How many different names are there in the world ? Sooner or later once that list gets big enough ( are people removed at any point ? ) it should contain a large % of all possible names.
"...while large groups of Middle Easterners are openly practicing "dry runs" for terrorist attacks on airplanes."
Perhaps the next time you see this kind of blatant terrorist planning going on you should point it out to the security guards or something, it's a bit bloody stupid standing there watching this going on and not doing anything about it isn't it ?
Simply moaning about it on slashdot is an dereliction of your patriotic duty and I am certainly writing to your government to get your IP address from Slashdot and have a word with you about standing by and virtually aiding and abetting terrorist activities.
I'll bet he has a huge trophy, but you shouldn't let him show it to you *every* day. There are laws against that kind of behaviour in most places now you know.
Actually from reading the article it appears that he was allowed to fly every time anyway, he just wanted to get his name off the list to stop the inconvenience of arguing about his right to fly every time.
This makes an even greater mockery of the system if people on this list are allowed to board planes even though they are identified on the list.
Overall though I don't know what all this argument concerning the details of this system is about given the enormous stupidity and invasiveness of this system in the first place. Honestly you are now in a situation where you may well have to effectively prove your right to fly where you want in your own country and if your request is denied you then have to spend weeks arguing with some slow moving bureaucracy who may or may not tell you if you are on the list and may or may not tell you why you are on it.
Does that sound like America to you or does it sound more like communist China and Russia 20 years ago ?
In the umbrello ( or whatever ) picture there is a little picture of a man called a "Lagerist". Is this someone who has specialised in drinking Lager and if so what is he doing in an important looking IT infrastructure ?
You'd be amazed at how much of Capgemini's infrastructure is run on crappy cobbled together MS Access applications but I think a better plan than simply recreating all the MS Access apps is to look at why they are being used for in the first ( because the current official IT infrastructre isn't flexible enough ) and place and design a sensible, flexible IT solution to replace as many of them as possible in one go.
Obviously that takes work and is a pratical soloution so would probably never be carried out.
"To say that code included in SCO's Linux distribution becomes automatically GPLed is a red herring. If SCO was unaware of the presence of their code in the Linux kernel at the time, then the action was not voluntary."
Assuming that it is a defence to say that you haven't checked the exact code you are releasing under a specific licence all that carefully and so didn't realise it was in fact derived from your own proprietary code then fair enough I agree with you.
However now that they do know what the infringing code is ( as we know their MIT Deep Divers have identified millions of lines of code ) the fact they are still choosing to release it under the GPL means that they are know, knowingly, releasing that specific infringing code under the GPL which then undermines their case entirely.
Your arguments about ditching the GPL in favour of a "free" licence are just nonsense. People who use the GPL do so because they don't want their work just hoovered up by anyone without them giving anything back to the original creator or the community at large - that's why they choose the GPL, because they like the protections it offers them.
A lot of people/companies who would love to just use anybodies work they liked without the creator getting anything would love people not to use the GPL but that is never going to convince me the GPL is a "bad viral nastiness".
I think so far as the IBM case is concerned all the parts of SCO's case ( at least the case they boasted they had in the media ) are dead apart from the dispute about whether IBM is allowed to do what it likes with the software it has written.
Read Groklaw for more info about all this stuff though.
They are saying that IBM have taken some of SCO's code and then ( somehow ) been inspired by that to write AIX etc which they then used to improve Linux.
By selling or giving away there own version of Linux which incorporates the improvements made by IBM SCO are saying that on the one hand IBM has ruined there business by improving Linux but on the other hand that they are happy to sell, give away and work with the version of Linux which has ruined there business and that I think is a slightly ridiculous point of view to take.
Reading the documents filed by IBM and by SCO I am constantly amused by the fact that I have no clue at all what SCO are getting at in there filings but the IBM filings are crystal clear and make perfect logical sense.
The best bits of this filing I think are the pages and pages of testimony from ( by the looks ) almost everyone involved in drawing up the and signing the original contract who all say unanimously
"This contract certainly does not provide SCO with the rights it says it is provided with, this was discussed at the time and all parties were agreed that it was not the case since to do otherwise would be so blatantly silly that no one would ever sign such a contract."
Also the way IBM have culled SCO's many accusations to the single matter of the contract dispute and then ( in my opinion ) thoroughly destroyed that even more effectively than they destroyed SCO's previous claims is very impressive and kind of suggests that this has been IBM's plan all along and everything is moving very smoothly for them.
