This group is a radical right wing orginization founded by Rogan who was a key figure in impeaching Bill Clinton. They are willing to pay up to $100 for recordings of professors who teach unpatriotic liberalism to children and are trying to somehow prove a vast liberal conspiracy is indoctrining our youth.
Only America has such wacko's who actually believe it.
I wrote some information about it in Livejournal mentioned here complete with a CNN article link. Yes, my comment was as biased as well as the posting on slashdot since it is a democratic community. But I wanted to say "radical" as incorrect. Most professors are liberal minded and the group is far to the right so anything to them is percieved as liberal. To me the group in UCLA are the radical ones but I am on the left and think its crazy.
But with the new bankruptacy laws they most certainly can.
What they typically do is charge you up to %30 if you miss a single payment and then they call the other credit card companies and they too jack up their interest rates to %30.
Then you can't pay them back and go further in debt. Since its very difficult now to declare chapter11 bankruptacy you are stuck declaring chapter13 where the credit card companies can take your house, car, savings account, wage garnishes, etc. Scary
I had a former coworker who got into a nasty fraud lawsuit from a car dealership a decade ago. Basically the judge yelled at the lawyers representing the car dealership and they stormed out of the building and were never seen again. 10 years later he buys a new truck from somewhere else.
Within days my boss gets a call requesting a wage garnishment and interest from teh 10 year old lawsuit claiming payments for the car he returned and tens of thousands in damages. I guess the car places have an agreement and a trigger from some data mining company on that showed up. Luckily this happened before new the bankruptacy laws came into effect.
Otherwise his wages would have been garnished and his house taken away. Of course the judge would have to side with the car dealership but still its scary that they have the power to request it.
Actually its the goal of the credit industry to confuse you.
That way they can charge more interest and suck more money off you. Its part of their business model and does not surprise me since APR = annual percentage rate in college economics.
I guess it shows to read the credit card statements carefully and suspiciously.
The terms are made as difficult as possible on purpose and many lawyers dont even understand them according to a documentary I saw on PBS a few weeks.
They basically reserve the right to change the terms whenever they feel like it and if you dont like it then tough. Its crazy and I consider these companies loan sharks. They have a ton of lobbying power to rewrite both local and federal laws to get away with it and i consider them no different than the mobfia or many drug dealers.
They specifically target lower income residents and students that have a financial need for them so they can bleed as much money off them as possible.
My grandfather who passed away could not get any credit card. He was a "Deadbeat" meaning someone who had excellent credit and paid back every bill. People who miss payments are called "revolvers". Tell me if you think something is wrong with that?
I was watching a special documentary about the credit card industry on television a few weeks ago and not even Harvard based lawyers understand the terms. They are made to be as difficult as possible with years of MBA's rewriting the terms to optimize as much profit as possible where users dont know what they are getting into to suppliment the industries business model.
Using that as an example of failed literacy is not that accurate. If we were talking basic understanding of college circulumn as proof then I would be more interested in the validity.
Slashdot used to run on an alpha server back in the day. Alpha's were not that niche and I remember big businesses on wall street (I lived in New York) loved alpha based NT 4 domain controllers. They are the only thing that could handle tens of thousands of user accounts without slowing down.
Alpha's were used for some servers and alot of workstations. They really began to become popular somewhat but digital was dieing at the same time. Also Microsoft products were tuned for x86. SQL Server was a disappointment on the alpha as many large businesses standardizing on Microsoft wanted unix/VMS based scalability and hoping SQL server on an alpha would be scalable enough.
But the alpha died when Carly Fiona wanted to kill it and promised not to update anymore. It has not been updated since 1999 even though the 8th generation alpha was already in beta testing. What a shame and they were economical.
PA-Risc were expensive and specialized and more like IBM's power chip for large systems. Correct me if I am wrong since I never used them before? I heard great things with Pa-riscs in domes and HP decided to put Itaniums and Xeons instead in teh domes and converted them to windows. Very not good for mission critical things like nuclear powerplants. Windows and Xeon's are not in the same league.
Alpha was teh fastest chip for sure and not that much more expensive than a standard pentium. They made great linux boxes and used standard pci busses for peripherals.
I dont run the latest versions of these software packages because its a home pc just used to learn programming. But its a relief IIS is no longer run in ring0.
