They automatically swoop in to register domain names that people forget to renew, then sell it back to them at extortive prices.
I agree with most of your statements but this one is generally not possible. Reason being is that ICANN requires a Redeption Grace Period be given to all owners who let their domain expire, which usually lasts 30 days. This is in addition to a 30 day grace period given to the owner after a domain becomes expired, where they can buy it back at the normal renewal price. A total of 60 days for an owner to reclaim an expired domain. I feel this is all more than fair. If after all this time the owner doesn't reregister the domain, i have no problem with someone else buying it. However, the registrars themselves have first crack at buying it and many times do. They call it the "Extended Redemption Grace Period" where they try to sell it back to the owner at a higher price. Domains they don't sell back usually get auctioned off, at which point squatters can grab them.
Firing by email simply can not be taken as offical with some due process involved. Email can be faked. Email admins can log in an anyone and send email to anyone. If you're savy enough you can probably telnet to port 25 on your exchange server and send a fake email to anyone form anyone without having any sort of admin rights. You'd have to read the headers to know it was a fake. How many average employees know how to imterpret email headers?
I understand IBM's AIX servers, and HP's HP-UX servers, etc. But how do they know what OS i will be running when I buy a new intel server. My organization have dozen's of intel servers running linux that are the same model we use for our windows servers. Why do I feel that the sales of the machines we use for linux are given to the windows stats?
Sure you have. It's called iChat in OS X. Again available for years. Don't be surprised if they add video conferencing capabilities to it with the first upgrade, something tthat is also currently available for the OS X.
Do you honestly think these guys consider what they do as work? Do you think they have a morning commute ala Michael Bolton in Office Space? Hell no. When you've created and an empire such as google your job is probably more like a rousing game of risk. You're making decisions and setting the direction of a company where hundreds of employees and billions in stock hangs in the balance. Sounds like fun to me! No way i would quit.
A quote from a text book of mine that I think may help:
Some users with unix experience, and particularly those experienced in the linux flavor, may find this caution to be peculiar, in that a conciderable amount of third party software seems to end up installed in privileged system directories these days, as so they might have gotten used to needing to be root to do simple installs. This is the worng way to do things, and fortunately it's a rare unix application that will force you to do things in a poorly thought out fashion if you don't want to. Almost all non-OS-vendor software should be installed and owned by a non-root user. Even vendor supplied copies of third party applications (such as the Apache web server) are best owned and installed by non-root users.
This model makes life a slight bit more difficult than just having root own everything, but the benefits far outweight the minor inconveniences. If you conscientiously make certain that everything that's not distinctly part of the OS is owned by a nonprivileged user, you can allow nonprivileged users to modify and maintain those parts of the system with no fear that they are going to do damage to the OS itself. The machine is more secure, the workload of managing software can be distributed, and those users who need to modify configurations (such as the web server settings) can do so without having to annoy root, or run the risk of compromising the system by a careless keystroke while operating as root.
Implementing this model will take a small additional amount of effort on your part. You won't be able to follow people's simple-minded instructions to "sudo make install" bits of software. But your machine will be better managed and more secure, and you'll be helping to keep mushy-headed thinking from taking hold of the *NIX platform, if you just take the time to follow these suggestions and set up a nonprivileged software account to own and install the majority of your third party software.
"What is 1 plus 1?"
If you get 2 as your answer, you are at the door to salvation. If you get anthing else, you are at the door to death.
Why is this a challenge again?
Get into the history of how it all started. Stallmans vision of free software. The GPL and the GNU system. How Linus fit his kernel with the GNU software to form a completed system. How the term "Open Source" came about, and why it differs from "free software". The first open source support company, cygnus. Eric Raymond and his work. VA Systems and when it went public.
Revolution OS is a great documentary.
Building on your analogy... What if you were to take the person by hand to the drug dealer's house, negotiate the deal, and assist in the exchange of money and product? Would you then be guilty of something?
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You're timing is serendipitous. I was wondering what to buy with my $600 economic stimulus check. Now I know!
I don't have a bit torrent client. Is it on youtube yet?
Or use physical punishment. Let Balmer throw chairs at the security team.
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They automatically swoop in to register domain names that people forget to renew, then sell it back to them at extortive prices.
