I know a lot of people who refuse to see movies in the theater anymore, just cause of how bad it is to deal with rude audience members; especially for a movie like Watchmen that we actually care about. I'll be buying the DVD to show my support, but I won't punish myself with another 2 hours of text messaging teens and crying babies.
Heh, the California National Guard sold my email address. I would have thought they were reputable, but all the spam I get to calguard@ says otherwise.
I have a friend who swore by clicky keyboards and collected old ones people were tossing out. She had arthritis from an early age and found that with the feedback from those keyboards, she needed less force and it caused less pain.
Had the same experience at Amazon a couple years back. They flew me out and introduced me to the techs. I was introduced as "the new admin" and got lots of "so, when are you starting?" comments, like it was a done deal. Then they tried to get me to interview with some random exec... I think he missed about four interviews before HR finally decided to skip him. Couple weeks later they sent me a letter telling me they'd decided to pass. Oh well, I got a free tour of an Amazon fulfillment center and I didn't want to live where it snows anyway; they don't teach you how to deal with that when you're raised in Southern California.
I went on to get a job with another decent sized internet site. My new manager told me that he had briefly gone over to Google, but had been recruited back weeks later. He didn't have a PhD so he felt he wasn't respected by coworkers.
Firewalls have nothing to do with processes running on computers. They are for filtering network packets.
What the poster is referring to is blocking off network traffic to those unknown processes. As an example, ZoneAlarm on a windows desktop... You may not realize the software that is running in the background trying to make outbound connections, but the firewall will catch those connections.
Or on the unix world, if you set up a default deny policy and only allow traffic to specific daemons, then if a new process starts unexpectedly, then you don't have to worry about unwanted connections to it.
If all you're doing is running a couple services that you want the world to be able to access, then yes, a firewall is just a bandaid against the potential for unknown processes running on the system.
I think the point is that most of us have grasped the concept of ice melting since we were old enough to sit at the big table. More so after intro to physical science in high school when we learned the magic of Celcius.
I've seen it in under 15 minutes over dialup. That time was spent browsing to Windows Update, and googling for the Spybot download.
My friend had just rebuilt the system because it was infested with spyware. I was fairly impressed.
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Yeah, a couple of years ago I was working on learning dvorak, and for "normal" typing, it was great, but unix commands don't have the same distribution of letters that the english language does.
What we need is a new keymap for unix that sticks c h l s / ; w q ! $ and the like on the home row... I was actually hoping that joke about the gentoo keymap was serious for a minute there....
I've done LPIC 1 and 2, and the RHCE. I actually enjoyed the RHCE, which is entirely a practical exam.
How do they compare? Well, they're very different animals. I'd probably give more respect to the RHCE, but LPIC 2 isn't a pushover...
I'd say that a multiple choice test just can't simulate real life. When am I going to need to know an obscure command line switch when I don't have access to a man page or --help?
Has it helped me get a job? Well, I'm unemployed and have been hunting for as long as I can remember, but that may be largely due to the fact that I suck at bullshitting people these days. I do think they're to be credited for getting me some interviews, though.
... of VR at LayerOne last week by some guys from Systems Technology, Inc.. They demo'd their parachute training software, which they said George H W Bush used to prep for a birthday jump over his library a few years back. The graphics weren't what you'd expect of a modern FPS, but that wasn't their focus.
They also talked about other simulators they were working on for helicopter crew and other occupations which basically used blue-screen (magenta, in their case) technology to replace elements of video from cameras mounted on the front of the VR goggles.
One of the interesting points (I thought) was that they could use an aircraft down for maintenance as a training site so that the equipment your tax dollars paid for is always serving some use, even when its broke.
Yep, 2 spaces per indent here, too. With the number of times I'll find a line indented, if I tab I'll end up with a bunch of single words crammed up against the right margin.
While I wouldn't consider Trillian a minor character, especially later in the series, she doesn't play a very big role in the first H2G2 book. Definitely nowhere near as big a role as Arthur, Ford, and Zaphod... Marvin isn't really a "major" character either, but he's... distinctive, so everyone remembers him and thinks of him as a big part of the book.
Thanks for the link. The whale falling monologue seems to have been reproduced faithfully (slightly cut and rushed, but it was there), which gives me some renewed faith in the film.
Exactly. The BCRA has a lot of scary implications regarding free speech, particularly 11 CFR parts 100 and 114, which prohibits candidates and their supporters from running radio and tv ads within 60 days of an election.
I know he's not popular with a lot of people, but in his dissent on the issue (starting page 170) Justice Scalia wrote that this "cuts to the heart of what the First Amendment is meant to protect: the right to criticize the government."
