Welcome to LIFE 101. Humans have kids, if your business runs on such thin margins that you cant account for that, YOU HAVE NO BUSINESS HIRING EMPLOYEES, period. Humans have babies, it MUST be accounted for. If you are running your business without accounting for this, then you are a shitty human.
Boy, I'm not sure that you've been to many startups. That's the very frequent business model -- yes, you are required to give your life to startup, including things like free time. It's to get the business "off the ground" or in first place or jumping at an opportunity of some such nonsense. And yes, they're shitty places, often run by shitty humans.
(Most people knowing fsn would have used it to start a real shell, instead of continuing to use the slowest file system navigator in existence, just because it was pretty. But her role in the movie was to be a Barbie, so pretty counts.)
Her role in the movie was to be nerdy like her brother, so that she would have something to do to help out at the end. Unlike the book version of the kids, where the nerdy brother was both computer expert and dinosaur expert, while the sister whined the whole time and had no redeeming values.
It's my f#$@ing phone. If I want root on my own phone, I should be able to get it, just like I can get root on my home computer.
But the only way to root, say, the Galaxy S5 is to run an older version of the kernel.. a version vulnerable to a root exploit. The exploit of course allows OTHERS to root the phone if I'm not careful, but installing ANY security updates or upgrading the OS on the phone fixes the "flaw" that gives me root.
So the only way to get root is to leave my phone running older, insecure software. All because these shitty companies go ballistic at the thought of the user being the administrator of his own device.
Since Debian is known as the "super stable" distro and from what we've seen systemd obviously still has some issues to be worked out...
I'm not sure that we've seen that. The complaints we've seen are either unsubstantiated so far (the logs are more vulnerable to corruption!) or theoretical (a monolithic design might lead it to be more vulnerable to crashes taking out the system). But it's not something that is just now being introduced into Linux; systemd has been the default startup agent in Fedora for three and a half years, every Fedora 15+ machine runs systemd. Suse and Arch made it the default in 2012, various other distributions either have made it the default or are contemplating it. This is not an insignificant number of users, and these horrible bugs that concerned the anti-systemd crowd just haven't materialized yet.
Correct me if I'm wrong but as I understand it Debian has stable and testing yes? So why the rush to put systemd in stable when it appears to make more sense to have it in testing until all the bugs are ironed out, or at least not make it the default until the thing is ready
systemd has been in Debian testing since 2012 as well, but I don't think it was the default init system.
Ah, the bravery and wit of the Anonymous Coward. This person has a RAEL EXPERIENCE and relates it and you, from your absolute ignorance attempt to refute it with ad hominem attacks.
Awesome
One person's "RAEL EXPERIENCE" is another person's "useless anecdote."
Season four couldn't really be salvaged after the writers just threw five darts at the board to come up with five character who were inexplicably Cylons.
There was a scene in one episode (second season?) where the two space jockeys from Galactica were showing off their math skills on a computer to a journalist on Earth
That's a different TV series.
Battlestar Galactica lasted one season, 78-79. Galactica 1980 came out a year later, and shares almost nothing with the earlier series.
I liked the Count Iblis storylines; I think it was a high point in the series. Unfortunately they ran low on the budget several times, so between good multi-part story lines, you had standalone budget-saver episodes that copied other TV series or movies, like the several times where Starbuck gets marooned, the one where Starbuck gets conned by a man claiming to be his father, etcetc. BSG's problem was that it was originally conceived of as a series of TV movies, but perhaps the network balked, and it was re-envisioned as a regular series. That's why you have those filler episodes in between 2-part 2-hour story arcs. I think the series would have worked better if it'd stuck to that original format.
Ooooh, I would not say that Space: Above and Beyond was well written, at least not through most of its run. It was moody 20-somethings in space, and none of them were what we would consider a credible soldier.
It did seem like it was starting to find its footing right about when it was canceled, so maybe it could have developed into something fine. Literally the last episode aired, I thought "wow, that was actually a good episode." The first time I actually -wanted- to see the next episode instead of my just watching because it was the only sci-fi series besides DS9 you could see at the time unless you got cable.
