Your comments make you sound eliteist. "Programming" encompasses more than writing computer instructions with a given lanuage (Python, Java, C, etc.). I can agree that "Programming" the layout of a page using HTML is completely different than writing a program that renders that page, but the is no need to be a dick about it.
It occurs to me (aas it should have LONG ago) that when something secret becomes more and more "known" that it is being used as a distraction to help hide the newer "really secret" secret.
What I am saying is that the NSA is a decoy. Who and what is the new intelligence organization?
The majority of input energy would be solar, growing the plants. the machinery used to harvest and transport it wouild run on electriciy and fuel cells just like everything else. It is just a matter of A) generating enough plant matter, and B) getting the infrastructure to critical mass to become sel sustaining.
Sure, it sounds far fetched. But hey, you have to start some where some time. Right?
No it isn't, but you have conveniently missed part of the equation. How many human lives has uncontrolled drug use claimed?
I completely agree that there are a number of recreational drugs that should have no more control and oversight than cigarettes and alcohol (which are also deadly), but some should. I could care less if someone I know and care about smokes marijuana, but I feel much differently about methamphetamines. I may be wrong but doesn't it seem likely that if the less harmful drugs were more available then the more harmful ones would be less prevalent?
I saw this discussion on another site and someone asked 'Why can they make rock solid tamper proof slot machines but not voting machines?' I realize they are not the same animal but the concepts of security and tampering must be very similar.
I prefer to tell them what I actually charge for services; if they still want my help then its worth my time. I've gotten to the point where I don't do "free" work, if I do any pro-bono work there is some other significant compensation for me.
I don't care if anyone tracks my preferences or shopping history. What I care about is; 'Is that information "Personally Identifiable"?' In other words its not that they know what I do, its do they know, specifically, who I am.
I am all for research and marketing to tune products and advertising, but they don't need to know my name or various identifiers to do it.
I thought they determined that this was about more than shifting floor mats; that there is a legitimate problem with the software. You could experience this problem WITHOUT floormats in your car.
I don't drive a Toyota and if I did I could not afford one new enough to have this problem anyway.
I did not complete a college degree. And even if I had it would not have been in CS or any computer related program. I have a good job as a sysadmin for a small business. Actually I am more than the sysadmin, I am the whole computer department, we only have about 55 users. Everything I know I learned as a hobbyist and on the job.
That said, I was lucky to connect with my employer, it was a chance recommendation, I am under-paid by about 20% per local and industry standards, and I am skeptical of finding comparable employment if I choose to leave. Although experience is worth far more than a degree.
If you can get a degree, do it. Period. It can only hurt you if A) you go way overboard in debt, and/or B) you go WAYYY overboard and overeducate yourself. You don't want to appear to be above the jobs you want to get.
Its not an easy sell but IT and more so security is an insurance policy. If you can demonstrate the cost of a failure or loss due to lack of IT and or security it is a lot easier for bean counter to swallow. I have always wanted to ask the guy who is trying to cut my budget if he carries health insurance. Because if he really follows his logic he could not possibly justify the cost.
Aside from any reasons that may be brought up to be annoyed with Breathed, his comics or his politics, Opus and Bloom County made me laugh HYSTERICALLY at things I did not even understand or knew I should be aware of. That is what I think makes a good comic or cartoon. A mix of simple funny and satire can bring smiles to both those in the know and those who just like to watch.
As rsmith-mac and I am sure many others have said:
"The W3C needs to separate authentication and encryption in the standards themselves, that's the only proper and safe way to change things."
How often do we find that it actuallyworks better to "kill two birds with one stone?"
Make each work on its own. They both serve a different need.
Is it really the best use of gov't resources and tax dollars to protect profit margins of industries that fail to innovate and develop new revenue streams? I am all for protecting the property of the content creators but we all know that if it was about that then this would not even be on the table. It is being driven... pushed... shoved by corporate interests not individual content creators.
I of course have absolutely no factual research to back my statements so someone, someone credible, please prove me wrong.
Why does the recording industry choose to alienate customers and potential customers by clinging to and archaic, outmoded, business model instead of trying to take advantage of opportunity and develop a new and better system that could benefit them and the customer AND the artists? Are they lazy?, greedy?, both? Or are they just plain mean?
I admit it. I did NOT read the article, or even the post. I stopped at the healine; "Consumer Electronics Cuasing the 'Death of Childhood'?"
NO.
Parents are causing it.
By not parenting.
Be INVOLVED in your children's lives! Help them learn to know how to use tools and toys RESPONSIBLY. Be RESPONSIBLE and provide your child with a VARIETY of interactive tools, include books and Lego's and action figures and Hot-Wheels to their world and put limits on the amount of time they spend with ANY of them.
Having read only the Slashdot post my immediate reaction is that the proposed idea will not deter not punish the individuals or groups that the bill's author or the Atty. General claim to be targeting. All "bark" no "bite", unless you are one of the poor unwitting saps that gets snagged in this trap that is more dangerous to the IP holder's fans and consumers than it is to the supposed criminals and "terrorists."
--C
Slashdot Mirror
Your comments make you sound eliteist. "Programming" encompasses more than writing computer instructions with a given lanuage (Python, Java, C, etc.). I can agree that "Programming" the layout of a page using HTML is completely different than writing a program that renders that page, but the is no need to be a dick about it.
This doesn't really change your point but you do realize that 75 years ago there were fewer than HALF the people than are around now.
