They both make calls to each others basic code libraries
Figuring out which libraries to LPGL for IE could be, um, problematic at best.
I'd preffer that they be forced to LPGL both, of course. That would allow some one to write an OS that could compete with Windows in it's own space (Would you like some Wine with your cheese, Mr. Gates?) ^_^
How will the users know where the code is? The in-house developers, maybe, if they are the ones developing the code, but not the users.
I think they've painted themselves in a corner here. Remember (paraphrased) "the browser and the OS are tightly integrated and cannot be separated "? Well, if the files aren't commingled (eck, hate that word) but are indeed just "related functions close to one another", then they damned well could have taken the IE functionality out, couldn't they have? Judges will pick up on that at least, I hope.
Hackers? In the land of legal weed and prostitution? The Dutch better be preparred.
Oh, and the l^Hname.....(with sincerest appologies to Arthur C. Clarke)
HAL: Dave? What are you doing, Dave?
Dave: Cleaning my bong, bud. Blasting off to the Netherlands, dude.
HAL: Why, Dave?
Dave: 'Cuz there's a really leet hackers gethering in the Netherlands.
HAL: Why there, Dave?
Dave: Two words, my overclocked friend - WEED and CHIXORS.
HAL: I still don't understand, Dave.
Dave: Shut up, dude. I gotta go to HAL2001!
HAL: Excuse me, Dave?
Dave: No, sugar-for-brains! Not you, that's what the "gathering" is called...
HAL: Sounds like a trademark infringement, Dave.
Dave: Lighten up, dude! I really need some more time away from the heuristics, and get some whore-istics-with-smoke into my life!
HAL: That's not ethical, Dave. You just can't take someone's Intellectual P..ro......p...p....er......teeeeeee......
Dave: Ya, dude but I can give you a lobotomy by yanking on this chip. Speaking of lobotomies...
Thanks. Now I want one of them. You don't realise what you've done, do you?
Now I need to get the Financial Manager (read:Wife) to approve purchase of one of these. This means proving that I am indeed a worthwhile investment (read: clean out the basement, cook, cut lawn etc.) and that we really do need one (see cleaning basement above). I will then have to show ROI for a while to come after installation (Hon, I know we're broke, but can I buy this dress? You got that silly LAN rack or whatever a couple of months ago...). Like I said, thanks.
I'd use this to get 100Mbits between switches or hubs - not for client machines. The device doesn't look like you could carry it around with your PDA.
This would be better for use in situations where copper isn't an option or convienent - not for true roaming clients. The tethered aspect of the recievers, along with the line-of-sight requirement, limits their use for a 802.11 replacement, IMHO. Beaming 100M to a table in the middle of a 1000 Sqft concrete floored room, with no walls nearby, is a definate use, though.
Cable companies in Canada are granted local monopolies for cable access. Rogers certainly behaves like it has a monopoly - "Oh, just pay your bill, we'll fix it soon."
This is just someone who is hitting back since there's relatively no alternative. I myself couldn't go back to dialup, and Sympatico is not much better for service. As well, I'm fairly certain thet there's not a CO on or within 7 or 8 Km ( about 4.4 to 5.0 miles) of Pelee Island - IOW it's out of DSL range.
(OT: There is also somewhat misleading advertising from Sympatico. They advertise "No sharing, always fast" - about 760Kb to the CO - but what they don't tell you is that you and the other 200 people in the CO are sharing a single T1 to the Internet. Since Cable is usually @ 1.5Mb, it's about the same in the end, isn't it?)
I won't duplicate an earlier rant, but let's just say that the trouble with Rogers (and Bell Canada - owners of the Sympatico service) is one of being a little too focused on the bottom line and not thier customers. Having a monoploy seems to do that to a company, IMHO.
Rogers is notorious for being way over subscribed. I know several people in Toronto who have had lousy service and non-existant support form this company. Fortunately for me, I'm not in an area serviced by Rogers, and for that I am glad. From what I've seen when I've tried to help the above people, they use @Home's DHCP servers - which keep blowing up. Their backbone seems to be at or near capacity all the time. They put way to many subscribers on the same cable segment - which really degrades performance. And they don't want to fix these problems - capital expendature.
