I don't see why. 15MB/sec for 12 hours is rougly 650 gigs - a lot, but a single external hard drive could have pulled it off. At most they shaved a week off their time to get the botnets back up and running at full capacity.
Source code audits with automated scripts that attack every port and every program checking for buffer overflows or other avenues of attack. It would require a lot of work, but it makes sense that the NSA would put in a lot of work to explore these operating systems, both to know how to secure against attack and to know how to pull off an attack against another country. The real question is, how much do you trust this OS not to have an NSA back door?
EAL7+ means that it can defend against well-funded and sophisticated attacks and doesn't have an NSA backdoor built into it. EAL8 is exactly like EAL7+, only it can do it while getting slashdotted.
1. Utah
2. No idea, I don't pay attention to that sort of thing. I never would have applied if it weren't for word of mouth, which is quite good.
3. Of course. If you'd like I can pass your email address to the company recruiter and he can lead you through the process.
Perfect response, thank you. Sexism is a serious problem and needs to be addressed when it's found, but it's even worse IMHO to go to the opposite extreme and say that it's wrong to stay home and raise your kids.
If half of the population refuses to enter a field because of reasons other than competency, then the general quality of people in that field is going to go down. Half of the people who would have excelled and become great in that field won't because of social reasons.
In the CS world there aren't enough competent engineers. There are a lot of bad ones, but not a lot of good ones. My current company only hires people who are able to demonstrate competence in the field, and they hire 1 out of 5 candidates at most. They have billboards up all over the state and they're only able to get one candidate per week. There's a serious shortage of good engineers. I'd be surprised if there's the same level of shortage in Health and Human Development, especially at the pay grades that they're looking at for a good programmer.
So, while it's true that the "female agenda" or feminist ideology probably has something to do with it, there are very, very good reasons to be concerned if half of the population isn't entering the field for social reasons.
Something has changed since then and I doubt it's biological.
It's social, just like men don't go into nursing as much. CS has become known as an engineering field, which has the stereotype of being a male occupation. In the 80s nothing was known of computers and there wasn't nearly the stereotype that there is now.
I remember reading an article about how our evolutionary ancestors beat out their neanderthal competition by dividing their labor between men and women, letting both groups get good at their job and outperform their neanderthal cousins. Maybe it's an instinctual response for men and women to gravitate towards different fields.
If by "minority" you mean "underprivileged class", then maybe women still qualify.
All the women in my family would laugh at that statement since they've all graduated from college, rejected multiple job opportunities and then stayed home to raise their children. Also, I know of at least 2 syndicated female columnists that would laugh at that statement, but for very different reasons.
Because that's not true in every case. I agree that this is the very root of the problem and the reason that it's never going to be fully equal between the genders. However, one of the most competent computer engineers I ever knew is a woman, and my friend reports that she's since been promoted and is intimidating everyone around her because she's always the most competent person in the room.
In addition, men and women tend to learn differently. I would imagine that CS courses are geared towards what's worked most often in the past, which means it's going to favor men over women.
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When an author states that all gay relationships begin with an act of rape, then I'm going to seriously doubt that anything that author has to say has any value.
From the link:
The dark secret of homosexual society -- the one that dares not speak its name -- is how many homosexuals first entered into that world through a disturbing seduction or rape or molestation or abuse, and how many of them yearn to get out of the homosexual community and live normally.
That's the only time the word "rape" appears in the article and it certainly doesn't claim that all relationships begin with rape, just that many do. I can't say whether or not Card's statement is true (it's certainly distasteful either way), but your clearly overstating his position.
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Card has openly advocated mass murder if his strict religious views are not adopted by the country
Really? Because I've never heard him advocate such a thing. I've read one article where he talks about bringing down the government and then specifies that we should do so through peaceful means if possible. The article that your original link discusses is actually not advocating revolution because of the homosexual marriage itself, but because the courts are forcing something on the populace that they don't support. The courts are taking power that they weren't meant to have.
Unless, that is, Card actually advocates mass murder somewhere else, in which case I'm mistaken and would love to see the article in which he advocates it. Otherwise, your statement can be taken only as a ridiculous overstatement.
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Book of Mormon, but close enough. I don't read them because I already know the story and, honestly, I've never heard anything good about them. But that's just me.
The LDS require tithing, so the purchase of anything from any LDS member contributes directly to the coffers of the LDS. That money then gets funneled into initiatives like Prop 8, et al.
The LDS church itself didn't contribute any money, the individual members did. The money they donated is completely separate from their tithing; they don't get to deduct it from the tithing they'd normally pay or anything like that.
