A bomb threat with no bomb is the real life equivalent of a DDoS. You've made them so busy responding to something fake that theres a denial of service on their in person business.
I agree. No one should be waving the VA shit around as the main reason for this. Most vets won't care.
My reason for agreeing is a bit different however. In some cases vets may be involved but mostly its the over emotional, strung out folks at home that I think would be a problem.
Thats a sentiment I share at times, but I agree with the decision because it could help prevent some strife in a few families.
Unfortunately for the rest of us there are a lot of over sensitive weak-minded idiots out there. Until we come up with a gene therapy to correct this situation we have to put up with them. I really hope someone is working on that...
This is very much a "Too Soon" situation. In another 30 years(assuming the conflicts end soon) it'll probably be fine. Even in another 10 years. Time does heal all wounds, even if some wounds never fully heal.
For a lot of people however this is much much too soon. There are people still burying dead from these conflicts. Out of respect for those people, I agree with this decision.
On another note, personally, I don't really have a problem with the Taliban being left in, and a lot of younger folks, and a lot of kids that will be playing this game won't think anything of it. Its just another game. The biggest concern will likely be "Are the guns really cool?"
Now put yourselves in the shoes of a mother who recently lost a son, or a nephew or something overseas and finds her other son playing as the "Taliban" in some game online because to him, it doesn't actually mean anything, he's just playing for fun. Words mean a lot to some people, and just to avoid that situation I think this is a good call.
Heck, I heard of a similar situation happening a few years back with a WW2 game, the womans father had died in the war and she was quite upset. Multiply that by a factor of "We just buried him less than a year ago" and then tell me what you think the reaction would have been?
Its pretty easy, everything I have in my home theaters run through a Creative x-fi sound card to get "cleaned" before it actually goes to any speakers/stereo head. I can muck with all of the settings to get exactly the sound levels I want and it prevents the commercials from suddenly deafening me.
Windows 7 decided that an executable that I had on my computer(that I myself had just compiled) was a trojan and over reacted so hard that it fragged explorer.
Not really, the public accepted this tax in Canada because the way it is done the 10% surcharge basically gives us free license to pirate anything we want without having to worry about it. They can only really successfully prosecute in Canada nowadays if you made money off of your piracy. There is a legal situation where if you are the originator of a file that could be considered to be damaging to the company that you can get charged but basically as long as you're not the originator you're fine.
Also it was a connection over a video game that got me laid to begin with. Without video games I likely would have spent all of my time on maths or programming and not gotten laid for a much longer period of time.
Yes, thats insane. Considering they asked the poll in the worst possible way and they would use any resulting legislation to ban absolutely everything right down to Final Fantasy style violence. I have to say, while I'm not a FF nut and don't play the MMO or anything, my late childhood experience would have been fairly different, and in my opinion worse, if it were not for FF and other games of its kind.
This needs more +1 insightful as well as some +1 informative. This is exactly what would happen. In fact rocket launches already take some advantage of this fact. Going absolutely straight up would cause a whole world of hurt on the vertical frame and require extra fuel. Launching on an angle mitigates this. Basically you're traveling further to get out of the atmosphere but using less energy overall. If ground based launch facilities can get it to 600 m/h and then a scram jet can get it to escape velocity it could be a much much more efficient model.
They've done very little research into the subject other than some launch off the back of a jumbo jet tests over the last 20-30 years. There has to be a better way than just brute force high energy rocket fuel.
IIRC those CPUs have some GPU components built into the die which is why that is possible. In a straight competition on most normal GFX rendering type equations the actual is closer to the 100:1 than 4:1.
Please correct me if I'm wrong. However it very much depends on the equations. There are things that GPUs can do but are bad at and things they can't do at all.
Either way having a good setup to make use of the strengths of both types of processor is going to be the optimal solution.
Uhg, thats not even close to the same. They have physically damaged your property. It will cost you something to fix it. What this is more like is if they like your house for parties and get a copy of your diagrams and build themselves another one just like it to have parties in.
