The worst thing is, going from $700k a year to $350k a year doesn't just halve your uptime, it takes it from 99.999% to 99.99%. Or from 52 minutes to eight hours and 45 minutes. The first time they can't access their records for an entire work day, maybe they'll realize what they were paying for before.
That's the first I've heard of anything like that, and a quick Google search for "white house sysadmin email" didn't turn up anything interesting (except for a whistleblower study from 2000 about then-Vice President Gore using the White House email system for unethical campaign work). Got any references for this allegation?
A good HR person will screen resumes by filtering out the ones with glaring spelling and grammatical errors, poor arranged timelines (like missing five years of work experience with no explanation), or repeated references to having an impressive knife collection (true anecdote). If they're screening for the skills of the job, they're going too far into the hiring manager's turf and need to scale it back a bit.
Or combine the two. Use a solar sail to get initial speed, then start collecting fuel with the ramjet. As you near your destination, deploy the sail again to start slowing your craft.
My take away from it was that the head of the FBI knows surprisingly little about phishing. Let's hope someone on his staff briefs him on 419 scams before he sends his life's savings to the former finance minister for the deposed Crown Prince of Nigeria.
The globalisation has caused intermarrying between all human species. The only reason those human species were separated is a very, very long physical separation, preventing intermarriage. But not long enough to actually create separate species. A merger can, however, only happen to different races, not to different species.
So now we do have intermarriage, thanks to the emancipation (of blacks) movement started in the United States, so the genes are getting mixed. What will happen next (and in an astonishingly short timeframe) is that in a few generations all humans will have genes from all races. Genes that used to be distinctly "african" or "european" 100 years ago. Then evolution will force a choice between useful and useless genes, and all our great grandchildren will end up with a very, very similar set of genes. They will not differ in color like different races do today.
The scary part is that this will happen in less than 400-500 years and the process is already 100 years or-so underway.
What the...? Who let a Klansman get an account on Slashdot? Go back to your mountain friends, Senator Byrd.
From the postscript at the end of this version: "The original submission to the net was not in free verse, nor any approximation to it --- it was straight prose style, in non-justified paragraphs. In bouncing around the net it apparently got modified into the `free verse' form now popular. In other words, it got hacked on the net. That seems appropriate, somehow."
"Ability" != "permission". If I invite you into my home for dinner, that does not mean you're free to go into my bedroom and poke around my wife's underwear drawer.
Most of the cogent skeptics out there seem to be skeptical of either AGW, not GW itself, or are merely skeptical that we should do anything to stop it, arguing that it's a net boon to mankind for the climate to be a bit warmer. But yeah, anyone who argues that the climate isn't warming on average at this point can be safely ignored.
There was plenty of skepticism about evolution (or at least, Darwinian evolution) when the theory first appeared. But it's been vetted for 150 years now, and with modern forensics, DNA sequencing, and even the observation of speciation events, there's really no credible evidence disproving the central tenets of Darwinian evolution. Though there have been some huge advancements in our understanding of it. For instance, while IANAEB, it is my understanding that evolutionary biologists no longer view evolution as a straight-line sequence from simpler animals to more complex ones, like Darwin did. Instead, we now know that our understanding of what constitutes a "species" is pretty arbitrary and creatures in the wild cross species lines quite often. Instead of a tree coming up from a single ancestral organism, life is more like a complex web, with some branches ending, some continuing, and some merging back into the main trunk (or another branch).
And don't even get started on the tags, they just make it more confusing!
Really? So you think it's OK to put whatever you want on a computer you don't own? Note that I never said it was not feasible to do so, I said it was wrong to do so. Other than your anecdote about a uncaring librarian, you haven't done anything to prove it's acceptable to install software on someone else's machine.
Don't complain next time malware gets installed on your PC by some black hat. That would be hypocritical.
The default policy is that you may not install programs on a public computer. You need specific permission to install software on a computer you don't own.
Then explain this part: A 22-year-old programmer named Aaron Swartz decided to capture 19,856,160 records by simply installing a small PERL script at the 7th U.S. Circuit Court of Appeals library in Chicago.
Sounds like he installed an unauthorized program on the court's computer system to me.
While there's an argument that naked short selling is unethical and is most certainly reckless, it isn't fraud because everyone in the market knows what they are and who's doing it.
If you have to stockpile, choose guns, ammo, canned goods, medicine, and a water filtration system, in that order. Because with enough of the first two you can always find a way to convince your neighbor to help with the rest.
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The worst thing is, going from $700k a year to $350k a year doesn't just halve your uptime, it takes it from 99.999% to 99.99%. Or from 52 minutes to eight hours and 45 minutes. The first time they can't access their records for an entire work day, maybe they'll realize what they were paying for before.
That's the first I've heard of anything like that, and a quick Google search for "white house sysadmin email" didn't turn up anything interesting (except for a whistleblower study from 2000 about then-Vice President Gore using the White House email system for unethical campaign work). Got any references for this allegation?
