isn't this the same treatment for severe cases of Parkinson's?
No, the device you're thinking of is the thalamic stimulator. It's implanted in the brain, with the patient conscious, and I read somewhere that the results are dramatic, so much so that surgeon looks at the patient's hand, probes on the thalamus with the electrode to find the right spot, and when he finds it, the shaking instantly stops. I hear when the implant is in place and working, the only reminder of Parkinson's disease left is slowness of movements, but no more tremors.
ust looking at my website statistics from people coming to my website [christiannerds.com] via slashdot.org, I actually have a large number at the beginning of the workday, and towards the end,
They come once in the morning and once the evening for a quick prayer because they feel guilty for browsing Slashdot on the job perhaps?
In the meantime I'll be spending several hours constantly flicking to the live internet commentary of the cricket. Cricket is more important that work.
Cederic, would you mind stepping into my office when you have a moment? Oh and bring one of those pink A5 sheets by the secretary's desk on your way if you please.
I even spent a few minutes reloading the front page so I could go for first post.
The star sign next to your Slashdot ID says that you even spent a few *dollars* so you could get first post.
I congratulate you Sir for being a very conscientious employee: you knew you'd have to spent incredible amounts of time reloading the/. front page over and over to have a chance to get first post as a non-subscriber, but instead you decided to become a/. subscriber to be able to RTFA and post ahead of time, thereby saving time and company money!
"IT decision-makers polled believe that employees are spending an average of 5.9 hours per week surfing the internet for non work-related reasons."
IT decision-makers believe this number because:
- they watch the http traffic on their networks (hint: "decision-makers" usually don't know much about technical issues)
- it's based on their personal experience (hint: decision-makers are usually suits with personal offices)
Which one is it in your opinion?
What's more of course, since the quote comes from Websense, it's kind of logical that their employees spend their time surfing the web - to test the Websense web filter - so the "study" might not be very relevant:-)
In my little scenario where most network admins use that sort of method, the network hosting the first gateway machine would have trashed the guy's box before he had time to jump to the next one.
Bad guys would not need zombies anymore for a DDOS:
Sorry, I thought we were talking about network intrusion here: surely someone trying to subvert a service (like getting a working shell account, snooping on a Windows box or perusing an intranet) would need a valid IP to do that. Of course, my nasty piece of imaginary software wouldn't fight back DDOSes or spam, since those are essentially impossible to trace back to the original perpetrator.
changing the login program to do something funky is enough to screw up any script.
Even simpler: drop the user straight to a working shell. That way, scripts will wait for the "ogin:" and "assword:" strings indefinitely until the connection times out, and legit users won't even have to enter their logins. As for hackers, they'll see the "~$" prompt, won't believe their eyes, will think it's a clever trap or something, and they'll promply disconnect out of paranoid fear:-)
I know you're trying to be funny (or troll, I don't know), but your comment is actually unfair: the entire software engineering world (not just OSS) is built on people sharing competences. Formal education and self-teaching only account for a small part of a computer engineer's know-how.
Asking Slashdot is as good a way as any to reach a wide audience and get a handful of good advices amongst the hundreds of trolls. All it takes is asking, and you never know what precious tidbit of information you might get.
what I'd really like is a network intrusion product that not only detects "bad guys" but also automatically retaliates, i.e. deluges said bad guy with ping floods, winnukes (yes I know, it's old), tries to root the bad guy's box and wipe the hard disk, or install backorifice, etc...
I reckon if the majority of network admins did that, perhaps intruders would think twice about playing that game. Not to mention the feeling of satisfaction when (if) the intruder's box is trashes in real-time before his eyes:-)
It's been "Any Day Now" for months. If you check the Mac Buyer's Guide it's way overdue.
A friend in Cupertino tells me they're waiting for Duke Nukem Forever to be released on OSX, so they can show off the new Mac's new graphical posibilities in tradeshows...
Intentionally assisting him? As in, giving him a job?
Who knows, maybe they provided the guy with a ladder to climb the electrified barb-wired fence surrounding the Microsoft compound, and passed packets full of poisoned bits of meat to neutralize the guard dogs, so that he could escape.
Despite what some far-left loons think, America is not in the absolute grip of some overarching corporate conspiracy.
I guess that makes me a far-left loon then. Indeed I doubt there's a corporate conspiracy, but the country is definitely run by corporations, or more precisely, by rich corporate shareholders.
Corporations control the press through ownership of TV and radio stations and newspapers. The press is therefore partial, and what the public sees of what happens in the nation and abroad is roughly what the corporate owners don't mind them seeing.
