I was really hoping for Polish and Japanese!

Day's gonna come when those assholes'll a'gonna pay for it big time!
You just watch, fate's gotta way o'tearin' opressors assholes longer than the Chinese wall!

Heh, asshole moderators... can't tell the difference between a difference of opinion and trolling. With such intellectually challenged homo sapiens in existence, I shudder to think what frame of mind those who work at the LHC... no, let's not go there. Some things just shouldn't be imagined. Suffice it to say that if major disaster does strike humanity, it shan't be such a great loss.

Sure, everyone's a physics expert even when dealing with completely unknown phenomena and experiments conducted for the first time in human history.

Of course they're saying there is no cause for concern, it's their job that's on the line. Risks to humanity, the planet etc. be damned, we want our LHC!

People on here are ranting against this guy as if he's stupid or something.

Fact is that most of everyone including myself on slashcrap don't know dick about how these new technologies really affect our health. Sure, they can throw out fancy words and drum up arguments, but it's all sophistry. Just non-sense.

Time and again it's been shown that many big brains and experts overlooked serious ramifications of technology just because of their over-bloated egos, sense of superiority, and a few $$.

As far as I'm concerned, fiber may be a little expensive, but it does the job (and probably better!). So fuck the microwave and go with fiber.

Do programmers deserve their own holiday ahead of other professions?

Of we deserve our own holiday!
Not only that, but the world should kiss our hairy asses and call it ice cream! And we deserve better pay,
like 7 figures for entry level, and sex, lot's of it. Free escorts for every nerd!
Mandatory that every girl and boy by the time they reach 18 must have sex with a nerd. Otherwise, no driver's license,
no voting privilege, and sit at the back of the bus!

People who have a tendency to make up rules for other people just because it suits themselves should be killed.
It will help speed along evolution a lot faster.

I tried learning to touch type several times, but it just didn't work for me. Not everything works for everyone, and making something mandatory just because you think it increases efficiency is rather draconian. Math, certainly. Science... eeeeeeeeeeeh, alright. But touch typing? Seriously, go find another hobby other than making up rules.

Years later I started learning to play an electronic keyboard, and that combined with me typing at a computer started to hurt my wrists and fingers. So I did a little online research and switched to a Dvorak keyboard. Within a week the pain disappeared. I was able to play my music keyboard and type on my computer keyboard without a problem.
What's more?
I learnt to touch type! But without trying to learn it. It just came naturally with a Dvorak keyboard!
So why not make it mandatory to have a Dvorak keyboard available to all students?

When you start making up rules that affect large social systems, it is imperative that they actually reflect the needs and wants of that social system. It should always be a prime concern to alienate the least amount of people, if any at all.

WOW!!

Whoever wrote this... I can't believe...

This person is definitely a psychopath.

If you are going to write a summary, write it non-biased. I really don't care what you find distrubing. If the guy gets 10 years, that is certainly excessive. But he wasn't doing this for himself, he was selling it to others for a profit. He should know better. And try to be a little honest. If you really believe that this would be used for anything other than piracy for the vast majority of cases, you have been drinking the Slashdot kool-aid too long.

Uh, the summary says he was doing it for profit. I don't know how much more clear he could have been. Maybe you should've bothered to read the summary?

There's no reason to assume it was done for piracy. Time and again we're seeing people wanting to use their gadgets without pathetic restrictions. Look at the whole online music trading conflict. On the one hand file traders are called pirates and thieves who are stealing from artists and they are relentlessly pursued by the music industry mafia. On the other hand, the music industry is cashing in on profits big time and itself is stealing from artists. This is a power struggle.

It's true he is probably biased and so am I, but then again so are you. In addition, your IQ seems to be kind of low.

Yes, corporations have these problems also. When they don't deal with them, they go under. There is a reason why corporations sink so much time and money in to insuring they don't happen.

These problems however are not so much similar to the problems you find in companies, but problems you find in none-profit organizations of any stripe. Places where ego is basis for much of the personal incentive for getting involved. Spend some time on your average neighborhood NGO board of directors, and you will see the very similar things happen to their projects.

Bullshit
Bullshit
Bullshit

Ego and Power related problems are much more pronounced in For-Profit structures. You talk about corporations throwing money and time in insuring that it doesn't happen, but what is that if not ego and power flexed another way? It just proves the point even more.

Nonetheless, it's debatable that the CentOS dude went AWOL due an ego problem.

The articles are biased. This is a more complex conflict. It looks like the dude just had it with some sort of (possibly passive aggressive) infighting and decided to say 'the hell with them' for a couple of weeks. I can understand that as it's something I've done in the past. Unpaid work is often very unappreciated, and it isn't unreasonable to simply trash all emails and phone calls until you can catch your breath and unwind the high anxiety tension. Seems to me like some other CentOS folks jumped the gun and turned it into a needless crisis. After all, it isn't like he defaced the site or blocked access. They were able to do all updates including the one denouncing his going AWOL !!

I had a vague suspicion when I read the first denouncement that some other folks at CentOS had power issues, and looking at how he's just come back to simply hand over access rather gracefully without demands or excuses just confirms my doubts. There's always more than one side to a story like this and I wouldn't be surprised if this 'new management' ended up trashing CentOS.

Remember, when power issues arise, the first ones to leave are the wisest.

I concur. He is probably correct with that 10 year estimate.

> This is sick! Boycott the iPhone!

Huh, of course they had to mark my comment as troll. We can't have sheople being outraged at humans being murdered by greedy corporations...
all you dumb moderators out there, GO FUCK YOURSELVES!

> Apple would have killed him had he not killed himself, but Apple probably would have tortured him first in attempt to find the iPhone he lost.

Sad thing is, your comment isn't flamebait.

Apple is responsible for his death, no matter what PR their machine puts out it isn't a secret what working conditions there are like. Intimidating someone into suicide is just as much of a murder as stabbing them yourself.

This is sick! Boycott the iPhone!

At $100,000 per employee, you could hire 10 developers, buy all the best equipment and development tools and spend 10 years on the project and still have money left over.

Remember, this is the kind of process they would bring to health care.

Yes, happened here in Canada already. Government spent $560 million on an e-health website, and almost nothing was produced in the end. The lead consultant has been made to quit, but they're still debating whether to pour more $$ into it.
And you thought $18 million was a lot?
In Toronto, the government spends upwards of $40K for every homeless person. Seriously, you could just rent out a very nice apartment for them at that price.
This sort of thing gives me pause to reflect, it seems that our society is very very incompetent.