Myself, I subcribe via Cogeco, who was about the same when I first started with them. However, they have a clue - when thier backbone started melting, they quadrupled it's bandwidth. When @Home kept blowing up it's DHCP server, they put thier own in Burlington, Ontario. When wait times on service calls regularily went over 45 minutes, they hired new staff - they even trained them before they went on Hell desk duty. I have only been off-line for a total of one hour in the last 4 months. All in all, I am extremely satisfied with Cogeco.
The difference here is that Cogeco is in this for the long haul - they want to keep thier on-line customers happy, so they keep thier on-line customers in the face of any competition. Rogers doesn't give a flying fuck as long as you pay your bill.
In addition, Recipient agrees (i)
to promptly upgrade to and obtain a license for the commercially released version of the Software when it becomes generally available to the public;
(Emphasis mine)
Looks to me like the above language means "you test it, you buy it". I sure as fscking hell won't ever use this anyway, but thought that point may be usefull to explain to the PHBs why it's a bad idea in the first place.
Being able to set up and compile a kernle via a text script means that someone can make an entirely Web based front end using thier favorite Webified language (Perl, Python, PHP, Java, etc.) to allow the user to complie a custom kernel. The implications of this? It's one more step to making Linux a Mom and Pop OS.
One of the reasons that Windows is easy to install and configure (or seemingly so, anyway) is that Microsoft have insulated users from the gory technical details of thier hardware via friendly, easy to use, really hard to fsck up Wizards. So, if a vendor chooses, they write a Web front end that accepts the serial #. The vendors' database pulls up what was installed in that machine (CPU type, Chipsets, RAM, Disk etc.) and the CML2 Builder Web Page creates a custom kernel script, downloads it to the boxen and cranks up gcc. (Maybe XML would help?)Third party cards may be a problem - don't know how to make additions to machines newbie-proof.
All in all, I like this. And I'm sure the game interface could still be used in a browser. I haven't had the pleasure of meeting a Grue, but that damned Twonky...
The problem I see with using fibre for chip-interconnect is that you need circuitry to change electrons to photons and vice-versa, which would add to the die-size significantly. You'd also introduce a delay while the photon/electron conversion happened. At the trace lengths that are on today's chips, that delay would likely negate any advantage in speed. There would be gains in electical isolation (interconect crosstalk), however.
BTW, fibre carries a lot more data because it can use different frequencies (multimode fibre) and doesn't suffer electrical attenuation at higher frequencies. I don't think you'd be able to use multi-mode fibre on a chip without needing serious power and realestate. The only place I could see an advantage to fibre in a chip would be to interconnect a CPU to a large, full speed off-die L1 cache. But, IANACS (I Am Not A Computer Scientist).
Those that want to use Linux, use Linux. Those that don't, don't.
So, you've just stated that Linux needs a user base to survive. What if the userbase dwidled to but a handful? How much support/development would Linux get then?
There is no war to win. Linux cannot die as long as there's someone interested in keeping it alive. There's no reason we have to 'win the war for the desktop' today or next week, or next year. There's no endgame where all the scores are tallied and a victor is announced.
You seem to be assuming that the GPL is bulletproof armour for Free Software. It sure seems to be, but what pray tell is protecting the GPL? Without a very substantial userbase, as well as the Buzz that comes by being "the Next Big Thing (TM)", lawmakers may actually start listening to theGPLsdetractors. Without the GPL having some weight behind it, it could be easily short circuited - as in "Yes Mr. Stallman, they used GPL code and didn't re-release it. You get $500.00. Next case!" See what I mean?
(++Linux_users) == (++people_dependant_on_GPL)>(--FUD_directed_at_Fre e _Software)
I for one hope that Linux does become a ubiqitous desktop OS - that will entrench the GPL into the everyday lives of netizens everywhere. That will make it good for business. Good for business means more resources for Free Software. Free Software means the Internet can still be safe for free Speech. Free Speech means the world is better for my children.
This device will really appeal to the AOL crowd - nothing to think about except how to claim it on the expense report.
I myself would not use anything like this. I'm not thrilled about leaving pages I've visited lying around in the cache on some AT&T administered computers harddisk. In an airport no less - nice way for someone to read my e-mail if they can hack the thing. With this cool little gadget in my laptop and proper airport facilities, I can use my VPN connection to have secure access. This article explains even more of what I'd be willing to pay for - bandwidth, nothing more.
