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In an observation piece at Scientific American, Ralph Nader (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ralph_Nader) writes about the decades of struggles by conscientious engineers—whether employees or consultants—who strive to balance professional ethics with occupational survival.
Nader writes:
[...] today's engineers are working in an improved environment for taking their conscience to work. Yet much more remains to be done to safeguard the ability of engineers to speak truth to the powers-that-be.
For starters, the word whistle-blower—once popularly meant to describe a snitch or a disgruntled employee—now describes an ethical person willing to put his or her job on the line in order to expose corrupt, illegal, fraudulent and harmful activities. Indeed, in the aftermath of recent Boeing 737 MAX crashes, the media routinely and positively refers to disclosures by "Boeing whistle-blowers." Congressional investigating committees and federal agencies have called for whistle-blowers to come forward and shed light on corporate misdeeds and governmental agency lapses.
To put it mildly, this was not always the case.
LINK: https://blogs.scientificamerican.com/observations/when-engineers-become-whistleblowers/
(Score: 0, Offtopic) by Anonymous Coward on Wednesday May 15 2019, @05:38PM (3 children)
Ralph Nader discovers Dilbert homepage circa 1993. (Bookmarked it in Navigator)
(Score: 0) by Anonymous Coward on Wednesday May 15 2019, @06:34PM
And still reading it in Navigator.
(Score: 2) by hemocyanin on Wednesday May 15 2019, @10:36PM (1 child)
You mean Mosaic right? I mean, if you are going to be OT, at least get your dates right.
(Score: 3, Informative) by maxwell demon on Thursday May 16 2019, @03:23AM
Given that Dilbert didn't go online before 1995, it would have been hard to bookmark the homepage in 1993, no matter which browser.
Note: Not impossible; you of course could have entered the URL into the browser bar and bookmarked it; it's just that at that time, you would have to have guessed that Dilbert will go online one day, and under this domain name. Well, the latter would not have been that much of a guess, but the former definitely wasn't obvious.
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