But, in all seriousness, there's a few things to remember here. 1. The v4 address space will be exhausted in the foreseeable future. 2. Reclaiming large blocks only delays that inevitability by a few months. 3. With a few exceptions, modern, supported OSes (Windows [2003, 2008, Vista, 7], GNU/Linux, all of the BSDs, OS X) support IPv6 perfectly. 4. Most of the critical applications support IPv6 perfectly. 5. The big holdup on the consumer side has been with the ISPs. The DOCSIS 3.0 roll-out is ongoing in many places. 6. The US government has mandated it. The compliance date was in 2008 for all of the Federal agencies on their backbones. It's just a matter now of getting ISP access to those sites, and configuring lower-level systems.
The luddite attitude here about this is amazing. If you're really all that concerned about it, and don't want to focus too much on the nuts-and-bolts, here's some advice: Learn BIND. Setting up your resolvers properly will spare you headaches.
I use IPv6 every day. I get lots of e-mail over IPv6 (netbsd and freebsd mailing lists, to name just a couple). I enjoy being able to ssh to all of my machines at home directly. It's here. Evaluate your crap, and see what's not going to work. Plan to replace that stuff. Most of it probably will need replacing by the time you get assigned a/64 or/48 by your ISP, anyway. This isn't rocket science./rant
Yes, there's a reason....about the only customization I do to FF is getting rid of the awful default theme. I don't run any really unusual plugins/extensions (java/flash/acrobat are about it).
I'm not sure I know anyone who uses IE who even knows that Chrome exists.
I use IE sometimes; there's stuff I try to use that doesn't work in FF or Chrome, especially at work, where government sites still don't work well with either (CAC-enabled DoD sites, especially).
I'd be willing to bet its almost entirely loss of Firefox users (like myself), as Firefox has become a bloated, buggy, slow pile of crap that would make IE6 proud.
I've switched to Chrome most of the time on my Windows box at work, and another here at home. Am currently using FF on this box, because I don't use it all that much. On my macs, I use Safari.
But the bigger sisue is that WebKit/KHTML is now a better core than Gecko, and will probably surpass Gecko-based browsers at some point in the not-too-distant future. This is especially true when you consider that a large portion of the mobile browser market is now WebKit-based (Safari on iPhone, Chrome on Android), and the Gecko/FF port to Win32 was damn near unusable when I used it last (this past summer, before I bought my iPhone).
First they split Windows down to the Service Pack level,
Ignoring, too, that 2K8 is basically Vista, which they panned. I've been running Vista for nearly three years now on a personal desktop. Two blue screens. One was due to RAM that went bad, the other was due to a buggy VMware driver.
but go on to say "all of OS X and all of Linux" are in the best? Really? OS X 10.0 was a dismal, WinME failure, for one.
Yeah, 10.0 was lousy. 10.1 was at least usable most of the time. Until Finder crashed. And you had to ssh back in and reboot it, because you couldn't re-launch Finder. Oh, and the browser selection was wonderful with fully-Carbon IE, Netscape 4 running in Classic, or a very buggy non-native Mozilla port. Furthermore, OS X doesn't run a BSD kernel; it's Mach with a BSD subsystem running in kernel-space. Many of the nifty things available in OS X are due to Mach, not BSD.
And then to throw in Android, which is also Linux?
But, but, but, it doesn't run X!!!1! I guess all the other purpose-built linux devices would fall into that category? My TomTom? My STB when I had IPTV service?
You're a jerk, Dent. FWIW, there is a difference between a reputable organization publishing these, where the address, employees, and funders are all known, and some anonymous group. If you want media shield protections, announce yourself, and retain counsel to ensure it.
Mod parent up. This is political payback to the civil lawyer lobby who heavily fund Democrats. When they talk about "green jobs," they're obviously talking about cases for the trial lawyers to litigate.
You can also bet that "green" products won't have a statutory limit on liability claims from injured people anytime soon. Even if one of these products turns out to have health effects worse than asbestos.....
And apostrophes would like you to stop abusing them./pedant
I went from Senior IT lead to IT manager and made less if you calculate in hours. I was pulling in 60 hour work weeks as top of the pile IT grunt, all that OT adds up fast. As manager I got a 25% increase and switched to Salaried Exempt. I now work 60 hour weeks and get LESS cash.
