We had a hacker, maker, creator event at SXSW this year during interactive. Better to create our own community rather than import one. It was a lot of fun!! http://sxsw.com/node/10666
I know this sounds like the same old line, but use both a Tivo and the CC's DVR and you'll be sold. The Tivo WORKS, and well at that. But the CC's DVR's stink for the most part. Cisco should just buy Tivo and bundle it into Scientific Atlanta's boxes, there you go, the killer cable box.
I just don't understand these days how telling people that software has bugs is news. Apple isn't promising it to be the most secure bug free browser ever are they? Same with IE, come on people, seriously. It's also beta software, so take it for what it's worth. Go get Firefox so at least bugs that get reported will get fixed in a timely manner.
No I get the point. I was making a joke, but I still thing it's silly. Why don't you just secure your network and you don't have to worry about it. Unless I worked for a security company or network vendor I wouldn't waste my time trying to score a hacker's toolkit. Unless I'm running something that's home made I don't really need to honeypot it. The # of "real" hackers out there compared to script kiddies is very small. I can download the script kiddie tools myself if I want. Nice AC post by the way.
In addition to all of the things on the network I normally have to do at the office let me set up an entire phantom network just to "jack" with hackers. Yeah, I'll get right on that.
Thank you so much for this post. It's exactly what I would have said. I'm so tired of the two of them pulling things out of their a$$ for no reason other than to drive up traffice, IMHO. Dvorak even said so much on TWIT a while back, what does it matter it pulls people to my site. If people would stop posting about it and acting outraged then perhaps they would quit.
I have owned two Targus Deluxe Sports and loved them both. They have planty of room, a top handle, super comfortable shoulder straps and great compartments. They also look sporty enough to look somewhat different from a "computer bag" and if you don't like the Targus logo it can be removed. I have owned a ton of laptop bags and by far this is my most favorite travel bag. I would also put in a plug for Acme Made Bags, they make the best quality day-to-day bag I've ever owned. http://www.acmemade.com/index.html
Do not work. They simply collect dust, they do not reduce airborne or other dust, pollen, or dander in the room. According to Consumer Reports it gives the SI unit the lowest ranking in it's group tested. Part of this is because it has no fan so it can't efficiently collect the dust. The Friedrich C-90A unit gets better ratings and has good reviews in many other places as well. We have recently placed this in our lab and it is doing a great job.
Are you serious? This is just continued proof of the slide of/.
I can't beleive this is the dribble that is being posted now. I think that Taco needs to take a good hard look at some of these Editors....
I mean really, geez. Do the editors even read the site anymore? Or are they too busy doing whatever else they do. TimmyTaWa! "Thanks for your help, thank you very much."
You can use Target, The Pottery Barn, and a lot of the major department stores to do both on-line and brick and morter registries. You actually have to go in and pick things out, but it's fun, and then they put them up online. Very cool. A lot of our gifts were purchased on-line.
I've had this problem before with our company and always had good luck with going through contact information from their web whois data. I might not always get the right person but I do get in contact with someone more high level than a tech support person.
I saw that portion and I thought it was a little ridiculous. It's just like any other sector, non-profits run the scale of size of business vs. computing that any other company does as well. I think that it's just that technology isn't always the first place to spend money for smaller non-profits. Most non-profits are of a much smaller size as well. Although I feel that is turning around as I get more and more requests for help from non-profits.
JSYK, this thing is a brick, the design has been around for quite a while overseas and most people have found it quite annoying. It's too large to carry and use and too small to be useful.
Because those services are fairly crummy and I would only use them in the most dire of circumstances. I've tried many of the free services and let me tell you something, you get what you pay for.....
I think that the shortage is ridiculous. It is just a means of being able to lower salaries. As long as people are in demand then IT "laborers" get paid a decent wage. If there is a glut in the market then the salaries fall.
I know that at my company we haven't ever had a real problem interviewing good candidates, it's just paying them what they want that our HR department balks at.
Here's an article from the NYT that puts it very well.
------------
By RICHARD ROTHSTEIN
New york Times
09.06.2000
To alleviate apparent shortages of computer programmers, President Clinton
and Congress have agreed to raise a quota on H-1B's, the temporary visas for
skilled foreigners. The annual limit will go to 200,000 next year, up from
65,000 only three years ago.
The imported workers, most of whom come from India, are said to be needed
because American schools do not graduate enough young people with science
and math skills. Microsoft's chairman, William H. Gates, and Intel's
chairman, Andrew S. Grove, told Congress in June that more visas were only a
stopgap until education improved.