It's rifle launched, and you'd have time to see what the grenade's landing in before it actually lands. If you can detonate it with the push of a button, then you should be able to react to the scene with the same speed as they'd be able to react to the grenade.
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Why?
Ask the writer of the article that question, since I was referencing his opinion.
Orson Scott Card is a homophobe and douche? His life's work is meaningless to me.
Because he has opinions you don't like, his work's meaningless? That doesn't sound overly harsh/condemning to you? Card has many openly homosexual characters in his books, and I can't think of a single one that's a villain.
You, on the other hand, can't stand that he thinks homosexuality is wrong and speaks out about it, therefore anything he does is tainted. Congratulations, sir, you've successfully demonized people on the other side of the argument and made intelligent, rational discourse nearly impossible.
What's really ironic about your post is that the author of the linked article specifically says that you should separate the man and his opinions from his work.
Make it so that the explosives can be blown after you check the video. If there are a bunch of men with rifles, blow the grenade. If there are women and children, retrieve it.
almost like a control rod that extended at the same time that the rod of light did
If you watch Episode 4, right after Vader kills Obi Wan, he's holding a silver-colored stick. So, perhaps this mechanical core doesn't retract at the same time?
You're seriously going to compare breaking a EULA to writing worms and infiltrating a large company's network and releasing the source code of one of their most lucrative pieces of software?
Unreal Tournament 3 did the same thing to the PC. I believe Epic made both and is on the forefront with their "Piracy is destroying the PC!!!!" rants. UT 2K4 and the original UT were so good that it makes me sad they won't be putting more effort into PC-only games.
I believe they were saying that the damage from the navy being unable to use the sonar was so much greater than the damage that the environmentalists were claiming that it doesn't matter. One of the chief responsibilities the government has is to protect its people, and without training on the sonar the government can't do that.
The uber-units also produce energy for the economy, and can assist in producing more uber-units, so you end up with this sort of Fibonacci sequence progression of uber-units in the game.
Then your enemy's not playing right. A horde of small/medium units should have been able to wipe out your base while you were building up to your uber units. Unless you were only playing against the AI, in which case you probably shouldn't have been expecting a challenge anyway:)
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I don't see why. 15MB/sec for 12 hours is rougly 650 gigs - a lot, but a single external hard drive could have pulled it off. At most they shaved a week off their time to get the botnets back up and running at full capacity.
I figured it would be a deal breaker; Utah's culture is such that you either love it or hate it.
Source code audits with automated scripts that attack every port and every program checking for buffer overflows or other avenues of attack. It would require a lot of work, but it makes sense that the NSA would put in a lot of work to explore these operating systems, both to know how to secure against attack and to know how to pull off an attack against another country. The real question is, how much do you trust this OS not to have an NSA back door?
EAL7+ means that it can defend against well-funded and sophisticated attacks and doesn't have an NSA backdoor built into it. EAL8 is exactly like EAL7+, only it can do it while getting slashdotted.
1. Utah
2. No idea, I don't pay attention to that sort of thing. I never would have applied if it weren't for word of mouth, which is quite good.
3. Of course. If you'd like I can pass your email address to the company recruiter and he can lead you through the process.
Perfect response, thank you. Sexism is a serious problem and needs to be addressed when it's found, but it's even worse IMHO to go to the opposite extreme and say that it's wrong to stay home and raise your kids.
If half of the population refuses to enter a field because of reasons other than competency, then the general quality of people in that field is going to go down. Half of the people who would have excelled and become great in that field won't because of social reasons.
In the CS world there aren't enough competent engineers. There are a lot of bad ones, but not a lot of good ones. My current company only hires people who are able to demonstrate competence in the field, and they hire 1 out of 5 candidates at most. They have billboards up all over the state and they're only able to get one candidate per week. There's a serious shortage of good engineers. I'd be surprised if there's the same level of shortage in Health and Human Development, especially at the pay grades that they're looking at for a good programmer.
So, while it's true that the "female agenda" or feminist ideology probably has something to do with it, there are very, very good reasons to be concerned if half of the population isn't entering the field for social reasons.
Something has changed since then and I doubt it's biological.
It's social, just like men don't go into nursing as much. CS has become known as an engineering field, which has the stereotype of being a male occupation. In the 80s nothing was known of computers and there wasn't nearly the stereotype that there is now.
I remember reading an article about how our evolutionary ancestors beat out their neanderthal competition by dividing their labor between men and women, letting both groups get good at their job and outperform their neanderthal cousins. Maybe it's an instinctual response for men and women to gravitate towards different fields.
If by "minority" you mean "underprivileged class", then maybe women still qualify.