Again, that's a management/billing problem. If everyone is pulling hours like that, you're understaffed. Perhaps it might be appropriate if IT is a parasitic function for your company; I know I worked those kinds of hours in a former job, where IT/engineering were secondary functions. But if you're directly billing a client for work, there shouldn't be many uncompensated hours. If you're selling a product/service, there's a management problem if your revenue isn't matching what your true expenses are. Charge more, or find a different way of doing things. Too 2003?
Or stay and become that lousy and obviously unhappy manager who used to be a good tech.
I'm sure that happens from time to time if upper management is lousy. If you have a poorly-performing manager, get rid of him/her. And if loyalty is part of the equation, you look at a lateral move into a non-supervisory function, and depress compensation adjustments until he/she is back in-line with where he/she should be in a non-supervisory position.
And I'd prefer to have the same stamina that I had when I was nineteen, too. I mean, it'd be cool if I could get absolutely smashed, and be fine the next day. I'm sure my SO would like it if I had the same stamina in the bedroom, too. I can't and I don't. There's a natural progression when it comes to a career, and being involved with managing other people is a part of that.
I'd probably ask about what my new job duties would be, and see if they fit with my desires, otherwise, it's a shot in the dark as to whether to take the job, fight to keep your current position, or find a new employer.
And be willing to accept whatever trade-offs come with it? That includes salary stagnation, and competition with younger people who might be more intellectually curious than you are, and expect a much smaller salary than you do.
One of the things that constantly bothers me when interviewing older workers is the fact that, in many ways, tech is no longer a joy....it's all job. I've found myself in that position more and more as I get older; building a Linux kernel is now tedious instead of exciting. I haven't had a GNU/Hurd install in years.
Interviewed a CCNA one time; when I asked him some questions about IPv6, he got defensive, then tried to convince me that it was never going to happen, and anyone looking at it was wasting his time.....
Needless to say, we had requirements from the customer for IPv6 work, and were trying to put together a team to address the project. Ended up hiring a 24 year-old without a degree or a cert, who was genuinely interested in where the technology is headed. Oh, and he wanted 60% of the salary (even without the military retirement, which the old guy had coming in, too.).
If you're being forcibly moved, try to negotiate for everything, including extra compensation for being on-call.
As for the managerial side, this is nothing new. If you show a) competence, and b) any signs you don't have a serious attitude problem, it's expected. Then, if you want to go back in a few years, it'll be based either on your job performance (or lack thereof), and whether you're okay with sacrificing larger salaries in the future.
Some people aren't cut out for management, for a variety of reasons, and they either go back to non-management, or transition careers. It's no big deal these days. 40 years ago, different story; there was a social stigma attached to switching companies more than a couple of times, or even worse, ending up in a completely new line of work.
If you're using FAIR as your arbiter of media bias, you're never going to have anything other than Z-Mag judged as unbiased. It's just as bad as citing MediaBusters or Media Matters.
Gerson's perspective is that of someone who's been imbued with the dogma of objective-journalism-is-the-way-and-the-truth. Fact of the matter is that that idea is relatively new, and was largely a political reaction to his own industry's (print media's) egregiousness in the late 19th and early 20th centuries. Good morning, Mr. Pulitzer. Mr. Hearst, how are you today? Until this backlash started, they weren't called "journalists," they were called "reporters."
Every person is biased. Every outlet has biases that seep through (Hello, Green Week on NBC). You can strive for objectivity, it's unattainable. To deny that reality is folly.
If the newspaper conglomerates want to continue operating, they've got to fundamentally change their means of reporting. The days of sending out a reporter to be there in person, interviewing authoritative sources, interviewing detractors to those authoritative sources, and spitting out an article are over. "The revolution will not be televised." No, but it will be tweeted, and if you've got a hundred people saying exactly the same thing, you can report that. They're missing the big stories, and the outlets who understand where the information flow is are getting them. TMZ, SmokingGun, National Enquirer, etc. etc. But the print media's default position, after they're scooped, is to stay mum until they've been able to verify using their 1960s protocols. Sorry, folks, just doesn't work that way. And, if they don't adapt, they will die. Google isn't the problem.
...and it seems simple enough. Kind of wonder why those env variables wouldn't be unset by default for everything, then set only on programs that should need root. Are those just inherited; do you still need root access to build the FreeBSD user-space? (I honestly don't know; haven't used FreeBSD since the abortion that was 5.x. NetBSD, which is what I use for BSD these days, you can build everything as a regular user.)
