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  1. Re:Huh? on IT Graduates Not "Well-Trained, Ready-To-Go" · · Score: 1

    Maybe that is a cry for more/better internship programs.

    If not, it should be.

    I started my career as an intern during my senior year at the university. If you are going into IT, especially in some other role that doesn't involve staring at code all day, your college education hasn't taught you specifics that businesses expect.

    For instance, if you are going into systems administration or operations management, having at least some knowledge of industry change management practices would be really helpful. That's something I learned through an internship, not through any class.

    It wouldn't be a bad thing if more internships were available, as the industry would be helping to solve its own lack of viable "entry-level" candidates. It also allows a business to give someone a "trial period" where their pay rate is a fraction of what a normal employee makes, and if an intern doesn't work out, there's no obligation to re-hire the intern as an FTE.

  2. Failed CPU fan... on Consumers Buy Less Tech Stuff, Keep It Longer · · Score: 1

    For example Patti Hauseman stuck with her five-year-old Apple computer until it started making odd whirring noises and occasionally malfunctioning before she bought a new computer for Christmas — actually, a refurbished one. 'A week later, the old one died. We timed it pretty well,' says Hauseman

    Well, if only Patti had replaced the failing CPU fan, she could have kept that 5-year old machine going....

  3. Re:"We own it" on Microsoft Bans Open Source From the Windows Market · · Score: 1

    Yes but the license still does not require any of the three items. If I make a derived work from BSD code and make it available for sale, I do not have to give you the source, I don't have to require you to distribute the source to any derived work, and I don't have to require you to redistribute free of charge.

  4. Re:"We own it" on Microsoft Bans Open Source From the Windows Market · · Score: 2

    No it doesn't, because it says 'requiring' not 'permitting':

    '"Excluded License" means any license requiring, as a condition of use, modification and/or
    distribution of the software subject to the license
    , that the software or other software combined
    and/or distributed with it be (i) disclosed or distributed in source code form; (ii) licensed for the
    purpose of making derivative works; or (iii) redistributable at no charge. Excluded Licenses include,
    but are not limited to the GPLv3 Licenses. For the purpose of this definition, "GPLv3 Licenses" means
    the GNU General Public License version 3, the GNU Affero General Public License version 3, the GNU
    Lesser General Public License version 3, and any equivalents to the foregoing.'

    (Emphasis added)

    Since the BSD license does not require any of the three conditions, it is a permissible license.

  5. Re:More legislation is needed on Lawmaker Reintroduces WikiLeaks Prosecution Bill · · Score: 1

    Exactly what I was thinking.

    It seems like every other bill has a stupid backronym. I guess it's marketing.

  6. Re:Hrmm... on Paul Haggis vs. the Church of Scientology · · Score: 1

    ... don't know how that extra "because" sneaked in, but it shouldn't have.

  7. Re:Hrmm... on Paul Haggis vs. the Church of Scientology · · Score: 1

    I think you took that a bit more broadly than I meant it.

    I should have said "... patriarchy within the churches."

    I have heard it from the very mouths of (men) in leadership positions in churches: that it is a man's place to stand in as the representatives of God because He is male, and that is why it doesn't make sense for women to be the leaders of churches because. The argument is bogus, at least in my opinion. It does smack as a means of keeping a male-dominated power structure within a church. I know there are people who buy off on it, and that's what I was poking at with that last comment.

  8. Re:Hrmm... on Paul Haggis vs. the Church of Scientology · · Score: 1

    What's interesting about that is I happen to go to the Catholic mass every now and then (my wife is a Catholic) and there are a fair amount of people who might be a bit rebellious in this. There's a point during the Sursum Corda where the dialogue is:

    Priest: Let us give thanks to the Lord our God.

    People: It is right to give him thanks and praise.

    But a large number of people say: It is right to give God thanks and praise.

    I asked my wife about this and she says that the majority who say the altered version are not convinced that God is male.

