D'oh! At first I wondered why/. was posting about capturing naughty pictures by using driftnet with webcollage.
I tried this once but my screen's too visible to my boss whenever he snoopes around the cubefarm. The first porn pic I saw I decided I'd better shut webcollage down.
I'm glad someone's having fun. But they're either braver or dumber than me
Instead of improving your interview skills (from the viewpoint of answering questions) perhaps you could shift the focus of the interview.
He want's to know about your perl skills? Ask him to decribe a problem he's currently working on to show how you would approach it. I don't mean for you to work for free for the company... just that the best way to discuss your skill is to *show* it instead of talking about it.
In my own experience, it really impresses the interviewer (assuming said person actually has a clue about the tech s/he's talking to you about)
Perhaps Notes is very secure. Certainly the "confidential" tab is useful as it makes encryption transparent and easy to use (don't give me any of that "GPG/PGP is easy" nonsense) but...
[rant] I feel strongly negative about Lotus Notes. It almost NEVER works the way I expect and *want* it to.
Trying to actually use Notes is unbelieveably frustrating. From trying to search through old messages (why doesn't searching between two dates work?) to the idiotic way it sorts by subject (it doesn't realise that "subject" and "Re: subject" should sort next to each other.) to the simplest tasks like copy/paste... they couldn't even get copy/paste to work correctly. AARRGGHHH!!!!
And the worst thing is that my company requires me to use the damn thing for my job.
Notes-eesss... we hates it! We hates it forever! [/rant]
Ok... I'll stop now before I really get worked up.
I thought about it. But if I started to factor in someting like that I'd also have to account for the increasing resistance, breaking strain of the wires, permits from the FAA, etc.
That's too much work.... and hey, if I wanted to work, I wouldn't be reading slashdot:-)
Looks like perl.com is slashdotted. So I'll *cough*karma whore*cough*.
Published on Perl.com http://www.perl.com/pub/a/2003/07/16/soto2003.html
State of the Onion 2003 By Larry Wall
This is the 7th annual State of the Perl Onion speech, wherein I tell you how Perl is doing. Perl is doing fine, thank you. Now that that's out of the way, I'd like to spend the rest of the time telling jokes.
In fact, the conference organizers have noticed that I spend most of the time telling jokes. So each year they give me a little less time, so I have to chop out more of the serious subject matter so as to leave time for the jokes.
Extrapolating several years into the future, they'll eventually chop my time down to ten seconds. I'll have just enough time to say: "I'm really, really excited about what is happening with Perl this year. And I'd like to announce that, after lengthy negotiations, Guido and I have finally decided... ["Time's up. Next speaker please"]
Well, you didn't really want to know that anyway...
Since this is a State of the Union speech, or State of the Onion, in the particular case of Perl, I'm supposed to tell you what Perl's current state is. But I already told you that the current state of Perl is just fine. Or at least as fine as it ever was. Maybe a little better.
But what you really want to know about is the future state of Perl. That's nice. I don't know much about the future of Perl. Nobody does. That's part of the design of Perl 6. Since we're designing it to be a mutable language, it will probably mutate. If I did know the future of Perl, and if I told you, you'd probably run away screaming.
As I was meditating on this subject, thinking about how I don't know the future of Perl, and how you probably don't want to know it anyway, I was reminded of a saying that I first saw posted in the 1960's. You may feel like this on some days.
We the unwilling,
led by the unknowing,
are doing the impossible
for the ungrateful.
We have done so much for so long with so little
We are now qualified to do anything with nothing
I think of it as the Blue-Collar Worker's Creed.
This has been attributed to various people, none of whom are Ben Franklin, Abraham Lincoln, or Mark Twain. My favorite attribution is to Mother Teresa. She may well have quoted it, but I don't think she coined it, because I don't think Mother Teresa thought of herself as "unwilling". After all, Mother Teresa got a Nobel prize for being one of the most willing people on the face of the earth.
