Sergeant: Sir, according to this device, the cartoon character is made of plastic. If I remember my extensive training at community college correctly, bombs can be made of plastic explosives. I recommend we shut down the city and destroy all the cartoon characters at great expense to the taxpayers.
Mayor: Sergeant, why waste all the taxpayer's time and money on a few lamps?
Sergeant: Cause fuck em, that's why.
Mayor: Excellent.
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On the desktop I'm using now (Win2003)
I think its pretty safe to assume that given the initial info the user is probably doing Windows development.
Thank you for that insight, Admiral Obvious, Sir! /me salutes
You are an idiot. You seem to think that because YOU understood DC circuits when you were young, and your nephew is young and does not understand DC circuits, that EVERYONE in your generation has this knowledge and NOBODY in his does.
That's just retarded. Back then, as is the case today, a motivated person will teach himself stuff like that and the rest will not. In fact, today, there are many many MORE ways for motivated kids to learn, thanks to the Internet.
Also, it wouldn't surprise me if fewer kids choose to learn DC circuits, as every type if signal is moving to digital, and much of the wired communication is moving to wireless.
Even more, the wired phone is a dying technology. Your knowledge of the phone system will soon be completely valueless. Today, you just get a cordless phone with multiple charging stations, plug the base station into the VOIP adapter, and you don't even have to touch the phone wires in the wall.
Of course, "kids these days aren't as smart as my generation!" sentiment always gets modded up in any forum, simply because nobody ever questions ideas that stroke their own egos. I blame that rock-and-roll music.
Actually most of it I found rather simple & clear in the end once I got to understand it but found that the textbook just explained it, badly or with huge gaps in their explinations.
Who gave you the right to criticize communication skills, Mr. Random Comma Guy?
Danny, it doesn't matter if I paid attention. I'm never going to meet you. But if I do, I'm not going to say, "you're that guy who was sticking up for that dork on slashdot who tried to argue with a sarcastic comment!"
Actually, do you live in the bay area or in central Ohio? If so, there's a chance, and I'll surely buy you a beer for the amusement of getting to say that.
Do you think? It seems to me that in a democracy, where we are ALL bound by the decisions of our ignorant majority, the ability to use superior education to control the masses is enjoyed by FAR fewer than 1% of the population. The rest of us are still subject to the poor choices of the other 90% of the population.
If you have any advice on how I may use my educational advantage to live a privileged life, I'm listening. The best I've come up with so far is to invest heavily in index funds so that I only have to work for half of my life, and spend the rest living off the interest of my investments (a strategy my less-educated family regards as a simple "gamble").
How in Bob's Name can you possibly spend an entire year on trig? a2+b2=c2, sin, cos, tan... You could fit everything you need to know about trig on to a business card.
5) Raise instead of lower the requirements in order to graduate high school. One of my friends has a daughter who just started high school this year. The only math requirements for her to graduate are two semesters of math. What this means is that they're only required to take and pass Pre-Algebra I & II. Since most everyone on here are IT pros of some kind, I'm sure you're aware that this doesn't cut it for college. Algebra I & II, Geometry, and Trig should be the minimum requirements, IMHO.
There is no courses called "pre-algebra II" or "trig." High school math for college-bound kids in the US usually goes like this: grade 9: Geometry+Trigonometry grade 10: Algebra II grade 11: Pre-calc grade 12: Calc College-bound kids typically had Algebra I in middle school.
Mediocre students (some of whom go to real college, some to community college, some to career training) are usually a year behind, so their high school math is: grade 9: Algebra I grade 10: Geometry+Trig grade 11: Algebra II grade 12: Pre-calc
The rest, I believe, take some sort of "remedial math for monkeys" courses over and over until they pass with the minimum requirements to graduate.
So, your idea of what is in the HS curriculum is wrong. Don't worry. Most students get geometry and trig on the first or second year of HS.
Of course, if you ask me, this is all a crap curriculum from a earlier age. Today, kids should be learning set theory, probability, discrete math, statistics, logic, and personal finance. Forget calc and advanced algebra! The (very small) number of people who can use that will get it in college. Stats and logic are useful to EVERYONE, and should be taught to everyone!
1) I used BBSs. I even ran one when I was 16... until my parents decided they wanted the phone line for, well, talking. Don't get all grand-pappy on me. I believe people appended "
" or some such to denote sarcasm in my region (pre-html days). You are right that sarcasm can sometimes be missed, but that doesn't mean I can't give you shit for missing it! 2) You gave me a great idea. I'm going to publish a paper on using magical crystals to heal pre-frontal cortex damage.
