In my experience in school, if you are motivated to pass, you will find a way to pass (most of the time). But if you are motivated to learn, passing the class will come as a pleasant side effect. Not knocking your stated intentions, but approach this as a learning experience, a thoroughfare in self-enlightenment, and you will reap the test-score rewards.
Unlike receiving a DUI conviction and losing your license, while you are at the helm of your computer you do not risk careening into the other lane and killing a bus full of people. The computer is just a utility, not the vector.
The computer doesn't do the molesting, molester's do the molesting. The computer is one utility of many. If we start piecemeal restricting people from the things that could be used to aid in causing harm, what will we have left? Typical America, treating the symptoms, not the problems.
Props to the appeals court for finally realizing this stupidity.
The United States used the rest of its technology as resourcefully as NASA. Perhaps a Beowulf cluster of 4004's, some IR arrays, and some old DVD-Burner lasers, and you might have a great mosquito defense array (MDA, tm).
I'll tell you what, the first company that pays you for your electronic junk, in a streamlined manner, say, flat checks or cash, and then turns those old products back into reusable things, for say, kids toys, education, impoverished folks, charity, simple embedded systems, science, and sells it cheap, well that may be a good venture indeed. Sure better than letting all our old hardware seep component chemicals into the environment.
The real question is, could this theoretical company do it cheaper than China?
"and it also doesn't mean that they can't have a private TCP/IP network that for sharing information among their various systems"
:
Knowing that boundary is becoming increasingly difficult with our interconnected society. Not to mention, things like social engineering, rogue media (flash-drives etc...) are increasingly hard to regulate internally. A lot of these security issues also stem off an even more pivotal attack vector, the human element.
The engineers, programmers, and designers may be well aware of security practices and threats, but a blue-collar operator may not be as well versed in these areas. This leads to a crossroads: Do we focus on more 'intelligent systems' that are infallible (as much as they can be, and more than they are now), with the ability to be more secure, regardless of operator skill level? Or the alternative, entailing increased operator training?
Well planned systems are always fallible in the hands of the untrained, so I imagine the best scenario falls somewhere in between, but leaning towards the automated side, for systems are easier and cheaper to maintain in the long run if they are designed solid from the onset.
Which leads to a paradox. Contract bidding usually goes the cheapest route, which is almost always not the highest of quality. With these contractors spitting out unrefined systems at minimal-effort-maximal-profit mentality, we will always be behind the power curve (so to speak).
In the end, if and when an infrastructure attack does hit us hard, I imagine there will be less regret of preventative measures, and more blame flaming, for that is what we do as a country, isn't it?
This seems similar to the InfraGard initiative, but standard operating procedure dictates our government must form another organization to oversee the preexisting organization that is involved the current organizations et al.
Recursive agencies cost us money, and while I do advocate heavier infrastucture protection, hopefully this isn't just another bean-counting expenditure, but instead an operation that actually contributes to our infrastructure security.
Ain't that the truth. Maybe thats why Linux doesn't spread like wildfire OS market, all its backers are more preoccupied with compiling than conceiving, and penguin gene is lost.
If the surface has a 0 directional derivative with the same direction over the entire area of the triangle region you want to extract, then yes, you could derive a triangle from a plane.
Perhaps in the eyes of the overlords, or perhaps evolution, STDs are a "feature not a bug" situation, a form population control. Reducing numbers through the attempt to increase numbers. I wonder if we should start including a Trojan constant in our population growth and decay models.
Combined with the social network clusterfuck, perhaps we need a digital vaccine. Hope your not allergic to PCillin.
While on this line of thought, I would liken using Norton to wearing 8 condoms, all which having been poked with a needle, and Spybot Search & Destroy being the "Pull-Out" contraceptive method, and disconnecting from the internet altogether being like a hysterectomy. Unfortunately, we can't forget Live OneCare, which is like wrapping it with toilet paper, drinking a fifth of tequila, taking two viagras, and then wandering around Mexico City.
