I would put my money on your Camaro. If the front of the Camaro goes under the side of the SUV you should get a nice upwards boost to go with the side impact. Picture a football player, at speed, putting his shoulder into you from below. I expect the SUV would be flipped rather easily.
Congratulations on your successful insertion of a help-wanted ad into a slashdot discussion.
Actually, I consider your post to be great news. It helps validate my suspicion that the pool of "skilled" IT labor is mostly illusory. (OK, so it's only good news were I looking for a job; otherwise it means a greater danger of encountering such "skilled" workers.) In any case, it still provides that warm fuzzy feeling of seeing most of the potential competition milling about in some deep ravine.
You're degrading by 60-90 because you're/aging/. If you're not aging, your cells will be properly reproducing and you'll be just like you were in your 30's.
Keeping someone on life support doesn't count as anti-aging, but for some reason the "perpetual jello-eater" is always the first argument people bring up to argue against anti-aging research.
It's easy to tell someone in a cheap suit. Looking nice doesn't require wearing a tie. I consider clothing, like body language, to be an additional means of subliminal communication. You should dress in a way to make the people you interact with think favorably of you. In many cases, this will mean shorts and a t-shirt. My other personal rule is that nice clothes must be comfortable.
For myself, I keep nice linen shirts for hot summer days, and thicker cotton button-downs for cold winter days. In each case, I'm wearing something better suited to the climate than a t-shirt, and I also look better.
Here's my basic advice:
Don't go for cheap dress shirts; they look cheap, they wear out far too quickly, and they don't feel that good. A good-quality dress shirt should be at least as comfortable as a t-shirt, if not more so.
Nice walking shoes are a must; Ecco and Rockport (sp?) both make extremely comfortable shoes, and look nice as well.
For slacks, avoid the pleated fronts. That's your free fashion tip for the day. Also avoid dress pants; go for nice cotton or linen pants instead. They're as soft as jeans, with more freedom of movement. They're also fairly durable.
Apart from the incorrect spelling, Gondwanaland was one of two supercontinents resulting from the breakup of Pangaea. (The other was Laurasia.) It came into existence around 200 million years ago, then began to break up around 160 million years ago.
So, life would again become nasty, british (err... brutish, sorry) and short? Besides, nature doesn't like to be anthropomorphized.
More likely, it would develop ways to create things like orbitals and decent (read: fast) space travel so that humans have space to expand. Spreading humans around the galaxy means that our accumulated knowledge and culture isn't lost just because a stray comet decides to introduce itself to Earth. It also means we don't run out of space or resources.
You say: they still don't need to know the differences between file sizes.
Then you say: People shouldn't be sending large documents through email anyway. A few megs at the MAX. Public drives or a webserver for anything else and the users should be educated on that.
The problem is that these people have no conception of "a few megs" or even what's "large" and "what's small". This is basic computer literacy, which many people don't have, and what's worse, don't think they need.
Of course, part of the problem is many places equate "computer literacy" with "is able to move the mouse and click on things". It's like saying that using a McDonalds cash register with pictures on the buttons indicates [English] literacy.
Being on the jewel case is part of the packaging. It's no different from if you buy some Tylenol in the supermarket because it says "Tylenol" on the box, and open it to find a bottle of TUMS inside.
What can you do? Well, the store is selling something with a false label. The record company is producing a mislabeled product. You're out of money as a result (since the store likely won't take back the CD), and if you're like me, the only CD players you own will only play "real CDs". Use your imagination, have fun with it.
Naw, that was because materials that would be closely handled/inspected/poured on people would often be replicated and thus be "real". (Same way the food replicators worked.)
If you lose a metal key you'll have to re-key the lock to prevent the "finder" from getting inside. It's also harder to make an instant replacement for the customer.
With the keycards, you can simply change the door code and generate fresh cards. I agree though, putting anything other than a pointer or key value on the card is just asking for trouble.
