I'll first admit my bias toward NATO ammunition for practical reasons like availability and interoperability, but the.45 vs 9mm argument befuddles me. It's a whole 0.095669291 inches wider, so it's suddenly the be-all-end-all of pistol ammunition? I sometimes think people forget the purpose of a handgun is to keep you in the game long enough to get to your rifle and accuracy matters more than the size of the hole. Two rounds of 5.56 will poke a hole in a cinder block wall with twenty-eight left over for the fight; I wouldn't even consider a handgun for that task.
Having RTFA, my first comment is "wow, what a great press release from Symantec."
The sort of anti-spider technology you describe was in place years ago and likely still is; think of the trade value of Monster's data. Now, instead of the traditional overly active account from an identifiable netblock imagine someone using their own zombie network to scrape a single resume/job/data an hour from across a few thousand machines. Wild speculation on my behalf but it's easy to fly under the radar if you try. (There are probably plenty of people competent enough to avoid common active countermeasures, story at eleven.)
When I read one of the comments I thought about this article from Freakonomics in the nytimes. It's lacking the details I'd like but does have vague statements like "Compliance had risen to about 80 percent from 65 percent, but the Joint Commission required 90 percent compliance."
You must have not been old enough to suffer Word/Excel 6 for the Mac. Yeah... I consider Office 98 to be a grand example of Mac integration from Microsoft, but that's from the perspective of Word 6.
For instance, I was called by a recruiter this morning who spent 30 minutes asking stupid questions 99% of which were covered in the CV (resume for yanks)
That's because 99% of the people she called can't answer questions about what's on their resume.
Dear Slashdot Readers, if you lie on your resume don't ever interview with me. I've actually had greater-than-one people say, "Gee I don't know how that got there, that shouldn't be on my resume." If you can't tell me when you last used used RARP and explain why, don't list it, because I have used RARP in conjunction with bootparamd. If you can't explain ATM to me in two sentences, don't list it on your resume just because you happened to log in to one legacy router than ran ATM. If you apply for a senior network engineer position and you can't tell me that two contiguous/24s equal a/23 and how many ones and zeros are in the subnet mask, go read a book.
The reason companies begin phone interviews with ten elementary level insulting questions is because most people fail. If you can provide three answers to "How do I check RAM usage on a Linux box?" they know you're not full of it. A rare gem.
That makes me angry.
Liars make me angry. If you claim you're a CCNA and I ask you what you type to become a privileged user and you can't answer "enable" I become concerned. If I you are unable to answer my next question, "Once I've enabled myself on a Cisco router, how do I configure it from the terminal" (answer: "configure terminal") then you lose.
Incompetent untruthful jobseekers are the reason genuinely skilled workers have to answer least-common-denominator pre-interview questions.
I may actually add "describe your home network setup" to my list of interview questions. I'd never thought of it, and it tells you a lot about people, it seems.
You definitely should... I find the answers to be quite interesting and a look into whether someone is a 9-5 geek or a 24x7 nerd. If the UNIX admin doesn't have an old Ultra sitting around or a NetEng has a WRT54G but hasn't installed OpenWRT/sveasoft/etc I start wondering...
And to be on topic, my home setup has two old P3s and a Mac... OpenBSD at the edge for IPsec and IPv6 and Gentoo for MythTV. I was using a first-gen 12" PowerBook until I broke it recently, now I'm using an Intel iMac and love having a 3250x1200 desktop instead of 1024x768 but the lack of portability sucks.
Oh, and for wireless, there's the an Airport Express for the stereo, an old Netgear for 802.11b, a D-Link for 802.11g, and a Linksys the employer just gave me. Don't try to use channels 1, 6, or 11 around my place.
I guess I should mention the phone has an IP address too.
Possibly putting a submission into a 'Draft' state, then waiting for the user to improve it.
I think that was rejected by Taco a few years ago. I'm a fan of the idea, I like the idea of pre-press feedback k5 style.