Honestly, the statement "fundamentalist shills like the world bank" was so obviously sarcastic to me I assumed you and everyone who modded you up were not native English speakers. I enjoy a clear debate, but that one WAS clear to me. If he had said "according to the world bank, which, by the way, is actually quite the opposite of a fundamentalist mouthpiece" he would have lost readers because he is stating the obvious in a boring way...
But, whatever, at least you got some well-deserved karma. That wasn't sarcasm. Neither was that. Nor this one and the next one. This is the last one. Wait--
Iran actually does have a far more liberal and effective system of HIV prevention that the US. Known Islamist sympathisers like the World Bank and Lancet recently wrote:
Wait a minute. You're saying that one of the most prestigious medical journals on the planet is a "known Islamist sympathiser"? I rather thought that the Lancet was known more for being a rigorously peer-reviewed journal than a pawn of Islamic fundamentalism. Did I miss something, or just misunderstand your sentence here?
Ha! Thanks for the chuckle! I've heard about a mental condition in which people are entirely unable to recognize sarcasm. It seems you and three mods all suffer from this terrible disease.
I realize that without society, my life would be miserable. For that reason, I cherish the things that make society possible and pleasant. This includes valuing human life, science, philosophy, art, economics, law, personal liberties, and many other things.
The reasons I cherish these things have nothing to do with spirits, magic, gods, auras, karma, superstitions, or other spiritual concepts. A society composed of people with these values would flourish and be far from "empty."
So I really don't agree that spirituality makes society whole. I think social values make society whole. Unless you mean to say "all social values are a form of spirituality," which is an unusual definition of the term, then I just don't think your view is well supported.
A society that doesn't appreciate some form of spirituality is pretty empty
What is your definition of "empty?" I'm sincerely curious. For that matter, what do you mean by "spirituality?"
Would you describe the Star Trek society (secular, cosmopolitan, humanist) as "empty?" Humans don't believe in any sorts of spirits or other supernatural creatures in Roddenberry's vision of an ideal society.
humans have free will and choose their own actions.
All people do what they think will make them happy. People don't really have a choice in the matter. Of the options available to it, the human brain may opt for long-term over short-term happiness, or this happiness-causing decision over that happiness-causing decision. But that is not a true choice, it is a limited one.
Most people have a specific physical construct in their brains that causes them to be empathetic: Making other people happy makes them happy, and making other people sad makes them sad.
Suppose someone is born with a birth defect which causes this neural construct to work in reverse: Making people sad causes this person to feel happiness, and making people happy causes this person to feel despair.
Does this person have a choice? Not really. The brain is a happiness-seeking device. It does NOT have the choice to choose things actions that will NEVER make it happy.
Is space technology more important than feeding the poor? Curing cancer and AIDS? Switching to renewable energy sources? World-fracking-peace?
Yes, yes, and yes. The problems you mention have no chance of destroying all life in the universe (to our knowledge). Keeping all life on one planet does have that chance.
Life itself is more important that starving orphans. There, I said it.
Perl... is arguably one of the greatest[sic] programming languages.
It is obvious this entire article was posted just for all the ad revenue which will be generated by people refuting that wild claim. It's beneath me, but I can't resist doing just that. So here we go:
PERL is anything but a great language because it violates--nay, declares jihad against--the three fundamental principles of software engineering:
Keep It Simple, Stupid (vs PERL's TIMTWWTDI)
Maintain consistency (vs PERL's "hold-shift-and-mash-the-keyboard" syntax from Hell)
Never go in against a Sicilian when death is on the line!... ok, forget that one. But suffice it to say I could continue this list for quite a while.
PERL is popular because it was in the right place at the right time, much like MS Windows. Other than that, it is just a fantastic collection of poor design decisions.
There are big companies which run all Windows servers. A lot of people at places may not even be aware of the fact that their security systems run on Linux. They may think "we're a Windows shop, so this doesn't apply." That is why this was important to point this out.
My intended audience was not the poster specifically, but the slashdot audience as a whole.
Based on the fact that you missed the point entirely, and your post consisted of nothing but angry insults, I'm going to guess that you bring amiable personality to a whole new level.
People who run linux don't have any money to steal.
Every company large enough to need a Security team (you know, the companies with the most money) is going to be running Linux. Nearly all the best infosec tools are Linux apps. I know you are likely going for Colbert-esque humor here, but the fact is that companies that run Snort on Linux probably have much MORE money to steal, on average, than companies that do not.
