Even worse for the NIMBY's is that they would prefer to be able to build a house in the same areas that they don't want cell towers. People are buying up the land in the hills in this area (close to CT mentioned in the article), so that they call build multi-million dollar homes.
"Sorry NIBMY, you could have had this call completed as dialed, but you chose your ugly house instead."
Couldn't you then reverse engineer the maps? The obscured areas are high interest targets? Areas then that you would want hidden from the sky would then need to be very well done or blocked out.
Now that is innovation...monitor fan speed, cpu temp, and now scrotal temp.
You could build it right into the cpu or possibly better yet a USB device. Add an external fan to provide some additional cooling and you are set. Throttle down the cpu to reduce heat output when your new monitor reaches threshold.
All of the advice listed here is absolutely right on. Unless you are going into an area that is very specific or you want to improve your chances of getting into that grad school, stay where you are at. Get all of the work experience that you can through internships, co-ops, etc. Many employers are now only looking at grads that have such experience, so where the degree is from isn't a high priority.
Your parents probably care more that your future employer. I work with many people from very well known to unknown schools, they sit right next to eachother and are doing the same job for the same pay. They are likely to advance at the same rate as well.
I personally spent almost 10 years going through to a PhD, so I've seen a lot of school. By the way, the title doesn't help much either in the big picture. It is what you do with it that counts.
Good luck and print out all these comments and show them to your parents.
"So then why doesn't this indivdual go to a more 'enlightened' nation to sell his wares? Perhaps one which has no interest in the oil economy, other than being dependent on energy imports, such as Japan?"
"...skip objectionable content -- like a gory or sexually explicit scene....skipping any commercials or promotional announcements would be prohibited."
Does this imply that they will no longer be using sex or violence to sell their products?
It seems that countries are now too small or uninteresting to take over. Witness all of the current successes. What continent now will be suspected of having WMD's?
"This method is very difficult to get around because information about the internal workings of specific printers is not commonly available, even on the Internet."
Is that true of current printers and printing technology? I used to work in a small repair shop for a while that serviced a range of printer models and at least the laser printers were mode of common engines. Actually, they were the same as in photocopiers at the time. Don't know whether much as changed now or not.
Now that presents an interesting business plan...split the two companies forming a large law firm specializing in IT lawsuits (demand seems to be growing) and a smaller IT compaony that meters out software licenses.
"Someone archive all the pr0n, credit card numbers, serial numbers, war3z, dvds, mp3s, AAC, Linux (SCO variant not to be included) on the net on it.
Someone set up a paypal account for donations to help keep it up. wait n/m PayPal will be gone too...."
Time to setup a "Noah's Ark" of the internet, such that the "world" can be restored following the digital flood.
Now that I think about it, is there any hardcopy backups of anything that would need to be saved? Take your pr0n example, much more must exist in digital format than hardcopy by now.
Is there a printed copy of the kernel source out there as well or does it only exist digitally?
I was waiting for the interesting part when it lifts off from her hand as well. Lift-off is when you would see the available power and the ability for it to stabilize. Too bad it seems that it was edited out.
Cynic? Maybe, but it isn't like they were showing it landing on the moon...
On the topic of Slashdotting, I wonder if it is possible to include a link-quality-meter into the header of a story. It would be good to know beforehand that the site was heading downward, as I'm really tired of clicking on links that are never going to come up.
A more general solution would be to do a ping through to the site when you mouse over a link and show the results as a hover tip. I'm sure that this might already be a Firefox extension already as some very useful ones have been popping up recently.
Slashdot Mirror
"even if all the cryptographers in the world are standing against him"
Who would understand what they are saying anyway?
Even worse for the NIMBY's is that they would prefer to be able to build a house in the same areas that they don't want cell towers. People are buying up the land in the hills in this area (close to CT mentioned in the article), so that they call build multi-million dollar homes.
"Sorry NIBMY, you could have had this call completed as dialed, but you chose your ugly house instead."
Couldn't you then reverse engineer the maps? The obscured areas are high interest targets? Areas then that you would want hidden from the sky would then need to be very well done or blocked out.
Zoom out a bit more there and you will see that the area has bit hit with a big spot of white out.
