Given the current state of our collective PHBs, the kind that aren't technical, and both fear and resent their more technical employees, this article attempts to soothe their fears. Just pay up, and you won't have to worry. Don't bother asking your developers and/or legal staff for pesky details and long-winded explanations. Just sweep the cost under the rug, as it were. Don't worry, Mr. Manager, you can sleep soundly at night, knowing that through your failed initiative, Darl McBride is a richer man. Heck, your own stock portfolio might event perform better now.
Would that be so bad? Back in the ol' Roman days, the saying went that you could leave a gold ring in the road, and pick it up the next day. Since governments (in non-savage countries) hold a legal monopoly on the use of force against its citizens to preserve the peace, can we make the leap that one nation, or one body (not the UN, something with teeth) has the legal monopoly on the use of force? As a previous posted put it, to 'rain destruction down on an enemy' can be an effective deterrent, like the nuke, the death penalty, or having your ass kicked by policemen. Before you cry that its wrong to place all this power in 1 country's hands lest it be abused, consider the existing abuses of power going on around the globe on a daily basis.
How about sending your loved ones a quick hit of LSD, or a tab of e, or maybe the scent of pot for a nice 'contact high' ? The new Drug Dome comes with 20 lab-quality chemical compounds which can be combined to form 60 separate drugs. Co-worker feeling a little anxious about a presentation? Email him a quaalude. Girlfriend not putting out? Send her a couple of tabs of e.
For the record, rumors that the Drug Dome has been hacked to dispense a single blast of all 20 drugs at once are false.
We are currently beta-testing a refillable Drug Dome, using a modified Linux kernel (Methix), the chemicals, their mixtures, and dosages can be completely customized by the end user.
And when masses of people were herded onto trains for 'relocation', or into ghettos, because the State told them to do so, they were just obeying too. You don't see whats so horrible about it because you've been brought up in a State where this level of massification is accepted. I'm not trolling either, its just something thats very important to a people who (until recently) did not expect this sort of behavior from their police.
No, he didn't have any identification to produce. Of course, the policeman should have busted him for driving without a license at this point, but remember, 1/2 the population has an IQ below 100.
Several years ago, I ended up working late on some Microsoft catastrophe at work. By the time I got home at 1am, I was too keyed up to sleep, so I went for a walk. This is in a suburban-rural area, typical small town neighborhood. While walking around, a police cruiser pulls up, the window rolled down, and the spotlight went in my face. The conversation went something like:
Cop: Hey pal, whats going on? Me: Nothing, just out for a walk. Cop: Kind of late for that. Me: Well I just got home from work and I'm still really awake. Cop: Got any ID? Me: Um sure..whats going on? (fumbled for wallet, gave license) Cop: (mutters into radio with my info) Me: Is there some problem, has there been a crime reported? Cop: Um yes, we've had reports of someone walking around. At this point, a truck LOADED with lawn furniture, to the point where it's mounded up in the back, with ropes holding it in, drives by. Driver and passenger of said truck watch carefully. Eventually, I was released, after being asked if I was wanted for anything. Had I been old (was 24 at the time), or walking a dog, or female, I'm sure none of that would have happened.
Because you define the practical reality as reflecting 'need', I can only assume that you are a communist, and therefore beneath the trolls on the food chain. Likewise, your assertion that 'patents, copyright and IP in general' are 'largely obsolete' proves your disregard for the product of the mind. Thus, your mysticism is also illustrated, which is of no surprise, given that you are a communist. Incidentally, I got a +5, while you got a zero, so I win.
And nobody cared? Is this the beginning of market forces affecting the open source movement? Practical realities asserting themselves over floating abstractions?
The Government regulation on the free market bankrupts YOU!
Seriously, lay off the anti US trolls. I'm behind on a project and am procrastinating reading Slashdot, but otherwise nobody will rise to this level of troll. There's a lot of US readers, so yes, your troll will inflame, as it is supposed to, but try to a) keep them more hidden and b) use them on significant things, m'kay?