Corporations also control the government, or at least, keep them in check, through lobbying and obvious conflicts of interest (think Halliburton/Cheney/Bush).
People, whose view of the world is slanted, vote for representative whose fingers dip in the corporate world. Their vote can therefore never bring a fair and impartial government to power. That's as simple as that. And that simple truth goes beyond minor differences between democrats or republicans or any other party. That's just the way the USA was designed, the problem only got amplified after WW2, when the military-industrial complex got too powerful. Even Ike warned us about it, I'm not inventing anything.
But I guess everybody is entitled to his opinion...
And most people that have been working for a while [...] say that you should find a job you enjoy. You are likely to spend 40hrs a week at work, if not more.
I confirm this.
I worked hard during the dotcom bubble and did good on it, both in terms of salary and stock, mostly because a wise person, older than me, told me it wouldn't last and that I should save the money I earned.
With that money, I started studies in a totally different field. Now, I'm paid a lot less, but I don't have crazy hours, I don't worry about stress and future heart problems, I do a job that I like, and my quality of life is much better.
So it is true what they say. Money isn't all there is in life. You can be a lot happier with simple things, like starting and quitting work every day at the same hours (instead of working insane overtime), having free weed-ends for the family, and (in my case anyway) having the satisfaction of producing things that people instantly appreciate, instead of hidden code that nobody cares about once it's compiled.
And the pay cut isn't a problem, it's just a matter of understanding what's important in life, and leaving the world of silly consumerism behind. If the job pays the bills and leaves enough do have disposable income for the usual pleasures in life, and not worry about next month, that's quite enough for me at this point in my life.
okay, you have an opinion, but please don't attempt to make blanket stmts about working software developers because you have run ins with a few crappy engineers and poorly managed projects, companies.
I was in this industry long enough to make such statements. Apparently, you seem to be working for a sensible company where engineers are listened to, and I'm glad that you do. However, I can assure you you're in a minority.
i know you're looking for mod points, but don't you think you've speculated enough for today?
Do you really think I'm looking for mod points, after having posted on this here board for 6 or 7 years and gotten all my karma on the first two days?;-)
are you implying that for-profit developers don't take pride in their code?
All developers in closed-source companies that I've known would *like* to take pride in their code, but they always have to respect tight schedules, and end up writing "good enough" code (good enough meaning, sure, there are bugs, but no show-stoppers).
I'm quite sure Microsoft developers aren't told to take the time to do things right. They're told to hurry the hell up and make it work. I'm also quite sure most of them would prefer taking the time to do things right, but their employer doesn't pay them to do that.
i'd advise you state your views on your resume. employers will probably want to know about that.
You misunderstood my views. My view is simply that not release the source code makes it easy to hide bad code, and even the best engineers can't go against their management's wishes and constraints.
As for me, I was a developer, so I should know what I'm talking about. Not anymore though: in my new line of job, I can tell the customer to get lost until I'm sure everything's done just right, and he's usually happy with that, because my products cost well over $10k a pop and he prefers waiting than having a botched-up result:-)
The goal of government is to prevent people from interfering with each other's rights. Not to form society according to the vision of master planners.
In case you haven't noticed, most of the government is on the payroll of a handfull of big all-powerful corporations. What corporations want, the government gives them.
They have no master plan, it's the corporations that have one. And their master plan is to increase their bottomline. Communication companies' bottomlines could, for example, be increased dramatically if the infrastrusture was there for each and every sucker in the US to have access to $50/mth broadband. And that could happen if, for example, they lobbied the FCC to let them do that...
He wants to energize the deployment of broadband in America? remove all restrictions.
Great, and while we're at it, revive that hateful broadband-over-powerline solution that'll kill hamradio and bleed over most shortwave communications...
Gee, hasn't the FCC fucked up enough already? they're here to regulate, not to let everybody do as they please willy-nilly...
Slashdot Mirror
Personally, when I feel down, I remember the old adages: a gramme in time saves nine. Not to mention, a gramme is better than a damn.
Isn't it great to be an epsilon minus? We even have our own dedicated chatboard, Slashdot, to share our experiences.
isn't this the same treatment for severe cases of Parkinson's?