Hey, it worked. Mark Warner won two-thirds of the vote in his senate run last year based on his stellar performance as governor. This was one of his big initiatives.
(He also *fixed* the revenue sources, so that there'd never be a problem like happened with Jim Gilmore. Yet, now, Virginia is in worse shape than when he got there.)
I think GNUstep's problem is that porting between GNUstep and OSX keeps getting more difficult. Apple well-documented OpenStep, and it stayed static for a very long time (~10 years). OSX, on the other hand, keeps changing, and is becoming increasingly hardware-dependent since 10.2. Quartz, CoreGraphics, CoreData, etc. etc. all break backwards-compatibility. Many of the new features are also offloaded to hardware. Apple's attitude used to be that if you didn't have new hardware, the new whiz-bang stuff just wouldn't work for you, and your system would look/feel much the same as it did under the previous version. Not so these days....
As for WindowMaker, it's a legacy WM, I think. When I used to use GNUstep extensively (a few years ago), they were already seriously looking at things to replace it. Etoile (a cutting-edge GNUstep environment/in-development-distro) now uses Azalia, which is distantly-related to WindowMaker.
Actual Malice. You might do well to familiarize yourself with the concept.
The question here is whether the claim is so absurd that no "ordinary person" would believe it to be true.
But other issues still exist, ones that I know the/. crowd finds despicable -- trademarks, copyrights, etc. etc.
As for his questions of Obama, and his administration officials, yes, it's yellow journalism. Still, clearly, he's unearthed a few issues the mainstream media has been loathe to touch (Van Jones, etc.). The question is whether the things he's unearthed matter or not.
And Immelt is one of the big time White House visitors. With the health care division, and the "green" products, they stand to make a killing from this influence peddling. Not to mention their extension of the communications office, NBC News/MSNBC.
....shame on you. But you're not going to fool me again, certainly to for $140. I have a Netgear "open source" 802.11g router sitting in a closet somewhere. It never worked worth a damn. Netgear replaced it with another similarly-named model (with a completely different design). OpenWRT doesn't support the old one fully, and DD-WRT has some things I don't particularly like (and I'm not sure support is there, either).
I'd just assume get an Airport if I was going to use a commercial router. Am currently using an old notebook running Debian, which does everything I need with a lot less pain.
This. It's another case where people say that want something that they really don't.
To put it another way, how many of you want to see ads for feminine hygiene products on/.? Just sayin'.
(Some places do go overboard, however, with the recommendations. I'm looking at you, Amazon. Really, I'm not going to buy a Nickelback CD. Ever. And I do buy a fair amount of things for other people. Because I bought a bridal book my fiancee wanted, doesn't mean that I want 800 wedding planning guides.....)
...and somewhat a reaction to HP's buy of EDS, I think.
Perot has some penetration inside the federal government, though I've never encountered one of their workers. Most of the job adverts I've seen require TS/SCI, so, probably some interesting stuff.
The question is whether Dell will be able to leverage it into other areas. I'm not sure how bright the future is in government IT services these days, following the monumental clusterfucks that HP and NG have chaperoned last few years (NMCI, and VITC).
They just work around it. See the bill of attainder they passed to tax the AIG bonuses. It was aimed squarely at one company's employees, which is blatantly unconstitutional. But they modified it just enough that it could theoretically apply to somebody else, too, and passed it.
Of course, there'll be a court fight on that one, too, eventually.
It's ironic, however, that they'd pass an unconstitutional ex post facto law while they're claiming they're doing it to protect constitutional liberties......
Their guy got elected president, but has said that he doesn't support legislation like this. In many ways, Obama is only slightly different than Bush. This is fodder for rabid supporters, but doesn't have a snowball's chance in hell of actually passing.
It's also a damned stupid thing for them to do, because pandering to the fringe here only further hampers their party's electoral chances next year.
But, it's all good, I suppose, because the Administration's actions on the possible prosecution of government employees (CIA) sends the signal. Being hellbent for vengeance makes for an awfully short political future. In this case, it'll likely be for the President.
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IPX won't die in 2010, either.
But, in all seriousness, there's a few things to remember here.
1. The v4 address space will be exhausted in the foreseeable future.
2. Reclaiming large blocks only delays that inevitability by a few months.
3. With a few exceptions, modern, supported OSes (Windows [2003, 2008, Vista, 7], GNU/Linux, all of the BSDs, OS X) support IPv6 perfectly.