But the crisis is a mirage. High- tech companies portray a shortage, yet it
is our memories that are short: only yesterday there was a glut of science
and math graduates.
The computer industry took advantage of that glut by reducing wages. This
discouraged youths from entering the field, creating the temporary shortages
of today. Now, taking advantage of a public preconception that school
failures have created the problem, industry finds a ready audience for its
demands to import workers.
This newspaper covered the earlier surplus extensively. In 1992, it reported
that 1 in 5 college graduates had a job not requiring a college degree. A
1995 article headlined "Supply Exceeds Demand for Ph.D.'s in Many Science
Fields" cited nationwide unemployment of engineers, mathematicians and
scientists. "Overproduction of Ph.D. degrees," it noted, "seems to be
highest in computer science."
Michael S. Teitelbaum, a demographer who served as vice chairman of the
Commission on Immigration Reform, said in 1996 that there was "an employer's
market" for technology workers, partly because of post-cold- war downsizing
in aerospace.
In fields with real labor scarcity, wages rise. Yet despite accounts of
dot-com entrepreneurs' becoming millionaires, trends in computer technology
pay do not confirm a need to import legions of programmers.
Salary offers to new college graduates in computer science averaged $39,000
in 1986 and had declined by 1994 to $33,000 (in constant dollars). The trend
reversed only in the late 1990's.
The West Coast median salary for experienced software engineers was $71,100
in 1999, up only 10 percent (in constant dollars) from 1990. This pay growth
of about 1 percent a year suggests no labor shortage.
Norman Matloff, a computer science professor at the University of
California, contends that high-tech companies create artificial shortages by
refusing to hire experienced programmers. Many with technology degrees no
longer work in the field. By age 50, fewer than half are still in the
industry. Luring them back requires higher pay.
Industry spokesmen say older programmers with outdated skills would take too
long to retrain. But Dr. Matloff counters by saying that when they urge more
H-1B visas, lobbyists demonstrate a shortage by pointing to vacancies
lasting many months. Companies could train older programmers in less time
than it takes to process visas for cheaper foreign workers.
Dr. Matloff says that in addition to the pay issue, the industry rejects
older workers because they will not work the long hours typical at Silicon
Valley companies with youthful "singles" styles. Imported labor, he argues,
is only a way to avoid offering better conditions to experienced
programmers. H-1B workers, in contrast, cannot demand higher pay: visas are
revoked if workers leave their sponsoring companies.
As for young computer workers, the labor market has recently tightened, with
rising wages, because college students saw earlier wage declines and stopped
majoring in math and science. In 1996, American colleges awarded 25,000
bachelor's degrees in computer science, down from 42,000 in 1985.
The reason is not that students suddenly lacked preparation. On the
contrary, high school course-taking in math and science, including advanced
placement, had climbed. Further, math scores have risen; last year 24
percent of seniors who took the SAT scored over 600 in math. But only 6
percent planned to major in computer science, and many of these cannot get
into college programs.
The reason: colleges themselves have not yet adjusted to new demand. In some
places, computer science courses are so oversubscribed that students must
get on waiting lists as high school juniors.
With a time lag between student choice of majors and later job quests, high
schools and colleges cannot address short-term supply and demand shifts for
particular professions. Such shortages can be erased only by raising wages
to attract those with needed skills who are now working in other fields - or
by importing low-paid workers.
For the longer term, rising wages can guide counselors to encourage
well-prepared students to major in computer science and engineering, and
colleges will adjust to rising demand. But more H-1B immigrants can have a
perverse effect, as their lower pay signals young people to avoid this field
in the future, keeping the domestic supply artificially low.
Great show. It's a bummer that everyone won't be able to make it but I think that those that do should continue the show.
Or take a look at Computer Stew. http://www.zdnet.com/computerstew. They used to always do their show via telephone and occasionally still do.
Just a thought. GIS is just to cool to let it go!!
In this day and age most people require external email to do their jobs. At least in many business sectors. And in many cases you can still be held liable for email they send through other accounts on the job. If they are doing it while at work then you are liable.
I feel that you can't be too overprotective or you run the risk of alienating your employees and infringing on their privacy. At my company we have systems in place where we can monitor individuals but it takes a very high order to do so. This way if we get in a situation where there might be a problem we can then monitor individual people. This let's people have their freedom and still protects us as well.
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Actually. Lego does sell in bulk. It was on/. a while back.
http://slashdot.org/articles/00/06/14/1242242.sh tml
The link to the site is....
http://www.lego.com/bulk
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We had a hacker, maker, creator event at SXSW this year during interactive. Better to create our own community rather than import one. It was a lot of fun!! http://sxsw.com/node/10666
But no really, this is going to suck donkey balls. Who green lit this?! Oh evil monkey, you're the evilest!! Do we have a clip? no, oh. okay then.