No, the device you're thinking of is the thalamic stimulator. It's implanted in the brain, with the patient conscious, and I read somewhere that the results are dramatic, so much so that surgeon looks at the patient's hand, probes on the thalamus with the electrode to find the right spot, and when he finds it, the shaking instantly stops. I hear when the implant is in place and working, the only reminder of Parkinson's disease left is slowness of movements, but no more tremors.
ust looking at my website statistics from people coming to my website [christiannerds.com] via slashdot.org, I actually have a large number at the beginning of the workday, and towards the end,
They come once in the morning and once the evening for a quick prayer because they feel guilty for browsing Slashdot on the job perhaps?
looking out the window at the girls,
Damn, where do *you* work?
There. Still jealous?
Hello Cederic,
This is Robert, your boss down the hall...
Then again, I'm salaried. I got here at 7.35am
The starting time for your shift is 7:30.
I'll leave some time this evening.
As a friendly reminder, your shift ends at 5:30.
In the meantime I'll be spending several hours constantly flicking to the live internet commentary of the cricket. Cricket is more important that work.
Cederic, would you mind stepping into my office when you have a moment? Oh and bring one of those pink A5 sheets by the secretary's desk on your way if you please.
-- Robert
I even spent a few minutes reloading the front page so I could go for first post.
/. front page over and over to have a chance to get first post as a non-subscriber, but instead you decided to become a /. subscriber to be able to RTFA and post ahead of time, thereby saving time and company money!
The star sign next to your Slashdot ID says that you even spent a few *dollars* so you could get first post.
I congratulate you Sir for being a very conscientious employee: you knew you'd have to spent incredible amounts of time reloading the
Quote from TFA:
:-)
"IT decision-makers polled believe that employees are spending an average of 5.9 hours per week surfing the internet for non work-related reasons."
IT decision-makers believe this number because:
- they watch the http traffic on their networks (hint: "decision-makers" usually don't know much about technical issues)
- it's based on their personal experience (hint: decision-makers are usually suits with personal offices)
Which one is it in your opinion?
What's more of course, since the quote comes from Websense, it's kind of logical that their employees spend their time surfing the web - to test the Websense web filter - so the "study" might not be very relevant
Okay I get it now. Oh well, it would have felt good to be able to hit them back...
In my little scenario where most network admins use that sort of method, the network hosting the first gateway machine would have trashed the guy's box before he had time to jump to the next one.
*Whooosh*
Bad guys would not need zombies anymore for a DDOS:
Sorry, I thought we were talking about network intrusion here: surely someone trying to subvert a service (like getting a working shell account, snooping on a Windows box or perusing an intranet) would need a valid IP to do that. Of course, my nasty piece of imaginary software wouldn't fight back DDOSes or spam, since those are essentially impossible to trace back to the original perpetrator.
changing the login program to do something funky is enough to screw up any script.
:-)
Even simpler: drop the user straight to a working shell. That way, scripts will wait for the "ogin:" and "assword:" strings indefinitely until the connection times out, and legit users won't even have to enter their logins. As for hackers, they'll see the "~$" prompt, won't believe their eyes, will think it's a clever trap or something, and they'll promply disconnect out of paranoid fear
I know you're trying to be funny (or troll, I don't know), but your comment is actually unfair: the entire software engineering world (not just OSS) is built on people sharing competences. Formal education and self-teaching only account for a small part of a computer engineer's know-how.
Asking Slashdot is as good a way as any to reach a wide audience and get a handful of good advices amongst the hundreds of trolls. All it takes is asking, and you never know what precious tidbit of information you might get.
what I'd really like is a network intrusion product that not only detects "bad guys" but also automatically retaliates, i.e. deluges said bad guy with ping floods, winnukes (yes I know, it's old), tries to root the bad guy's box and wipe the hard disk, or install backorifice, etc...
:-)
I reckon if the majority of network admins did that, perhaps intruders would think twice about playing that game. Not to mention the feeling of satisfaction when (if) the intruder's box is trashes in real-time before his eyes
It's been "Any Day Now" for months. If you check the Mac Buyer's Guide it's way overdue.
A friend in Cupertino tells me they're waiting for Duke Nukem Forever to be released on OSX, so they can show off the new Mac's new graphical posibilities in tradeshows...
Awww...the thing is so freakin' cute!
I assume you're talking about the gal playing ball with the robot near the end of the video, right? Because she really is cute...
Intentionally assisting him? As in, giving him a job?
Who knows, maybe they provided the guy with a ladder to climb the electrified barb-wired fence surrounding the Microsoft compound, and passed packets full of poisoned bits of meat to neutralize the guard dogs, so that he could escape.
Despite what some far-left loons think, America is not in the absolute grip of some overarching corporate conspiracy.