Is it me, or is everything getting shittier everyday. It feels like more and more, articles, columns, and information leaks point to the ever diminishing rights of citizens of the world. The United States is broke, and its overlords are continuing to spend more money. The rest of the world is either pussyfooting under political correctness, stripping their citizens of any rights they once had, while other countries continue to grow their nuclear arsenals and further fuel the idiotic self-destructive nature that humankind cannot seem to shake.
I am ranting, I know, but for mother fuck-fuckity-fucks sake how much longer are the rational, intelligent, and reasonable going to continue to stand for this? Are the aforementioned independent free-thinkers to disjointed, apathetic, and outnumbered to ever turn the tide? I feel this civilization is edging towards a serious crises, one much worse than we have ever seen. Be that crises a nuclear holocaust, or the silent denigration of of the common sense rights that a democratic mentality provides, the crises is coming, and we don't seem to be heading anywhere near the appropriate direction to turn the tides of destruction.
Perhaps my tinfoil hat is too tight, maybe I need to get some sunlight. I don't know. But it is hard as a relatively young individual to imagine a positive environment for future children. Each day that passes, more rights are stripped, more debt is incurred, more inflation rapes the dollar, more political seats are bargained, more people hate democracy, more people get lazy, more people become passive obedient workers, taking the big red, white, and blue dick right up the ass, while the bourgeoisie reap the benefits of a society that becomes more mentally jellified by mass-media induced mind-fucking every day.
Sorry about that. Your regularly scheduled broadcasting will now continue.
Do you have resume fodder?
-Certifications
-Degrees
-Project Successes
Do you have references? -Professional connections through school. -People who have reputations in software-development.
Honestly, those are all solid ways to develop the credentials to get you into entry-level, and if you are motivated, well-spoken, and honest, it can be done. But sometimes you have to just bite the bullet and do some intern work for free, or some beta-testing before those connections can be made.
if an Internet surfer in China searches for...a banned and harshly suppressed religious group — the firewall responds by sending a reset packet to his or her computer that results in the display of a default error page
These so called 'reset packets' are reminiscent of the days of ATH0++ N0 C4RR13R....so thats what happened to AOL, they migrated to china where dialup is still accepted! PRCOL FTW!
Expectedly, my post was misinterpreted, to clarify they attempted point:
Energy Star is supposed to certify products with 'good' energy efficiencies.
They were audited by an organization that analyzes organizational efficiencies.
Energy Star was efficient in terms of being able to certify many products, but from the audit standpoint, they are not an exercising the quality of a should-be efficiently organization.
I-R-O-N-Y.
Plus, if they were to adopt a see-no-evil approach, instead of eliminating audits, they would create another organization to build walls of bureaucracy and red tape to mask the operations of the other inefficient organizations. Oh wait...
It is a sad state of affairs that our government has to set up a separate agency to analyze the (in)efficiency of a government organization that is setup to analyze the (in)efficiencys of other organizations. The U.S government is becoming a conglomerate of Department of Redundancy Departments, whose productivity is measured in how much money is thrown down the chasm. Glad to see my tax dollars at work.
If I take my keys and guess a random house to try them on, and get in, it isn't the locksmith's, homeowner's, nor key's fault I trespassed. I conscientiously decided to take the action. It is true that simple attack vectors make things prone to exploit, but the responsibility for the intrusion lies on the individual knowingly exploiting that vector.
Saying it could have been prevented by a better "system" and then redirecting the blame is like blaming my broken leg on the car manufacturer for not installing a reinforced titanium in the event I choose to plow into a tree.
Slashdot Mirror
In my experience in school, if you are motivated to pass, you will find a way to pass (most of the time). But if you are motivated to learn, passing the class will come as a pleasant side effect. Not knocking your stated intentions, but approach this as a learning experience, a thoroughfare in self-enlightenment, and you will reap the test-score rewards.
Unlike receiving a DUI conviction and losing your license, while you are at the helm of your computer you do not risk careening into the other lane and killing a bus full of people. The computer is just a utility, not the vector.