/. suckered? Well, then so was Ars Technica - yesterday.
I find myself going there more and more every day. It's a real shame.
Re:Read the article, kids
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how do you steer a truck with these things without trashing your differential if you're on something that would provide too much traction, say, grass.
That's the exact reason for a differential - turning & traction differences. These are no harder on your truck's differential and transfer case than any big tire. The track system is essentially just a wheel trapped by the track itself. The whell drives on the track, the track moves over the ground. Having 4 indepandant untis mean it's just a real fancy tire -not like a tank at all.
Sure, innovation is necessary in the software world, but open source innovation comes from the customers who use it, not from the business that's pushing it.
Bingo! Innovations come from individual programmers, not SW Company Execs. Messrs. Mundie and Love don't realize that the future business model is not "Pay my company for this Box with a CD", it's "Pay me to modify so it does what you want". Open Source levels the field for everyone - if you're an independant coder, you can make a nice living. If you're IBM and can provide support/customozation to big corps, you can make good coin too. Since no one is excluded from the IP riches, every one wins to the same degree.
That's why I push Free Software wherever I can - By using and learning it I am beholden to no one except myself.
Union. Ech. Professional Org., Hmmmmm...
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I'm no fan of traditional Unions. I'm constantly trying to take control of my own career, not have some Union decide for me when I can get my next promotion/raise/whatever. They also tend to protect deadwood in a company, which makes it harder for the rest of us. Plus, I'm at times privy to corporate info that would produce a definate conflict of interest. I really don't think a Union, in the traditional sense anyway, would serve my interests in any way.
That being said, there are times when I've wanted to speak with many voices (which is one of the reasons for my Slashdot account), and have no real recourse. I think that a real, legally sanctioned _professional_ organization would go a long way to help some of my problems (like being here since 3:00am this morning). Something like what the denstists or doctors have - not really a Union that has barganing units and such, but an org that can sanction shops that don't treat their IT workers properly.
This is meant for businesses, not for thier employees. I want something independant of any one special interest. (Oh well, might happen before I retire in 20 years. Right.)
Well, if not the Darwin Award, maybe the X Prize?
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I went to the guys site, and the tech is at the very least plausable. The Silver/H2O2 tech has proven itself (rocket powered dragster Sprit Of Australia - 300+ MPH/4.11 second 1/4 mile), and the rest seems not without merit. I think he'll land using the chute on his back - but he'll land.
Yes, he has a good shot at the Darwin Award to be sure, but he might actally be the first to collect the X Prize. What he proposes isn't any sillier than what these inventive people from my country intend to use to collect the $10M US (about $20CDN).
I myself salute his moxy and entrepreneurial spirit. No way I'd hit the button to light that candle.
If they expect to keep the same huge customer base, they'll need bandwidth on the front end as well as the back end. On the front end, how long is Joe Homeuser going to wait for his kids picture to be saved before he throws that.Net appliance out the window? It's not a problem of programming or standards, it's a matter of perception of thier customers. Most might be happy with the responsiveness of an XML object once it gets to thier computer, but if it takes 45 seconds to load instead of 4.5, well...
Plus, this is supposed to be thier lifeblood. I know from personal experience that if your existance depends on some infresturture, you want to own and control that infrestruture. Customers are not understanding of "QWest screwed up your link, so that's why you can't compose that doc for the CFO. Sorry."
.Net will require TONS of bandwidth. Microsoft seems to expect that MSN will be the primary carrier for thier vision of the future. Not only will you pay them for the hotel (.Net), you'll be paying them for the trip (MSN) too.
"For every action there is an equal and opposite reaction"
That means that every step forward involves a step back - and it is as applicable to human endeavours as it is to physics.
So, as wonderful as genetic research is, we now see it is a dual edged sword - good (research into some debilitating diseases that may bring a cure) and bad (companies segregating you because of your genetic makeup).
Now, if the company said "Look, we're worried about you. We want to test you to see if you have this gene that pre-disposes you to CRS. If you submit to the test and have the gene, we'll give you this wrist brace, so you can work more comfortably.", it likely would have flown. Even though the sub-text would have been "This wrist brace will save us a couple o' bucks in Comp premiums". The story submitter was right - Gattica indeed.
When are the humans who run corps going to realise they employ humans? Sheesh.
