That's because as a career............ it sucks! (rimshot!)
On a more serious note, as a male porn star life is nothing but pressure to get involved in the gay porn, that's where all the money is. Plus as a career, it's short lived, most can't get any gigs past 25.
The problem is that the west coast is a very attractive trap. Great weather/outdoor sports, lots of art and culture, good restaurants, ocean access, etc. It's going to be hard for the midwest to beat that. Add to that that living in a high cost of living has advantages for the smart: max out your 401k every year with ease, drive a nice car because the prices are all pushed down by the high wage earners buying and selling, etc. Finally, there are so many jobs here that even during the worst times a talented person can find work, which is not as true for the less IT dense areas of this country.
So... what would you have to do to compete (and potentially recruit people away from the west coast):
Get the attention of the person in question... do you have a strategy for getting them to look at your job offerings? Maybe advertising in some of the (bay area, ca) local newspapers for cheap? (ad: tired of renting a tiny one bedroom apartment?)
Make sure that your hiring story is really going to be solid with respect to what the midwest has to offer. Make sure you can tell a candidate about all the great activities locally that compete with what the west coast has to offer. I'd have pictures on hand from a recent open house showing what a fantastic house they could own in your area, for what price, and how long it would take them to earn that with your job (also documenting things like what a good neighborhood it was in, with such great schools, no commute, etc.) I'd particularly make sure your story on how your company is never going away is strong... the prospect of getting laid off in a low employment area is scary.
Other than that I haven't much in the way of ideas for you. I would expect it to continue to be challenging to find good IT people in the midwest.
Indeed, I'm unclear on how exactly this would work with audio in a real, noisy environment. Hypothetically a one way function could be devised based on recognizing key cadences or something. You'd have to have some logic to account for environmental noise and distortion somewhere, regardless, so why not do it up front in the phone if there's fast enough hardware available.
Presumably this is just a one-way function (not that i'd trust them on this, but this is how I would implement it if I wanted to do it 'right'). A one way function maps A->B in a way that A is unrecoverable, but always maps A->B, so if, for example, you wanted to know how many people hear the budweiser wassup commercial:
wassup commercial recorded in database -> Z132339944 wassup commercial recorded over your phone -> Z132339944 your random conversation recorded over your phone -> AB33444993
So they receive the following: Z132339944 AB33444993
They know what a Z132339944, that's the wassup commercial. They have no idea what a AB33444993, so they have no way to find out what your conversation was about.
Troll? Who exactly was being trolled? It may have failed to be funny (or no one got the joke, except for whoever decided it would be funny to mod it interesting, and the followups are quite hilarious), but it clearly was not a troll. Get em metamods!
Hiring a hit on one guy is easy, but hiring a hit on ~30 guys, who don't all ever meet in one place, is a substantial challenge. Remember, you have to do it all pretty simultaneously, or the victims get wise and start to hire on protection, and then you have escalation and retaliation to worry about.
Indeed, CalTech is in Southern California, a bit north of Los Angeles. MIT is in Massachussetts, but not near any town of note. The mapquested driving directions between the two covers just under three thousand miles.
... the social engineering in convincing most people (and silencing the others) that the cannon had not belonged to MIT in the first place, and then been stolen by Caltech. Then it gets really funny when they convince a bunch of MITers to steal it and put it back right where it was in the first place. I mean seriously, who falls for a cannon being native to California? Were we a big part of the civil war?
Windows XP: go to your wireless icon (there are other ways to get where i'm going, this is the one i know): select view available wireless networks. in 'related tasks' choose 'change advanced settings' (another way to get to this point, go to network connections, select your wireless network, right click and select properties).
Go to the wireless networks tab.
Click advanced.
Uncheck the box that says 'automatically connect to non-preferred networks'.
And be sure to remove any networks you don't want to connect to from the existing list.
A man that rich doesn't have to settle for a throne made of gold. That'd cost what, a paltry $10 million dollars for a thousand pound throne of gold?
What he has no doubt is a scandium throne, roughly twice as expensive, but surely ten times as comfortable, or maybe it's rhodium, roughly the same price, not quite as comfortable as scandium, but prettier.
I was going to suggest that the post was nothing but FUD designed to keep people from accepting the obvious truth that BG is an evil alien robot bent on the destruction of humankind.
