>> unaddressed in this patent, is whether we want our individual personal data to be tagged, filed, and logged without permission or choice
I'm not sure that you have any expectation of privacy in this case. You're putting videos on the internet at your own will or you are in a public setting where you are being filmed. I'm not sure if things like parties are considered to be private affairs or public outings or whatever and if you can expect that your actions will be kept secret from the world or not. Either way, I don't think that you can expect much. But, I'm not a lawyer, so I don't know. However, I wouldn't expect that any part of my life that I freely share with the world in anyway should be kept private unless it was agreed to beforehand.
Also, with regards to Google in general, I think your permission is granted when you use Google services. When this goes live, and you don't want to participate, you can delete your youtube account and host it somewhere else. Maybe a place with more privacy control. For people who are caught in it because their friend posted a video, well, I think that kind of pertains to my babbling in the first paragraph.
How long have you used Windows?
What is your experience like?
Why Windows?
Would you be willing to steal a pair of your mom's panties for me?
In this situation, how would you trouble shoot the problem? then focus more on HOW and why, if they have trouble answering the WHY you'll get some clues as to what they do and don't actually know and what is just memorized.
Hands on:
Give them a windows machine, make them install a service.
make them change the service port number
If the server has to connect to unix servers, make them interface with a unix server.
There's a ton of stuff you can ask them and they can give you a general vague answer that sounds good. But MAKE them do some work in front of you to prove themselves. Software and QA Engineers have to, in fact we also have to do things like know the run-time complexity often and explain the solution. I don't know why this interview would go any different than you'd give a unix user, just change the OS.
A good thing is to ask them questions and have the hands on compliment the questions.
In most trade studies its actually found to NOT be cheaper to go with Linux like most people think it would be. Especially if you're connected to any type of government agency, the price almost triples. When you buy a Mac what you got is unbelievably good hardware, a unix-like OS and enough tools to do your job.
So it's not actually a good deal to use Linux in the office. There has to be something about it that is worth while for you. It's not really more cost effective.
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I need to be clear, that I'm not an Apple hater, I just don't know what happened to them. I used Apple since the Powerbook G3 Wallstreet. Until this year.
What drives people like me away from it, is the propriatary nonsense. I recently sold my 2011 Macbook Pro that I bought just last November. Why? Can't use my 24" LG monitor with it, well, I can, but I can't get native resolution. It isn't supported. I called Apple, they said, "Sup you broke bitch? You wanna use a non-Apple product? fuck off, we're sending the death squad to your house right now, better call your mom and say goodbye." Not to mention, Lion.... I'm going to tell you, I had to spend hours, resetting all the hotkeys that used to be default, finding out how to re-expose servers and folders in the finder and a whole bunch of other crap that they removed or hid from you.
At work, I actually ended up Opting for a Windows computer and just used Cygwin and Xming. Macports is SOOOOO slow. Why does it take 2 hours to install VIM plugins? The GUIs for it are just as bad.
Not to mention, now that I work from home, working for an open source company now and I quit my job with the windows pc. I have a slow internet connection. So, I can't even reinstall the OS. It times out. I can't install anything, because it takes decades. Why would I need to reinstall the OS? Well, I was doing an update and the network connection timed out and guess what? It crashed and I was stuck with a broken OS. No joke. I had to go to my old college, plug in on a port I knew to be open and sit there for 45 mins trying to not look suspicious while my OS reinstalls.
Also, can't play League of Legends on a Mac, LOLOLOL FFFF HoN. Can't play it on You-bun-too either though:(
Would he be facing the same 15 years if he hacked into Bob's Computer Shack's servers? Or do they consider it more severe because sony has more money and more clients? Is there some equation they use that determines "you stole this much data, so you do this many years in prison" ?
Most of the sentences these days that have to do with computer related crimes seem outrageous.
I'd understand if it got people killed. But what Sony has is banking information. Most banks have mechanisms to mitigate damage ( I used to play a tank in WoW - Dwarf warrior, so gangster) in the case where your money/information is stolen. They will reissue your card, give you new account numbers, whatever it takes. Sony shouldn't have private information like SSNs, so I'm not too sure what everyone is worried about. Unless you're afraid Lulzsec is selling your home address to that kid you kept calling a fgt on COD and he's actually gonna kill you like he was screaming he would.