We use it at my shop, and all it does is provide a GUI to the clueless 'policy enforcers', i.e. the InfoSec guys. They scan you, Qualys says 'X is bad', and its a Federal Case. Of course, if you mention how X is not really true, because you're running in a chroot jail, for instance, it makes no difference. The Computer has spoken, and produces a Shiny HTML Report to prove that you have a Vulnerability. Qualys is just a pretty front and and control GUI for Nessus. Much better to roll your own, because in the process, you'll have people actually LEARN security.
P.S. My solution? IPFilter on all my Solaris and HP boxen. The idiots only scan from 1 IP address, so its easy enough to send back TCP RSTs to that IP address.
I'm a rich kid, whose parents will buy me anything that I like, so should I whine for them to first buy a tablet PC, only to throw it out and have them buy me a nice purple iMac with matching iPod, or should I just complain that I'm failing my classes because, like, the PC ate my paper, and it was a really good paper?
Thank you, Mr. Hume
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Since, according to modern European philosophy, we can't be sure of anything, and we should set aside reason in order to make room for faith, we're now reaping the benefits of implementing it. Who can know that you DONT have 'fybromyalgia' or 'chronic fatigue syndrome' or 'multiple chemical sensitivity' ? What if you FEEL that you have it, who is your doctor to tell you that you don't?
Suggestion for the cave dwellers watching the shadow-play on the back wall - stay there, we don't need you.
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By concluding the post with...given current employment law, the question immediately becomes a troll or flamebait. So its the evil employers, who have the System in their pocket, to 'exploit' the Working Class? Geesh. Rephrase, with less inflammatory language, please, and we'll discuss. Lets discuss some specifics.
Everyone is panicking about how revelation of the source will open Windows up to hacks. In an ideal world, knowing how good code is written shouldn't give away the 'hacks'. In this case, MS is rightfully fearing review of places where they fail to check string lengths or buffer sizes, the way that they handle exceptions (if they do), the way that their logic copes, or fails to cope, with unexpected input. However, good code wouldn't have this problem, string lengths would be checked, there wouldn't be hardcoded passwords, components that are not supposed to trust one another really don't, etc. This exposure of the source may reveal just how crappy their code is. If its not crappy, I don't see necessarily how its more 'hackable'. Apache is open, and nobody hacks it to pieces on a daily basis. Can you imagine what would happen if the source of IIS was leaked?
That Perens is a flaming asshole, and while people might get a warm,fuzzy feeling from sitting around the Debian campfire, large companies (read: Banks, etc) are going IBM or native RedHat support. A grassroots movement of Debian 'service provider companies' and consultants won't take off - people will ask 'who else uses this?' In the Valley of the PHB, the Man with the largest actual company providing support wins. There may be a large amount of 'Debian guys' out there, but there's only 1 IBM.
So you flash with unsupported software with bad or no MD5 sums, and you complain that it doesn't work? Well... yeah!
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is not data. All they show to support their claims are customer testimonials. And what customer is going to say 'nah, SCO is teh suck, we wasted millions on them' ?
So you're getting 1 bit every 5 minutes, and you think that is better than sex? Sorry man.
Incidentally, if you meant 300 MB/sec, you're lying, since the PCI bus only pushes 133 MB/sec (theoretical max). And there's no way that the spindles on those SATA drives can actually push the bandwidth of the SATA 1.0 interface. So you are -1, Overrated, -1, Troll, and -1, Stupid.
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Given the current state of our collective PHBs, the kind that aren't technical, and both fear and resent their more technical employees, this article attempts to soothe their fears. Just pay up, and you won't have to worry. Don't bother asking your developers and/or legal staff for pesky details and long-winded explanations. Just sweep the cost under the rug, as it were. Don't worry, Mr. Manager, you can sleep soundly at night, knowing that through your failed initiative, Darl McBride is a richer man. Heck, your own stock portfolio might event perform better now.