The method how Mindcraft and Microsoft were able to create the fud benchmarks agaisnt Linux/apache was that IIS 3.0/4.0 ran in the kernel for faster speed. Linus even commented on this saying maybe we should make an os for silly benchmarks. Tux I know is kernel level accelerator created to counter the mindcraft fud but I would not use it in a mission critical environment where it could take down the whole machine.
But the grandfather's point with everything running in the kernel is a big problem with windows that cost microsoft some big security holes and expensive upgrades/rewrites had to be done with w2k and w2k3 to make it more stable.
In the past MS did run everything in the kernel. To this day SQL server's indexing engine is kernel based, IIS, and many video code in the media player is as well. Go check the event viewer if you dont believe me? SQL 6.5 shows alot of kernel messages.
I do admit they are doing this less now since NT has taken over but the sole reason for instability and early versions of windows was that everything ran in the kernel and one app could violate memory on another app and cause a GP fault. WIndows 3.1 was atrocious.
To this day there is the white and black grocery stores. Not by law but if you entered the black grocery store (I am white) many blacks would be upset and offended since we have our own grocery store.
In the black grocery store there is big brains in milk gravy, sauge meat of a low grade all dyed red, and other low end items. At the white grocery store there is regular groceries.
Or you have a 2 page 48 point checklist that has nothing to do with your call but you could be written up if you didnt do it.
Example?
Customer: How I have a simple question connecting to X? Tech:Can you connect sir? Customer: Wtf I just said no? Tech:Have you tried connecting your phone? Customer: I said I had A FUCKING QUESTION! What is wrong with you not I want to hook up! Are you retarded...
The clueless tech here was me. Not because I was incompentant but because of dumb regulations and papersheets followed to the exact degree or I would be written up. Obviously hindering my job performance. Why Can't I just answer it and shorten my call time?
After he called me retarded I hung up and asked the boss to let me go or fire me if he wouldnt let me resign. I hung up anyway and that is a fireable offense and I had it and decided to let the Indian whom I replaced go do it.
There are alot of imcompetent techs out there from India and many have dumb checklists and rules to follow due to that, so any idiot off the street can do the phones. I even had to ask a customer asking to buy toner the connection question. Incredible.
Many phone jockeys can't just give simple answers even if they know it and have to use slow computer programs to lookup answers instead. Most of the time the computers dont display the correct results. I got written up for helping a customer with something because the computer didn't have the correct information and I did my own thing.
business users typically run ancient software from companies or consulting comapanies that no longer exist in binary form only. COmpatibility is more important for Intel than a company like Apple.
People who buy pc's do so because its what everyone else buys.
Its a mess and I am glad I am not Intel. I bet HP has a contract forcing Intel to keep making the Itanium too. They killed the alpha for Itanium and its just astounding after what a few billion in sunkin costs can do to make sure you wont leave for something better.
I think Alpha had a much better chance of taking over. W2k beta3 was out at the same time of the x86 version and Linux and BSD already were ported. HP could keep VMS and their other oses without porting them to another platform. The alpha had great FX32 software and I think some basic hardare assisted x86 emulation but I could be wrong? I remember reading back in 97 that the emulation was as fast as a pentium 166 on the 250mhz alpha. Pretty impressive.
Some mass production to lower costs and more software resulting from Intel and HP being behind it could have brought the windows based software to the platform as well. Just like Apple by now I bet we all would be using alpha based systems. Intel would of had a strong edge over AMD as well as teh AlthonXP would be struggling to compete.
THe Itanium has an impressive FPU set to make it fast in certain situations like scientific apps but other than that its been subpar and expensive compared to cheaper Xeon's and other risc processors like IBM's Power.
The Mercedes was supposed to be the new Xeon for servers and workstations and NT with its portable HAL was supposed to eventually migrate to the chip and would overtake the desktop market after teh apps appeared. It was all teh rage at Zdnet computer magazines and was termed the next big thing by Intel.
Mercedes (Itanium) was Intel's kneejerk reaction the Powerpc which was a threat in the early to mid 1990's.
