The newbie could start writing his name on all his deliverables. Since he is the one doing all the writing, he should put his name first. If his manager reviews, edits, or polishes the employee's deliverable before sending it up the ladder, then it would be appropriate for the boss to add his name as a contributor *after* the author's name. The same rule applies to documents, slide decks, books, emails, and so on.
Anyone who deletes names in order to steal credit is a thief. And the only person worse than a thief is the one who failed to fire him.
If he can't stand working with thiefs in corporate america, he could always experiment with crooks, pirates, lawyers, and politicians on a more global scale.
ASCII ate EBCDIC. VHS ate Betamax. Microsoft Word ate WordPerfect. Conspiracies all?! Blame Reynolds Metals shareholders -- they were the one pushing for the bull market of aluminum foil hats.
Unfortunately, in the USA, the right of lawyers to help (mostly stupid and greedy) people sue anyone for any reason (and for no small fee) far outweighs any pseudo-right to privacy in the USA. The precedent for boundless legal stupidity had been set long before SCO hit the stage.
Furthermore, anybody can übergoogle with LexisNexis (for a fee) to get the goods on anybody. So file all the slashdot "privacy" comments under "fiction".
The only thing worse than the Yahoo NEWS message boards were the ones that were intended to, but never really turned out to be about the stock market! Yahoo message boards -- digital refuse bits unfit for recycling.
Our frustration with the very concept of boot time will continue so long as the user is viewed as a peripheral device.
Ever wonder why your mouse freezes, jerks, or disappears/reappears on Windows and not Mac OS X? Look at the difference in interrupt priorities and figure out where you, the poor user, ranks.
Ever wonder why the three finger salute -- Control - Alt - Delete -- doesn't always result in the CPU acknowledging your presense in its universe?
It's because certain architects, programmers, and testers still truly don't give an ant's fart about humans.
So just get used to it or use your wallet to vote for something completely different.
Actually, if you (and the subset of passionate, yet ignorant democrats who started this "controversy" in preparation for the elections) had actually read the relevant UNCLASSIFIED executive orders, you would have realized that there was nothing illegal about NSA activities whatsoever.
RTFFR - Read the Federal Register (tinfoil hats optional)
There is a fundamental difference between the original intent of being free to choose your religion (or lack thereof) and using the government as a bully tool to "freely" exterminate the last vestiges of religion, first on "government-owned property" and then anywhere in the public eye. This is completely antithetical to the very existence of this great nation.
To summarize, the Anti-Christ Lawyer Union -- and I can freely call it that under the first amendment -- dropped its challenge over the Patriot Act because it didn't have anything to do with your favorite special interest of ramming (however subtle) athiesm down the majority's throat. This has never been a partisan issue.
This notion of IT "Diversity" being the end all and be all for information security is a sham.
Extend the same logic to the freeway. If we had even more brands, models, and geek knobs to choose from, would our traffic safety improve one bit more than where it is today?
Security quality is security quality. Don't confuse security quality with market forces.
If you don't want anyone to catch you in public watching the olympics, then stay home with your tin foil hats and bandolier full of TV remote controls. Don't try watching the olympics on TV at the mall either, because somebody else in the store might be pointing a camcorder right at you.
Historically, developers only had to worry about two things as soon as you were making a few million more than you were spending:
1. Getting bought by Microsoft. 2. Getting squished by Microsoft.
Since the monopoly is official and we the sheeple have voted with our wallets, there is a new threat to developers:
3. Getting stuck on a public pedestal with much flattery and having proprietary source code poured all over you like molasses. This is done with the hope that you will not actually have any time left for "innovation" or "competition" -- as per the original definitions of those words.
Considering the course and the results of the last race, what DARPA is really looking for is one of those fancy walking MINI Cooper robots that looks as though it stepped right out of the Transformers cartoons! Getting somebody to say as much in an official memo has been quite the challenge...
Basing your business on some imaginary market of users with an insatiable appetite of clicking ads all day doesn't really make much sense in the OpenSource arena.
Try making money the proven, old fashioned way by focusing on delivering goods and/or services that have a profitable value proposition for your customers.
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The newbie could start writing his name on all his deliverables. Since he is the one doing all the writing, he should put his name first. If his manager reviews, edits, or polishes the employee's deliverable before sending it up the ladder, then it would be appropriate for the boss to add his name as a contributor *after* the author's name. The same rule applies to documents, slide decks, books, emails, and so on.
Anyone who deletes names in order to steal credit is a thief. And the only person worse than a thief is the one who failed to fire him.
If he can't stand working with thiefs in corporate america, he could always experiment with crooks, pirates, lawyers, and politicians on a more global scale.
Compared to what?
http://kidscientist.com/wp-content/uploads/2007/03/rosetta-namlhots.jpg
ASCII ate EBCDIC.