A metal key will take more time to duplicate, but if you know what style of blanks (this determines the "side grooves") the hotel uses and have the equipment ready, you can make a duplicate metal key in fairly short order. What's more, it's very unlikely that the locks have been changed.
The problem with the "Kill the host and the virus can't spread" counter-argument is that it assumes one of two goals:
1) You are trying to keep the virus active indefinitely, or... 2) The virus requires a significant amount of time to saturate the population.
If the writer is interested in making a name for himself neither of the two may apply. Some of the recent big-name worms have been able to infect a significant percentage of the vulnerable population in a matter of minutes or hours. This means that after the first 4 hours or so your rate of infection will level off, and you may as well start killing hosts. Which would get the greater publicity, just infecting 3/4ths of the Net, or infecting 2/3rds the Net but permanently killing the machines?
Countries can't "like" something; they aren't sentient. The people in many countries will get together and select someone to speak for them; this provides the appearance of national unity.
It's very hard to tell if a country is "into that sort of thing", as you put it, when there is an active program to suppress people who aren't "into it". In fact, it's very likely that such countries aren't "into it", but just happen to be effectively enslaved by the leadership.
Yes, I believe free speech is a human right. So does the UN, as well as most countries that permit their citizens to freely voice their opinions. Using "what's legal" and "local laws" is just a dodge to avoid the ethical issues at hand.
Except at the most basic level there is little connection between what's legal and what's moral. In some of the more famous cases, it was noted that "just following orders" was not a valid excuse. Yes, there's money involved. There's money involved in killing people, if that's your thing. (Though, many jurisdictions do have some laws against it.)
Now, I am white, and can't claim to know the Chinese culture. What I do know is that people cannot make informed decisions without good information, and that the PRC for some reason considers free access to information a threat to their rule. The most obvious conclusion is that this "culture" has been artificially imposed (for however many generations) in order to benefit the current leadership.
You follow the link and RTFA. The idea is that the refugee centers need this, not NO. A list of what's needed and how you can help is on the linked page.
> Columbus said the world was round, while > everyone else laughed Myth created in 1800s by Irving. Anyone educated, or familiar with seafaring knew better (both in Columbus' time, and back to the ancient Greeks.)
> Sound barrier could never be broken
Actually, artillerymen knew that it could be done in the 1800s. The only issue was how to get enough power in an airplane.
> Faster than light speeds will eventually become possible
Possible, but only be mucking with the fabric of space so that you really aren't ever exceeding c.
Moral: The man on the street knows most science only as rumor. His knowledge doesn't show the state of science, only the state of our educational system at most.
The Jefferson quotes are the most well-known, in part because he was sufficiently known for he writing ability to be asked to write such things as the Declaration of Independence.
If you would like other quotes, scroll back up a bit to find ones from Washington, Paine and Madison, etc.
Here's a John Adams one for you:
The priesthood have, in all ancient nations, nearly monopolized learning.... And, even since the Reformation, when or where has existed a Protestant or dissenting sect who would tolerate A FREE INQUIRY? The blackest billingsgate, the most ungentlemanly insolence, the most yahooish brutality is patiently endured, countenanced, propagated, and applauded. But touch a solemn truth in collision with a dogma of a sect, though capable of the clearest proof, and you will soon find you have disturbed a nest, and the hornets will swarm about your legs and hands, and fly into your face and eyes.
-- John Adams, letter to John Taylor, 1814
Believing with you that religion is a matter which lies solely between man and his God, that he owes account to none other for his faith or his worship, that the legislative powers of government reach actions only, and not opinions, I contemplate with sovereign reverence that act of the whole American people which declared that their legislature should 'make no law respecting an establishment of religion, or prohibiting the free exercise thereof,' thus building a wall of separation between church and State. -Thomas Jefferson, letter to Danbury Baptist Association, CT., Jan. 1, 1802
Or did you mean to suggest that they did not mean it, simply by virtue of their being "Christian"? Their variety of Christianity was far more enlightened than what is often found in evangelical churches today. Here's another quote:
And the day will come when the mystical generation of Jesus, by the supreme being as his father in the womb of a virgin will be classed with the fable of the generation of Minerve in the brain of Jupiter. But may we hope that the dawn of reason and freedom of thought in these United States will do away with this artificial scaffolding, and restore to us the primitive and genuine doctrines of this most venerated reformer of human errors. -Thomas Jefferson, Letter to John Adams, April 11, 1823
The poster's suggestion that "DRM is coming (Or is already here), one way or another, and is better to work on creating something done right, or to object to it on moral grounds" is incredibly defeatist and collaborationist.