The computer doesn't do the molesting, molester's do the molesting. The computer is one utility of many. If we start piecemeal restricting people from the things that could be used to aid in causing harm, what will we have left? Typical America, treating the symptoms, not the problems.
Props to the appeals court for finally realizing this stupidity.
I had some fucked up birthday presents.
The real question is, will it match my socks?
The United States used the rest of its technology as resourcefully as NASA. Perhaps a Beowulf cluster of 4004's, some IR arrays, and some old DVD-Burner lasers, and you might have a great mosquito defense array (MDA, tm).
I'll tell you what, the first company that pays you for your electronic junk, in a streamlined manner, say, flat checks or cash, and then turns those old products back into reusable things, for say, kids toys, education, impoverished folks, charity, simple embedded systems, science, and sells it cheap, well that may be a good venture indeed. Sure better than letting all our old hardware seep component chemicals into the environment.
The real question is, could this theoretical company do it cheaper than China?
Don't connect it to the internet!
"and it also doesn't mean that they can't have a private TCP/IP network that for sharing information among their various systems"
:
Knowing that boundary is becoming increasingly difficult with our interconnected society. Not to mention, things like social engineering, rogue media (flash-drives etc...) are increasingly hard to regulate internally. A lot of these security issues also stem off an even more pivotal attack vector, the human element.
The engineers, programmers, and designers may be well aware of security practices and threats, but a blue-collar operator may not be as well versed in these areas. This leads to a crossroads: Do we focus on more 'intelligent systems' that are infallible (as much as they can be, and more than they are now), with the ability to be more secure, regardless of operator skill level? Or the alternative, entailing increased operator training?
Well planned systems are always fallible in the hands of the untrained, so I imagine the best scenario falls somewhere in between, but leaning towards the automated side, for systems are easier and cheaper to maintain in the long run if they are designed solid from the onset.
Which leads to a paradox. Contract bidding usually goes the cheapest route, which is almost always not the highest of quality. With these contractors spitting out unrefined systems at minimal-effort-maximal-profit mentality, we will always be behind the power curve (so to speak).
In the end, if and when an infrastructure attack does hit us hard, I imagine there will be less regret of preventative measures, and more blame flaming, for that is what we do as a country, isn't it?
This seems similar to the InfraGard initiative, but standard operating procedure dictates our government must form another organization to oversee the preexisting organization that is involved the current organizations et al. Recursive agencies cost us money, and while I do advocate heavier infrastucture protection, hopefully this isn't just another bean-counting expenditure, but instead an operation that actually contributes to our infrastructure security.
Does it run Crysis?
Does this mean ManBearPig is real?
Ain't that the truth. Maybe thats why Linux doesn't spread like wildfire OS market, all its backers are more preoccupied with compiling than conceiving, and penguin gene is lost.
Mexico City.
You've confused yourself if you think it's any more impossible to prove a negative than it is to prove a positive;
Actually, we aren't too sure, unless you have the answer to "Does P=NP".
If the surface has a 0 directional derivative with the same direction over the entire area of the triangle region you want to extract, then yes, you could derive a triangle from a plane.
Perhaps in the eyes of the overlords, or perhaps evolution, STDs are a "feature not a bug" situation, a form population control. Reducing numbers through the attempt to increase numbers. I wonder if we should start including a Trojan constant in our population growth and decay models. Combined with the social network clusterfuck, perhaps we need a digital vaccine. Hope your not allergic to PCillin.
While on this line of thought, I would liken using Norton to wearing 8 condoms, all which having been poked with a needle, and Spybot Search & Destroy being the "Pull-Out" contraceptive method, and disconnecting from the internet altogether being like a hysterectomy. Unfortunately, we can't forget Live OneCare, which is like wrapping it with toilet paper, drinking a fifth of tequila, taking two viagras, and then wandering around Mexico City.
What was my point again?
