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It amuses me to no end

Is that you, Lo Pan?

"Ooh, the Germans are mad at me. I'm so scared! Oooh, the Germans!"

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I've seen or heard so many ridiculous demands on IT personnel and their off time that it pretty much showed me that I don't want to work in the industry. The management tends to lean HARD on the person with the most knowledge.

For example, I was once pulling a Sunday watch and one of our LAN's went down, and considering it was a LAN that is hardly used I reasoned that if I couldn't solve the problem we would get to it in the morning when the senior administrator came into work. My boss tells me to call him into work, knowing full well he was enjoying one of his few days off with his girlfriend, and was several hundred miles away at Disneyland - not to mention he lives about 60 miles from work. Understandably, he didn't pick up his phone and my boss decided to have me call him every five minutes until he picked up, which turned into me calling every five minutes to remind him not to pick up his phone. I continued to troubleshoot and traced the problem to the router and my boss says:

"Oh, I know what to do." and hard reboots the modem, problem solved...

...So I'm going to do some contract work in the Middle East for a while, leverage the contacts I make there for a lower level SysAd job that I'll hold down for a while as I attend school, and GTFO.

On a more helpful note, I know two people who's skills allow them to make money when they need it, and they otherwise do what they want for extended periods of time. One is a graphic designer who will seek out commissions, and spends his free time making music and performing live, hardware hacking, and travelling. The other is an engineer who started out with a PCI-based encryption card, sold it to the NSA(IIRC), and does similar things when he needs work. He spends his free time traveling, usually finding his way into some kind of shenanigans and other tomfoolery, even being told not to return to certain countries only to fly his plane back into them covertly.

Sounds like kick ass lives to me.

Don't mention the war!

Obligatory video.

Or maybe Mr Burns.

Yeah, it's off-topic, but at least it's entertaining.

"I don't know what's scarier: losing nuclear weapons or that it happens so often that there's actually a term for it."

(here comes the quote nazi:)
A communications disruption can mean only one thing - invasion. (MP3)

(here comes the quote nazi:)
A communications disruption can mean only one thing - invasion. (MP3)

Chung chung!

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Good point, but now I've got skills that can be applied to lots of different industries.

By the way, the "corporate drone" comment doesn't apply in my case...I was employee #5 of 5 when I started and #2 of 20 when I left. It was more of a sweatshop than a corporation.

Archaeologists have some audio evidence of this epic battle:
The Ni File

throw baby

--- SER

> Why does everybody get this wrong? It was armed dolphins, not armed sharks. (Google it, I'm too lazy to find the link right now.)

Googled.

WTF were you talking about???

For those who can't be bothered to read the link, various armies have tried to find a bass frequency that, aimed at enemy soldiers, would cause them to involuntarily lose bowel control.

Woot, the brown noise

Why I could make a hat, or a brooch, a pterodactyl...

Johnny.

The only reason I don't use the gimp is because I can't be bothered to learn a new interface.

How would you feel about making a change?

There are other governments, such as China, that *like* doing this sort of thing to their citizens, and much of this WSISness is because they'd like to get ICANN-like powers to do it more effectively.

From a technical perspective, ICANN hasn't done a good job with Internationalized Domain Names, which is a serious problem because there are lots of counties where people need to use other character sets, and while Verisign came up with a couple of horribly botched approaches to the problem that worked for the web, didn't work adequately for email, and were totally useless for other protocols, the problem still needs to be solved. China's been threatening to split the root about it, though they could perfectly well hang anything they want under .cn and get the same effects. There are less serious issues (we really could use some more TLDs, and they've interfered with experimentation that could support alternate policies; .museum is the only TLD that's done anything interesting.) They decided to set a price on IPv6 space, which somewhat hindered IPv6 deployment in the US, though that's mainly a Cisco/Microsoft issue at this stage.

MS always gets kicked around (especially here) for doing things like this...

I think the problem with your question is in the set up, where you posit the hypothetical "a company". I think that the reason many /.ers get as upset as they do is that Microsoft wields more power than your typical "a company" and is more like your basic "a monopoly". Naturally, this changes the answer some regarding them.

