Funnily enough, part of an extension to a project the company I am at is working on, is for users to be able to import their external blog feeds into the blog on the site. Basically so they don't need to type the same blog information in two different places. Easy to do. And even before looking at the output of some places like BlogSpot, it was mandated to sanitize the output to using just basic HTML (P, BR, stripped down IMG, stripped down A) and nothing else. Yes, they will lose some formatting that places like blogspot allows, but so much saner.
So in the real world, a lot of sensible developers understand the problem with risky external input, although lots of baby-developers haven't had enough experience to get jaded and never trust users. Security thoughts come from age and being cynical.
You would hope that if they were already in favour of it they'd be actively using filtering software.
Then again, I am against it, and I am a parent. Of course, I monitor my son's use of the 'Net whenever he is accessing it. And I object to the government feeling it should be in control of access.
A survey by the Australia Institute called Regulating Youth Access to Pornography dated 2003 found that 84% of boys and 60% of girls had been accidentally exposed to pornographic material on the internet, while two in every five boys had deliberately used the internet at some stage to see sexually explicit material.
Suggesting that only boys go out of their way to look for porn. I am sure there is one or two girls that actively look for porn. Of course, maybe guys are a touch more obcessive about it.
I have had more issues with employment because I have a son then I have had with how I dress (neat business attaire, although tending to avoid shirts that aren't black), my long hair
or my body art.
Infact I know of two jobs that I missed out on because it was assumed by having a child I would not be able to random 'we need you to work late cause of deadline' shifts.
But yes ultimately, anyone doing interviews has to look at whether a person being interviewed will 1) fit in with the company work ethic 2) be productive, no matter how they look.
I wish i had a 'clean cut counterpart', one of the reasons I left (assides from the zero prospect for anyone at the company to advance) was that I was doing the work for three quite different jobs. It was getting quite hard to balance time and being in the right mindspace for each particular role I was doing.
Let us just say the company was a touch top-heavy in senior/executive managers and lacked middle management and actual workers.
They are coverable because I have gotten them done for myself and not anyone else.
I tend to see tattooing in a culture-spiritual sense. Having grown up reading things like National Geographic and its ilk, where there are photos of Maori, other south pacific islanders and even inuit with well executed (and culturally relevant) body art.
Maybe, I am just an odd one out and prefer to judge people on wants in between their ears rather than whats on their skin.
To each their own.
But rest assured, until this point in time, and I can confidently say for the very far future, my ink and steel hasn't affected my employability what so ever.
Heck, I bet there is more harm to it by posting to Slashdot during the day.
Ah yes. I know I shouldn't bite and reply, but this one amuses me.
Last 4 jobs is approximately 7 or 8 years. One I left due to offered redunancy. 90% of the staff left due to that option. Next one, I admit, was only 4 months of employ. But that was due to the company being on the verge of bankruptracy since before they hired me.
The job prior to my current one, I actively chose to leave. Loved the work I was doing, but the company offered me no chance for advancement nor payrises (hence why they have also lost a lot of other staff in the mean time). And have been at my current job ever since. And have been told they aren't letting me go for quite some time:P
I agree with you whole heartedly. Reading over the posts related to this story is a mixture of amusing and sad.
The amount of posters that are trying their hardest to insist (mostly anonymously) that if someone has a piercing or a tattoo they are a freak and a loser.
I have quite a few tattoos, all in heavy blacks. I have piercings (tongue, ear cartlidge, and had some chest ones) as well as scarification and some branding. Admittedly, assides from my ears and my tongue, all of it sits neatly under my shirt and suit at work. But, both my CEO and CTO have seen them and not been concerned one bit. Heck, I have had them for the last 4 jobs and none of my superiors have blinked an eyelid. Only time I was asked explicitly to cover them up was when I was doing some contracting work for a private Catholic funded hospital. And even then, due to doing a cable inspection for them, I had to crawl around under desks and in a data room, so ended up rolling my sleaves up. No one there minded.
Mind you, that said, my body art is for me. I don't do it to impress anyone (hence why 99% of sits under my clothes).
And frankly I think people need to chill and (especially the people on slashdot) realise that by demanding others are freaks for having body art they risk being the same as the people that call them freaks for using linux / bsd / beos etc.
The Gaelic diaspora. Whilst the forced Clearances by sassanach sheep farmers reduced their native culture to a reflection of what it was, quite a few remained a coherent society when moved to such places as America, Canada, Australia.
And even more flashback like, I was just reading an article on abc.net.au about Johnny Depp paying for HST's remains to be shot out of a cannon. That's it, I don't trust the tea in the breakroom any more;)
Even funnier, I read the article about the mutant Chernobyl children and the in-page-advert was from Microsoft and included dinosaured headed people in shirts-and-tie talking around the office. I thought it was a spoof article at first with pictures of Godzilla like kids;)
If that was the case/. would have to interview people like Genesis P-Orridge, Blixa Bargeld, maybe even Boyd Rice. Who predated Trent Reznor by a good 10 years at the very least and are all still going strong.