Is it me, or is everything getting shittier everyday. It feels like more and more, articles, columns, and information leaks point to the ever diminishing rights of citizens of the world. The United States is broke, and its overlords are continuing to spend more money. The rest of the world is either pussyfooting under political correctness, stripping their citizens of any rights they once had, while other countries continue to grow their nuclear arsenals and further fuel the idiotic self-destructive nature that humankind cannot seem to shake.
I am ranting, I know, but for mother fuck-fuckity-fucks sake how much longer are the rational, intelligent, and reasonable going to continue to stand for this? Are the aforementioned independent free-thinkers to disjointed, apathetic, and outnumbered to ever turn the tide? I feel this civilization is edging towards a serious crises, one much worse than we have ever seen. Be that crises a nuclear holocaust, or the silent denigration of of the common sense rights that a democratic mentality provides, the crises is coming, and we don't seem to be heading anywhere near the appropriate direction to turn the tides of destruction.
Perhaps my tinfoil hat is too tight, maybe I need to get some sunlight. I don't know. But it is hard as a relatively young individual to imagine a positive environment for future children. Each day that passes, more rights are stripped, more debt is incurred, more inflation rapes the dollar, more political seats are bargained, more people hate democracy, more people get lazy, more people become passive obedient workers, taking the big red, white, and blue dick right up the ass, while the bourgeoisie reap the benefits of a society that becomes more mentally jellified by mass-media induced mind-fucking every day.
Sorry about that. Your regularly scheduled broadcasting will now continue.
Robert Heinlein said it best, albeit indirectly. Grok this and you will understand all human life.
Just wait until the commercial industry catches on. City 17 is coming, folks.
Many points to consider:
-Do you have professional experience programming?
This can be gained through internships, FOSS development, and competitive programming.
Do you have resume fodder?
-Certifications
-Degrees
-Project Successes
Do you have references?
-Professional connections through school.
-People who have reputations in software-development.
Honestly, those are all solid ways to develop the credentials to get you into entry-level, and if you are motivated, well-spoken, and honest, it can be done. But sometimes you have to just bite the bullet and do some intern work for free, or some beta-testing before those connections can be made.
if an Internet surfer in China searches for...a banned and harshly suppressed religious group — the firewall responds by sending a reset packet to his or her computer that results in the display of a default error page
These so called 'reset packets' are reminiscent of the days of ATH0++ N0 C4RR13R....so thats what happened to AOL, they migrated to china where dialup is still accepted! PRCOL FTW!
Expectedly, my post was misinterpreted, to clarify they attempted point:
Energy Star is supposed to certify products with 'good' energy efficiencies.
They were audited by an organization that analyzes organizational efficiencies.
Energy Star was efficient in terms of being able to certify many products, but from the audit standpoint, they are not an exercising the quality of a should-be efficiently organization.
I-R-O-N-Y.
Plus, if they were to adopt a see-no-evil approach, instead of eliminating audits, they would create another organization to build walls of bureaucracy and red tape to mask the operations of the other inefficient organizations. Oh wait...
It is a sad state of affairs that our government has to set up a separate agency to analyze the (in)efficiency of a government organization that is setup to analyze the (in)efficiencys of other organizations. The U.S government is becoming a conglomerate of Department of Redundancy Departments, whose productivity is measured in how much money is thrown down the chasm. Glad to see my tax dollars at work.
Heres the link. Thats with a 2 year contract. So naturally its cost is subsidized through the carrier bullshit.
The full body scanners already accomplish this. They can even scan beavers and sweater-puppies, so I hear.
If I take my keys and guess a random house to try them on, and get in, it isn't the locksmith's, homeowner's, nor key's fault I trespassed. I conscientiously decided to take the action. It is true that simple attack vectors make things prone to exploit, but the responsibility for the intrusion lies on the individual knowingly exploiting that vector.
Saying it could have been prevented by a better "system" and then redirecting the blame is like blaming my broken leg on the car manufacturer for not installing a reinforced titanium in the event I choose to plow into a tree.
Now is when they offer him a job (as the movies would have you believe).