How come in one of the pictures the guy is holding a little styrofoam cup with what's supposed to be liquid nitrogen, with his bare hands? Is that little layer of styrofoam really insulation enough to prevent his fingers from freezing?
In that case, the original poster was obviously applying for a job for which he was overqualified, instead of aiming for a job that fits his supposedly superior skillset.
Now, What's the hit for being an H1B? I'll tell you... They'll take anything and be happy for it, since they are, in no uncertain terms, indentured servents.
The word is "servant" (I guess spelling isn't one of those things you're supposedly pretty good at), and no, they won't. Being an H1B worker myself, in a company that employs about a dozen more (out of about 250 employees total), I can tell you that our salaries are at the same level as those of the American workers.
Said University was perfectly willing to sponsor, but the first sponsor was unwilling to release the guy
"release the guy"? It's really not the slavery you think it is. It appears you are just as ignorant about H1B workers as all the other xenophobic "patriots" that seem to infest this forum.
You are a friggin' moron. Underpaying an H1-B worker is illegal. Immigration laws forbid it. The company petitioning for the visa has to specify the prospective employee's salary, and the INS will not issue a visa if the salary is not up to par. I am so fed up with the likes of you. You are too dumb to get a decent job, and then blame the (foreign) person that IS smart and educated enough for the job. Let me tell you this: if all of the foreign workers in the US quit their jobs right now, your precious US economy would crumble. You NEED foreign workers, because your own workforce is woefully underqualified, thanks to your fucked up educational system.
Corporations import foreign labor and pay nothing for it
Getting an H1B visa for an employee is not cheap, and a long and tedious process
H1B workers have to be paid comparable wages ("prevailing wage" as they call it)
The only way to get "cheap foreign labor" is to hire programmers in another country (i.e. don't move them to the US, but make them work from their own country), which is specifically NOT what this whole issue is about.
Sorry, but you're the one who is wrong.
An equilateral triangle with sides of length A will have a height (from one of the tips to the
opposing side) of sqrt(3/4)A, which is about.87*A. Therefore you can easily slide the cover
through the hole by holding it so one of the sides is vertical and then lowering it near the edge of the hole. Obviously you can get around this problem by making the cover about 13% bigger than the hole, but you wouldn't need to do this (as much) for a circle.
While on vacation in Turkey I saw this on TV there, some 3 years ago. It was more like 1/8th of the screen, and not very intrusive at all. I'd rather go without it though.
Whatever happened to the "make money on support" or "sell T-shirts" strategies that have been touted by the opensource community so often? How come a viable business model cannot be found to support the development of this software?
The tendency has always been to blame the interface and ultimately the engineers who designed it
Engineers shouldn't design interfaces, just implement them. The design of the interface should be left to what is called an "interaction designer" or "user experience designer" these days. The interfaces they come up with are sometimes hard to implement, but will offer a much better user experience than the collection of menus and buttons that your average (or even good) software engineer would come up with.
But for JPEGs there's a well-designed standard, and it doesn't include executing code of any sort.
However, if you know of bugs in the jpeg decoder (and on Windows it should be built-in to the system, so you only have to find a bug in a single decoder), then you could craft a jpeg such that the decoder chokes on it, overruns some buffer, and get it execute code that way (same method as with any other buffer overflow really). I'm sure Michael meant well, but they say that jpegs are by definition safe is just too naive.
Yes and how big is that virus that understands an EXT2 filesystem? A megabyte?
No, about 40-50 kilobyte for the filesystem code should do it. That's about the size of the ext2 drivers for BeOS and linux. The virus wouldn't even need a full filesystem implementation, so the code in the virus would be even smaller.
(and there isn't a single marching digital Army, special effect, or
marketing tie-in involved!)
EVERY movie has special effects these days. They might not be special effects in the traditional "blow up a spaceship" sense, and in fact you might not even recognize the special effects, but they WILL be there.
Take a look at the credits, and I'm sure you'll see the special effects people listed. The effect might be as mundane as removing the reflection of the camera-crew from a window, or adding a sparkle to a glass of wine, but it will be a special effect nonetheless.
A hybrid virus could have its own filesystem code, and thereby infect say a linux partition on a dual-boot machine that is currently booted in windows, or vice-versa. The real killer here would be that your regular user-ID based security wouldn't help at all. While running in windows, the virus would have unlimited access to the linux-partition, enabling it to infect linux binaries it otherwise would only have been able to touch when run as root. And while running in linux, it could infect binaries on a FAT partition without having to worry about the virus-checker getting in the way. In fact, it could easily infect or replace the virus-checker itself.