What should happen is something like this:
Dear Sony Customer,
We left our gaping hole exposed and we lost your data.
Here are the details that you should be worried about and
that you'll need to provide to your bank. Please check your shit.
Sorry we fucked up, keep buying our crap.
Hugs and Kisses,
Sony Entertainment
But it won't, because they want to play the victim. Shit, if Lulzsec got it, some other hacking group probably had it before them and have been buying viagra on your cards for months.
Anyway, there's my daily rant. Windows Sucks, Linux Rules, OPEN SOURCE FOR LIFE!!!
Science isn't important to everyone, so they won't care about this. You can live your entire life without knowing where humanity came from or how your iphone works. For the most part, you're asking the masses to care about a niche topic that most people don't give a shit about. Once they get past high school science, they don't want to step into another science classroom again, then they get bummed out in college cuz they gotta take animal biology or something.
I know people who don't believe in God or care about science at the same time. If you ask them about evolution they'll tell you they don't care. If you ask them about science facts they'll laugh at you and call you a nerd or whatever then buy you a beer.
I know the argument will be, "well their religion is impeding on our right to science," but look at it from another perspective. What has science really given us?
-Ok, we fill space with pieces of metal with cameras.
-We made cars and electricity that are now polluting our world beyond belief.
-It increased the lifespan of humans and survivability which may or may not be leading to overpopulation, dwindling resources per capita, global warming, etc.
-Gave us better ways to kill eachother.
Most of the pros can also be seen as cons. I did a fellowship researching green energy and the question that always came up, was "what is the total impact on the environment?" We'd look at things that we think to be clean, but ask the question, "is the manufacturing/disposal process clean?" and so on...
The point is, science is only important to people who think it's important. A lot of people will say it's bad because of the total impact its had on this world. The same can be said for religion. I'm an agnostic, if it's not clear, but I'm starting to care less and less about which side is right, because I'm not sure it will really matter who is right. It's not like there will be a huge "in your face, you're wrong parade" by either side if God were to return to earth or be completely disproven somehow and everyone who was right will inherit a billion dollars or something. It's kind of a pointless fight.
Ah, well, neither are preferable for the mere crime of downloading thirty songs. When I said that I understand what you're going for what I meant is that a small mark of shame deterring people from continuing such behavior is adequate. When you stole that small bit from that store the shame given to you was adequate to deter you from future actions - banning from ALL stores was not necessary.
I was simply stating that such a preferable action is not readily available in today's internet environment ("banning from one store" is not entirely possible). Not to mention that banning complete internet access for several years can be completely damning to an individual. Almost all job applications and communications are done online these days.
I agree with your sentiment, it's just that I don't think it translates particularly well to our modern internet life (unfortunately...or fortunately, depending who you talk to).
Yeah, it's the difference between shame and blame cultures. Oh well, big money rules and capitalism works.
I can understand what you're going for but to use your analogy that would be like if you were banned from ALL stores when you were a child.
Would you rather be banned from all stores for a few years or pay $675,000 ?
What this would do to you is, every time you need things, food, clothes, utility items like batteries, small snacks, anything, you have to inconvenience someone. After a while, they're going to get annoyed and you're going to feel peer pressure to not screw up again. Once that pressure sinks in, you're going to start thinking was it worth it? Should I do it again? Rather than being handed a bill that you'll most likely never be able to pay off.
Even your family will start to get irritated with you and you'll probably not want to do that again, because no one will likely want to help you out the second time around.
I'm not sure how they can say you owe $675,000 for stealing roughly $30 worth of products. If I stole 3 CDs from Wallmart, would I also be charged $675,000? What if I stole $30 from someone? I am not familiar with the case, but I don't see on here that he stole with the intent to undermine future sales of that company, causing significant losses.
I got caught stealing when I was younger. What happened to me was they recovered their items and I was banned from the store until I became an adult. Maybe they should just ban him from having access to these types of things, like making it illegal for him to have internet in his home, instead of an outrageous fine that most people can't afford.
May as well just start hanging people for stealing music/movies.