It's also been attributed to the Marines in Vietnam, and it certainly fits a little better. But since I grew up in a Navy town, I'd like to think it was invented by a civilian shipyard worker working for the Navy. In any event, I first saw it posted in a work area at Puget Sound Naval Shipyard back in the 1960's. Now, you may well wondering what I was doing in a Naval Shipyard in the 1960's. That's a secret.
Anyway, you may also be wondering why I brought it up at all. Well, last year I used the table of contents from an issue of Scientific American as my outline. This year I'd like to use this as my outline.
I'd like to, but I won't.
But if I did, here's what I'd say.
From the postmodern point of view, this is a text that needs to be deconstructed. It was obviously written by someone in a position of power pretending not to be. And by making light of the plight of blue collar workers, and allowing the oppressed workers to post this copy-machine meme in the workplace, this white-collar wolf in blue-collar sheep's clothing has managed to persuade the oppressed workers that being powerless is something to be proud of.
Now, some of you young folks are too steeped in postmodernism to know anything about postmodernism, so let's review. Postmodernism in its most vicious form started out with the notion that there exist various cultural constructs, or texts, or memes,
The last 4 flights I was on the headphone jack and/or the channel/volume selecter was broken.
I wonder how long it will be before these things break. Or even better, when they develop an intermittent short like the headphone jack did the last time. Seat 42 is a terrorist! oh maybe not... oh he is! oh maybe not...
How about a low tech solution? Put a f*cking steel door up between the pilots and the passangers and stop harrassing the 99.999999999999% of passangers who are law-abiding.
Sorry... I fly a lot and it keeps getting worse and worse.
I'm not sure if I'm just getting cynical as I get older or what... but I don't want any big screen adaptations of the books I love.
The main reason for that is how bitterly disappointing I find the finished product. The media corporations that make the movies typically:
a) dumb it down for Joe Sixpack
b) change the story to make it main-stream compatible
(obviously a and b overlap)
c) shrink the story to make it fit the 1~2 (sometimes 3) hour movie format
d) merchandise the hell out of it (which I find offensive)
Even LotR, which people rav on and on about, wasn't that fantastic IMO. It was pretty good.... but even with all the hype it screwed with the story to satisfy elements in a-d above. (Some would say it _had_ to for all sorts of reasons... I don't care)
Forget it. I would much rather filmmakers come up with new and exciting SciFi instead of converting books to movies. Gattaca, Star Wars IV/V/VI, Highlander, Blade Runner (if you read the original short, you'll know that the movie is a whole new story), Matrix, Alien, Terminator, Back to the Future....
Give me more original, interesting and exciting SciFi and forget about mutilating my favorite novels.
I'm getting a matched set of handmade turkshead rings for my wedding. Loren at golden knots is great, and the samples we saw were wonderful.
After my experience dealing with him, I would happily steer some more business his way. Unfortunately, this comment is a day late and probably won't be read by anyone.
Unfortunately, CNN has no legal obligation to tell the truth. The appellate court in Florida recently ruled that it is legal for the media to lie and distort the truth.
They have an ethical obligation... but it seems like they have forgotten that part.
Slashdot Mirror
D'oh! At first I wondered why /. was posting about capturing naughty pictures by using driftnet with webcollage.
I tried this once but my screen's too visible to my boss whenever he snoopes around the cubefarm. The first porn pic I saw I decided I'd better shut webcollage down.
I'm glad someone's having fun. But they're either braver or dumber than me
Just like in the Robin Williams movie!
He didn't have a beard though, so it isn't one of the good ones. Strangely enough, this is the only Robin Willams movie I own.
Or, you can apply for political asylum.
This is the 2000 version of the form though. It might have changed more recently.
Someone made a pro-patent comment on slashdot and got +5 Insightful?
It's not April 1st yet... what's going on here?
Instead of improving your interview skills (from the viewpoint of answering questions) perhaps you could shift the focus of the interview.