I guess that makes me a far-left loon then. Indeed I doubt there's a corporate conspiracy, but the country is definitely run by corporations, or more precisely, by rich corporate shareholders.
Corporations control the press through ownership of TV and radio stations and newspapers. The press is therefore partial, and what the public sees of what happens in the nation and abroad is roughly what the corporate owners don't mind them seeing.
Corporations also control the government, or at least, keep them in check, through lobbying and obvious conflicts of interest (think Halliburton/Cheney/Bush).
People, whose view of the world is slanted, vote for representative whose fingers dip in the corporate world. Their vote can therefore never bring a fair and impartial government to power. That's as simple as that. And that simple truth goes beyond minor differences between democrats or republicans or any other party. That's just the way the USA was designed, the problem only got amplified after WW2, when the military-industrial complex got too powerful. Even Ike warned us about it, I'm not inventing anything.
But I guess everybody is entitled to his opinion...
Who wants to study CS when their jobs are being outsourced to India anyway?
:-)
It's a chance to travel and get to know other cultures
And most people that have been working for a while [...] say that you should find a job you enjoy. You are likely to spend 40hrs a week at work, if not more.
I confirm this.
I worked hard during the dotcom bubble and did good on it, both in terms of salary and stock, mostly because a wise person, older than me, told me it wouldn't last and that I should save the money I earned.
With that money, I started studies in a totally different field. Now, I'm paid a lot less, but I don't have crazy hours, I don't worry about stress and future heart problems, I do a job that I like, and my quality of life is much better.
So it is true what they say. Money isn't all there is in life. You can be a lot happier with simple things, like starting and quitting work every day at the same hours (instead of working insane overtime), having free weed-ends for the family, and (in my case anyway) having the satisfaction of producing things that people instantly appreciate, instead of hidden code that nobody cares about once it's compiled.
And the pay cut isn't a problem, it's just a matter of understanding what's important in life, and leaving the world of silly consumerism behind. If the job pays the bills and leaves enough do have disposable income for the usual pleasures in life, and not worry about next month, that's quite enough for me at this point in my life.
okay, you have an opinion, but please don't attempt to make blanket stmts about working software developers because you have run ins with a few crappy engineers and poorly managed projects, companies.
;-)
I was in this industry long enough to make such statements. Apparently, you seem to be working for a sensible company where engineers are listened to, and I'm glad that you do. However, I can assure you you're in a minority.
i know you're looking for mod points, but don't you think you've speculated enough for today?
Do you really think I'm looking for mod points, after having posted on this here board for 6 or 7 years and gotten all my karma on the first two days?
Besides, you don't have to be hostile...
are you implying that for-profit developers don't take pride in their code?
:-)
All developers in closed-source companies that I've known would *like* to take pride in their code, but they always have to respect tight schedules, and end up writing "good enough" code (good enough meaning, sure, there are bugs, but no show-stoppers).
I'm quite sure Microsoft developers aren't told to take the time to do things right. They're told to hurry the hell up and make it work. I'm also quite sure most of them would prefer taking the time to do things right, but their employer doesn't pay them to do that.
i'd advise you state your views on your resume. employers will probably want to know about that.
You misunderstood my views. My view is simply that not release the source code makes it easy to hide bad code, and even the best engineers can't go against their management's wishes and constraints.
As for me, I was a developer, so I should know what I'm talking about. Not anymore though: in my new line of job, I can tell the customer to get lost until I'm sure everything's done just right, and he's usually happy with that, because my products cost well over $10k a pop and he prefers waiting than having a botched-up result
The goal of government is to prevent people from interfering with each other's rights. Not to form society according to the vision of master planners.
In case you haven't noticed, most of the government is on the payroll of a handfull of big all-powerful corporations. What corporations want, the government gives them.
They have no master plan, it's the corporations that have one. And their master plan is to increase their bottomline. Communication companies' bottomlines could, for example, be increased dramatically if the infrastrusture was there for each and every sucker in the US to have access to $50/mth broadband. And that could happen if, for example, they lobbied the FCC to let them do that...
Just a supposition of course...
He wants to energize the deployment of broadband in America? remove all restrictions.
Great, and while we're at it, revive that hateful broadband-over-powerline solution that'll kill hamradio and bleed over most shortwave communications...
Gee, hasn't the FCC fucked up enough already? they're here to regulate, not to let everybody do as they please willy-nilly...
You can't get a candy bar for fifteen cents.
You can get fifty cent candies. They taste like shit though...