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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: 2) by fyngyrz on Monday August 13 2018, @06:34PM (1 child)
Think about that the next time you have a plumber unclog your toilet. Are you going to never call a plumber because that job involves digging in the decaying bodily wastes of you and yours? Personally speaking, I'd much rather service someone's genitals / temporarily tame their libido than dig in their already-excreted-and-decaying bodily wastes. I certainly don't look down on anyone doing either job. They're just jobs.
Think about that the next time you you visit any fast food chain restaurant. You think those employees are there because the job is ideal, and that the general run of employee wants to be there? Are you going to boycott all fast food chains because you assume the employees are doing things they'd really just as soon not do?
No. Just, no. People do whatever jobs to earn the money they need. It's ridiculous to cut them down because you don't think the job is lily-white or "sexually moral" or whatever other self-involved nonsense you're holding up as a justification.
People doing sex work (or even just massage work) are doing something they can do, for money they can use in the rest of their life. There's nothing actually wrong with it unless they are actively being prevented from developing other options. And that is a very rare thing indeed, current breathless hysteria about "sex trafficking" notwithstanding.
The path to alternate employment, as always, begins with acquiring reading and communications skills if/as needed, studying the target job category, and then taking as many swings at it as required. Working in a massage parlor (or in a plumbing shop, etc.) is zero impediment to this. In fact, if the employee isn't happy doing whatever it is they are currently doing, in any job, it's an incentive.
(Score: -1, Troll) by Anonymous Coward on Monday August 13 2018, @10:06PM
Weeeelllll, wasn't someone pissed at being spotted coming out of the massage parlour.