Mercedes was supposed to be here by 1997 and it still hasn't delivered its promise as the next platform out of x86. I get modded down every time I talk about the Itanium but the engineering specs and things that just went wrong are stunning. The first version never came out because it was too slow which delayed it for another 2 years for its next version. The next one(first publically released) had to be overclocked and require a 1 pound heatsink with a fan that sounded like a jet engine just to be nominal. Intel loaded it with huge cache to make it go faster in certain benchmarks which brought up the price and size of the chip. HP killed teh alpha next to make it look like the Itanium wasn't as slow in comparison.
Carly Fiona did alot of strange things in terms of arm struggling Intel and forcing the cancellation of the Alpha in favor of the ITanium because she lacked the concept of "sunkin costs" or bad investments. Itanium does not make HP or Intel really any money. I am not talking about its technolical abilities but from a business standpoint.
Switching to an alpha would have been better and cheaper with stronger performance. Windows2k was out in beta3 on it at the same time as x86 and Linux and BSD support was already strong. Not to mention HP already had VMS ported to it.
The premise behind VLIW was that as chip says limits things you can do with hardware there needs to be a shift to software and leave the fast ram (cache) on the chip. Turns out huge improvements in fabrication made this argument false and somethings like branch predictions just can't be done in software. Fast dedicated hardware is faster than software. Who came up with this idea of moving optimization to software?
If I were Intel I would can Itanium and start over. Transmeta had something interesting and the new PentiumM's are rumored to be designed by a small Isreali firm bought by Intel with similiar technology. I think that is the next big thing.
I feel sorry for the cheaters but I do not want to hire folks who cheat at school in my workplace when they graduate. More than likely they would do it at work and hurt morale and company performance.
UC at Berkely now does the same background checks an employer does when screening applications to find inconsistancies in their admission applications. They give rejection letters if anything is fabricated so I am suprissed they do that.
Good thing I do not work in addmissions at your school. I would not accept you even if you had a perfect 4.0 GPA. Strict, I know but I have to defend the schools reputation and give those who did not cheat a fair chance at suceeding since they worked their asses off to get in.
If I were working at accepting students in the admissions department I would reject anyone who cheated right away. I wouldn't care if I worked in a shitty school that took C level students and the candidate had a 4.0 GPA. I would take the student with a 2.75GPA over him/her and let the other universities worry about their reputation.
Yes, it is serious and it would ruin your life. It scared me to death in highschool, though I recieved poor grades and was immature at the time. I made sure I never cheated as a result. Even my community college that i go to now to boast my GPA so I can go to a university would refuse me outright if I ever had that in my record.
In this day and age its needed more than ever. If I were an employer I would want a good ROI from students at univeristy X and if they cheat and are subpar I would no longer accept their students for entry level work.
That would hurt everyone who attended the univeristy. At least profesionally I take that seriously.
After all its not like there are hundreds of kernel and userland developers developing free software for Wasabi's NetBSD OS.
And its a really good thing no gnu tools like GCC and autoconf are included with NetBSD by default that are actually Gnu.
So I.T. folks? Stay away from free software and use Wasabi... oh wait a minute? Hmm
{yes this post was made in sarcasm to the people who funded the study}
I feel their own fud probably backfired? Just because NetBSD is free doesn't mean some IP from companies such as Wasabi or google have not made it into the kernel. So yes you could still be screwed for unreporting this to your SOX auditor.
I was just thinking of Wasabi systems when I read the article as it gives them more fud power.
Wasibi systems makes NetBSD for embedded systems and they also do consulting contracts with embedded system suppliers. I believe Wasabi is a huge contributor to the NetBSD project as well and they pay many kernel hackers to develop and maintain it. They even had their own NetBSD distribution for awhile available for pc's. They wrote the wonderful sushi tool that fetches NetBSD packages that is included with NETBSD by default. Its a cool company actually and they make great software for those who dont want to shell out dough for VXWorks or QNX.
Of course they are anti-GPL and Pro BSD. Embedded Linux is a threat to their product and the linksys project created a huge headache as NetBSD was alot smaller originally for embedded systems before embedded linux from Linksys came out.
I dont think they are anti GPL in every situation but for embedded system makers its a big deal to not give out hardware details of your product. Appliances are different from general computers and open access is not as needed. Wasabi is using this to try to sell their consulting services and NetBSD software to makers who are afraid binary drivers linked agaisnt the GPL might cause IP issues.
