I hacked up a cgi gateway that lets me browse eye candy from my phone. By the way, does anyone know how to color text in WML? I know it's possible because CNN's wap pages do it, but none of the online tag references I have found mention any related attributes.
As others have noted, if you try to modify the agreements you are presented to sign, the most likely outcome is your being replaced by another applicant. A more realistic solution is to take the job and in the event you create something profitable on your own time and resources, keep absolutely quiet about it, quit and wait awhile while you document your work, and then proceed with development.
As other(s) have noted, this article is flamebait. My personal preference is BSD style. Beyond that, the only serious problem I've encountered with the SysV style is what happens if the "stop" case in a given script is flawed -- if it fails to exit, as in the case of trying to stop a program that is wedged due to failed hardware (i.e.: why you're trying to shutdown in the first place), the shutdown will hang at that point and you will be forced to reboot via the reset or power switches. This can result in serious data loss and is a failure in the SysV init design. This issue may have been addressed by now. Ideally, init should timeout if a given script takes "too long" and move on to the next one. Of course, this brings up the question of how long is too long and where you would set this, etc. Anyway, you asked.
In addition to being FOUND GUILTY of using its monopoly to crush Netscape (the PUNISHMENT has been a matter of dispute, not the VERDICT), Microsoft was also FOUND GUILTY of stealing compression technology from Stac Electronics.
Bill Gates is the same quality of man as the railroad and oil barons of the early 20th century who made their money by breaking the law and (for the most part) getting away with it.
I had thought the standards of Knighthood did not include "deceitful cunning" (the definition of guile), but obviously I was wrong. I still dispute it being a quality worthy of admiration or commendation.
Fate gave Mr. Gates the advantages of being the son of a rich lawyer, and he obtained the rest by lying and stealing. He certainly did not earn it by merit and the granting of Knighthood based on such success is a disgrace and dishonors those truely worthy of it.
I will no choice but to accept the corrupt reality of his Knighthood, but I will never regard it as justified.
Before anyone wastes their time pointing things out to our "servants" in congress, be sure to read this article first. They don't care about your opinon. And note that SCO is now doing the lobbying dirty work for Microsoft. Such a surprise. Not. I'll say it one more time: better burn cd-roms of your favorite Open Source products, because the end of their legality in the US is coming soon and there's nothing you can do to stop it. The resources of IBM, Red Hat, and the OSDL are nothing compared to Microsoft's >$9 billion cash reserves, and they will continue to manage to slip it to SCO and our government "servants" as needed.
Um, here's a clue: Forbes is a magazine focused on the interest of making a profit. That they would print an article favorable to fax.com and email spammers (businesses making a profit) comes as a surprise to no one, save those who for some reason expect ethical considerations to be involved in their editorial policy.
It's not so much a matter of forgetting as it is a matter of denial. MS lost its case against the DoJ, supposedly the most powerful law enforcer in the US, but has yet to receive any effective punishment and is in fact behaving exactly as before as witnessed by its current crushing of Real Networks out of the market. The judges who were supposed to punish Microsoft proved technically incompetent and unable to understand the issues involved. MS is funding (via various underhanded means) SCO's bogus lawsuits against Linux via IBM and Red Hat, which by its own admission SCO plans to extend to attack the *BSD family of free operating systems. Given that the DoJ was unable to stop MS from abusing the law to its advantage and MS's huge cash reserves for funding endless legal antics (>$9 billion), it is probable that IBM and Red Hat will be unable to find judges capable of separating fact from fiction in SCO's case, or outlasting MS's appeals if they do. This means that SCO will be extorting money from a lot of companies and eventually end-users for some time to come, if not forever. Savvy investors who are not in denial of these facts will thus be investing in SCO and have already done so.
A curse be on any who mismoderate this post. It is on topic and does not contain profanity or insults and thus deserves to be readable by the majority.
Yes. The stockholders should sue RealNetworks' Board of Directors for wasting money on such an obviously pointless act -- Microsoft was found guilty of acting illegally against Netscape and has received no meaningful punishment. Even if RealNetworks won their case (doubtful), it would serve no purpose. The Game is Over, fools. When MS moves in, move out or be bankrupted. This suit will just hasten the later, as RealNetworks has no chance in hell of outspending Microsoft and will thus be bled dry as Microsoft's lawyers laugh.
