sudo if you don't feel like doing anything particularly involved.

Oh and

every descendent of Unix - has a single root account

Root is disabled in OS X by default, you have to use sudo to enable it. SELinux can remove the godly nature of root and Trusted Solaris does something similar. With Windows, you simply create users as members of the correct administrative groups.

What would you have them do to avoid this problem in the future? Perhaps they could hire someone who is a technical expert with overall responsibility for the department, whose job is to make sure something like this can't happen. Oh, wait...

There are AAA systems with RBAC for a reason. Childs was not the only network admin and there is no reason he should have been the only one with administrative access.

However, SF's failures in this regard still do not absolve Childs colossal dickery. He brought the worst of what can be made to stick on himself.

Looks like there may be a few issues with PolyHeme. It would be interesting to see how this new stuff stacks up against the disadvantages of PolyHeme.

Of course, there's no reason there can't be two (or more) different solutions to the problem, that would probably be beneficial to the patient.

The writer likes Outlook.com, clearly government spying is not a problem to them.

Not your personal army.

Well, it was also very large.

More to the point the cost of the damage it caused is passed only by Katrina in 2005 by virtue of hitting areas that do not normally have to worry about major storms of this type. Calling it a 'Superstorm' (it 'merged' with a nor'easter which is what started the name) was stupid, but it wasn't just another rain storm in New York.

systemd: good idea, horrible implementation.

No Solaris SMF was a good idea, systemd is what you get when someone looks at that idea and says "you know what, I can fuck that up."

This is basically what I thought of when I read the summary. Information security work isn't glamorous, like the rest of the industry, it's pretty damn boring. It just doesn't draw kids out of school who are looking to hit it rich and famous, it pulls people who have some experience and are looking for a steady job.

Any questions?

Uh ya, since alarms and shit are going to sound when I need to bring an end to humanity, why do I have to stay awake until then?

None of this is new, or specific to the current downturn. Kids out of school or otherwise without a family would work these very long hours when times were good. Zuckberg said the hire only young workers in 2007, before the current downtrun, and was working that way before he said it.

"Young people just have simpler lives. We may not own a car. We may not have family." In the absence of those distractions, he says, you can focus on big ideologies. He added, "I only own a mattress." Later: "Simplicity in life allows you to focus on whatâ(TM)s important."

The message is hire young people and burn them out before they realize their job isn't the whole life they want. Before they find out the job isn't that important.

How much do they pay you?

Why do you assume that AMD did this voluntarily?

Because there is no evidence to indicate otherwise. Anything else is in the realm of speculation and conspiracy theory.

Clearly you don't belong here. It is not Slashdot's fault that your default handler for mailto: is a client you don't use.

(Tech-support for parents and friends doesn't count)

You just killed your own point.

Because this is Slashdot. BTW, it's also the year of the Linux desktop.