Most companies who have not used linux in embedded systems havent done so because they are afraid due to legal reasons or their hardware is not powerfull enough to run any OS. Many use QNX or VXWorks as well and dont want to switch. So Wasibi is trying to cater to these companies.
They hate MS too since Windows Embedded competes with their products and they have no connection.
My highschool was worse. They would put it in your academic record that you cheated. Forgot college folks! No respectable university would accept you with that on your file.
Well if his coworkers claimed he did not work these hours yet billed the government then that would be fraud and I think that is what the article is going after.
A corporations objective is to increase shareholder value at any cost. Or if they are private to make some money.
Its true that would help efficiency since businesses want to invest wisely to stop high expenses unlike a government agency.
But the problem is that a company has to grow and its motivations are not the same as a government agency that wants to help people. There is a strong motivation for Haliburtun to waste billions of your tax dollars with unaccountable records that the whitehouse mysteriously lost. hmmm how did that happen?
There is a motivation for Boeing to lie about the strenght of our military and lobby our elected officials to buy more planes we dont need, etc.
The DMV in new jersey became privatized and it was a disaster. The company just closed offices and laid off people, charge the tax payers the same amount, and provided an inferior service. Its more profitable?
The problem is regulation is too strict so like what someone else pointed out its easier to pay for an outrageous repair cost for a projector then to purchase another one.
Unfortunately Vista just wraps all opengl calls around directx and I believe SGI sold their patents and OPengl technology to Microsoft.
I assume its dead as Microsoft wants to create more proprietary vendor lockin. I am pissed that opengl performance is crippled on Vista.... that and the fact I blew money upgraing my AthlonXP to a +2400 and Microsoft canceled the 32bit version of Vista.
Just to be evil I thought of writing something really cool and put spyware in their that puts windows to teh goatse guy and then puts out big letters saying "Spyware!".
I dont know why people put up with this crap? but negatively publicity would surely help not to mention I could piss people off.
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Right what is worse is people are actually going to college to think. Thou shalt not think... its danderous.
Before you know it people will believe the world is more than 5,000 years old and dinosaurs actually exist!
We have to stop this before teh world converts to homosexuality and we all become punished by god by our liberal ways of thinking.
Only America has such wacko's who actually believe it.
I wrote some information about it in Livejournal mentioned here complete with a CNN article link. Yes, my comment was as biased as well as the posting on slashdot since it is a democratic community. But I wanted to say "radical" as incorrect. Most professors are liberal minded and the group is far to the right so anything to them is percieved as liberal. To me the group in UCLA are the radical ones but I am on the left and think its crazy.
But with the new bankruptacy laws they most certainly can.
What they typically do is charge you up to %30 if you miss a single payment and then they call the other credit card companies and they too jack up their interest rates to %30.
Then you can't pay them back and go further in debt. Since its very difficult now to declare chapter11 bankruptacy you are stuck declaring chapter13 where the credit card companies can take your house, car, savings account, wage garnishes, etc. Scary
I had a former coworker who got into a nasty fraud lawsuit from a car dealership a decade ago. Basically the judge yelled at the lawyers representing the car dealership and they stormed out of the building and were never seen again. 10 years later he buys a new truck from somewhere else.
Within days my boss gets a call requesting a wage garnishment and interest from teh 10 year old lawsuit claiming payments for the car he returned and tens of thousands in damages. I guess the car places have an agreement and a trigger from some data mining company on that showed up. Luckily this happened before new the bankruptacy laws came into effect.
Otherwise his wages would have been garnished and his house taken away. Of course the judge would have to side with the car dealership but still its scary that they have the power to request it.
Actually its the goal of the credit industry to confuse you.
That way they can charge more interest and suck more money off you. Its part of their business model and does not surprise me since APR = annual percentage rate in college economics.
I guess it shows to read the credit card statements carefully and suspiciously.
But still its more complex.
The terms are made as difficult as possible on purpose and many lawyers dont even understand them according to a documentary I saw on PBS a few weeks.
They basically reserve the right to change the terms whenever they feel like it and if you dont like it then tough. Its crazy and I consider these companies loan sharks. They have a ton of lobbying power to rewrite both local and federal laws to get away with it and i consider them no different than the mobfia or many drug dealers.
They specifically target lower income residents and students that have a financial need for them so they can bleed as much money off them as possible.
