scope creep, it's being honest and admitting you don't know everything.
In my experiences the most powerful concept is the vocabulary you build as you begin to understand the domain better. I've found refactoring is the opportunity to 'put things in the right place' to define the vocabulary which makes things easier on myself and my colleagues a year or two later when someone asks if they can have this extra feature. Sure we should be using certain design patterns when implementing code from the beginning however I'm certain I'm not alone in confronting a codebase and wondering why certain methods are implemented in the controller instead of an information expert and spending the next week refactoring to avoid peoples heads exploding when methods are duplicated...but they don't work the same.
that's my 2 cents...
Accept this, as you have uncovered something they didn't know and can potentially damage them.
I did this with a government tax office and tried to alert them by calling the very number they advertised to handle this sort of issue. The response went like this:
The problem is, you want to help them and all they can see is 'random person the phone saying we have a problem' so it is easier to solve you. If the company is responsible enough to have a CERT team and a reporting mechanism you may stand a chance but it is more likely you will draw their ire because you can hurt the companies reputation.
If you can't change institutions then you should consider establishing what their data privacy policies are, hire a lawyer and then frame legal action to protect your own data whilst seeking damages to the value of your life earnings for exposing you to identity theft and fraud. You should be pissed off.
They won' t play nice so neither should you. Seek legal advice about the possibility for damages because you have been exposed to fraud. Leave it to them to discover the mechanism, because if they are that bad there are probably more.
What good is a ticket to the good life, if you can't find the entrance?
