I guess it is reassuring that you believe that few of the executives you have known were sociopaths. I haven’t known many and wondered whether the speculation in the article I read was accurate. However, I’m a little surprised when you indicate that sociopaths are disliked.

My recollection is that one of the characteristics of a sociopath is that he is very good at gaining the trust, and even admiration, of those around him, when that contributes to his goals. And another is that he is generally quite intelligent. So could it be that, of those executives you have known, more than you realize were sociopaths? I suppose that if you knew them for a long time, you’d eventually be able to recognize the sociopaths, so if you are speaking of ones you have known a long time, then your experience is more reassuring.

http://opensource.org/node/426

Because this major flaw will continue to exist, anything useful on the net MUST be done in a silo so that someone can keep an eye on things, and spread the cost of management of that security around to all the users (via ads or some other cross subsidy).

There are some major things that are broken in the world, but they are too subtle to explain in less than a book…. which makes it very, very hard to communicate to the masses.

Sorry for the rant… but I had to let it out somewhere… somewhere I hope can make a difference.

–Mike–

Apologies for the moderation system. After passing through the mod system the first time, everything else posts right away. In addition, we have a new system here based on the latest Wordpress Whatever, and I’m still not familiar with it. Used to be all comments awaiting moderation were highlighted. Now I have to go looking for them. Or so it seems. Still exploring here.