I may be wrong, but, this seems to me that this type of research would be akin to the steam engine on a train compared to an ion engine on a space probe; with all the advances in humanoid robotics and now approved human research. I'd be willing to say that there are some silent people in the background looking for a possible escape from death by finding an artificial fontain of youth. Once they map out the throughput requirements, signaling, sequencing, and hardware (robotic body) what is to stop them from just taking a human brain from a failing (old, or diseased) body and placing it into a robot (much like robo-cop)?
What would be the implications of such a move? Would the resulting 'person' still be considered human? i.e. the only organics left would be the brain.
Well.. That begs the question then- when SCO dissovles into a smoldering pile of dookie. what will happen? And if they do in fact own the portions of UNIX that they say they do- who pretel will gain ownership of the UNIX copyrights? Methinks that there will be an interesting quick and dirty land-grab between Novell and IBM- but that won't have many GPL implications becuase both IBM and Novell are GPL Friendly.. for now..
Their new Music ID service they just came out with was just the beginning!! Their ACTUAL plans are for you to eventually dial their service; place the phone next to your chest and you'll receive a text message telling you if you cancer or not.
....Incoming text message......
"You have 3 months left to live...." "Have a nice day!"
I'll bet Orin Hatch is the only one fooled by this
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He's probably popping open the champagne right now, since this is what he was lobbying for some time ago.. Too bad for him its just a joke.
But anyhow, even if this were true- could you imagine the fireworks when the 'destructo' bit is piggybacked onto an email worm? That would be the best thing that could ever happen to the linux movement- since people would be running from windows like rats from a sinking ship.
Try doing a search for "Xfree", it actually pulls up "Xfree68" as the first result!
now thats odd.
We make craters on Mars all the time!
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Actually, its too bad the rovers have a limited range.. and too bad we dont know where Beagle 2 crashed. If Beagle 2 crashed anywhere near Opportunity we would probably see the man-made crater that was mentioned in the parent post.
Ok, I really wish I was there when this drivel was puked forth:
[QUOTE] "The minute (IBM) puts its 10,000 patents into the public domain, I will follow you with my product," he said. [/QUOTE]
I mean look, people. Seriously.. We ARE NOT contesting the viability of proprietary software. FOSS and Proprietary CAN co-exist, and noone is contending that it can't..
Ok, next time he decides to have another little face-to-face, we need to get someone in there with a little better debating skills.
I can't beleive (it is aparent) that he was able to wriggle his way out of there and still get the last word. (as far as I could tell...)
By SCO spreading FUD about a possible threat to Google's bottom line, how could Google expect their IPO to be damaged in the event that they get litigated against?
Can Google claim damages from SCO if their value as a company is hurt?
I say this because if I was in charge of google, I'd laugh them out of my office. I don't expect Google is even seriously considering paying $699 * ~10,000 = 6.9mil...
In my opinion, whether a person worked for SCO or not would have little to no bearing on future employment.
Actually, this article seems to me like it is an attempt to make current employees rethink their present situation rather than think of their future situations.
For the most part, the average SCO employee doesnt have anything to do with what the company is doing. They are simply making a living within the scopes of their careers.
I am not referring to upper management (i.e. Darl & Friends) as they are making all the decisions. Depending on the outcome of this whole thing they will be in a completely different boat than their employees.
I half expected this sort of thing to happen, my insight into this feeling is thus:
Anything worth doing, is worth doing right!
If I were on the management team for a project such as this, if the odds of success were not at least 50% or higher for success, why bother? Instead of wasting the time/money/HOPE of many people, have patience; i.e. take more time to design in redundancy, test better, etc..
You don't have to agree with me, but it just seems silly to me.
You are correct, maintaining an SLA pretty much goes without saying. What I mentioned above does not apply to administrators that cannot maintain the SLA for uptime or security provisioned by their employment contract.