You don't have to wait. My home fileserver boots from Compact Flash. The trick is to mount the filesystem with 'noatime' and to put/var and/tmp on your RAID. CF speaks ATA, so you only need to buy a $15 adapter to plug a CF card directly into your PC.
Also, if you use SATA for your RAID, you can replace failed disks without any downtime whatsoever! [well, you could if linux didn't suck at hot-swappage]
Bonus points if you buy a fast processor and clock it down to the point where passive cooling is enough (is this still possible?)
Yeah, it's kind of sad when your home fileserver uses better technology and has higher availability than most commercial datacenter servers...
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Sergeant: Sir, according to this device, the cartoon character is made of plastic. If I remember my extensive training at community college correctly, bombs can be made of plastic explosives. I recommend we shut down the city and destroy all the cartoon characters at great expense to the taxpayers.
Mayor: Sergeant, why waste all the taxpayer's time and money on a few lamps?
Sergeant: Cause fuck em, that's why.
Mayor: Excellent.
/me salutes
You are an idiot. You seem to think that because YOU understood DC circuits when you were young, and your nephew is young and does not understand DC circuits, that EVERYONE in your generation has this knowledge and NOBODY in his does.
That's just retarded. Back then, as is the case today, a motivated person will teach himself stuff like that and the rest will not. In fact, today, there are many many MORE ways for motivated kids to learn, thanks to the Internet.
Also, it wouldn't surprise me if fewer kids choose to learn DC circuits, as every type if signal is moving to digital, and much of the wired communication is moving to wireless.
Even more, the wired phone is a dying technology. Your knowledge of the phone system will soon be completely valueless. Today, you just get a cordless phone with multiple charging stations, plug the base station into the VOIP adapter, and you don't even have to touch the phone wires in the wall.
Of course, "kids these days aren't as smart as my generation!" sentiment always gets modded up in any forum, simply because nobody ever questions ideas that stroke their own egos. I blame that rock-and-roll music.
Who gave you the right to criticize communication skills, Mr. Random Comma Guy?
Danny, it doesn't matter if I paid attention. I'm never going to meet you. But if I do, I'm not going to say, "you're that guy who was sticking up for that dork on slashdot who tried to argue with a sarcastic comment!"
Actually, do you live in the bay area or in central Ohio? If so, there's a chance, and I'll surely buy you a beer for the amusement of getting to say that.
Do you think? It seems to me that in a democracy, where we are ALL bound by the decisions of our ignorant majority, the ability to use superior education to control the masses is enjoyed by FAR fewer than 1% of the population. The rest of us are still subject to the poor choices of the other 90% of the population.
If you have any advice on how I may use my educational advantage to live a privileged life, I'm listening. The best I've come up with so far is to invest heavily in index funds so that I only have to work for half of my life, and spend the rest living off the interest of my investments (a strategy my less-educated family regards as a simple "gamble").
How in Bob's Name can you possibly spend an entire year on trig? a2+b2=c2, sin, cos, tan... You could fit everything you need to know about trig on to a business card.
Wow. You win the thread. Please forward that to all of congress.
There is no courses called "pre-algebra II" or "trig." High school math for college-bound kids in the US usually goes like this:
grade 9: Geometry+Trigonometry
grade 10: Algebra II
grade 11: Pre-calc
grade 12: Calc
College-bound kids typically had Algebra I in middle school.
Mediocre students (some of whom go to real college, some to community college, some to career training) are usually a year behind, so their high school math is:
grade 9: Algebra I
grade 10: Geometry+Trig
grade 11: Algebra II
grade 12: Pre-calc
The rest, I believe, take some sort of "remedial math for monkeys" courses over and over until they pass with the minimum requirements to graduate.
So, your idea of what is in the HS curriculum is wrong. Don't worry. Most students get geometry and trig on the first or second year of HS.
Of course, if you ask me, this is all a crap curriculum from a earlier age. Today, kids should be learning set theory, probability, discrete math, statistics, logic, and personal finance. Forget calc and advanced algebra! The (very small) number of people who can use that will get it in college. Stats and logic are useful to EVERYONE, and should be taught to everyone!
ah. "<p>" is what went in that quoted newline...
" or some such to denote sarcasm in my region (pre-html days). You are right that sarcasm can sometimes be missed, but that doesn't mean I can't give you shit for missing it!
2) You gave me a great idea. I'm going to publish a paper on using magical crystals to heal pre-frontal cortex damage.