All the women in my family would laugh at that statement since they've all graduated from college, rejected multiple job opportunities and then stayed home to raise their children. Also, I know of at least 2 syndicated female columnists that would laugh at that statement, but for very different reasons.
Because that's not true in every case. I agree that this is the very root of the problem and the reason that it's never going to be fully equal between the genders. However, one of the most competent computer engineers I ever knew is a woman, and my friend reports that she's since been promoted and is intimidating everyone around her because she's always the most competent person in the room.
In addition, men and women tend to learn differently. I would imagine that CS courses are geared towards what's worked most often in the past, which means it's going to favor men over women.
When an author states that all gay relationships begin with an act of rape, then I'm going to seriously doubt that anything that author has to say has any value.
From the link:
The dark secret of homosexual society -- the one that dares not speak its name -- is how many homosexuals first entered into that world through a disturbing seduction or rape or molestation or abuse, and how many of them yearn to get out of the homosexual community and live normally.
That's the only time the word "rape" appears in the article and it certainly doesn't claim that all relationships begin with rape, just that many do. I can't say whether or not Card's statement is true (it's certainly distasteful either way), but your clearly overstating his position.
Card has openly advocated mass murder if his strict religious views are not adopted by the country
Really? Because I've never heard him advocate such a thing. I've read one article where he talks about bringing down the government and then specifies that we should do so through peaceful means if possible. The article that your original link discusses is actually not advocating revolution because of the homosexual marriage itself, but because the courts are forcing something on the populace that they don't support. The courts are taking power that they weren't meant to have.
Unless, that is, Card actually advocates mass murder somewhere else, in which case I'm mistaken and would love to see the article in which he advocates it. Otherwise, your statement can be taken only as a ridiculous overstatement.
Book of Mormon, but close enough. I don't read them because I already know the story and, honestly, I've never heard anything good about them. But that's just me.
The LDS require tithing, so the purchase of anything from any LDS member contributes directly to the coffers of the LDS. That money then gets funneled into initiatives like Prop 8, et al.
The LDS church itself didn't contribute any money, the individual members did. The money they donated is completely separate from their tithing; they don't get to deduct it from the tithing they'd normally pay or anything like that.
It's rifle launched, and you'd have time to see what the grenade's landing in before it actually lands. If you can detonate it with the push of a button, then you should be able to react to the scene with the same speed as they'd be able to react to the grenade.
Why?
Ask the writer of the article that question, since I was referencing his opinion.
Orson Scott Card is a homophobe and douche? His life's work is meaningless to me.
Because he has opinions you don't like, his work's meaningless? That doesn't sound overly harsh/condemning to you? Card has many openly homosexual characters in his books, and I can't think of a single one that's a villain.
You, on the other hand, can't stand that he thinks homosexuality is wrong and speaks out about it, therefore anything he does is tainted. Congratulations, sir, you've successfully demonized people on the other side of the argument and made intelligent, rational discourse nearly impossible.
What's really ironic about your post is that the author of the linked article specifically says that you should separate the man and his opinions from his work.
Make it so that the explosives can be blown after you check the video. If there are a bunch of men with rifles, blow the grenade. If there are women and children, retrieve it.
almost like a control rod that extended at the same time that the rod of light did
If you watch Episode 4, right after Vader kills Obi Wan, he's holding a silver-colored stick. So, perhaps this mechanical core doesn't retract at the same time?
Admittedly, this was a while back and maybe they've cleaned up their act
They haven't. Their updater for a few programs I barely use is more intrusive than any other updater on my computer. How does that make any sense?
Just out of curiosity, why didn't you download the demo instead of pirating the full version?
Because he never had any intention of buying it would be my guess.
You're seriously going to compare breaking a EULA to writing worms and infiltrating a large company's network and releasing the source code of one of their most lucrative pieces of software?
Unreal Tournament 3 did the same thing to the PC. I believe Epic made both and is on the forefront with their "Piracy is destroying the PC!!!!" rants. UT 2K4 and the original UT were so good that it makes me sad they won't be putting more effort into PC-only games.
I believe they were saying that the damage from the navy being unable to use the sonar was so much greater than the damage that the environmentalists were claiming that it doesn't matter. One of the chief responsibilities the government has is to protect its people, and without training on the sonar the government can't do that.
The uber-units also produce energy for the economy, and can assist in producing more uber-units, so you end up with this sort of Fibonacci sequence progression of uber-units in the game.
Then your enemy's not playing right. A horde of small/medium units should have been able to wipe out your base while you were building up to your uber units. Unless you were only playing against the AI, in which case you probably shouldn't have been expecting a challenge anyway :)