I know this sounds like the same old line, but use both a Tivo and the CC's DVR and you'll be sold. The Tivo WORKS, and well at that. But the CC's DVR's stink for the most part. Cisco should just buy Tivo and bundle it into Scientific Atlanta's boxes, there you go, the killer cable box.
I just don't understand these days how telling people that software has bugs is news. Apple isn't promising it to be the most secure bug free browser ever are they? Same with IE, come on people, seriously. It's also beta software, so take it for what it's worth. Go get Firefox so at least bugs that get reported will get fixed in a timely manner.
No I get the point. I was making a joke, but I still thing it's silly. Why don't you just secure your network and you don't have to worry about it. Unless I worked for a security company or network vendor I wouldn't waste my time trying to score a hacker's toolkit. Unless I'm running something that's home made I don't really need to honeypot it. The # of "real" hackers out there compared to script kiddies is very small. I can download the script kiddie tools myself if I want. Nice AC post by the way.
In addition to all of the things on the network I normally have to do at the office let me set up an entire phantom network just to "jack" with hackers. Yeah, I'll get right on that.
Thank you so much for this post. It's exactly what I would have said. I'm so tired of the two of them pulling things out of their a$$ for no reason other than to drive up traffice, IMHO. Dvorak even said so much on TWIT a while back, what does it matter it pulls people to my site. If people would stop posting about it and acting outraged then perhaps they would quit.
And always works out SO well.
I have owned two Targus Deluxe Sports and loved them both. They have planty of room, a top handle, super comfortable shoulder straps and great compartments. They also look sporty enough to look somewhat different from a "computer bag" and if you don't like the Targus logo it can be removed. I have owned a ton of laptop bags and by far this is my most favorite travel bag. I would also put in a plug for Acme Made Bags, they make the best quality day-to-day bag I've ever owned.
http://www.acmemade.com/index.html
Do not work. They simply collect dust, they do not reduce airborne or other dust, pollen, or dander in the room. According to Consumer Reports it gives the SI unit the lowest ranking in it's group tested. Part of this is because it has no fan so it can't efficiently collect the dust. The Friedrich C-90A unit gets better ratings and has good reviews in many other places as well. We have recently placed this in our lab and it is doing a great job.
Are you serious? This is just continued proof of the slide of /.
I can't beleive this is the dribble that is being posted now. I think that Taco needs to take a good hard look at some of these Editors....
I mean really, geez. Do the editors even read the site anymore? Or are they too busy doing whatever else they do. TimmyTaWa! "Thanks for your help, thank you very much."
I like the fact that the Ford vehicle from AlphaWorks is driving on the bad firestone tires. Priceless.
You can use Target, The Pottery Barn, and a lot of the major department stores to do both on-line and brick and morter registries. You actually have to go in and pick things out, but it's fun, and then they put them up online. Very cool. A lot of our gifts were purchased on-line.
Could this news be a little older? You'd think that this had been posted by hemos!
I've had this problem before with our company and always had good luck with going through contact information from their web whois data. I might not always get the right person but I do get in contact with someone more high level than a tech support person.
I saw that portion and I thought it was a little ridiculous. It's just like any other sector, non-profits run the scale of size of business vs. computing that any other company does as well. I think that it's just that technology isn't always the first place to spend money for smaller non-profits. Most non-profits are of a much smaller size as well. Although I feel that is turning around as I get more and more requests for help from non-profits.
JSYK, this thing is a brick, the design has been around for quite a while overseas and most people have found it quite annoying. It's too large to carry and use and too small to be useful.
They'll surrender any day now!!!!
Because those services are fairly crummy and I would only use them in the most dire of circumstances. I've tried many of the free services and let me tell you something, you get what you pay for.....
