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VA Linux Dropping "Linux" From Name
Several folks noted that VA is changing its name to "VA Software" to reflect the fact that they aren't a Linux company anymore. VA of course owns OSDN which runs various Linux and Open Source web sites including amusingly enough Linux.com. Can't say it matters much to me what they call the thing as long as they let us keep running Slashdot, but it really is sad knowing that most of the cool open source hackers no longer work there. My bad. Anyone have a link to the press release that doesn't require a login?
How on earth does this qualify as a "newsable" event? This should be good news to all developer's who value meaningful identifier names... :^)
Of all the great comments that are posted on /.
this one needed to get the magic 2.5 mil number...
Ya - mod this back up - I think it is actually interesting.
;-)
Especially considering that most of us here are guys - and generally believe that a nipple is the ONLY intuitive thing about women
Derek
And if one of those 6000 was someone close to you
I suppose i could be a dick and mention another war that the US has declared - The War on Drugs (tm). An actual bodycount is probably out of the question, but consider that every time a swat team hits the wrong address and shoots some random person dead, that's one more casualty. Whenever some gangs have a turf war, those are more casualties (if politicians had the freedom to actually address the problem instead of doing what keeps them from being recalled, there would be fewer drug turf wars). Oh, and there's the small matter of the corruption of our government in the name of fighting drugs. Tell me again why I don't have the right to walk down the street with $20,000 cash?
Reboot macht Frei.
You're right: it was granted by Bill's mama.
Because the IRA doesn't claim that Jesus wants them to kill British civilians. They are a blatantly nationalist organization. The fact that they are Catholic is more or less incidental. Al Qaeda on the other hand talks about killing the Jews (the "Little Satan", Israel) and the evil supporters of Zionism, the US (the "Big Satan"). Given that everything is couched in terms of religious extremism, it's fairly natural to characterize them as _muslim_ extremists. The IRA are Irish nationalist extremists, first and foremost. David Koresh was a Christian extremist - a religious nutcase who killed people and hoarded arms on the basis of an extreme interpretation of the Bible.
Actualy to put it more acurately your involved in a war with extremist starving oppressed people in a country no one has pretended to give a fuck about in 10 years.
Extremist - the most extreme thing most of the people in afghanistan did today was try to find food.
The US are a bunch of fucking morons and if you think you can win a 'war' (and thats another bullshit word as well) by bombing people who have nothing then youre even more fucked up than the world thinks.
You would think that after 2 land wars in asia the US might have learned something by now.
Oh and im not american and i dont support one thing your country is doing at the moment - you are acting like a bully in a schoolyard by picking on those weaker than you - where was the US when argentina was murdering thousands, and Chile, and Bolivia etc etc
The world is only evil when someone threatens YOU people DIRECTLY - everyone else can get fucked - so i say this - the whole rotten american system can get fucked - we dont want your war and your bullshit
We're involved in a WAR with extremist muslims
Gee, I thought it was a war against terrorism.
Holy cow dude, you got a +3, Interesting!
XML is like violence. If it doesn't solve the problem, use more.
What in fucking hell actually qualifies the shrub to be fucking el presidente anyway? What the fuck has he ever done right? He's an idiot and it's all he can do to get up in front of the cameras and get the fucking words that they write for him to come out of his mouth in something resembling the proper order! He isn't running a damn thing! He does what his advisors and constituents (by this I mean the corps that fund his sorry ass) tell him to do. There must be several million people more qualified than he is to be president. Unfortunately they aren't a former president's son, nor do they have strong ties to oil interests and other powerful lobbies, nor do they have the distinct lack of ethics and conscience that seems to be a requirement for the upper levels of our government. FUCK BUSH. HE ISN'T THE BEST FOR ANY JOB! (with the possible exception of human minesweeper)
It's not enough to bash in heads, you've got to bash in minds. - Captain Hammer
Rasism on Slashdot - weee. Not. You're at war with terrorists - no matter their religion. They also consider themselves at war with you, so keep on going
it's in my head
I don't think it's happened to me yet, but I've seen other comments in the past few weeks that looked as though they belonged in a different current story, so I guess it's a "feature" of the latest Slashdot code update.
I see even classic Slashdot is now pretty much unusable on dial up anymore.
(biting the troll) Your perspective is not mine. I don't live in the USA and I don't feel involved in any "WAR" at all. Your comment comes up in all Slashdot stories and I do *not* find it funny. I don't have any respect for terrorists, but I don't have respect for your war either. I think it's kind of pointless to bomb a country and then gather money to rescue those innocent inhabitants. Why does everyone have to think like Yankees? Go troll somewhere else and let me live my own life.
Sigh. Surely off-topic, but I felt I had to write this..
Hey, underpaidISPtech here.
I have only 3 years experience with computers, use Linux, FreeBSD, amd am pretty familiar with
all versions of Windows. I run a small website that implements a streaming audio service, and my server is the host for this company.
I have *no* A+, Network+, MCSE (though I'm studying the win2k course) CCNA, Novell, or any certs at all. I have the opportunity to take this course (I was told by the Program Head that I am overqualified), but money is tight (I make CDN$12/hr).
I am stuck doing lousy helldesk in this shit economy, work the graveyard shift at a stupid company, and cannot afford to pay the ~$15,000 CDN to get certs at the colleges here (www.ubc.ca, www.bcit.ca, www.cdic.ca). And to top it all off, no one will touch me without certs. Some courses are full-time and I would qualify for a student loan, but most are part-time and I would not qualify for a loan.
So what the hell is a guy supposed to do? I'm 26 yrs old, how the hell am I supposed to get a challenging, well-paid job when the most overrated and useless cert (MSCE) is the first thing that employers check for?
You seem to have been around for a while, what do you suggest? Bite the bullet and swim in debt? What cert would you recommend above all else?
That's no troll. It's merely an observation. Quite an accurate one too.
Still, it defies the Great Linux Hive-Mind and so is modded down.
If only I had mod points, I'd mod it back up...
"Information wants to be paid"
...and my personal data will be thrown into the wind...
/.?
What personal data? The number and frequency of your posts on