It works, I swear! I remember one particular weekend where I lost 5lbs working through raid encounters in Everquest 1. Who needs food when lewt is raining from the sky!
We were all there when we were fresh out of school and eager to make out mark. Unfortunately, heads-down hard workers rarely get the advancement they deserve. Instead its the slack-asses who spend their time "networking" around the water cooler who get the plum jobs and promotions.
Eventually you'll experience the frustration that we all did when we came to that realization. Welcome to the the real world!
Man is useful once you understand the basics of how a command works. However, if you're sufficiently green, decoding the language in many of the man pages is difficult. When executing certain system management tasks as root, a mistake can be catastrophic. Google will pull up the man page for you, but also the infinitely more educational blog and faq pages that decribe what a command does, when you use it and how to trouble shoot problems encountered with it.
The problem with Google, is the non-official blogs and faqs frequently reference older version of the command line tools bundled in the latest distros. Occasionally, the tool author radically alters the tools between releases rendering the non-official docs inaccurate... Then the neophyte/newbie hobbyist is up the creek with a paddle.
Nope. Never would do it, no one should be asked to do it. My last job that tried to pull that ploy. After they announced that they were bringing that in, I made some calls, did an interview or 2 and when my ex-boss handed me the schedule - I traded him my resignation. The look on his face was priceless.
Part of on-call requires that the person on-call be available, alert and able to drop everything for the period of time needed to fix the issue. That means, you can't buy tix to entertainment events, go to the pub with friends, can't go on a weekend camping trip with the kids or anything similar. You are effectively wearing electronic shackles, much like a convict given house arrest. You probably shouldn't even go out for a nice supper with your significant other, as your expensive meal could be ruined because some dufus at your client's site put the "deny all" statement at the START of the access control list, not the end - inspite of the warning dialog that pops up (which he ignored).
I'm not a criminal, my company doesn't hire folks with a record. Why should I be subjected to similar conditions without compensation?
I don't know about you, but I can: grab, open, drink from, close, and replace my water bottle (with a screw on top!) with a single hand (either hand, actually) without taking my eyes from the road. I can also operate all my radio and AC/heater controls without looking at them either.
That's pretty much what the young lady who totalled her vehicle into the back of mine told the cop as the EMTs were loading me into the ambulance on backboard. Fortunately, I didn't have any lasting injuries and no one else was hurt. She got 2 year driving ban.
"There is no honor among theives," as the saying goes.
I've had the displeasure of witnessing senior management at my company throw a fit over the fact that a key piece of code that we needed was GPL'd. At the time, I was pissed too, as our schedule was at risk. "If you're going to tease us with this working and tested subsystem, it should be 'licensed' so that we can use it."
Then after the deadline passed I stepped back and thought, "My gawd, we were angry that someone published their code for all to see, but we were forced to read it, understand what it does before implementing a similar (but wholely custom) mechanism." We should've been ecstatic that we didn't have to reinvent the wheel from the ground up, but being the selfish, ungrateful users of open source that we are, we got mad that we actually have to put some effort into doing it. I'm ashamed.
Gone are the days of, "if its not invented here, we don't trust it." Now it's, "You invented that?!!!?1one!!! Why didn't you use an open source project?"
So wut yer sayin' is I should disable encryption on my wifi then resume downloading movies?
"No, Your Honour. I didn't download all those movies. I guess my wifi wasn't protected and some other unscrupulous person hacked my unsecured network and they were responsible."
How does the prosecution prove that the cellphone was in possession of the accused at the time?
My wife frequently borrows my phone if she needs to go out and hers is dead. I'll do the same with hers. Its a portable device, with no onboard biometrics. Anyone could pick it up and transport it somewhere without the owner's knowledge or permission. What better way to frame someone for a crime than to take their phone to the scene, do the crime, call the phone (to generate a calling record with cell-tower location data) then return it.
Do you actually have a science, computer science or engineering degree? Except for the few who a) go into teaching or b) are the top 2% and land a reasearch posting ~90% of your university course load is completely unused on graduation. Of the 48 terms of class (4yrs @ 6 courses/term, 2 terms/yr), I think 6 (programming*2, comp architecture, sw engineering, digital communications * 2) apply to my top-paying telecom programming job.
Those who went into hw design (even more salary than programming) only use 4 courses...
The biggest waste was the 8 terms of advanced calculus. Unless you're doing primary research into magnetic field theory, knowing how to derive the LaPlace and other transforms is something you cram for, get your A, then gleefully drown in a several tankards of post-graduation partying.
As aircraft fly at >30000 feet, the number of meteorites will be greater than the number that hit the ground. Atmospheric density is many times greater at sea level than at 30k+ feet, so more will penetrate the atmosphere to that height. It would only take a small rock, travelling at the speeds meteors do, to severely compromise a wing or even the cabin.
A common typo for me is hitting "o" instead of "i".
>> Bing has several new features including Bing Cashback, Bing Video, and Bing xRank.
A typo of that sort renders these, "Bong Cashback", "Bong Video" and "Bong xRank". Those search terms could easily result in fetching sites distinctly, NSFW.
My parents bought me a my first computer, a Commodore Vic-20 in 1982.