A good HR person will screen resumes by filtering out the ones with glaring spelling and grammatical errors, poor arranged timelines (like missing five years of work experience with no explanation), or repeated references to having an impressive knife collection (true anecdote). If they're screening for the skills of the job, they're going too far into the hiring manager's turf and need to scale it back a bit.
Yeah, because that worked with Arafat.
Here's one of her in another RL ad where she doesn't hover so close to the uncanny valley.
Nah, she looks anorexic. And those girls won't put anything in their mouths, so really, what's the point?
So yeah, forever then.
Or combine the two. Use a solar sail to get initial speed, then start collecting fuel with the ramjet. As you near your destination, deploy the sail again to start slowing your craft.
My take away from it was that the head of the FBI knows surprisingly little about phishing. Let's hope someone on his staff briefs him on 419 scams before he sends his life's savings to the former finance minister for the deposed Crown Prince of Nigeria.
The globalisation has caused intermarrying between all human species. The only reason those human species were separated is a very, very long physical separation, preventing intermarriage. But not long enough to actually create separate species. A merger can, however, only happen to different races, not to different species.
So now we do have intermarriage, thanks to the emancipation (of blacks) movement started in the United States, so the genes are getting mixed. What will happen next (and in an astonishingly short timeframe) is that in a few generations all humans will have genes from all races. Genes that used to be distinctly "african" or "european" 100 years ago. Then evolution will force a choice between useful and useless genes, and all our great grandchildren will end up with a very, very similar set of genes. They will not differ in color like different races do today.
The scary part is that this will happen in less than 400-500 years and the process is already 100 years or-so underway.
What the...? Who let a Klansman get an account on Slashdot? Go back to your mountain friends, Senator Byrd.
The view of a human body without clothes is not something to fear.
That depends entirely on which human's body we're talking about. *cough*Rosie O'Donnell*cough*
From the postscript at the end of this version: "The original submission to the net was not in free verse, nor any approximation to it --- it was straight prose style, in non-justified paragraphs. In bouncing around the net it apparently got modified into the `free verse' form now popular. In other words, it got hacked on the net. That seems appropriate, somehow."
How can we have a flame war about the definition of a Real Programmer© without a link to the story of Mel, the original Real Programmer©?
"Ability" != "permission". If I invite you into my home for dinner, that does not mean you're free to go into my bedroom and poke around my wife's underwear drawer.
Most of the cogent skeptics out there seem to be skeptical of either AGW, not GW itself, or are merely skeptical that we should do anything to stop it, arguing that it's a net boon to mankind for the climate to be a bit warmer. But yeah, anyone who argues that the climate isn't warming on average at this point can be safely ignored.
There was plenty of skepticism about evolution (or at least, Darwinian evolution) when the theory first appeared. But it's been vetted for 150 years now, and with modern forensics, DNA sequencing, and even the observation of speciation events, there's really no credible evidence disproving the central tenets of Darwinian evolution. Though there have been some huge advancements in our understanding of it. For instance, while IANAEB, it is my understanding that evolutionary biologists no longer view evolution as a straight-line sequence from simpler animals to more complex ones, like Darwin did. Instead, we now know that our understanding of what constitutes a "species" is pretty arbitrary and creatures in the wild cross species lines quite often. Instead of a tree coming up from a single ancestral organism, life is more like a complex web, with some branches ending, some continuing, and some merging back into the main trunk (or another branch).
And don't even get started on the tags, they just make it more confusing!
Really? So you think it's OK to put whatever you want on a computer you don't own? Note that I never said it was not feasible to do so, I said it was wrong to do so. Other than your anecdote about a uncaring librarian, you haven't done anything to prove it's acceptable to install software on someone else's machine.
Don't complain next time malware gets installed on your PC by some black hat. That would be hypocritical.
OK then, you go on ahead and go to your local library and install some software. See what happens.
You have limited supply of canned goods, medicine and water and a neighbor that hates you
If things are actually that desperate, then you'd have the food, water, and medicine, and no neighbor.
A Perl script is a program.
The "library" was the court's library, owned and operated by the court.
The default policy is that you may not install programs on a public computer. You need specific permission to install software on a computer you don't own.
Then explain this part: A 22-year-old programmer named Aaron Swartz decided to capture 19,856,160 records by simply installing a small PERL script at the 7th U.S. Circuit Court of Appeals library in Chicago.
Sounds like he installed an unauthorized program on the court's computer system to me.
While there's an argument that naked short selling is unethical and is most certainly reckless, it isn't fraud because everyone in the market knows what they are and who's doing it.
After that comes the vices such as cigarettes, alcohol, and toilet paper.
What kind of hard core religion do you practice where TP is a vice?
If you have to stockpile, choose guns, ammo, canned goods, medicine, and a water filtration system, in that order. Because with enough of the first two you can always find a way to convince your neighbor to help with the rest.