Adolf Hitler's secret Nazi base will finally be revealed ( source[totally legit]: http://youtu.be/EcZOQWRMnCc ) and we can use his portal to enter Atlantis.
There's a lot of Pros to having an eReader, the most important is that you can carry your entire library everywhere you go in less than 2 lbs. Good luck toting your bookcase around. It's ultra portable and easy to read.
However, I found from using tablets and eReaders for reading that there is a lot of cons to them too. They may be personal pet-peeves, but they drove me to going back to printed books and papers.
Based on what you have posted in the main title, here's what I have to say. Do not get an eReader or a Tablet here's my experience with an iPad and a Kindle DX. Referencing pdfs is horrible. Here's my main beefs:
1. lack of quality indexing capabilities (ie, intuitive bookmarking), I never found anything that would let me easily go between pages without remembering the page numbers. When I did find it in the Kindle DX, it didn't let me name the pages anything meaningful, it was just like "Book title (page, #)".
2. Side-by-side comparison does not exist. You cannot have two pages open to compare different books.
3. 1 and 2 imply that it's very hard to reference 2 pages of the same book at once. You have to wait for it to either load, or scroll back, or spend a lot of time setting up the awful book marking scheme.
4. Kindle had horrible zoom features when using pdfs. It had these pre-determined zooms you could use. It would render full size pages too small to read, then if you zoomed in, it would shove some text off the side and you'd have to scroll over to see it. The horizontal view was your best bet a lot of times but still required you to scroll (which is an awful experience on the kindle).
5. iPad blasts your eyes with white light. This is very un-natural and after a while I started getting headaches. Even using the polarized view, it was still obnoxious. Because it's still back lit.
After 2 years of trying to get one of these things to suit my needs, I just quit and went back to killing trees. What I'll often do is print sections of the pdf I want to read and annotate.
For referencing with eReaders/tablets what we really need is a viewer that is more like a search engine, like if wolframalpha released a pdf reader or something. That we could ask it questions and based on the knowledge of the book, it could formulate an answer. Until then, it really sucks because the search functions are slow, the indexing is bad, the bookmarking is bad, the attempt at hyperlinking is ok but not great and overall, it doesn't satisfy what we really need for referencing material.
So, since you're just reading 2 hours a day, just use your laptop or a real book. There's no need to waste money on something like this. You can download the kindle client for free on your computer.
But if you want to get into novels, get a kindle, it's great for that.
Or their children who were born with birth defects...
Exactly. It's a life-time battle just for a US Vietnam Vet to prove he was in the place he was in at the time this shit got sprayed on them, let alone get help for their children.
I can't imagine slowly dying of cancer and know that their children are 2nd generation casualties of this shit. This goes for both sides of the battlefield.
Man, ultra late reply here, but that's part of my point and a major part of it. Every time they upgrade, they have to factor in the deployment and training costs.
I remember receiving a huge shipment of win7 pcs, right when win7 came out and the IT dept sat around installing win XP on them, because that's what they support.
Every time I fly and am faced with a body scanner, I make a big stink about how I want a pat down. I make the stink loud enough that it shocks 1 or 2 people into doing the same. I say things like, "I read the MIT/Standford/Yale reports that these have not been deemed safe." Putting that little bit of fear in others who are less technically inclined but know who MIT/Standford/Yale is will sometimes follow you through a pat down.
And to add insult to injury, I wear my megusta face during the pat down.
The United States of America was founded by people fighting the law, with guns and swords no less. The text books call it "oppression" but it was the laws that they were bound to and they just decided that they didn't like it anymore. Isn't that pretty relevant to what's happening now?
We shouldn't be surprised by that. However, he threatened to kill him, that's grounds for arrest here in California as well. I'm not opposed to what happened to this guy, its another case of people believing they're untouchable online.
Do I agree with how the law can be abused? No
Do I agree with how it was used in this case? Yes
Obvious choices, join the DoD: Airforce, Navy, Marine Corps, Army, NSA is hiring a lot of computer scientists right now.
In the private world, what I've found is if you want to constantly be moving around, etc, you need to be on some sort of research team where your presence is required somewhere. The sad thing is, just cuz you're out at a lake deploying a wireless-sensor network doesn't mean you're doing anything more than you would by sitting at an office, you're just outside, which is nice. It's a little more active but I'm not sure it will keep you in shape.