Performance reviews have been a waste of time every place I have ever worked. First of all the format is usually reviewed and changed every 6 months anyway making it impossible to compare any review against any other.
The last place I worked had a scale which went from 1 ( Very good ) down to 5 ( Very bad ) but for some reason the HR department had decreed that 1's were in affect unattainable since people scoring 1's should be instantly promoted elsewhere and 5's indicated employees who should not be working there under any circumstances.
In consequence even on the ( rare ) occasions when my work conformed to the written standards to attain a 1 my boss was too scared to award that because of the level of justification required to the clueless HR department. In the event I got a 2 which the HR department argued with until my boss rediscovered his backbone and pointed out that HR had no clue what work anyone was doing and should butt out.
But anyway what is the point of a review grading system when everyone is effectively barred from using 2/5ths of the available gradings ????
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This is really in reply to a lot of the other replies this will no doubt engender.
Is there a term for the phenomenon I have noticed on Slashdot whereby every/.'er is by the far the best educated / most efficient / most dedicated / hardest working / most intelligent person they have ever known or worked with and yet all of them have noticed that other people ( usually there bosses or ungrateful co workers ) have somehow overlooked this consumate perfection and not provided the rewards which the hapless/. 'er so obviously deserves.
He sees you talking on mobile phone in a car on the road which is illegal. You tell him that you were only talking for 2 seconds, honest, and that it was just while stopped at the lights and not before - oh no officer I wouldn't do anything illegal.
Sounds like a likely story to me and if I were the cop I would not believe a word you said and fine you as well.
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How many different names are there in the world ? Sooner or later once that list gets big enough ( are people removed at any point ? ) it should contain a large % of all possible names.
"...go dress up like one..."
So how do potential threats dress then ?
"...while large groups of Middle Easterners are openly practicing "dry runs" for terrorist attacks on airplanes."
Perhaps the next time you see this kind of blatant terrorist planning going on you should point it out to the security guards or something, it's a bit bloody stupid standing there watching this going on and not doing anything about it isn't it ?
Simply moaning about it on slashdot is an dereliction of your patriotic duty and I am certainly writing to your government to get your IP address from Slashdot and have a word with you about standing by and virtually aiding and abetting terrorist activities.
I'll bet he has a huge trophy, but you shouldn't let him show it to you *every* day. There are laws against that kind of behaviour in most places now you know.
So what's the difference between George Washington and the non crazy Islamists ?
Also I am fairly sure the Americans attacked Scarborough at some point during the war with the intention of destroying the Baltic merchant fleet.
Actually from reading the article it appears that he was allowed to fly every time anyway, he just wanted to get his name off the list to stop the inconvenience of arguing about his right to fly every time.
This makes an even greater mockery of the system if people on this list are allowed to board planes even though they are identified on the list.
Overall though I don't know what all this argument concerning the details of this system is about given the enormous stupidity and invasiveness of this system in the first place. Honestly you are now in a situation where you may well have to effectively prove your right to fly where you want in your own country and if your request is denied you then have to spend weeks arguing with some slow moving bureaucracy who may or may not tell you if you are on the list and may or may not tell you why you are on it.
Does that sound like America to you or does it sound more like communist China and Russia 20 years ago ?
Pierce, there is no such word as "pearce" and I think you ought not to believe everything people boast about to you !
Buses, moving in Birmingham City Centre ? When does this happen ?
In the umbrello ( or whatever ) picture there is a little picture of a man called a "Lagerist". Is this someone who has specialised in drinking Lager and if so what is he doing in an important looking IT infrastructure ?
Changing Juk so it doesn't skip and judder the music whenever you are changing a few of the mp3's tags would be nice as well.
What the blazes is a "blooper" ? That's not a word. Bloomers is however a perfectly good English word and used in the right context.
If you need to have instructions printed in showers to tell you how to use them then you really do have problems.
In this case isn't IBM the developer and aren't they saying pretty definately that they have not released there work into the Public Domain ?
You'd be amazed at how much of Capgemini's infrastructure is run on crappy cobbled together MS Access applications but I think a better plan than simply recreating all the MS Access apps is to look at why they are being used for in the first ( because the current official IT infrastructre isn't flexible enough ) and place and design a sensible, flexible IT solution to replace as many of them as possible in one go.