Let industry run on IIS and SCO; let them slowly rot under their own Restrictions. They are already obsolete, their code is crufty, and their people without Clue. We should leave them to the spammers and the spyware writers and let them choke under a mass of advertising.
We don't need DRM, and we can do far more than just object to it. We are not writing code for customers and shareholders, we control our own works. If they ban us from the Internet and bar us from the dross they pass as art, we have a chance at a new renaissance. We can layer the cities in mesh networks and spread our own darknets across the land. No surrender!
PGP Freeware has been widely available for years. You can also use GnuPG, in many ways a defacto replacement. (There do exist GUI front-ends for it, even in Windows.)
Verisign deals in x.509 certs, not PGP keys. You can generate your own if you like, but it's much more awkward. Personally, I dislike x.509 certs, not so much because of the technology (it's fundamentally not much different from PGP) but because every implementation I've seen is a pain to work with (e.g. doesn't let you change email addresses). Zimmerman has nothing to do with Verisign.
So, yes, we have the technology, it's freely available, and some of us are using it.
I see a few comments suggesting simple games to teach basic concepts a la Mathblaster. A key thing to note is that such games do not teach computer literacy any more than the "burger" icon on a McDonald's cash register teaches English literacy. In such cases, you could be using a book or Cuisenaire rods and get the same or better results. (Actually, the rods may be a good idea to help encourage abstract thinking.) Drills encourage memorization, not thinking. You'll want his abstract thinking abilities to grow; this is actually the most critical thing to develop.
If you want the child to understand computers you can start out with a simple language like BASIC. (I don't think there's any reason why Java or perl wouldn't work as well; C might also be good.) Don't forget to cover number skills; he should be able to understand different bases and exponentiation. (That's understand, not just "mechanically convert".)
If you like, you can skip the programming and focus on the numbers. Once he has a grasp of how to do basic loops and conditionals you might inroduce him to simple turing machines. (Say, a device with only a few (1 to 3) instructions and have him learn to write programs that would do something simple, like add two numbers. (You'll need to have worked on the math before this, obviously.) This should give him an understanding of the connection between lower level machine code and higher level languages.
I'm going to end the post now, since I have to get back to my work...
ULTRA intercepts, especially those between Togo and the ambassador to Russia indicate, make it clear that unconditional surrender (even preserving the Imperial House) was not an option; the only option was a ceasefire that would have maintained the status quo, and thus completely unacceptable to the U.S.
The primary planning was to make further fighting so bloody that American politicians would want to negotiate a more generous ending.
To simply stop fighting has a nice ring to it, I agree.
What I dislike is the "keep a colony or two". Considering what they were doing to civilians, it would be similar to letting Germany keep a "few colonies, oh, and those nice camps they've created for the Jews".
You also gloss over the problem of how exactly they would get "kicked out". As far as I can tell, we were the only ones doing the kicking. (Oh, except for Stalin, once he joined the party. And we all know how well/that/ went for countries Stalin took over.)
You may not realize it, but the fighting in the Pacific was spectacularly bloody. Official casualty estimates were rapidly falling behind the actual numbers as time went on.
I suggest looking for better English teachers. Commas should be used for separation of list items, independent clauses, and appositive phrases. The poster's second phrase contains an appositive, and thus deserves the commas, but his "corrected" line contains none of the aforementioned items.
