The other thing I cannot understand is why anyone would want to run whole-disk encryption on a compute server. Even the US DoD machines that are used for classified research do not do this!
The DoD has tanks, fighter-bombers and men with M-16s to keep their servers secure. Encryption isn't as necessary for them.
I have a friend who's always bitching about President Bush. "Bush did this...Bush did that...etc" two weeks ago when gas dropped nearly $.50 in the course of a weekend, I interrupted my friend's bitching to ask "Does Bush get the credit for dropping gas prices?"
Of course, he did not.
How does a President take the blame for all of the bad things that happen on his watch (9-11, gas prices, subprime mortgages) but can't take credit for any of the good things (Removal of Saddam, gas prices, abortion numbers at 34 year low)?
Hiring new employees is a pain in the ass. No matter what a person's resume is like, you can't tell if they're a good worker or if they'll fit in at your organization. An intern has been there and given everyone a chance to know their work and their personality. You know in advance if an intern will work out in a permanent position.
I have friends and relatives who get the Flu and run off to the doctor to get a prescription. I try to explain, that antibiotics won't help a viral infection but people just want to take a pill. It doesn't cost me any money for my time when I'm talking about it with them, but for a doctor time is money. He can lose money and potentially go out of business because every asshole who walks through the door wants or needs pills to feel better or he can just give them placebo and get on with his day.
I disagree. I'd say that he's the Republican Bill Clinton. No matter what shit the opposition tries to throw him in, he always seems to come out cleaner and he inspires insane hatred in the opposite party.
It was over a decade ago when they were getting happy with CCTV cameras in London. We talked about how creepy that was and that they should be careful that they were not sliding down a slippery slope. We were dismissed, we were laughed at, and now look. We were right.
Linux works because of freedom. You can choose to use it or you can choose to use something else. You can choose to use it AND something else. Government's do not afford their subjects that kind of freedom. Governments exist to enforce rules, as it stands you only have to enforce rules on people who don't want to abide by them in the first place.
Most of us have no desire to murder anyone, as such it's no great imposition for it to be illegal. Many of us wish to criticize the leaders of our governments, an "open source" government wouldn't be able to allow people to flout its rules or else it would be powerless.
He should stick to investing money because he really just stepped out of his element with this stupid-ass suggestion.
But you quoted the part where he discusses marriage status, not the bit where he says tests showed that he has an abnormally low count. I assumed you chose that line to show somehow that he wasn't smart, not at random.
No, I quoted the part where he said they've been trying for 3+ years, it's just coincidence that he also mentioned being married in the same sentence.
See above about abnormally low sperm count, again. They've done the standard testing already.
Which is only important if I'm giving him actual advice and not making a joke.
I feel that is a bad idea because an Internship implies that the inexperienced individual will be a slave of authority and incapable of setting his own direction of specialisation.
Depends on what kind of internship he takes or where it is. My Internship was great. I told the interviewer that I was interested in linux administration and software development. BAM! He put me with one of the linux administrators.
If you look around, there is an internship that will meet your criteria.
Internships are the way to go. A nice internship will give you some job experience. If you've been thinking about going back for your Master's degree, do that. And get an internship.
I drive an 11 year old SUV. When one of those guys in a BMW tries to force his way in front of me. I keep on going. I look at him like "My truck is old. I don't care about you running into my bumper." They invariably brake.
OpenOffice isn't for everybody. I'll never use MS Office on my home network because 1. I'm not going to buy copies for every computer in my house and 2. there is no linux version.
I have a very good friend who does rebar work. I'm not suggesting that it's not a noble field of work or that they money isn't good, but you don't want to do that sort of thing when you're 40.
Those jocks, banged the cheerleaders on HS, and now got 3 or 4 different hot women, strippers, hookers, waitresses, crackheads of different kinds with hot piercings and tattoos, and like 5 or 6 kids with each one of them.
You're dreaming. Those jocks might have banged HS cheerleaders but now they can barely pay their rent. The only women most of them can get are ones that I wouldn't want.
