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Comment Re:Poor programmer? (Score 1) 279

This is why the way computer programs are created must under go a major shift. Writing programs like we do today is a painful labourious process few people can do well. This is a fundamental weakness in the approach and tool set. Most programmers believe the problem is the vast majority of humanity and not with shitty tools. I'd rather see designs come from creative people and code generation be more automated and less mechanized. They shouldn't generally need programmers for most tasks. Much like how no one really does a lot of actual css/html these days the people who build programs will soon not even really be "coders".

Comment Re:Ugh.. (Score 4, Insightful) 246

Yes these dramatic measures generally are a symptom of bad IT.
If you have an administrator that's always saving the day, 9 out of 10 times you should fire them. You'll find out that most of the looming disasters that were happening will stop happening. A white knight can't justify their existance if there is no peril.

Comment Yes the law isn't working (Score 2, Insightful) 473

The RIAA is allowed to rip off the very people the law should be protecting.
Copyright law should protect authors and artists not non value added resellers.
Its members have been nailed in payola scam after payola scam without any serious repercussions. Price fixing on a massive scale and "Record company accounting" is well known for forcing artists to pay for the privilege of earning money for them.
Any just law in the public interest would reduce their profits to a small percentage of the net.

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