I think what the author of this segment was pointing out that inspite of the fact that he was doing his job, and was getting compensated by positive performance reviews he was still destined to be replaced by the outsourcing firm.
So establishing a precedent of quality work ethic, and maintaining a stable SLA requirement just isn't enough these days.
Devising a strategy for rebuttal in case you are put under the axe in favor of an outsourcing firm might help.
I think one of the hardest things to come to terms with for bean counters is this:
How do you quantify the work done by an excellent Network/Systems/Security Administrator?
I've been in all of them in some capacity for several years now. One scary thing I have noticed is the fact that you only really get noticed when something goes wrong; if you do your job effectivly, PHB's sometimes wonder why it is that you are there and not doing anything but sitting on your ass all day and staring at a screen. Not realising that you are actually doing your job by _NOT_ doing anything. If that makes any sense at all....
What I suggest, for anyone in the IT industry, make damn sure that you keep an active diary of what you do on a day to day basis. Anything signifigant you do. It is really your only defence against the dreaded 'bobs' "So, what exactly DO you DO here? anywhay?"
Man, just wait until this becomes mainstream.. We are probably going to be mounting missles/saws/axes/rocket launchers/etc to these things and pitting them together in mortal combat in some cordened off area of the desert and it will all be on cable television.
Don't like destruction? How about robot wrestling? Or am I just getting ahead of myself?
The problem is, it's not uncommon to end up with two or three (or more!) different packages doing the same thing. For a specific example, look at what's happened with the Linux sound systems, where there are now several competing packages that have to be supported by each distribution
On with the whole "scratchy itch" point he is trying to make, Linux needs multiple projects that essentially do the same thing, and this type of development should be encouraged. This is one of the reasons why there are very few to none wide-spread vulnerabilities in software- plus some projects might be superficially the same, but might have different uses, performance issues, and the like. I don't know about you, but when I am looking for a MTA server, for example; I like the ability to choose between sendmail, qmail, et all..
From my point of view, thats all this whole thing is going to be.. They are betting on the fact that they can mangle the words around enough to suit their needs. At least we can take a small bit of comfort in knowing that IBM is also very good at playing with words, it just so happens that they have a vested interest in Open Source.. Without IBM, SCO would probably be able to talk themselves into anything they wanted granted they throw enough money at it.
Reminds me of a poster I once saw, It was one of the things programmers always hated about delivering a product. Always getting "That is exactly what I asked for... But it is not what I wanted."
I have always wondered why the U.S. Public library system hasnt put together some sort of music archive. I mean, where does music go when nobody wants to sell it anymore? Or doesnt want to distribute it in the first place? Or the copyright runs out and it becomes public domain (unless copyright is indefinit now..)..
But seriously, music is by some extent the essence of who we are as a civilisation. It should be preserved. Not chucked into the dumpster.
Granted there are security flaws in Linux, and they have been exploited, and there are probably vulnerabilities that noone has seen as of yet.
That being said, one of the distinct OS differences is that windows as an operating system that is homogenous by design, allowing a single worm to infect in a pre-determined way so that the likelyhood of mass infection is very high. Linux, on the other hand is heterogenous, I defy you to find identical email clients/servers database clients/servers etc. configurations across a large area that could possibly be effected by any one specific attack.
I've said it before, and I'll say it again; windows is like what would happen if everyone on earth had the same exact immune system, one virus exploits a vulnerability in one host- it then moves on to the next. Linux/Unix is alot closer to what we see now in biology. What may infect one immune system will not neciserrily effect another.
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I may be wrong, but, this seems to me that this type of research would be akin to the steam engine on a train compared to an ion engine on a space probe; with all the advances in humanoid robotics and now approved human research. I'd be willing to say that there are some silent people in the background looking for a possible escape from death by finding an artificial fontain of youth.
Once they map out the throughput requirements, signaling, sequencing, and hardware (robotic body) what is to stop them from just taking a human brain from a failing (old, or diseased) body and placing it into a robot (much like robo-cop)?