My grandfather who passed away could not get any credit card. He was a "Deadbeat" meaning someone who had excellent credit and paid back every bill. People who miss payments are called "revolvers". Tell me if you think something is wrong with that?
Does anyone here understand a credit card offer?
I was watching a special documentary about the credit card industry on television a few weeks ago and not even Harvard based lawyers understand the terms. They are made to be as difficult as possible with years of MBA's rewriting the terms to optimize as much profit as possible where users dont know what they are getting into to suppliment the industries business model.
Using that as an example of failed literacy is not that accurate. If we were talking basic understanding of college circulumn as proof then I would be more interested in the validity.
Slashdot used to run on an alpha server back in the day. Alpha's were not that niche and I remember big businesses on wall street (I lived in New York) loved alpha based NT 4 domain controllers. They are the only thing that could handle tens of thousands of user accounts without slowing down.
Alpha's were used for some servers and alot of workstations. They really began to become popular somewhat but digital was dieing at the same time. Also Microsoft products were tuned for x86. SQL Server was a disappointment on the alpha as many large businesses standardizing on Microsoft wanted unix/VMS based scalability and hoping SQL server on an alpha would be scalable enough.
But the alpha died when Carly Fiona wanted to kill it and promised not to update anymore. It has not been updated since 1999 even though the 8th generation alpha was already in beta testing. What a shame and they were economical.
PA-Risc were expensive and specialized and more like IBM's power chip for large systems. Correct me if I am wrong since I never used them before? I heard great things with Pa-riscs in domes and HP decided to put Itaniums and Xeons instead in teh domes and converted them to windows. Very not good for mission critical things like nuclear powerplants. Windows and Xeon's are not in the same league.
Alpha was teh fastest chip for sure and not that much more expensive than a standard pentium. They made great linux boxes and used standard pci busses for peripherals.
I dont run the latest versions of these software packages because its a home pc just used to learn programming. But its a relief IIS is no longer run in ring0.
The method how Mindcraft and Microsoft were able to create the fud benchmarks agaisnt Linux/apache was that IIS 3.0/4.0 ran in the kernel for faster speed. Linus even commented on this saying maybe we should make an os for silly benchmarks. Tux I know is kernel level accelerator created to counter the mindcraft fud but I would not use it in a mission critical environment where it could take down the whole machine.
But the grandfather's point with everything running in the kernel is a big problem with windows that cost microsoft some big security holes and expensive upgrades/rewrites had to be done with w2k and w2k3 to make it more stable.
In the past MS did run everything in the kernel. To this day SQL server's indexing engine is kernel based, IIS, and many video code in the media player is as well. Go check the event viewer if you dont believe me? SQL 6.5 shows alot of kernel messages.
I do admit they are doing this less now since NT has taken over but the sole reason for instability and early versions of windows was that everything ran in the kernel and one app could violate memory on another app and cause a GP fault. WIndows 3.1 was atrocious.
My brother lives in Memphis.
To this day there is the white and black grocery stores. Not by law but if you entered the black grocery store (I am white) many blacks would be upset and offended since we have our own grocery store.
In the black grocery store there is big brains in milk gravy, sauge meat of a low grade all dyed red, and other low end items. At the white grocery store there is regular groceries.
If that is not racism I dont know what is.
Or you have a 2 page 48 point checklist that has nothing to do with your call but you could be written up if you didnt do it.
...
Example?
Customer: How I have a simple question connecting to X?
Tech:Can you connect sir?
Customer: Wtf I just said no?
Tech:Have you tried connecting your phone?
Customer: I said I had A FUCKING QUESTION! What is wrong with you not I want to hook up! Are you retarded
The clueless tech here was me. Not because I was incompentant but because of dumb regulations and papersheets followed to the exact degree or I would be written up. Obviously hindering my job performance. Why Can't I just answer it and shorten my call time?
After he called me retarded I hung up and asked the boss to let me go or fire me if he wouldnt let me resign. I hung up anyway and that is a fireable offense and I had it and decided to let the Indian whom I replaced go do it.
There are alot of imcompetent techs out there from India and many have dumb checklists and rules to follow due to that, so any idiot off the street can do the phones. I even had to ask a customer asking to buy toner the connection question. Incredible.
