Ok, everyone raise their hand if they are:
A) Exempted Salary
B) No comp time/no overtime
C) No flex time
D) Routinely put in extra hours for free
E) Fill out an decimalized hourly time sheet
Corporate America. Gotta love it.
You're absolutely right. Cheap sunglasses may not have IR filtering. I thought my Ray-Ban aviators had an IR block notice when I bought them, but I can't find any evidence of this on their web site. Bolle and Oakley sites don't seem to be up today. Serengeti doesn't mention IR either. I did find Shields Sportglasses that do claim 100% UV/IR blocking.
You give managers too much credit. I work for a huge company that depends upon software projects. The drive for management's push of sofwtare releases is profit, not politics.
Interestingly, this becomes a grey issue with the Internet. Where does Internet crime really occur when international borders are involved? Take for example a case where the
FBI became involved in a NASA computer systems penetration.
The attacker was in Canada but broke into a US system. Did the crime occur in the US or Canada?
(Cool personal note - I've personally met and spoken to one of the people involved in the investigation.)
Second, it's not that the P3/P4 is more sensitive to radition. It's that the i386 and i486 have been around long enough to have had the military and NASA pay for radition hardening, not to mention low power consumption which is just as important in space.
Hopefully the folks that run xmach.org will move it to a more reliable OS (perhaps like that evil GPL one) given the status of http://www.xmach.org...:)
BTW, what outside independent group has reviewed M$ code, or DEC code, or Sun code, or AIX code...
I suppose you don't consult to the feds, since they use xbsd (DOJ uses OpenBSD).
As an expert on operating systems, you should be aware that the common commercial vendors are full of bugs and security holes. By telling your customers that they are safe because they are using American/commercial products, you are doing them a disservice.
How could you trust the agenda of an outside independent code review. After all, they might be just as anti-American!
I truly hope you make it as an anti-xbsd consultant. Good luck.
This reminds me of the whole issue with doctoral thesis work done by PHd candidates. The school owns the thesis and can sell/carve/do whatever the hell they want with it. The student? No rights whatsover. And here we have a similar situation (at least more similar than the musician thread). The sci journals want the same rights as universities now have over students.
The only purpose of a car that has a top speed of X is to drive it at speed X. Therefore it is unsafe because it goes too fast. The only purpose of a propane tank is to provide fuel to burn an object. The only purpose of [insert any weapon here] is to destroy the target. Fine, fine, we have the analogies and violent stuff out of the way.
Now back to what I said. The proper use of a gun - the LAWFUL use of a gun - includes the purposeful lawful death of humans. My definition of the proper usage of a tool includes the lawful usage. It is quite evident that the use of guns at Columbine by the two students was not proper, not lawful.
Killing something trying to kill you - be it an animal or an assailant - certainly is safe. It's about your safety, your survival. Is it safe towards the target? No, of course not. That's the PURPOSE of a gun. To destroy the target. A knife's purpose is to cut the target. Does that make the proper usage of a knife unsafe? No. Does that make the knife dangerous to the person properly operating the knife? No.
Do bad things happen with guns? Yes. Do bad things happen with cars? Yes. Do bad things happen with knives? Yes. Do bad things happen with any tool you can name? Yes. Does a rational person acknowledge that the proper usage and operation of a tool is the application of risk mitigation and hence safe? Yes.
I'll admit - "entirely safe" was exaggeration. What I should have typed is:
[xxxx] - when used in a proper, lawful manner by a rational person - is safe to the operator barring malfunctions, defects, or cosmic hiccups. [xxxx] - when used illegally by disturbed teenagers - is unsafe.
Feel free to insert your favorite tool into the [xxxx] construct.
Reading between the lines, it should be obvious that I feel the demonizing of guns in Columbine is a mistake. The focus should be on the teens that felt the need to kill fellow students and teachers. The fault is not the weapons chosen by the teens. The fault lies with the teens and the people supplying the teens with weapons. It is illegal to provide a minor with a gun. Hence, we no longer have proper usage of the gun.
Kids have had access to guns since, well, since guns were made. Its only in the past few years we've seen a sharp rise in the teen demographic in: improper usage of guns, drug usage, pregnancy, etc etc. Perhaps people should focus on the cause of these changes. If we as a culture remove the objects reflecting the negative energy of the teen demographic, we'll simply see a shift in abuse of other objects.
There is no problem with guns. There is a problem with people who misuse guns, or any other object that can be used illegally or improperly. Guns are entirely safe when used properly. There are two immediate problems with the one-shot theory: more than one assailant, and single-shot stopping attacker statistics (hence the teaching of the double-tap skill).
The guns are not at fault in this situation - the kids who pulled the triggers are. And the other kids and adults who provided the guns.
A bomb - which is terribly easy to make - is simply magnitudes more destructive than your typical 45 or 9 with the mandated maximum ten round magazine.
