This, a thousand times! I'm a UNIX Engineer for a large corporation, and I find that the UNIX team gets pulled into every problem, when the reality is, it is seldom an OS issue. It's because we have to have that depth of knowledge, just to set up a single box, never mind a fully automated HA environment. I find that we also have the job of calling out bullshitters who say "it's not our problem (I'm looking at you Network Team) or "no I didn't change anything!" (mister chmod -R 777).

On topic: Scripting is key to solving a lot of "run this on 300 AIX, 50 RHEL, 20 HP-UX, and 5 Solaris boxes" and staying sane doing it. Our problem is we have a ton of legacy scripts that do a lot of day-to-day stuff, which was great for 300 total boxes. On an enterprise level with thousands of machines, not so much. Now we're trying to replace a mess of scripts with enterprise level solutions, but figuring out how we do it now, and how we want to do it with some real software is more of a challenge than we thought. We're in a bit of a mess because someone automated everything with scripts, and it is not scaling.

GLaDOS, is that you?

I am currently getting my BS in Computer Information Systems through Saint Leo University. They are a brick and mortar school based out of Florida. They also have many satellite campuses on Military bases. I was actually in the Military when I started taking classes at the Langley AFB campus.

I find that if you take the discussions seriously and put time into the papers, you can learn quite a bit. I feel that they are not a "degree mill" type of school. They do not differentiate between an "online" degree and a "regular" degree which to me is a plus, given the stigma of online learning.

There are some classes I've breezed through (mostly the COM classes, I've been in IT for 12 years..) and others I've had to really work hard at. For instance I'm getting C in marketing, this semester, at least so far. Marketing?! I wasn't really prepared for all of the case studies and the professor wants very detailed answers that demonstrate a working knowledge of the material. Now that I know this, I will be able to bring my grade up, but it goes to show that it is on par with classroom learning as far as the range of difficulties.

Unfortunately I ran out of Mod points. Consider this my virtual +1 Insightful.

Why not? "To Catch a Thief" shows how to commit robbery and that is also aired by the discovery channel.

I wonder, of those complaining, how many filed a tax return this year?

They are also pre-paid plans that you can activate directly from the device.

From the last link the TFS (emphasis mine):

At cruise altitude - the pilots stated they were using cockpit speakers to listen to radio communications, not their headsets.

Probably to, oh I don't know, provoke discussion? Isn't that kind of the point of /.?

IANAL, so this is just armchair quarterbacking but, if YOU bought the laptop, it's YOUR laptop. This is assuming the boss doesn't want to tag it as a company laptop in return for reimbursement.

Just because I do work on my home PC (which I do), doesn't mean the company has any right to it.

Once again, NAL, but I don't think this gives them an avenue. If the company guys me legal pad and a pen, and I write "[A] Great American Novel", it doesn't give the company any rights to my work. I think you're being a bit paranoid.

Think about everything that would have to fall in line for this to happen:

You'd actually have to come up with an idea or work, worth 'stealing'.
The company would have to know about it AND care enough about it to steal it, or try to claim it as their own.
Would have to prove that the laptop you used was indeed owned by the company AND
That you did the work on the laptop.