I had the same thought and came to the conclusion that the only way to stay active is to change my life-style. Get into a sport that challenges you mentally. My friends and I all do brazillian jiu-jitsu (I will recommend Gracie-Barra Pasadena). BJJ is basically the same meta-game as chess, so it challenges you mentally and of course physically. Until most people try it, they don't get what I'm saying. But you get cardio and strength training in 1 hour and you learn a sport that you can continue to do no matter your age and stay in great shape. A lot of people get turned off by the "bro" guys running around in Tap-Out shirts, but you can find a school where they're not at, just avoid studios with "blood", "massacre", "fight club", etc in the name.
I saw someone recommend riding your bike to work. That's a good option too.
Encourage their students to watch it and get the general idea as homework one night, teach a follow up lesson the next day and then give a homework on that topic that evening. The more exposure to the material the better.
One of my best math teachers in college used to encourage us to watch these types of videos, once he gave us an assignment where the guy in the video was doing something wrong. Our assignment was to find out what he was doing wrong and write up what he should have done that would make it correct.
Modern teachers always bitch about not enough resources or time to do things... well here's your resource, it's often free and accessible, take advantage of it.
That's because of politics and budgets. Most companies do not budget upgrading their OS very often. They poor a lot of money into deployment and training to keep it up and running. They can't afford to just switch OS after that kind of investment, which is why XP is still running all over in business and at universities, not because they think it's superior.
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Not sure why a website devoted to laughter is considered dark.
>> unaddressed in this patent, is whether we want our individual personal data to be tagged, filed, and logged without permission or choice
I'm not sure that you have any expectation of privacy in this case. You're putting videos on the internet at your own will or you are in a public setting where you are being filmed. I'm not sure if things like parties are considered to be private affairs or public outings or whatever and if you can expect that your actions will be kept secret from the world or not. Either way, I don't think that you can expect much. But, I'm not a lawyer, so I don't know. However, I wouldn't expect that any part of my life that I freely share with the world in anyway should be kept private unless it was agreed to beforehand.
Also, with regards to Google in general, I think your permission is granted when you use Google services. When this goes live, and you don't want to participate, you can delete your youtube account and host it somewhere else. Maybe a place with more privacy control. For people who are caught in it because their friend posted a video, well, I think that kind of pertains to my babbling in the first paragraph.
How long have you used Windows?
What is your experience like?
Why Windows?
Would you be willing to steal a pair of your mom's panties for me?
In this situation, how would you trouble shoot the problem? then focus more on HOW and why, if they have trouble answering the WHY you'll get some clues as to what they do and don't actually know and what is just memorized.
Hands on:
Give them a windows machine, make them install a service.
make them change the service port number
If the server has to connect to unix servers, make them interface with a unix server.
There's a ton of stuff you can ask them and they can give you a general vague answer that sounds good. But MAKE them do some work in front of you to prove themselves. Software and QA Engineers have to, in fact we also have to do things like know the run-time complexity often and explain the solution. I don't know why this interview would go any different than you'd give a unix user, just change the OS.
A good thing is to ask them questions and have the hands on compliment the questions.
Good luck to the steam guys trying to build on this sea of swirling open source maelstrom :)
I was under the impression they're only targetting Ubuntu. At least that's where I saw all the demos running. Who knows... super tux for life.
In most trade studies its actually found to NOT be cheaper to go with Linux like most people think it would be. Especially if you're connected to any type of government agency, the price almost triples. When you buy a Mac what you got is unbelievably good hardware, a unix-like OS and enough tools to do your job.
:(
So it's not actually a good deal to use Linux in the office. There has to be something about it that is worth while for you. It's not really more cost effective.
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I need to be clear, that I'm not an Apple hater, I just don't know what happened to them. I used Apple since the Powerbook G3 Wallstreet. Until this year. What drives people like me away from it, is the propriatary nonsense. I recently sold my 2011 Macbook Pro that I bought just last November. Why? Can't use my 24" LG monitor with it, well, I can, but I can't get native resolution. It isn't supported. I called Apple, they said, "Sup you broke bitch? You wanna use a non-Apple product? fuck off, we're sending the death squad to your house right now, better call your mom and say goodbye." Not to mention, Lion.... I'm going to tell you, I had to spend hours, resetting all the hotkeys that used to be default, finding out how to re-expose servers and folders in the finder and a whole bunch of other crap that they removed or hid from you.
