I assume (from the CCIE) that you've spent some time in industry before going back to school.
I'm planning to go for an MSc and then hopefully a PhD starting from next year after more than a decade as a network engineer - I'd love to hear more about your experience of the PhD
Good luck with the defence!
How would an MBA help with the submitter's goal of moving towards skunkworks development?
I'm not being sarcastic here - on the face of it I can't see an MBA making him/her more desirable for those type of jobs, where as even if a PhD didn't help directly it would help with networking with the people involved in that kind of development.
Also, if he's sure he wants the PhD, it's not like getting the MS will shorten his PhD appreciably, if at all. If I were mid career, I would definitely not waste time on an MS if the PhD is what is desired.
I'm in a similar position to the submitter - I'm planning on doing some postgraduate study after 12 years in industry.
I know that US degree programs are slightly different to the ones here in the UK (taught PhDs are very rare, if they exist at all here,) but the advice I've been getting is that doing a master's first is the best way to go as it will teach the research skills required to do the doctorate.
It will also help with the "letter of recommendation" problem.
We, the geeks and the nerds, are supposed to be the ones smart enough to fix problems.
There are probably no frat-boy websites full of frat-boys worrying about whether women are being pushed away from the frat-boy community because they don't see it as a problem to be fixed.
We do. We give a damn and see this as a problem and so we talk about it and try to find a solution.
The messages sent to Tom Daley were an example of massive douchebaggery, but some of the other tweets on this guys feed look like they could be bullying and fall foul of all sorts of laws.
I think you parsed that sentence incorrectly.
"the law doesn't require threats of violence for an arrest to be made" - i.e. an arrest can be made even if no threat of violence has been made. If a threat of violence has been made then an arrest can also be made.
There are a whole bunch of problems with net biasedness (or whatever the opposite of net neutrality is):
1) It creates a barrier to entry for new websites. They don't need to just technically match the competition, they also need to pay the ISPs not to throttle them.
2) It's easy enough to say that changing ISP will work, but that's only the case if net biassedness doesn't become required for ISPs to survive as a business. It is possible that every ISP would end up having to strike deals with sites in order to be able to charge something in the same ballpark as the competition.
3) If (2) happens, then I could definitely foresee the problem for consumers where it is impossible to get a single ISP with acceptable connections to all the sites you'd want to visit. Imagine if one condition of the BBC's bias agreement was that you weren't allowed to have a similar agreement with Netflix; one condition of Sky's agreement was that you couldn't have a similar agreement with the BBC; one condition of Netflix's agreement was that you couldn't have a similar agreement with Lovefilm (which would mean Amazon)... can you see where this would end up? Customers being forced to sign up to several different ISPs in order to get good connections to all major sites.
The command line is not particularly friendly for a new user
However, it is probably THE best tool for giving instructions because everything is exactly the same. A large proportion of command line instructions can be completed by opening a terminal and copy and pasting the entire set of commands. If you were describing which GUI buttons to press, these can change with different locale settings and the like.
The instructions for accomplishing tasks using the command line will also change less from version to version than GUIs do.
The UK government has been blocking newspapers from printing things they consider inconvenient for many years and they want the same power over the web.
I assume you mean DA-Notices?
These don't actually block a newspaper from publishing anything - they basically say "Dear editor, be an awfully good chap and don't publish that."
Of course, you could be talking about the super-mega-injunctions which anyone can get (provided they can afford the right law firm) to stifle inconvenient facts from being published. And as Ryan Giggs knows, those are really effective.
The UK doesn't have a written constitution like the US.
The closest thing we have to the Bill Of Rights is the Human Rights Act, but there is widespread opposition to it based on the fact that it gives rights to prisoners, foreigners and other folks who seem a bit shifty. That enshrines a right to freedom of expression, but provides exceptions "for the protection of health or morals" which I guess would allow this law.
