They pay taxes (sales tax and the federal taxes deducted from their paychecks
Do you have evidence of illegal immigrants getting an actual paycheck with federal taxes withheld? I have lived around various groups of illegal immigrants (crop workers in southern Georgia, construction workers in Atlanta). To the best of my knowledge, all of them were paid in cash, with no taxes being taken from their wages.
Being a consultant, I carry my own insurance. I know it seems like a pain, but it is quite easy. I used ehealthinsurance to find a policy that fit my needs.
One thing to ask yourself is, "how much do I get sick?" If you're single and rarely visit a doctor, a very simple policy could be good for you.
The company that employs me as a consultant offers health insurance. For me being single, it would cost $65 a week, for a minimum expenditure of $3380/year. The policy I have costs $130 every three months, for a minimum expenditure of $520/year.
But, the coverage isn't that great. The policy covers zero percent of the first $2000, then eighty percent of the next $8000 and everything after that each calendar year. So if I became really ill, I'm looking to pay $2000 (1st $2000) + $1600 (20% of 2K to 10K) + $520 (yearly premium) for a grand total of $4120.
I've been working for this company for about a year and a half. I've been to the doctor once, with the visit + meds costing about $250. Add that to six premiums, and my total output comes to about $1030. If I had paid for my "employer provided" health care, I would have already spent over $5000 plus any co-payments.
Now there is the fact that the "employer provided" healthcare is paid for by pre-tax dollars and I'm paying after taxes, but the difference unless I become quite ill still doesn't matter.
I'm in the middle of Mastering Regular Expressions from the O'Reilly series is actually a fairly engaging book and is a great reference on the subject. It is written in a way that will keep you just past the edge of understanding throughout the book. By that, I mean that if you are paying attention, you will be thinking about what the auther is about to cover before each topic is introduced.
From the classics section, I would recommend Love in the Time of Cholera by Gabriel Garcia Marquez. It is an involved read, but a great story by a masterful author.
For a cool geek-type fiction book, I would recommend Timequake by Kurt Vonnegut. I personally like Vonnegut's style, so I've appreciated all of his books, but that one has some quality that seems to fit the/. crowd.
For good quick-reading mystery/suspense fiction, I would recommend The First Horseman by John Case. It's interesting and hits home in that it isn't too far from reality.
Finally, for something that is just chilling (and wickedly gross at some points) check out The Hot Zone by Richard Preston. It follows the story of an Ebola outbreak with extremely vivid detail.
I am not saying that a self-taught person cannot be as capable or moreso that a university experienced person. What I am saying is that on balance, the number of very poor self-taught people far outweighs the number of very good self-taught people.
And I'll say that the number of very poor(skill wise) people with degrees (even graduate degrees) far outweighs the number of very good people with degrees.
I'm a network engineer. I've been doing this for almost eight years. I have a degree BS degree in Physics (although I'm currently in a program for a MS in CS). I've never had a formal networking class, or any training related to network gear.
Would you hire me for a networking job? From your standards, probably not. What does my current boss think? I'm the best hire he has ever made. Am I the best Cisco engineer in the world? No. Am I able to think critically and solve problems, even if I don't know all the answers myself? Yes.
You must examine people for jobs, not resumes. Making blanket decrees like that will limit your candidate pool, but not in the manner you are looking for. You still get loads of crap resumes, and now you've filtered out a whole group of people just because of a piece of paper that they don't have.
"After this wondrous event, we all gathered at my co-founder Bounthanh's parents' house," Thorn said. "There her dying father, Pone, told us that he wanted us to launch before June 1, before the rainy season. He said he wanted to talk with his daughter in Canada before he died."
Yeah, it really stinks when technology is able to give someone their dying wish.
Did you read the article? (like that's ever happened) This isn't just Internet access, it will also provide phone service as well.
The people of Phon Kham seem (at least from the article) seem to be in favor of the project. Has anyone ever thrown you an all day water buffalo barbeque and beer bash? Didn't think so.
I just started a Master's program in CS that is specialized in information security. One of the options for degree completion is a thesis.
From the formal side of things, I am new to information security. I have been doing applied security work for about three years. I would really like the challenge of writing a thesis, but so far I haven't come up with anything.