Correct. However doesn't that then imply that ultimately the interaction between particles is always quantized, and that therefore the universe as we know it has a finite, albeit extremely large, number of states?
The challenge is that any bandwidth-limited analog system can be simulated by a sampled/quantized system, as long as the samples are frequent enough and the quantization is fine enough
You are thinking at a macroscopic level. At the quantum level everything is quantized. There is no such thing as "analog" or a "continuous signal" if you go down to the smallest scale. And note that use of the word "quantized" here has little to do with sampling a signal. A "quantum" in this case is the smallest unit of something, such as energy. It means that there is no smaller amount of energy possible. You either have 0 energy, or 1 quantum of energy, or multiple quanta of energy, but never a fraction of a quantum.
Is this work of yours related to quantum physics at all? Or was this just a bunch of reasonably-educated guys talking about stuff they know a little bit about? I'm asking because I think you got it exactly backwards: one of the things about quantum physics is that it deals with "quanta", distinct units of something. E.g. "energy" is a quantum, there is a distinct unit of energy that is indivisible. Same for length, time, etc. From that you can conclude that the universe does indeed have a finite number of states, since it is (at the lowest level) essentially "digital" rather than "analog".
That's only true for old computers. Modern PCs have standby power (needed for wake-on-ring and wake-on-lan), and so parts of the motherboard will always be powered as long as the computer is plugged in. Your motherboard manual will usually tell you to unplug the computer when installing new hardware.
While the free software
versions may not quite be up to par with the current commercial offerings, it won't
always be the case.
Yes it will. Sorry to be the bearer of bad news, but writing software like that is BORING. Take a look at the best open source software out there and you'll see that it is "interesting" software: operating systems, window managers, development tools. Financial software is the kind of boring crud that nobody writes for fun, and so something like GNU cash will progress until the easy features are done, and then the authors will realize they don't want to spend any more time on such an uninteresting piece of software, and they will move on to something more interesting. Some software is just so utterly uninteresting or unprestigious that nobody works on it for fun, you have to PAY them to work on it.
I wrote a quick app that allows embedding of an image in a similar way, and have verified that neither encoding to mp3 nor encoding to ogg destroys the image. I don't know where Wired got the idea, but they're wrong. If you think about it, it makes perfect sense too: changing the frequency components of the sound so radically that the image is no longer visible would mean that the music sounds totally different too. mp3 and ogg are lossy, but they're not THAT destructive.
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So in other words, your spiffy new debian is still running on top of the old version, with all its unfixed bugs and whatnot still in place.
oh no! Terrorists have attacked the slashdot comment system!
Figures that an unemployed, unemployable AC would make a remark like that.
How come in one of the pictures the guy is holding a little styrofoam cup with what's supposed to be liquid nitrogen, with his bare hands? Is that little layer of styrofoam really insulation enough to prevent his fingers from freezing?
In that case, the original poster was obviously applying for a job for which he was overqualified, instead of aiming for a job that fits his supposedly superior skillset.
anything and be happy for it, since they are, in no uncertain terms, indentured servents.
The word is "servant" (I guess spelling isn't one of those things you're supposedly pretty good at), and no, they won't. Being an H1B worker myself, in a company that employs about a dozen more (out of about 250 employees total), I can tell you that our salaries are at the same level as those of the American workers.
Said University was perfectly willing to sponsor, but the first sponsor was unwilling to release the guy
"release the guy"? It's really not the slavery you think it is. It appears you are just as ignorant about H1B workers as all the other xenophobic "patriots" that seem to infest this forum.
Right, because obviously companies want their staff to consist of bad and mediocre employees, rather than good ones...
You are a friggin' moron. Underpaying an H1-B worker is illegal. Immigration laws forbid it. The company petitioning for the visa has to specify the prospective employee's salary, and the INS will not issue a visa if the salary is not up to par. I am so fed up with the likes of you. You are too dumb to get a decent job, and then blame the (foreign) person that IS smart and educated enough for the job. Let me tell you this: if all of the foreign workers in the US quit their jobs right now, your precious US economy would crumble. You NEED foreign workers, because your own workforce is woefully underqualified, thanks to your fucked up educational system.
- Getting an H1B visa for an employee is not cheap, and a long and tedious process
- H1B workers have to be paid comparable wages ("prevailing wage" as they call it)
The only way to get "cheap foreign labor" is to hire programmers in another country (i.e. don't move them to the US, but make them work from their own country), which is specifically NOT what this whole issue is about.Sorry, but you're the one who is wrong. An equilateral triangle with sides of length A will have a height (from one of the tips to the opposing side) of sqrt(3/4)A, which is about .87*A. Therefore you can easily slide the cover
through the hole by holding it so one of the sides is vertical and then lowering it near the edge of the hole.