I've submitted one story and it was accepted; lucky. It was nice fostering a discussion but I spent time preparing my submission, crafting a headline and choosing a good quote from TFA. I hate the articles that need basic editing (spelling and grammar) or a misleading headline. Sometimes accepted posts just need work.
The argument against it is that Slashdot is a news aggregator that gets large numbers of submissions. There isn't the time to fix bad submissions when there are ten (or 10+n) other better options to choose from.
Here's an example where you can compare development at the Big Dipper roller coaster here in Mission Beach between 1972, 1979, 1987, 2002, and 2004. (The 1989 dataset starts about two miles up the beach).
Staying on topic, here's a nice view of the San Onofre nuclear reactor up the coast in Camp Pendleton before construction, during construction, and as it stands today.
Word.
Has anyone mentioned the awesome features tinydns has that BIND lacks? Or would no one listen because they think DJB is an ass? (auto PTRs, timed record changes, auto serial numbers, you can actually update your dns records without causing a DoS as you HUP named and it takes a minute to scan hundreds of zone files with millions of records...)
I'd bet that you can drive from Maine to California without ever showing your ID to anyone.
Every time I've driven back into California I've had to stop at both the California state inspection station and the permanent Border Patrol checkpoints on the interstate. Once the gaurds see I'm a White Anglo-Saxon I get waved right through (but they're not profiling of course)... but demanding ID is a miniscule step beyond what is already in place. I can't leave this county without passing through Border Patrol. I didn't say country; I said county, inside America.
I just wanted to point out this isn't some ID card we'll have to have on us at all times, and I don't envision checkpoints every 100 miles so big brother can track our movements.
You need to both review recent Supreme Court decisions permitting arrest for failing to provide ID upon demand without probable cause and actually take a trip out here so you can see the checkpoints on the interstates.
When you take that trip to California, be sure to leave your evil firearms at home because this state has chosen to pick and choose the parts of the Constitution it respects, a talent apparently common to many presently in office.
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Can you please start listening on a v6 address?
SMTP and DNS over v6! That's all I want. Hire me in a year, I've been using v6 since it was called NG.
I'll first admit my bias toward NATO ammunition for practical reasons like availability and interoperability, but the .45 vs 9mm argument befuddles me. It's a whole 0.095669291 inches wider, so it's suddenly the be-all-end-all of pistol ammunition? I sometimes think people forget the purpose of a handgun is to keep you in the game long enough to get to your rifle and accuracy matters more than the size of the hole. Two rounds of 5.56 will poke a hole in a cinder block wall with twenty-eight left over for the fight; I wouldn't even consider a handgun for that task.
Awesome.
The sort of anti-spider technology you describe was in place years ago and likely still is; think of the trade value of Monster's data. Now, instead of the traditional overly active account from an identifiable netblock imagine someone using their own zombie network to scrape a single resume/job/data an hour from across a few thousand machines. Wild speculation on my behalf but it's easy to fly under the radar if you try. (There are probably plenty of people competent enough to avoid common active countermeasures, story at eleven.)
When I read one of the comments I thought about this article from Freakonomics in the nytimes. It's lacking the details I'd like but does have vague statements like "Compliance had risen to about 80 percent from 65 percent, but the Joint Commission required 90 percent compliance."
Satan!
But thank you for making the larger point. Can you imagine having to read your email inbox sequentially?
Slander is speech, libel is literary.
That's because 99% of the people she called can't answer questions about what's on their resume.
Dear Slashdot Readers, if you lie on your resume don't ever interview with me. I've actually had greater-than-one people say, "Gee I don't know how that got there, that shouldn't be on my resume." If you can't tell me when you last used used RARP and explain why, don't list it, because I have used RARP in conjunction with bootparamd. If you can't explain ATM to me in two sentences, don't list it on your resume just because you happened to log in to one legacy router than ran ATM. If you apply for a senior network engineer position and you can't tell me that two contiguous /24s equal a /23 and how many ones and zeros are in the subnet mask, go read a book.