#include
We ought to outlaw cars. After all, way too many kids die due to automobile collisions. And don't forget that quip from the 20th - Kennedy's car has killed more women than my gun.
"0" offtopic my ass! CERT is housed at Carnegie-Mellon U. Who was Carnegie? A Robber barron. And what is CERT doing? Gouging the public for a serivce that is a day (or forty-five) late and thousands of dollars short.
Geez, give moderatorship to some folks and it goes to their head.
They are no more a government agency than NSI was when they were rippin' us off for domain registrations. They are a non-academic branch of Carnegie-Mellon U. They are an organization with a federal contract and federal funding. But they aren't federalies.
I'm wondering who blew their moderator points on your comment.
The fact is that there ARE CURRENT DAY THEORIES on using mediums (non-vacuum) to enable FTL communications.
And no, anonymous cowards, this is not a goat sex link.
What exactly does everyone think is going to be left of this plane after it slams into the ocean at Mach X?
BINGO! The only intelligent comment in this thread. Let's recap. It'll be flying at 100,000 feet. When it runs out of fuel and FALLS 100,000 FEET, what will be left when it impacts the ocean? Debris.
My favorite firewall (was Yay! My favorite desk...
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Just wait untill you see our new "MandrakeSecurity", you may change your mind about the firewalling and/or "servers" part..-)
I simply don't see how MandrakeSecurity will make me give up my OpenBSD. I agree - I like Mandrake for the desktop. But is Mandrake doing a source code review of Linux like the OpenBSD crowd is? My borders need to be rock solid tight.
How many drug dealers realistically buy things WITH A credit card? Cash, baby. And if its cash, they can't trace you.
What? You mean you don't know about the satellite tracking strip embedded in American money? Hold an 'Andrew' to a bright light source and look just to the right of the second character in the upper left hand serial number on the front of the bill.:)
I used to be the webmaster for a junior college (ie. an AA/AS degree college). I tried to register the.edu variation but couldn't. TJHS must have been grandfathered in before the JBTs at Network$olutions changed the policy to a minimum standard of being an accredited four-year BA/BS degree school.
I have a Stereo system built in 1974 that sounds better than just about anything on the market today. And it is still pumping bass. Anything you buy now is designed to die in a matter of months.
-sniff- -sniff-
I smell troll.
Months, eh? Tell that to my receivers and computers still working since purchase in the 80s and 90s. Sure, they'll all die in months. Might take another hundred or so, but yeah, they'll die in months.
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Ok, everyone raise their hand if they are: A) Exempted Salary B) No comp time/no overtime C) No flex time D) Routinely put in extra hours for free E) Fill out an decimalized hourly time sheet Corporate America. Gotta love it.
Then she should do what my group does when we drive between the "normal" job site and "off-site" sites. Itemize to our 1040s.
You're absolutely right. Cheap sunglasses may not have IR filtering. I thought my Ray-Ban aviators had an IR block notice when I bought them, but I can't find any evidence of this on their web site. Bolle and Oakley sites don't seem to be up today. Serengeti doesn't mention IR either. I did find Shields Sportglasses that do claim 100% UV/IR blocking.
Same place as ever. goatse.cx^H^H^H^H^H^H^H^H^Hkernel.org
You give managers too much credit. I work for a huge company that depends upon software projects. The drive for management's push of sofwtare releases is profit, not politics.
Interestingly, this becomes a grey issue with the Internet. Where does Internet crime really occur when international borders are involved? Take for example a case where the FBI became involved in a NASA computer systems penetration. The attacker was in Canada but broke into a US system. Did the crime occur in the US or Canada? (Cool personal note - I've personally met and spoken to one of the people involved in the investigation.)
Are the answer. Sure, masks are all but illegal in many places. But you can always wear some nice dark RayBans!
First, of all, this has been hashed before on /.
Second, it's not that the P3/P4 is more sensitive to radition. It's that the i386 and i486 have been around long enough to have had the military and NASA pay for radition hardening, not to mention low power consumption which is just as important in space.
hardened cmos device - with actual rad specifications.Hopefully the folks that run xmach.org will move it to a more reliable OS (perhaps like that evil GPL one) given the status of http://www.xmach.org... :)
*sniff* *sniff*
There be trolls here. But given the fact there are gullible people who will buy into the conspiracy you push...
First, take a look at:
http://www.openbsd.org/goals.htmlWhere you see how many developers of OpenBSD are in the "American" sector.
Next, take a look at:
http://www.openbsd.org/users.htmlhttp://www.netbsd.org/gallery/sites.html
http://dmoz.org/Computers/Software/Operating_Syst
BTW, what outside independent group has reviewed M$ code, or DEC code, or Sun code, or AIX code...
I suppose you don't consult to the feds, since they use xbsd (DOJ uses OpenBSD).