It surely must have been a catchphrase she knew was his favorite. If he told her in advance it was 14 characters, and it was possible for her to guess, she might thereby have guessed it.
ie, if she knows he runs around quoting dirty harry all the time, surely his 14 character password was:
doyoufeellucky
Though you might question whether or not this was really 'strong'.
The security comes when it is no longer legal to buy non drm enforcing hardware, and all the old drm violating hardware breaks down. Note that this will likely take at least 50 more years, if not more. But once that happens, envision the world:
You want to play your drm media. the license is used to decode the stream just in time at your drm speakers/headphones. No where do you get access to the unencrypted digital stream. The speakers that do the translating are even hardened to prevent any sort of soldering strategy.
So now there's no way to intercept the digital stream, what about re-recording the analog output of your speakers? Unfortunately, you can't do that either, because watermarking noise (inaudible to humans) will prevent any legal recording device from recording this analog output. Even worse, should you manage to somehow circumvent this protection with an illegal recording device, you're still screwed because the watermark uniquely identifies that it was your copy that was illegally re-recorded, and by this time the legal atmosphere holds you responsible if your copy of a work is illegally re-recorded.
That's your (scary IMO) DRM future, where breaking DRM has approximated the level of literal impossibility.
It's relevant to the parent poster's claim that the RIAA lawsuits in general are all valid (ie the 'just lawsuits not extortion claim'). It was the parent who diverged from the case in the article, not me.
unless you plan on posting from beyond the grave.:)
And therein lies the fun of the computers I set up to begin posting automatically in the event that I die. I figure that should result in some real freakouts, until somebody tracks them down physically.
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That's because as a career ...... ... ...
it sucks! (rimshot!)
On a more serious note, as a male porn star life is nothing but pressure to get involved in the gay porn, that's where all the money is. Plus as a career, it's short lived, most can't get any gigs past 25.
The problem is that the west coast is a very attractive trap. Great weather/outdoor sports, lots of art and culture, good restaurants, ocean access, etc. It's going to be hard for the midwest to beat that. Add to that that living in a high cost of living has advantages for the smart: max out your 401k every year with ease, drive a nice car because the prices are all pushed down by the high wage earners buying and selling, etc. Finally, there are so many jobs here that even during the worst times a talented person can find work, which is not as true for the less IT dense areas of this country.
... what would you have to do to compete (and potentially recruit people away from the west coast):
... do you have a strategy for getting them to look at your job offerings? Maybe advertising in some of the (bay area, ca) local newspapers for cheap? (ad: tired of renting a tiny one bedroom apartment?)
... the prospect of getting laid off in a low employment area is scary.
So
Get the attention of the person in question
Make sure that your hiring story is really going to be solid with respect to what the midwest has to offer. Make sure you can tell a candidate about all the great activities locally that compete with what the west coast has to offer. I'd have pictures on hand from a recent open house showing what a fantastic house they could own in your area, for what price, and how long it would take them to earn that with your job (also documenting things like what a good neighborhood it was in, with such great schools, no commute, etc.) I'd particularly make sure your story on how your company is never going away is strong
Other than that I haven't much in the way of ideas for you. I would expect it to continue to be challenging to find good IT people in the midwest.
The first poster of content like this is not the redundant one. Check the post numbers and get 'em metamods.
Sadly, I remember the day when it would. Getting too old.
Flamebait? How is an informative answer to the parent flamebait? Follow the link? Get em metamods!
Indeed, I'm unclear on how exactly this would work with audio in a real, noisy environment. Hypothetically a one way function could be devised based on recognizing key cadences or something. You'd have to have some logic to account for environmental noise and distortion somewhere, regardless, so why not do it up front in the phone if there's fast enough hardware available.
Presumably this is just a one-way function (not that i'd trust them on this, but this is how I would implement it if I wanted to do it 'right'). A one way function maps A->B in a way that A is unrecoverable, but always maps A->B, so if, for example, you wanted to know how many people hear the budweiser wassup commercial:
wassup commercial recorded in database -> Z132339944
wassup commercial recorded over your phone -> Z132339944
your random conversation recorded over your phone -> AB33444993
So they receive the following:
Z132339944
AB33444993
They know what a Z132339944, that's the wassup commercial. They have no idea what a AB33444993, so they have no way to find out what your conversation was about.