VHS ate Betamax.
Microsoft Word ate WordPerfect.
Conspiracies all?!
Blame Reynolds Metals shareholders -- they were the one pushing for the bull market of aluminum foil hats.
Google couldn't possibly have done anything evil or it would cease being Google.
For proof, just google "Don't be evil" and "I read it on the internet so it must be true".
Reference: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sarcasm
Unfortunately, in the USA, the right of lawyers to help (mostly stupid and greedy) people sue anyone for any reason (and for no small fee) far outweighs any pseudo-right to privacy in the USA. The precedent for boundless legal stupidity had been set long before SCO hit the stage.
Furthermore, anybody can übergoogle with LexisNexis (for a fee) to get the goods on anybody. So file all the slashdot "privacy" comments under "fiction".
Lipstick, shavers, and iPods are next to be outlawed.
Fully attentive cops with laptops, radios, and coffee mugs will be enforcing the new laws.
The only thing worse than the Yahoo NEWS message boards were the ones that were intended to, but never really turned out to be about the stock market! Yahoo message boards -- digital refuse bits unfit for recycling.
Count how many candy bars, pizza slices, and pretzels you could consume in that time!
Our frustration with the very concept of boot time will continue so long as the user is viewed as a peripheral device.
Ever wonder why your mouse freezes, jerks, or disappears/reappears on Windows and not Mac OS X? Look at the difference in interrupt priorities and figure out where you, the poor user, ranks.
Ever wonder why the three finger salute -- Control - Alt - Delete -- doesn't always result in the CPU acknowledging your presense in its universe?
It's because certain architects, programmers, and testers still truly don't give an ant's fart about humans.
So just get used to it or use your wallet to vote for something completely different.
Actually, it is not illegal. RTFFR. RTFEO.
NSA activities were not a controversy or a conspiracy until certain Democrats said it was.
Actually, if you (and the subset of passionate, yet ignorant democrats who started this "controversy" in preparation for the elections) had actually read the relevant UNCLASSIFIED executive orders, you would have realized that there was nothing illegal about NSA activities whatsoever.
RTFFR - Read the Federal Register (tinfoil hats optional)
Can you say potential acquisition? What would that do to emotional, sanctimonious open sourcerers?
There is a fundamental difference between the original intent of being free to choose your religion (or lack thereof) and using the government as a bully tool to "freely" exterminate the last vestiges of religion, first on "government-owned property" and then anywhere in the public eye. This is completely antithetical to the very existence of this great nation.
Search and replace "athiest" for "religious" in all your musings and see if you still like your historical revisionist version of America.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=IqhlQfXUk7w
and
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Ministry_of_Silly _Walks
To summarize, the Anti-Christ Lawyer Union -- and I can freely call it that under the first amendment -- dropped its challenge over the Patriot Act because it didn't have anything to do with your favorite special interest of ramming (however subtle) athiesm down the majority's throat. This has never been a partisan issue.
Pants, schmants. Where did you learn how to punch? Monty Python's Flying Circus?
That's the best test of computer literacy.
This notion of IT "Diversity" being the end all and be all for information security is a sham.
Extend the same logic to the freeway. If we had even more brands, models, and geek knobs to choose from, would our traffic safety improve one bit more than where it is today?
Security quality is security quality. Don't confuse security quality with market forces.
Novell hardly cornered the market on "egotistical engineers". The humble ones in this industry, if any, have all been outsourced.
If you don't want anyone to catch you in public watching the olympics, then stay home with your tin foil hats and bandolier full of TV remote controls. Don't try watching the olympics on TV at the mall either, because somebody else in the store might be pointing a camcorder right at you.
Historically, developers only had to worry about two things as soon as you were making a few million more than you were spending:
1. Getting bought by Microsoft.
2. Getting squished by Microsoft.
Since the monopoly is official and we the sheeple have voted with our wallets, there is a new threat to developers:
3. Getting stuck on a public pedestal with much flattery and having proprietary source code poured all over you like molasses. This is done with the hope that you will not actually have any time left for "innovation" or "competition" -- as per the original definitions of those words.
Considering the course and the results of the last race, what DARPA is really looking for is one of those fancy walking MINI Cooper robots that looks as though it stepped right out of the Transformers cartoons! Getting somebody to say as much in an official memo has been quite the challenge...
Basing your business on some imaginary market of users with an insatiable appetite of clicking ads all day doesn't really make much sense in the OpenSource arena.
Try making money the proven, old fashioned way by focusing on delivering goods and/or services that have a profitable value proposition for your customers.
6) Belly Buttons
7) New definitions for the word "innovation"
8) Copy and Paste
9) Macintosh
10) The Alphabet