Here are my requirements: I want the topic to be challenging, I want it to be within the grasp of a Master's level understanding of information security, and I want it to be valuable to the community.
Are there any areas or topics that need to be addressed but have not? Is there something the community needs but has not yet received? If background info helps, I really enjoy picking apart IP traffic, and have some interest in fractals from a mathematic perspective.
Also, I'd like to say thanks for the links on your site. I now have tons more reading material.
cause I don't have one, and the title is a red-bar
Try moving towards the screen really fast. It should look green then. Of course, make sure you stop before you run into the screen, because a collision with a monitor at speeds close to the speed of light might hurt.
I like the nicotine. The carcinogens are what I'd like to see removed. Get me a cigarette that is loaded with nicotine, makes my breath smell good, helps me loose weight and makes me smarter. Then I will consider it a feat of genetic engineering.
Generally physicists have a need to make sure that all participating parties understand the theories involved in an activity before said theories are used in practice. Maybe she doesn't trust your knowledge of the subject matter . . .
I actually worked for a paging company one time, and we routinely had issues with this. Most of the time it was a fax machine that would get a hold of a pager number and keep retrying every five minutes until the sender realized that they had dialed the wrong number or the fax machine just gave up. The simplest solution was to change the pager number. Of course, that was easy for us as we were part of the paging company.
In the case of pagers, the technology being used to accept incoming calls is generally very old. Some of the production equipment when I worked there was older than me. AFAIK, there was no way to block an incoming phone call on those units.
And for the email gateway to the pagers, I wouldn't expect that your paging carrier could block incoming emails from a specific address either. The application that did the translation for us barely ran. The guy who wrote it seriously thought that if his code compiled without any errors that it was fine to move into production.
Larry Elder has commented on similar findings. In fact, it's one of the chapters in his book The Ten Things You Can't Say in America. The specific chapter is #10: Gun Control Advocates--Good Guys with Blood on Their Hands.
While you might not agree with Larry politically, he makes good points. It is a very interesting read.
Maybe I dont understand, but diameter is a measurement of width. Maybe 3.5 feet tall or thick? Or am I missing something?
I was thinking of the magnet standing on its side, so that I could be rolled. If you were rolling the magnet down a hall, the area in front of you would be 3.5 feet wide. If the magnet was sitting with one of the circular ends on the the ground, it would be 3.5 feet tall. Hope that clears up the confusion.
Anyone else happen to have a 4600 lb. magnet lying around?
When I was in school, one of my professors (the guy who's work is talked about in this/. article) told me this story about a large magnet. Keep in mind, I'm recalling this from memory, and I was in college when it was told to me. Therefore, it is an approximation of the actual events that took place.
A large cylindrical magnet was being delivered to a second floor lab. By large I mean 5 feet in diameter and 3.5 feet wide. Because of university policy, the university maintence crew was to move the magnet to its final destination. After getting it onto the service elevator, they arrived on the second floor.
From the service elevator, the magnet had to move almost the length of the building, turn a corner, and go about another twenty feet to the lab. The three men moving the magnet got it out of the elevator, and started down the hall.
Being a large heavy object, they had to push really hard to get it moving. They kept pushing really hard all the way down the hall. Not being physicists, they assumed that the magnet would stop rolling when they stoped pushing. They were quite wrong. Not only did the magnet not stop when they stopped pushing, but it didn't stop when it hit the wall of the corner room. The exterior wall of the building didn't stop it either. It came to rest embeded deep in the ground outside the lab.
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So what else, besides freesco and ipcop is everyone using for routers? (free/legal options only;)
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I use the NetBSD Firewall Project. It works great for me (P100, 24MB of ram). If I ever get a UPS, the only time I see rebooting it is when it's time to install a new version of the OS. It's very simple to setup, and you can get the hang of administering it with little effort.
They dont let you have the password to the Cisco router which YOU have bought from them - meaning you cant use the second line or easily connect it to a h232 gatekeeper to do intelligent things with.
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Did you try "cisco"? When I had DSL service in Cincinnati, OH all the DSL modems had a password of cisco. That, and the password encryption that was used to store the password in the config was ROT-13. So if you could put a console on it and do the control-break startup procedure (don't know if it works on that model), you could probably decrypt the password.