What would be the implications of such a move? Would the resulting 'person' still be considered human? i.e. the only organics left would be the brain.
Well.. That begs the question then- when SCO dissovles into a smoldering pile of dookie. what will happen?
And if they do in fact own the portions of UNIX that they say they do- who pretel will gain ownership of the UNIX copyrights?
Methinks that there will be an interesting quick and dirty land-grab between Novell and IBM- but that won't have many GPL implications becuase both IBM and Novell are GPL Friendly.. for now..
heh doom doom doom...
Their new Music ID service they just came out with was just the beginning!! Their ACTUAL plans are for you to eventually dial their service; place the phone next to your chest and you'll receive a text message telling you if you cancer or not.
....Incoming text message......
"You have 3 months left to live...."
"Have a nice day!"
He's probably popping open the champagne right now, since this is what he was lobbying for some time ago.. Too bad for him its just a joke.
But anyhow, even if this were true- could you imagine the fireworks when the 'destructo' bit is piggybacked onto an email worm? That would be the best thing that could ever happen to the linux movement- since people would be running from windows like rats from a sinking ship.
I think this article would have done better to get a little more granular by asking whether these "IT Professionals" are any one of the following:
*Nix Admin or Dev, Windows Admin or Dev.
I think you *may* find a difference in job satisfaction.
Try doing a search for "Xfree", it actually pulls up "Xfree68" as the first result!
now thats odd.
Actually, its too bad the rovers have a limited range.. and too bad we dont know where Beagle 2 crashed. If Beagle 2 crashed anywhere near Opportunity we would probably see the man-made crater that was mentioned in the parent post.
You should take a look at Modernbill
I've used this before within a small ISP and it was pretty good.
Ok, I really wish I was there when this drivel was puked forth:
[QUOTE]
"The minute (IBM) puts its 10,000 patents into the public domain, I will follow you with my product," he said.
[/QUOTE]
I mean look, people. Seriously.. We ARE NOT contesting the viability of proprietary software. FOSS and Proprietary CAN co-exist, and noone is contending that it can't..
Ok, next time he decides to have another little face-to-face, we need to get someone in there with a little better debating skills.
I can't beleive (it is aparent) that he was able to wriggle his way out of there and still get the last word. (as far as I could tell...)
Ok, I'm done for now...
Back in the day... we only had EIGHT SONGS to listen to. AND WE LIKED IT!
By SCO spreading FUD about a possible threat to Google's bottom line, how could Google expect their IPO to be damaged in the event that they get litigated against?
Can Google claim damages from SCO if their value as a company is hurt?
I say this because if I was in charge of google, I'd laugh them out of my office.
I don't expect Google is even seriously considering paying $699 * ~10,000 = 6.9mil...
Are you suggesting that the U.S. government is somehow going to mandate that the development of Linux and IPSEC et al put in back doors?
I think not.
In my opinion, whether a person worked for SCO or not would have little to no bearing on future employment.
Actually, this article seems to me like it is an attempt to make current employees rethink their present situation rather than think of their future situations.
For the most part, the average SCO employee doesnt have anything to do with what the company is doing. They are simply making a living within the scopes of their careers.
I am not referring to upper management (i.e. Darl & Friends) as they are making all the decisions. Depending on the outcome of this whole thing they will be in a completely different boat than their employees.
I half expected this sort of thing to happen, my insight into this feeling is thus:
Anything worth doing, is worth doing right!
If I were on the management team for a project such as this, if the odds of success were not at least 50% or higher for success, why bother? Instead of wasting the time/money/HOPE of many people, have patience; i.e. take more time to design in redundancy, test better, etc..
You don't have to agree with me, but it just seems silly to me.
You are correct, maintaining an SLA pretty much goes without saying. What I mentioned above does not apply to administrators that cannot maintain the SLA for uptime or security provisioned by their employment contract.