4. Most of the critical applications support IPv6 perfectly.
5. The big holdup on the consumer side has been with the ISPs. The DOCSIS 3.0 roll-out is ongoing in many places.
6. The US government has mandated it. The compliance date was in 2008 for all of the Federal agencies on their backbones. It's just a matter now of getting ISP access to those sites, and configuring lower-level systems.
The luddite attitude here about this is amazing. If you're really all that concerned about it, and don't want to focus too much on the nuts-and-bolts, here's some advice: Learn BIND. Setting up your resolvers properly will spare you headaches.
I use IPv6 every day. I get lots of e-mail over IPv6 (netbsd and freebsd mailing lists, to name just a couple). I enjoy being able to ssh to all of my machines at home directly. It's here. Evaluate your crap, and see what's not going to work. Plan to replace that stuff. Most of it probably will need replacing by the time you get assigned a /64 or /48 by your ISP, anyway. This isn't rocket science. /rant
Yes, there's a reason....about the only customization I do to FF is getting rid of the awful default theme. I don't run any really unusual plugins/extensions (java/flash/acrobat are about it).
I'm not sure I know anyone who uses IE who even knows that Chrome exists.
I use IE sometimes; there's stuff I try to use that doesn't work in FF or Chrome, especially at work, where government sites still don't work well with either (CAC-enabled DoD sites, especially).
I'd be willing to bet its almost entirely loss of Firefox users (like myself), as Firefox has become a bloated, buggy, slow pile of crap that would make IE6 proud.
I've switched to Chrome most of the time on my Windows box at work, and another here at home. Am currently using FF on this box, because I don't use it all that much. On my macs, I use Safari.
But the bigger sisue is that WebKit/KHTML is now a better core than Gecko, and will probably surpass Gecko-based browsers at some point in the not-too-distant future. This is especially true when you consider that a large portion of the mobile browser market is now WebKit-based (Safari on iPhone, Chrome on Android), and the Gecko/FF port to Win32 was damn near unusable when I used it last (this past summer, before I bought my iPhone).
First they split Windows down to the Service Pack level,
Ignoring, too, that 2K8 is basically Vista, which they panned. I've been running Vista for nearly three years now on a personal desktop. Two blue screens. One was due to RAM that went bad, the other was due to a buggy VMware driver.
but go on to say "all of OS X and all of Linux" are in the best? Really? OS X 10.0 was a dismal, WinME failure, for one.
Yeah, 10.0 was lousy. 10.1 was at least usable most of the time. Until Finder crashed. And you had to ssh back in and reboot it, because you couldn't re-launch Finder. Oh, and the browser selection was wonderful with fully-Carbon IE, Netscape 4 running in Classic, or a very buggy non-native Mozilla port. Furthermore, OS X doesn't run a BSD kernel; it's Mach with a BSD subsystem running in kernel-space. Many of the nifty things available in OS X are due to Mach, not BSD.
And then to throw in Android, which is also Linux?
But, but, but, it doesn't run X!!!1! I guess all the other purpose-built linux devices would fall into that category? My TomTom? My STB when I had IPTV service?
He drove a Cadillac. (And ate at Burger King. And had some nifty F-4s.) They quit making the big Caddies long ago. :-(
There's still a big demand for the BB Caddy engines. Popular in larger performance vehicles. Not so much in trucks, where the BB Chevy is easier.
Sadder than the death of the GM big block is that you can't buy a half-ton pickup with a manual transmission anymore.
Oblig...RIP Joe Strummer.
You're a jerk, Dent. FWIW, there is a difference between a reputable organization publishing these, where the address, employees, and funders are all known, and some anonymous group. If you want media shield protections, announce yourself, and retain counsel to ensure it.
You've prompted a switch, Mozilla.... /Closing out my tabs while chrome downloads in the background
Mod parent up. This is political payback to the civil lawyer lobby who heavily fund Democrats. When they talk about "green jobs," they're obviously talking about cases for the trial lawyers to litigate.
You can also bet that "green" products won't have a statutory limit on liability claims from injured people anytime soon. Even if one of these products turns out to have health effects worse than asbestos.....
2003 wants it's business model back.
And apostrophes would like you to stop abusing them. /pedant
I went from Senior IT lead to IT manager and made less if you calculate in hours. I was pulling in 60 hour work weeks as top of the pile IT grunt, all that OT adds up fast. As manager I got a 25% increase and switched to Salaried Exempt. I now work 60 hour weeks and get LESS cash.
