Try not to choke on that Coolade my man.
Shifting corruption from "shake of the hand" to lawyers and contracts doesn't change who's pulling the strings.
As I said, the world is a pretty flat monetary system at this point. All those details you refer to are "lipstike on a pig."
You'd have to be blind as Lady Liberty to think we're somehow less corrupt. Just call a spade a spade, mate. Move on with life, untethered to fairy tails.

Throwing words around like "anti-corruption" that begs the question of what "uncorrupted" political regime the author is writing from. I sure would be interested to read about this land of unicorns and rainbows. Look, the world is been built on capitalism and manufacturing. 1st world countries needs 3rd world countries. This patterns works. It's not pretty, but it works. Show me an uncorrupted political system and I'll point you to the next Star Trek convention.

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Wow. So this is how ignorant people rationalize their own stupidity... Fascinating.

It's best to get in front of these PR issues...

Breaking Bad except it's a desktop administrator and he can't make millions with baking MacBooks either so he dies in the 1st episode.

Works for the most of the posters here.

The sad part is they call a lot of the defacing "hacks" when the company has a digital equivalent of leaving customer data on their front porch with a neon sign saying "Free Credit Card w/SSN Here!"

The "security" we're calling for would be more accurately described as, "stop putting accountants in charge of IT security."
Change the mindset from Risk Management and cost control.

I wonder what the OP was buying that can't be found on amazon.com though?

Don't hold your breath...

If we could take the ego out of invention the profs might realize that *another language* is not what is needed.
Understanding the languages we're using... that's what's needed.

10 years ago Java and .NET were welcome solutions to solve the "DLL Hell" issues using COM/COM+ objects.
But, they have grown into 100 tentacled beasts.
Way too many cooks in the kitchen.

Today, the only reason you would architect a new solution with these behemoth frameworks is because you were given no better choice (ergo, your team is entirely leftovers at an Enterprise who no longer have the drive to update their skillset: ergo --> you're working at a crappy non-IT organization.

Java can shift to Scala.
.NET can shift to Ruby/Python/JavaScript

Having worked in .NET since Classic ASP days, I am so happy to see a shift in programming culture away from these "head in the cloud" frameworks.
*nix philosophy had it right: build things that do 1 thing really well. Node.js follows this model and has had a huge success because of it.

Beyond that, writing a compiler is not something we have to rely on MS/Oracle to give us. There's literally no magic behind these curtains.
Lastly, the LoC measure, simple code footprint of .NET and Java is a barrier to maintainability and velocity of updates.
Why do .NET devs use Entity Framework? Because ADO.NET was sooo hard? *eye rolls*
Just another solution where there wasn't a real problem.

In statistics we have the Bell Curve. It has two tails and a hump.
Executives like Steve Jobs and Bill Gates represent the leading tail; par excellence.
But the *majority* of executives have to land in the hump and the trailing tail: ergo, "the suck."
Combine that with the astronomical pay these individuals get to be the best of the best...

Mayer is firmly in "the suck." From a PR standpoint alone Yahoo board may likely dump her.
You can't blame her; she didn't hire herself. She just did the best she could with the tools she had. Which by market measurements, hasn't been good enough.

The open source community does not use .NET or Java, so, it's a bit pointless to open source .NET or Web API. Their implementation of MVC+Razor is, and has been, a joke. Silverlight was DOA. Azure is a five years behind AWS. MS SQL no longer offers anything particularly more attractive than MySQL or MariaDB.

Now, if they open sourced something that the community desperately needs, like Office or Kinect, then there's something worth talking about.

No, it's not harder manage. Just the hiring/promotion criteria for management in IT is largely based on your skills as a... programmer.

It's also hard for Tennis players to play Football.

Oh and all the bro-mance, patriarchy, social ineptitude left over from the last 30 years doesn't help much either.

Let's see...
CIA, FBI, NSA, HLS, US Marshals, DEA, ATF, INTERPOL, NDIC...
I'm going to go out on a limb here and say the TSA is redundant.

Here's a table of just the law enforcement costs to tax payers...
Law Enforcement Activities
United States Marshals Service $2,668,000,000
Federal Bureau of Investigation $8,347,000,000
Drug Enforcement Administration $2,018,000,000
Bureau of Alcohol, Tobacco, Firearms, and Explosives $1,201,000,000
Federal Bureau of Prisons $6,894,000,000
Interpol-Washington Office $32,000,000

source: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/...

Is it Friday already?

...you're welcome, btw.

The problem is not technology. The problem is the lack of legal protection or extension of the bill of rights to your data on your own property.
To the guy suggesting we all run a virtual machine specifically to use online bank software. People shouldn't have to learn networking visualization because a clause buried in a EULA.
Check out this documentary: Terms and Conditions May Apply: http://www.imdb.com/title/tt20...