My question is, why on earth did a 2nd rate, Voyager'esque spinoff show actually get renewed? Dr. Weir = Captain Janeway,...
And my question is "Does a strong female lead scare you?" Other than the 'general scifi crew and captain motif' I can't see the similarities, a better fit star trek wise for Atlantis would be "Deep Space Nine" as they are both at least generally stationary bases of operations.
I couldn't believe that show came on the same station after watching Eureka. I know that wrestling is quick and cheap to produce, but couldn't they at least throw in an alien or two?
Oh yea, Network World. For years, I had one of their free subscriptions. I don't know how I signed up for it (I highly suspect that they got my address off of a list, however, I might have signed up for it), but I had it for years. Once in a while I looked at it, but mostly it just helped fill my mailbox. Every once in a while they sent me a survey, which I never answered. Finally one day I got what amounted to a 'threatening letter' from them saying that I needed to fill out the survey. I say 'threatening' because it wasn't nice, and frankly it vaguely reminded me of a collection letter (I used to see a few of those). Fortunately, as promised they finally stopped sending me their never wanted magazine.
What's next? We get special disability handouts from the government at the expense of your fellow tax payers?
As opposed to the corporate welfare handouts, or the 'tax-cuts' for the wealthy, while running up the Federal deficit. If I could get that payment I would, because I better get mine before the money runs out.
I didn't think that anyone believed that a tack was the 'sharpest', needles are well know to be very sharp as well. Personally, I think the phrase that I will be forgetting is "sharp as a single atom tip formed by chemically assisted spatially controlled field evaporation.", as no other items will be as sharp as it, and I'd have few uses for it.
I know the submitter is tring to be whitty, but I'd have to use 'sharp as a bowling ball' to describe his attempt. Surely there must have been a better way of announcing this break-through, like "Do you want you pastrami cut thin!".
I'd much rather work for Jack Welch than the people who wrote this list of tips.
Well that should be a no-brain-er, because I don't think that that people who wrote that list are hiring, as they are writers just trying to capture a perceived trend.
God forbid we should be competitive, or aggressive, or challenge ourselves and our coworkers to do better work even if we're working on something that we're maybe not all that passionate about.
In his rebuttal, Jack mentioned that he was quite proud of reducing the corporate hierarchy, and he believed that in general it should be reduced even further. In your well received example 'Bob' was a skilled coder, but he feels that in order to succeed he needs to have the job which 'Dave' took. I think, that this internal struggle for dominance is not the real point of most businesses. While some pressure is good, 'Bob' should be able to succeed without becoming 'Dave'.
I think that you basic 'problem' is with the word 'passion', and I'll agree that it is just about the vaguest 'concept word', and open to interpretation. Grading someone an 'A', 'B', 'C', etc, is also highly subjective as well. Jack and his team picked, promoted, and nurtured some pretty good people, but others who have superficially implemented 'his style' have not been so successful. Articles like this are good for self-examination, and should not be used as a manifesto. Of course someone will use it as such, and will likely miss the meaning altogether, surely even resulting in yet another example of your complaint. I wonder how many good coders were rated a 'B' because they lacked 'managerial' qualities.
Sure, you believe... it's easy to believe.
And I also believe that using one's moderating term of speech against them is rude. Particularly without a smiley:)
...But Dave's the right guy to get this promotion, even though we only brought him in from that middle-manager position at Nabisco three weeks ago, and I'll tell you why. Frankly Bob, you just don't have Dave's passion."
That's the great fear of being a long-term employee unjustly passed by a new guy who interviews well. I believe that the 'passion' which the author refers to cannot be captured in a cover letter, interview, or golf outing, but in one's day-to-day commitment to the work. If that passion is the one which his managers look for then I am certain that your 'Bob' would find himself well rewarded.
Pity is for the living, the dead deserve a fair assememt of their lives. Key Lay and the rest of his neo-con buddies will rot in hell for their self-serving back room dealings which left millions of families with hardships they wouldn't wish on their own. I pity his widow, children, and grand-children, for the sudden loss of a family member, but not him.
I agree that the apollo repesents a better strategy for human space travel than the space shuttle. Heck even NASA agrees with you, as the shuttle 'replacement' looks to be a scaled up version of it. However I must disagree on this...
