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Comment Re:I wish the US Supreme Court was that smart. (Score 1) 708

by remahl on Thursday October 16, 2008 @02:32PM (#25403329) Attached to: UK Court Rejects Encryption Key Disclosure Defense

Tell me, please, where you see anything about "US Nationals" in the Bill of Rights. The bill lists natural rights supposedly inherent to being human and declares it wrong for any government to infringe them.

Submission + - Are you proud of your code? 6

Submitted by Anonymous Coward on Sunday December 09, 2007 @07:35PM

An anonymous reader writes: I have a problem and I am hoping /. group therapy is the cure, so get on with the +5 comments, post haste! I am downright embarrassed by the quality of my work; specifically, my code. It is buggy, slow, fragile, and a nightmare to maintain. Documentation, requirements, automated tests? Does not exist. Do you feel the same way? If so, then what is holding you back from realizing your full potential? More importantly, what if anything are you planning to do about it? This picture, which many of you have already seen, captures several project failure modes. It would be humorous if it weren't so depressingly true. I enjoy programming and have from a young age (cut my teeth on BASIC on an Apple IIe). I have worked for companies large and small in a variety of languages and platforms. Sadly the one constant in my career is that I am assigned to projects that drift, seemingly aimlessly, from inception to a point where the client runs out of funding and the project is abandoned. Like many young and idealistic university graduates I hoped to spend my life programming passionately, but ten years later I look in the mirror and see a whore. I'm just doing it for the money. Have any developers here successfully lobbied their company to stop or cut back on 'cowboy coding' and adopt best practices? I'm not talking about the methodology-of-the-week, I'm referring to good old fashioned advice like keeping SQL out of the UI layer. For the big prize: has anyone convinced their superiors that the customer isn't always right and saying no once in awhile is the best course of action? Thanks in advance for your helpful advice.

Submission + - The Recording Industry's Failed Digital Strategy

Submitted by Anonymous Coward on Monday February 19, 2007 @11:47AM

An anonymous reader writes: The Toronto Star has a terrific article by Michael Geist on the recording industry's failed digital strategy. The article links together the misplaced reliance on DRM and the advocacy for copyright levies to demonstrate how the record labels got the Internet completely wrong.

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