Many phone jockeys can't just give simple answers even if they know it and have to use slow computer programs to lookup answers instead. Most of the time the computers dont display the correct results. I got written up for helping a customer with something because the computer didn't have the correct information and I did my own thing.
Definitely kids in porn is nothing new.
For the Americans yes it is a real children.
business users typically run ancient software from companies or consulting comapanies that no longer exist in binary form only. COmpatibility is more important for Intel than a company like Apple.
People who buy pc's do so because its what everyone else buys.
Its a mess and I am glad I am not Intel. I bet HP has a contract forcing Intel to keep making the Itanium too. They killed the alpha for Itanium and its just astounding after what a few billion in sunkin costs can do to make sure you wont leave for something better.
I think Alpha had a much better chance of taking over. W2k beta3 was out at the same time of the x86 version and Linux and BSD already were ported. HP could keep VMS and their other oses without porting them to another platform. The alpha had great FX32 software and I think some basic hardare assisted x86 emulation but I could be wrong? I remember reading back in 97 that the emulation was as fast as a pentium 166 on the 250mhz alpha. Pretty impressive.
Some mass production to lower costs and more software resulting from Intel and HP being behind it could have brought the windows based software to the platform as well. Just like Apple by now I bet we all would be using alpha based systems. Intel would of had a strong edge over AMD as well as teh AlthonXP would be struggling to compete.
Newer doesnt make it better.
Actually it was.
THe Itanium has an impressive FPU set to make it fast in certain situations like scientific apps but other than that its been subpar and expensive compared to cheaper Xeon's and other risc processors like IBM's Power.
The Mercedes was supposed to be the new Xeon for servers and workstations and NT with its portable HAL was supposed to eventually migrate to the chip and would overtake the desktop market after teh apps appeared. It was all teh rage at Zdnet computer magazines and was termed the next big thing by Intel.
Mercedes (Itanium) was Intel's kneejerk reaction the Powerpc which was a threat in the early to mid 1990's.
Mercedes was supposed to be here by 1997 and it still hasn't delivered its promise as the next platform out of x86. I get modded down every time I talk about the Itanium but the engineering specs and things that just went wrong are stunning. The first version never came out because it was too slow which delayed it for another 2 years for its next version. The next one(first publically released) had to be overclocked and require a 1 pound heatsink with a fan that sounded like a jet engine just to be nominal. Intel loaded it with huge cache to make it go faster in certain benchmarks which brought up the price and size of the chip. HP killed teh alpha next to make it look like the Itanium wasn't as slow in comparison.
Carly Fiona did alot of strange things in terms of arm struggling Intel and forcing the cancellation of the Alpha in favor of the ITanium because she lacked the concept of "sunkin costs" or bad investments. Itanium does not make HP or Intel really any money. I am not talking about its technolical abilities but from a business standpoint.
Switching to an alpha would have been better and cheaper with stronger performance. Windows2k was out in beta3 on it at the same time as x86 and Linux and BSD support was already strong. Not to mention HP already had VMS ported to it.
The premise behind VLIW was that as chip says limits things you can do with hardware there needs to be a shift to software and leave the fast ram (cache) on the chip. Turns out huge improvements in fabrication made this argument false and somethings like branch predictions just can't be done in software. Fast dedicated hardware is faster than software. Who came up with this idea of moving optimization to software?
If I were Intel I would can Itanium and start over. Transmeta had something interesting and the new PentiumM's are rumored to be designed by a small Isreali firm bought by Intel with similiar technology. I think that is the next big thing.
Of course a newer Alpha would rock. Sigh
I have alot less respect for the UC as a result.
I feel sorry for the cheaters but I do not want to hire folks who cheat at school in my workplace when they graduate. More than likely they would do it at work and hurt morale and company performance.
UC at Berkely now does the same background checks an employer does when screening applications to find inconsistancies in their admission applications. They give rejection letters if anything is fabricated so I am suprissed they do that.
Good thing I do not work in addmissions at your school. I would not accept you even if you had a perfect 4.0 GPA. Strict, I know but I have to defend the schools reputation and give those who did not cheat a fair chance at suceeding since they worked their asses off to get in.
If I were working at accepting students in the admissions department I would reject anyone who cheated right away. I wouldn't care if I worked in a shitty school that took C level students and the candidate had a 4.0 GPA. I would take the student with a 2.75GPA over him/her and let the other universities worry about their reputation.