How do you live your life unless it's through Twitter? I don't get it. I understand the desire to live life completely through Facebook instead, but it doesn't react and aggregate as fast.
i pre ordered diablo 3 for PC months in advance, but it will be the last game I get without waiting a few weeks. there is no such thing as a game that i NEED on release day
These days, Diablo 3 is really a fantastic game. But it took over a year for it to reach that point.:-(
So all of them? You do realize that embargos are an industry wide practice
Are you saying that "games journalism" is not actually journalism then? Because that's the difference between a journalist reporting on news or *shock* a real problem in the field you're reporting on. It sounds like game reviewers now are an extension of the game companies' advertising budgets.
Reviewers allowed the game companies to get away with this nonsense until the practice became ingrained. Respected movie reviewers, on the other hand, dug in their heels and reported when a movie company refused to screen movies for critics. That led to a societal attitude where if a movie studio didn't screen a movie for critics, it was a huge red flag, and the studio knew that their movie was shit (and/or a Rob Schneider movie).
So yes, I'm blaming the games review magazines and online journalists who caved when this practice starting gaining momentum. Reviewers should never be too cozy with studios/developers, nor should they become too dependent on them.
Why would covering a "customer" (aka person) be any more expensive than covering a "family member" (aka person).
Because you have more of them (unless you're a terrible restaurant), leading to more chances of incidents. Also, a family member is less likely to sue you, though on the flip side, you wouldn't just be able to shrug off medical bills as easily with someone you live with.
so-called 'free applications' or services are bullshit since they can and will be pulled at any time google so chooses.
But it's not necessarily free. If it worked like Paypal, then they take a small cut off of each transaction. Send someone $10 on Paypal, and they'll receive $9.75 (or if it's a "gift," then sender pays). That's not free. It's just that, like with credit card transactions, the cost is hidden from the purchaser.
Searching through Wikipedia, I think the Pound Cake speech (a speech he gave to the NAACP during a celebration of 50 years of Brown v Board of Education) is a good starting point, where Cosby criticized a culture where if someone does something bad and they get into trouble with police, the culture immediately jumps on the police rather than criticize the black youth who committed the crime in the first place. "Looking at the incarcerated, these are not political criminals. These are people going around stealing Coca-Cola. People getting shot in the back of the head over a piece of pound cake! And then we all run out and are outraged, 'The cops shouldn't have shot him.' What the hell was he doing with the pound cake in his hand? I wanted a piece of pound cake just as bad as anybody else, and I looked at it and I had no money. And something called parenting said, 'If you get caught with it you’re going to embarrass your mother.' Not 'You're going to get your butt kicked.' No. 'You're going to embarrass your family.'"
Perhaps a better reference would be this Chicago Tribune discussion with Cosby where he ruminates on these topics. I think one of the most depressing criticisms Cosby gets is that people tell him he can't be saying these things publicly because then white people will hear it and think it's fine to say it about black people in general.
This is a misnomer, in today's markets, it is getting increasingly difficult to land jobs without a college degree
It depends on who is doing the hiring. It IT is directly hiring, they tend not to worry much about the degree and look at work experience, self-study, etc, especially because so little of a CS degree is applicable to IT.
However, if HR is screening, they'll often use a degree as a quick and easy way of whittling down lists of qualified candidates.
You have to be careful of the "cultural fit" qualifier there. It's a little too easy to turn that into "I want to hire people who look like me, talk like me, have the same interests as me." It can easily lead to a monoculture.
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Welcome to LIFE 101. Humans have kids, if your business runs on such thin margins that you cant account for that, YOU HAVE NO BUSINESS HIRING EMPLOYEES, period. Humans have babies, it MUST be accounted for. If you are running your business without accounting for this, then you are a shitty human.
Boy, I'm not sure that you've been to many startups.
That's the very frequent business model -- yes, you are required to give your life to startup, including things like free time. It's to get the business "off the ground" or in first place or jumping at an opportunity of some such nonsense. And yes, they're shitty places, often run by shitty humans.