I think it also depends on how these changes effect those using the standard. Take HD Radio It adds some functionality to standard radio broadcasting but does so without interfering with my old standards based analog car stereo. This is a reasonable implementation. On the other hand, all the examples of Microsoft extending features I can think of involve breaking part of the ecosystem.

"Its an entirely different kind of flying, altogether"

-Ted Striker

Boomhauer: "Yeah man, I'll tell ya that dang old internet, man you just be on there point, click,click,click, it's real easy man"

Replace 'internet' with 'encryption program'

GPL Cyber Dildonics.
But does your dildo Run Linux? Yes!
In Soviet Russia you fuck the microsoft.
Insert Beowulf cluster of dildos here.... err I mean insert Beowulf cluster of dildos joke here.

Get your Chicken Fucker wavs/mp3s here

Fowl play foreplay is foul play.

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Just whatever you do, never never install the Shining theme pack on it, m'kay?

Cool. Ralph Wiggum became smart.

I've only got one thing to say about this basement-dwelling pumpkin carver: here

Must... resist... Cartman hippy jokes....

I'm sure that with a little editing work, no one will know the difference.

Indeed. Scotty is one personage who is worthy of posts on slashdot that contribute nothing more than a "me too." The character that he so vividly created is a part of every American geek's cultural heritage and even though he was an actor as opposed to a real engineer, I'll bet he inspired a great many of the older posters here in their formative years. The spirit of Scotty lives in every "can do" engineer, sysadmin, coder and rocket scientist out there.

Though his body may fail him, his personality, utter magnanimity and talent will live on forever. I salute him. He is truly a geek's geek.

Mascot with large scissors: Oink! Oink! I'm Oinky the Run Around With Scissors Pig! Oinky says it's fun to run around with scissors!
Cartman: But I thought you WEREN'T supposed to run around with scissors.
Worm: That's why he's on the Island of Misfit Mascots.

MSN!?

That does NOT make sense.

OMFG! Do you think I may have pissed them off?

Tom Petty, along with other artists like King Crimson and Bela Fleck & The Flecktones, have been responsible for many hours of zoned out internet surfing to some of my favorite sites. You've been there - putting on some tunes, firing up your browser, zoning out and surfing away...
Two minutes later, an hour has passed, the album has ended, and you've been around the world and back and hopefully learned something new.

That's just how I started off the other night. I popped Tom Petty's Wildflowers cd into the drive, cranked up the volume, and fired up the browser. I was immediately sucked in by the sweet acoutic guitar sounds of the title track. Click... Click... Click... You Don't Know How It Feels comes up, I hear the sentimental lyrics, and I drift back to my younger days... Click... Click... Click... Another 30 seconds rolls by and half the album's over... Cabin Down Below just nails me with the big fat Telecasters running through tube amps turned up to 11 sound... Click... Click... Click... I finally make it to Wake Up Time ... "Time to open your eyes... And rise and shine..." and...

I'm accosted by the stench of burning pl

I thought it was those underpants gnomes all this time...

Yeaah... This technology was featured in PootieTang! Pootie don't need no words. Don't even need no music!

Me: A sphincter says what?

SCO: What?

Me: Exactly.

(paraphrasing from Wayne's World)

No disassemble!

Todd

How about those if us that favor no government? Maybe I'm not Libertarian. Maybe I'm an anarchist. Not sure if that party is on the voter registration card or not in California...

-B

I'd love to submit an "Ask Slashdot" article on the making of bongs. I'm sure we'd see quite a few novel ideas from the MacGyver Smokers out there...

Cats and dogs living togther!

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Phase One: Collect underpants. Phase Two: ...? Phase Three: Profit!

It could be worse, PR-wise. They could have called it "hackerPAC".

I like HackPac. (HakPAC? HacPAC?)

It's a very catchy name. It would have some initial PR-issues, but as a legitamate PAC I think it would quickly have a signifgant impact combating the negative use of "hacker". If the PAC has a large enough membership and some important corporate membership, important congresscritters *will* take it seriously. If important people start using the word hacker in a positive/legitimate context, other important people will notice, conciously or subconciously. Then the reporters. And then...

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"Getting gay with kids is not dumb, mmmkay?. It just so happens I'm on the board of directors."

Or listen to it