Obviously that takes work and is a pratical soloution so would probably never be carried out.
"To say that code included in SCO's Linux distribution becomes automatically GPLed is a red herring. If SCO was unaware of the presence of their code in the Linux kernel at the time, then the action was not voluntary."
Assuming that it is a defence to say that you haven't checked the exact code you are releasing under a specific licence all that carefully and so didn't realise it was in fact derived from your own proprietary code then fair enough I agree with you.
However now that they do know what the infringing code is ( as we know their MIT Deep Divers have identified millions of lines of code ) the fact they are still choosing to release it under the GPL means that they are know, knowingly, releasing that specific infringing code under the GPL which then undermines their case entirely.
Your arguments about ditching the GPL in favour of a "free" licence are just nonsense. People who use the GPL do so because they don't want their work just hoovered up by anyone without them giving anything back to the original creator or the community at large - that's why they choose the GPL, because they like the protections it offers them.
A lot of people/companies who would love to just use anybodies work they liked without the creator getting anything would love people not to use the GPL but that is never going to convince me the GPL is a "bad viral nastiness".
Heh heh, yeah "up" to 4.22 which is quite a long way down from the 25 or whatever they had got to at the beginning of all this nonsense.
I think so far as the IBM case is concerned all the parts of SCO's case ( at least the case they boasted they had in the media ) are dead apart from the dispute about whether IBM is allowed to do what it likes with the software it has written.
Read Groklaw for more info about all this stuff though.
They are saying that IBM have taken some of SCO's code and then ( somehow ) been inspired by that to write AIX etc which they then used to improve Linux.
By selling or giving away there own version of Linux which incorporates the improvements made by IBM SCO are saying that on the one hand IBM has ruined there business by improving Linux but on the other hand that they are happy to sell, give away and work with the version of Linux which has ruined there business and that I think is a slightly ridiculous point of view to take.
Reading the documents filed by IBM and by SCO I am constantly amused by the fact that I have no clue at all what SCO are getting at in there filings but the IBM filings are crystal clear and make perfect logical sense.
The best bits of this filing I think are the pages and pages of testimony from ( by the looks ) almost everyone involved in drawing up the and signing the original contract who all say unanimously
"This contract certainly does not provide SCO with the rights it says it is provided with, this was discussed at the time and all parties were agreed that it was not the case since to do otherwise would be so blatantly silly that no one would ever sign such a contract."
Also the way IBM have culled SCO's many accusations to the single matter of the contract dispute and then ( in my opinion ) thoroughly destroyed that even more effectively than they destroyed SCO's previous claims is very impressive and kind of suggests that this has been IBM's plan all along and everything is moving very smoothly for them.
Performance reviews have been a waste of time every place I have ever worked. First of all the format is usually reviewed and changed every 6 months anyway making it impossible to compare any review against any other.
The last place I worked had a scale which went from 1 ( Very good ) down to 5 ( Very bad ) but for some reason the HR department had decreed that 1's were in affect unattainable since people scoring 1's should be instantly promoted elsewhere and 5's indicated employees who should not be working there under any circumstances.
In consequence even on the ( rare ) occasions when my work conformed to the written standards to attain a 1 my boss was too scared to award that because of the level of justification required to the clueless HR department. In the event I got a 2 which the HR department argued with until my boss rediscovered his backbone and pointed out that HR had no clue what work anyone was doing and should butt out.
But anyway what is the point of a review grading system when everyone is effectively barred from using 2/5ths of the available gradings ????
This is really in reply to a lot of the other replies this will no doubt engender.
/.'er is by the far the best educated / most efficient / most dedicated / hardest working / most intelligent person they have ever known or worked with and yet all of them have noticed that other people ( usually there bosses or ungrateful co workers ) have somehow overlooked this consumate perfection and not provided the rewards which the hapless /. 'er so obviously deserves.
Is there a term for the phenomenon I have noticed on Slashdot whereby every
Do they play in the World Series as well ?
He sees you talking on mobile phone in a car on the road which is illegal. You tell him that you were only talking for 2 seconds, honest, and that it was just while stopped at the lights and not before - oh no officer I wouldn't do anything illegal.
Sounds like a likely story to me and if I were the cop I would not believe a word you said and fine you as well.
Basketball, Baseball ? Does anyone outside the US play those games much ?
That's crap and reflects much more on your attitude than it does on the attitude of any Frenchman.