Sadly it doesn't work anymore. A freak lightning strike 5 years ago blew the tops off several capacitors and left noticible markings on several chips.:-(
The target application is busting through mass censorship by government entities. Even the equivalent throughput of a 300baud modem is better than no connectivity at all. Heck, I bet most of the/. readers over the age of 35 spent a goodly portion of their youth msging each other on local BBs at 1200baud or less --> and we thought it was lightning speed (compared to pen n'paper over snail mail).
I believe the procedure will be something like this:
Msg1: "The next character is part of a secret msg:/" --> Reciever NACK Msg2: "The next character is part of a secret msg:." --> Reciever NACK Msg3: "The next character is part of a secret msg: R" --> Reciever NACK Msg4: "The next character is part of a secret msg: o" --> Reciever NACK Msg5: "The next character is part of a secret msg: x" --> Reciever NACK Msg6: "The next character is part of a secret msg: {ascii null}>"
Secret msg:/.Rox
It works because each tcp retransmission updates several fields in the tcp header as part of correct operation (check sum etc). So brute force comparison of the previous datagram to the new datagram will always fail. In order to detect this, the eavesdropper would need to strip the headers. That in itself isn't too hard, however since 1:1000 normal packets get a retransmit, the device doing the snooping will be hugely overwhelmed with noise.
It be like trying to overhear whispered conversations in a huge auditorium with loudspeakers blaring a static hiss (white noise) at high volume.
If police had asked for the website's Apache log, then they were indeed attempting do determine what visitors were doing. They had already determined the "what" was illegal, now they were asking for the "who".
Its little different than police asking for the name of an threatening letter writer who didn't sign their name, but did leave a return address. The illegal act was the threatening letter, the valid query was "who lives at 22-B Baker Street?"
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"Gaming your way to weightloss!"
It works, I swear! I remember one particular weekend where I lost 5lbs working through raid encounters in Everquest 1. Who needs food when lewt is raining from the sky!
We were all there when we were fresh out of school and eager to make out mark. Unfortunately, heads-down hard workers rarely get the advancement they deserve. Instead its the slack-asses who spend their time "networking" around the water cooler who get the plum jobs and promotions.
Eventually you'll experience the frustration that we all did when we came to that realization. Welcome to the the real world!
In a word, yes, many/most linux docs suck.
Man is useful once you understand the basics of how a command works. However, if you're sufficiently green, decoding the language in many of the man pages is difficult. When executing certain system management tasks as root, a mistake can be catastrophic. Google will pull up the man page for you, but also the infinitely more educational blog and faq pages that decribe what a command does, when you use it and how to trouble shoot problems encountered with it.
The problem with Google, is the non-official blogs and faqs frequently reference older version of the command line tools bundled in the latest distros. Occasionally, the tool author radically alters the tools between releases rendering the non-official docs inaccurate... Then the neophyte/newbie hobbyist is up the creek with a paddle.
Nope. Never would do it, no one should be asked to do it. My last job that tried to pull that ploy. After they announced that they were bringing that in, I made some calls, did an interview or 2 and when my ex-boss handed me the schedule - I traded him my resignation. The look on his face was priceless.
Part of on-call requires that the person on-call be available, alert and able to drop everything for the period of time needed to fix the issue. That means, you can't buy tix to entertainment events, go to the pub with friends, can't go on a weekend camping trip with the kids or anything similar. You are effectively wearing electronic shackles, much like a convict given house arrest. You probably shouldn't even go out for a nice supper with your significant other, as your expensive meal could be ruined because some dufus at your client's site put the "deny all" statement at the START of the access control list, not the end - inspite of the warning dialog that pops up (which he ignored).
I'm not a criminal, my company doesn't hire folks with a record. Why should I be subjected to similar conditions without compensation?
I think constantly lifting my finger would become tiring.
Someone definitely needs to get more physical exercise, me thinks.
I don't know about you, but I can: grab, open, drink from, close, and replace my water bottle (with a screw on top!) with a single hand (either hand, actually) without taking my eyes from the road. I can also operate all my radio and AC/heater controls without looking at them either.
That's pretty much what the young lady who totalled her vehicle into the back of mine told the cop as the EMTs were loading me into the ambulance on backboard. Fortunately, I didn't have any lasting injuries and no one else was hurt. She got 2 year driving ban.
I'll be watching ./ for a headline indicating someone found a buffer overrun and managed to turn this into yet another security hole.
"There is no honor among theives," as the saying goes.
I've had the displeasure of witnessing senior management at my company throw a fit over the fact that a key piece of code that we needed was GPL'd. At the time, I was pissed too, as our schedule was at risk. "If you're going to tease us with this working and tested subsystem, it should be 'licensed' so that we can use it."
Then after the deadline passed I stepped back and thought, "My gawd, we were angry that someone published their code for all to see, but we were forced to read it, understand what it does before implementing a similar (but wholely custom) mechanism." We should've been ecstatic that we didn't have to reinvent the wheel from the ground up, but being the selfish, ungrateful users of open source that we are, we got mad that we actually have to put some effort into doing it. I'm ashamed.