It occurs to me (aas it should have LONG ago) that when something secret becomes more and more "known" that it is being used as a distraction to help hide the newer "really secret" secret.
What I am saying is that the NSA is a decoy. Who and what is the new intelligence organization?
http://www.gog.com/games#%23sy...
There is a menu bar right next to the search box labeled "Filter"
The majority of input energy would be solar, growing the plants. the machinery used to harvest and transport it wouild run on electriciy and fuel cells just like everything else. It is just a matter of A) generating enough plant matter, and B) getting the infrastructure to critical mass to become sel sustaining.
Sure, it sounds far fetched. But hey, you have to start some where some time. Right?
No it isn't, but you have conveniently missed part of the equation. How many human lives has uncontrolled drug use claimed?
I completely agree that there are a number of recreational drugs that should have no more control and oversight than cigarettes and alcohol (which are also deadly), but some should. I could care less if someone I know and care about smokes marijuana, but I feel much differently about methamphetamines. I may be wrong but doesn't it seem likely that if the less harmful drugs were more available then the more harmful ones would be less prevalent?
It IS incompetence; It is incompetence of the employer.
I thought educational use was exempt from copyright restrictions.
When any version of a truth is used to deceive it is nothing more than a lie.
For residential I like solar produced hydrogen powered mini-turbines. Individual or neighborhood sized units.
Alas I am not a physicist or an engineer.
They want to negotiate terms and fees for the use of scare tactics like "The Red Menace is among us!"
I saw this discussion on another site and someone asked 'Why can they make rock solid tamper proof slot machines but not voting machines?' I realize they are not the same animal but the concepts of security and tampering must be very similar.
I prefer to tell them what I actually charge for services; if they still want my help then its worth my time. I've gotten to the point where I don't do "free" work, if I do any pro-bono work there is some other significant compensation for me.
I don't care if anyone tracks my preferences or shopping history. What I care about is; 'Is that information "Personally Identifiable"?' In other words its not that they know what I do, its do they know, specifically, who I am.
I am all for research and marketing to tune products and advertising, but they don't need to know my name or various identifiers to do it.
I thought they determined that this was about more than shifting floor mats; that there is a legitimate problem with the software. You could experience this problem WITHOUT floormats in your car.
I don't drive a Toyota and if I did I could not afford one new enough to have this problem anyway.
http://www.vbulletin.com/
I did not complete a college degree. And even if I had it would not have been in CS or any computer related program. I have a good job as a sysadmin for a small business. Actually I am more than the sysadmin, I am the whole computer department, we only have about 55 users. Everything I know I learned as a hobbyist and on the job.
That said, I was lucky to connect with my employer, it was a chance recommendation, I am under-paid by about 20% per local and industry standards, and I am skeptical of finding comparable employment if I choose to leave. Although experience is worth far more than a degree.
If you can get a degree, do it. Period. It can only hurt you if A) you go way overboard in debt, and/or B) you go WAYYY overboard and overeducate yourself. You don't want to appear to be above the jobs you want to get.
Its not an easy sell but IT and more so security is an insurance policy. If you can demonstrate the cost of a failure or loss due to lack of IT and or security it is a lot easier for bean counter to swallow. I have always wanted to ask the guy who is trying to cut my budget if he carries health insurance. Because if he really follows his logic he could not possibly justify the cost.
"Pear pimples for hairy fish nuts?"
Aside from any reasons that may be brought up to be annoyed with Breathed, his comics or his politics, Opus and Bloom County made me laugh HYSTERICALLY at things I did not even understand or knew I should be aware of. That is what I think makes a good comic or cartoon. A mix of simple funny and satire can bring smiles to both those in the know and those who just like to watch.
Coreigh
As rsmith-mac and I am sure many others have said:
"The W3C needs to separate authentication and encryption in the standards themselves, that's the only proper and safe way to change things."
How often do we find that it actually works better to "kill two birds with one stone?"
Make each work on its own. They both serve a different need.
Is it really the best use of gov't resources and tax dollars to protect profit margins of industries that fail to innovate and develop new revenue streams? I am all for protecting the property of the content creators but we all know that if it was about that then this would not even be on the table. It is being driven... pushed ... shoved by corporate interests not individual content creators.
I of course have absolutely no factual research to back my statements so someone, someone credible, please prove me wrong.
Coreigh
Why does the recording industry choose to alienate customers and potential customers by clinging to and archaic, outmoded, business model instead of trying to take advantage of opportunity and develop a new and better system that could benefit them and the customer AND the artists? Are they lazy?, greedy?, both? Or are they just plain mean?
We're whalers on the moon,
We carry a harpoon.
But there ain't no whales
So we tell tall tales
And sing our whaling tune.
I admit it. I did NOT read the article, or even the post. I stopped at the healine; "Consumer Electronics Cuasing the 'Death of Childhood'?"
NO.
Parents are causing it.
By not parenting.
Be INVOLVED in your children's lives! Help them learn to know how to use tools and toys RESPONSIBLY. Be RESPONSIBLE and provide your child with a VARIETY of interactive tools, include books and Lego's and action figures and Hot-Wheels to their world and put limits on the amount of time they spend with ANY of them.
Having read only the Slashdot post my immediate reaction is that the proposed idea will not deter not punish the individuals or groups that the bill's author or the Atty. General claim to be targeting. All "bark" no "bite", unless you are one of the poor unwitting saps that gets snagged in this trap that is more dangerous to the IP holder's fans and consumers than it is to the supposed criminals and "terrorists." --C