  9. Re:Hrmm... on Paul Haggis vs. the Church of Scientology · · Score: 1

    Actually, there are many reasons that people claim that God is a male deity. One of them being right in Genesis where it says that the first human (Adam - which means "man" by the way) was made in God's image.

    Of course, in biblical Hebrew, every noun is ascribed male or female gender as the language does not have a means of specifying a neuter gender. The words Elohim and Adonai are male, therefore that would indicate that God might be male. Somebody praying to God in Hebrew and wishing to reference a parental relationship would have to choose between "father" and "mother." That explains Jesus' words.

    So now let me put a bit of a rub into it. In Genesis, the Spirit of God (Ruach Elohim) and the Presence of God (Shekhinah) are both female. How can that be??? Didn't we just show that God was male? Or perhaps God is a female (spirit) trapped in a male (body)?

    Of course, in Hebrew there are plenty of nouns that are classes of items. Since all nouns have gender, the word for, say, animal (hayyah) is female even though simple observation proves that not all animals are female. The translation for human (ben adam) is male even though women obviously exist.

    My point, of course, is that any historical assignment of a gender to a being that is by its very nature not completely comprehensible to humans is likely mere convenience of language. If you're going to argue theology, spend the time arguing something that is important and provably matters, because whether or not the being Christians refer to as God is male or not is pretty much irrelevant.

    Well, perhaps it is relevant in order to say that men are more godly than women are and further the agenda of the patriarchy.

  10. Re:The most important question from TFA... on Four Outrages Techies Need To Know About the State of the Union · · Score: 1

    Whether he can keep that new position after wearing a very, very pink tie ... Our nation's colors are red, white, and blue. So what's with Boehner's tie?

    Obviously the author didn't bother to consider what happens when you mix equal parts of red, white, and blue.

    Here's a hint: it's very, very pink.

  11. Re:Fedora - the new face of EVIL on Fedora 15 Changes Network Device Naming Scheme · · Score: 1

    Exactly what compatibility is broken?

    If you are relying on all of your Ethernet devices to be named ethX instead of using the output of ifconfig or looking in sys/class/net, you are doing something wrong.

    In fact, the system I am looking at now has four interfaces that are not named ethX. bond0, dummy0, sit0, and lo. Every piece of software I use that works with Ethernet devices seems to have no problem with this.

  12. Re:False on Fedora 15 Changes Network Device Naming Scheme · · Score: 1

    this is why I don't like the /dev/sd* interfaces in Linux - you have to dig deep into /proc to find out which port SATA and SAS devices are on

    To add to your rant... throw Fiber Channel into the mix, say 100 LUNs from two or three arrays with multipathing and a cluster of 2 or 3 systems.

    Ugly. Very ugly.

  13. Re:Change.... on Comcast-NBC Merger Approved By FCC · · Score: 1

    Exactly which branch do you think the DoJ is part of?

  14. Change.... on Comcast-NBC Merger Approved By FCC · · Score: -1, Flamebait

    Pres. Obama's 2008 goal also goes ignored: 'I strongly favor diversity of ownership of outlets and protection against the excessive concentration of power in the hands of any one corporation, interest or small group.' The Dept. of Justice is also onboard, leaving little hope that this will be stopped."

    Obama is the President, he has executive authority over the DoJ, does he not?

    It's Obama ignoring his own goal. Change you can believe in.

  15. Math... on Amazon EC2 Enables Cheap Brute-Force Attacks · · Score: 1

    ... is not a crime!

  16. Re: audit the root? on Disempowering the Singular Sysadmin? · · Score: 1

    SELinux can block root from accessing files.

    Of course, people who are root usually have the ability to get to the console of the system and boot from other media, but it's pretty obvious when a server reboots if you have appropriate monitoring.

  17. Re:LOL@"Progressives" on Congresswoman and Staff Gunned Down · · Score: 1

    True enough. The courts have turned into a domain that only aristocrats have easy access to.

  18. Re:LOL@"Progressives" on Congresswoman and Staff Gunned Down · · Score: 1

    First, my apologies for my unduly harsh reply. I was a bit charged up from the story/discussion as a whole.