He want's to know about your perl skills? Ask him to decribe a problem he's currently working on to show how you would approach it. I don't mean for you to work for free for the company... just that the best way to discuss your skill is to *show* it instead of talking about it.
In my own experience, it really impresses the interviewer (assuming said person actually has a clue about the tech s/he's talking to you about)
Perhaps Notes is very secure. Certainly the "confidential" tab is useful as it makes encryption transparent and easy to use (don't give me any of that "GPG/PGP is easy" nonsense) but...
[rant]
I feel strongly negative about Lotus Notes. It almost NEVER works the way I expect and *want* it to.
Trying to actually use Notes is unbelieveably frustrating. From trying to search through old messages (why doesn't searching between two dates work?) to the idiotic way it sorts by subject (it doesn't realise that "subject" and "Re: subject" should sort next to each other.) to the simplest tasks like copy/paste... they couldn't even get copy/paste to work correctly. AARRGGHHH!!!!
And the worst thing is that my company requires me to use the damn thing for my job.
Notes-eesss... we hates it! We hates it forever!
[/rant]
Ok... I'll stop now before I really get worked up.
Hmm... Given the output, you can figure out what the original input was.
I think that's illegal under the DMCA now.
Better luck next time!
This is whitespace
:-)
I have lots and am happy to share. Use all you want.
Thank you
I thought about it. But if I started to factor in someting like that I'd also have to account for the increasing resistance, breaking strain of the wires, permits from the FAA, etc.
:-)
That's too much work.... and hey, if I wanted to work, I wouldn't be reading slashdot
Ack, it was spelled correctly in the preview... I swear!
30 years
It's *always* 30 years.
Just like fusion, flying cars, efficient solar power, and Nuke Nukem Forever.
Wow, my big chance make a pointless correction to someone else's post.
Ave. distance to moon is 384,401 km =~ 1.26115814 x 10^9 feet
So you'd need 25,223,163 of those 50 foot extension cords (plus a few more to get to your house).
Don't bother modding me down. I know this is a stupid waste of time.
Wow... a non-negative comment about Trusted Computing that didn't get modded down.
What is the world coming to?
Looks like perl.com is slashdotted. So I'll *cough*karma whore*cough*.
Published on Perl.com http://www.perl.com/pub/a/2003/07/16/soto2003.html
State of the Onion 2003
By Larry Wall
This is the 7th annual State of the Perl Onion speech, wherein I tell you how Perl is doing. Perl is doing fine, thank you. Now that that's out of the way, I'd like to spend the rest of the time telling jokes.
In fact, the conference organizers have noticed that I spend most of the time telling jokes. So each year they give me a little less time, so I have to chop out more of the serious subject matter so as to leave time for the jokes.
Extrapolating several years into the future, they'll eventually chop my time down to ten seconds. I'll have just enough time to say: "I'm really, really excited about what is happening with Perl this year. And I'd like to announce that, after lengthy negotiations, Guido and I have finally decided... ["Time's up. Next speaker please"]
Well, you didn't really want to know that anyway...
Since this is a State of the Union speech, or State of the Onion, in the particular case of Perl, I'm supposed to tell you what Perl's current state is. But I already told you that the current state of Perl is just fine. Or at least as fine as it ever was. Maybe a little better.
But what you really want to know about is the future state of Perl. That's nice. I don't know much about the future of Perl. Nobody does. That's part of the design of Perl 6. Since we're designing it to be a mutable language, it will probably mutate. If I did know the future of Perl, and if I told you, you'd probably run away screaming.
As I was meditating on this subject, thinking about how I don't know the future of Perl, and how you probably don't want to know it anyway, I was reminded of a saying that I first saw posted in the 1960's. You may feel like this on some days.
We the unwilling,
led by the unknowing,
are doing the impossible
for the ungrateful.
We have done so much for so long with so little
We are now qualified to do anything with nothing
I think of it as the Blue-Collar Worker's Creed.
