This book by Adam Barr (available online here) talks about the Microsoft interview process and how the dynamic evolved, including some discussion on trick questions.
Just heard this on NPR this morning. Bruce Willis, the famous American thespian, was found dead in his home this morning. Even if you never met him in person you've probably enjoyed one of his movies. What a loss. Truly an American icon. And, of course, now we're all fucked because we don't have anybody to send up there to deal with this Asteroid.
(C'mon, at least give me a +1 funny for calling Bruce Willis a "thespian"...:D)
Seriously, though, if you believe that corporatism on the Internet is evil and must be fought, then surely supporting an underground resistance movement to fight and deface the corporate internet presence is a valid response?
Consider -- you read something like Thoreau's commentary on civil disobedience and he basically says that paying your taxes under an unjust regime is in itself a crime, and NOT paying your taxes is a virtue. Now, considering that our options for resisting the corporate takeover are non-existent since laws and social institutions are in place to enable their power (ie: automatic deduction of taxes from income, which the government distributes to corporations as it sees fit (in other words, corporate socialism)) there is no way to deny them the money they feel is owed to them, as Thoreau says he thinks we should do. In that sense, can we not regard this as theft as retalliate accordingly?
For instance, if a company is promoting immoral behaviour and has a web presence, is it not justifiable to go after their web presence, if this is the only way I can fight back?
(Don't mind me, I'm just trying to see how fast I can get "wrinkledshirt" into an FBI file.)
Comments: If you've got a programming background, this website is all you need. If you don't have a programming background, an introductory book and this website is all you need.
Comments: The first place I ever pointed my students to for SQL and probably the perfect quick source for anything up until the level of stored procedures, transactions, etc., which vary depending on the DB implementation anyway.
Comments: Lots of book reviews on a bunch of topics. To be honest, I still haven't seen a website that covers these three languages as well as good books do.
After all this, hone your google and google.groups skills and you should be able to solve any problem.
Do you believe that all Linux distributions should use such a friendly series of dialog boxes in order to attract more users to Linux?
Actually, the type of interface is less important to me -- I'd just be happy if it were all done the same. In the end, I think what's keeping users away from Linux isn't the pretty boxes so much as the feeling that there's WAY too much to learn. Ximian can only go so far to remedy that.
The question being discussed was DOD's dependency on NASA.
Which can be documented in DOD's use of NASA's research for such things as wind-tunnel testing and troubleshooting delivery of orbital systems. Specifically, NASA does much of the long-term research about space deployment that the DoD and the USAF cannot do.
NASA certainly uses the system...
Granted, it was an overstatement to say that NASA was behind the GPS, but to say it has nothing to do with GPS seems an overstatement in itself considering NASA's collaboration with the USAF on things like the MightySat program, in which NASA has been in charge of delivery and which had in one of its missions GPS testing, not to mention the commercial involvement (of which NASA plays a huge part) which will help in the modernization of GPS systems in the future.
Sorry, the link was specifically about the military's use of GPS, not NASA's specific involvement.
As for this...
NASA has little or nothing to do with GPS.
Am I to understand that the NASA Global GPS Network, the NASA Global Differentiation GPS, and the NASA GPS Application Exchange all have little or nothing to do with NASA?
NASA doesn't deliver satellites for the military anymore.
My understanding was that NASA was behind GPS, which is in active use by the military. See here. Quote: "The US military uses GPS for aircraft and naval navigation, as a component of missile guidance systems, and to track troops and equipment."
As well, this article talks about how NASA and the military are working together on joint projects.
Oh, and there are more producers of launch vehicles than there are producers of x86 compatible processors.
Let's drop this analogy -- I was trying to point out that it was a bad one to begin with. The poster was comparing NASA to a courier.
I'm not going to go so far as to say this article is FUD, but I've got some questions about the way they (as well as the mi2g article it's based upon) present their information.
1. Does an attack mean there's a successful exploit? Or is it just an attack?
2. Is the rise due to the fact that Linux is constantly becoming a more popular server OS, and there are more and more instances of Linux out there to attack?
3. Early on they talk about attacks against Linux, and later they talk about government sites "succumbing to attacks". Do these mean the same thing?
(C'mon, step right up and get yer +1 Informatives by answering these questions;)
We should probably apologize in advance about the Backstreet Boys, N'Sync, New Kids on the Block...
You know, since their annoying yet catchy music has probably burned itself into our DNA and our descendents will all be walking around in girly-boy outfits with atrocious haircuts and humming poorly-written ballads in harmony...