Yes, it is serious and it would ruin your life. It scared me to death in highschool, though I recieved poor grades and was immature at the time. I made sure I never cheated as a result. Even my community college that i go to now to boast my GPA so I can go to a university would refuse me outright if I ever had that in my record.
In this day and age its needed more than ever. If I were an employer I would want a good ROI from students at univeristy X and if they cheat and are subpar I would no longer accept their students for entry level work.
That would hurt everyone who attended the univeristy. At least profesionally I take that seriously.
After all its not like there are hundreds of kernel and userland developers developing free software for Wasabi's NetBSD OS.
... oh wait a minute? Hmm
And its a really good thing no gnu tools like GCC and autoconf are included with NetBSD by default that are actually Gnu.
So I.T. folks? Stay away from free software and use Wasabi
{yes this post was made in sarcasm to the people who funded the study}
I feel their own fud probably backfired? Just because NetBSD is free doesn't mean some IP from companies such as Wasabi or google have not made it into the kernel. So yes you could still be screwed for unreporting this to your SOX auditor.
I was just thinking of Wasabi systems when I read the article as it gives them more fud power.
Wasibi systems makes NetBSD for embedded systems and they also do consulting contracts with embedded system suppliers. I believe Wasabi is a huge contributor to the NetBSD project as well and they pay many kernel hackers to develop and maintain it. They even had their own NetBSD distribution for awhile available for pc's. They wrote the wonderful sushi tool that fetches NetBSD packages that is included with NETBSD by default. Its a cool company actually and they make great software for those who dont want to shell out dough for VXWorks or QNX.
Of course they are anti-GPL and Pro BSD. Embedded Linux is a threat to their product and the linksys project created a huge headache as NetBSD was alot smaller originally for embedded systems before embedded linux from Linksys came out.
I dont think they are anti GPL in every situation but for embedded system makers its a big deal to not give out hardware details of your product. Appliances are different from general computers and open access is not as needed. Wasabi is using this to try to sell their consulting services and NetBSD software to makers who are afraid binary drivers linked agaisnt the GPL might cause IP issues.
Most companies who have not used linux in embedded systems havent done so because they are afraid due to legal reasons or their hardware is not powerfull enough to run any OS. Many use QNX or VXWorks as well and dont want to switch. So Wasibi is trying to cater to these companies.
They hate MS too since Windows Embedded competes with their products and they have no connection.
My highschool was worse. They would put it in your academic record that you cheated. Forgot college folks! No respectable university would accept you with that on your file.
Well if his coworkers claimed he did not work these hours yet billed the government then that would be fraud and I think that is what the article is going after.
Privatization is not the answer.
A corporations objective is to increase shareholder value at any cost. Or if they are private to make some money.
Its true that would help efficiency since businesses want to invest wisely to stop high expenses unlike a government agency.
But the problem is that a company has to grow and its motivations are not the same as a government agency that wants to help people. There is a strong motivation for Haliburtun to waste billions of your tax dollars with unaccountable records that the whitehouse mysteriously lost. hmmm how did that happen?
There is a motivation for Boeing to lie about the strenght of our military and lobby our elected officials to buy more planes we dont need, etc.
The DMV in new jersey became privatized and it was a disaster. The company just closed offices and laid off people, charge the tax payers the same amount, and provided an inferior service. Its more profitable?
The problem is regulation is too strict so like what someone else pointed out its easier to pay for an outrageous repair cost for a projector then to purchase another one.
Unfortunately Vista just wraps all opengl calls around directx and I believe SGI sold their patents and OPengl technology to Microsoft.
... that and the fact I blew money upgraing my AthlonXP to a +2400 and Microsoft canceled the 32bit version of Vista.
I assume its dead as Microsoft wants to create more proprietary vendor lockin. I am pissed that opengl performance is crippled on Vista.
Aren't the drivers for FreeBSD over a year old?
I assumed it was an abandoned platform but I could be wrong. This and the lack of java is why I left FBSD behind. It pisses me off.
Just to be evil I thought of writing something really cool and put spyware in their that puts windows to teh goatse guy and then puts out big letters saying "Spyware!".
I dont know why people put up with this crap? but negatively publicity would surely help not to mention I could piss people off.