I would suggest a modification of C. Hot water will cook the outside of your food before the inside thaws. I use lukewarm (room temp.) water. The problem you have is that you need to make sure the water stays about room temp. If you have 4 frozen chicken breasts in a good size bowl, the water temp will get fairly low (~45F) fairly quickly. If you replace the water with roomtemp water every 5 min or so (or just leave the water running, but that's wasteful), your food will thaw more quickly, and it won't be precooked either.
Six Sigma is a maximum of 3.4 defects per million. So converting to uptime would be.
Uptime percent = 100*(1 - 3.4*10^-6) = 99.99966
After we take off the literal filter, I'd have to say that was a pretty funny comment. Just hoping to add a little connection to the Six Sigma to Five Nines relationship.
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Do you have evidence of illegal immigrants getting an actual paycheck with federal taxes withheld? I have lived around various groups of illegal immigrants (crop workers in southern Georgia, construction workers in Atlanta). To the best of my knowledge, all of them were paid in cash, with no taxes being taken from their wages.
One thing to ask yourself is, "how much do I get sick?" If you're single and rarely visit a doctor, a very simple policy could be good for you.
The company that employs me as a consultant offers health insurance. For me being single, it would cost $65 a week, for a minimum expenditure of $3380/year. The policy I have costs $130 every three months, for a minimum expenditure of $520/year.
But, the coverage isn't that great. The policy covers zero percent of the first $2000, then eighty percent of the next $8000 and everything after that each calendar year. So if I became really ill, I'm looking to pay $2000 (1st $2000) + $1600 (20% of 2K to 10K) + $520 (yearly premium) for a grand total of $4120.
I've been working for this company for about a year and a half. I've been to the doctor once, with the visit + meds costing about $250. Add that to six premiums, and my total output comes to about $1030. If I had paid for my "employer provided" health care, I would have already spent over $5000 plus any co-payments.
Now there is the fact that the "employer provided" healthcare is paid for by pre-tax dollars and I'm paying after taxes, but the difference unless I become quite ill still doesn't matter.
If that's true, then I don't want to know how the whole cat thing came about.
From the classics section, I would recommend Love in the Time of Cholera by Gabriel Garcia Marquez. It is an involved read, but a great story by a masterful author.
For a cool geek-type fiction book, I would recommend Timequake by Kurt Vonnegut. I personally like Vonnegut's style, so I've appreciated all of his books, but that one has some quality that seems to fit the /. crowd.
For good quick-reading mystery/suspense fiction, I would recommend The First Horseman by John Case. It's interesting and hits home in that it isn't too far from reality.
Finally, for something that is just chilling (and wickedly gross at some points) check out The Hot Zone by Richard Preston. It follows the story of an Ebola outbreak with extremely vivid detail.
And I'll say that the number of very poor(skill wise) people with degrees (even graduate degrees) far outweighs the number of very good people with degrees.
I'm a network engineer. I've been doing this for almost eight years. I have a degree BS degree in Physics (although I'm currently in a program for a MS in CS). I've never had a formal networking class, or any training related to network gear.
Would you hire me for a networking job? From your standards, probably not. What does my current boss think? I'm the best hire he has ever made. Am I the best Cisco engineer in the world? No. Am I able to think critically and solve problems, even if I don't know all the answers myself? Yes.
You must examine people for jobs, not resumes. Making blanket decrees like that will limit your candidate pool, but not in the manner you are looking for. You still get loads of crap resumes, and now you've filtered out a whole group of people just because of a piece of paper that they don't have.
"After this wondrous event, we all gathered at my co-founder Bounthanh's parents' house," Thorn said. "There her dying father, Pone, told us that he wanted us to launch before June 1, before the rainy season. He said he wanted to talk with his daughter in Canada before he died."
Yeah, it really stinks when technology is able to give someone their dying wish.
Did you read the article? (like that's ever happened) This isn't just Internet access, it will also provide phone service as well.
The people of Phon Kham seem (at least from the article) seem to be in favor of the project. Has anyone ever thrown you an all day water buffalo barbeque and beer bash? Didn't think so.