I agree with most of your statements but this one is generally not possible. Reason being is that ICANN requires a Redeption Grace Period be given to all owners who let their domain expire, which usually lasts 30 days. This is in addition to a 30 day grace period given to the owner after a domain becomes expired, where they can buy it back at the normal renewal price. A total of 60 days for an owner to reclaim an expired domain. I feel this is all more than fair. If after all this time the owner doesn't reregister the domain, i have no problem with someone else buying it. However, the registrars themselves have first crack at buying it and many times do. They call it the "Extended Redemption Grace Period" where they try to sell it back to the owner at a higher price. Domains they don't sell back usually get auctioned off, at which point squatters can grab them.
I hate to point out the obvious, but if you have a trillion dollar idea, why aren't you working on it right now?
Who needs trillion dollar ideas when others are allowing theirs to be posted on public web sites?
Who want's to start a software company with me? I have a few ideas I just recently started kicking around.
Firing by email simply can not be taken as offical with some due process involved. Email can be faked. Email admins can log in an anyone and send email to anyone. If you're savy enough you can probably telnet to port 25 on your exchange server and send a fake email to anyone form anyone without having any sort of admin rights. You'd have to read the headers to know it was a fake. How many average employees know how to imterpret email headers?
I understand IBM's AIX servers, and HP's HP-UX servers, etc. But how do they know what OS i will be running when I buy a new intel server. My organization have dozen's of intel servers running linux that are the same model we use for our windows servers. Why do I feel that the sales of the machines we use for linux are given to the windows stats?
Hadn't heard about this. May be interesting.
Sure you have. It's called iChat in OS X. Again available for years. Don't be surprised if they add video conferencing capabilities to it with the first upgrade, something tthat is also currently available for the OS X.
I wonder if they get a 3% christmas bonus at the end of the year. An extra three cents can go a long way during the holliday season.
Do you honestly think these guys consider what they do as work? Do you think they have a morning commute ala Michael Bolton in Office Space? Hell no. When you've created and an empire such as google your job is probably more like a rousing game of risk. You're making decisions and setting the direction of a company where hundreds of employees and billions in stock hangs in the balance. Sounds like fun to me! No way i would quit.
A quote from a text book of mine that I think may help: Some users with unix experience, and particularly those experienced in the linux flavor, may find this caution to be peculiar, in that a conciderable amount of third party software seems to end up installed in privileged system directories these days, as so they might have gotten used to needing to be root to do simple installs. This is the worng way to do things, and fortunately it's a rare unix application that will force you to do things in a poorly thought out fashion if you don't want to. Almost all non-OS-vendor software should be installed and owned by a non-root user. Even vendor supplied copies of third party applications (such as the Apache web server) are best owned and installed by non-root users. This model makes life a slight bit more difficult than just having root own everything, but the benefits far outweight the minor inconveniences. If you conscientiously make certain that everything that's not distinctly part of the OS is owned by a nonprivileged user, you can allow nonprivileged users to modify and maintain those parts of the system with no fear that they are going to do damage to the OS itself. The machine is more secure, the workload of managing software can be distributed, and those users who need to modify configurations (such as the web server settings) can do so without having to annoy root, or run the risk of compromising the system by a careless keystroke while operating as root. Implementing this model will take a small additional amount of effort on your part. You won't be able to follow people's simple-minded instructions to "sudo make install" bits of software. But your machine will be better managed and more secure, and you'll be helping to keep mushy-headed thinking from taking hold of the *NIX platform, if you just take the time to follow these suggestions and set up a nonprivileged software account to own and install the majority of your third party software.
You ar eincorrect according to the riddle:
"The statue that guards the door to salvation always tells the truth, the statue to the door to death always lies. "
"What is 1 plus 1?" If you get 2 as your answer, you are at the door to salvation. If you get anthing else, you are at the door to death. Why is this a challenge again?
Get into the history of how it all started. Stallmans vision of free software. The GPL and the GNU system. How Linus fit his kernel with the GNU software to form a completed system. How the term "Open Source" came about, and why it differs from "free software". The first open source support company, cygnus. Eric Raymond and his work. VA Systems and when it went public. Revolution OS is a great documentary.
Building on your analogy... What if you were to take the person by hand to the drug dealer's house, negotiate the deal, and assist in the exchange of money and product? Would you then be guilty of something?