I can think of a good pubic [sic] sector job for Mrs. Palin. SARAH PALIN vs. ANNE COULTER in ERECTION 2012. The apocalyptic ass-banging porn romp wherein the hottest useless/stupid/dangerous talk show circuit media whores get tea bagged and thoroughly rogered in the drain. Starring Shigeo Tokuda.
It's not for everyone, but I'd sure watch it. Heck I'd pay to watch it on my interwebs. But I'm dirty like that.
I agree wholeheartedly. Dressing up communicates a real seriousness about one's work -- just witness the trannies on santa monica blvd here in los angeles -- but it's HOT in DC in the summertime. Like hot and humid. I think the CIC should be able to work in his undies if he wants to.
Hopefully webvention hasn't patented the anonymous mailing of dogshit -- or the burning bag of dogshit on the front porch -- because this is the obvious response to such a shenanigan.
I worked on a project several years ago that had a lot of statistical calculations (standard deviation, correlation, distributions, etc.) and was surprised to find that PHP doesn't offer these functions so I had to write my own PHP code to calculate this stuff. I was thinking that implementing an optimized library of various commonly used stats functions would be something that might fit your skill set well. PHP is written in C (and possibly some C++ but I'm not sure). I am re-learning my long lost C chops at the moment in order to contribute to AMFEXT: http://pecl.php.net/package/amfext
AMFEXT is an extension to PHP and can either be compiled into the PHP executable itself or compiled as a shared object -- a separate file. This extension structure makes it pretty easy to expand PHP because your extension is entirely optional for folks building PHP so it would not be critical to write perfect code right away. In order to get started developing such an extension, there are a variety of tricks to get oriented.
You don't need permission to download the source and compile it yourself and start building your own extension. If you want it to be included in the PECL repository, you just have to join the mailing list and submit your extension for the other contributors to see. They'll let you know what further steps to take.
Forgive me, but "STFI" is such a lame response for this type of question. Googling "home media player" nets 360 MILLION results and they don't look particularly helpful. I think it's entirely reasonable to ask the nerd collective a question and am very interested myself in the reponses here as they reflect the considered opinions of people who are very knowledgeable on the subject matter.
If the stolen property is transported across state lines, it becomes a federal crime. I have a funny feeling they aren't going to be particularly interested because they have bigger fish to fry. It's hard to even get the LAPD to pay attention to a theft of $20,000 of musical gear which my friends suffered. If you do all the legwork for them, you may have a better chance of getting them interested. If they are not interested, take it to your local news station -- or maybe dateline or something. That might put some heat on the police to do something.
Failing all that, your best bet would be to send some heavies to pick it up for you.
If this is the solution to the dark matter question, then all those astronomers and astrophysicists have been disturbingly myopic. I studied astrophysics in college for two years and it is precisely this kind of ass-hatted, onanistic speculation which convinced me to switch to comp sci. I really love cosmology, it's just such a shame when we continue to see such fail.
I want my teleportation machine and now I'm never gonna get it.
Somebody might want to check my math here...my stats are a bit rusty
Ok let's assume a few things: 1) your passwords are 8 chars long and use upper and lowercase alpha and numbers only 2) they are essentially random passwords that are NOT in the dictionary.
This would mean that there are 2^62 possible passwords in your password space. That's 4,611,686,018,427,387,904 possible passwords. The chances of guessing one password in that space within a million random tries is 1,000,000/4,611,686,018,427,387,904. That's about one chance in 4,611,686,018,427. I believe that one in 4.5 trillion is about as remote a possibility as you getting struck by a meteor.
I think it's much more likely that someone will exploit a buffer overflow or sql injection vulnerability on your servers than someone guessing a password. You should make sure that you've applied whatever patches that you can and that any sensitive data traveling to or from your servers is encrypted.
I also like the iptables suggestion -- this means your machine will ignore entire regions of the internet so your server's exposure is at least limited to friendly subnets.
Another useful technique is to prohibit root access to SSH on initial login. This means that everyone has to login with some other username before they can acquire root privileges. For hackers, this means guessing not just a password but also a username that is allowed to login via SSH on the machine.
I have a bunch of old data backups on CDR that were great for years but they've started to degrade. I'd be willing to bet that any magnetic disk would be even more vulnerable to data corruption over time. I don't think your RAID 5 storage technique is a good long-term option.
This could be a ridiculous suggestion, but have you considered something like cloud storage for this? You could encrypt the data and store it in somebody's cloud and let them worry about backing everything up.
It happened to me in Malibu. Bastards made some kind of copy of my debit card and spent $250 before my bank shut them down. Fortunately, my bank (wells fargo) restored the $250 to my bank account. I bet the gas stations where the fake card was used got stuck with the bill. Serves them right for not guaranteeing the financial security of their customers. They should keep an eye on their pumps.