Even in the US, it could be argued that this isn't censorship since you can choose not to be censored (and it could be argued that forcing someone to put their name down on a government list of Men Who Want To Look At Wimmen Nekkid to avoid the censorship is in itself a form of censorship - but that's for the courts to decide and not a random/. commenter)
Agreed. I've personally stopped DDoS attacks (the attack was coming from many sources - and therefore was distributed, and was stopping the customer's web server from responding - and therefore was a denial of service) by running Squid as a reverse proxy in front of the web server. In this case it was IIS which was being brought down by just 10Mb of malicious traffic.
Yes, running a reverse proxy or changing Apache to nginx isn't going to solve 40Gb/s traffic hitting your 1Gb/s interface, but it may well fix a small attack which is depleting resources.
Maybe, maybe not. I've never been to LA, and wouldn't volunteer for this without getting a feel for the place, but a lot of dangerous places aren't as dangerous if you're passing through and not involved in any of the local disputes.
If I didn't go, it would be because it wasn't safe for me. Not because the people had a different colour skin. I'd react the same way to any place that wasn't safe.
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Do you think that doctors don't have "dumb patient" stories? That mechanics don't have "dumb owner" stories? That economists don't sit and laugh about how idiots don't understand the difference between commodities and bonds?
I think the big problem is that they have been VERY open giving us the best information they had at the time.
If they'd kept quiet, it would not have looked so bad.
There's a difference between misinformation and things changing.
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It's more complicated than that. Red pills work better than blue pills for treating some symptoms, blue better than red for treating others.
You don't think that the media is bought up by the mega rich? Seriously? It is and it has been for hundreds of years.
I assume (from the CCIE) that you've spent some time in industry before going back to school.
I'm planning to go for an MSc and then hopefully a PhD starting from next year after more than a decade as a network engineer - I'd love to hear more about your experience of the PhD
Good luck with the defence!
How would an MBA help with the submitter's goal of moving towards skunkworks development?
I'm not being sarcastic here - on the face of it I can't see an MBA making him/her more desirable for those type of jobs, where as even if a PhD didn't help directly it would help with networking with the people involved in that kind of development.
Also, if he's sure he wants the PhD, it's not like getting the MS will shorten his PhD appreciably, if at all. If I were mid career, I would definitely not waste time on an MS if the PhD is what is desired.
I'm in a similar position to the submitter - I'm planning on doing some postgraduate study after 12 years in industry.
I know that US degree programs are slightly different to the ones here in the UK (taught PhDs are very rare, if they exist at all here,) but the advice I've been getting is that doing a master's first is the best way to go as it will teach the research skills required to do the doctorate.
It will also help with the "letter of recommendation" problem.
We, the geeks and the nerds, are supposed to be the ones smart enough to fix problems.
There are probably no frat-boy websites full of frat-boys worrying about whether women are being pushed away from the frat-boy community because they don't see it as a problem to be fixed.
We do. We give a damn and see this as a problem and so we talk about it and try to find a solution.
Oh, for an "I wish it weren't true" moderation.
The messages sent to Tom Daley were an example of massive douchebaggery, but some of the other tweets on this guys feed look like they could be bullying and fall foul of all sorts of laws.
I think you parsed that sentence incorrectly.
"the law doesn't require threats of violence for an arrest to be made" - i.e. an arrest can be made even if no threat of violence has been made. If a threat of violence has been made then an arrest can also be made.
Have you any evidence that this has not already happened?
Easy solution: Don't venture outside!
There are a whole bunch of problems with net biasedness (or whatever the opposite of net neutrality is):
1) It creates a barrier to entry for new websites. They don't need to just technically match the competition, they also need to pay the ISPs not to throttle them.
2) It's easy enough to say that changing ISP will work, but that's only the case if net biassedness doesn't become required for ISPs to survive as a business. It is possible that every ISP would end up having to strike deals with sites in order to be able to charge something in the same ballpark as the competition.