Any revolutionists should be aware that it won't fix everything. The only goal of revolution is to make things better than they are now. If that is accomplished then the revolution is a success.
There have been many revolutions in history. In each case, not everything was fixed, but in many cases things were made better.
Of course, as I said, you have to be certain that the current system is bad enough to warrant the upheaval and the chance that attempting a revolution could just make things worse.
I wish this wasn't modded flamebait. You folks should realize that revolution doesn't necessarily mean flag burning and civil war. It does mean that you have to gather enough popular support to oust the current government though.
Revolution CAN be peaceful. It will always cause upheaval, but if the system is broken enough, it needs to be thrown out and rebuilt.
Not that I'm saying its necessarily time for Americans to do so, or that this is the sort of issue that should cause a revolution, but there are more than just this fellow that seem to feel that one is necessary, on both sides of the political spectrum.
You have no idea how many people that use 802.11 stuff never actually configured it themselves do you? I know at least 5 people off the top of my head that can't/won't configure their routers even with the wizard on the cd.
The whole point of this is that you can streamline it. They can buy skype service right from that wizard and use the cordless phone that came with the router right away. Skype has a good user base yes, but I'm banking on the fact that a lot more people would use it a lot more for telephony service if it was all streamlined.
In response to the Cisco thing, they were looking at doing this awhile ago but couldn't get a deal wherein they had access to the Skype source code to do a custom implementation which was a deal breaker for them. Since they bought Skype thats really not an issue anymore.
The 2/3 rule is not really a good one for IT. A good place to focus is having all or nearly all of the required skills and then go for the ones where they want more experience than you have.
I mean, if I need a multi-functional sysadmin that can build me a network if necessary and code up a few custom applets in Java, the resume is no good to me if he's got networking experience but doesn't list any ability with Java(or failing Java at least a good knowledge of ONE programming language thats similar and could get the job done). However if I get a guy with 6 months experience when I requested 3 years that has both, that resume is still good to follow up on.
The problem with HR and IT is that, as I mentioned before, HR has even less of a clue about IT qualifications than it does about other technical fields. There is some fuzzing that creates a particular kind of laymans clarity with other fields where they understand that an electrical engineer designs circuits and could wire a building. So if they get an app from one that has been in building design for a few years except applied for a position that mostly involved factory power design they would know that the two jobs are similar. Now that doesn't mean he has all of the skills for the factory job, but it gets him past HR because they look "same-ish"
IT on the other hand the requirements that get handed down are always "Java" "Ajax" "C#" ".net" "sql". They either have no idea what these are or a very flawed one. Meaning they either pass on resumes that are actually good or ask questions that are wrong to begin with.
So, you're exactly right. IT is a totally different kettle of fish. The HR department has no idea how a 5 year Senior Sysadmin would possibly have any potentially useful experience in relation to security research. They think they're totally different fields when they could be very closely related depending on where the fellow was working, and he's experienced so he's worth a follow up call at least. The same sort of thing happens in other fields as well, but its much much more pervasive in IT.
The best run large IT department I've seen in a long time was one where the hiring for the IT department was done entirely inside the department. It led to much better candidates getting hired and actually staying on. If you run into one of those in your travels its probably a good place to work.
I hate to be bashing on HR so much but lets face it: Its mostly staffed with folks who did maybe a minor accounting degree or an office admin degree, both of which consist of learning how to use excel, word, and keep track of some finance items. I'm not sure how the world got into such a messed up position that these people are often responsible for the initial screening of new hires for all departments.
The job market actually is pretty good right now in IT but only in very particular fields. Sysadmins and security folks are getting the ax all over the place with the cutbacks. Most companies view both as luxuries, not necessities.
Those doing the hiring need to step back in line with reality.
They've been spoiled for far too long and it needs to stop. Its damn near at the point where its going to have to be legislated into their heads, except theres no real good way to legislate something like that.