If you have an iPhone or iPod touch, there's an app called 'Planets' which is free and makes it very easy to locate the planets: http://www.apptism.com/apps/planets
The app gives you the azimuth and elevation of the various planets. Venus and Mercury are tough because they are pretty much always in the general direction of the sun due to the geography of the whole situation. The sun being so bright, it's hard to see them.
Computer Programmers are tracked separately from Computer Software Engineers - Applications or Computer Software Engineers - Systems. And salaries vary by city, state, and industry. You may find these links interesting:
Be sure to hover over the "details" link as it will give you more detail on salary distribution.
As for the question "is it lucrative?" I think the answer is definitely yes as both salaries and total employment are increasing. Especially when you check out the employment numbers for 'sewing machine operator'. Despite gradually increasing salaries, total employment has shown a rapid decline: http://myplan.com/careers/db/5.php?onet=51-6031.00
i'm still waiting on my first jet pack and this article is trying to tell me jet pack is obsolete. what a bummer. to be honest, i'm imagining this vehicle will result in a lot of strained necks. it looks very uncomfortable.
So whatever happened to the much-ballyhooed 700 Mhz spectrum? Didn't AT&T & verizon both invest in that bit? So far I haven't seen hide nor hair of any 700mhz devices nor any announcements about wireless service using this spectrum.
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I can think of a good pubic [sic] sector job for Mrs. Palin. SARAH PALIN vs. ANNE COULTER in ERECTION 2012. The apocalyptic ass-banging porn romp wherein the hottest useless/stupid/dangerous talk show circuit media whores get tea bagged and thoroughly rogered in the drain. Starring Shigeo Tokuda.
It's not for everyone, but I'd sure watch it. Heck I'd pay to watch it on my interwebs. But I'm dirty like that.
I agree wholeheartedly. Dressing up communicates a real seriousness about one's work -- just witness the trannies on santa monica blvd here in los angeles -- but it's HOT in DC in the summertime. Like hot and humid. I think the CIC should be able to work in his undies if he wants to.
Hopefully webvention hasn't patented the anonymous mailing of dogshit -- or the burning bag of dogshit on the front porch -- because this is the obvious response to such a shenanigan.
I worked on a project several years ago that had a lot of statistical calculations (standard deviation, correlation, distributions, etc.) and was surprised to find that PHP doesn't offer these functions so I had to write my own PHP code to calculate this stuff. I was thinking that implementing an optimized library of various commonly used stats functions would be something that might fit your skill set well. PHP is written in C (and possibly some C++ but I'm not sure). I am re-learning my long lost C chops at the moment in order to contribute to AMFEXT:
http://pecl.php.net/package/amfext
AMFEXT is an extension to PHP and can either be compiled into the PHP executable itself or compiled as a shared object -- a separate file. This extension structure makes it pretty easy to expand PHP because your extension is entirely optional for folks building PHP so it would not be critical to write perfect code right away. In order to get started developing such an extension, there are a variety of tricks to get oriented.
One is to read the pecl-dev mailing list:
http://news.php.net/php.pecl.dev
Another is to read some tutorials. This one is pretty good:
http://devzone.zend.com/article/1021
Here's a quick start guide describing how to make your own 'hello world' extension:
http://blog.slickedit.com/2007/09/creating-a-php-5-extension-with-visual-c-2005/
You don't need permission to download the source and compile it yourself and start building your own extension. If you want it to be included in the PECL repository, you just have to join the mailing list and submit your extension for the other contributors to see. They'll let you know what further steps to take.
I could also use some help with my open source project:
http://flashmog.net/
Forgive me, but "STFI" is such a lame response for this type of question. Googling "home media player" nets 360 MILLION results and they don't look particularly helpful. I think it's entirely reasonable to ask the nerd collective a question and am very interested myself in the reponses here as they reflect the considered opinions of people who are very knowledgeable on the subject matter.
Does the mac mini come with the little remote? That would be super handy and possibly enough to justify the cost all by itself.
Also, what sort of output does it have? DVI? HDMI?
Mahara. Because Mahara and Moodle. Durka durka durka durka.
I Agree. R136a1 is hardly a good name for one of the biggest.
My girlfriend suggested Prometheus for the big one.
Maybe 'the four horsemen' ?
If the stolen property is transported across state lines, it becomes a federal crime. I have a funny feeling they aren't going to be particularly interested because they have bigger fish to fry. It's hard to even get the LAPD to pay attention to a theft of $20,000 of musical gear which my friends suffered. If you do all the legwork for them, you may have a better chance of getting them interested. If they are not interested, take it to your local news station -- or maybe dateline or something. That might put some heat on the police to do something.