At work, I actually ended up Opting for a Windows computer and just used Cygwin and Xming. Macports is SOOOOO slow. Why does it take 2 hours to install VIM plugins? The GUIs for it are just as bad.
Not to mention, now that I work from home, working for an open source company now and I quit my job with the windows pc. I have a slow internet connection. So, I can't even reinstall the OS. It times out. I can't install anything, because it takes decades. Why would I need to reinstall the OS? Well, I was doing an update and the network connection timed out and guess what? It crashed and I was stuck with a broken OS. No joke. I had to go to my old college, plug in on a port I knew to be open and sit there for 45 mins trying to not look suspicious while my OS reinstalls.
Also, can't play League of Legends on a Mac, LOLOLOL FFFF HoN. Can't play it on You-bun-too either though
Would he be facing the same 15 years if he hacked into Bob's Computer Shack's servers? Or do they consider it more severe because sony has more money and more clients? Is there some equation they use that determines "you stole this much data, so you do this many years in prison" ?
Most of the sentences these days that have to do with computer related crimes seem outrageous.
I'd understand if it got people killed. But what Sony has is banking information. Most banks have mechanisms to mitigate damage ( I used to play a tank in WoW - Dwarf warrior, so gangster) in the case where your money/information is stolen. They will reissue your card, give you new account numbers, whatever it takes. Sony shouldn't have private information like SSNs, so I'm not too sure what everyone is worried about. Unless you're afraid Lulzsec is selling your home address to that kid you kept calling a fgt on COD and he's actually gonna kill you like he was screaming he would.
What should happen is something like this:
Dear Sony Customer,
We left our gaping hole exposed and we lost your data.
Here are the details that you should be worried about and
that you'll need to provide to your bank. Please check your shit.
Sorry we fucked up, keep buying our crap.
Hugs and Kisses,
Sony Entertainment
But it won't, because they want to play the victim. Shit, if Lulzsec got it, some other hacking group probably had it before them and have been buying viagra on your cards for months.
Anyway, there's my daily rant. Windows Sucks, Linux Rules, OPEN SOURCE FOR LIFE!!!
Science isn't important to everyone, so they won't care about this. You can live your entire life without knowing where humanity came from or how your iphone works. For the most part, you're asking the masses to care about a niche topic that most people don't give a shit about. Once they get past high school science, they don't want to step into another science classroom again, then they get bummed out in college cuz they gotta take animal biology or something.
I know people who don't believe in God or care about science at the same time. If you ask them about evolution they'll tell you they don't care. If you ask them about science facts they'll laugh at you and call you a nerd or whatever then buy you a beer.
I know the argument will be, "well their religion is impeding on our right to science," but look at it from another perspective. What has science really given us? -Ok, we fill space with pieces of metal with cameras.
-We made cars and electricity that are now polluting our world beyond belief.
-It increased the lifespan of humans and survivability which may or may not be leading to overpopulation, dwindling resources per capita, global warming, etc.
-Gave us better ways to kill eachother.
Most of the pros can also be seen as cons. I did a fellowship researching green energy and the question that always came up, was "what is the total impact on the environment?" We'd look at things that we think to be clean, but ask the question, "is the manufacturing/disposal process clean?" and so on...
The point is, science is only important to people who think it's important. A lot of people will say it's bad because of the total impact its had on this world. The same can be said for religion. I'm an agnostic, if it's not clear, but I'm starting to care less and less about which side is right, because I'm not sure it will really matter who is right. It's not like there will be a huge "in your face, you're wrong parade" by either side if God were to return to earth or be completely disproven somehow and everyone who was right will inherit a billion dollars or something. It's kind of a pointless fight.
Ah, well, neither are preferable for the mere crime of downloading thirty songs. When I said that I understand what you're going for what I meant is that a small mark of shame deterring people from continuing such behavior is adequate. When you stole that small bit from that store the shame given to you was adequate to deter you from future actions - banning from ALL stores was not necessary.