The full apollo stack had three totally independent pressurised environments (CM, LM and pressure suits). Even the pressure suits had two independent air and cooling systems.
The space suits were only designed for operation on the moon, and could never be use while operating the spacecraft. Also, it's unlikely one would even fit into the CM prior to reentry. Even if they could have used them as 'temporary personal lifeboats' to conserver CM resources (while the LM was 'dead') the CM pilot would be left out in the 'cold' as the two spacesuits were fitted to other crewmates.
Speaking of space suits...
I was once lucky enough to get a tour of the place they made the lunar suits.
Innovations come from those who are not bound by restrictions and having the government looking over one's shoulder.
Business has a tendancy to demand 'profitability'. Fortunately, stem cell research is considered 'profitable' by Wall Street right now, and those companies are getting the funding they need.
So very true, but what we need is a universal 'non-emergency police/fire/nurse line'. Like one of those '11' numbers i.e. 911, 411. Perhaps even route it to the 911 operators, just que them well behind emergency calls, and put them on hold if needed.
This post is so misguided I don't know where to start.
Yet, somehow you did. yeah! good for you.
It also works with SSH and pretty much anything else.
Yes, so then the internet isn't perfect. My 'key word' was REALISTIC exploit. (see next...)
I've done this before, and it works great... Super easy.
On routers and a network you don't own? Just keep talking, and the FBI might just be examining you shortly.
They click yes, the padlock closes, and you steal all their data.
...all the data they send to you directly. My info is nowhere near valuable enough for anyone to bother, and to automate this on any profitable scale would be impractical even for a third-world crook, way too much lower hanging fruit.
One thing that I forgot to say in my previous post... there is NO way that a MITM can break the SSL connection once it has been created. So a phisher would need to recreate the entire web presence in a capture site, and be sure that the mark can only reach his site. In Real Life (TM) a MITM is very rare, and if your data is that important the someone would crack a router and examine it's traffic to gain the connection in real time, you really, really should be using private key encryption, or at least a self-signed cert.
then all of your encrypted traffic is still vulnerable to a simple MITM attack.
Only at the very beginning of a website request, when the SSL connection is being validated, and a MITM attack is only workable in a fully compromised network (in that case, a CC number would be 'chump change'). A more realistic exploit is a DNS exploit, where a criminal changes the IP address for well used financial site, and then uses a 'low-trust' cert authority to complete the 'spoof' of a correct SSL transaction
Verisign is the choice since they are the most well known.
Joe Six-pack, doesn't know Verisign. He just knows if his browser kicks off a comfirmation box which defaults to 'no'. Besides, some time ago, GeoTrust bought their root certificate from Equifax (you know the 'little brother' who tells on you), so their certificate is called "Equifax Secure Certificate Authority". It's been in every major browser since IE && NS 4,
The cheapest one. In the past I used GeoTrust, but I did see that my favorite registar registerfly has a 'special' for $16 ('real price' $25). Which is good for 99% of the browsers, and a 'Single root trusted SSL certificate' (I suspect that it is the GeoTrust/Equifax cert in a 'plain wrapper').
For god's sake, don't buy Veri-slime's 'Global Certificate' which was built to allow for a crippled 'international version browser', an idea which was abandoned 6 years ago. A quick check of their site leads me to suspect that they changed the name to 'Financial SSL Certificates for OFX'. I Think that that verisign product represents the last 'one percent', however I doubt if anyone should trust an SSL conntection to those long outdated browsers.
So how are people buying one on ebay supposed to know wether or not it was part of the stolen shipment?
Well, first of all, considering that it's a 'new product' one shouldn't be seeing it all that often. Also, I don't know if you noticed, but many consumer electronics have what's call a serial number, which may uniquely identify a particular unit. So, here's your oppurtunity to get a fancy new DS system, and collect a $120,000 reward, so get shopping. Of course, if you do find that your unit is stolen, and since recieving stolen goods is a felony...
. DVD player - I believe word is that the DVD player aspects are a "plug in" - I'm assuming something like the original Xbox codec plug in device to enable DVD playback. Personally, I'd just as soon see it just built in - bite the bullet on the cost,
Actually, that was one of the bigger reasons why Sony got ahead in the console wars, but it's a moot point now, as anyone who wants one can get it new for less than $50. Anyways I am fairly certain that it does anyways. The competitive bonus for Wii is that it supports WiFi in it's base package.