I think what the author of this segment was pointing out that inspite of the fact that he was doing his job, and was getting compensated by positive performance reviews he was still destined to be replaced by the outsourcing firm.
So establishing a precedent of quality work ethic, and maintaining a stable SLA requirement just isn't enough these days.
Devising a strategy for rebuttal in case you are put under the axe in favor of an outsourcing firm might help.
I think one of the hardest things to come to terms with for bean counters is this:
How do you quantify the work done by an excellent Network/Systems/Security Administrator?
I've been in all of them in some capacity for several years now. One scary thing I have noticed is the fact that you only really get noticed when something goes wrong; if you do your job effectivly, PHB's sometimes wonder why it is that you are there and not doing anything but sitting on your ass all day and staring at a screen. Not realising that you are actually doing your job by _NOT_ doing anything. If that makes any sense at all....
What I suggest, for anyone in the IT industry, make damn sure that you keep an active diary of what you do on a day to day basis. Anything signifigant you do. It is really your only defence against the dreaded 'bobs' "So, what exactly DO you DO here? anywhay?"
Cheers.
Man, just wait until this becomes mainstream.. We are probably going to be mounting missles/saws/axes/rocket launchers/etc to these things and pitting them together in mortal combat in some cordened off area of the desert and it will all be on cable television.
Don't like destruction? How about robot wrestling? Or am I just getting ahead of myself?
The problem is, it's not uncommon to end up with two or three (or more!) different packages doing the same thing. For a specific example, look at what's happened with the Linux sound systems, where there are now several competing packages that have to be supported by each distribution
On with the whole "scratchy itch" point he is trying to make, Linux needs multiple projects that essentially do the same thing, and this type of development should be encouraged. This is one of the reasons why there are very few to none wide-spread vulnerabilities in software- plus some projects might be superficially the same, but might have different uses, performance issues, and the like. I don't know about you, but when I am looking for a MTA server, for example; I like the ability to choose between sendmail, qmail, et all..
This is not a bad thing..
From my point of view, thats all this whole thing is going to be.. They are betting on the fact that they can mangle the words around enough to suit their needs. At least we can take a small bit of comfort in knowing that IBM is also very good at playing with words, it just so happens that they have a vested interest in Open Source.. Without IBM, SCO would probably be able to talk themselves into anything they wanted granted they throw enough money at it.
Thanks!
I thaught I might bring some good'ole fark-like photo-shop goodness to slashdot..
Here is the devel process that SCO sees instead:
SCO Linux Devel Process
Reminds me of a poster I once saw, It was one of the things programmers always hated about delivering a product. Always getting "That is exactly what I asked for... But it is not what I wanted."
I have always wondered why the U.S. Public library system hasnt put together some sort of music archive. I mean, where does music go when nobody wants to sell it anymore? Or doesnt want to distribute it in the first place? Or the copyright runs out and it becomes public domain (unless copyright is indefinit now..) ..
But seriously, music is by some extent the essence of who we are as a civilisation. It should be preserved. Not chucked into the dumpster.
I'll jump in on this one if I may as well....
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Granted there are security flaws in Linux, and they have been exploited, and there are probably vulnerabilities that noone has seen as of yet.
That being said, one of the distinct OS differences is that windows as an operating system that is homogenous by design, allowing a single worm to infect in a pre-determined way so that the likelyhood of mass infection is very high. Linux, on the other hand is heterogenous, I defy you to find identical email clients/servers database clients/servers etc. configurations across a large area that could possibly be effected by any one specific attack.
I've said it before, and I'll say it again; windows is like what would happen if everyone on earth had the same exact immune system, one virus exploits a vulnerability in one host- it then moves on to the next. Linux/Unix is alot closer to what we see now in biology. What may infect one immune system will not neciserrily effect another.
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Possibly, that would explan why whenever I install updates to my windows machine a great big glowing red eye flickers on my monitor.