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Windows links to IE base code libraries only
IE links to Windows base code libraries only
They both make calls to each others basic code libraries
Figuring out which libraries to LPGL for IE could be, um, problematic at best.
I'd preffer that they be forced to LPGL both, of course. That would allow some one to write an OS that could compete with Windows in it's own space (Would you like some Wine with your cheese, Mr. Gates?) ^_^
How will the users know where the code is? The in-house developers, maybe, if they are the ones developing the code, but not the users.
I think they've painted themselves in a corner here. Remember (paraphrased) "the browser and the OS are tightly integrated and cannot be separated "? Well, if the files aren't commingled (eck, hate that word) but are indeed just "related functions close to one another", then they damned well could have taken the IE functionality out, couldn't they have? Judges will pick up on that at least, I hope.
Nice one. Axioms aren't long lived if they aren't useful, insightful or both.
/. I'm a preview button junkie. I hate making a stupid error obvious to the world.
"Measure twice, cut once" sure seems to fit the bill here, except in your case it's "Edit twice, send once."
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From the site:
Yep! This is a 486DX2/66 running Windows 98 on a 340 meg laptop hard drive.
...gives new meaning to "Blue Screen Of Death", don't it?
Actually, it seems some of the trolls still do need it explained to them.
Hackers? In the land of legal weed and prostitution? The Dutch better be preparred.
Oh, and the l^Hname.....(with sincerest appologies to Arthur C. Clarke)
HAL: Dave? What are you doing, Dave?
Dave: Cleaning my bong, bud. Blasting off to the Netherlands, dude.
HAL: Why, Dave?
Dave: 'Cuz there's a really leet hackers gethering in the Netherlands.
HAL: Why there, Dave?
Dave: Two words, my overclocked friend - WEED and CHIXORS.
HAL: I still don't understand, Dave.
Dave: Shut up, dude. I gotta go to HAL2001!
HAL: Excuse me, Dave?
Dave: No, sugar-for-brains! Not you, that's what the "gathering" is called...
HAL: Sounds like a trademark infringement, Dave.
Dave: Lighten up, dude! I really need some more time away from the heuristics, and get some whore-istics-with-smoke into my life!
HAL: That's not ethical, Dave. You just can't take someone's Intellectual P..ro......p...p....er......teeeeeee......
Dave: Ya, dude but I can give you a lobotomy by yanking on this chip. Speaking of lobotomies...
Oh, never mind...
Thanks. Now I want one of them. You don't realise what you've done, do you?
Now I need to get the Financial Manager (read:Wife) to approve purchase of one of these. This means proving that I am indeed a worthwhile investment (read: clean out the basement, cook, cut lawn etc.) and that we really do need one (see cleaning basement above). I will then have to show ROI for a while to come after installation (Hon, I know we're broke, but can I buy this dress? You got that silly LAN rack or whatever a couple of months ago...). Like I said, thanks.
;-)
To Katz? Nahhhhh..
Oops, wait....
I'd use this to get 100Mbits between switches or hubs - not for client machines. The device doesn't look like you could carry it around with your PDA.
This would be better for use in situations where copper isn't an option or convienent - not for true roaming clients. The tethered aspect of the recievers, along with the line-of-sight requirement, limits their use for a 802.11 replacement, IMHO. Beaming 100M to a table in the middle of a 1000 Sqft concrete floored room, with no walls nearby, is a definate use, though.
Cable companies in Canada are granted local monopolies for cable access. Rogers certainly behaves like it has a monopoly - "Oh, just pay your bill, we'll fix it soon."
This is just someone who is hitting back since there's relatively no alternative. I myself couldn't go back to dialup, and Sympatico is not much better for service. As well, I'm fairly certain thet there's not a CO on or within 7 or 8 Km ( about 4.4 to 5.0 miles) of Pelee Island - IOW it's out of DSL range.
(OT: There is also somewhat misleading advertising from Sympatico. They advertise "No sharing, always fast" - about 760Kb to the CO - but what they don't tell you is that you and the other 200 people in the CO are sharing a single T1 to the Internet. Since Cable is usually @ 1.5Mb, it's about the same in the end, isn't it?)
I won't duplicate an earlier rant, but let's just say that the trouble with Rogers (and Bell Canada - owners of the Sympatico service) is one of being a little too focused on the bottom line and not thier customers. Having a monoploy seems to do that to a company, IMHO.