(For the pedants, yes, I am aware that the list above is not fully comprehensive. I am also aware of the requirement for a coordinating conjunction in one of the above cases, but consider those additional cases to be largely irrelevant to the issue at hand.)
The way you learnt to write write lists is actually what I think of as the American style; It can create ambiguity as to whether the last two items comprise a single list member, or are each distinct list members. (Consider the sentence "she studies history, primate habitats and mating".) Incidentally, this last comma is called the Oxford comma.
Could you explain the inconsistency in the American version of 104? What I had been taught was that the "and" was reserved for the decimal (as in "one hundred four and nine-tenths"); unless you are treating the number as a list it is perfectly consistent.
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I would put my money on your Camaro. If the front of the Camaro goes under the side of the SUV you should get a nice upwards boost to go with the side impact. Picture a football player, at speed, putting his shoulder into you from below. I expect the SUV would be flipped rather easily.
Error: insufficient experience beyond reading documention.
Compounded error: Trusting the documentation.
Suggested resolution: Google "rainbow tables" and "john the ripper". For further reading, look into the older DES cracking efforts.
Congratulations on your successful insertion of a help-wanted ad into a slashdot discussion.
Actually, I consider your post to be great news. It helps validate my suspicion that the pool of "skilled" IT labor is mostly illusory. (OK, so it's only good news were I looking for a job; otherwise it means a greater danger of encountering such "skilled" workers.) In any case, it still provides that warm fuzzy feeling of seeing most of the potential competition milling about in some deep ravine.
You're degrading by 60-90 because you're /aging/. If you're not aging, your cells will be properly reproducing and you'll be just like you were in your 30's.
Keeping someone on life support doesn't count as anti-aging, but for some reason the "perpetual jello-eater" is always the first argument people bring up to argue against anti-aging research.
It's easy to tell someone in a cheap suit. Looking nice doesn't require wearing a tie. I consider clothing, like body language, to be an additional means of subliminal communication. You should dress in a way to make the people you interact with think favorably of you. In many cases, this will mean shorts and a t-shirt. My other personal rule is that nice clothes must be comfortable.
For myself, I keep nice linen shirts for hot summer days, and thicker cotton button-downs for cold winter days. In each case, I'm wearing something better suited to the climate than a t-shirt, and I also look better.
Here's my basic advice:
Don't go for cheap dress shirts; they look cheap, they wear out far too quickly, and they don't feel that good. A good-quality dress shirt should be at least as comfortable as a t-shirt, if not more so.
Nice walking shoes are a must; Ecco and Rockport (sp?) both make extremely comfortable shoes, and look nice as well.
For slacks, avoid the pleated fronts. That's your free fashion tip for the day. Also avoid dress pants; go for nice cotton or linen pants instead. They're as soft as jeans, with more freedom of movement. They're also fairly durable.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Gondwanaland
Apart from the incorrect spelling, Gondwanaland was one of two supercontinents resulting from the breakup of Pangaea. (The other was Laurasia.) It came into existence around 200 million years ago, then began to break up around 160 million years ago.
So, life would again become nasty, british (err... brutish, sorry) and short? Besides, nature doesn't like to be anthropomorphized.
More likely, it would develop ways to create things like orbitals and decent (read: fast) space travel so that humans have space to expand. Spreading humans around the galaxy means that our accumulated knowledge and culture isn't lost just because a stray comet decides to introduce itself to Earth. It also means we don't run out of space or resources.
You say: they still don't need to know the differences between file sizes.
Then you say: People shouldn't be sending large documents through email anyway. A few megs at the MAX. Public drives or a webserver for anything else and the users should be educated on that.
The problem is that these people have no conception of "a few megs" or even what's "large" and "what's small". This is basic computer literacy, which many people don't have, and what's worse, don't think they need.
Of course, part of the problem is many places equate "computer literacy" with "is able to move the mouse and click on things". It's like saying that using a McDonalds cash register with pictures on the buttons indicates [English] literacy.
Being on the jewel case is part of the packaging. It's no different from if you buy some Tylenol in the supermarket because it says "Tylenol" on the box, and open it to find a bottle of TUMS inside.
