There will always be a business need for programmers to glue software together and create things that nobody else sells or builds.
For example, the IRS changes their reporting requirements every now and then. I don't know of any company that would risk an OSS bug in that kind of software.
There will always be a need for people who can do software upgrades and systems work. A lot of that can't be sent out of the states because of the cost of shipping the computers around.
Not really. Notice that your test assumes some understanding of the way creativity is generated in the female specimen. A better test would be to inject testosterone into the married male.
Um, no. A better test would be to take a look at a significant sampling of the labwork done during the annual physical that men should be getting.
I think Scott Adams said it better, but he was talking about engineeers and computer programmers. To misquote him:
[They] aren't people you would want to date, but they are definitly the people you want to marry.
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There's a trilogy ("Titan","Wizard","Demon") by (um), John Varley that explores the concept of a group of women deciding to procreate through artifical insemention.
If you're looking for a "today" example, there is a group of lizards that reproduce through parthenogesis that live in Arizona.
Who's "we", white man?
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Every Slashdot user it seems wants more information about it.
If your bosses/clients want it quick and dirty, and understand the implications (make sure you get it in writing, regardless of how trivial a program it is), do it that way.
As long as you provide them with their written requirements, they can't blame you, and the pain will teach them to let you do it the right way the first time.
The other and far more difficult problem: what about when this information gets stolen and the company doesn't notice?
There's something in the laws already about how you cannot be held responsible if somebody commits crimes using your materials as long as you make a good faith effort to report it.
For example, if you find your car gone, you report it stolen, and the next day it's used in a bank robbery, you are usually held innocent unless they have your face on the videotape or something.
Which won't help any company in CA. As soon as somebody there gets hacked, and the attorney general starts seeing enough reports, they'll be investigated. Even worse, they might be forced to admit that they don't know what is going on with their servers.
The law will require free credit reports on a regular basis...one year I think.
Federal law requires that credit card companies send you a notice at least once a year if somebody has looked into your history, and they must provide a list of those people for free or a small fee already.
If the California law says they have to give it to you for free, I'll probably be moving.
You started using credit cards only three years ago? Why, in my day we had to use credit cards made out of stone, uphill, both ways, in the snow...
Seriously, you also have to consider "where" and "why" credit card numbes and such get stolen. For example, I've used credit cards over the net for (eeek! I'm old!) about 10 years, and the only problem I've had was some magazines that got charged to the card I use to pay my sister's account. That got fixed easily enough.
In the 30ish years I've used things like checks and credit cards to pay for things, I've had (um....) one check forged (after my place broken into; I had reported it stolen and it didn't get cashed), the thing with my sister (which was from some telemarketer trying to get a bonus or something), and maybe one or two other things.
Then again, there's my parents, who had people at their ISP using their credit card number to pay for porn sites.
I suspect that if a lot of people who have their credit card information "stolen" would confess, they used it for one of those "increase your penis size while you get rich quick by getting a four year degree from an 'online university' so you can help your partner increase their bust size before you dump them to meet sexy russian women who want to help you get money from Nigeria" scams.
I guess maybe it's a matter of trust. I switched my upstream provider from dimensional.com to kaosol.com because daud changed companies. I trust him; he and his crew have gone out of their way to try and help me, so they get my business.
I'll guarantee you that the first company that sends me a "our servers may have been hacked" notice will lose my business forever.
Yea, all you need to do is find the white-on-white "click here" hyperlink.
Like I'm supposed to go out every day and check every credit card site, all my bank account sites, every mutual fund site, every stock brocker site, etc, etc, etc?
Why? Why does the company that has been hacked have to engage in a deliberate act (e-mail, snail mail, phone calls, whatever) except for this? Why not force companies to own up to their mistakes?
If we had a distribution that was free of the IBM code, then doesn't that mean we have a distribution that is legally untouchable by SCO?
...SCO filed a 100 gazillion dollar lawsuit against HP today, alledging that it had violated it's contract by allowing SysV code to be copied into the Linux codebase...
I think IBM has the right idea here. Shut up, force it to trial, and get a definitive precedent. There was an interview with the IBM kernel hackers here a while ago, and they made specific comments about how they had to go to class so they could be sure they knew what they could move to Linux, it all had to go through the IBM lawyers, etc.
IBM hasn't filed for dismissal, a stay, and the rest for one simple reason: They want this to go to court.
Why would they want this? Because it will set precedent, and finish the thing off now, (or maybe after a couple of years, in the appeals process). If they got a dismissal of these charges, all SCO would have to do is claim that IBM has done something else, and they could file another lawsuit.
We take nVidia's top offering and pair it up against the current top offering from ATi and let them duke it out till the bitter end. Who will come out on top?
For some reason I thought of "Iron Chef" when I read this.
At the very least the author could have made this more useful if he had even spit out some of the obvious advantages of linux over windows.
Personally, I think he gave at least three advantages in the story:
It's free.
You can make as many copies as you want.
"It's quite liberating to try out five different web browsers - Galeon, Konqueror, Mozilla, Quanta Plus or Screem - until you find one you like"
Note the unwritten assumptions at the end of that. "...until you find one you like" means you have choice, you're in control, you're in charge, you are in charge of the computer.
Maybe they could get RMS and Bill Gates to co-write something?:]
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before the "audio fingerprint" changes? Say, speed it up by 5%, filter out some of the bass and drum, and profit.
There will always be a business need for programmers to glue software together and create things that nobody else sells or builds.
For example, the IRS changes their reporting requirements every now and then. I don't know of any company that would risk an OSS bug in that kind of software.
There will always be a need for people who can do software upgrades and systems work. A lot of that can't be sent out of the states because of the cost of shipping the computers around.
To quote the parent:
Um, no. A better test would be to take a look at a significant sampling of the labwork done during the annual physical that men should be getting.
