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Comment Re:1st A... (Score 1) 338

If it is like what the parent says, and if the employer is not very important, say a start up company, it would be fine to let this go.
However, as many would like to point out, this is a city job, a public service job.
That in itself changes the whole game.
As public servants, in theory, they are there to help the public by doing their jobs, whether it be janitorial or clerical.
If this is allowed to happen, it might at the very least devolve into what is currently happening in police jobs.
There if one wants to succeed and keep their job, keeping their supervisors happy and not saying anything bad about them is a must.
Positive criticism cannot be attained and the organization loses a check, another regulating power to help keep it nice and efficient.


Yet, who in their right mind, as a bureaucrat, would let go the chance to control their employees more?

Comment Long article is long (Score 2, Insightful) 111

The article itself is a very good read eh. (Which is probably why there are not that many comments here yet (RTA FTW). It focuses mostly on the war/espionage aspects and has very few mentions of privacy and such, downplaying it rather well. The interesting thing I learnt is that the NSA is pretty messed, [the article saying they] want security but they would rather know everything about everyone. In all, it's probably all hype eh. Sure there are implications of damage war can be brought, but as the article sometimes pointed out, it's hard to distinguish from economic spying and military espionage. In any case, the best thing that can happen (for me) is if America does decide to go ahead and give the NSA even more power they seek. When everyone is under the eye of bigbrother, there should be war. Which is fun eh. If there is no war, America would be a sucky place to live in. Canada would probably be bullied into doing the same thing, so my place would be messed too. Heh... but in all this, I find that I am really anxious for that to happen. I really want to forget everything, take out a few guns, and go out guns ablazing. Like that dude in V for Vendetta. Yarr.
Games

Submission + - GameStop Pulls Medal of Honor from Military Bases

donniebaseball23 writes: EA's Medal of Honor reboot doesn't ship until October 12, but it's already seen a fair amount of controversy thanks to the publisher's decision to allow people to play as Taliban in multiplayer. The controversy just got escalated another notch, reports IndustryGamers, as the world's biggest games retailer GameStop has decided it won't sell the title at its stores located on U.S. Military bases. The new Medal of Honor won't be advertised at these stores either. GameStop noted that they came to this decision "out of respect for our past and present men and women in uniform."
Games

Submission + - Open Source PS3 Jailbreak Released (ps3news.com)

tlhIngan writes: "Despite all the lawsuits and injunctions by Sony to keep the PS3 Jailbreak out of modder's hands, it appears that a third party has made a clone. The best part is, it only requires a cheap (approximately $40) development board by Atmel, and the requisite software is open-source. Get the Atmel code from GitHub and apply a small patch which will enable backup play (the code by itself only lets you run unsigned code, the patch allows for BD backups). The code is GPLv3. It would be highly ironic if someone ported this to Linux USB Gadgets, then you could use a Linux device to jailbreak your PS3, to which Sony removed Linux functionality. An Android phone would be suitable."
GNU is Not Unix

Submission + - GNU coughs up Emacs 22 after six year wait

lisah writes: "After keeping users waiting for nearly six years, Emacs 22 has been released and includes a bunch of updates and some new modes as well. In addition to support for GTK+ and a graphical interface to the GNU Debugger, 'this release includes build support for Linux on AMD64, S/390, and Tensilica Xtensa machines, FreeBSD/Alpha, Cygwin, Mac OS X, and Mac OS 9 with Carbon support. The Leim package is now part of GNU Emacs, so users will be able to get input support for Chinese, Tibetan, Vietnamese, Thai, Korean, and other languages without downloading a separate package. New translations of the Emacs tutorial are also available in Brasilian Portuguese, Bulgarian, simplified and traditional Chinese, Italian, French, and Russian.'"
Microsoft

Submission + - Hard data on Vista usage: not so much (marketwatch.com)

quixote9 writes: "We've heard conflicting estimates of how widely adopted Vista has been. Now comes some hard data. DRAM makers ramped up to meet the huge expected demand for more memory needed by Vista. Except the demand hasn't materialized. Now they're suffering. Alternatively, maybe everyone's cleverly hacked their Ultimate Aero Glass Vista to fit on their old PCs. You think?"
Software

Submission + - A hardware-software symbiosis

Roland Piquepaille writes: "We all want smaller and faster computers. Of course, this increases the complexity of the work of computer designers. But now, computer scientists from the University of Virginia are coming with a radical new idea which may revolutionize computer design. They've developed Tortola, a virtual interface that enables hardware and software to communicate and to solve problems together. This approach can be applied to get a better performance from a specific system. It also can be used in the areas of security or power consumption. And it soon could be commercialized with the help of IBM and Intel. Read more for additional details about the Tortola project and how a specific application will run."

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