If this lawyer is even REMOTELY close to getting any sort of legal resolution to this suit, our good friend Daryl will open the new "SCOCryBaby" division and sue just about every computer geek on the planet for just over 100 Million Billion.
Wow... I can see it now...
"Today SCO CCBE (Chief CryBaby Executive) announced that Lindon, Utah based SCO Group has discovered a butload of emails that ammount to a smoking gun in their fight against the libelous actions of Linuxdom."
One of the pic sites has several photos of team Tsunami locked into an epic FPS netgame, complete with multicolored LAN cables and cans of soda, right before showcasing the team learning how to use REAL firearms at one of Nevada's many target ranges.....
One might doubt the wisdom of issuing sniper rifles and live ammunition to Counter Strike junkies.
I was on the N+I InteropNet Team in Las Vegas this year and one of the projects that I was able to play with was the Arruba/Airmagnet wireless rollout. It absolutely amazed me the number of vendors who didn't bother to contact the InteropNet admin ahead of time because they thought they could drag in their equipment, setup a 802.11b bridge and feed all their network needs wirelessly.
Even worse was that some of the vendors came in days before everybody else and, since their wireless bridge was working, refused to accept our FREE help in connecting directly to the network backbone. The day before the show floor opened all the newly arrived vendors flipped on their own wireless equipment and flooded the Las Vegas Convention Center with over 1200 distinct SSIDs across all channels. We scrambled to setup enough APs and track down problem spots for reconfiguration. While troubleshooting the chaos, I even heard one vendor say "well... why don't we just jack up our power and burn through all the interference!"
I absolutely applaud Defcon's wireless shootout, but I'm wondering if another segment of the test would be to subject the teams to the kind of interference that is common in a major metropolitan area. I would also love to see these guys switch over to 802.11a equipment which is vastly superior in dealing with interference.
Hell... if they could get the price point low enough, every red-blooded American could afford their very own ExoSuit tailored to fit their needs!
New Yorkers would get the model with the "Exo-Middle Finger" while Californians would opt for either the "Exo-Tan" or "Exo-Collonic" models. We would be a society of indestructible, walking tanks, oblivious to the threats of terrorism, carjacking and police brutality.
That is of course until some kid in Belize hacks the Federal ExoSuit command and "all our ExoSuits are belong to him."
I've been using an Inspiron 300m for about 3 months now. I've got the extended battery, which ups the weight to about 3.2 lbs) and I can get ~8 hours using it for surfing and typing... ~6 hours playing DIVX movies at full brightness. If I want to play DVD movies, I pop it into the base which has an extra battery (this ups the weight to about 4 lbs) and I can get ~9 hours watching movies.
Or for that matter... as we phase out the shuttles why can't we dock them permanently to the space station? After all, the shuttles were built as orbiting laboratories.
His job was to inform the higher ups that it was his opinion that his boss was playing games. Thats it... that's where his responsibility ended. It was NOT his job to go James Bond and take snapshots of his desktop without ANYBODYS permission (the individual being monitored and/or the higher ups.)
It always strikes me as strange when the reality of the world comes crashing into the fantasy life of IT people who believe that their position grants them GODMODE without limit or accountability.
Who DOESN'T want to catch their boss/nemesis/whatever doing what they are not supposed to be doing. It is the wet-dream of every IT admin that I know. Think about it: Man complains to his boss' bosses that the man isn't working. The higher ups basically ignore him so he goes on a personal crusade to catch the guy. 7 months later he makes his accusation again but this time he has the indisputable proof! Yeah... sounds fun... even imaginative... the only problem isthat IT'S NOT HIS JOB TO MAKE SURE HIS BOSS IS BEING PRODUCTIVE!!!
As much as I would love to say that this guy fought the good fight and was canned because he was trying to be a good IT admin, the truth of the matter is that he wasn't trying to do HIS job, he was just trying to show that his boss wasn't doing the job that the admin thought he should be doing.
Who knows what the supervisor was doing? Perhaps his job didn't really entail the use of a computer.. (Yes those jobs really do exist)... Perhaps the supervisor was actually a good boss who does most of his work on the phone and with a pad of paper. The bottom line is that judging the productivity of the supervisor is the job of an individual's superiors, not one of his underlings.
On a side note... what IF that supervisor had actually been doing mission-critical or sensitive application work on his computer? Would John Q. Public want some IT admin to have access to screenshots of his SSN, address or medical information? Registration info? Driver's LIC#s? For me... that's the real Asshole-Quotient part of the story.