The thing is, I put out a sensible ad, and I get 500 resumes. So I can see where they're coming from, as I do the same thing sometimes to reduce the influx of resumes, but they're limiting themselves because some folks won't apply with that big experience barrier as a deterrent.
My best suggestion to this is to send your resume in anyways. If you have all, or even most, of the qualifications other than the experience, just send it in. You may luck out and get someone like me that won't bin it right away.
Actually, the job I currently occupy was looking for 3-5 years more experience than I had, but that didn't stop me.
You're not quite seeing the point I was making. Introverts include that category, but they also include a lot of folks that don't like to socialize outside a few people but are otherwise normal.
You're taking it to a bit of an extreme with saying "No human interaction". Theres a difference between having a skill and liking to use that skill. I myself have at least half decent(in my own opinion of course) social skills, but I usually prefer not to use them as there are often layers of politics that one can never know everything about in complex social interactions and you end up making a wrong step somewhere. Am I good at talking to people and understanding what they want and conveying what I want? Yes. Am I a social person that likes to surround themselves with people quite often? No, but once every month or two going out is nice. Thus I fall into the introvert category, but don't completely lack social skills.
The people you're talking about aren't just introverts they're hermits. I can get good work out of them, but they aren't usually in the top 10% that I'm talking about because most people can't get good work out of them.
The way I was envisioning this was more along the lines of printing a la laser printer style, but I suppose it was a passing fancy and the tech won't be useful for that.
I will settle for Star Trek style tractor beams however.
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A bomb threat with no bomb is the real life equivalent of a DDoS. You've made them so busy responding to something fake that theres a denial of service on their in person business.
I agree. No one should be waving the VA shit around as the main reason for this. Most vets won't care.
My reason for agreeing is a bit different however. In some cases vets may be involved but mostly its the over emotional, strung out folks at home that I think would be a problem.
Thats a sentiment I share at times, but I agree with the decision because it could help prevent some strife in a few families.
Unfortunately for the rest of us there are a lot of over sensitive weak-minded idiots out there. Until we come up with a gene therapy to correct this situation we have to put up with them. I really hope someone is working on that...
This is very much a "Too Soon" situation. In another 30 years(assuming the conflicts end soon) it'll probably be fine. Even in another 10 years. Time does heal all wounds, even if some wounds never fully heal.
For a lot of people however this is much much too soon. There are people still burying dead from these conflicts. Out of respect for those people, I agree with this decision.
On another note, personally, I don't really have a problem with the Taliban being left in, and a lot of younger folks, and a lot of kids that will be playing this game won't think anything of it. Its just another game. The biggest concern will likely be "Are the guns really cool?"
Now put yourselves in the shoes of a mother who recently lost a son, or a nephew or something overseas and finds her other son playing as the "Taliban" in some game online because to him, it doesn't actually mean anything, he's just playing for fun. Words mean a lot to some people, and just to avoid that situation I think this is a good call.
Heck, I heard of a similar situation happening a few years back with a WW2 game, the womans father had died in the war and she was quite upset. Multiply that by a factor of "We just buried him less than a year ago" and then tell me what you think the reaction would have been?
Its pretty easy, everything I have in my home theaters run through a Creative x-fi sound card to get "cleaned" before it actually goes to any speakers/stereo head. I can muck with all of the settings to get exactly the sound levels I want and it prevents the commercials from suddenly deafening me.
It actually fixes the MS error sound too.
Windows 7 decided that an executable that I had on my computer(that I myself had just compiled) was a trojan and over reacted so hard that it fragged explorer.
Fun times for all!
Not really, the public accepted this tax in Canada because the way it is done the 10% surcharge basically gives us free license to pirate anything we want without having to worry about it. They can only really successfully prosecute in Canada nowadays if you made money off of your piracy. There is a legal situation where if you are the originator of a file that could be considered to be damaging to the company that you can get charged but basically as long as you're not the originator you're fine.
