I saw a big change happen in the industry, while I was briefly at Microsoft.

My manager, and Microsoft in general was more about delivering a positive message, as opposed to having a positive message to deliver.

The problem with that is, if you encourage everyone to do it, they eventually begin doing it even to the company and not just the customers.

"How is that new version of windows going?"

"It's going great!!"

And we all know now, it was terrible, horrible, full of in fighting, self promotion, bad decisions.

"How is that new web site that all America will use, and a presidency depends on?"

"It's going great!!"

See the pattern here?

You really want passionate developers? You are an idiot if you do. As a boss, I did not want surprises, and to me the worse thing in the world a company could do was sell something that was broke. Companies today do not seem to share that philosophy. Consumers tolerate crap and beg for more. So, I guess it really is not just the companies to blame.

I started Eve this week. I tried to cancel this week.

What a horrible game. inconsistent user interface, out of date (if any) documentation. Terribly inadequate tutorials, of which there are two ways to get there, and partly but not fully the same.

I am unable to cancel since the web logon requires a character name I no longer have since I uninstalled the POS.

Seriously, why would so many people put up with something so poorly done? Pretty pictures?

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is post anti microsoft?

yes - mod up

no - mod down

loop

oh, ok, i get it.

me=me, you=someone else

me=not terrorist, you=terrorist

Sorry, his statement is about as important as goat cheese is too a hockey team.

Well, I do define terrorism as 'that which opposes me'. But I could not make any sense of the rest of your post.

Do you think the fear of being bombed at 2am is not a terror?

Wtf does this have to do with communism?

This is modded informative. I think this a perfect example of how the slashdot moderation system has become a total farce.

Back then, didn't have to lie about it. People where more interested in what you knew, as opposed to how much money you paid for a piece of paper. But yeah, it was right around the time that was changing, so maybe that's it.

low frequency wall penetrating sound waves that scramble the brain, are the method of choice these days.

This is total BS. The Slashdot summary of the article anyhow.

As a senior, but with practical security experience, plenty of it, I can tell you what is happening is the younger crowd are FAR more likely to lie about having sent business information. The older one gets, the less they care about lying to cover their ass.

Secondly I will say that in every job I worked, I knew a lot more about security than the company did. An exception might be the companies that specifically hired me, to breach security at their companies, as proof their college educated certified IT people were clueless. Someone on the board of those companies knew the difference between book smart and actually smart.

Great example; the white house;
me: why does CICS have all these storage violations everyday?
OPM: oh they are nothing, just program bugs
me: no, they are storage violations. You can't tell the difference between a program bug and someone intentionally going after info.
OPM: your fired.
Guess what news story was next to be covered up and swept under the rug?

Bosses, senior or not, who do not want to hear bad news is what leads to things like the Healthcare rollout fiasco. And they are the #1 security problem in I.T. as well.

We ONLY need these weapons to defend ourselves from foriegn attack and invasion .....

Or when protecting our 'strategic interests' become very important. For instance in order to protect Israel, a nation we can not live without.

Oh, and also in case any one pisses us off and does anything we do not like.

Heck I will even revise my comment

"Consumer robotics started off closed, which helps to explain why it has moved so slowly"

No, exactly the opposite. Open ROS is why robotics has moved so slowly. No profit, no motive. MS left the game a long time ago (and MS Robotics Studio was just incubator for other .Net components anyhow).

Robotics will lead to joblessness and unemployment beyond anything the world has seen before. Get used to it, and figure out how to deal with it now, instead of waiting until it becomes a crisis.

Look at US progress in less than 300 years. From horse drawn carts to self driving cars. We will make at least that much a change in the next 100 years. Anyone who can think enough to breathe, knows Robotics will revolutionize at least blue collar work, and possibly (when is the question) white collar work as well.

No doubt, weaponizing will be one of the first uses. But is that a game changer? I mean the US can bomb you at night from an autonomous drone already, so I don't think so.

But the real issue I have is why does being open have anything to do with progress? When the PC came out, and Windows established the market lead, good or bad, you have to acknowledge that closed software enabled the PC commodity market. I look at ROS and robotics, with the biggest supporter dropping out (willow garage) and I seriously doubt if open vs closed has anything to do with success.

No, like PCs, it takes vision, where things are going and who wants to be the pivot. Look to Google. Whatever they do, open or closed, will be the hub for robotics.

I guess not, but a retired person taking a vacation seem superfluous to me.

I'm retired, disabled. But if I do go anywhere I take my laptop. Mostly to check out pics I took on a given day. Photography is the hobby that probably got me to travel in the first place.

No, not at all.

From the DARPA page at http://www.theroboticschallenge.org/about

"development of robots featuring task-level autonomy that can operate in the hazardous, degraded conditions "

and

"Task-level autonomy is the opposite of tele-operation"

The tele-operation was something like "open door", no team used game controllers for tele-operations.