Posts by jake

Re: 'Our community does not appreciate being experimented on' says Kroah-Hartman

The systemd-cancer is not a part of the kernel, it's just another init. The init starts after the kernel boots, so it's not the kernel community's problem.

Re: Place your bets...

No.

Re: Overreaction?

What happens if your girlfriend lifts the odd 20 bucks from your wallet without so much as a by-your-leave? Somehow, I suspect you'll detect it quickly, and deal with the situation no matter how distasteful your options are.

Re: Keep your crappy space station, we're gonna try to make our own

And vodka. Don't forget the vodka. Which NASA frowns on ... hmmm, I wonder ... Nah. Couldn't be.

""Uncle Joe will come visit for a couple days next week" sounds totally innocent, won't be flagged by any police surveillance"

Oh, c'mon ... everybody knows that means the booze, guns, drugs and hookers will be clear of the border by midnight.

Re: The means already exists

Couple weeks late there, Kemosabe.

Re: Bore Da, Maidin Mhaith

Or Yorkshire, by 'ek.

Re: Wrong end of the telescope?

Are you actually calling for the modern parent to parent?

Shocking! How DARE you? Isn't that what the Nanny State is for?

Re: PA Consulting?

Wiki? You mean that thing that can be edited by anybody?

Shirley a company wouldn't appoint staff to ensure "their" page stays whitewashed!

Re: once upon a time

Hell, I've never used a credit card on the Internet. Not once. Not planning on doing so, either. Not until the system is entirely rebuilt from the ground up with security in mind. And even then, I will probably not trust whatever system they come up with. Too many things to go wrong.

Re: One obvious problem with backdoors in end-to-end encryption......

"- ban the use of C programming"

Can I use perl? Assembler? COBOL? Fortran? Forth? Whitespace? The sendmail configuration language? Mouse?

Mayhap they should ban all programming languages. And networks. And computers. And telephones. And the Royal Mail (maybe not that one, I was on a roll ... :-).

_{remind me to break out my PGP-in-perl T-shirt next time I'm flying into Blighty}

Re: Is it just me?

How can there be over representation in a purely voluntary force?

Re: Earth to Felix Gervits ...

"the power of comprehending, inferring, or thinking especially in orderly rational ways"

Machines do not think, nor can they comprehend or infer.

Re: Turn 45 degrees

"They probably still have cutlasses suitable for arming boarding parties still around."

So THAT'S how you lot are planning on getting a functional aircraft carrier ... Remember, as Sir Francis Drake showed us, it's only piracy when some other country does it!

Re: Is it just me?

Not a lot of good ol' suthun boys in CompSci, for what should be obvious reasons. More likely, computers will be best at both California Neutral and Received Pronunciation (for my fellow Yanks, that second one is as close as makes no nevermind to what we usually call "BBC Pronunciation").

But yes, your point is quite valid. It is an issue that is quite real, and will be extremely hard to resolve.

Re: Sorry, China.

Oh, horse shit. That's corporations deciding what is and isn't allowed on their equipment, and individuals deciding which corporation(s) to draw their information from. It has nothing whatsoever to do with governmental censorship ... and only a government can truly be a censor.

Re: Sorry, China.

There is a free market in China? What colo(u)r is the sky on your planet?

You better smile when you call me a republican, pardner. Them's fightin' words ...

Re: Rednecks incoming.....

"It was that bullies will only try to bully those they perceive to be weaker."

And they don't bully those they perceive to be stronger, because might makes right.

"Your phrase is more fitting to US foreign policy, I'm afraid."

We learned from the best. Has the British Museum given back all the national treasures you lot stole from all those furriners you were bullying yet?

Re: And the net of all the chatter...

There is nothing inherently wrong with an NDA. I've signed many of them, mostly having to do with not commenting on proprietary technology, procedures, processes, formulae and the like, and always with a set start and end date.

A few have tried to include a "no working for the competition for X time" clause, but I routinely refuse to allow that (I'm a contractor, ALL of my work is in this field!). I just line out that clause in what is obviously just boilerplate with an initial and date. This has never stopped me from getting a contract.

Not a single "sign here before starting work" NDA that I have ever seen included anything to do with matters of personnel.

Occasionally, an HR department tries to hit me with that kind of thing during an exit interview on the conclusion of a given contract, but I just laugh at them. My contract is complete at that point, I'm not signing another one. This has never stopped me from working for that company again.

Re: I've been around long enough

This is ElReg. Commentards reading for content before getting bent out of shape and pounding out a hissy-fit reply is optional.

Re: "Harassers and bullies succeed in tech..."

"Yeah, uncorroborated stories of isolated cases always convince me."

Who's side do you take when it's he-said, she-said ... and no evidence exists either way, other than a complaint and a denial?

Re: Rednecks incoming.....

"but you knew exactly what I meant now, didn't you?"

Yep. I believe the saying is "might makes right".

Re: "non-disparagement clauses in many employment contracts"?

First you state that "employment laws rolled back to the eighteenth century to match the wild wild West that's the US employment landscape" ... and yet you go on to say that you have actually been employed by US employers who all had "good, decent contracts"?

Do you not see a problem with that dichotomy? Perhaps sharing your actual experience as opposed to what you may have been told would hold a trifle more credence.

Re: Has anyone ever seen a non-disparagement clause in their contract ?

"Added to that, abusers especially sexual harassers often pick their victims carefully."

Very true, but again that is a whole 'nuther kettle o'worms.

Re: Has anyone ever seen a non-disparagement clause in their contract ?

NDAs are a whole 'nuther kettle o'worms.

Re: Has anyone ever seen a non-disparagement clause in their contract ?

That's not an employment contract, that's a redundancy package contract.

Re: Illegal in the UK and EU

I've seen people thrown out WITHOUT there being an official policy.

About a billion years ago in Internet time, call it roughly 1985, my Boss and I were in my office in Sunnyvale talking to the company owner on the speaker phone. The guy in charge of Advanced Manufacturing slammed into the office, making all kinds of demands, threatening us with firing and worse of we didn't drop everything to do his bidding. Until the owner's voice came out of the telephone, saying three magic words: "Dave, you're fired." ,,, My Boss was given the newly vacated AdvMan seat the following morning, and I took over his position. The owner cautioned both of us separately "Play fair with everybody, I don't like assholes". Needless to say we took him at his word.

I've seen similar for sexual harassment, and etc.

Re: Illegal in the UK and EU

Same here in the US, despite some grandstanding to the contrary.

Re: Has anyone ever seen a non-disparagement clause in their contract ?

"I've never signed an employment contract that had a clause that would prevent me from filing a complaint in court."

Never mind signed, I've never even seen one.

Re: @Norablahblah - he doesn't seem to get the idea..

Have you stopped beating your wife, AC?

It's a simple, straightforward question.

Re: Peloton just like a Corvair?

Except the Corvair was just as safe as any other comparable car of the era. Nader is an idiot.

Re: I think it's more a design issue

"Evertried heading cats"

Quite honestly; no, I haven't. Have you? Did you keep your eyes/ears/nose/tongue? How long was the healing process?