Huh, funny how you would jump to that conclusion considering this: http://www.wired.com/gamelife/2007/02/female_gamers_h/
Also it was a connection over a video game that got me laid to begin with. Without video games I likely would have spent all of my time on maths or programming and not gotten laid for a much longer period of time.
Yes, thats insane. Considering they asked the poll in the worst possible way and they would use any resulting legislation to ban absolutely everything right down to Final Fantasy style violence. I have to say, while I'm not a FF nut and don't play the MMO or anything, my late childhood experience would have been fairly different, and in my opinion worse, if it were not for FF and other games of its kind.
This needs more +1 insightful as well as some +1 informative. This is exactly what would happen. In fact rocket launches already take some advantage of this fact. Going absolutely straight up would cause a whole world of hurt on the vertical frame and require extra fuel. Launching on an angle mitigates this. Basically you're traveling further to get out of the atmosphere but using less energy overall. If ground based launch facilities can get it to 600 m/h and then a scram jet can get it to escape velocity it could be a much much more efficient model.
They've done very little research into the subject other than some launch off the back of a jumbo jet tests over the last 20-30 years. There has to be a better way than just brute force high energy rocket fuel.
Does this mean I can finally put my old MOHAA ranks and team leading experience on my resume?
IIRC those CPUs have some GPU components built into the die which is why that is possible. In a straight competition on most normal GFX rendering type equations the actual is closer to the 100:1 than 4:1.
Please correct me if I'm wrong. However it very much depends on the equations. There are things that GPUs can do but are bad at and things they can't do at all.
Either way having a good setup to make use of the strengths of both types of processor is going to be the optimal solution.
Quick! Someone alert 4chan!
Uhg, thats not even close to the same. They have physically damaged your property. It will cost you something to fix it. What this is more like is if they like your house for parties and get a copy of your diagrams and build themselves another one just like it to have parties in.
Depends where you are. In Canada, at least, this is the case. There are similar laws in a few states I've heard.
Any revolutionists should be aware that it won't fix everything. The only goal of revolution is to make things better than they are now. If that is accomplished then the revolution is a success.
There have been many revolutions in history. In each case, not everything was fixed, but in many cases things were made better.
Of course, as I said, you have to be certain that the current system is bad enough to warrant the upheaval and the chance that attempting a revolution could just make things worse.
I wish this wasn't modded flamebait. You folks should realize that revolution doesn't necessarily mean flag burning and civil war. It does mean that you have to gather enough popular support to oust the current government though.
Revolution CAN be peaceful. It will always cause upheaval, but if the system is broken enough, it needs to be thrown out and rebuilt.
Not that I'm saying its necessarily time for Americans to do so, or that this is the sort of issue that should cause a revolution, but there are more than just this fellow that seem to feel that one is necessary, on both sides of the political spectrum.
I hadn't, but I have now. I was expecting NSFW to be honest. I was mildly disappointed but I did stop for a second to admire her large... dimples.
You have no idea how many people that use 802.11 stuff never actually configured it themselves do you? I know at least 5 people off the top of my head that can't/won't configure their routers even with the wizard on the cd.
The whole point of this is that you can streamline it. They can buy skype service right from that wizard and use the cordless phone that came with the router right away. Skype has a good user base yes, but I'm banking on the fact that a lot more people would use it a lot more for telephony service if it was all streamlined.
In response to the Cisco thing, they were looking at doing this awhile ago but couldn't get a deal wherein they had access to the Skype source code to do a custom implementation which was a deal breaker for them. Since they bought Skype thats really not an issue anymore.
The 2/3 rule is not really a good one for IT. A good place to focus is having all or nearly all of the required skills and then go for the ones where they want more experience than you have.