    "Jury box" includes, of course, nullification. But it's not limited to that. Of course, there is an inherent risk in the other means of involving a jury, but if the law is truly that unpopular then the likelihood of getting a nullification when bringing up a lawsuit significantly increases.

    If the law truly isn't that that unpopular, then being on a jury gains nothing, especially in a civil case where it only takes a majority of jury members to decide (in the U.S. anyway). Many states have criminal jury procedures that require only N-1 of members to convict, to avoid cases where one person is holding out to force a mistrial.

    Saying that "jury box" only refers to being an actual jurer is rather limiting. It's like saying the "ammo box" part means that you run around swinging an ammo can at people. Instead, it means you put the ammo in a gun.

  19. Re:Dead or alive. Doesn't matter. on Congresswoman and Staff Gunned Down · · Score: 1

    The correct term is "reticle" of the type called "crosshair" and they are not unique to guns.

    The sights are the little metal parts on the gun above the barrel that you use to aim.

    The reticle in a rifle scope (which the image appears to depict) are usually indicative of the aiming point of the weapon, yes. Then again, many laser range finders, golf scopes, binoculars, and other optical devices also have them for indicating aim or other purposes.

    I do agree that using images reminiscent of the view through a rifle scope is a bit tasteless. Moreso now.

  20. Re:LOL@"Progressives" on Congresswoman and Staff Gunned Down · · Score: 1

    Jury: You don't get a choice in that one, you can't decide "I'll be on a jury today" and do so.

    That's not what that one means. It's obvious to everyone, except you, that it refers to the courtroom in general. Since there's no such thing as a "court box," the rather obvious substitution of "jury box" (which nearly every courtroom has) ties the whole statement together into a nice little package.

    You certainly can *sue* and ask for a jury trial, which would result in the jury box being present. Everyone else who has seen the little "soap, ballot, jury, ammo" thing understands that.

  21. Re:I wish it weren't true, but on Famous British Autism Study an 'Elaborate Fraud' · · Score: 1

    The pharmaceutical companies don't do the prediction on flu strains. The WHO does and provides the samples to the pharmaceutical companies.

  22. Re:Security on Thin Client, Or Fat Client? That Is the Question · · Score: 1

    Always deploy switches in pairs. Use STP.

    Buy workstations with two network ports. Connect each port to a different switch.

    Buy servers with two network ports. Connect each port to a different switch.

    Use teaming (Windows), bonding (Linux), IPMP (Solaris), EtherChannel (AIX), or whatever equivalent your OS has to provide active/standby redundant network link.

    For laptops, use wireless first and use access points in failover pairs. Cisco AiroNet APs have this capability, for instance. Connect each AP to a different switch.

  23. Re:Security on Thin Client, Or Fat Client? That Is the Question · · Score: 1

    What is a switch dies and takes out sixteen users?

    Replace switch with spare. Back online in an hour or so.

    If you have downtime because of a single switch failure, you are doing it wrong.

  24. Re:To hell with anonymous on Spamhaus Under DDoS Over Wikileaks.info · · Score: 1

    Yeah it's basically cyber-rioting.

    Now innocent organizations are becoming victims because people are having too much fun raging to pay attention to what their targets are.

  25. Re:First sale doctrine on First-Sale Doctrine Lost Overseas · · Score: 1

    Yes, the requirements of the Militia Act of 1791 were wrong.

    The Constitution says that Congress should raise and support armies, not that armies raise and support themselves.

    As far as being required to purchase health insurance, how is it justifiable to require someone to purchase something merely because they exist? If you don't, you'll be penalized. Since the penalty is to the IRS, if you don't pay the penalty, you're up on various criminal charges related to taxes.

    While I could hardly argue that we have freedom and liberty as originally envisioned for citizens of United States, at this point we may as well stop glossing over it and admit that we simply have no real freedoms at all, because the most basic freedom (to have or not have something) has now been taken away.