Besides, their offspring is stronger than ours. They are trained to kill, to shoot, to be alpha males, to fight for survival, while our little-geeks are educated on classical music, History, LEGO building and poetry.
Once again, you're dreaming. I'm 6'1", 250 pounds, and when I was younger I was a tournament martial artist. I hunt. I target shoot. What's different is that for me, those things come AFTER academics.
So, they are way more successful, evolutionarily talking, than we smart-a**es will ever be...
It's as much about the quality of your offspring as the quantity. If you make a bunch of babies that you can't support, they will grow up undernourished and disadvantaged. Your 6 stupid, hungry kids will not have an advantage over my 3 well fed educated kids.
Year after year I, and one other kid, scored in the 99th percentile on our standardized tests. Every year when we took the "Stanford Achievement Test" we kicked ass. When we got to high school, who did the teachers praise? The dimwitted fucktards who could run fast.
So many years later, those jocks are lucky to have a job pouring concrete and I'm a software developer. The other 99th percentile kid is the head of software development at a nearby company.
Even if walmart has to pay the record companies out of its own pocket, what's the break even point? You pay for a bunch of MP3s once or you pay to maintain servers forever. At some people, the MP3 option becomes cheaper.
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The other thing I cannot understand is why anyone would want to run whole-disk encryption on a compute server. Even the US DoD machines that are used for classified research do not do this!
The DoD has tanks, fighter-bombers and men with M-16s to keep their servers secure. Encryption isn't as necessary for them.
LK
Ever talked to a woman who got raped and pregnant?
Yes. She gave the baby up for adoption.
This is a red herring anyway, less than 4% of abortions are the product of rape/incest.
LK
I have a friend who's always bitching about President Bush. "Bush did this...Bush did that...etc" two weeks ago when gas dropped nearly $.50 in the course of a weekend, I interrupted my friend's bitching to ask "Does Bush get the credit for dropping gas prices?"
Of course, he did not.
How does a President take the blame for all of the bad things that happen on his watch (9-11, gas prices, subprime mortgages) but can't take credit for any of the good things (Removal of Saddam, gas prices, abortion numbers at 34 year low)?
LK
Exactly!
Hiring new employees is a pain in the ass. No matter what a person's resume is like, you can't tell if they're a good worker or if they'll fit in at your organization. An intern has been there and given everyone a chance to know their work and their personality. You know in advance if an intern will work out in a permanent position.
LK
Why go through all of that when you could just irrigate your sinuses with a nettie pot?
Whenever I think I'm battling a sinus infection, I rinse out as much of the bacteria laden mucus as I can. It usually works.
LK
I'm not and I'm still rather fond of mine. What's your point?
LK
I have friends and relatives who get the Flu and run off to the doctor to get a prescription. I try to explain, that antibiotics won't help a viral infection but people just want to take a pill. It doesn't cost me any money for my time when I'm talking about it with them, but for a doctor time is money. He can lose money and potentially go out of business because every asshole who walks through the door wants or needs pills to feel better or he can just give them placebo and get on with his day.
LK
George Bush: The Republican Jimmy Carter.
I disagree. I'd say that he's the Republican Bill Clinton. No matter what shit the opposition tries to throw him in, he always seems to come out cleaner and he inspires insane hatred in the opposite party.
LK
It was over a decade ago when they were getting happy with CCTV cameras in London. We talked about how creepy that was and that they should be careful that they were not sliding down a slippery slope. We were dismissed, we were laughed at, and now look. We were right.
LK
Linux works because of freedom. You can choose to use it or you can choose to use something else. You can choose to use it AND something else. Government's do not afford their subjects that kind of freedom. Governments exist to enforce rules, as it stands you only have to enforce rules on people who don't want to abide by them in the first place.
Most of us have no desire to murder anyone, as such it's no great imposition for it to be illegal. Many of us wish to criticize the leaders of our governments, an "open source" government wouldn't be able to allow people to flout its rules or else it would be powerless.
He should stick to investing money because he really just stepped out of his element with this stupid-ass suggestion.