Shouldn't that be INCREASE THE SIZE OF YOUR GENIUS BY 4-5 INCHES IN UNDER A WEEK, ***GUARANTEED***!!!
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I think Scott Adams said it better, but he was talking about engineeers and computer programmers. To misquote him:
There's a trilogy ("Titan","Wizard","Demon") by (um), John Varley that explores the concept of a group of women deciding to procreate through artifical insemention.
If you're looking for a "today" example, there is a group of lizards that reproduce through parthenogesis that live in Arizona.
Every Slashdot user it seems wants more information about it.
If your bosses/clients want it quick and dirty, and understand the implications (make sure you get it in writing, regardless of how trivial a program it is ), do it that way.
As long as you provide them with their written requirements, they can't blame you, and the pain will teach them to let you do it the right way the first time.
The rats are fleeing the sinking ship. How is this suprise?
Maybe they should have spoken with Martha Stewart first.
The family of the deceased can certainly sue.
The actual statistic:
I suspect that "thinking about it" makes up the majority of that nine percent.
You can probably run a solid payroll application under newer versions of < InsertOSHere >.
If their current system runs under something like 98, or ME...
It's my understanding (I'm sure lots of people will correct me if I'm wrong) that you can't necessarily just compile->run apps between desktops.
If I recall correctly, it has to do with the gnome desktop using c/GTK bindings, while the KDE desktop uses c++/QT bindings.
Ok, so you're a geek building your own house, and you want to wire it up at the beginning.
Therefore, you buy your cable and you do it. Sheesh. It's not that hard. If nothing else, "Doug", in "home_network-17", was completely wrong.
If nothing else find sone cute electical engineer you want to bang, and take it out in trade.
If I was going to quote the parent, I would say:
If it's not on the Game Show Network, Food Network, or The Learning Channel, I'll never see it.
If you've got my credit information, and some L33T script kiddies have just 0w^3d you, you should be required to send me something.
To quote the parent:
The other and far more difficult problem: what about when this information gets stolen and the company doesn't notice?
There's something in the laws already about how you cannot be held responsible if somebody commits crimes using your materials as long as you make a good faith effort to report it.
For example, if you find your car gone, you report it stolen, and the next day it's used in a bank robbery, you are usually held innocent unless they have your face on the videotape or something.
Which won't help any company in CA. As soon as somebody there gets hacked, and the attorney general starts seeing enough reports, they'll be investigated. Even worse, they might be forced to admit that they don't know what is going on with their servers.
To quote the parent:
Federal law requires that credit card companies send you a notice at least once a year if somebody has looked into your history, and they must provide a list of those people for free or a small fee already.
If the California law says they have to give it to you for free, I'll probably be moving.
This project is on a deadline, and we will meet that deadline.
Add in the hoards of "month-degree" programmers, and you have a recipe for disaster,
Which is not to say that I'm all that good at security, because I know I'm not.
You started using credit cards only three years ago? Why, in my day we had to use credit cards made out of stone, uphill, both ways, in the snow...
Seriously, you also have to consider "where" and "why" credit card numbes and such get stolen. For example, I've used credit cards over the net for (eeek! I'm old!) about 10 years, and the only problem I've had was some magazines that got charged to the card I use to pay my sister's account. That got fixed easily enough.
In the 30ish years I've used things like checks and credit cards to pay for things, I've had (um....) one check forged (after my place broken into; I had reported it stolen and it didn't get cashed), the thing with my sister (which was from some telemarketer trying to get a bonus or something), and maybe one or two other things.
Then again, there's my parents, who had people at their ISP using their credit card number to pay for porn sites.
I suspect that if a lot of people who have their credit card information "stolen" would confess, they used it for one of those "increase your penis size while you get rich quick by getting a four year degree from an 'online university' so you can help your partner increase their bust size before you dump them to meet sexy russian women who want to help you get money from Nigeria" scams.
I guess maybe it's a matter of trust. I switched my upstream provider from dimensional.com to kaosol.com because daud changed companies. I trust him; he and his crew have gone out of their way to try and help me, so they get my business.
I'll guarantee you that the first company that sends me a "our servers may have been hacked" notice will lose my business forever.
To quote the parent:
Yea, all you need to do is find the white-on-white "click here" hyperlink.
Like I'm supposed to go out every day and check every credit card site, all my bank account sites, every mutual fund site, every stock brocker site, etc, etc, etc?
Why? Why does the company that has been hacked have to engage in a deliberate act (e-mail, snail mail, phone calls, whatever) except for this? Why not force companies to own up to their mistakes?
To quote the parent:
...SCO filed a 100 gazillion dollar lawsuit against HP today, alledging that it had violated it's contract by allowing SysV code to be copied into the Linux codebase...
I think IBM has the right idea here. Shut up, force it to trial, and get a definitive precedent. There was an interview with the IBM kernel hackers here a while ago, and they made specific comments about how they had to go to class so they could be sure they knew what they could move to Linux, it all had to go through the IBM lawyers, etc.
Just my personal opinion:
IBM hasn't filed for dismissal, a stay, and the rest for one simple reason: They want this to go to court.
Why would they want this? Because it will set precedent, and finish the thing off now, (or maybe after a couple of years, in the appeals process). If they got a dismissal of these charges, all SCO would have to do is claim that IBM has done something else, and they could file another lawsuit.
To quote the article:
For some reason I thought of "Iron Chef" when I read this.
...and I need to learn to proofread.
To quote the parent:
Personally, I think he gave at least three advantages in the story:
Note the unwritten assumptions at the end of that. "...until you find one you like" means you have choice, you're in control, you're in charge, you are in charge of the computer.
Maybe they could get RMS and Bill Gates to co-write something? :]