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I live in LA. I spend as much in gas as I would on a montly metrolink pass. Also my 3 hour daily commute would go up to around 6 hours.
Not to mention needing to wait for my roommate to come pick me up 2-3 times a week after work holds me late and I miss my bus/train.
I'd be happy to take public transit if it saved me anything.
I know a lot of people who refuse to see movies in the theater anymore, just cause of how bad it is to deal with rude audience members; especially for a movie like Watchmen that we actually care about. I'll be buying the DVD to show my support, but I won't punish myself with another 2 hours of text messaging teens and crying babies.
Heh, the California National Guard sold my email address. I would have thought they were reputable, but all the spam I get to calguard@ says otherwise.
Oh, sweet. Its last year already? Right on, I can totally make a killing on the stock market now.
Last year's news is awesome.
Cyberdyne? HAL? Come on, its been a week already.
Was wondering the same thing. Maybe some new psoriasis treatments could come out of this, its related to an overabundance of angry T Cells.
I have a friend who swore by clicky keyboards and collected old ones people were tossing out. She had arthritis from an early age and found that with the feedback from those keyboards, she needed less force and it caused less pain.
Had the same experience at Amazon a couple years back. They flew me out and introduced me to the techs. I was introduced as "the new admin" and got lots of "so, when are you starting?" comments, like it was a done deal. Then they tried to get me to interview with some random exec... I think he missed about four interviews before HR finally decided to skip him. Couple weeks later they sent me a letter telling me they'd decided to pass. Oh well, I got a free tour of an Amazon fulfillment center and I didn't want to live where it snows anyway; they don't teach you how to deal with that when you're raised in Southern California.
I went on to get a job with another decent sized internet site. My new manager told me that he had briefly gone over to Google, but had been recruited back weeks later. He didn't have a PhD so he felt he wasn't respected by coworkers.
Anonymous Coward has a web site? Let me guess, no "Contact Us" link, right?
One would think that needing to reboot your supercomputer every couple days might not be the best selling point.
Anyone else find it ironic that they're looking to set up this anonymous communication system and yet they require registration to read their site?
Here ya go.
Or on the unix world, if you set up a default deny policy and only allow traffic to specific daemons, then if a new process starts unexpectedly, then you don't have to worry about unwanted connections to it.
If all you're doing is running a couple services that you want the world to be able to access, then yes, a firewall is just a bandaid against the potential for unknown processes running on the system.
I think the point is that most of us have grasped the concept of ice melting since we were old enough to sit at the big table. More so after intro to physical science in high school when we learned the magic of Celcius.
I've seen it in under 15 minutes over dialup. That time was spent browsing to Windows Update, and googling for the Spybot download.
My friend had just rebuilt the system because it was infested with spyware. I was fairly impressed.
What we need is a new keymap for unix that sticks c h l s / ; w q ! $ and the like on the home row... I was actually hoping that joke about the gentoo keymap was serious for a minute there....
How do they compare? Well, they're very different animals. I'd probably give more respect to the RHCE, but LPIC 2 isn't a pushover...
I'd say that a multiple choice test just can't simulate real life. When am I going to need to know an obscure command line switch when I don't have access to a man page or --help?
Has it helped me get a job? Well, I'm unemployed and have been hunting for as long as I can remember, but that may be largely due to the fact that I suck at bullshitting people these days. I do think they're to be credited for getting me some interviews, though.
They also talked about other simulators they were working on for helicopter crew and other occupations which basically used blue-screen (magenta, in their case) technology to replace elements of video from cameras mounted on the front of the VR goggles.
One of the interesting points (I thought) was that they could use an aircraft down for maintenance as a training site so that the equipment your tax dollars paid for is always serving some use, even when its broke.
Yep, 2 spaces per indent here, too. With the number of times I'll find a line indented, if I tab I'll end up with a bunch of single words crammed up against the right margin.
While I wouldn't consider Trillian a minor character, especially later in the series, she doesn't play a very big role in the first H2G2 book. Definitely nowhere near as big a role as Arthur, Ford, and Zaphod... Marvin isn't really a "major" character either, but he's... distinctive, so everyone remembers him and thinks of him as a big part of the book.
Thanks for the link. The whale falling monologue seems to have been reproduced faithfully (slightly cut and rushed, but it was there), which gives me some renewed faith in the film.
But censoring people the way the BCRA does makes it easier for the incumbent to keep their seat.
Here you go... 2 U.S.C. 431(22)
I know he's not popular with a lot of people, but in his dissent on the issue (starting page 170) Justice Scalia wrote that this "cuts to the heart of what the First Amendment is meant to protect: the right to criticize the government."
No, FEC, not FCC.