Are you saying the thousands of CO2 measurements collected globally for decades, and our thousands of ice core samples going back hundreds of thousands of years, and our scientist's best climate models of climate change... are all fabricated as part of a grand multi-decade long liberal conspiracy to set up a carbon trading market?
Because you don't want to patch Outlook on a distributed fleet of 700 salesmen's laptops?
Chromebooks aren't about the hardware. It's entirely about the software and the support. Look how many people are already using Google Docs. Now imagine if you're a major clothing designer. You're not a tech company, why should you invest so heavily in tech? Use IT like a service, like power or water, to get your job done.
You can't be serious. This has to be a troll. But what the hell, it's Christmas.
Two points:
You don't need personal information. You need a fake identity and be a good improvisor. Women have been raped on the side of the road by men impersonating uniformed police officers. Need I say more?
Cable? DSL? Is this 1996 or something?
Whatever. Go back to IRC and talk about "gardening". I'm gunna go get my plumber uniform on and steal people's kitchen utensils and cleaning supplies.
Sure, they crave attention -- but not from the admins of the boxes they break into. Social engineering is probably the most effective, amusing, and easiest method of cr/hacking. Misrepresentation is the key, so of course they'll say, "why yes, I am a white hack cracker". Please.
Later they'll go back to irc and brag to their friends, especially about any social engineering hacks. That's how they "get the chicks" (uhhh, right)
Frankly, in this day and age social engineering takes more ingenuity and originality than any insipid root kit or named exploit (imho, of course). Firewalls, honeypots, and NIDSes can't compete against a single gullible sysadmin and a phone.
First of all, I think your argument is rational from a management/employer perspective: you want the most best individuals working for you, where the lack of a college education doesn't mean they aren't qualified for the job.
However, I don't agree with the statement:
Face it, college is for doctors. The technology field works far too quickly for such "legacy" educational systems like colleges to be effective. If you speak of necessary "practices" & "theories" that need to be understood, keep in mind that most standard practices & procedures CHANGE in the tech field as fast as the industry moves.
While it's easy to picture most college professors as sitting in their ivory tower of knowledge, with crufty 1980's textbooks and know-how, a simple slashdot search shows that there's quite a bit of brand-new shiny innovations coming from acadamia. Do you think that we could have gee-whiz languages like Java (and its derivatives) without some serious formal education and research? Distributed computing? AI?
The stuff the universities are working on right now isn't what the industry is using because it's too damn new. It won't be out for another five to ten years. Take for example VLIW, which started as just a research topic. Now look at Transmeta and their ideas; also look at their employees. Most had post-graduate experience, most with thesis(-es?) closely related to their product(s). Transmeta's ideas are likely to influence AMD and Intel down the road, which will ultimately lead to widespread acceptance and VLIW becoming the trendy fun thing to do. Or at least more trendy.
Ok, maybe my lame hardware example is too specific; but you don't have to look hard to find examples of where industry is 2, 5, or 10 years behind universities.
And you also claim:
Hands-on training with the products you'll be using and want to know about is the way to go. If you want to learn about philosphy, go to a library.
It is if you're just looking for employment. For me, and I think the original poster would probably agree, the well-roundedness isn't necessarily for my employer, but for myself. I'm on my sorta lunch break right now at work, but other than now and 6 hours from now when I get home, I have zero free time to just hang out at the library and ponder the existence of the universe. Screw what that means to my employer, I cut code for them. If they want to discuss 19th century artwork or modern poetry over a beer, well, ok, but I don't think it'll effect my code.
PS: Automatic initialization of variables thus causing typos to be treated as variables is another pet peeve of mine.
Always, always, always, use strict; and run with -w, at least for anything more than 20-100 lines long. What'd be really great is if 'use strict;' were the norm, and 'no strict;' were the exception, in Perl6... but then probably only 20% of older code would fly, and -e would be horrid.
``The false regent of Sealand had ordered a tailor to draw up a design for a series of battle uniforms for the principality, reserving one with the rank of Colonel for himself,'' the civil guard statement added.
They seem to think it was Sealand, not people pretending to be from Sealand. Moreover:
Members of the gang have claimed diplomatic immunity, saying they are ambassadors, consuls or ministers of the government of Sealand.
The principality is claimed by wealthy British businessman and World War Two veteran Roy Bates, who says it is an independent state.
So, yes, they are operating under the name of Sealand, but this can also be interpretted as saying they also claim to be from Sealand, and are backed by some rich British guy (whom we already know started the "country").
I saw this article a few days ago; apparently they tried to by arms from Russia, "apparently destined for Africa and including MIG fighter[s] and Antonov planes, helicopters, heavy artillery units and tanks." Terrifying perhaps? The article pretty much disses Sealand as a real nation, but I guess only time will tell.
At least you'll be assured your data is gaurded, I suppose
I'd like to second that. Currently I'm enrolled in an OS class using nachos (here at UW), and though many of us talk disparagingly about it (nobody likes grueling coding sessions under a deadline), I've found it well-designed and very flexible.
The only caveat of a "fake" (i.e. simulated) OS is that you can make a number of cheats that you wouldn't ordinarily be able to do in a "real" OS (e.g. you don't really have to fully re-execute an instruction on a page fault within a syscall -- just fault it in and continue); also kernel data structures don't really exist in the simulated machine's physical memory. There are a lot of smaller issues too, like the use of C++, some people disagree with their coding style, etc.
But really, that's not relevant to understanding the concepts and implementing them. The code that they give you is enough of a head start that you can actually learn relevant material rather than cutting hundreds of boring, potentially buggy, lines of code.
This was really what slashdot has been needing; if anything, now more people might have reason for logging in.
