Comment Common sense? (Score 1) 165
Why not just fall over the hole to eliminate the threat?
Why not just fall over the hole to eliminate the threat?
Why is Obama approving this, shouldnt this be under the jurisdiction of the EPA or something?
I've 'coded' for 16+ hours straight both 'on the clock' for a given company, and working on my own. It comes down to wanting to accomplish something or not, personally if I've come up with a funky way of doing something (code wise) I'll stick with it until it works or it doesn't.
If you don't live in the US, your getting ripped off in the first place - the majority of the US is "ONLY" about profit, not living in the US changes the ball game completely.
As a developer, once I'm in the 'zone' I can code until I'm practically asleep... Although if I was forced to code for X hours, I couldn't say if I could 'enter' that zone or not - my guess is I wouldn't considering I would probably be thinking more about how pissed I was.
...Is anybody stupid enough to believe anything the NSA says?
Congress..
...and the FBI stored this super-secret database in-the-clear on a laptop
The operator of the laptop did that...
...so they secretly paid a 3rd party a big sum of cash to take a nasty PR hit
the same company who they are contracting with in regards to Public Relations
...knowing the public (excepting those unusually perceptive slashdotters) would buy he cover story since it's, you know, far more likely to have happened that way in the first place.
Isn't that the whole point to PR firms/departments/companies - to protect the organizations public perception?
Regardless of far you want to twist/stretch things - I'm still defaulting to the bad guys at fault (ie: the Feds
"I've seen it. It's rubbish." -- Marvin the Paranoid Android