Oh, and the company that pays them wouldn't drop them like that if it suited the bottom line?

The days of respecting and being loyal to the company have long gone, because the company doesn't respect, and certainly isn't loyal to, you.

The union, on the other hand, will tend to be loyal to their members, will fight for their rights, and so on. (Unions aren't perfect, but under a capitalism system, they are often better than nothing.)

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More generally, it amazes me that so many "free market" types hate unions. But they don't have any trouble with corporations and so on colluding to keep wages down.

That's the trouble with those who want a perfectly free capitalist market (a contradiction in terms). The want to give all the power to the bosses, and screw the workers, even when joining together in a union is good for the workers interests. They don't like unions because they don't really want a free market, they want a bosses market.

Fuck that.

According to the International Earth-Destruction Advisory Board, the current "Earth-Destruction Alert Level" is "RED". Which means that the Earth has been destroyed.
A quote from the FAQ:

My baby's in there!

Your baby has most likely been destroyed.

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Anyway, for you deluded fools who think the Earth is still around, take head of this warning:

The Earth is built to last. It is a 4,550,000,000-year-old, 5,973,600,000,000,000,000,000-tonne ball of iron. It has taken more devastating asteroid hits in its lifetime than you've had hot dinners, and lo, it still orbits merrily. So my first piece of advice to you, dear would-be Earth-destroyer, is: do NOT think this will be easy.

Obviously it's a little out of date now, 'cause those rascals at CERN managed the job, but still...

I note that the fools from the article don't actually want to destroy the Earth (well maybe one or two of the scenarios might break it apart or something), otherwise they would have come up with some scenarios like:

• Annihilated by an equivalent quantity of antimatter
• Cooked in a solar oven
• Meticulously and systematically deconstructed

(Quote and methods from How to destroy the Earth.)

Fools, I'll show them all!

Is "phishing detection" security? Or does it just provide a false sense of security?

To quote myself (from <http://slashdot.org/comments.pl?sid=1030947&cid=25776933>, strong added):

Because blacklists don't work. Want to not get phished? Simple instructions that even the most computerphobic person can understand:

When you want to go to the website of your bank, credit union etc., type in what you see on the printed material you have in front of you! (Alternatively, for the more computer literate folks, create a bookmark/favourite after having typed in the address from the printed material from your bank. And only access it via that link.)

Never trust a link via an email, never trust a link from another website, not even if the address looks the same. (Character encoding, bad eyes and other things can make two strings look the same, even when they aren't.)

Basically, "phishing detection" is a flawed approach to the problem, and the best solution (as with most computer security issues), is user education. Considering that banks already have a "captive" audience (the audience has to read the material provided by the bank before being able to connect), they have a great opportunity to provide education to users.

They could even have a short quiz before they allowed their customers to get online access to their accounts. Perhaps questions like:

• Will your bank ever email you regarding problems with your account? (No.)
• Should you ever give your online password to anyone? (No.)
• How should you access the banks website? (Answer given above.)

And subsequently ask one of these questions each login ...
Of course, if the bank thinks that the answers above should be different, maybe it's time to move to a different bank.

Combined with a security token, this should cut down on most phishing.

(And actually, no bank I have ever used has known my email, I just refuse to give it to them (No I don't have an email address.).)

tag: appleispants

'Cause apple is pants.

Anyway, it sounds like a clear case of bad hardware, and thus should be replaced. Obviously still in the warranty period, 'cause the items are barely a few months old.

Though, actually, the article talks about updating firmware. Odd.

Actually, the entire article doesn't say much at all.

If I'm releasing stuff, I'm not about to use a creative commons licence because of that (and others) issue.

But, most of the people who use these CC licences would not actually read the licence text. They would not know what the restrictions they are placing!

Err WTF? Somehow I managed to post anonymously without meaning to.

That post up there, the one with "Copyright apathy maybe" is mine.

Kapor is in his element now, fluent, thoroughly in command in his material. "You go tell a hardware Internet hacker that everyone should have a node on the Net," he says, "and the first thing they're going to say is, 'IP doesn't scale!'" ("IP" is the interface protocol for the Internet. As it currently exists, the IP software is simply not capable of indefinite expansion; it will run out of usable addresses, it will saturate.) "The answer," Kapor says, "is: evolve the protocol! Get the smart people together and figure out what to do. Do we add ID? Do we add new protocol? Don't just say, we can't do it."

Source: http://www.mit.edu/hacker/part4.html

So why the fuck hasn't it been adopted yet?

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Anyway, does anyone have any sources as to know the other "big" OS's (MS Windows, Mac OS, the BSD's etc.) were able to speak IPv6 (if they are able to at all?)?

Also, I've tried to find information about whether FreeDOS can do IPv6, but couldn't. Could anyone help there?

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Finally, the beauty of FLOSS.

90 why pick such an odd number?

The Russian Empire was doing a lot of really bad stuff way before the USSR was even thought of. Of course, the British Empire, the Japanese Empire, the French Empire etc. all imposed by force their rule of law.