Speaking as someone who spent many years fighting various Good Fights against government idiots, I will say that government agencies will continue to get failing grades on security because they place the whims of incompetent managers above the advice of their technically competent employees. Not all government IT people are idiots, but most of them have no interest in challenging their pointed-haired bosses because those who do suffer pay discrimination and -- if they're really stubborn -- termination. So government sites will remain a monoculture of poorly patched and insecurely configured MS products just waiting for a new virus to slip in and lay waste to everything in site. In other words, most government sites are like most corporate sites, and for similar reasons.
Well said. Basically, the monopoly position of Microsoft Office (at better than 90%) means that using it is mandatory for anyone who interacts with the rest of the world, no matter how overpriced it is, or how much cheaper or equally functional the alternatives are. These days, if you want to submit your schoolwork electronically, it must be in Microsoft Word format to be accepted. If you want to be able to depend on using electronic documents and forms from businesses and government agencies, you'd better have Microsoft Office. The ability of competing products to read and write Microsoft Office formats is a lucky historical accident that will not be repeated -- for one, reverse engineering the formats is now illegal under the DMCA, so when Microsoft changes them again, the competitors will be SOL. Then there is the issue of needing to interact with Office 2003's DRM system. It is a safe bet this won't be legally possible either. Of course, even the current level of compatiblity provided by Office competitors is not perfect and fails when you need the more advanced features to interoperate. As I've said before, THE GAME IS OVER and has been since the DoJ rolled over. MS owns the computing world and will continue to do so for the foreseeable future. Open Office and other "competitors" will continue to exist in very minor niches (under 5% of the market), but they have no chance of significantly replacing MS Office and will be very lucky if they are even able to exchange documents with it very shortly.
You get fireballs on level 1 if you hang around long enough for barrels to make it all the way to the burning drum at the bottom. The appearance of level 2 is very different than level 1, so I don't think she'd have said that if they had made it off level 1.
I think the most telling comment of the lot was "Becky: What color is he supposed to be? Green? And why can't we get past this first level?" regarding Donkey Kong. Can't get past the first level?! That's pretty sad, given that the first level of Donkey Kong is a cinch.
It's really disgusting that an obnoxious ass like you (and the commenters who endorse your behavior) have a job while so many more responsible and less infantile people don't. Would you think it was funny if an insurance worker fucked with your rates? Would you think it was funny if an auto mechanic fucked with your car? Would you think it was funny if an IRS employee fucked with your taxes? If you say yes, you're a liar. If you say no, then what the fuck are you doing? If you have authorization to have access to Administrator privileges, you are a disgrace to the profession and should be fired. If you are a cracker, you are an example of why the public has no sympathy for computer criminals.
P.S. I'm also really disappointed Slashdot would endorse this kind of behavior by posting this article.
P.P.S. Obnoxious jerks who defend their behavior with retorts like "lighten up" are in need of being beaten up.
In a perfect world, one wouldn't be subject to insanely retentive morons who consider being one minute late a punishment worthy offense. As should be obvious these days, this is more of a pessimal world. So the best course of action is probably to make your target arrival time 7:15. Sure, it's another 15 minutes of uncompensated time out of your life on top of the hour or so you already lose to travel to and from the job, but at least you're employed.
If you wish to avoid receiving personal attacks, you should avoid making them. Your "did you skip history class" opening comment implying my ignorance was patronizing and you should not be surprized to have received a similar response. Frankly, if your original reply had been of the calibur of your second, I wouldn't have replied in the first place. You believe what you want, and I'll believe what I want. As you said, "Who's right? We don't know."
Do you have your head up your ass? Each state's Electorial College members are chosen BASED ON POPULAR VOTE in each state. I said nothing about a conspiracy, I said the voting rolls were rigged and this is a documented fact. I also said the Supreme Court ruling was biased and many constitutional and presidental scholars agree. Specifically:
"Many presidential and constitutional scholars believe the court should never have accepted these cases in the first place; that they should have been decided within the state. I hope, also, to hear Justice Quince's reactions to the U.S. Supreme Court's decisions to remand the first decision (on extending the hand recount deadline) and, then, the second time around when the Supreme Court issued an injunction that knowingly decided the outcome of the case before receiving evidence and hearing arguments."
So your unqualified claim that the Constitution was not violated is at least debatable and probably wrong. Lastly, our form of government is effectively an oligarchy. Deal with it and spare me your ignorant patronizing comments.
This is one of those articles that makes no sense to me. As the events of 2000 demonstrated, the will of the people (of the US, anyway) means nothing. The rules will continue be bent or broken by the elite to achive the outcome they wanted in the first place. Rigged evoting machines, rigged voter lists, or biased Supreme Court rulings, same outcome. The elite want evoting so their rigging is harder to detect. The whining of the non-elite means nothing and won't stop it.