Would that be so bad? Back in the ol' Roman days, the saying went that you could leave a gold ring in the road, and pick it up the next day. Since governments (in non-savage countries) hold a legal monopoly on the use of force against its citizens to preserve the peace, can we make the leap that one nation, or one body (not the UN, something with teeth) has the legal monopoly on the use of force?
As a previous posted put it, to 'rain destruction down on an enemy' can be an effective deterrent, like the nuke, the death penalty, or having your ass kicked by policemen.
Before you cry that its wrong to place all this power in 1 country's hands lest it be abused, consider the existing abuses of power going on around the globe on a daily basis.
How about sending your loved ones a quick hit of LSD, or a tab of e, or maybe the scent of pot for a nice 'contact high' ? The new Drug Dome comes with 20 lab-quality chemical compounds which can be combined to form 60 separate drugs. Co-worker feeling a little anxious about a presentation? Email him a quaalude. Girlfriend not putting out? Send her a couple of tabs of e.
For the record, rumors that the Drug Dome has been hacked to dispense a single blast of all 20 drugs at once are false.
We are currently beta-testing a refillable Drug Dome, using a modified Linux kernel (Methix), the chemicals, their mixtures, and dosages can be completely customized by the end user.
There currently ARE a million monkeys working at a million typewriters, but Livejournal and Xanga are nothing remotely like Shakespeare.
And when masses of people were herded onto trains for 'relocation', or into ghettos, because the State told them to do so, they were just obeying too. You don't see whats so horrible about it because you've been brought up in a State where this level of massification is accepted. I'm not trolling either, its just something thats very important to a people who (until recently) did not expect this sort of behavior from their police.
No, he didn't have any identification to produce. Of course, the policeman should have busted him for driving without a license at this point, but remember, 1/2 the population has an IQ below 100.
Several years ago, I ended up working late on some Microsoft catastrophe at work. By the time I got home at 1am, I was too keyed up to sleep, so I went for a walk. This is in a suburban-rural area, typical small town neighborhood. While walking around, a police cruiser pulls up, the window rolled down, and the spotlight went in my face. The conversation went something like:
Cop: Hey pal, whats going on?
Me: Nothing, just out for a walk.
Cop: Kind of late for that.
Me: Well I just got home from work and I'm still really awake.
Cop: Got any ID?
Me: Um sure..whats going on? (fumbled for wallet, gave license)
Cop: (mutters into radio with my info)
Me: Is there some problem, has there been a crime reported?
Cop: Um yes, we've had reports of someone walking around.
At this point, a truck LOADED with lawn furniture, to the point where it's mounded up in the back, with ropes holding it in, drives by. Driver and passenger of said truck watch carefully. Eventually, I was released, after being asked if I was wanted for anything. Had I been old (was 24 at the time), or walking a dog, or female, I'm sure none of that would have happened.
Now if they only had a web dashboard portal showing the latest results in an easily-assimilated color coded HTML table....
Then you'd become a PHB.
Because you define the practical reality as reflecting 'need', I can only assume that you are a communist, and therefore beneath the trolls on the food chain. Likewise, your assertion that 'patents, copyright and IP in general' are 'largely obsolete' proves your disregard for the product of the mind. Thus, your mysticism is also illustrated, which is of no surprise, given that you are a communist.
Incidentally, I got a +5, while you got a zero, so I win.
And nobody cared?
Is this the beginning of market forces affecting the open source movement? Practical realities asserting themselves over floating abstractions?
You're new here, aren't you?
Seriously, lay off the anti US trolls. I'm behind on a project and am procrastinating reading Slashdot, but otherwise nobody will rise to this level of troll. There's a lot of US readers, so yes, your troll will inflame, as it is supposed to, but try to a) keep them more hidden and b) use them on significant things, m'kay?
