Comment Re:So, maybe like Venus? (Score 1) 143
Its noxious and thick atmosphere. It's hotter than Mercury as a result.
Failing is the best way to learn, and that includes licensing.
That said, this is not to say that failing at something can never have consequences. Sure, you're just messing about with things you don't (initially, anyway) understand and you're learning new things but that doesn't make it all OK if you do something wrong.
Perhaps this is an issue with the way people learn to code. The coder who doesn't understand what a license is a kid with the internet -- there's no senior programmer watching over them providing supervision and pointing out mistakes.
Actually UK law does require they let you do that. Of course they don't have to agree to your modified contact, but the opportunity to examine and edit to must at least exist. It is a legal requirement, without which the contract is void.
I use the TOSEdit extension to edit web site TOS whenever I sign up, and they always seem to accept my changes.
What do you mean by "seems to"? Does the other side not say they're agreeing to your changes?
Right, but in keeping with the spirit of this intent, policing the extraction of personal information from broad data might have a better chance of getting reasonable legislation than policing its storage. Plus, you might be able to catch someone's use of info easier than its storage of info.
No, this has actually been tried. It's very difficult to show that someone is using information in any particular way. The main way is to take their data processing software apart and see what it does with what. Doing that on a large scale is seriously not going to fly with anyone -- neither businesses: revealing trade secrets, nor individuals: it's not an effective way of protecting privacy.
Yes, and you'll have to promptly sue yourself.
It would only make a difference if it was true, of course.
IT should be there to offer training and provide guidance but in the end it's a support function, not a business driver. IT is there to support the sales staff, not school them or patronize them.
What a very 1980s view of IT. We work in partnership with the business to both deliver the expected value from existing services and to identify where additional business value can be gained from process changes. We're service driven rather than sales though, sales is something of a dirty word in my industry at the moment.
To me, that sounds like the same thing, euphemised.
If the aborigine drafted an IQ test, all of Western civilization would presumably flunk it. -- Stanley Garn