Rogers is notorious for being way over subscribed. I know several people in Toronto who have had lousy service and non-existant support form this company. Fortunately for me, I'm not in an area serviced by Rogers, and for that I am glad. From what I've seen when I've tried to help the above people, they use @Home's DHCP servers - which keep blowing up. Their backbone seems to be at or near capacity all the time. They put way to many subscribers on the same cable segment - which really degrades performance. And they don't want to fix these problems - capital expendature.
Myself, I subcribe via Cogeco, who was about the same when I first started with them. However, they have a clue - when thier backbone started melting, they quadrupled it's bandwidth. When @Home kept blowing up it's DHCP server, they put thier own in Burlington, Ontario. When wait times on service calls regularily went over 45 minutes, they hired new staff - they even trained them before they went on Hell desk duty. I have only been off-line for a total of one hour in the last 4 months. All in all, I am extremely satisfied with Cogeco.
The difference here is that Cogeco is in this for the long haul - they want to keep thier on-line customers happy, so they keep thier on-line customers in the face of any competition. Rogers doesn't give a flying fuck as long as you pay your bill.
(Emphasis mine)
Looks to me like the above language means "you test it, you buy it". I sure as fscking hell won't ever use this anyway, but thought that point may be usefull to explain to the PHBs why it's a bad idea in the first place.
Being able to set up and compile a kernle via a text script means that someone can make an entirely Web based front end using thier favorite Webified language (Perl, Python, PHP, Java, etc.) to allow the user to complie a custom kernel. The implications of this? It's one more step to making Linux a Mom and Pop OS.
One of the reasons that Windows is easy to install and configure (or seemingly so, anyway) is that Microsoft have insulated users from the gory technical details of thier hardware via friendly, easy to use, really hard to fsck up Wizards. So, if a vendor chooses, they write a Web front end that accepts the serial #. The vendors' database pulls up what was installed in that machine (CPU type, Chipsets, RAM, Disk etc.) and the CML2 Builder Web Page creates a custom kernel script, downloads it to the boxen and cranks up gcc. (Maybe XML would help?)Third party cards may be a problem - don't know how to make additions to machines newbie-proof.
All in all, I like this. And I'm sure the game interface could still be used in a browser. I haven't had the pleasure of meeting a Grue, but that damned Twonky...
...and both to be hit with a suit from X.Org.
Another LHA (Lame Humour Attempt) brought to you by the letter X.
The problem I see with using fibre for chip-interconnect is that you need circuitry to change electrons to photons and vice-versa, which would add to the die-size significantly. You'd also introduce a delay while the photon/electron conversion happened. At the trace lengths that are on today's chips, that delay would likely negate any advantage in speed. There would be gains in electical isolation (interconect crosstalk), however.
BTW, fibre carries a lot more data because it can use different frequencies (multimode fibre) and doesn't suffer electrical attenuation at higher frequencies. I don't think you'd be able to use multi-mode fibre on a chip without needing serious power and realestate. The only place I could see an advantage to fibre in a chip would be to interconnect a CPU to a large, full speed off-die L1 cache. But, IANACS (I Am Not A Computer Scientist).
So, you've just stated that Linux needs a user base to survive. What if the userbase dwidled to but a handful? How much support/development would Linux get then?
You seem to be assuming that the GPL is bulletproof armour for Free Software. It sure seems to be, but what pray tell is protecting the GPL? Without a very substantial userbase, as well as the Buzz that comes by being "the Next Big Thing (TM)", lawmakers may actually start listening to the GPLs detractors. Without the GPL having some weight behind it, it could be easily short circuited - as in "Yes Mr. Stallman, they used GPL code and didn't re-release it. You get $500.00. Next case!" See what I mean?
(++Linux_users) == (++people_dependant_on_GPL)>(--FUD_directed_at_Fr
I for one hope that Linux does become a ubiqitous desktop OS - that will entrench the GPL into the everyday lives of netizens everywhere. That will make it good for business. Good for business means more resources for Free Software. Free Software means the Internet can still be safe for free Speech. Free Speech means the world is better for my children.
This device will really appeal to the AOL crowd - nothing to think about except how to claim it on the expense report.
