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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: 3, Funny) by takyon on Monday August 13 2018, @05:55PM
Ended in the gutter, now we're dead
Ended in the gutter, now my whole team fuckin' dead
Ended in the gutter, now we're dead
Ended in the gutter, now the whole team dead, ligma
Ended in the gutter, now we're dead
Ended in the gutter, now my whole team here, ligma
Ended in the gutter, now we're dead
Ended in the gutter, now the whole team fuckin' dead
I done kept it real from the jump
Livin' in momma's basement, we'd argue every month
Coding, I was tryna get it on my own
Workin' all night, net traffic was my home
And callin' employers, like, "Where you at?
I gave you my CV, you said you'd call back”
Nerdy, I just think it's funny how it goes
Now I'm by the road, in the gutter while it snows, and we—
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