Gone are the days of, "if its not invented here, we don't trust it." Now it's, "You invented that?!!!?1one!!! Why didn't you use an open source project?"
So wut yer sayin' is I should disable encryption on my wifi then resume downloading movies?
"No, Your Honour. I didn't download all those movies. I guess my wifi wasn't protected and some other unscrupulous person hacked my unsecured network and they were responsible."
How does the prosecution prove that the cellphone was in possession of the accused at the time?
My wife frequently borrows my phone if she needs to go out and hers is dead. I'll do the same with hers. Its a portable device, with no onboard biometrics. Anyone could pick it up and transport it somewhere without the owner's knowledge or permission. What better way to frame someone for a crime than to take their phone to the scene, do the crime, call the phone (to generate a calling record with cell-tower location data) then return it.
Do you actually have a science, computer science or engineering degree? Except for the few who a) go into teaching or b) are the top 2% and land a reasearch posting ~90% of your university course load is completely unused on graduation. Of the 48 terms of class (4yrs @ 6 courses/term, 2 terms/yr), I think 6 (programming*2, comp architecture, sw engineering, digital communications * 2) apply to my top-paying telecom programming job.
Those who went into hw design (even more salary than programming) only use 4 courses...
The biggest waste was the 8 terms of advanced calculus. Unless you're doing primary research into magnetic field theory, knowing how to derive the LaPlace and other transforms is something you cram for, get your A, then gleefully drown in a several tankards of post-graduation partying.
How the crap do you screw that up?
This *is* a government operation, remember.
Meteor hits house (2003): http://neo.jpl.nasa.gov/news/news139.html
Meteor hits car (1992): http://news.google.com/newspapers?nid=888&dat=19921012&id=evMNAAAAIBAJ&sjid=6HoDAAAAIBAJ&pg=6664,1878615
As aircraft fly at >30000 feet, the number of meteorites will be greater than the number that hit the ground. Atmospheric density is many times greater at sea level than at 30k+ feet, so more will penetrate the atmosphere to that height. It would only take a small rock, travelling at the speeds meteors do, to severely compromise a wing or even the cabin.
A common typo for me is hitting "o" instead of "i".
>> Bing has several new features including Bing Cashback, Bing Video, and Bing xRank.
A typo of that sort renders these, "Bong Cashback", "Bong Video" and "Bong xRank". Those search terms could easily result in fetching sites distinctly, NSFW.
My parents bought me a my first computer, a Commodore Vic-20 in 1982.
Sadly it doesn't work anymore. A freak lightning strike 5 years ago blew the tops off several capacitors and left noticible markings on several chips. :-(
"Nobody ever got fired for buying Cisco", right?
I know someone who did. They worked at Nortel and bought Cisco routers for the lab...
Not the sharpest tool in the shed.
>> you'd get an insanely poor data rate
The target application is busting through mass censorship by government entities. Even the equivalent throughput of a 300baud modem is better than no connectivity at all. Heck, I bet most of the /. readers over the age of 35 spent a goodly portion of their youth msging each other on local BBs at 1200baud or less --> and we thought it was lightning speed (compared to pen n'paper over snail mail).
I believe the procedure will be something like this:
Msg1: "The next character is part of a secret msg: /" --> Reciever NACK ." --> Reciever NACK
Msg2: "The next character is part of a secret msg:
Msg3: "The next character is part of a secret msg: R" --> Reciever NACK
Msg4: "The next character is part of a secret msg: o" --> Reciever NACK
Msg5: "The next character is part of a secret msg: x" --> Reciever NACK
Msg6: "The next character is part of a secret msg: {ascii null}>"
Secret msg: /.Rox
It works because each tcp retransmission updates several fields in the tcp header as part of correct operation (check sum etc). So brute force comparison of the previous datagram to the new datagram will always fail. In order to detect this, the eavesdropper would need to strip the headers. That in itself isn't too hard, however since 1:1000 normal packets get a retransmit, the device doing the snooping will be hugely overwhelmed with noise.
It be like trying to overhear whispered conversations in a huge auditorium with loudspeakers blaring a static hiss (white noise) at high volume.
"Don't Blame Canada" for not enforcing your st00pid copyright laws.
Give it a REST, dirty anti-soap troll! Washing with water is non-compliant.
As in the symbol often associated with Witchcraft and Devil worship?!
I've often said, "Go to H***!" to people who bother me. Perhaps I should say, "Go to Heaven!" instead?
I view it a bit differently.
If police had asked for the website's Apache log, then they were indeed attempting do determine what visitors were doing. They had already determined the "what" was illegal, now they were asking for the "who".
Its little different than police asking for the name of an threatening letter writer who didn't sign their name, but did leave a return address. The illegal act was the threatening letter, the valid query was "who lives at 22-B Baker Street?"
"Come inside," said the bird to mouse. "I'll show you what's inside Paul Aiken's house."
A Rolex, a Ferrari, a Ming dynasty spittoon. A lawyer, not an author, but a certified Loon.
Watch out, the next budget cut will result in Tubal Ligation, followed closely by Tubal Litigation.
Frozen Lime Margaritas ARE the answer to all of life's little problems!