Again, that's a management/billing problem. If everyone is pulling hours like that, you're understaffed. Perhaps it might be appropriate if IT is a parasitic function for your company; I know I worked those kinds of hours in a former job, where IT/engineering were secondary functions. But if you're directly billing a client for work, there shouldn't be many uncompensated hours. If you're selling a product/service, there's a management problem if your revenue isn't matching what your true expenses are. Charge more, or find a different way of doing things. Too 2003?
Or stay and become that lousy and obviously unhappy manager who used to be a good tech.
I'm sure that happens from time to time if upper management is lousy. If you have a poorly-performing manager, get rid of him/her. And if loyalty is part of the equation, you look at a lateral move into a non-supervisory function, and depress compensation adjustments until he/she is back in-line with where he/she should be in a non-supervisory position.
And I'd prefer to have the same stamina that I had when I was nineteen, too. I mean, it'd be cool if I could get absolutely smashed, and be fine the next day. I'm sure my SO would like it if I had the same stamina in the bedroom, too. I can't and I don't. There's a natural progression when it comes to a career, and being involved with managing other people is a part of that.
I'd probably ask about what my new job duties would be, and see if they fit with my desires, otherwise, it's a shot in the dark as to whether to take the job, fight to keep your current position, or find a new employer.
And be willing to accept whatever trade-offs come with it? That includes salary stagnation, and competition with younger people who might be more intellectually curious than you are, and expect a much smaller salary than you do.
One of the things that constantly bothers me when interviewing older workers is the fact that, in many ways, tech is no longer a joy....it's all job. I've found myself in that position more and more as I get older; building a Linux kernel is now tedious instead of exciting. I haven't had a GNU/Hurd install in years.
Interviewed a CCNA one time; when I asked him some questions about IPv6, he got defensive, then tried to convince me that it was never going to happen, and anyone looking at it was wasting his time.....
Needless to say, we had requirements from the customer for IPv6 work, and were trying to put together a team to address the project. Ended up hiring a 24 year-old without a degree or a cert, who was genuinely interested in where the technology is headed. Oh, and he wanted 60% of the salary (even without the military retirement, which the old guy had coming in, too.).
If you're being forcibly moved, try to negotiate for everything, including extra compensation for being on-call.
As for the managerial side, this is nothing new. If you show a) competence, and b) any signs you don't have a serious attitude problem, it's expected. Then, if you want to go back in a few years, it'll be based either on your job performance (or lack thereof), and whether you're okay with sacrificing larger salaries in the future.
Some people aren't cut out for management, for a variety of reasons, and they either go back to non-management, or transition careers. It's no big deal these days. 40 years ago, different story; there was a social stigma attached to switching companies more than a couple of times, or even worse, ending up in a completely new line of work.
If you're using FAIR as your arbiter of media bias, you're never going to have anything other than Z-Mag judged as unbiased. It's just as bad as citing MediaBusters or Media Matters.
Gerson's perspective is that of someone who's been imbued with the dogma of objective-journalism-is-the-way-and-the-truth. Fact of the matter is that that idea is relatively new, and was largely a political reaction to his own industry's (print media's) egregiousness in the late 19th and early 20th centuries. Good morning, Mr. Pulitzer. Mr. Hearst, how are you today? Until this backlash started, they weren't called "journalists," they were called "reporters."
Every person is biased. Every outlet has biases that seep through (Hello, Green Week on NBC). You can strive for objectivity, it's unattainable. To deny that reality is folly.
If the newspaper conglomerates want to continue operating, they've got to fundamentally change their means of reporting. The days of sending out a reporter to be there in person, interviewing authoritative sources, interviewing detractors to those authoritative sources, and spitting out an article are over. "The revolution will not be televised." No, but it will be tweeted, and if you've got a hundred people saying exactly the same thing, you can report that. They're missing the big stories, and the outlets who understand where the information flow is are getting them. TMZ, SmokingGun, National Enquirer, etc. etc. But the print media's default position, after they're scooped, is to stay mum until they've been able to verify using their 1960s protocols. Sorry, folks, just doesn't work that way. And, if they don't adapt, they will die. Google isn't the problem.