Obviously you can get around this problem by making the cover about 13% bigger than the hole, but you wouldn't need to do this (as much) for a circle.
While on vacation in Turkey I saw this on TV there, some 3 years ago. It was more like 1/8th of the screen, and not very intrusive at all. I'd rather go without it though.
Whatever happened to the "make money on support" or "sell T-shirts" strategies that have been touted by the opensource community so often? How come a viable business model cannot be found to support the development of this software?
Engineers shouldn't design interfaces, just implement them. The design of the interface should be left to what is called an "interaction designer" or "user experience designer" these days. The interfaces they come up with are sometimes hard to implement, but will offer a much better user experience than the collection of menus and buttons that your average (or even good) software engineer would come up with.
any sort.
However, if you know of bugs in the jpeg decoder (and on Windows it should be built-in to the system, so you only have to find a bug in a single decoder), then you could craft a jpeg such that the decoder chokes on it, overruns some buffer, and get it execute code that way (same method as with any other buffer overflow really). I'm sure Michael meant well, but they say that jpegs are by definition safe is just too naive.
No, about 40-50 kilobyte for the filesystem code should do it. That's about the size of the ext2 drivers for BeOS and linux. The virus wouldn't even need a full filesystem implementation, so the code in the virus would be even smaller.
EVERY movie has special effects these days. They might not be special effects in the traditional "blow up a spaceship" sense, and in fact you might not even recognize the special effects, but they WILL be there. Take a look at the credits, and I'm sure you'll see the special effects people listed. The effect might be as mundane as removing the reflection of the camera-crew from a window, or adding a sparkle to a glass of wine, but it will be a special effect nonetheless.
A hybrid virus could have its own filesystem code, and thereby infect say a linux partition on a dual-boot machine that is currently booted in windows, or vice-versa. The real killer here would be that your regular user-ID based security wouldn't help at all. While running in windows, the virus would have unlimited access to the linux-partition, enabling it to infect linux binaries it otherwise would only have been able to touch when run as root. And while running in linux, it could infect binaries on a FAT partition without having to worry about the virus-checker getting in the way. In fact, it could easily infect or replace the virus-checker itself.
That's because it drops half the triangles in linux...
Correct. However doesn't that then imply that ultimately the interaction between particles is always quantized, and that therefore the universe as we know it has a finite, albeit extremely large, number of states?
You are thinking at a macroscopic level. At the quantum level everything is quantized. There is no such thing as "analog" or a "continuous signal" if you go down to the smallest scale. And note that use of the word "quantized" here has little to do with sampling a signal. A "quantum" in this case is the smallest unit of something, such as energy. It means that there is no smaller amount of energy possible. You either have 0 energy, or 1 quantum of energy, or multiple quanta of energy, but never a fraction of a quantum.
Is this work of yours related to quantum physics at all? Or was this just a bunch of reasonably-educated guys talking about stuff they know a little bit about?
I'm asking because I think you got it exactly backwards: one of the things about quantum physics is that it deals with "quanta", distinct units of something. E.g. "energy" is a quantum, there is a distinct unit of energy that is indivisible. Same for length, time, etc. From that you can conclude that the universe does indeed have a finite number of states, since it is (at the lowest level) essentially "digital" rather than "analog".
That's only true for old computers. Modern PCs have standby power (needed for wake-on-ring and wake-on-lan), and so parts of the motherboard will always be powered as long as the computer is plugged in. Your motherboard manual will usually tell you to unplug the computer when installing new hardware.
Yes it will. Sorry to be the bearer of bad news, but writing software like that is BORING. Take a look at the best open source software out there and you'll see that it is "interesting" software: operating systems, window managers, development tools. Financial software is the kind of boring crud that nobody writes for fun, and so something like GNU cash will progress until the easy features are done, and then the authors will realize they don't want to spend any more time on such an uninteresting piece of software, and they will move on to something more interesting. Some software is just so utterly uninteresting or unprestigious that nobody works on it for fun, you have to PAY them to work on it.
I wrote a quick app that allows embedding of an image in a similar way, and have verified that neither encoding to mp3 nor encoding to ogg destroys the image. I don't know where Wired got the idea, but they're wrong.
If you think about it, it makes perfect sense too: changing the frequency components of the sound so radically that the image is no longer visible would mean that the music sounds totally different too. mp3 and ogg are lossy, but they're not THAT destructive.
This was reported before