What can you do? Well, the store is selling something with a false label. The record company is producing a mislabeled product. You're out of money as a result (since the store likely won't take back the CD), and if you're like me, the only CD players you own will only play "real CDs". Use your imagination, have fun with it.
Naw, that was because materials that would be closely handled/inspected/poured on people would often be replicated and thus be "real". (Same way the food replicators worked.)
If you lose a metal key you'll have to re-key the lock to prevent the "finder" from getting inside. It's also harder to make an instant replacement for the customer.
With the keycards, you can simply change the door code and generate fresh cards. I agree though, putting anything other than a pointer or key value on the card is just asking for trouble.
A metal key will take more time to duplicate, but if you know what style of blanks (this determines the "side grooves") the hotel uses and have the equipment ready, you can make a duplicate metal key in fairly short order. What's more, it's very unlikely that the locks have been changed.
The problem with the "Kill the host and the virus can't spread" counter-argument is that it assumes one of two goals:
1) You are trying to keep the virus active indefinitely, or...
2) The virus requires a significant amount of time to saturate the population.
If the writer is interested in making a name for himself neither of the two may apply. Some of the recent big-name worms have been able to infect a significant percentage of the vulnerable population in a matter of minutes or hours. This means that after the first 4 hours or so your rate of infection will level off, and you may as well start killing hosts. Which would get the greater publicity, just infecting 3/4ths of the Net, or infecting 2/3rds the Net but permanently killing the machines?
Ooh. I think I know where you work, too. How long have you been here?
/., and I'm sure a few of the nanos will show up on the forsale newsgroup.)
(By "here" I'm not talking about
Countries can't "like" something; they aren't sentient. The people in many countries will get together and select someone to speak for them; this provides the appearance of national unity.
It's very hard to tell if a country is "into that sort of thing", as you put it, when there is an active program to suppress people who aren't "into it". In fact, it's very likely that such countries aren't "into it", but just happen to be effectively enslaved by the leadership.
Yes, I believe free speech is a human right. So does the UN, as well as most countries that permit their citizens to freely voice their opinions. Using "what's legal" and "local laws" is just a dodge to avoid the ethical issues at hand.
Except at the most basic level there is little connection between what's legal and what's moral. In some of the more famous cases, it was noted that "just following orders" was not a valid excuse. Yes, there's money involved. There's money involved in killing people, if that's your thing. (Though, many jurisdictions do have some laws against it.)
Now, I am white, and can't claim to know the Chinese culture. What I do know is that people cannot make informed decisions without good information, and that the PRC for some reason considers free access to information a threat to their rule. The most obvious conclusion is that this "culture" has been artificially imposed (for however many generations) in order to benefit the current leadership.
You follow the link and RTFA. The idea is that the refugee centers need this, not NO. A list of what's needed and how you can help is on the linked page.
> Columbus said the world was round, while
> everyone else laughed
Myth created in 1800s by Irving. Anyone educated, or familiar with seafaring knew better (both in Columbus' time, and back to the ancient Greeks.)
> Sound barrier could never be broken
Actually, artillerymen knew that it could be done in the 1800s. The only issue was how to get enough power in an airplane.
> Faster than light speeds will eventually become possible
Possible, but only be mucking with the fabric of space so that you really aren't ever exceeding c.
Moral: The man on the street knows most science only as rumor. His knowledge doesn't show the state of science, only the state of our educational system at most.
If you would like other quotes, scroll back up a bit to find ones from Washington, Paine and Madison, etc.
Here's a John Adams one for you:
Or did you mean to suggest that they did not mean it, simply by virtue of their being "Christian"? Their variety of Christianity was far more enlightened than what is often found in evangelical churches today. Here's another quote:
I agree!
The poster's suggestion that "DRM is coming (Or is already here), one way or another, and is better to work on creating something done right, or to object to it on moral grounds" is incredibly defeatist and collaborationist.
