http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/DWIM
Quoting the quote:

Although most users think of DWIM as a single identifiable package, it embodies a pervasive philosophy of user interface design: at the user interface level, system facilties should make reasonable interpretations when given unrecognized input. ...the style of interface used throughout Interlisp allows the user to omit various parameters and have these default to reasonable values...
DWIM is an embodiment of the idea that the user is interacting with an agent who attempts to interpret the user's request from contextual information. Since we want the user to feel that he is conversing with the system, he should not be stopped and forced to correct himself or give additional information in situations where the correction or information is obvious.

Does the report notes that WE (Dick) did not require them in "our" waters, but they are used everywhere else....

And, what about today?

http://www.bellona.no/bellona.org/articles/articles_2010/BP_documents

Thanks, DICK.
(maybe some shrimpers would like to sue his ass?)

... airline pilots are not prone to flights of fancy - more of the "Show me State" type of folk.

F401 [ http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Eastern_Air_Lines_Flight_401 ] was an L1011 Jumbo jet that crashed into the everglades, killing all on board, due to mechanical failure + pilot error + design flaw - the pilots were fixing an indicator light, bumped the controls, moved the plan off of auto-pilot (without knowledge) and into a slow decent, over and into an area with no lights.

Later some AOK parts of the crashed plan became spare parts - cargo doors and such.

Later, crews on flights with those spare parts on their aircraft started reporting, at great risk to career, the sightings of members of the dead crew.

They told their chief pilot, he told other chief pilots, one of then told my (retired) father / pilot, he told me.

I don't care if the intermediaries believe the story. I do believe that they accurately retold what they were told. Old-School airline pilots, with enough years of experience to be trusted with a jets and 100s of people are a fact-based, safety-first, salt-of-the-earth lot.

A reporter/author heard the story and wrote the book "Ghost of Flight 401"

(now, could I please have some Karma? - thx)

From here: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Groklaw#Awards

Awards
Groklaw has been cited by the attorneys for several firms in law journal articles. It has also won awards:

        * 2010 - The Electronic Frontier Foundation (EFF) 2010 Pioneer Awards[7]

        * 2009 - Top 200 Tech Blogs: The Datamation 2009 List "The famed Groklaw is still going strong, far past the SCO case that first brought the blog to prominence." [8]

        * 2008 - The Award for Projects of Social Benefit - The Free Software Foundation (FSF)[9]
        * 2007 - Knowledge Masters Award for Innovation - Knowledge Trust and the Louis Round Wilson Academy [10]
        * 2007 - Best FUD Fighter - Google-O'Reilly Open Source Awards[11]
        * 2005 - Best News Site - ConsortiumInfo*.org - Pamela Jones/Groklaw: Best Community Site or Blog (Non-Profit)
        * 2005 - Best Blogger of the Year - Dana Blankenhorn, Corante[12]
        * 2004 - Best Website of 2004 - The Inquirer[13]
        * 2004 - Best Independent Tech Blog - TechWeb Network: Readers Choice Award
        * 2004 - Best Nontechnical or Community Website - Linux Journal: Editors' Choice Award
        * 2003 - Best News Site - OSDir.com: Editor's Choice Winner

If you don't understand the behavior, check the compensation plan.

What does the person or the people that are making these decision gain?

Censorship of the few (and uninvolved) for the good of the many.
just kill this story here, ok?

can you get the serial numbers?... ask the supporting vendor where they went to do the last fix?

...or as told to me, as a caution:

You never know when you are interviewing for your next job

Excuse me?

...well, having identified a new business opportunity, and being blessed with the brains to build software from scratch... or the ability to leverage F/OSS, you have a fantastic opportunity to go and emulate the OS too... Ka-Nock yourself out! Unless you still think you are entitled to have your own business w/ other people's hardware (commodity intel boxes), and other people's software (IBM in this case), for your (or your buddies) personal gain.......

Tell me, what exactly do you personally get out of all of this chit-chat, cuz, I sure can't believe that you are incompetent in your comprehension of Kindergarten level ethics....

Prove it.
How about years of investment designed to meet the needs of very high volume and very high reliability... Reservations systems, banking systems (the one's with your account balance), telephone orders and equipment systems.... these are all $1M/minute for down time Bet-the-business systems that never quit, never fail, and do millions of transactions per day.

The serious people that run these shops know how to do cost/benefit analysis... they still use IBM equipment because it best meets their needs. Fur instance, while at Qwest, deploying changes to five sets of main frame applications for DSL service, I leaned about their GeoMax product - the DWDM fiber optic channel to connect two data centers, each with SysPlex mainframe clusters, for microsecond sync should the business have an outage of a full data center - spending millions per year "extra" to avoid $Ms/minute outages.

http://www-03.ibm.com/systems/z/advantages/gdps/index.html
IBM Geographically Dispersed Parallel Sysplex (GDPS)

Yes, at my current bank client we are tied to COBOL code that would take way north of $500M to replace. So what. If we had - I dunno java (or maybe that fantastic London stock exchange .net code) we would still need the MF to process, with at least 5 9's reliability, the zillions of transactions per day of other people's money.

... apparently so they could throw the list they ASKED for in IBM's face.

I would like to learn more nanotechnology, including the math, physics, chemistry, and biological/medical aspects.

I want to build the first tape drive (think DNA or paper punchtape) driven assembler.

I want to build a nanotech industrial grade battery (megawatts) and a multispectrum nanotech solar cell that together eliminate the need for dirty/carbon fuel.

Energy Ages
> Wood Fire age
> Coal Fire age
> Dirty Oil/Fission Electric age (now)
> Clean Electric age (darn soon)

asdfasfdasdfasfd

like people. Oh, wait, CongressCritters&SenaToides may have once been people, but no more.

The two factions of the BusinessParty do come in flavors, Bad and Worse... but it does not matter so much.

Stop Corporate Personhood.