I'd like to buy a tinfoil hat, but they have become too expensive as the gov't has greatly increased the demand.
"The information would be readable only through a computerized scanner, which law enforcement officers could carry."
I wonder if this act would qualify for a true Darwin Award?
Now that is innovation...monitor fan speed, cpu temp, and now scrotal temp.
You could build it right into the cpu or possibly better yet a USB device. Add an external fan to provide some additional cooling and you are set. Throttle down the cpu to reduce heat output when your new monitor reaches threshold.
All of the advice listed here is absolutely right on. Unless you are going into an area that is very specific or you want to improve your chances of getting into that grad school, stay where you are at. Get all of the work experience that you can through internships, co-ops, etc. Many employers are now only looking at grads that have such experience, so where the degree is from isn't a high priority.
Your parents probably care more that your future employer. I work with many people from very well known to unknown schools, they sit right next to eachother and are doing the same job for the same pay. They are likely to advance at the same rate as well.
I personally spent almost 10 years going through to a PhD, so I've seen a lot of school. By the way, the title doesn't help much either in the big picture. It is what you do with it that counts.
Good luck and print out all these comments and show them to your parents.
"So then why doesn't this indivdual go to a more 'enlightened' nation to sell his wares? Perhaps one which has no interest in the oil economy, other than being dependent on energy imports, such as Japan?"
Of course you know this already exists in Japan?
It seems that LifeGem (turn your ashes into a diamond) is now Slashdotted, prehaps they could turn their server's melted remains into diamonds.
Slashdot could have quite the collection of "diamond servers"....
"Someone patent the Not IsNot enhancement to the IsNot feature"
They have never met a patent that was worth entending (and breaking):
IsSo () = Not (IsNot ())
"...skip objectionable content -- like a gory or sexually explicit scene....skipping any commercials or promotional announcements would be prohibited."
Does this imply that they will no longer be using sex or violence to sell their products?
"Its like forcing a purchaser of a RAP album, to listen to a promo for the dixie chicks with no way to skip it."
Please don't give them any more ideas!
Not in our backyard...not in our country....
It seems that countries are now too small or uninteresting to take over. Witness all of the current successes. What continent now will be suspected of having WMD's?
Those aren't Cliff Notes, that is a William Shatner interview!
"This method is very difficult to get around because information about the internal workings of specific printers is not commonly available, even on the Internet."
Is that true of current printers and printing technology? I used to work in a small repair shop for a while that serviced a range of printer models and at least the laser printers were mode of common engines. Actually, they were the same as in photocopiers at the time. Don't know whether much as changed now or not.
Now that presents an interesting business plan...split the two companies forming a large law firm specializing in IT lawsuits (demand seems to be growing) and a smaller IT compaony that meters out software licenses.
"Someone archive all the pr0n, credit card numbers, serial numbers, war3z, dvds, mp3s, AAC, Linux (SCO variant not to be included) on the net on it.
Someone set up a paypal account for donations to help keep it up. wait n/m PayPal will be gone too...."
Time to setup a "Noah's Ark" of the internet, such that the "world" can be restored following the digital flood.
Now that I think about it, is there any hardcopy backups of anything that would need to be saved? Take your pr0n example, much more must exist in digital format than hardcopy by now.
Is there a printed copy of the kernel source out there as well or does it only exist digitally?
And ye must account for all sites visited in thy browser history, for surely God knows all and does not clear cache...
I was waiting for the interesting part when it lifts off from her hand as well. Lift-off is when you would see the available power and the ability for it to stabilize. Too bad it seems that it was edited out.
Cynic? Maybe, but it isn't like they were showing it landing on the moon...
So long and thanks...
Yes, anytime you have a 100 engineers you have a design flaw...or where you referring to something else?
On the topic of Slashdotting, I wonder if it is possible to include a link-quality-meter into the header of a story. It would be good to know beforehand that the site was heading downward, as I'm really tired of clicking on links that are never going to come up.
A more general solution would be to do a ping through to the site when you mouse over a link and show the results as a hover tip. I'm sure that this might already be a Firefox extension already as some very useful ones have been popping up recently.