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Comment Re:Sysadmins VS Lusers, lets get ready to rumble! (Score 1) 1307

About that, can you please clarify? I say this because google returns the following on 'Daniel Phillips':

    - a physics professor: http://www.phy.ohiou.edu/~phillips/
    - a make-up artist: http://www.imdb.com/name/nm0680066/
    - a rapist (i'm not kidding): http://mssparky.com/2011/01/rapist-hides-out-in-iraq-while-working-for-us-contractor/

I wonder which one is states your IT qualifications.

May I suggest some ketchup to go with that foot?

Back on-topic: it is simple, really: Users that have IT needs, go through IT requesting services. IT staff are hired to take care of IT, they dictate how/what is used concerning IT. Users have no business running IT since neither their job nor their responsibility. That last one is the biggest factor.

Comment Re:Difficult to create data with soldering iron .. (Score 1) 491

Plaintiff's Attorney: "Sir, what are the chances of the drive automatically generating the exact sequence of bits required to form this email?"

Expert Witness: "Billions to one, certainly."

errmm, a quick run with numbers: 128 possible values for a single byte and lets say 1 KB messages, that would be 128^1024 possible combinations, wouldn't it? Which is WAY more than 'billions'. Not much of an expert that witness.

Comment Arcticle author (Score 1) 663

http://arstechnica.com/author/peter-bright/

Peter Bright Microsoft Contributor Peter Bright dropped out of university after about five minutes to work as a software developer writing C++ and C#. After several years of Java development in the financial services industry, he joined the British Library, where he worked to preserve the ever-growing legacy of digital information. When not musing about the future of Microsoft, he enjoys programming for fun, burritos, and photography.

Make your own conclusion about the author... Hint: not exactly a defender of "openness", they should've added cool-aid drinker to that list.

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