I don't think it's accurate to describe the/b/tards of 4chan as homophbic or racist or anything of the sort. They simply aim to be (or seem) offensive, all the time, to everyone. They are equal-opportunity insulters. That's more egalitarian than being polite in differing degrees to different people; insult everyone!
This is not wikipedia, you dick. I'm expressing my opinion based on my experience in industry. Perform your own study if you want to; I'm not on slashdot to do that for you. Dick.
In pursuit of my engineering degree, I learned useful things I would not have "discovered" on my own. I understand how things work under the hood. I also learned finance and communication skills.
Certifications which mean something tend to vary by specialization. Cisco certifications mean something if you work in networking. GIAC or ISC2 certifications mean something if you work in security.
CompTIA certifications don't command respect anywhere, except maybe to differentiate yourself from the other entry-level candidates with no experience. After your first job, mentioning your CompTIA cert is like talking about where you went to middle school. Who cares?
CompTIA certs are the community college diplomas of the IT certification industry. Who cares, unless you're going for an internship or level-1 helpdesk position?
If they give them all TV sets that should be enough to pacify enough of them so that revolts don't happen.
It works great in developed countries.
You have it backward: TV sets make people unhappy. Advertising works by convincing you that you have a problem or are in some way inadequate, then offering you a solution in the form of a product. It's primary goal is to make you miserable. News works by terrifying you about something (anything) and convincing you that continuing to watch the program is of some mortal benefit to you.
I stopped watching TV and try to avoid the news (within reason). I am 100x happier.
By any objective measure, the citizens of developed nations today are better-off than even the upper-crust of all the rest of humanity's civilizations. We don't die of cholera; we don't fear warlords and knights; we don't starve; we are not forced to worship someone else's gods. We have it great. The primary reason we don't realize this, in my opinion, is the evil of news and advertising I mentioned above.
If there are super-advanced aliens out there that want to kill everyone, they will do so. Might as well get it over with. If there are super-advanced aliens that want to help, let them. I want my utopia free of disease and poverty. I say: proceed with the search!
Well, what I see typically isn't "root/root" but rather "tomcat/tomcat" and "mysql/mysql". The sysadmins know their shit unless they're green or foreign, these days. It's the developers/app-people who have no clue about security.
The vast majority of companies hide the fact that they are breached (constantly, in many cases). It costs them very little to just rebuild the hacked server, smack the admin who set root's password to 'root', and then pretend nothing happened.
Rickets is not caused by fast food. Subway subs with lots of veggies are probably one of the more nutritious meals you could eat. The disease is actually caused by lack of sunlight.
Parents have a responsibility to get their kids involved in outdoor sports. This is understandably hard, though, because online multiplayer games have teamwork, competition, and trash-talk just like sports, but with less hassle.
Still, teach your kids the basics of outdoor sports (tennis, baseball, soccer, track, etc.) from an early age, and get them on the school teams when they are available. Doing less is negligent.
The biggest problem in UI design is using graphics for controls at all. USE WORDS! People not only know what clicking somewhere does, but they can search for the button they want with CTRL-F.
The only time you should use graphics for controls is when you're designing something your users will use frequently throughout the day every day. Then they will have a chance to learn your symbols and will appreciate the screenspace saving. The other 99% of apps should use no icon sets. Users can read. Take advantage of that.
It does allow the powerful to decide our laws, but when has that not been the case? Democracy is like other governments in this respect, except that when the powerful screw up REALLY bad and the masses of the population are significantly wronged, things DO change.
Democracy has distinct disadvantages. This is one of them. But consider the alternatives.
It is easier to get bonus grant money from the War industry if you have the possibility of repurposing your power plant into a ship-sinking, building-burning space laser.
When one big software company sues another, the only possible outcomes are that either they all back down or they end in Mutually Assured Destruction. Most of the companies have patent portfolios as a deterrent only. I don't know what TiVo thinks they can accomplish with their North Korea strategy.
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Since my opinion was modded +5 Insightful, it would seem you are correct.
I don't think it's accurate to describe the /b/tards of 4chan as homophbic or racist or anything of the sort. They simply aim to be (or seem) offensive, all the time, to everyone. They are equal-opportunity insulters. That's more egalitarian than being polite in differing degrees to different people; insult everyone!
Researches have found a way to track web sites based on the MySQL errors they produce when they're slashdotted.