I was simply stating that such a preferable action is not readily available in today's internet environment ("banning from one store" is not entirely possible). Not to mention that banning complete internet access for several years can be completely damning to an individual. Almost all job applications and communications are done online these days.
I agree with your sentiment, it's just that I don't think it translates particularly well to our modern internet life (unfortunately...or fortunately, depending who you talk to).
Yeah, it's the difference between shame and blame cultures. Oh well, big money rules and capitalism works.
I can understand what you're going for but to use your analogy that would be like if you were banned from ALL stores when you were a child.
Would you rather be banned from all stores for a few years or pay $675,000 ?
What this would do to you is, every time you need things, food, clothes, utility items like batteries, small snacks, anything, you have to inconvenience someone. After a while, they're going to get annoyed and you're going to feel peer pressure to not screw up again. Once that pressure sinks in, you're going to start thinking was it worth it? Should I do it again? Rather than being handed a bill that you'll most likely never be able to pay off.
Even your family will start to get irritated with you and you'll probably not want to do that again, because no one will likely want to help you out the second time around.
Maybe they should just ban him from having access to these types of things
How do you ban someone from accessing only music from the internet?
Nice fragmented quote. You can prohibit him from having internet access as the rest of the statement says.
I'm not sure how they can say you owe $675,000 for stealing roughly $30 worth of products. If I stole 3 CDs from Wallmart, would I also be charged $675,000? What if I stole $30 from someone? I am not familiar with the case, but I don't see on here that he stole with the intent to undermine future sales of that company, causing significant losses.
I got caught stealing when I was younger. What happened to me was they recovered their items and I was banned from the store until I became an adult. Maybe they should just ban him from having access to these types of things, like making it illegal for him to have internet in his home, instead of an outrageous fine that most people can't afford.
May as well just start hanging people for stealing music/movies.
Adolf Hitler's secret Nazi base will finally be revealed ( source[totally legit]: http://youtu.be/EcZOQWRMnCc ) and we can use his portal to enter Atlantis.
There's a lot of Pros to having an eReader, the most important is that you can carry your entire library everywhere you go in less than 2 lbs. Good luck toting your bookcase around. It's ultra portable and easy to read.
However, I found from using tablets and eReaders for reading that there is a lot of cons to them too. They may be personal pet-peeves, but they drove me to going back to printed books and papers.
Based on what you have posted in the main title, here's what I have to say. Do not get an eReader or a Tablet here's my experience with an iPad and a Kindle DX. Referencing pdfs is horrible. Here's my main beefs:
1. lack of quality indexing capabilities (ie, intuitive bookmarking), I never found anything that would let me easily go between pages without remembering the page numbers. When I did find it in the Kindle DX, it didn't let me name the pages anything meaningful, it was just like "Book title (page, #)".
2. Side-by-side comparison does not exist. You cannot have two pages open to compare different books.
3. 1 and 2 imply that it's very hard to reference 2 pages of the same book at once. You have to wait for it to either load, or scroll back, or spend a lot of time setting up the awful book marking scheme.
4. Kindle had horrible zoom features when using pdfs. It had these pre-determined zooms you could use. It would render full size pages too small to read, then if you zoomed in, it would shove some text off the side and you'd have to scroll over to see it. The horizontal view was your best bet a lot of times but still required you to scroll (which is an awful experience on the kindle).
5. iPad blasts your eyes with white light. This is very un-natural and after a while I started getting headaches. Even using the polarized view, it was still obnoxious. Because it's still back lit.
After 2 years of trying to get one of these things to suit my needs, I just quit and went back to killing trees. What I'll often do is print sections of the pdf I want to read and annotate.
For referencing with eReaders/tablets what we really need is a viewer that is more like a search engine, like if wolframalpha released a pdf reader or something. That we could ask it questions and based on the knowledge of the book, it could formulate an answer. Until then, it really sucks because the search functions are slow, the indexing is bad, the bookmarking is bad, the attempt at hyperlinking is ok but not great and overall, it doesn't satisfy what we really need for referencing material.