Let industry run on IIS and SCO; let them slowly rot under their own Restrictions. They are already obsolete, their code is crufty, and their people without Clue. We should leave them to the spammers and the spyware writers and let them choke under a mass of advertising.
We don't need DRM, and we can do far more than just object to it. We are not writing code for customers and shareholders, we control our own works. If they ban us from the Internet and bar us from the dross they pass as art, we have a chance at a new renaissance. We can layer the cities in mesh networks and spread our own darknets across the land. No surrender!
PGP Freeware has been widely available for years. You can also use GnuPG, in many ways a defacto replacement. (There do exist GUI front-ends for it, even in Windows.)
Verisign deals in x.509 certs, not PGP keys. You can generate your own if you like, but it's much more awkward. Personally, I dislike x.509 certs, not so much because of the technology (it's fundamentally not much different from PGP) but because every implementation I've seen is a pain to work with (e.g. doesn't let you change email addresses). Zimmerman has nothing to do with Verisign.
So, yes, we have the technology, it's freely available, and some of us are using it.
I see a few comments suggesting simple games to teach basic concepts a la Mathblaster. A key thing to note is that such games do not teach computer literacy any more than the "burger" icon on a McDonald's cash register teaches English literacy. In such cases, you could be using a book or Cuisenaire rods and get the same or better results. (Actually, the rods may be a good idea to help encourage abstract thinking.) Drills encourage memorization, not thinking. You'll want his abstract thinking abilities to grow; this is actually the most critical thing to develop.
If you want the child to understand computers you can start out with a simple language like BASIC. (I don't think there's any reason why Java or perl wouldn't work as well; C might also be good.) Don't forget to cover number skills; he should be able to understand different bases and exponentiation. (That's understand, not just "mechanically convert".)
If you like, you can skip the programming and focus on the numbers. Once he has a grasp of how to do basic loops and conditionals you might inroduce him to simple turing machines. (Say, a device with only a few (1 to 3) instructions and have him learn to write programs that would do something simple, like add two numbers. (You'll need to have worked on the math before this, obviously.) This should give him an understanding of the connection between lower level machine code and higher level languages.
I'm going to end the post now, since I have to get back to my work...
ULTRA intercepts, especially those between Togo and the ambassador to Russia indicate, make it clear that unconditional surrender (even preserving the Imperial House) was not an option; the only option was a ceasefire that would have maintained the status quo, and thus completely unacceptable to the U.S.
The primary planning was to make further fighting so bloody that American politicians would want to negotiate a more generous ending.
To simply stop fighting has a nice ring to it, I agree.
/that/ went for countries Stalin took over.)
What I dislike is the "keep a colony or two". Considering what they were doing to civilians, it would be similar to letting Germany keep a "few colonies, oh, and those nice camps they've created for the Jews".
You also gloss over the problem of how exactly they would get "kicked out". As far as I can tell, we were the only ones doing the kicking. (Oh, except for Stalin, once he joined the party. And we all know how well
You may not realize it, but the fighting in the Pacific was spectacularly bloody. Official casualty estimates were rapidly falling behind the actual numbers as time went on.
I suggest looking for better English teachers. Commas should be used for separation of list items, independent clauses, and appositive phrases. The poster's second phrase contains an appositive, and thus deserves the commas, but his "corrected" line contains none of the aforementioned items.
(For the pedants, yes, I am aware that the list above is not fully comprehensive. I am also aware of the requirement for a coordinating conjunction in one of the above cases, but consider those additional cases to be largely irrelevant to the issue at hand.)
The way you learnt to write write lists is actually what I think of as the American style; It can create ambiguity as to whether the last two items comprise a single list member, or are each distinct list members. (Consider the sentence "she studies history, primate habitats and mating".) Incidentally, this last comma is called the Oxford comma.
Could you explain the inconsistency in the American version of 104? What I had been taught was that the "and" was reserved for the decimal (as in "one hundred four and nine-tenths"); unless you are treating the number as a list it is perfectly consistent.