Angelus Novus wrote:
A quick glimpse at the technology discussion forums at www.digg.com gives a nice picture of the state of mind of workers in the advanced countries. When "Macintosh is so lame you stupid faggot loser" is the level of discourse of the educated skilled-worker elite, I don't see how any worldview, no matter how good, has any mobilization potential.
. A few years ago, as reported by the SF Chronicle, I believe, a group of Netscape engineers were perusing some code in Internet Explorer (probably looking for the 'hook' into Windows OS), and not only discovered a backdoor in the IE's security, but also found some uinique 'padding code'... a section of code in software that doesn't really do anything, it's just required because the 'module' (can't recall the correct term) *needs* to be a certain number of bytes long. The padding code was text, and it said: "Netscape engineers are weenies" The developer that inserted that code, if my memory of general industry wages at the time serves, was probably earning somewhere from $50,000 - $70,000 a year to phuck around in his cubie. A MicroSoft developer could be more highly remunerated for their services... and for the most part, all of the above are specifically educated, over-the-age-of-majority... children. That's why unions had practically no luck organizing the silicon pit over the hill. Children are self-focused and easily distracted by shiny objects(coins and dollars), toys(every developer aspires to a blackberry, segway, Lotus, etc ad n.), and approval (titles like... 'technological evangilist come to mind). Leigh