I quite agree. And based on the past, the millions of people who become unemployed due to robotics will be living in the street and/or put in jail for violating "anti-loitering" and other laws designed to keep them from being eye-sores to the few remaining workers and their financial elite overlords. The stupiest thing about the article is the referals to welfare -- unless you're female, you won't be getting any welfare, and even then it's not a certainty. Those in power could not care less about the millions who will suffer from robotics replacing labor, and since they control the system . ..
Um, WRONG. You can import all pokemon from Blue/Red/Yellow into Gold/Silver/Crystal. That's why Gold/Silver/Crystal did not suck and Ruby/Saphire does.
While Pokemon is still around, it obviously isn't as popular as it once was. One reason for this is Nintendo's making Ruby/Saphire incompatible with the Pokemon from previous editions.
The thing is to have something else lined up before you do it.
In this economy, the chances of that are very low. Obviously if you have somewhere else to go, quitting is an option. But the original poster did not and most people lucky enough to have any kind of IT job in this economy do not.
If you are diverse you really dont have much trouble getting another IT job. I know one guy that went from a drone in a 5 person shop to the single guy running his own IT department and is happier now than he has been for years...
Unless you are current in all your certifications (which is unlikely if you work in an understaffed IT department with no budget as the original poster does) AND have extensive work experience in the few niches where any hiring is happening, the chances of you getting another IT job is next to nil. It's an employer's job market and they can and will chose only those people who meet every "requirement", no matter how actually qualified they are.
Regarding your signature, I spent ten years standing up for what I believe in. For my trouble I got substandard pay and was eventually wrongfully terminated by PHBs who got tired of my obstructing their stupidity. Having a backbone leads to mistreatment and discharge and little else. Those who wish to remain employed should beware of listening to your advice. My advice to you is to watch your back -- those VPs you are pissing off are probably planning revenge.
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I hacked up a cgi gateway that lets me browse eye candy from my phone. By the way, does anyone know how to color text in WML? I know it's possible because CNN's wap pages do it, but none of the online tag references I have found mention any related attributes.
As others have noted, if you try to modify the agreements you are presented to sign, the most likely outcome is your being replaced by another applicant. A more realistic solution is to take the job and in the event you create something profitable on your own time and resources, keep absolutely quiet about it, quit and wait awhile while you document your work, and then proceed with development.
As other(s) have noted, this article is flamebait. My personal preference is BSD style. Beyond that, the only serious problem I've encountered with the SysV style is what happens if the "stop" case in a given script is flawed -- if it fails to exit, as in the case of trying to stop a program that is wedged due to failed hardware (i.e.: why you're trying to shutdown in the first place), the shutdown will hang at that point and you will be forced to reboot via the reset or power switches. This can result in serious data loss and is a failure in the SysV init design. This issue may have been addressed by now. Ideally, init should timeout if a given script takes "too long" and move on to the next one. Of course, this brings up the question of how long is too long and where you would set this, etc. Anyway, you asked.
In addition to being FOUND GUILTY of using its monopoly to crush Netscape (the PUNISHMENT has been a matter of dispute, not the VERDICT), Microsoft was also FOUND GUILTY of stealing compression technology from Stac Electronics.
Bill Gates is the same quality of man as the railroad and oil barons of the early 20th century who made their money by breaking the law and (for the most part) getting away with it.
I had thought the standards of Knighthood did not include "deceitful cunning" (the definition of guile), but obviously I was wrong. I still dispute it being a quality worthy of admiration or commendation.
Fate gave Mr. Gates the advantages of being the son of a rich lawyer, and he obtained the rest by lying and stealing. He certainly did not earn it by merit and the granting of Knighthood based on such success is a disgrace and dishonors those truely worthy of it.
I will no choice but to accept the corrupt reality of his Knighthood, but I will never regard it as justified.
Before anyone wastes their time pointing things out to our "servants" in congress, be sure to read this article first. They don't care about your opinon. And note that SCO is now doing the lobbying dirty work for Microsoft. Such a surprise. Not. I'll say it one more time: better burn cd-roms of your favorite Open Source products, because the end of their legality in the US is coming soon and there's nothing you can do to stop it. The resources of IBM, Red Hat, and the OSDL are nothing compared to Microsoft's >$9 billion cash reserves, and they will continue to manage to slip it to SCO and our government "servants" as needed.