Or, you have brain damage to your prefrontal cortex
http://www.apa.org/releases/sarcasm.html
Honestly, the statement "fundamentalist shills like the world bank" was so obviously sarcastic to me I assumed you and everyone who modded you up were not native English speakers. I enjoy a clear debate, but that one WAS clear to me. If he had said "according to the world bank, which, by the way, is actually quite the opposite of a fundamentalist mouthpiece" he would have lost readers because he is stating the obvious in a boring way...
But, whatever, at least you got some well-deserved karma. That wasn't sarcasm. Neither was that. Nor this one and the next one. This is the last one. Wait--
Ha! Thanks for the chuckle! I've heard about a mental condition in which people are entirely unable to recognize sarcasm. It seems you and three mods all suffer from this terrible disease.
I realize that without society, my life would be miserable. For that reason, I cherish the things that make society possible and pleasant. This includes valuing human life, science, philosophy, art, economics, law, personal liberties, and many other things.
The reasons I cherish these things have nothing to do with spirits, magic, gods, auras, karma, superstitions, or other spiritual concepts. A society composed of people with these values would flourish and be far from "empty."
So I really don't agree that spirituality makes society whole. I think social values make society whole. Unless you mean to say "all social values are a form of spirituality," which is an unusual definition of the term, then I just don't think your view is well supported.
What is your definition of "empty?" I'm sincerely curious. For that matter, what do you mean by "spirituality?"
Would you describe the Star Trek society (secular, cosmopolitan, humanist) as "empty?" Humans don't believe in any sorts of spirits or other supernatural creatures in Roddenberry's vision of an ideal society.
All people do what they think will make them happy. People don't really have a choice in the matter. Of the options available to it, the human brain may opt for long-term over short-term happiness, or this happiness-causing decision over that happiness-causing decision. But that is not a true choice, it is a limited one.
Most people have a specific physical construct in their brains that causes them to be empathetic: Making other people happy makes them happy, and making other people sad makes them sad.
Suppose someone is born with a birth defect which causes this neural construct to work in reverse: Making people sad causes this person to feel happiness, and making people happy causes this person to feel despair.
Does this person have a choice? Not really. The brain is a happiness-seeking device. It does NOT have the choice to choose things actions that will NEVER make it happy.
It amuses me that any criticism of Perl in this story gets buried to -1 by the mods. Yay discussion.
Yes, yes, and yes. The problems you mention have no chance of destroying all life in the universe (to our knowledge). Keeping all life on one planet does have that chance.
Life itself is more important that starving orphans. There, I said it.
It is obvious this entire article was posted just for all the ad revenue which will be generated by people refuting that wild claim. It's beneath me, but I can't resist doing just that. So here we go:
PERL is anything but a great language because it violates--nay, declares jihad against--the three fundamental principles of software engineering:
PERL is popular because it was in the right place at the right time, much like MS Windows. Other than that, it is just a fantastic collection of poor design decisions.
I agree completely with Prof. Hawking--We need to establish life outside of Earth.
Deep space scientific observation is nice, but until we have a self-sustaining colony off of earth, manned space technology should be our #1 priority.
There are big companies which run all Windows servers. A lot of people at places may not even be aware of the fact that their security systems run on Linux. They may think "we're a Windows shop, so this doesn't apply." That is why this was important to point this out.
My intended audience was not the poster specifically, but the slashdot audience as a whole.
Based on the fact that you missed the point entirely, and your post consisted of nothing but angry insults, I'm going to guess that you bring amiable personality to a whole new level.
I am aware of that. But "Colbert-esque" just rolls off the tongue better, don't you think?
Every company large enough to need a Security team (you know, the companies with the most money) is going to be running Linux. Nearly all the best infosec tools are Linux apps. I know you are likely going for Colbert-esque humor here, but the fact is that companies that run Snort on Linux probably have much MORE money to steal, on average, than companies that do not.
You don't have to wait. My home fileserver boots from Compact Flash. The trick is to mount the filesystem with 'noatime' and to put /var and /tmp on your RAID. CF speaks ATA, so you only need to buy a $15 adapter to plug a CF card directly into your PC.
Also, if you use SATA for your RAID, you can replace failed disks without any downtime whatsoever! [well, you could if linux didn't suck at hot-swappage]
Bonus points if you buy a fast processor and clock it down to the point where passive cooling is enough (is this still possible?)
Yeah, it's kind of sad when your home fileserver uses better technology and has higher availability than most commercial datacenter servers...
meme: Any unit of cultural information, such as a practice or idea, that is transmitted verbally or by repeated action from one mind to another.
You are incorrect. I am quite fond of many. The use of the word "meme" in no way implies any sort of religion using any definition I know of.