As an expert on operating systems, you should be aware that the common commercial vendors are full of bugs and security holes. By telling your customers that they are safe because they are using American/commercial products, you are doing them a disservice.
How could you trust the agenda of an outside independent code review. After all, they might be just as anti-American!
I truly hope you make it as an anti-xbsd consultant. Good luck.
This reminds me of the whole issue with doctoral thesis work done by PHd candidates. The school owns the thesis and can sell/carve/do whatever the hell they want with it. The student? No rights whatsover. And here we have a similar situation (at least more similar than the musician thread). The sci journals want the same rights as universities now have over students.
The only purpose of a car that has a top speed of X is to drive it at speed X. Therefore it is unsafe because it goes too fast. The only purpose of a propane tank is to provide fuel to burn an object. The only purpose of [insert any weapon here] is to destroy the target. Fine, fine, we have the analogies and violent stuff out of the way.
Now back to what I said. The proper use of a gun - the LAWFUL use of a gun - includes the purposeful lawful death of humans. My definition of the proper usage of a tool includes the lawful usage. It is quite evident that the use of guns at Columbine by the two students was not proper, not lawful.
Killing something trying to kill you - be it an animal or an assailant - certainly is safe. It's about your safety, your survival. Is it safe towards the target? No, of course not. That's the PURPOSE of a gun. To destroy the target. A knife's purpose is to cut the target. Does that make the proper usage of a knife unsafe? No. Does that make the knife dangerous to the person properly operating the knife? No.
Do bad things happen with guns? Yes. Do bad things happen with cars? Yes. Do bad things happen with knives? Yes. Do bad things happen with any tool you can name? Yes. Does a rational person acknowledge that the proper usage and operation of a tool is the application of risk mitigation and hence safe? Yes.
I'll admit - "entirely safe" was exaggeration. What I should have typed is:
[xxxx] - when used in a proper, lawful manner by a rational person - is safe to the operator barring malfunctions, defects, or cosmic hiccups. [xxxx] - when used illegally by disturbed teenagers - is unsafe.
Feel free to insert your favorite tool into the [xxxx] construct.
Reading between the lines, it should be obvious that I feel the demonizing of guns in Columbine is a mistake. The focus should be on the teens that felt the need to kill fellow students and teachers. The fault is not the weapons chosen by the teens. The fault lies with the teens and the people supplying the teens with weapons. It is illegal to provide a minor with a gun. Hence, we no longer have proper usage of the gun.
Kids have had access to guns since, well, since guns were made. Its only in the past few years we've seen a sharp rise in the teen demographic in: improper usage of guns, drug usage, pregnancy, etc etc. Perhaps people should focus on the cause of these changes. If we as a culture remove the objects reflecting the negative energy of the teen demographic, we'll simply see a shift in abuse of other objects.
There is no problem with guns. There is a problem with people who misuse guns, or any other object that can be used illegally or improperly. Guns are entirely safe when used properly. There are two immediate problems with the one-shot theory: more than one assailant, and single-shot stopping attacker statistics (hence the teaching of the double-tap skill). The guns are not at fault in this situation - the kids who pulled the triggers are. And the other kids and adults who provided the guns. A bomb - which is terribly easy to make - is simply magnitudes more destructive than your typical 45 or 9 with the mandated maximum ten round magazine. #include We ought to outlaw cars. After all, way too many kids die due to automobile collisions. And don't forget that quip from the 20th - Kennedy's car has killed more women than my gun.
"0" offtopic my ass! CERT is housed at Carnegie-Mellon U. Who was Carnegie? A Robber barron. And what is CERT doing? Gouging the public for a serivce that is a day (or forty-five) late and thousands of dollars short. Geez, give moderatorship to some folks and it goes to their head.
They are no more a government agency than NSI was when they were rippin' us off for domain registrations. They are a non-academic branch of Carnegie-Mellon U. They are an organization with a federal contract and federal funding. But they aren't federalies.
I figure today's load is due to some idiot's "FP" perl script.
I'm wondering who blew their moderator points on your comment. The fact is that there ARE CURRENT DAY THEORIES on using mediums (non-vacuum) to enable FTL communications. And no, anonymous cowards, this is not a goat sex link.
/. information on XFree 4.0.3 from 18 March.
My favorite WinAmp plugin has to be the Christmas Dancer. Bar none.
I used to be the webmaster for a junior college (ie. an AA/AS degree college). I tried to register the .edu variation but couldn't. TJHS must have been grandfathered in before the JBTs at Network$olutions changed the policy to a minimum standard of being an accredited four-year BA/BS degree school.
-sniff- -sniff-
I smell troll.
Months, eh? Tell that to my receivers and computers still working since purchase in the 80s and 90s. Sure, they'll all die in months. Might take another hundred or so, but yeah, they'll die in months.