But we wouldn't want facts to get in the way of a good post:P
Whilst the concept is nice, it'd be much better if Trent could keep to more of an electronica sound rather than wander off into emo-rock sounds. Oh well, goes to show what happens to pop bands that the media labels as 'industrial-rocks'.
I'd be more excited if Throbbing Gristle did this, or Diamanda Galas. But that would mean a history lesson for a lot of people;)
Most really avid musicians use hardware samplers and sequencers anyway and not crash prone computers to make their work.
Far from the case any more. More and more well known musicians are turning to using software only in the studio. From your standard electronica musicians to even rap musicians.
Software has its advantages and disadvantages. And of the interviews I have read, the advantages well and truely outweight the disadvantages for these musicians.
Yes, Jhonn's death was very unfortunate. Although as said by other posters futher down this thread (or further up) I am a bit over nin. His newer stuff strikes me as overly emo (I miss his abuse of electronica and distorted sounds I guess).
That said, this is an interest way to reach out to fans and boost records sale hugely.
Maybe one of these days I'll do the same;) (Except I give remix packs away on request anyhow, and so far haven't charged for music...:P ) But then again, I am very very very far from being popular nor am likely to sell millions of records.
Maybe its just me, but there a lot of albums (overly themeic collection of songs) worth buying. But then again, I must admit my tastes are far from mainstream and a lot of my music is bought from specialist shops.
Latest Einstuerzende Neubauten album, all of Lustmords work, Blacklung, Snog et al..
Which may prove various points in this series of comments. Albums are becoming sidelined, CDs are being designed (within the mainstream) as a means to promote a bunch of songs and hoping a few singles come out of it).
Album art and credits still exist. Although, generally, making an expansive piece-of-art album is quite costly (unless you hand make them and only do a few dozen).
Larger record companies don't want to invest the funds and time. Smaller independant artists just don't have to money to do it if they want to make more than a handful of copies.
That said, a week ago I finished my first 'album' (although was a release on tape... long painful hardware related story.. but it matches some of my heroes like Werewolf Jerusalem and other such folk).. Hand painted and signed etc. It still exists but alas is rare.
You do realise you can connect to multiple sites at once? I get around 760k/s max out of my DSL now. I tend to go to archive.org and download 3 or 4 creative commons movies down at once - each appears rate limited (by archive.org) at 130k/s - but all 4 come down at the same(ish) speed. Mind you, one or two International sites have given me 400-500k/s - just not often. But I like to be able to download whilst not affecting my VPN or other things.
Alas, the summers can peak to around 42oC in places. Melbourne is often around the low to mid 30s in really bad summers. Western Australia however can go a lot lot lot higher.
Being completely off-topic, I will assume by 'witch' you mean a Wiccan that is using Scandanavian deity names in ritual? Now, if you were participating in traditional witch-like practices thats another matter too together, but would most likely involve the Vanir rather than the Aesir.
Slashdot Mirror
Funnily enough, part of an extension to a project the company I am at is working on, is for users to be able to import their external blog feeds into the blog on the site. Basically so they don't need to type the same blog information in two different places. Easy to do. And even before looking at the output of some places like BlogSpot, it was mandated to sanitize the output to using just basic HTML (P, BR, stripped down IMG, stripped down A) and nothing else. Yes, they will lose some formatting that places like blogspot allows, but so much saner.
:P
So in the real world, a lot of sensible developers understand the problem with risky external input, although lots of baby-developers haven't had enough experience to get jaded and never trust users. Security thoughts come from age and being cynical.
But either way, the Web2.0 look irks me
I agree. A most sensible standpoint on the whole matter. Turning things into taboos risks turning them into points of obcession.
You would hope that if they were already in favour of it they'd be actively using filtering software.
Then again, I am against it, and I am a parent. Of course, I monitor my son's use of the 'Net whenever he is accessing it. And I object to the government feeling it should be in control of access.
Oh well, home time.
The best bit is:
Suggesting that only boys go out of their way to look for porn. I am sure there is one or two girls that actively look for porn. Of course, maybe guys are a touch more obcessive about it.
I have had more issues with employment because I have a son then I have had with how I dress (neat business attaire, although tending to avoid shirts that aren't black), my long hair or my body art.
Infact I know of two jobs that I missed out on because it was assumed by having a child I would not be able to random 'we need you to work late cause of deadline' shifts.
But yes ultimately, anyone doing interviews has to look at whether a person being interviewed will 1) fit in with the company work ethic 2) be productive, no matter how they look.
I wish i had a 'clean cut counterpart', one of the reasons I left (assides from the zero prospect for anyone at the company to advance) was that I was doing the work for three quite different jobs. It was getting quite hard to balance time and being in the right mindspace for each particular role I was doing.
