Women in Technology

Article:		Point-and-Click Phishing
Subject:		Can not blame the guy
Date:		2004-10-14 10:55:29
From:		wrfink
In the past 3, or so, years, I have seen my salary drop as a direct result of outsourcing. While I am still employeed by a good company, I do not think I could go out on my own. If I was in an area of the country where software jobs were few and far, then I would result to developing code that would enable me to pay the rent. As much as I HATE spam and phishing, I can not blame the guy. ...looking forward, it seems comapnies are finding out that sending code over to India (or other off-shore locals) is not all it is cracked up to be :-) I am looking for a GREAT 2005 (unless Kerry wins the election).

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• Can not blame the guy
  2004-10-14 23:41:45  eqk [View]
  
  
  You can barely write a sentence, so I'm having difficulty accepting the idea that outsourcing is your primary concern.
  
  This kid who wrote the spamming application is 17 years old and he's worried about outsourcing? He should probably be more worried about college.
  
  I'm not knocking the fact that he wrote the app. If he had not then someone else would have. I just think it's funny that a 17 yr old is using outsourcing as an excuse for writing this app.

• Can not blame the guy
  2004-10-14 12:26:50  fuji8bit [View]
  
  
  Yeah, don't blame him ... he may be using an excuse you will need someday to justify your own unethical behavior.
  
  I've never heard anyone engaging in unethical/criminal/wrong behavior that didn't have a "great" excuse. It just proves they know it's wrong and they need to justify it.
  
  The only people that buy that crap are people using the same excuse -- The RIAA as an excuse to steal MP3s, High software prices to excuse piracy, Corruption of the government to excuse cheating on taxes.
  
  Just for once, I want to hear sombody say "I steal music" without the "because" that follows it.
  
  
• Can not blame the guy
  2005-02-01 17:57:32  l0gic [View]
  
  
  I Steal Music.
• Can not blame the guy
  2004-10-15 03:23:27  bry [View]
  
  
  "I've never heard anyone engaging in unethical/criminal/wrong behavior that didn't have a "great" excuse. It just proves they know it's wrong and they need to justify it."
  right, it proves that you're wrong about doing something if you have an argument for why you did it.
  Justify means to make just.
  
  Actually I've heard lots of people who have bad excuses, by bad excuse I would mean an excuse that was logically faulty, for example, a burglar arguing that he burglarises to teach people to be more security conscience is making a bad argument because people only need to be more security conscience in matters of burglary because there are burglars out there.
  You seem to mean Bad excuse is an excuse that you don't agree with.
  
  I don't much care for what he did and I wouldn't do it but for some reason it doesn't register very high on my outrage meter.
  
  That said I have been thinking about stealing music; I haven't ever done it before because it seems like more work than just going to a store and buying. My reason for doing it, if indeed I do, will of course be that I figure the RIAA has it coming, bastards that they are. I hope you'll forgive my bad excuse, I will argue that it makes my actions just, but if I get in trouble for it I certainly won't whine.
  
  Then again I might not do it, aforementioned laziness to blame.
• Can not blame the guy
  2004-10-15 03:25:45  bry [View]
  
  
  hmm, given the spelling/grammatical errors in my last post I shouldn't copy/paste and there should be a preview button.
  
  That's my bad excuse.