No, seriously. Am I the only one who sees this?
(As an aside, I always wanted to do a First Person Shooter where the premise is, a guy is given the opportunity to visit the future, and when he returns, he has this crazed look in his eye, and he gasps, "Kill them! We have to kill them NOW! While we still have a fighting chance! For the LOVE of GOD, KILL ALL THE BOYBANDS NOW!!!" etc. etc.)
Some questions I have are...
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1. How would we feel if our enemies had this capability?
2. If such a military approach is taken, can we morally object to the inevitable acts of terrorism necessary to break up our societal infrastructure needed to support such an approach? Consider that if IT completely governs our fighting forces, our university IT departments are now legitimate military targets. Suddenly, the Humanities department is regrettable collateral damage.
3. Are we completely comfortable in our hacker-proofing capabilities in other aspects of technology that we can say that such soldiers would not be a safety concern to everybody (including ourselves)?
4. How many real-life soldiers will be put out of a job by this? How will our need for reservists be affected by this?
Anyone know if there's a simple explanation of this?
Yeah. You can't trust corporate media.
Of course, now that I've said that, all the MSNBC apologists are going to come out of the woodwork saying that MSNBC is one of the most vocal anti-Microsoft media venues out there.
Truth be told, there are contradictory stances that creep up, with some of the stories showing that sort of anti-MS criticism, and other stories that are blatantly pro-MS or anti-anti-MS.
If patterns hold up, MSNBC will eventually buckle under MS's will, as is what usually happens when a corporation takes control of the media, while usually trying to maintain the guise of impartiality. (Truth be told, I was convinced this happened a long time ago when they published an editorial that talked about how MS wasn't really a monopoly precisely the day before the findings of fact ruled otherwise. Subsequent critical articles seem to say otherwise.)
Until then, you've got a sort of weird schizophrenic thing going on with MSNBC that certainly is both confusing and fascinating. Perhaps they've gone all Sun Tzu and decided upon a formless approach to news, and that would certainly make them unique in a day when media bends over backwards to make its biases known to its corporate masters.
Crediting the Hyperwar technology to NASA is like giving UPS or FedEx credit for an Athlon they delivered.
Not quite. Anybody can deliver an Athlon. Not anybody can deliver a satellite into orbit. NASA is an important and currently irreplacable cog in the United States military machine.
Unless you're going to try to sell me on the idea that the U.S. military stopped using NASA to send up satellites a while ago...
They really havent done anything ground-breaking lately.
Well, they kind of have, you just haven't noticed it directly. Consider that the way America wages war (coined "Hyperwar") involves sending overwhelming waves of missiles and striking targets with a ferocity that nobody can effectively react to. This form of warfare is becoming increasingly reliant on satellites for communications.
In other words, your largely unopposed war in Afghanistan is testament to what NASA has done lately.
"Cuts" is such a harsh characterization. Better to consider it a "trickle-down" approach to scientific funding. It works universally (as repeatedly proven with economics, social development and most sciences) except in zero-g atmospheres, where things don't exactly "trickle".
Boy, I just flew in here, and boy, are my arms tired.
[audience laughter]
Thank you, thank you, you guys are so nice.
The question is, what does this mean for Linux -- how will Microsoft exercise their "rights"?
Oh, no doubt they're just being protective of their property and make sure that this aspect of the software ecosystem is managed responsibly and openly. I doubt they'll use this for leverage over independent vendors.
Ever considered combining PHP with C-based CGI? I found that opens up a lot of doors. I'd wanted to do something similar to what you were doing, mainly, doing some socket work with PHP to talk to a search engine running in the background, and I wasn't comfortable with what PHP offered.
Still, I found I could pass off the PHP search page to a C-based CGI page that itself connected to the search engine, and then after getting the results pass that back to a PHP page for the search results rendering, and it worked pretty well.
Is that sort of solution unrealistic in the enterprise environment?
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This book by Adam Barr (available online here) talks about the Microsoft interview process and how the dynamic evolved, including some discussion on trick questions.
The wording's loose enough that it could be branded as terrorism. That'll get you the death penalty.
Just heard this on NPR this morning. Bruce Willis, the famous American thespian, was found dead in his home this morning. Even if you never met him in person you've probably enjoyed one of his movies. What a loss. Truly an American icon. And, of course, now we're all fucked because we don't have anybody to send up there to deal with this Asteroid.
:D)
(C'mon, at least give me a +1 funny for calling Bruce Willis a "thespian"...