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Does this mean that those space nuts will not have to wear tinfoil hats to keep the aliens out of their minds?
If this lawyer is even REMOTELY close to getting any sort of legal resolution to this suit, our good friend Daryl will open the new "SCOCryBaby" division and sue just about every computer geek on the planet for just over 100 Million Billion.
Wow... I can see it now...
"Today SCO CCBE (Chief CryBaby Executive) announced that Lindon, Utah based SCO Group has discovered a butload of emails that ammount to a smoking gun in their fight against the libelous actions of Linuxdom."
One of the pic sites has several photos of team Tsunami locked into an epic FPS netgame, complete with multicolored LAN cables and cans of soda, right before showcasing the team learning how to use REAL firearms at one of Nevada's many target ranges.....
One might doubt the wisdom of issuing sniper rifles and live ammunition to Counter Strike junkies.
I was on the N+I InteropNet Team in Las Vegas this year and one of the projects that I was able to play with was the Arruba/Airmagnet wireless rollout. It absolutely amazed me the number of vendors who didn't bother to contact the InteropNet admin ahead of time because they thought they could drag in their equipment, setup a 802.11b bridge and feed all their network needs wirelessly.
Even worse was that some of the vendors came in days before everybody else and, since their wireless bridge was working, refused to accept our FREE help in connecting directly to the network backbone. The day before the show floor opened all the newly arrived vendors flipped on their own wireless equipment and flooded the Las Vegas Convention Center with over 1200 distinct SSIDs across all channels. We scrambled to setup enough APs and track down problem spots for reconfiguration. While troubleshooting the chaos, I even heard one vendor say "well... why don't we just jack up our power and burn through all the interference!"
I absolutely applaud Defcon's wireless shootout, but I'm wondering if another segment of the test would be to subject the teams to the kind of interference that is common in a major metropolitan area. I would also love to see these guys switch over to 802.11a equipment which is vastly superior in dealing with interference.
Hell... if they could get the price point low enough, every red-blooded American could afford their very own ExoSuit tailored to fit their needs! New Yorkers would get the model with the "Exo-Middle Finger" while Californians would opt for either the "Exo-Tan" or "Exo-Collonic" models. We would be a society of indestructible, walking tanks, oblivious to the threats of terrorism, carjacking and police brutality. That is of course until some kid in Belize hacks the Federal ExoSuit command and "all our ExoSuits are belong to him."
I've been using an Inspiron 300m for about 3 months now. I've got the extended battery, which ups the weight to about 3.2 lbs) and I can get ~8 hours using it for surfing and typing... ~6 hours playing DIVX movies at full brightness. If I want to play DVD movies, I pop it into the base which has an extra battery (this ups the weight to about 4 lbs) and I can get ~9 hours watching movies.
Or for that matter... as we phase out the shuttles why can't we dock them permanently to the space station? After all, the shuttles were built as orbiting laboratories.
His job was to inform the higher ups that it was his opinion that his boss was playing games. Thats it... that's where his responsibility ended. It was NOT his job to go James Bond and take snapshots of his desktop without ANYBODYS permission (the individual being monitored and/or the higher ups.) It always strikes me as strange when the reality of the world comes crashing into the fantasy life of IT people who believe that their position grants them GODMODE without limit or accountability.
Who DOESN'T want to catch their boss/nemesis/whatever doing what they are not supposed to be doing. It is the wet-dream of every IT admin that I know. Think about it: Man complains to his boss' bosses that the man isn't working. The higher ups basically ignore him so he goes on a personal crusade to catch the guy. 7 months later he makes his accusation again but this time he has the indisputable proof! Yeah... sounds fun... even imaginative... the only problem isthat IT'S NOT HIS JOB TO MAKE SURE HIS BOSS IS BEING PRODUCTIVE!!!
As much as I would love to say that this guy fought the good fight and was canned because he was trying to be a good IT admin, the truth of the matter is that he wasn't trying to do HIS job, he was just trying to show that his boss wasn't doing the job that the admin thought he should be doing.
Who knows what the supervisor was doing? Perhaps his job didn't really entail the use of a computer.. (Yes those jobs really do exist)... Perhaps the supervisor was actually a good boss who does most of his work on the phone and with a pad of paper. The bottom line is that judging the productivity of the supervisor is the job of an individual's superiors, not one of his underlings.
On a side note... what IF that supervisor had actually been doing mission-critical or sensitive application work on his computer? Would John Q. Public want some IT admin to have access to screenshots of his SSN, address or medical information? Registration info? Driver's LIC#s? For me... that's the real Asshole-Quotient part of the story.