Um, here's a clue: Forbes is a magazine focused on the interest of making a profit. That they would print an article favorable to fax.com and email spammers (businesses making a profit) comes as a surprise to no one, save those who for some reason expect ethical considerations to be involved in their editorial policy.
It's not so much a matter of forgetting as it is a matter of denial. MS lost its case against the DoJ, supposedly the most powerful law enforcer in the US, but has yet to receive any effective punishment and is in fact behaving exactly as before as witnessed by its current crushing of Real Networks out of the market. The judges who were supposed to punish Microsoft proved technically incompetent and unable to understand the issues involved. MS is funding (via various underhanded means) SCO's bogus lawsuits against Linux via IBM and Red Hat, which by its own admission SCO plans to extend to attack the *BSD family of free operating systems. Given that the DoJ was unable to stop MS from abusing the law to its advantage and MS's huge cash reserves for funding endless legal antics (>$9 billion), it is probable that IBM and Red Hat will be unable to find judges capable of separating fact from fiction in SCO's case, or outlasting MS's appeals if they do. This means that SCO will be extorting money from a lot of companies and eventually end-users for some time to come, if not forever. Savvy investors who are not in denial of these facts will thus be investing in SCO and have already done so.
A curse be on any who mismoderate this post. It is on topic and does not contain profanity or insults and thus deserves to be readable by the majority.
Will the results be the same?
Yes. The stockholders should sue RealNetworks' Board of Directors for wasting money on such an obviously pointless act -- Microsoft was found guilty of acting illegally against Netscape and has received no meaningful punishment. Even if RealNetworks won their case (doubtful), it would serve no purpose. The Game is Over, fools. When MS moves in, move out or be bankrupted. This suit will just hasten the later, as RealNetworks has no chance in hell of outspending Microsoft and will thus be bled dry as Microsoft's lawyers laugh.
By the way, the rankforsales page is Mozilla hostile. Here's a better link to the story.
Speaking as someone who spent many years fighting various Good Fights against government idiots, I will say that government agencies will continue to get failing grades on security because they place the whims of incompetent managers above the advice of their technically competent employees. Not all government IT people are idiots, but most of them have no interest in challenging their pointed-haired bosses because those who do suffer pay discrimination and -- if they're really stubborn -- termination. So government sites will remain a monoculture of poorly patched and insecurely configured MS products just waiting for a new virus to slip in and lay waste to everything in site. In other words, most government sites are like most corporate sites, and for similar reasons.
. . . donate some money to The Memory Hole and ensure it stays around.
Well said. Basically, the monopoly position of Microsoft Office (at better than 90%) means that using it is mandatory for anyone who interacts with the rest of the world, no matter how overpriced it is, or how much cheaper or equally functional the alternatives are. These days, if you want to submit your schoolwork electronically, it must be in Microsoft Word format to be accepted. If you want to be able to depend on using electronic documents and forms from businesses and government agencies, you'd better have Microsoft Office. The ability of competing products to read and write Microsoft Office formats is a lucky historical accident that will not be repeated -- for one, reverse engineering the formats is now illegal under the DMCA, so when Microsoft changes them again, the competitors will be SOL. Then there is the issue of needing to interact with Office 2003's DRM system. It is a safe bet this won't be legally possible either. Of course, even the current level of compatiblity provided by Office competitors is not perfect and fails when you need the more advanced features to interoperate. As I've said before, THE GAME IS OVER and has been since the DoJ rolled over. MS owns the computing world and will continue to do so for the foreseeable future. Open Office and other "competitors" will continue to exist in very minor niches (under 5% of the market), but they have no chance of significantly replacing MS Office and will be very lucky if they are even able to exchange documents with it very shortly.
You get fireballs on level 1 if you hang around long enough for barrels to make it all the way to the burning drum at the bottom. The appearance of level 2 is very different than level 1, so I don't think she'd have said that if they had made it off level 1.
I think the most telling comment of the lot was "Becky: What color is he supposed to be? Green? And why can't we get past this first level?" regarding Donkey Kong. Can't get past the first level?! That's pretty sad, given that the first level of Donkey Kong is a cinch.
It's really disgusting that an obnoxious ass like you (and the commenters who endorse your behavior) have a job while so many more responsible and less infantile people don't. Would you think it was funny if an insurance worker fucked with your rates? Would you think it was funny if an auto mechanic fucked with your car? Would you think it was funny if an IRS employee fucked with your taxes? If you say yes, you're a liar. If you say no, then what the fuck are you doing? If you have authorization to have access to Administrator privileges, you are a disgrace to the profession and should be fired. If you are a cracker, you are an example of why the public has no sympathy for computer criminals.
