Except that cheating on a certification is enough to get that certification nullified, even after the fact.
Only if you have your license to practice medicine nullified, and you keep practicing, that's malpractice.

Having the certification boards make up these as they go along is dangerous and inacceptable.

Following this logic, short on Wal-Mart, immediately, their entire business is based on importing products that would be more expensive if they were made according to the labour standards of the US.

Hint:
China does NOT have to sell to you.

If you somehow managed to get the EU and the US to do a joint bill, it might maybe work.

But which rules would then apply? Aren't labour rules state rules in the US? (And Canada, and a a lot of other places except the EU, which has member states who have such rules)

I thought the same, plus an e-commerce company in this pci dss era, without more people? How the hell did they get certified... and if not, how can they continue to operate?

The judge might not care that it's Facebook's TOS, he should care however, that he's asking for the worse possible way to get what he wants.

Having the court order facebook to give both parties the information for both accounts is the right, "least abusable" way to go about this.

Ordering people to give over a password to someone they despise, when the only POINT of the password is that it's not known to anyone else is ludicrous.

Thinking that the only damage they can do is limited to the pranks he ordered them not to do is criminally misinformed.

The law in many countries state "ignorance of the law is no defense".

It should have a matching "no judge may be ignorant of the nature of the things he orders about.

Sure, but also eliminate the safety of not taking risks...
You need to balance.. not tip it more one way or the other...

This would have the effect of punishing them to do anything, so they would just refuse all loans, even qualifying ones..

The money would not work in the economy, and we'd still be in the crisis, ten years from now.

We have to keep in mind the heisenberg principle, but applied to banks, it's impossible to Affect the market without unabalncing it. We(the people) ARE an actor in the market, we need to balance our action, both to help take risks, but not needlessly, nor without a plan.

This also applies to state investment, state funding, and state regulation of private investment, and state direction of private investment.

If you spend a dollar, you gotta be responsible for it.
If you spend a million, and it goes bad, do you go to jail for it?

If not...
the big question is why?

I find your lack of... damage mitigation from foreknowledge... disturbing

I was thinking he was in the uncomfortable position of the CIO feeling he was paying the poster for support, and the poster wanted the security blanket of paying red hat to be backup. Paid support also prevents local staff from being scapegoats(it was red hat's fault, we should cut their support!). Without paying for support, he would be the scapegoat.

As sad as it may be, I can only applaud him for perceiving the implied threat, by not having a thick enough support blanket. I also wonder just how much he is paid to manage those servers, and if he couldn't as others said, pay for it himself.

On the other hand, I believe I read on slashdot recently that redhat is growing more this year than any other. I suspect the perception is that they're good enough, and cheaper than alternatives(I am looking at ex-Solaris shops especially) is finally moving in the right direction.

As for how much of a freeloader he is... He's trying to get his company to pay for a service the cio already said he doesn't require. In some places, that's close to a fireable offense. He can be expected to defend the idea, but now he has to fold.

The negative comments are queued(that is, first-in, first-out) by slashdot anyways.

But you're right, that's not the idiom.

It's simple... the biggest difference between a cushy consulting gig and a government job is the job security and the money. The combination of job security and lower money for government jobs means it's where skilled people go to die...

They need to do two things:
1) remove the job security
2) pay market wages for the same work

But it'll only work if they do both at once...

An atomic clock could just measure radiation as harmless as the one the sun sends out your way... every second of every day... Billions of times...

I know you were trying to be ironic, but the "it's atomic so it must be bad" just irks me.

As for energy... Solar and Fusion's the way to go, it's just more complicated to do it "Right".

We never seem to get things "right" we always stop at getting the shortcuts... and then we complain we have problems...

Are you willing to pay for one?

It will have the benefit of being ad-free, but you'll likely have to pay for your usage(and no, not for the size of your network, but for the services you use, perhaps for each message you send to other members, or how many hits on your profile page).

Except that Google's clients, the advertisers, wouldn't have had the certitude that only the snobbish first adopters were on it.

The main problem with google+ and facebook is that the users are not the customers.

That's the main problem with them, and it will not go away.

I see where you're going with this, and I mostly agree, for one, the protesters are far too short term to actually even "damage" even one proxy, let alone all of them, so no lasting change will be done. Second, those proxies are all identified in some some of amorphous mass.

One form of protest that might work would include:

1) identify one proxy
2) drive him totally ouf ot business out of a mixture of
a) class action lawsuit
b) boycott
c) social censure

repeat

But that's not glitzy enough for the 99% crowd, and it is FAR beyond the attention span of the facebook crowd.

If you identify those 1% as your enemies(and that's the vibe I got when I first heard of this) you have to harry them until they go down...

So far, I don't think this is anywhere on the scale of the protests in libya.

And yes, This is much the same thing, except:

Libya was the government, not a proxy

It was the same majority flexing its muscle and seeing change done, however.

And it doesn't really matter if the 1% see it or not, it's whether or not when the 99% stop their action, change has been done or not.

If I punch your face, and you keep singing la la la while I do it.

You can still sing la la la

If I burst your skin or not is what matters, not your singing ability at that point.

The same with the 1%, their inaction at the 99% is a sign of their apathy, getting the 99% moving, and keeping them moving, would do a lot more lasting effect, regardless...

I'm not saying IBM is chicken, I'm saying IBM isn't throwing their weight around at patent trolls to dissuade them from doing anything we might not like(the global citizenly "We")

This isnt a patent anyways, just copyright on this one database. Any other database with timezones would do, or just paying ACS for their copy.
Or paying Apple, Sun, Oracle or anyone else who pays ACS for their copy.