Fun! Someone has too high of an opinion of himself.
Good trolling.
Er, what? She doesn't employ anybody. She has a class project, gets a couple of boys to do her work for her, and takes the credit
So she employs them AND is able to pay them zero. Barbie is a business genius.
You're both right! She used nmap to find the IP, the sshnuke exploit, then ssh to gain access.
screen capture.
I was impressed that they would use a real exploit. They knew their audience.
(Most people knowing fsn would have used it to start a real shell, instead of continuing to use the slowest file system navigator in existence, just because it was pretty. But her role in the movie was to be a Barbie, so pretty counts.)
Her role in the movie was to be nerdy like her brother, so that she would have something to do to help out at the end. Unlike the book version of the kids, where the nerdy brother was both computer expert and dinosaur expert, while the sister whined the whole time and had no redeeming values.
It's my f#$@ing phone. If I want root on my own phone, I should be able to get it, just like I can get root on my home computer.
But the only way to root, say, the Galaxy S5 is to run an older version of the kernel.. a version vulnerable to a root exploit. The exploit of course allows OTHERS to root the phone if I'm not careful, but installing ANY security updates or upgrading the OS on the phone fixes the "flaw" that gives me root.
So the only way to get root is to leave my phone running older, insecure software.
All because these shitty companies go ballistic at the thought of the user being the administrator of his own device.
Since Debian is known as the "super stable" distro and from what we've seen systemd obviously still has some issues to be worked out ...
I'm not sure that we've seen that. The complaints we've seen are either unsubstantiated so far (the logs are more vulnerable to corruption!) or theoretical (a monolithic design might lead it to be more vulnerable to crashes taking out the system). But it's not something that is just now being introduced into Linux; systemd has been the default startup agent in Fedora for three and a half years, every Fedora 15+ machine runs systemd. Suse and Arch made it the default in 2012, various other distributions either have made it the default or are contemplating it. This is not an insignificant number of users, and these horrible bugs that concerned the anti-systemd crowd just haven't materialized yet.
Correct me if I'm wrong but as I understand it Debian has stable and testing yes? So why the rush to put systemd in stable when it appears to make more sense to have it in testing until all the bugs are ironed out, or at least not make it the default until the thing is ready
systemd has been in Debian testing since 2012 as well, but I don't think it was the default init system.
Ah, the bravery and wit of the Anonymous Coward. This person has a RAEL EXPERIENCE and relates it and you, from your absolute ignorance attempt to refute it with ad hominem attacks.
Awesome
One person's "RAEL EXPERIENCE" is another person's "useless anecdote."
Yeah, that was an ass-pull. :-(
Season four couldn't really be salvaged after the writers just threw five darts at the board to come up with five character who were inexplicably Cylons.
There was a scene in one episode (second season?) where the two space jockeys from Galactica were showing off their math skills on a computer to a journalist on Earth
That's a different TV series.
Battlestar Galactica lasted one season, 78-79.
Galactica 1980 came out a year later, and shares almost nothing with the earlier series.
I liked the Count Iblis storylines; I think it was a high point in the series. Unfortunately they ran low on the budget several times, so between good multi-part story lines, you had standalone budget-saver episodes that copied other TV series or movies, like the several times where Starbuck gets marooned, the one where Starbuck gets conned by a man claiming to be his father, etcetc. BSG's problem was that it was originally conceived of as a series of TV movies, but perhaps the network balked, and it was re-envisioned as a regular series. That's why you have those filler episodes in between 2-part 2-hour story arcs. I think the series would have worked better if it'd stuck to that original format.
Ooooh, I would not say that Space: Above and Beyond was well written, at least not through most of its run. It was moody 20-somethings in space, and none of them were what we would consider a credible soldier.
It did seem like it was starting to find its footing right about when it was canceled, so maybe it could have developed into something fine. Literally the last episode aired, I thought "wow, that was actually a good episode." The first time I actually -wanted- to see the next episode instead of my just watching because it was the only sci-fi series besides DS9 you could see at the time unless you got cable.