The reason companies begin phone interviews with ten elementary level insulting questions is because most people fail. If you can provide three answers to "How do I check RAM usage on a Linux box?" they know you're not full of it. A rare gem.
Liars make me angry. If you claim you're a CCNA and I ask you what you type to become a privileged user and you can't answer "enable" I become concerned. If I you are unable to answer my next question, "Once I've enabled myself on a Cisco router, how do I configure it from the terminal" (answer: "configure terminal") then you lose.Incompetent untruthful jobseekers are the reason genuinely skilled workers have to answer least-common-denominator pre-interview questions.
You definitely should... I find the answers to be quite interesting and a look into whether someone is a 9-5 geek or a 24x7 nerd. If the UNIX admin doesn't have an old Ultra sitting around or a NetEng has a WRT54G but hasn't installed OpenWRT/sveasoft/etc I start wondering...
And to be on topic, my home setup has two old P3s and a Mac... OpenBSD at the edge for IPsec and IPv6 and Gentoo for MythTV. I was using a first-gen 12" PowerBook until I broke it recently, now I'm using an Intel iMac and love having a 3250x1200 desktop instead of 1024x768 but the lack of portability sucks.
Oh, and for wireless, there's the an Airport Express for the stereo, an old Netgear for 802.11b, a D-Link for 802.11g, and a Linksys the employer just gave me. Don't try to use channels 1, 6, or 11 around my place.
I guess I should mention the phone has an IP address too.
oh god no! I still don't understand the basic international icons for laundry instructions on my clothes.
I think that was rejected by Taco a few years ago. I'm a fan of the idea, I like the idea of pre-press feedback k5 style.
I've submitted one story and it was accepted; lucky. It was nice fostering a discussion but I spent time preparing my submission, crafting a headline and choosing a good quote from TFA. I hate the articles that need basic editing (spelling and grammar) or a misleading headline. Sometimes accepted posts just need work.
The argument against it is that Slashdot is a news aggregator that gets large numbers of submissions. There isn't the time to fix bad submissions when there are ten (or 10+n) other better options to choose from.
That was awesome. Thanks.
Words, words, words.
Brilliant.
(As a religious studies major myself I should probably contribute more than that but ... uh I have to work and stuff.)
Here's an example where you can compare development at the Big Dipper roller coaster here in Mission Beach between 1972, 1979, 1987, 2002, and 2004. (The 1989 dataset starts about two miles up the beach).
Staying on topic, here's a nice view of the San Onofre nuclear reactor up the coast in Camp Pendleton before construction, during construction, and as it stands today.
Word. Has anyone mentioned the awesome features tinydns has that BIND lacks? Or would no one listen because they think DJB is an ass? (auto PTRs, timed record changes, auto serial numbers, you can actually update your dns records without causing a DoS as you HUP named and it takes a minute to scan hundreds of zone files with millions of records...)
Every time I've driven back into California I've had to stop at both the California state inspection station and the permanent Border Patrol checkpoints on the interstate. Once the gaurds see I'm a White Anglo-Saxon I get waved right through (but they're not profiling of course)... but demanding ID is a miniscule step beyond what is already in place. I can't leave this county without passing through Border Patrol. I didn't say country; I said county, inside America.
You need to both review recent Supreme Court decisions permitting arrest for failing to provide ID upon demand without probable cause and actually take a trip out here so you can see the checkpoints on the interstates.
When you take that trip to California, be sure to leave your evil firearms at home because this state has chosen to pick and choose the parts of the Constitution it respects, a talent apparently common to many presently in office.
Wow, that was a useful comment. Thanks for your input. I'm sure the original poster will find it to be of use. Why are you so bitter?
Recent? If by recent you meant 1997 to 2012.
After I laughed I realized some might not... laugh with me. But it was a funny way to cap the story.
1000 miles = 10 ms one way, to attach some (useful) trivia I learned from a cisco voip class back in 98 or 99.