Have you been in a coma? These days, IT people are expected to have 4-year degrees in computer science, software engineering, and the like.
This is not wikipedia, you dick. I'm expressing my opinion based on my experience in industry. Perform your own study if you want to; I'm not on slashdot to do that for you. Dick.
In pursuit of my engineering degree, I learned useful things I would not have "discovered" on my own. I understand how things work under the hood. I also learned finance and communication skills.
A diploma from a real college means something.
(oh and I got to build robots!)
Certifications which mean something tend to vary by specialization. Cisco certifications mean something if you work in networking. GIAC or ISC2 certifications mean something if you work in security.
CompTIA certifications don't command respect anywhere, except maybe to differentiate yourself from the other entry-level candidates with no experience. After your first job, mentioning your CompTIA cert is like talking about where you went to middle school. Who cares?
CompTIA certs are the community college diplomas of the IT certification industry. Who cares, unless you're going for an internship or level-1 helpdesk position?
If the company only offers a slow, aged laptop; then yes, you do need to buy your own tools (if you want to be productive).
You have it backward: TV sets make people unhappy. Advertising works by convincing you that you have a problem or are in some way inadequate, then offering you a solution in the form of a product. It's primary goal is to make you miserable. News works by terrifying you about something (anything) and convincing you that continuing to watch the program is of some mortal benefit to you.
I stopped watching TV and try to avoid the news (within reason). I am 100x happier.
By any objective measure, the citizens of developed nations today are better-off than even the upper-crust of all the rest of humanity's civilizations. We don't die of cholera; we don't fear warlords and knights; we don't starve; we are not forced to worship someone else's gods. We have it great. The primary reason we don't realize this, in my opinion, is the evil of news and advertising I mentioned above.
They are broadcasting their wikipedia so that the universe may benefit.
If there are super-advanced aliens out there that want to kill everyone, they will do so. Might as well get it over with. If there are super-advanced aliens that want to help, let them. I want my utopia free of disease and poverty. I say: proceed with the search!
They should stand up for their ideals the same way the video game industry does: a checkbox. Use the "click here if you're under 18" method.
"[x] I am a resident of Syria, Iran, North Korea..."
"We're sorry, SourceForge is not available to you persuant US code bla bla bla"
Well, what I see typically isn't "root/root" but rather "tomcat/tomcat" and "mysql/mysql". The sysadmins know their shit unless they're green or foreign, these days. It's the developers/app-people who have no clue about security.
The vast majority of companies hide the fact that they are breached (constantly, in many cases). It costs them very little to just rebuild the hacked server, smack the admin who set root's password to 'root', and then pretend nothing happened.
Bill O? That you?
Rickets is not caused by fast food. Subway subs with lots of veggies are probably one of the more nutritious meals you could eat. The disease is actually caused by lack of sunlight.
Parents have a responsibility to get their kids involved in outdoor sports. This is understandably hard, though, because online multiplayer games have teamwork, competition, and trash-talk just like sports, but with less hassle.
Still, teach your kids the basics of outdoor sports (tennis, baseball, soccer, track, etc.) from an early age, and get them on the school teams when they are available. Doing less is negligent.
There is no simple fix to liberal democracy being liberal.
I know in your retirement home people tell the same stories over and over and over, but we've heard enough about the war, Grandpa.
The biggest problem in UI design is using graphics for controls at all. USE WORDS! People not only know what clicking somewhere does, but they can search for the button they want with CTRL-F.
The only time you should use graphics for controls is when you're designing something your users will use frequently throughout the day every day. Then they will have a chance to learn your symbols and will appreciate the screenspace saving. The other 99% of apps should use no icon sets. Users can read. Take advantage of that.
It does allow the powerful to decide our laws, but when has that not been the case? Democracy is like other governments in this respect, except that when the powerful screw up REALLY bad and the masses of the population are significantly wronged, things DO change.
Democracy has distinct disadvantages. This is one of them. But consider the alternatives.
When did "excitement" become a proper noun?
It is easier to get bonus grant money from the War industry if you have the possibility of repurposing your power plant into a ship-sinking, building-burning space laser.
It may be close to proving is viability, but there's no way anyone has any business calling this not-even-prototyped tech "mature."
When one big software company sues another, the only possible outcomes are that either they all back down or they end in Mutually Assured Destruction. Most of the companies have patent portfolios as a deterrent only. I don't know what TiVo thinks they can accomplish with their North Korea strategy.