Personally, I'm already sold and now I'm just waiting for someone to sell it and I fear a strong marketing campaign as it could mean that I'd have to wait until after Christmas to get one 'for my son'.
Nintendo has long been 3rd in the console rankings, and that probably won't change here.
Why, because SONY pays you to say so?
Your only argument is that people associate PlayStation with gaming console, and while that is true, it should be noted that not all that long ago, Nintendo had that distinction. When SONY put out a better product for just about the same price, Nintendo started to lose.
reputation alone should be able to get it through these rough patches.
Yea and the producers of "Happy Days" thought that anytime Fonzie jumped something ratings when up. Personally, I see some very, very costly price competition of the horizon, which PS3 won't likely survive.
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Oh yea, Network World. For years, I had one of their free subscriptions. I don't know how I signed up for it (I highly suspect that they got my address off of a list, however, I might have signed up for it), but I had it for years. Once in a while I looked at it, but mostly it just helped fill my mailbox. Every once in a while they sent me a survey, which I never answered. Finally one day I got what amounted to a 'threatening letter' from them saying that I needed to fill out the survey. I say 'threatening' because it wasn't nice, and frankly it vaguely reminded me of a collection letter (I used to see a few of those). Fortunately, as promised they finally stopped sending me their never wanted magazine.
and the META tags which should be associated with that bill should be "pandering"
I know the submitter is tring to be whitty, but I'd have to use 'sharp as a bowling ball' to describe his attempt. Surely there must have been a better way of announcing this break-through, like "Do you want you pastrami cut thin!".
Perhaps, you're showing a greater 'passion' for the subject.
I think that you basic 'problem' is with the word 'passion', and I'll agree that it is just about the vaguest 'concept word', and open to interpretation. Grading someone an 'A', 'B', 'C', etc, is also highly subjective as well. Jack and his team picked, promoted, and nurtured some pretty good people, but others who have superficially implemented 'his style' have not been so successful. Articles like this are good for self-examination, and should not be used as a manifesto. Of course someone will use it as such, and will likely miss the meaning altogether, surely even resulting in yet another example of your complaint. I wonder how many good coders were rated a 'B' because they lacked 'managerial' qualities.
And I also believe that using one's moderating term of speech against them is rude. Particularly without a smileyPity is for the living, the dead deserve a fair assememt of their lives. Key Lay and the rest of his neo-con buddies will rot in hell for their self-serving back room dealings which left millions of families with hardships they wouldn't wish on their own. I pity his widow, children, and grand-children, for the sudden loss of a family member, but not him.
The space suits were only designed for operation on the moon, and could never be use while operating the spacecraft. Also, it's unlikely one would even fit into the CM prior to reentry. Even if they could have used them as 'temporary personal lifeboats' to conserver CM resources (while the LM was 'dead') the CM pilot would be left out in the 'cold' as the two spacesuits were fitted to other crewmates.
Speaking of space suits...
I was once lucky enough to get a tour of the place they made the lunar suits.
One thing that I forgot to say in my previous post... there is NO way that a MITM can break the SSL connection once it has been created. So a phisher would need to recreate the entire web presence in a capture site, and be sure that the mark can only reach his site. In Real Life (TM) a MITM is very rare, and if your data is that important the someone would crack a router and examine it's traffic to gain the connection in real time, you really, really should be using private key encryption, or at least a self-signed cert.
For god's sake, don't buy Veri-slime's 'Global Certificate' which was built to allow for a crippled 'international version browser', an idea which was abandoned 6 years ago. A quick check of their site leads me to suspect that they changed the name to 'Financial SSL Certificates for OFX'. I Think that that verisign product represents the last 'one percent', however I doubt if anyone should trust an SSL conntection to those long outdated browsers.
Personally, I'm already sold and now I'm just waiting for someone to sell it and I fear a strong marketing campaign as it could mean that I'd have to wait until after Christmas to get one 'for my son'.
Your only argument is that people associate PlayStation with gaming console, and while that is true, it should be noted that not all that long ago, Nintendo had that distinction. When SONY put out a better product for just about the same price, Nintendo started to lose.
Yea and the producers of "Happy Days" thought that anytime Fonzie jumped something ratings when up. Personally, I see some very, very costly price competition of the horizon, which PS3 won't likely survive.