The NSA offers much better compensation packages than google, and has been working on this stuff for a lot longer.
Troll? Who exactly was being trolled? It may have failed to be funny (or no one got the joke, except for whoever decided it would be funny to mod it interesting, and the followups are quite hilarious), but it clearly was not a troll. Get em metamods!
overrated on a non positively moderated post, get em metamods!
Redundant? This was the first reply of its kind at the time. Get em metamods!
Hey, don't get all whiney just because you can't come up with your own ideas, eh?
Hiring a hit on one guy is easy, but hiring a hit on ~30 guys, who don't all ever meet in one place, is a substantial challenge. Remember, you have to do it all pretty simultaneously, or the victims get wise and start to hire on protection, and then you have escalation and retaliation to worry about.
I'm mildly curious, why is this funny? Did the article have the sic originally, and it got removed later?
Or is assure:
http://www.m-w.com/dictionary/assure
somehow being used incorrectly here?
Give them a break, it's probably student run, and they're just beginners.
Indeed, CalTech is in Southern California, a bit north of Los Angeles. MIT is in Massachussetts, but not near any town of note. The mapquested driving directions between the two covers just under three thousand miles.
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http://www.mapquest.com/directions/main.adp?do=nw
And just in case anyone is unfamiliar with military terminology:e nt=firefox-a&rls=org.mozilla:en-US:official&defl=e n&q=define:Howitzer&sa=X&oi=glossary_definition&ct =title
http://www.google.com/search?hl=en&hs=GwX&lr=&cli
... the social engineering in convincing most people (and silencing the others) that the cannon had not belonged to MIT in the first place, and then been stolen by Caltech. Then it gets really funny when they convince a bunch of MITers to steal it and put it back right where it was in the first place. I mean seriously, who falls for a cannon being native to California? Were we a big part of the civil war?
Windows XP:
go to your wireless icon (there are other ways to get where i'm going, this is the one i know): select view available wireless networks.
in 'related tasks' choose 'change advanced settings' (another way to get to this point, go to network connections, select your wireless network, right click and select properties).
Go to the wireless networks tab.
Click advanced.
Uncheck the box that says 'automatically connect to non-preferred networks'.
And be sure to remove any networks you don't want to connect to from the existing list.
A man that rich doesn't have to settle for a throne made of gold. That'd cost what, a paltry $10 million dollars for a thousand pound throne of gold?
What he has no doubt is a scandium throne, roughly twice as expensive, but surely ten times as comfortable, or maybe it's rhodium, roughly the same price, not quite as comfortable as scandium, but prettier.
I was going to suggest that the post was nothing but FUD designed to keep people from accepting the obvious truth that BG is an evil alien robot bent on the destruction of humankind.
It surely must have been a catchphrase she knew was his favorite. If he told her in advance it was 14 characters, and it was possible for her to guess, she might thereby have guessed it.
ie, if she knows he runs around quoting dirty harry all the time, surely his 14 character password was:
doyoufeellucky
Though you might question whether or not this was really 'strong'.
The security comes when it is no longer legal to buy non drm enforcing hardware, and all the old drm violating hardware breaks down. Note that this will likely take at least 50 more years, if not more. But once that happens, envision the world:
You want to play your drm media. the license is used to decode the stream just in time at your drm speakers/headphones. No where do you get access to the unencrypted digital stream. The speakers that do the translating are even hardened to prevent any sort of soldering strategy.
So now there's no way to intercept the digital stream, what about re-recording the analog output of your speakers? Unfortunately, you can't do that either, because watermarking noise (inaudible to humans) will prevent any legal recording device from recording this analog output. Even worse, should you manage to somehow circumvent this protection with an illegal recording device, you're still screwed because the watermark uniquely identifies that it was your copy that was illegally re-recorded, and by this time the legal atmosphere holds you responsible if your copy of a work is illegally re-recorded.
That's your (scary IMO) DRM future, where breaking DRM has approximated the level of literal impossibility.
It's relevant to the parent poster's claim that the RIAA lawsuits in general are all valid (ie the 'just lawsuits not extortion claim'). It was the parent who diverged from the case in the article, not me.
unless you plan on posting from beyond the grave. :)
And therein lies the fun of the computers I set up to begin posting automatically in the event that I die. I figure that should result in some real freakouts, until somebody tracks them down physically.