LK
A joke loses all of its punch when you have to explain it to someone.
LK
But you quoted the part where he discusses marriage status, not the bit where he says tests showed that he has an abnormally low count. I assumed you chose that line to show somehow that he wasn't smart, not at random.
No, I quoted the part where he said they've been trying for 3+ years, it's just coincidence that he also mentioned being married in the same sentence.
See above about abnormally low sperm count, again. They've done the standard testing already.
Which is only important if I'm giving him actual advice and not making a joke.
LK
No, the joke part was that maybe he's not really a nerd and thus doesn't have the extra motile sperm.
The serious part was that maybe his wife is barren.
Need me to explain any more of it for you?
LK
I've been married 2 years now and been trying to conceive for 3+ with no luck.
No offense is intended, but maybe you're not as smart as you think you are.
Also, maybe it's her problem.
LK
I'm thinking that an internship is not the way to go. If you have bills to pay, you need at least some money.
Why in the fuck would you take an unpaid internship?
I got paid an entry-level wage during my internship.
LK
I feel that is a bad idea because an Internship implies that the inexperienced individual will be a slave of authority and incapable of setting his own direction of specialisation.
Depends on what kind of internship he takes or where it is. My Internship was great. I told the interviewer that I was interested in linux administration and software development. BAM! He put me with one of the linux administrators.
If you look around, there is an internship that will meet your criteria.
LK
Internships are the way to go. A nice internship will give you some job experience. If you've been thinking about going back for your Master's degree, do that. And get an internship.
LK
I drive an 11 year old SUV. When one of those guys in a BMW tries to force his way in front of me. I keep on going. I look at him like "My truck is old. I don't care about you running into my bumper." They invariably brake.
LK
OpenOffice isn't for everybody. I'll never use MS Office on my home network because 1. I'm not going to buy copies for every computer in my house and 2. there is no linux version.
LK
I have a very good friend who does rebar work. I'm not suggesting that it's not a noble field of work or that they money isn't good, but you don't want to do that sort of thing when you're 40.
LK
I don't want to be Bill Gates. Fuck Bill Gates!
Those jocks, banged the cheerleaders on HS, and now got 3 or 4 different hot women, strippers, hookers, waitresses, crackheads of different kinds with hot piercings and tattoos, and like 5 or 6 kids with each one of them.
You're dreaming. Those jocks might have banged HS cheerleaders but now they can barely pay their rent. The only women most of them can get are ones that I wouldn't want.
Besides, their offspring is stronger than ours. They are trained to kill, to shoot, to be alpha males, to fight for survival, while our little-geeks are educated on classical music, History, LEGO building and poetry.
Once again, you're dreaming. I'm 6'1", 250 pounds, and when I was younger I was a tournament martial artist. I hunt. I target shoot. What's different is that for me, those things come AFTER academics.
So, they are way more successful, evolutionarily talking, than we smart-a**es will ever be...
It's as much about the quality of your offspring as the quantity. If you make a bunch of babies that you can't support, they will grow up undernourished and disadvantaged. Your 6 stupid, hungry kids will not have an advantage over my 3 well fed educated kids.
LK
I'm not talking about people who pursued academic achievement and participated in sports. I threw shot put, discus and javelin.
I'm talking about people who focused on athletics over academics.
LK
Year after year I, and one other kid, scored in the 99th percentile on our standardized tests. Every year when we took the "Stanford Achievement Test" we kicked ass. When we got to high school, who did the teachers praise? The dimwitted fucktards who could run fast.
So many years later, those jocks are lucky to have a job pouring concrete and I'm a software developer. The other 99th percentile kid is the head of software development at a nearby company.
LK
Even if walmart has to pay the record companies out of its own pocket, what's the break even point? You pay for a bunch of MP3s once or you pay to maintain servers forever. At some people, the MP3 option becomes cheaper.
LK
I got mine on clearance at Best Buy, 6 months or so ago.
I also got a Draft N network adapter on the cheap.
LK