Computer Programmers get new Tech Ethics Code
The guidelines come from the Association for Computing Machinery
Technological professionals are the first, and last, lines of defense against the misuse of technology. Nobody else understands the systems as well, and nobody else is in a position to protect specific data elements or ensure the connections between one component and another are appropriate, safe and reliable. As the role of computing continues its decades-long expansion in society, computer scientists are central to what happens next.
Personally, I am quite concerned that our Congress has not attached Responsibility with Rights when it comes to software. If someone is going to claim ownership and rights to a piece of code then protect it with electronic lock or obscurity, why aren't they also held 100% responsible if that code causes mayhem?
We just had a story here about the concerns we have about a hemoglobin based meat substitute ... and what we go through to make damn sure the substance is harmless to life before we introduce it into the food chain... and even *that* has to be completely described and its molecular structure demonstrated.
Can you imagine the uproar if Chemists started releasing anything tasty, that people would eat, and call it "food"? And would our Congress grant them the right to withhold information as to what it was? Then hold them harmless for whatever it did to people?
(Score: 2) by MichaelDavidCrawford on Monday August 13 2018, @12:28PM (3 children)
I've been making The Global Computer Industry Index truly "Global" by listing all the locations of a few multinationals.
When I worked at Apple in the mid-90s they had 11,000 employees. Now they have over 100,000.
Surely there are _some_ real job openings.
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(Score: -1, Troll) by Anonymous Coward on Monday August 13 2018, @12:45PM (1 child)
Never believe job postings. All job postings are fake. The jobs do not exist. Every job board is a scam to waste your time. Applying for any job in any job board will get you exactly nothing. Do not be foolish enough to think that there must be at least one real job out there. The real job you are looking for is a myth. You will only waste your life trying to find it. There are zero jobs for coders. Coding jobs do not exist.
(Score: 3, Insightful) by MichaelDavidCrawford on Monday August 13 2018, @01:11PM
However, when you try an antidepressant, that particular antidepressant might well not work at all. But _every_ antidepressant, if it _does_ work, takes quite a long time before it makes a different. So for each antidepressant you try, keep taking it for at least two months. If it doesn't work than ask your doctor for a different one.
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(Score: 2) by HiThere on Monday August 13 2018, @05:53PM
I don't think the raw numbers tell the real story, though, as I suspect a much larger percentage of the current Apple employees have jobs other than programmer/analyst than was true in 1970. And they seem to have beefed up their legal staff.
Javascript is what you use to allow unknown third parties to run software you have no idea about on your computer.