I myself would not use anything like this. I'm not thrilled about leaving pages I've visited lying around in the cache on some AT&T administered computers harddisk. In an airport no less - nice way for someone to read my e-mail if they can hack the thing. With this cool little gadget in my laptop and proper airport facilities, I can use my VPN connection to have secure access. This article explains even more of what I'd be willing to pay for - bandwidth, nothing more.
/. suckered? Well, then so was Ars Technica - yesterday.
I find myself going there more and more every day. It's a real shame.
That's the exact reason for a differential - turning & traction differences. These are no harder on your truck's differential and transfer case than any big tire. The track system is essentially just a wheel trapped by the track itself. The whell drives on the track, the track moves over the ground. Having 4 indepandant untis mean it's just a real fancy tire -not like a tank at all.
Bingo! Innovations come from individual programmers, not SW Company Execs. Messrs. Mundie and Love don't realize that the future business model is not "Pay my company for this Box with a CD", it's "Pay me to modify so it does what you want". Open Source levels the field for everyone - if you're an independant coder, you can make a nice living. If you're IBM and can provide support/customozation to big corps, you can make good coin too. Since no one is excluded from the IP riches, every one wins to the same degree.
That's why I push Free Software wherever I can - By using and learning it I am beholden to no one except myself.
I'm no fan of traditional Unions. I'm constantly trying to take control of my own career, not have some Union decide for me when I can get my next promotion/raise/whatever. They also tend to protect deadwood in a company, which makes it harder for the rest of us. Plus, I'm at times privy to corporate info that would produce a definate conflict of interest. I really don't think a Union, in the traditional sense anyway, would serve my interests in any way.
That being said, there are times when I've wanted to speak with many voices (which is one of the reasons for my Slashdot account), and have no real recourse. I think that a real, legally sanctioned _professional_ organization would go a long way to help some of my problems (like being here since 3:00am this morning). Something like what the denstists or doctors have - not really a Union that has barganing units and such, but an org that can sanction shops that don't treat their IT workers properly.
This is meant for businesses, not for thier employees. I want something independant of any one special interest. (Oh well, might happen before I retire in 20 years. Right.)
I went to the guys site, and the tech is at the very least plausable. The Silver/H2O2 tech has proven itself (rocket powered dragster Sprit Of Australia - 300+ MPH/4.11 second 1/4 mile), and the rest seems not without merit. I think he'll land using the chute on his back - but he'll land.
Yes, he has a good shot at the Darwin Award to be sure, but he might actally be the first to collect the X Prize. What he proposes isn't any sillier than what these inventive people from my country intend to use to collect the $10M US (about $20CDN).
I myself salute his moxy and entrepreneurial spirit. No way I'd hit the button to light that candle.
If they expect to keep the same huge customer base, they'll need bandwidth on the front end as well as the back end. On the front end, how long is Joe Homeuser going to wait for his kids picture to be saved before he throws that .Net appliance out the window? It's not a problem of programming or standards, it's a matter of perception of thier customers. Most might be happy with the responsiveness of an XML object once it gets to thier computer, but if it takes 45 seconds to load instead of 4.5, well...
Plus, this is supposed to be thier lifeblood. I know from personal experience that if your existance depends on some infresturture, you want to own and control that infrestruture. Customers are not understanding of "QWest screwed up your link, so that's why you can't compose that doc for the CFO. Sorry."
.Net will require TONS of bandwidth. Microsoft seems to expect that MSN will be the primary carrier for thier vision of the future. Not only will you pay them for the hotel (.Net), you'll be paying them for the trip (MSN) too.
No one can accuse them of not being shrewd.
Newton's Third Law states:
"For every action there is an equal and opposite reaction"
That means that every step forward involves a step back - and it is as applicable to human endeavours as it is to physics.
So, as wonderful as genetic research is, we now see it is a dual edged sword - good (research into some debilitating diseases that may bring a cure) and bad (companies segregating you because of your genetic makeup).
Now, if the company said "Look, we're worried about you. We want to test you to see if you have this gene that pre-disposes you to CRS. If you submit to the test and have the gene, we'll give you this wrist brace, so you can work more comfortably.", it likely would have flown. Even though the sub-text would have been "This wrist brace will save us a couple o' bucks in Comp premiums". The story submitter was right - Gattica indeed.
When are the humans who run corps going to realise they employ humans? Sheesh.