Posts

A recent threat on popular news aggregation site has sparked fury, outrage, irreverence, and rebellion amongst the internet protocol elite operators. With a common theme of “I heard what happened 25 years ago and came angrily to this thread to air my personal and significant grievances”, many contributors were quick to offer expertise as to how the internet protocol IP version 6 - “IPv6” to those fringe players in “the biz” - should have been developed, how it should have been backwards compatible with IPv4, or how there was no need for an updated protocol at all....

“Shareholders are estatic.” proclaimed Idell Luettgen, product manager over licensing while speaking on a monthly directors call. “Well, the new licensing model is proving to be a little bit of a heavy lift for us here in TAC.” snapped Franz Nyström, director of North American TAC. “The customers are struggling to understand why certain things that were once included as an entitlement are now a licensed option, especially after a forced “security patch” version of the firmware....

“This is absolute but anarchy!” moaned IT generalist and policy aficionado Cody Sadleir of IT consulting firm “SavanIT”. “They’re literally wasting bits on the wire with this affront to proper etiquette, norms, and most importantly POLICY. We just don’t do it this way, if folks really can’t use the simply elegance of procmail that I have talked about at length at several happy hour events, I just don’t think they should be in IT....

Fledgling startup Positive Inverse is emerging from stealth mode with their new on-demand service specializing in providing uninventive and overly cautious enterprises with a suite of tools for denying anything from innovative ideas to standard changes required for moderinization. “We think there is a real market here.” Roger Snozcumber, founder and Chief Negating Office proudly proclaimed. “Look, there are a myriad of monolithic businesses out there that are absolutely terrified of any change whatsoever but may be too busy, aloof, or just plain embarassed to admit that they are too afraid of progress....

“I just don’t get it” veteran network engineer and serial entrepreneur Burton Zayden declared. “I guess I can kinda understand why someone wouldn’t be interested in my last business endeavor, but this one, people should really be thinking about it. It’s pretty mesmerizing.” Mr. Zayden continues, motioning to his pile of faux ethernet jacks crafted into ear rings and bolo ties - a failed business model which included a “major social media push” to popularize nonfunctional ethernet jacks as a fashion item....