That said, how about adding that redhat/google search engine that redhat just put in (on their 'port-hole' which now faces serious competition from slashdot)? Personally, that combined "search linux sites" engine has been invaluable on a couple different occasions. Anyone know of any other linux-topic-only search engines (other than "+linux +help +subject")?
Slashdot Mirror
Are you saying the thousands of CO2 measurements collected globally for decades, and our thousands of ice core samples going back hundreds of thousands of years, and our scientist's best climate models of climate change... are all fabricated as part of a grand multi-decade long liberal conspiracy to set up a carbon trading market?
Thanks for those links. Comments like yours are why I continue to read /.
Kids these days!
Because you don't want to patch Outlook on a distributed fleet of 700 salesmen's laptops?
Chromebooks aren't about the hardware. It's entirely about the software and the support. Look how many people are already using Google Docs. Now imagine if you're a major clothing designer. You're not a tech company, why should you invest so heavily in tech? Use IT like a service, like power or water, to get your job done.
the lameness filter makes this really difficult, so these aren't my favorite but they work.
export PS1='\[\033[1;30m\]--\[\033[0;36m\][\[\033[0;37m\] \d \t \!\[\033[0;36m\]]\[\033[1;30m\]--\[\033[0;37m\]\n\ [\033[1;30m\]--\[\033[0;36m\]]\[\033[0;37m\]\h\[\0 33[1;37m\]:\[\033[0;37m\]\w\[\033[0;36m\][\[\033[1 ;30m\]--\[\033[0;37m\] '
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--]ceylon:~[--
export PS1='\[\033[0;36m\][\[\033[1;30m\]+\[\033[0;37m\]\ u\[\033[1;30m\]+\[\033[0;37m\]\h\[\033[1;30m\]+\[\ 033[0;36m\]]\[\033[0;37m\]\n\[\033[0;36m\][\[\033[ 1;30m\]+\[\033[0;33m\]\w\[\033[1;30m\]+\[\033[0;36 m\]]\[\033[0;37m\] '
[+dirt+twist+]
[+~+]
i had more, but man, the lameness filter is pretty lame.
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Two points:
- You don't need personal information. You need a fake identity and be a good improvisor. Women have been raped on the side of the road by men impersonating uniformed police officers. Need I say more?
- Cable? DSL? Is this 1996 or something?
Whatever. Go back to IRC and talk about "gardening". I'm gunna go get my plumber uniform on and steal people's kitchen utensils and cleaning supplies.---
Later they'll go back to irc and brag to their friends, especially about any social engineering hacks. That's how they "get the chicks" (uhhh, right)
Frankly, in this day and age social engineering takes more ingenuity and originality than any insipid root kit or named exploit (imho, of course). Firewalls, honeypots, and NIDSes can't compete against a single gullible sysadmin and a phone.
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Here's a link that explains how bees fly.
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Presumably someone would be gracious enough to make a CGI thingamajig, but it'd be easier just to always take a perl interpretter with you.
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However, I don't agree with the statement:
While it's easy to picture most college professors as sitting in their ivory tower of knowledge, with crufty 1980's textbooks and know-how, a simple slashdot search shows that there's quite a bit of brand-new shiny innovations coming from acadamia. Do you think that we could have gee-whiz languages like Java (and its derivatives) without some serious formal education and research? Distributed computing? AI?The stuff the universities are working on right now isn't what the industry is using because it's too damn new. It won't be out for another five to ten years. Take for example VLIW, which started as just a research topic. Now look at Transmeta and their ideas; also look at their employees. Most had post-graduate experience, most with thesis(-es?) closely related to their product(s). Transmeta's ideas are likely to influence AMD and Intel down the road, which will ultimately lead to widespread acceptance and VLIW becoming the trendy fun thing to do. Or at least more trendy.
Ok, maybe my lame hardware example is too specific; but you don't have to look hard to find examples of where industry is 2, 5, or 10 years behind universities.
And you also claim:
It is if you're just looking for employment. For me, and I think the original poster would probably agree, the well-roundedness isn't necessarily for my employer, but for myself. I'm on my sorta lunch break right now at work, but other than now and 6 hours from now when I get home, I have zero free time to just hang out at the library and ponder the existence of the universe. Screw what that means to my employer, I cut code for them. If they want to discuss 19th century artwork or modern poetry over a beer, well, ok, but I don't think it'll effect my code.Anyway, I gotta take a huge piss right now.
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Always, always, always, use strict; and run with -w, at least for anything more than 20-100 lines long. What'd be really great is if 'use strict;' were the norm, and 'no strict;' were the exception, in Perl6... but then probably only 20% of older code would fly, and -e would be horrid.
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cut-n-pasted:
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At least you'll be assured your data is gaurded, I suppose
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The only caveat of a "fake" (i.e. simulated) OS is that you can make a number of cheats that you wouldn't ordinarily be able to do in a "real" OS (e.g. you don't really have to fully re-execute an instruction on a page fault within a syscall -- just fault it in and continue); also kernel data structures don't really exist in the simulated machine's physical memory. There are a lot of smaller issues too, like the use of C++, some people disagree with their coding style, etc.
But really, that's not relevant to understanding the concepts and implementing them. The code that they give you is enough of a head start that you can actually learn relevant material rather than cutting hundreds of boring, potentially buggy, lines of code.
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That said, how about adding that redhat/google search engine that redhat just put in (on their 'port-hole' which now faces serious competition from slashdot)? Personally, that combined "search linux sites" engine has been invaluable on a couple different occasions. Anyone know of any other linux-topic-only search engines (other than "+linux +help +subject")?
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