Just do what Machiavell- I mean, Theo De Raadt would do.
Go here for a text version.
Mark this one under -1 Subversive...
Seriously, though, if you believe that corporatism on the Internet is evil and must be fought, then surely supporting an underground resistance movement to fight and deface the corporate internet presence is a valid response?
Consider -- you read something like Thoreau's commentary on civil disobedience and he basically says that paying your taxes under an unjust regime is in itself a crime, and NOT paying your taxes is a virtue. Now, considering that our options for resisting the corporate takeover are non-existent since laws and social institutions are in place to enable their power (ie: automatic deduction of taxes from income, which the government distributes to corporations as it sees fit (in other words, corporate socialism)) there is no way to deny them the money they feel is owed to them, as Thoreau says he thinks we should do. In that sense, can we not regard this as theft as retalliate accordingly?
For instance, if a company is promoting immoral behaviour and has a web presence, is it not justifiable to go after their web presence, if this is the only way I can fight back?
(Don't mind me, I'm just trying to see how fast I can get "wrinkledshirt" into an FBI file.)
Heh.
It's "Free" as in "Fascism".
PHP: PHP.net
Comments: If you've got a programming background, this website is all you need. If you don't have a programming background, an introductory book and this website is all you need.
HTML, Javascript, DHTML, XML, DTD, etc.: W3Schools.com
Comments: Good introductions to a ton of topics on the left-hand side.
SQL: SQLCourse.com
Comments: The first place I ever pointed my students to for SQL and probably the perfect quick source for anything up until the level of stored procedures, transactions, etc., which vary depending on the DB implementation anyway.
C++/C/Java textbooks: ACCU.org
Comments: Lots of book reviews on a bunch of topics. To be honest, I still haven't seen a website that covers these three languages as well as good books do.
After all this, hone your google and google.groups skills and you should be able to solve any problem.
Do you believe that all Linux distributions should use such a friendly series of dialog boxes in order to attract more users to Linux?
Actually, the type of interface is less important to me -- I'd just be happy if it were all done the same. In the end, I think what's keeping users away from Linux isn't the pretty boxes so much as the feeling that there's WAY too much to learn. Ximian can only go so far to remedy that.
The question being discussed was DOD's dependency on NASA.
Which can be documented in DOD's use of NASA's research for such things as wind-tunnel testing and troubleshooting delivery of orbital systems. Specifically, NASA does much of the long-term research about space deployment that the DoD and the USAF cannot do.
NASA certainly uses the system...
Granted, it was an overstatement to say that NASA was behind the GPS, but to say it has nothing to do with GPS seems an overstatement in itself considering NASA's collaboration with the USAF on things like the MightySat program, in which NASA has been in charge of delivery and which had in one of its missions GPS testing, not to mention the commercial involvement (of which NASA plays a huge part) which will help in the modernization of GPS systems in the future.
Sorry, the link was specifically about the military's use of GPS, not NASA's specific involvement.
As for this...
NASA has little or nothing to do with GPS.
Am I to understand that the NASA Global GPS Network, the NASA Global Differentiation GPS, and the NASA GPS Application Exchange all have little or nothing to do with NASA?
NASA doesn't deliver satellites for the military anymore.
My understanding was that NASA was behind GPS, which is in active use by the military. See here. Quote: "The US military uses GPS for aircraft and naval navigation, as a component of missile guidance systems, and to track troops and equipment."
As well, this article talks about how NASA and the military are working together on joint projects.
Oh, and there are more producers of launch vehicles than there are producers of x86 compatible processors.
Let's drop this analogy -- I was trying to point out that it was a bad one to begin with. The poster was comparing NASA to a courier.
I'm not going to go so far as to say this article is FUD, but I've got some questions about the way they (as well as the mi2g article it's based upon) present their information.
;)
1. Does an attack mean there's a successful exploit? Or is it just an attack?
2. Is the rise due to the fact that Linux is constantly becoming a more popular server OS, and there are more and more instances of Linux out there to attack?
3. Early on they talk about attacks against Linux, and later they talk about government sites "succumbing to attacks". Do these mean the same thing?
(C'mon, step right up and get yer +1 Informatives by answering these questions
We should probably apologize in advance about the Backstreet Boys, N'Sync, New Kids on the Block...
You know, since their annoying yet catchy music has probably burned itself into our DNA and our descendents will all be walking around in girly-boy outfits with atrocious haircuts and humming poorly-written ballads in harmony...
No, seriously. Am I the only one who sees this?