P.S. I'm also really disappointed Slashdot would endorse this kind of behavior by posting this article.
P.P.S. Obnoxious jerks who defend their behavior with retorts like "lighten up" are in need of being beaten up.
Should 1 minute late really be considered 'late'?
In a perfect world, one wouldn't be subject to insanely retentive morons who consider being one minute late a punishment worthy offense. As should be obvious these days, this is more of a pessimal world. So the best course of action is probably to make your target arrival time 7:15. Sure, it's another 15 minutes of uncompensated time out of your life on top of the hour or so you already lose to travel to and from the job, but at least you're employed.
And I apologize for my rude comment. I did not intend it to be over the top, just a defensive comeback. Sorry if I used too much gun.
If you wish to avoid receiving personal attacks, you should avoid making them. Your "did you skip history class" opening comment implying my ignorance was patronizing and you should not be surprized to have received a similar response. Frankly, if your original reply had been of the calibur of your second, I wouldn't have replied in the first place. You believe what you want, and I'll believe what I want. As you said, "Who's right? We don't know."
Sigh. Here is the CORRECT link to the article on the validity of the Supreme Court's behavior during the 2000 election dispute.
Do you have your head up your ass? Each state's Electorial College members are chosen BASED ON POPULAR VOTE in each state. I said nothing about a conspiracy, I said the voting rolls were rigged and this is a documented fact. I also said the Supreme Court ruling was biased and many constitutional and presidental scholars agree. Specifically:
"Many presidential and constitutional scholars believe the court should never have accepted these cases in the first place; that they should have been decided within the state. I hope, also, to hear Justice Quince's reactions to the U.S. Supreme Court's decisions to remand the first decision (on extending the hand recount deadline) and, then, the second time around when the Supreme Court issued an injunction that knowingly decided the outcome of the case before receiving evidence and hearing arguments."
So your unqualified claim that the Constitution was not violated is at least debatable and probably wrong. Lastly, our form of government is effectively an oligarchy. Deal with it and spare me your ignorant patronizing comments.
This is one of those articles that makes no sense to me. As the events of 2000 demonstrated, the will of the people (of the US, anyway) means nothing. The rules will continue be bent or broken by the elite to achive the outcome they wanted in the first place. Rigged evoting machines, rigged voter lists, or biased Supreme Court rulings, same outcome. The elite want evoting so their rigging is harder to detect. The whining of the non-elite means nothing and won't stop it.
I quite agree. And based on the past, the millions of people who become unemployed due to robotics will be living in the street and/or put in jail for violating "anti-loitering" and other laws designed to keep them from being eye-sores to the few remaining workers and their financial elite overlords. The stupiest thing about the article is the referals to welfare -- unless you're female, you won't be getting any welfare, and even then it's not a certainty. Those in power could not care less about the millions who will suffer from robotics replacing labor, and since they control the system . . .
Um, WRONG. You can import all pokemon from Blue/Red/Yellow into Gold/Silver/Crystal. That's why Gold/Silver/Crystal did not suck and Ruby/Saphire does.
While Pokemon is still around, it obviously isn't as popular as it once was. One reason for this is Nintendo's making Ruby/Saphire incompatible with the Pokemon from previous editions.
The thing is to have something else lined up before you do it.
In this economy, the chances of that are very low. Obviously if you have somewhere else to go, quitting is an option. But the original poster did not and most people lucky enough to have any kind of IT job in this economy do not.
If you are diverse you really dont have much trouble getting another IT job. I know one guy that went from a drone in a 5 person shop to the single guy running his own IT department and is happier now than he has been for years...
Unless you are current in all your certifications (which is unlikely if you work in an understaffed IT department with no budget as the original poster does) AND have extensive work experience in the few niches where any hiring is happening, the chances of you getting another IT job is next to nil. It's an employer's job market and they can and will chose only those people who meet every "requirement", no matter how actually qualified they are.
Regarding your signature, I spent ten years standing up for what I believe in. For my trouble I got substandard pay and was eventually wrongfully terminated by PHBs who got tired of my obstructing their stupidity. Having a backbone leads to mistreatment and discharge and little else. Those who wish to remain employed should beware of listening to your advice. My advice to you is to watch your back -- those VPs you are pissing off are probably planning revenge.