This has been attributed to various people, none of whom are Ben Franklin, Abraham Lincoln, or Mark Twain. My favorite attribution is to Mother Teresa. She may well have quoted it, but I don't think she coined it, because I don't think Mother Teresa thought of herself as "unwilling". After all, Mother Teresa got a Nobel prize for being one of the most willing people on the face of the earth.
It's also been attributed to the Marines in Vietnam, and it certainly fits a little better. But since I grew up in a Navy town, I'd like to think it was invented by a civilian shipyard worker working for the Navy. In any event, I first saw it posted in a work area at Puget Sound Naval Shipyard back in the 1960's. Now, you may well wondering what I was doing in a Naval Shipyard in the 1960's. That's a secret.
Anyway, you may also be wondering why I brought it up at all. Well, last year I used the table of contents from an issue of Scientific American as my outline. This year I'd like to use this as my outline.
I'd like to, but I won't.
But if I did, here's what I'd say.
From the postmodern point of view, this is a text that needs to be deconstructed. It was obviously written by someone in a position of power pretending not to be. And by making light of the plight of blue collar workers, and allowing the oppressed workers to post this copy-machine meme in the workplace, this white-collar wolf in blue-collar sheep's clothing has managed to persuade the oppressed workers that being powerless is something to be proud of.
Now, some of you young folks are too steeped in postmodernism to know anything about postmodernism, so let's review. Postmodernism in its most vicious form started out with the notion that there exist various cultural constructs, or texts, or memes,
Wow, I just had a Pratchett flashback:
"It's the poorly spelled note of the Banshee"
sukotto
ok
Exploding whale
It's dark, dreary, and splattered with whale meat.
So I guess you never watch movies on planes on on TV huh?
The last 4 flights I was on the headphone jack and/or the channel/volume selecter was broken.
I wonder how long it will be before these things break. Or even better, when they develop an intermittent short like the headphone jack did the last time. Seat 42 is a terrorist! oh maybe not... oh he is! oh maybe not...
How about a low tech solution? Put a f*cking steel door up between the pilots and the passangers and stop harrassing the 99.999999999999% of passangers who are law-abiding.
Sorry... I fly a lot and it keeps getting worse and worse.
Hahaha
He doesn't know how to use the three shells...
flight93crash.com
There are eye-witness accounts that strongly suggest that Flight #93 was actually shot down.
flight93crash.com
I'm not sure if I'm just getting cynical as I get older or what... but I don't want any big screen adaptations of the books I love.
The main reason for that is how bitterly disappointing I find the finished product. The media corporations that make the movies typically:
a) dumb it down for Joe Sixpack
b) change the story to make it main-stream compatible
(obviously a and b overlap)
c) shrink the story to make it fit the 1~2 (sometimes 3) hour movie format
d) merchandise the hell out of it (which I find offensive)
Even LotR, which people rav on and on about, wasn't that fantastic IMO. It was pretty good.... but even with all the hype it screwed with the story to satisfy elements in a-d above. (Some would say it _had_ to for all sorts of reasons... I don't care)
Forget it. I would much rather filmmakers come up with new and exciting SciFi instead of converting books to movies. Gattaca, Star Wars IV/V/VI, Highlander, Blade Runner (if you read the original short, you'll know that the movie is a whole new story), Matrix, Alien, Terminator, Back to the Future....
Give me more original, interesting and exciting SciFi and forget about mutilating my favorite novels.
Sukotto
I'm getting a matched set of handmade turkshead rings for my wedding. Loren at golden knots is great, and the samples we saw were wonderful.
After my experience dealing with him, I would happily steer some more business his way. Unfortunately, this comment is a day late and probably won't be read by anyone.
Unfortunately, CNN has no legal obligation to tell the truth. The appellate court in Florida recently ruled that it is legal for the media to lie and distort the truth.
They have an ethical obligation... but it seems like they have forgotten that part.
They already control the uplinks, why not take the logical next step and use the bandwidth when the journalists aren't?
It's not like the media is going to report anything negative about them... they want to keep their "approved" status.
Sukotto