I think that the shortage is ridiculous. It is just a means of being able to lower salaries. As long as people are in demand then IT "laborers" get paid a decent wage. If there is a glut in the market then the salaries fall. I know that at my company we haven't ever had a real problem interviewing good candidates, it's just paying them what they want that our HR department balks at. Here's an article from the NYT that puts it very well. ------------ By RICHARD ROTHSTEIN New york Times 09.06.2000 To alleviate apparent shortages of computer programmers, President Clinton and Congress have agreed to raise a quota on H-1B's, the temporary visas for skilled foreigners. The annual limit will go to 200,000 next year, up from 65,000 only three years ago. The imported workers, most of whom come from India, are said to be needed because American schools do not graduate enough young people with science and math skills. Microsoft's chairman, William H. Gates, and Intel's chairman, Andrew S. Grove, told Congress in June that more visas were only a stopgap until education improved. But the crisis is a mirage. High- tech companies portray a shortage, yet it is our memories that are short: only yesterday there was a glut of science and math graduates. The computer industry took advantage of that glut by reducing wages. This discouraged youths from entering the field, creating the temporary shortages of today. Now, taking advantage of a public preconception that school failures have created the problem, industry finds a ready audience for its demands to import workers. This newspaper covered the earlier surplus extensively. In 1992, it reported that 1 in 5 college graduates had a job not requiring a college degree. A 1995 article headlined "Supply Exceeds Demand for Ph.D.'s in Many Science Fields" cited nationwide unemployment of engineers, mathematicians and scientists. "Overproduction of Ph.D. degrees," it noted, "seems to be highest in computer science." Michael S. Teitelbaum, a demographer who served as vice chairman of the Commission on Immigration Reform, said in 1996 that there was "an employer's market" for technology workers, partly because of post-cold- war downsizing in aerospace. In fields with real labor scarcity, wages rise. Yet despite accounts of dot-com entrepreneurs' becoming millionaires, trends in computer technology pay do not confirm a need to import legions of programmers. Salary offers to new college graduates in computer science averaged $39,000 in 1986 and had declined by 1994 to $33,000 (in constant dollars). The trend reversed only in the late 1990's. The West Coast median salary for experienced software engineers was $71,100 in 1999, up only 10 percent (in constant dollars) from 1990. This pay growth of about 1 percent a year suggests no labor shortage. Norman Matloff, a computer science professor at the University of California, contends that high-tech companies create artificial shortages by refusing to hire experienced programmers. Many with technology degrees no longer work in the field. By age 50, fewer than half are still in the industry. Luring them back requires higher pay. Industry spokesmen say older programmers with outdated skills would take too long to retrain. But Dr. Matloff counters by saying that when they urge more H-1B visas, lobbyists demonstrate a shortage by pointing to vacancies lasting many months. Companies could train older programmers in less time than it takes to process visas for cheaper foreign workers. Dr. Matloff says that in addition to the pay issue, the industry rejects older workers because they will not work the long hours typical at Silicon Valley companies with youthful "singles" styles. Imported labor, he argues, is only a way to avoid offering better conditions to experienced programmers. H-1B workers, in contrast, cannot demand higher pay: visas are revoked if workers leave their sponsoring companies. As for young computer workers, the labor market has recently tightened, with rising wages, because college students saw earlier wage declines and stopped majoring in math and science. In 1996, American colleges awarded 25,000 bachelor's degrees in computer science, down from 42,000 in 1985. The reason is not that students suddenly lacked preparation. On the contrary, high school course-taking in math and science, including advanced placement, had climbed. Further, math scores have risen; last year 24 percent of seniors who took the SAT scored over 600 in math. But only 6 percent planned to major in computer science, and many of these cannot get into college programs. The reason: colleges themselves have not yet adjusted to new demand. In some places, computer science courses are so oversubscribed that students must get on waiting lists as high school juniors. With a time lag between student choice of majors and later job quests, high schools and colleges cannot address short-term supply and demand shifts for particular professions. Such shortages can be erased only by raising wages to attract those with needed skills who are now working in other fields - or by importing low-paid workers. For the longer term, rising wages can guide counselors to encourage well-prepared students to major in computer science and engineering, and colleges will adjust to rising demand. But more H-1B immigrants can have a perverse effect, as their lower pay signals young people to avoid this field in the future, keeping the domestic supply artificially low.
Great show. It's a bummer that everyone won't be able to make it but I think that those that do should continue the show. Or take a look at Computer Stew. http://www.zdnet.com/computerstew. They used to always do their show via telephone and occasionally still do. Just a thought. GIS is just to cool to let it go!!
In this day and age most people require external email to do their jobs. At least in many business sectors. And in many cases you can still be held liable for email they send through other accounts on the job. If they are doing it while at work then you are liable.
I feel that you can't be too overprotective or you run the risk of alienating your employees and infringing on their privacy. At my company we have systems in place where we can monitor individuals but it takes a very high order to do so. This way if we get in a situation where there might be a problem we can then monitor individual people. This let's people have their freedom and still protects us as well.
Actually. Lego does sell in bulk. It was on /. a while back.
h tml
http://slashdot.org/articles/00/06/14/1242242.s
The link to the site is....
http://www.lego.com/bulk