I mean, if I need a multi-functional sysadmin that can build me a network if necessary and code up a few custom applets in Java, the resume is no good to me if he's got networking experience but doesn't list any ability with Java(or failing Java at least a good knowledge of ONE programming language thats similar and could get the job done). However if I get a guy with 6 months experience when I requested 3 years that has both, that resume is still good to follow up on.
The problem with HR and IT is that, as I mentioned before, HR has even less of a clue about IT qualifications than it does about other technical fields. There is some fuzzing that creates a particular kind of laymans clarity with other fields where they understand that an electrical engineer designs circuits and could wire a building. So if they get an app from one that has been in building design for a few years except applied for a position that mostly involved factory power design they would know that the two jobs are similar. Now that doesn't mean he has all of the skills for the factory job, but it gets him past HR because they look "same-ish"
IT on the other hand the requirements that get handed down are always "Java" "Ajax" "C#" ".net" "sql". They either have no idea what these are or a very flawed one. Meaning they either pass on resumes that are actually good or ask questions that are wrong to begin with.
So, you're exactly right. IT is a totally different kettle of fish. The HR department has no idea how a 5 year Senior Sysadmin would possibly have any potentially useful experience in relation to security research. They think they're totally different fields when they could be very closely related depending on where the fellow was working, and he's experienced so he's worth a follow up call at least. The same sort of thing happens in other fields as well, but its much much more pervasive in IT.
The best run large IT department I've seen in a long time was one where the hiring for the IT department was done entirely inside the department. It led to much better candidates getting hired and actually staying on. If you run into one of those in your travels its probably a good place to work.
I hate to be bashing on HR so much but lets face it: Its mostly staffed with folks who did maybe a minor accounting degree or an office admin degree, both of which consist of learning how to use excel, word, and keep track of some finance items. I'm not sure how the world got into such a messed up position that these people are often responsible for the initial screening of new hires for all departments.
The job market actually is pretty good right now in IT but only in very particular fields. Sysadmins and security folks are getting the ax all over the place with the cutbacks. Most companies view both as luxuries, not necessities.
Its not even Dildo Run, its just Dildo. In fact there are two Dildos, North Dildo and South Dildo if you want to get particular about it.
Also at the time it was named a Dildo wasn't what it is now, but using the name Dildo for what it is now is very fitting.
Also repeat Playboy Playmate Shannon Tweed is from Dildo, Newfoundland.
Those doing the hiring need to step back in line with reality.
They've been spoiled for far too long and it needs to stop. Its damn near at the point where its going to have to be legislated into their heads, except theres no real good way to legislate something like that.
The thing is, I put out a sensible ad, and I get 500 resumes. So I can see where they're coming from, as I do the same thing sometimes to reduce the influx of resumes, but they're limiting themselves because some folks won't apply with that big experience barrier as a deterrent.
My best suggestion to this is to send your resume in anyways. If you have all, or even most, of the qualifications other than the experience, just send it in. You may luck out and get someone like me that won't bin it right away.
Actually, the job I currently occupy was looking for 3-5 years more experience than I had, but that didn't stop me.
You're not quite seeing the point I was making. Introverts include that category, but they also include a lot of folks that don't like to socialize outside a few people but are otherwise normal.
You're taking it to a bit of an extreme with saying "No human interaction". Theres a difference between having a skill and liking to use that skill. I myself have at least half decent(in my own opinion of course) social skills, but I usually prefer not to use them as there are often layers of politics that one can never know everything about in complex social interactions and you end up making a wrong step somewhere. Am I good at talking to people and understanding what they want and conveying what I want? Yes. Am I a social person that likes to surround themselves with people quite often? No, but once every month or two going out is nice. Thus I fall into the introvert category, but don't completely lack social skills.
The people you're talking about aren't just introverts they're hermits. I can get good work out of them, but they aren't usually in the top 10% that I'm talking about because most people can't get good work out of them.
The way I was envisioning this was more along the lines of printing a la laser printer style, but I suppose it was a passing fancy and the tech won't be useful for that.
I will settle for Star Trek style tractor beams however.