This reminds me of the Dilbert strip where Dogbert gives Ratbert a book titled something like:
"Conversational Geometry for Idiots"
Bah, I'll show you 40 people that can't. They're our in-house development staff.
From the formal side of things, I am new to information security. I have been doing applied security work for about three years. I would really like the challenge of writing a thesis, but so far I haven't come up with anything.
Here are my requirements: I want the topic to be challenging, I want it to be within the grasp of a Master's level understanding of information security, and I want it to be valuable to the community.
Are there any areas or topics that need to be addressed but have not? Is there something the community needs but has not yet received? If background info helps, I really enjoy picking apart IP traffic, and have some interest in fractals from a mathematic perspective.
Also, I'd like to say thanks for the links on your site. I now have tons more reading material.
Try moving towards the screen really fast. It should look green then. Of course, make sure you stop before you run into the screen, because a collision with a monitor at speeds close to the speed of light might hurt.
I don't know about a bluetooth, but Julia Stiles has a snaggletooth, and she's hot
Until then, I waive my paw at them and say "Bah"
In the case of pagers, the technology being used to accept incoming calls is generally very old. Some of the production equipment when I worked there was older than me. AFAIK, there was no way to block an incoming phone call on those units.
And for the email gateway to the pagers, I wouldn't expect that your paging carrier could block incoming emails from a specific address either. The application that did the translation for us barely ran. The guy who wrote it seriously thought that if his code compiled without any errors that it was fine to move into production.
While you might not agree with Larry politically, he makes good points. It is a very interesting read.
I was thinking of the magnet standing on its side, so that I could be rolled. If you were rolling the magnet down a hall, the area in front of you would be 3.5 feet wide. If the magnet was sitting with one of the circular ends on the the ground, it would be 3.5 feet tall. Hope that clears up the confusion.
When I was in school, one of my professors (the guy who's work is talked about in this /. article) told me this story about a large magnet. Keep in mind, I'm recalling this from memory, and I was in college when it was told to me. Therefore, it is an approximation of the actual events that took place.
A large cylindrical magnet was being delivered to a second floor lab. By large I mean 5 feet in diameter and 3.5 feet wide. Because of university policy, the university maintence crew was to move the magnet to its final destination. After getting it onto the service elevator, they arrived on the second floor.
From the service elevator, the magnet had to move almost the length of the building, turn a corner, and go about another twenty feet to the lab. The three men moving the magnet got it out of the elevator, and started down the hall.
Being a large heavy object, they had to push really hard to get it moving. They kept pushing really hard all the way down the hall. Not being physicists, they assumed that the magnet would stop rolling when they stoped pushing. They were quite wrong. Not only did the magnet not stop when they stopped pushing, but it didn't stop when it hit the wall of the corner room. The exterior wall of the building didn't stop it either. It came to rest embeded deep in the ground outside the lab.
It was much funnier when he told it.
So what else, besides freesco and ipcop is everyone using for routers? (free/legal options only
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I use the NetBSD Firewall Project. It works great for me (P100, 24MB of ram). If I ever get a UPS, the only time I see rebooting it is when it's time to install a new version of the OS. It's very simple to setup, and you can get the hang of administering it with little effort.
They dont let you have the password to the Cisco router which YOU have bought from them - meaning you cant use the second line or easily connect it to a h232 gatekeeper to do intelligent things with.
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Did you try "cisco"? When I had DSL service in Cincinnati, OH all the DSL modems had a password of cisco. That, and the password encryption that was used to store the password in the config was ROT-13. So if you could put a console on it and do the control-break startup procedure (don't know if it works on that model), you could probably decrypt the password.
If that's the formula, I should be sitting on Shakira's lap when I'm computing.
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Wouldn't that be better the other way around?
Six Sigma is a maximum of 3.4 defects per million. So converting to uptime would be.
Uptime percent = 100*(1 - 3.4*10^-6) = 99.99966
After we take off the literal filter, I'd have to say that was a pretty funny comment. Just hoping to add a little connection to the Six Sigma to Five Nines relationship.
The best solution, has, unfortunately, been destroyed.
One Ring to rule them all,
One Ring to find them,
One Ring to bring them all
and in the darkness bind them