...and it seems simple enough. Kind of wonder why those env variables wouldn't be unset by default for everything, then set only on programs that should need root. Are those just inherited; do you still need root access to build the FreeBSD user-space? (I honestly don't know; haven't used FreeBSD since the abortion that was 5.x. NetBSD, which is what I use for BSD these days, you can build everything as a regular user.)
Hey, it worked. Mark Warner won two-thirds of the vote in his senate run last year based on his stellar performance as governor. This was one of his big initiatives.
(He also *fixed* the revenue sources, so that there'd never be a problem like happened with Jim Gilmore. Yet, now, Virginia is in worse shape than when he got there.)
I think GNUstep's problem is that porting between GNUstep and OSX keeps getting more difficult. Apple well-documented OpenStep, and it stayed static for a very long time (~10 years). OSX, on the other hand, keeps changing, and is becoming increasingly hardware-dependent since 10.2. Quartz, CoreGraphics, CoreData, etc. etc. all break backwards-compatibility. Many of the new features are also offloaded to hardware. Apple's attitude used to be that if you didn't have new hardware, the new whiz-bang stuff just wouldn't work for you, and your system would look/feel much the same as it did under the previous version. Not so these days....
As for WindowMaker, it's a legacy WM, I think. When I used to use GNUstep extensively (a few years ago), they were already seriously looking at things to replace it. Etoile (a cutting-edge GNUstep environment/in-development-distro) now uses Azalia, which is distantly-related to WindowMaker.
If it works half as well as his quest to bring an NBA championship to Dallas, Google better watch out!
Actual Malice. You might do well to familiarize yourself with the concept.
The question here is whether the claim is so absurd that no "ordinary person" would believe it to be true.
But other issues still exist, ones that I know the /. crowd finds despicable -- trademarks, copyrights, etc. etc.
As for his questions of Obama, and his administration officials, yes, it's yellow journalism. Still, clearly, he's unearthed a few issues the mainstream media has been loathe to touch (Van Jones, etc.). The question is whether the things he's unearthed matter or not.
And Immelt is one of the big time White House visitors. With the health care division, and the "green" products, they stand to make a killing from this influence peddling. Not to mention their extension of the communications office, NBC News/MSNBC.
....shame on you. But you're not going to fool me again, certainly to for $140. I have a Netgear "open source" 802.11g router sitting in a closet somewhere. It never worked worth a damn. Netgear replaced it with another similarly-named model (with a completely different design). OpenWRT doesn't support the old one fully, and DD-WRT has some things I don't particularly like (and I'm not sure support is there, either).
I'd just assume get an Airport if I was going to use a commercial router. Am currently using an old notebook running Debian, which does everything I need with a lot less pain.
This. It's another case where people say that want something that they really don't.
To put it another way, how many of you want to see ads for feminine hygiene products on /.? Just sayin'.
(Some places do go overboard, however, with the recommendations. I'm looking at you, Amazon. Really, I'm not going to buy a Nickelback CD. Ever. And I do buy a fair amount of things for other people. Because I bought a bridal book my fiancee wanted, doesn't mean that I want 800 wedding planning guides.....)
...and somewhat a reaction to HP's buy of EDS, I think.
Perot has some penetration inside the federal government, though I've never encountered one of their workers. Most of the job adverts I've seen require TS/SCI, so, probably some interesting stuff.
The question is whether Dell will be able to leverage it into other areas. I'm not sure how bright the future is in government IT services these days, following the monumental clusterfucks that HP and NG have chaperoned last few years (NMCI, and VITC).
They just work around it. See the bill of attainder they passed to tax the AIG bonuses. It was aimed squarely at one company's employees, which is blatantly unconstitutional. But they modified it just enough that it could theoretically apply to somebody else, too, and passed it.
Of course, there'll be a court fight on that one, too, eventually.
It's ironic, however, that they'd pass an unconstitutional ex post facto law while they're claiming they're doing it to protect constitutional liberties......
Their guy got elected president, but has said that he doesn't support legislation like this. In many ways, Obama is only slightly different than Bush. This is fodder for rabid supporters, but doesn't have a snowball's chance in hell of actually passing.
It's also a damned stupid thing for them to do, because pandering to the fringe here only further hampers their party's electoral chances next year.
But, it's all good, I suppose, because the Administration's actions on the possible prosecution of government employees (CIA) sends the signal. Being hellbent for vengeance makes for an awfully short political future. In this case, it'll likely be for the President.