...(using lawyers as text animals)
As opposed to what? Binary animals?
... IT collectively has way too much time on its hands for reading Slashdot.
Said the troll posting at least 8 times in this story.
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.
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.
Luckily, South Park has never been dubbed.
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.
'FBI has had me on an Anarchy watch list for years'
Now THAT would be a great bumber sticker!
The major difference between bonds and bond traders is that the bonds will eventually mature.