Yet another opportunity for labor outsourcing. Woohoo.
Hey, maybe we can make up for it with the increase in bread-line-serving jobs that will inevitably be needed as the unemployed of America become the poor, homeless, and starving of America.
As several posters have already mentioned, firewall them off, and then report them to the legal authorities.
Jesus tap-dancing Christ! They are attacking your network. I feel like flaming the original poster for his incompetence. Acquire the BOFH nature. After you firewall them, file a report with the FBI's cybercrime division. Tell them you are a hosting company, and you have the IP of someone who is costing your company $BIGNUM dollars per day because they are DOS-ing your network. That should keep this "monitoring company" busy for a while, and it will teach them a lesson.
Whining about it on slashdot is the last thing you should be doing. Get a clue.
If my company lost all its H1B's we would be in serious trouble. I'm pretty confident we could not fill the vacant jobs with "real" americans, even in today's job market.
What the hell are you smoking? Are you aware of how many very well qualified unemployed or under-employed programmers and I.T. people there are out there?
And finally, a company is selling SCO Check, a tool to de-SCOify your Linux system, if SCO ever presents any evidence whatsoever of infringing code in Linux.
Well, yeah, of course the SEC denies his existence! If time travelers were known to exist, people would panic! Chaos would reign! The markets would crumble! It's obviously a conspiracy to cover this up!
The article says 15,000 jobs will be cut out of a workforce of 150,000 over the next 2 years, not that 150,000 jobs will be cut. Original post wasn't that clear....
BAE Systems (http://www.baesystems.com/ and more specifically, their control systems division, http://lmcontrolsystems.com/) is the company that wrote the software that malfunctioned. I interviewed there recently, and they just gave me an offer of employment (I'm just getting out of college). It looks like a good place, I wonder if I should accept their offer now...
I watched the entire debate, and that G.W. Bush quote was taken way out of context. He was simply making a statement about our social situation. He was not implying that the Internet turns childrens' hearts dark, but that something in our culture, somewhere, whatever it might be, turned some kids' hearts dark and caused them to kill.
Also, I would like to comment on the irrational knee-jerk defense of violent video games displayed by all too many slashdot readers, game lovers, and the techies/geeks. The writer of the article appears to believe that violent games make children "calm and peaceful". I don't think that any sane person could honestly believe this, and I'm not saying the author is insane. Instead, the author is most likely protecting his own copy of Doom 3 or other future games. Seeing violence desensitizes children to violence. I know that's what all the politicians and talking-head types day, but it's true. As an adult, I have experienced this "desensitizing" myself. Try it some time. Don't watch or play anything violent for an extended period of time, and then go watch/play something violent. At first it's abhorrent, but it gets a little less shocking each time you watch/play. Now magnify that because you are a young child, and now violence doesn't bother you or trouble you the way it used to. Desensitization.
I watched the entire debate, and that G.W. Bush quote was taken way out of context. He was simply making a statement about our social situation. He was not implying that the Internet turns childrens' hearts dark, but that something in our culture, somewhere, whatever it might be, turned some kids' hearts dark and caused them to kill.
Also, I would like to comment on the irrational knee-jerk defense of violent video games displayed by all too many slashdot readers, game lovers, and the techies/geeks. The writer of the article appears to believe that violent games make children "calm and peaceful". I don't think that that any sane person could honestly believe this, and I'm not saying the author is insane. Instead, the author is most likely protecting his own copy of Doom 3 or whatever. Seeing violence desensitizes children to violence. I know that's what all the politicians and talking-head types day, but it's true. As an adult, I have experienced this "desensitizing" myself. Try it some time. Don't watch or play anything violent for an extended period of time, and then go watch/play something violent. At first it's abhorrent, but it gets a little less shocking each time you watch/play. Now magnify that because you are a young child, and now violence doesn't bother you or trouble you the way it used to. Desensitization.
Slashdot Mirror
*yawn*
Is anyone else thinking that games.slashdot.org was a bad idea? They seem to be awfully low on interesting or useful content.
