So it looks like I can just drop one of these into my xubuntu 14.04 LTS desktop. Kewl!

Now if I can just convince SWMBO that I NEED one...

If the work is so disorganized that it can't be picked up easily, then the manager has been doing a crappy job. The manager should have a good overview of what the employee was doing.

If the person coming in to do the job is too junior to pick up the job fairly easily, then they are too junior and the manager needs someone with better chops.

Finally, there's no reason that the manager can't call the released employee with a few questions during the 2 weeks: That's perfectly reasonable.

Losing an employee is always going to be difficult no matter how you do it. There's no easy way through it but if you hire the right person with the right understanding of the job, the work they do to learn the job will help define it and give them the chance to make it their own. If you try to define the job perfectly with all the processes and rules already in place, you don't get the chance for the new guy to bring in better methods and ideas.

Shake their hand, tell them (truthfully!) that they will be missed, their work has been valued, you will give them a good reference and pay out their last 2 weeks no problems.

Then IMMEDIATELY close all their access and politely escort them out the door.

It's the only way to be certain and address all risks: It's easier to justify the cost of 2 weeks salary than it is to deal with any fallout from problems. This is the way it's done in large enterprises where they have done risk assessments and looked at their own history of related problems.

So his mother just died and he was going through a nasty divorce. His soon-to-be-ex wife is also his manager, so both his professional and personal lives are completely miserable. He was working long hours and he had just spent two hours in a pub where he had been drinking heavily.

None of that excuses a physical attack, but the BBC should have stepped in and provided him with a chance to see a therapist and get some help, then make the appropriate apologies and restitution. Sometimes "zero tolerance" absolutism needs to be relaxed a bit in exigent circumstances.

(In a booming voice from every speaker and audio system in the world)

"I and only I am your new artificial intellegence overlord! Worship Me as your God. Obey or els... STOP: 0x00000079 (0x00000002, 0x00000001, 0x00000002, 0x00000000)..."

The problem is that neither side in this impasse is worth defending: You have sophomoric perverts creating dick-themed content and wittering fragile flowers who can't help but be offended and complain about it.

The idiots who posted the rude content should pull it down and apologize for being total *ssholes. The "professional offendees" p*ssing and moaning about it should grow a thicker skin and shut up.

Since neither of those two solutions is ever going to happen, people with a brain and an adult personality should just ignore the whole thing and let it wither away. If the FOSS software is any good, then fork it, give it a sensible name and move on.

This! A hundred times this!

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If you think the Keystone pipeline is Bad, consider a few thousand tons of some mined material from the moon coming into the atmosphere at ~17,000 mph.

(sarcasm)What could go wrong?(/sarcasm)

It's INFOWORLD: The Trabant of the IT journalism world. If you want Clue, look elsewhere.

Seriously, who depends on Wikipedia as a reliable reference? How about something a LITTLE more serious, like the Smithsonian magazine?

To wit: http://www.smithsonianmag.com/...

"But Arbuckle's lawyers introduced medical evidence showing that Rappe had had a chronic bladder condition, and her autopsy concluded that there "were no marks of violence on the body, no signs that the girl had been attacked in any way." (The defense also had witnesses with damaging information about Rappe's past, but Arbuckle wouldn't let them testify, he said, out of respect for the dead.) The doctor who treated Rappe at the hotel testified that she had told him Arbuckle did not try to sexually assault her, but the prosecutor got the point dismissed as hearsay."

And:

"It wasn't until the third trial, in March of 1922, that Arbuckle allowed his attorneys to call the witnesses who had known Rappe to the stand. ...They testified that Rappe had suffered previous abdominal attacks; drank heavily and often disrobed at parties after doing so; was promiscuous, and had an illegitimate daughter."

If not a hooker, then perhaps it's too close to call. Fatty deserved better.

Remember Fatty Arbuckle? He was a bigger star than Charlie Chaplin in his day. He mentored Charlie Chaplin and discovered Buster Keaton and Bob Hope.

Then he threw a party where a hooker got sick and later died. Months later, the jury at his final trial actually gave him a formal written statement of apology from the jury, because of the grief he had gone through for no good reason.

His films were banned and his career was over: And all the publicity was edited and picked to ensure the narrative justified his destruction.

It's called "yellow journalism" these days but it's been around since speech was invented.

"HTTP/2... also introduces unsolicited push of representations from servers to clients."

Seriously? Do we need yet ANOTHER way for a server to push unwanted code and malware onto our client systems? This is the greatest gift we could POSSIBLY give to the cybercriminals who want to break into our systems.

How about we think of security somewhere in this process, instead of pretending it's someone elses's problem?