(As an aside, I always wanted to do a First Person Shooter where the premise is, a guy is given the opportunity to visit the future, and when he returns, he has this crazed look in his eye, and he gasps, "Kill them! We have to kill them NOW! While we still have a fighting chance! For the LOVE of GOD, KILL ALL THE BOYBANDS NOW!!!" etc. etc.)
1. How would we feel if our enemies had this capability?
2. If such a military approach is taken, can we morally object to the inevitable acts of terrorism necessary to break up our societal infrastructure needed to support such an approach? Consider that if IT completely governs our fighting forces, our university IT departments are now legitimate military targets. Suddenly, the Humanities department is regrettable collateral damage.
3. Are we completely comfortable in our hacker-proofing capabilities in other aspects of technology that we can say that such soldiers would not be a safety concern to everybody (including ourselves)?
4. How many real-life soldiers will be put out of a job by this? How will our need for reservists be affected by this?
Anyone know if there's a simple explanation of this?
Yeah. You can't trust corporate media.
Of course, now that I've said that, all the MSNBC apologists are going to come out of the woodwork saying that MSNBC is one of the most vocal anti-Microsoft media venues out there.
Truth be told, there are contradictory stances that creep up, with some of the stories showing that sort of anti-MS criticism, and other stories that are blatantly pro-MS or anti-anti-MS.
If patterns hold up, MSNBC will eventually buckle under MS's will, as is what usually happens when a corporation takes control of the media, while usually trying to maintain the guise of impartiality. (Truth be told, I was convinced this happened a long time ago when they published an editorial that talked about how MS wasn't really a monopoly precisely the day before the findings of fact ruled otherwise. Subsequent critical articles seem to say otherwise.)
Until then, you've got a sort of weird schizophrenic thing going on with MSNBC that certainly is both confusing and fascinating. Perhaps they've gone all Sun Tzu and decided upon a formless approach to news, and that would certainly make them unique in a day when media bends over backwards to make its biases known to its corporate masters.
Crediting the Hyperwar technology to NASA is like giving UPS or FedEx credit for an Athlon they delivered.
Not quite. Anybody can deliver an Athlon. Not anybody can deliver a satellite into orbit. NASA is an important and currently irreplacable cog in the United States military machine.
Unless you're going to try to sell me on the idea that the U.S. military stopped using NASA to send up satellites a while ago...
They really havent done anything ground-breaking lately.
Well, they kind of have, you just haven't noticed it directly. Consider that the way America wages war (coined "Hyperwar") involves sending overwhelming waves of missiles and striking targets with a ferocity that nobody can effectively react to. This form of warfare is becoming increasingly reliant on satellites for communications.
In other words, your largely unopposed war in Afghanistan is testament to what NASA has done lately.
"Cuts" is such a harsh characterization. Better to consider it a "trickle-down" approach to scientific funding. It works universally (as repeatedly proven with economics, social development and most sciences) except in zero-g atmospheres, where things don't exactly "trickle".
</facetious>
Full text of Proudly Serving my Corporate Masters here...
Just in case you wanted some more insight into working for the company. Fascinating stuff.
Boy, I just flew in here, and boy, are my arms tired.
[audience laughter]
Thank you, thank you, you guys are so nice.
The question is, what does this mean for Linux -- how will Microsoft exercise their "rights"?
Oh, no doubt they're just being protective of their property and make sure that this aspect of the software ecosystem is managed responsibly and openly. I doubt they'll use this for leverage over independent vendors.
[audience laughter]
Thank you! I'm here all week!
Here Taco tries to be funny...
imagine the possible pickup lines involving joysticks, buttons, and playing with them!
The potential for being beaten on the streets is just amazing!
"beaten" indeed. Pervert.
Years from now, law students are going to have to remember the names of groundbreaking cases that formed the latest incarnation of IP law...
RIAA v. l33t d0Wn104d3r
RIAA v. i oWnz j00
RIAA v. cr4pfl00d3r
Can't wait to see how those textbooks handle it...
Ever considered combining PHP with C-based CGI? I found that opens up a lot of doors. I'd wanted to do something similar to what you were doing, mainly, doing some socket work with PHP to talk to a search engine running in the background, and I wasn't comfortable with what PHP offered.
Still, I found I could pass off the PHP search page to a C-based CGI page that itself connected to the search engine, and then after getting the results pass that back to a PHP page for the search results rendering, and it worked pretty well.
Is that sort of solution unrealistic in the enterprise environment?
First they ignore you...
Then they laugh at you...
Then they fight you...
Then...