New Feature: AT&T will support 1PS: 1 Pixel Per Second!! Who needs 4G?
Who cares: Apple is the new BORG.... Time to move the borg from Bill to Steve...
IBM put $50MM into the Novell/SuSE deal -- presumably to ensure that SuSE remained stable for their mainframe Linux offerings. I am a bit of a SuSE advocate, so I am also surprised since SuSE is originally from Germany... Who knows?
Bob
I worked off and on with Tridge at Linuxcare, then one degree of separation with work later on (Samba rocks).
He is very deserving, and kudos for his view on most wordly and out-of-wordly things.
DTC-Bob
I was very close to Suse here in the US prior to their acquisition by Novell. I worked with them closely, and we were even called out as a Suse success story on the road show.... Let's all remember that SuSE CHOSE to sell their company to Novell. No one had a gun to their head (although speculation was that some thought the market was *going* to be the gun...)...
The founders, I am sure, did nicely, thank you.
Bob
Lets take a look at the other side. While I agree that on a micro level violent crime is more egregious than hacking. But what do we do with the hacker that brings down -- lets say -- a hospital's power supply and someone dies? Or opens (another) hole in our national defense to some bad types?
Do we make the distinction between someone who pulls the trigger versus someone who enables the trigger (potentially multiple times)?
If we look outside of the violence, if a hacker causes *billions* in damage -- that is certainly a LOT more economic damage than the typical death row type...
I know good hackers to be generally amongst the most gifted coders. They might do well to come out from behind their machines and observe the damage, loss, and pain they cause. Having 'fun' and claiming the black kudos needs to be tempered with the reality of the havoc they inflict -- even if not intentionally.
Personally I am against the death penalty. But at some point this 'fun' needs to be reconciled with some level of *personal* responsibility.
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SCOTUS = GOMER PYLE: "Suprise, Suprise, Suprise!" [sic] How naieve can a group of (theoretically) smart people be?
New Feature: AT&T will support 1PS: 1 Pixel Per Second!! Who needs 4G? Who cares: Apple is the new BORG.... Time to move the borg from Bill to Steve...
Can Sweden annex Denver?
IBM put $50MM into the Novell/SuSE deal -- presumably to ensure that SuSE remained stable for their mainframe Linux offerings. I am a bit of a SuSE advocate, so I am also surprised since SuSE is originally from Germany... Who knows? Bob
I worked off and on with Tridge at Linuxcare, then one degree of separation with work later on (Samba rocks). He is very deserving, and kudos for his view on most wordly and out-of-wordly things. DTC-Bob
I was very close to Suse here in the US prior to their acquisition by Novell. I worked with them closely, and we were even called out as a Suse success story on the road show.... Let's all remember that SuSE CHOSE to sell their company to Novell. No one had a gun to their head (although speculation was that some thought the market was *going* to be the gun...)... The founders, I am sure, did nicely, thank you. Bob
Lets take a look at the other side. While I agree that on a micro level violent crime is more egregious than hacking. But what do we do with the hacker that brings down -- lets say -- a hospital's power supply and someone dies? Or opens (another) hole in our national defense to some bad types? Do we make the distinction between someone who pulls the trigger versus someone who enables the trigger (potentially multiple times)? If we look outside of the violence, if a hacker causes *billions* in damage -- that is certainly a LOT more economic damage than the typical death row type... I know good hackers to be generally amongst the most gifted coders. They might do well to come out from behind their machines and observe the damage, loss, and pain they cause. Having 'fun' and claiming the black kudos needs to be tempered with the reality of the havoc they inflict -- even if not intentionally. Personally I am against the death penalty. But at some point this 'fun' needs to be reconciled with some level of *personal* responsibility.