So, since you're just reading 2 hours a day, just use your laptop or a real book. There's no need to waste money on something like this. You can download the kindle client for free on your computer.
But if you want to get into novels, get a kindle, it's great for that.
Don't wanna do the math? The art department is over there, I won't miss you.
Or their children who were born with birth defects...
Exactly. It's a life-time battle just for a US Vietnam Vet to prove he was in the place he was in at the time this shit got sprayed on them, let alone get help for their children.
I can't imagine slowly dying of cancer and know that their children are 2nd generation casualties of this shit. This goes for both sides of the battlefield.
Free lunch is good for morale and keeps your brain from starving while trying to work.
Man, ultra late reply here, but that's part of my point and a major part of it. Every time they upgrade, they have to factor in the deployment and training costs.
I remember receiving a huge shipment of win7 pcs, right when win7 came out and the IT dept sat around installing win XP on them, because that's what they support.
CDE is why I use Fluxbox. It's so bare-bones and easy to use. I really like the right-click menu as opposed to an icon menu or any other menu scheme.
There's a lot about it that is actually really good. Not everyone needs Compiz and other effects layered on their desktop.
Oh man, that is too hilarious. Reminds me of that guy on the news who got arrested for having nasty gas near a police officer, charged him with assault. http://www.dailytelegraph.com.au/news/weird/drunk-man-jose-cruz-charged-for-assault-farts-on-policeman/story-e6frev20-1111117581109
Every time I fly and am faced with a body scanner, I make a big stink about how I want a pat down. I make the stink loud enough that it shocks 1 or 2 people into doing the same. I say things like, "I read the MIT/Standford/Yale reports that these have not been deemed safe." Putting that little bit of fear in others who are less technically inclined but know who MIT/Standford/Yale is will sometimes follow you through a pat down.
And to add insult to injury, I wear my megusta face during the pat down.
The United States of America was founded by people fighting the law, with guns and swords no less. The text books call it "oppression" but it was the laws that they were bound to and they just decided that they didn't like it anymore. Isn't that pretty relevant to what's happening now?
We shouldn't be surprised by that. However, he threatened to kill him, that's grounds for arrest here in California as well. I'm not opposed to what happened to this guy, its another case of people believing they're untouchable online.
Do I agree with how the law can be abused? No
Do I agree with how it was used in this case? Yes
Obvious choices, join the DoD: Airforce, Navy, Marine Corps, Army, NSA is hiring a lot of computer scientists right now.
In the private world, what I've found is if you want to constantly be moving around, etc, you need to be on some sort of research team where your presence is required somewhere. The sad thing is, just cuz you're out at a lake deploying a wireless-sensor network doesn't mean you're doing anything more than you would by sitting at an office, you're just outside, which is nice. It's a little more active but I'm not sure it will keep you in shape.
I had the same thought and came to the conclusion that the only way to stay active is to change my life-style. Get into a sport that challenges you mentally. My friends and I all do brazillian jiu-jitsu (I will recommend Gracie-Barra Pasadena). BJJ is basically the same meta-game as chess, so it challenges you mentally and of course physically. Until most people try it, they don't get what I'm saying. But you get cardio and strength training in 1 hour and you learn a sport that you can continue to do no matter your age and stay in great shape. A lot of people get turned off by the "bro" guys running around in Tap-Out shirts, but you can find a school where they're not at, just avoid studios with "blood", "massacre", "fight club", etc in the name.
I saw someone recommend riding your bike to work. That's a good option too.
Encourage their students to watch it and get the general idea as homework one night, teach a follow up lesson the next day and then give a homework on that topic that evening. The more exposure to the material the better.
One of my best math teachers in college used to encourage us to watch these types of videos, once he gave us an assignment where the guy in the video was doing something wrong. Our assignment was to find out what he was doing wrong and write up what he should have done that would make it correct.
Modern teachers always bitch about not enough resources or time to do things... well here's your resource, it's often free and accessible, take advantage of it.
That's because of politics and budgets. Most companies do not budget upgrading their OS very often. They poor a lot of money into deployment and training to keep it up and running. They can't afford to just switch OS after that kind of investment, which is why XP is still running all over in business and at universities, not because they think it's superior.