Sortof. Released as a movie, but with the intention of creating a TV series from it.
Here's the trippy movie intro that you never saw on the TV series: Buck Rogers movie intro
How do you live your life unless it's through Twitter? I don't get it.
I understand the desire to live life completely through Facebook instead, but it doesn't react and aggregate as fast.
i pre ordered diablo 3 for PC months in advance, but it will be the last game I get without waiting a few weeks. there is no such thing as a game that i NEED on release day
These days, Diablo 3 is really a fantastic game. But it took over a year for it to reach that point. :-(
So all of them? You do realize that embargos are an industry wide practice
Are you saying that "games journalism" is not actually journalism then? Because that's the difference between a journalist reporting on news or *shock* a real problem in the field you're reporting on. It sounds like game reviewers now are an extension of the game companies' advertising budgets.
Reviewers allowed the game companies to get away with this nonsense until the practice became ingrained. Respected movie reviewers, on the other hand, dug in their heels and reported when a movie company refused to screen movies for critics. That led to a societal attitude where if a movie studio didn't screen a movie for critics, it was a huge red flag, and the studio knew that their movie was shit (and/or a Rob Schneider movie).
So yes, I'm blaming the games review magazines and online journalists who caved when this practice starting gaining momentum. Reviewers should never be too cozy with studios/developers, nor should they become too dependent on them.
Why would covering a "customer" (aka person) be any more expensive than covering a "family member" (aka person).
Because you have more of them (unless you're a terrible restaurant), leading to more chances of incidents.
Also, a family member is less likely to sue you, though on the flip side, you wouldn't just be able to shrug off medical bills as easily with someone you live with.
Sugar drinks taste terrible in general, unless you've been drinking them your whole life and have gotten used to the taste.
so-called 'free applications' or services are bullshit since they can and will be pulled at any time google so chooses.
But it's not necessarily free. If it worked like Paypal, then they take a small cut off of each transaction.
Send someone $10 on Paypal, and they'll receive $9.75 (or if it's a "gift," then sender pays). That's not free. It's just that, like with credit card transactions, the cost is hidden from the purchaser.
everyone stereotypes...
Citation?
I think that was supposed to be a joke.
Searching through Wikipedia, I think the Pound Cake speech (a speech he gave to the NAACP during a celebration of 50 years of Brown v Board of Education) is a good starting point, where Cosby criticized a culture where if someone does something bad and they get into trouble with police, the culture immediately jumps on the police rather than criticize the black youth who committed the crime in the first place. "Looking at the incarcerated, these are not political criminals. These are people going around stealing Coca-Cola. People getting shot in the back of the head over a piece of pound cake! And then we all run out and are outraged, 'The cops shouldn't have shot him.' What the hell was he doing with the pound cake in his hand? I wanted a piece of pound cake just as bad as anybody else, and I looked at it and I had no money. And something called parenting said, 'If you get caught with it you’re going to embarrass your mother.' Not 'You're going to get your butt kicked.' No. 'You're going to embarrass your family.'"
Perhaps a better reference would be this Chicago Tribune discussion with Cosby where he ruminates on these topics. I think one of the most depressing criticisms Cosby gets is that people tell him he can't be saying these things publicly because then white people will hear it and think it's fine to say it about black people in general.
You repeated mostly what Charles Barkley said in an interview about a week back,
It's also what Bill Cosby has been saying for years now, and it's made him a bit of a pariah among many black communities.
This is a misnomer, in today's markets, it is getting increasingly difficult to land jobs without a college degree
It depends on who is doing the hiring. It IT is directly hiring, they tend not to worry much about the degree and look at work experience, self-study, etc, especially because so little of a CS degree is applicable to IT.
However, if HR is screening, they'll often use a degree as a quick and easy way of whittling down lists of qualified candidates.
You have to be careful of the "cultural fit" qualifier there. It's a little too easy to turn that into "I want to hire people who look like me, talk like me, have the same interests as me." It can easily lead to a monoculture.
Wow.