Failing all that, your best bet would be to send some heavies to pick it up for you.
I for one welcome our tape-populating overlords.
...to boot it up and view the android splash screen before you have to shut it down again and charge it.
insert joke here about sharks, lasers, chopsticks, and sushi.
This reminds me of the Brady Bunch episode where Peter decides that he has no personality and starts talking like Humphrey Bogart.
Fries coming right up, sir!
I have been thoroughly pwned and apologize for my myopic, onanistic, speculative non-opinion.
On your head! Duh!
If this is the solution to the dark matter question, then all those astronomers and astrophysicists have been disturbingly myopic. I studied astrophysics in college for two years and it is precisely this kind of ass-hatted, onanistic speculation which convinced me to switch to comp sci. I really love cosmology, it's just such a shame when we continue to see such fail.
I want my teleportation machine and now I'm never gonna get it.
I belive driven not by jet engines, but by a ducted van. *not* a jetpack!
Somebody might want to check my math here...my stats are a bit rusty
Ok let's assume a few things:
1) your passwords are 8 chars long and use upper and lowercase alpha and numbers only
2) they are essentially random passwords that are NOT in the dictionary.
This would mean that there are 2^62 possible passwords in your password space. That's 4,611,686,018,427,387,904 possible passwords. The chances of guessing one password in that space within a million random tries is 1,000,000/4,611,686,018,427,387,904. That's about one chance in 4,611,686,018,427. I believe that one in 4.5 trillion is about as remote a possibility as you getting struck by a meteor.
I think it's much more likely that someone will exploit a buffer overflow or sql injection vulnerability on your servers than someone guessing a password. You should make sure that you've applied whatever patches that you can and that any sensitive data traveling to or from your servers is encrypted.
I also like the iptables suggestion -- this means your machine will ignore entire regions of the internet so your server's exposure is at least limited to friendly subnets.
Another useful technique is to prohibit root access to SSH on initial login. This means that everyone has to login with some other username before they can acquire root privileges. For hackers, this means guessing not just a password but also a username that is allowed to login via SSH on the machine.
I have a bunch of old data backups on CDR that were great for years but they've started to degrade. I'd be willing to bet that any magnetic disk would be even more vulnerable to data corruption over time. I don't think your RAID 5 storage technique is a good long-term option.
This could be a ridiculous suggestion, but have you considered something like cloud storage for this? You could encrypt the data and store it in somebody's cloud and let them worry about backing everything up.
Or Joseph Smith, Jr.
It happened to me in Malibu. Bastards made some kind of copy of my debit card and spent $250 before my bank shut them down. Fortunately, my bank (wells fargo) restored the $250 to my bank account. I bet the gas stations where the fake card was used got stuck with the bill. Serves them right for not guaranteeing the financial security of their customers. They should keep an eye on their pumps.
If you have an iPhone or iPod touch, there's an app called 'Planets' which is free and makes it very easy to locate the planets:
http://www.apptism.com/apps/planets
The app gives you the azimuth and elevation of the various planets. Venus and Mercury are tough because they are pretty much always in the general direction of the sun due to the geography of the whole situation. The sun being so bright, it's hard to see them.
Mars and Jupiter are pretty good bets I think.
Not sure how powerful a 4" telescope is, but this list may be useful:
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Brightest_stars
Also, I'm particularly fascinated with Eta Carinae.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Eta_carinae
Computer Programmers are tracked separately from Computer Software Engineers - Applications or Computer Software Engineers - Systems. And salaries vary by city, state, and industry. You may find these links interesting:
http://myplan.com/careers/db/4st.php?onet=15-1021.00
http://myplan.com/careers/db/4st.php?onet=15-1031.00
http://myplan.com/careers/db/4st.php?onet=15-1032.00
Be sure to hover over the "details" link as it will give you more detail on salary distribution.
As for the question "is it lucrative?" I think the answer is definitely yes as both salaries and total employment are increasing. Especially when you check out the employment numbers for 'sewing machine operator'. Despite gradually increasing salaries, total employment has shown a rapid decline:
http://myplan.com/careers/db/5.php?onet=51-6031.00
Or maybe check out dishwashers salaries:
http://myplan.com/careers/db/4.php?onet=35-9021.00
Less than $18k per year and employment is flat.
i'm still waiting on my first jet pack and this article is trying to tell me jet pack is obsolete. what a bummer. to be honest, i'm imagining this vehicle will result in a lot of strained necks. it looks very uncomfortable.
Since when did anyone say anything about the hammer going into space? Answer me honestly. Have you been smoking weed?
So whatever happened to the much-ballyhooed 700 Mhz spectrum? Didn't AT&T & verizon both invest in that bit? So far I haven't seen hide nor hair of any 700mhz devices nor any announcements about wireless service using this spectrum.