That is the geekiest, nerdiest sig I've seen on here. Straight from the AD&D DM's guide, I love it!
We use it at my shop, and all it does is provide a GUI to the clueless 'policy enforcers', i.e. the InfoSec guys. They scan you, Qualys says 'X is bad', and its a Federal Case. Of course, if you mention how X is not really true, because you're running in a chroot jail, for instance, it makes no difference. The Computer has spoken, and produces a Shiny HTML Report to prove that you have a Vulnerability. Qualys is just a pretty front and and control GUI for Nessus.
Much better to roll your own, because in the process, you'll have people actually LEARN security.
P.S. My solution? IPFilter on all my Solaris and HP boxen. The idiots only scan from 1 IP address, so its easy enough to send back TCP RSTs to that IP address.
I'm a rich kid, whose parents will buy me anything that I like, so should I whine for them to first buy a tablet PC, only to throw it out and have them buy me a nice purple iMac with matching iPod, or should I just complain that I'm failing my classes because, like, the PC ate my paper, and it was a really good paper?
Since, according to modern European philosophy, we can't be sure of anything, and we should set aside reason in order to make room for faith, we're now reaping the benefits of implementing it. Who can know that you DONT have 'fybromyalgia' or 'chronic fatigue syndrome' or 'multiple chemical sensitivity' ? What if you FEEL that you have it, who is your doctor to tell you that you don't?
Suggestion for the cave dwellers watching the shadow-play on the back wall - stay there, we don't need you.
By concluding the post with ...given current employment law, the question immediately becomes a troll or flamebait. So its the evil employers, who have the System in their pocket, to 'exploit' the Working Class? Geesh. Rephrase, with less inflammatory language, please, and we'll discuss. Lets discuss some specifics.
Everyone is panicking about how revelation of the source will open Windows up to hacks. In an ideal world, knowing how good code is written shouldn't give away the 'hacks'. In this case, MS is rightfully fearing review of places where they fail to check string lengths or buffer sizes, the way that they handle exceptions (if they do), the way that their logic copes, or fails to cope, with unexpected input.
However, good code wouldn't have this problem, string lengths would be checked, there wouldn't be hardcoded passwords, components that are not supposed to trust one another really don't, etc.
This exposure of the source may reveal just how crappy their code is. If its not crappy, I don't see necessarily how its more 'hackable'. Apache is open, and nobody hacks it to pieces on a daily basis. Can you imagine what would happen if the source of IIS was leaked?
That Perens is a flaming asshole, and while people might get a warm,fuzzy feeling from sitting around the Debian campfire, large companies (read: Banks, etc) are going IBM or native RedHat support. A grassroots movement of Debian 'service provider companies' and consultants won't take off - people will ask 'who else uses this?' In the Valley of the PHB, the Man with the largest actual company providing support wins. There may be a large amount of 'Debian guys' out there, but there's only 1 IBM.
To MS, _life_ is a MMORPG, one in which you WILL be assimilated.
So you flash with unsupported software with bad or no MD5 sums, and you complain that it doesn't work? Well... yeah!
is not data. All they show to support their claims are customer testimonials. And what customer is going to say 'nah, SCO is teh suck, we wasted millions on them' ?
I installed OZ on my Zaurus 5500 without a hitch. It is known that OZ for 5500 has not (until recently) worked fine on the 5600.
So RTFM, troll.
So you're getting 1 bit every 5 minutes, and you think that is better than sex? Sorry man.
Incidentally, if you meant 300 MB/sec, you're lying, since the PCI bus only pushes 133 MB/sec (theoretical max). And there's no way that the spindles on those SATA drives can actually push the bandwidth of the SATA 1.0 interface.
So you are -1, Overrated, -1, Troll, and -1, Stupid.
"Things are so compliated, we don't know that a small event, or series of small events won't bring down the whole system"
Yeah, well I don't know that I won't be fired tomorrow for reading Slashdot at work, but that doesn't mean that I will.