3) If (2) happens, then I could definitely foresee the problem for consumers where it is impossible to get a single ISP with acceptable connections to all the sites you'd want to visit. Imagine if one condition of the BBC's bias agreement was that you weren't allowed to have a similar agreement with Netflix; one condition of Sky's agreement was that you couldn't have a similar agreement with the BBC; one condition of Netflix's agreement was that you couldn't have a similar agreement with Lovefilm (which would mean Amazon)... can you see where this would end up? Customers being forced to sign up to several different ISPs in order to get good connections to all major sites.
The command line is not particularly friendly for a new user
However, it is probably THE best tool for giving instructions because everything is exactly the same. A large proportion of command line instructions can be completed by opening a terminal and copy and pasting the entire set of commands. If you were describing which GUI buttons to press, these can change with different locale settings and the like.
The instructions for accomplishing tasks using the command line will also change less from version to version than GUIs do.
The UK government has been blocking newspapers from printing things they consider inconvenient for many years and they want the same power over the web.
I assume you mean DA-Notices?
These don't actually block a newspaper from publishing anything - they basically say "Dear editor, be an awfully good chap and don't publish that."
Of course, you could be talking about the super-mega-injunctions which anyone can get (provided they can afford the right law firm) to stifle inconvenient facts from being published. And as Ryan Giggs knows, those are really effective.
The UK doesn't have a written constitution like the US.
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The closest thing we have to the Bill Of Rights is the Human Rights Act, but there is widespread opposition to it based on the fact that it gives rights to prisoners, foreigners and other folks who seem a bit shifty. That enshrines a right to freedom of expression, but provides exceptions "for the protection of health or morals" which I guess would allow this law.
Even in the US, it could be argued that this isn't censorship since you can choose not to be censored (and it could be argued that forcing someone to put their name down on a government list of Men Who Want To Look At Wimmen Nekkid to avoid the censorship is in itself a form of censorship - but that's for the courts to decide and not a random
From how I read it the problem isn't that they don't have the shifts, it's that the shift workers may not be able to get into or home from work.
This is simply risk management. There is a risk that staff might have trouble commuting, so they are mitigating that risk.
Who becomes US president matters to just about everyone around the world. Even nerds.
News? Check.
For nerds? Check.
Stuff that matters? Check.
The left wants to piss it away on people who are "disadvantaged" and the right wants to siphon it off to military contractors they own shares in.
FTFY
FTSMFY
Agreed. I've personally stopped DDoS attacks (the attack was coming from many sources - and therefore was distributed, and was stopping the customer's web server from responding - and therefore was a denial of service) by running Squid as a reverse proxy in front of the web server. In this case it was IIS which was being brought down by just 10Mb of malicious traffic. Yes, running a reverse proxy or changing Apache to nginx isn't going to solve 40Gb/s traffic hitting your 1Gb/s interface, but it may well fix a small attack which is depleting resources.
Maybe, maybe not. I've never been to LA, and wouldn't volunteer for this without getting a feel for the place, but a lot of dangerous places aren't as dangerous if you're passing through and not involved in any of the local disputes. If I didn't go, it would be because it wasn't safe for me. Not because the people had a different colour skin. I'd react the same way to any place that wasn't safe.
Do you think that doctors don't have "dumb patient" stories? That mechanics don't have "dumb owner" stories? That economists don't sit and laugh about how idiots don't understand the difference between commodities and bonds?
Really?
Does that mean that in future the lights will stay on when you close the fridge door? That destroys everything I thought I knew!
I think the big problem is that they have been VERY open giving us the best information they had at the time.
If they'd kept quiet, it would not have looked so bad.
There's a difference between misinformation and things changing.
In Soviet Slashdot, site LOLs you.
Some work was done a few years back, but since then it's stalled. However, some of the components in the Zen are used in other players, so someone sufficiently motivated may be able to get the Zen working. See http://forums.rockbox.org/index.php/topic,13462.msg186823.html#msg186823