Not quite a matter compiler. Looks like it's just a fancy nameplate engraver.
Yet another opportunity for labor outsourcing. Woohoo.
Hey, maybe we can make up for it with the increase in bread-line-serving jobs that will inevitably be needed as the unemployed of America become the poor, homeless, and starving of America.
Why are you putting up with this crap?
As several posters have already mentioned, firewall them off, and then report them to the legal authorities.
Jesus tap-dancing Christ! They are attacking your network. I feel like flaming the original poster for his incompetence. Acquire the BOFH nature. After you firewall them, file a report with the FBI's cybercrime division. Tell them you are a hosting company, and you have the IP of someone who is costing your company $BIGNUM dollars per day because they are DOS-ing your network. That should keep this "monitoring company" busy for a while, and it will teach them a lesson.
Whining about it on slashdot is the last thing you should be doing. Get a clue.
If my company lost all its H1B's we would be in serious trouble. I'm pretty confident we could not fill the vacant jobs with "real" americans, even in today's job market.
What the hell are you smoking? Are you aware of how many very well qualified unemployed or under-employed programmers and I.T. people there are out there?
Obviously not.
According to this poll and this poll, a lot of them don't.
And finally, a company is selling SCO Check, a tool to de-SCOify your Linux system, if SCO ever presents any evidence whatsoever of infringing code in Linux.
Uh... patch and diff?
> The first thing I do when I log onto a box is link > bash_history to /dev/null
unset HISTFILE
Well, yeah, of course the SEC denies his existence! If time travelers were known to exist, people would panic! Chaos would reign! The markets would crumble! It's obviously a conspiracy to cover this up!
The article says 15,000 jobs will be cut out of a workforce of 150,000 over the next 2 years, not that 150,000 jobs will be cut. Original post wasn't that clear....
BAE Systems (http://www.baesystems.com/ and more specifically, their control systems division, http://lmcontrolsystems.com/) is the company that wrote the software that malfunctioned. I interviewed there recently, and they just gave me an offer of employment (I'm just getting out of college). It looks like a good place, I wonder if I should accept their offer now...
So, does this mean that we are finally getting MS Office for Linux?
I watched the entire debate, and that G.W. Bush quote was taken way out of context. He was simply making a statement about our social situation. He was not implying that the Internet turns childrens' hearts dark, but that something in our culture, somewhere, whatever it might be, turned some kids' hearts dark and caused them to kill.
Also, I would like to comment on the irrational knee-jerk defense of violent video games displayed by all too many slashdot readers, game lovers, and the techies/geeks. The writer of the article appears to believe that violent games make children "calm and peaceful". I don't think that any sane person could honestly believe this, and I'm not saying the author is insane. Instead, the author is most likely protecting his own copy of Doom 3 or other future games. Seeing violence desensitizes children to violence. I know that's what all the politicians and talking-head types day, but it's true. As an adult, I have experienced this "desensitizing" myself. Try it some time. Don't watch or play anything violent for an extended period of time, and then go watch/play something violent. At first it's abhorrent, but it gets a little less shocking each time you watch/play. Now magnify that because you are a young child, and now violence doesn't bother you or trouble you the way it used to. Desensitization.
Also, I would like to comment on the irrational knee-jerk defense of violent video games displayed by all too many slashdot readers, game lovers, and the techies/geeks. The writer of the article appears to believe that violent games make children "calm and peaceful". I don't think that that any sane person could honestly believe this, and I'm not saying the author is insane. Instead, the author is most likely protecting his own copy of Doom 3 or whatever. Seeing violence desensitizes children to violence. I know that's what all the politicians and talking-head types day, but it's true. As an adult, I have experienced this "desensitizing" myself. Try it some time. Don't watch or play anything violent for an extended period of time, and then go watch/play something violent. At first it's abhorrent, but it gets a little less shocking each time you watch/play. Now magnify that because you are a young child, and now violence doesn't bother you or trouble you the way it used to. Desensitization.