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  1. Re:Supply and Demand. on The Science Education Myth · · Score: 1
    I made three assumptions prior to attending college:
    • Most jobs require (or place emphasis on) a degree not necessarily one in the given field (lots of office jobs to say the least).
    • Most engineering jobs require a field oriented degree. (This is also true with Doctors, Teachers, and Lawyers (some required by law but are lost if not updated))
    • Most engineering degrees have a higher level of requirements (math, science, credits, etc.) than business degrees and the like (even though they might not be as specific, they tend to be more intensely involved)

      As a result I got a degree in computer engineering which has both EE and CS exposure allowing me to explore both fields, or at least show I am competent enough to do something non-engineering. My first job was EE oriented, and my second is strictly CS.

      In the end the degree just gets the attention of a potential employer, after that it's what you know.
  2. Re:Common carrier on Comcast Confirmed as Discriminating Against FileSharing Traffic · · Score: 1

    Well if you think about it they really haven't done anything to alter or take away from the data itself. Instead that just sent something out on their line to the consumer, a side effect of which compromises a process. Your data is still readily available.

    There are possible solutions to this problem:
    - Network: Sniff for that particular packet and trash it before it hits the application.
    - Software: Establish a key between you and the peer(s) to validate all packets.
    - Software: Ignore all 'discontinuation' packets'
    - Social: All comcast users that use bit-torrent can complain directly to the company, giving them a fair gauge of what percentage of their users want this type of service.
    - Retaliation: That packet comes from Comcast, and probably has a fingerprint of data that you can use to point back at their servers. (insert your own creativity here)

    All and all it's just "the man (as in "to stick it to the man")" vs. consumer

  3. Re:What about stupid fashinista culture? on Berners-Lee Challenges 'Stupid' Male Geek Culture · · Score: 1

    Pretty people talk to the client, pasty people make the product.....I can't argue with that, I'm too busy developing this software system....

  4. Re:What about stupid fashinista culture? on Berners-Lee Challenges 'Stupid' Male Geek Culture · · Score: 1
    You can't assume that just because someone is well educated in the male culture that they would want to lead by example in order to stop it.
    If we have three subjects in our study with the same level of employment:
    • Brad (sexiest)
    • Frank (not sexiest)
    • Leah (the woman)

    Brad has a bias against Leah.

    Leah feels discriminated.

    Frank doesn't care because it doesn't effect him.
  5. Re:Off means off on Turned Off iPhone Gets $4800 Bill from AT&T · · Score: 1

    It would make sense to employ the cheapest solution that **appears** to be **logical**.

    Shielding = $? (Oh wait what if IEEE decides on a new wireless standard, now all that shielding we bought is worthless...)

    Sign = $5? (You are probably in this hospital because you are injured or seeing someone you care about who is injured. If you don't turn off your technology, we might try and replace their heart.)

    The key words here is appears to be logical. The 13yr old who doesn't care about their step mother can't understand why she can't talk to her boyfriends because Cindy's heart complications are pretty boring in comparison to Brads eyes....

  6. ....Live help = results on The OSS Solution to the Linux Wi-Fi Problem · · Score: 1

    Sounds like a few of you have had a lot of problems. I logged onto irc.oftc.net went into #debian and I had help->steps to implement->solved issue in about under 30 mins (ty gsimmons). I don't think my pci card was anything special just whatever linksys made at the time. (go ahead mark me as a troll)

  7. Windows security.... on Ophcrack Says Your Password Is Insecure · · Score: 5, Funny

    Windows has a security feature it uses when a user attempts to create a 15Gb table called "crashing". This makes it extremely difficult to break in using the tool defined.....

  8. Re:Random karma whore on Ultra-low-cost True Randomness · · Score: 3, Insightful

    That link brought me to the conclusion that randomness doesn't exist as much as I thought. It uses the example of rolling dice, random right? Not really... Just too many variables to consider over the given amount of time. *Density of dice *Placement of dice in hand *Distance of hand from table *Number of dice *Potential values of dice *Density of table *etc..... By the time you write down all the variables a value has been generated. Just because you didn't have enough time to evaluate the scenario, doesn't make it random. The problem with random number programs is that the algorithm is predictable, thus it depends of the variables fed to it for randomness. The algorithm hopes that by smashing all the variables together it will somehow not be predictable. In essence this seems true because unrepeatable values such as time are taking into consideration, but assuming you know all the variables entering the algorithm, you should be able to predict the output and thus not random. Well that was all probably off topic.....

  9. Re:Whole heart next? on Grow Your Own Heart Valves · · Score: 1

    Sperm+Egg=expired condomn

  10. Re:and I got it for a song ... on Judge — "Making Available" Is Stealing Music · · Score: 1

    There is something of a shortcut. Here in the US, the Library of Congress (LoC) has copies of most of what has been published in the country. I could go to Washington and spend a few years searching through their archives. Then I could do the same in all other countries. This would only take a few lifetimes, not the thousands of lifetimes that the "buy and search everything" approach would take. But still, there's a certain limited practicality here. It should made publicly available online for free so that musicians have the opportunity to avoid such law suits. (Plus it would be awesome to watch the government get sued for copyright infringement because they are hosting a whole bunch of music.)
  11. Re:That's called Slander of Title on Judge — "Making Available" Is Stealing Music · · Score: 1

    I'll confess the RIAA aren't terribly bright, suing your customers generally isn't productive. If someone is stealing from you, they aren't your customer.
  12. Re:Doesn't sound similar to me on MIT Engineers World's First Schizophrenic Mice · · Score: 1

    Sometimes I think I hear my cell phone ringing, but it isn't. AHHH!!!