Let us just say the company was a touch top-heavy in senior/executive managers and lacked middle management and actual workers.
They are coverable because I have gotten them done for myself and not anyone else.
I tend to see tattooing in a culture-spiritual sense. Having grown up reading things like National Geographic and its ilk, where there are photos of Maori, other south pacific islanders and even inuit with well executed (and culturally relevant) body art.
Maybe, I am just an odd one out and prefer to judge people on wants in between their ears rather than whats on their skin.
To each their own.
But rest assured, until this point in time, and I can confidently say for the very far future, my ink and steel hasn't affected my employability what so ever.
Heck, I bet there is more harm to it by posting to Slashdot during the day.
Ah yes. I know I shouldn't bite and reply, but this one amuses me.
Last 4 jobs is approximately 7 or 8 years. One I left due to offered redunancy. 90% of the staff left due to that option. Next one, I admit, was only 4 months of employ. But that was due to the company being on the verge of bankruptracy since before they hired me.
The job prior to my current one, I actively chose to leave. Loved the work I was doing, but the company offered me no chance for advancement nor payrises (hence why they have also lost a lot of other staff in the mean time). And have been at my current job ever since. And have been told they aren't letting me go for quite some time :P
I agree with you whole heartedly. Reading over the posts related to this story is a mixture of amusing and sad.
The amount of posters that are trying their hardest to insist (mostly anonymously) that if someone has a piercing or a tattoo they are a freak and a loser.
I have quite a few tattoos, all in heavy blacks. I have piercings (tongue, ear cartlidge, and had some chest ones) as well as scarification and some branding. Admittedly, assides from my ears and my tongue, all of it sits neatly under my shirt and suit at work. But, both my CEO and CTO have seen them and not been concerned one bit. Heck, I have had them for the last 4 jobs and none of my superiors have blinked an eyelid. Only time I was asked explicitly to cover them up was when I was doing some contracting work for a private Catholic funded hospital. And even then, due to doing a cable inspection for them, I had to crawl around under desks and in a data room, so ended up rolling my sleaves up. No one there minded.
Mind you, that said, my body art is for me. I don't do it to impress anyone (hence why 99% of sits under my clothes).
And frankly I think people need to chill and (especially the people on slashdot) realise that by demanding others are freaks for having body art they risk being the same as the people that call them freaks for using linux / bsd / beos etc.
The Gaelic diaspora. Whilst the forced Clearances by sassanach sheep farmers reduced their native culture to a reflection of what it was, quite a few remained a coherent society when moved to such places as America, Canada, Australia.
And even more flashback like, I was just reading an article on abc.net.au about Johnny Depp paying for HST's remains to be shot out of a cannon. That's it, I don't trust the tea in the breakroom any more ;)
Even funnier, I read the article about the mutant Chernobyl children and the in-page-advert was from Microsoft and included dinosaured headed people in shirts-and-tie talking around the office. I thought it was a spoof article at first with pictures of Godzilla like kids ;)
If that was the case /. would have to interview people like Genesis P-Orridge, Blixa Bargeld, maybe even Boyd Rice. Who predated Trent Reznor by a good 10 years at the very least and are all still going strong.
:P
But we wouldn't want facts to get in the way of a good post
Whilst the concept is nice, it'd be much better if Trent could keep to more of an electronica sound rather than wander off into emo-rock sounds. Oh well, goes to show what happens to pop bands that the media labels as 'industrial-rocks'.
I'd be more excited if Throbbing Gristle did this, or Diamanda Galas. But that would mean a history lesson for a lot of people ;)
What an interesting username. Named after the band or some other source?
Yes, Jhonn's death was very unfortunate. Although as said by other posters futher down this thread (or further up) I am a bit over nin. His newer stuff strikes me as overly emo (I miss his abuse of electronica and distorted sounds I guess).
That said, this is an interest way to reach out to fans and boost records sale hugely.
Maybe one of these days I'll do the same ;) (Except I give remix packs away on request anyhow, and so far haven't charged for music... :P ) But then again, I am very very very far from being popular nor am likely to sell millions of records.
Ah, suzi9mm is a great lass and an awesome artist. Her material is well worth exploring.
Maybe its just me, but there a lot of albums (overly themeic collection of songs) worth buying. But then again, I must admit my tastes are far from mainstream and a lot of my music is bought from specialist shops.
Latest Einstuerzende Neubauten album, all of Lustmords work, Blacklung, Snog et al..
Which may prove various points in this series of comments. Albums are becoming sidelined, CDs are being designed (within the mainstream) as a means to promote a bunch of songs and hoping a few singles come out of it).
Album art and credits still exist. Although, generally, making an expansive piece-of-art album is quite costly (unless you hand make them and only do a few dozen).
Larger record companies don't want to invest the funds and time. Smaller independant artists just don't have to money to do it if they want to make more than a handful of copies.
That said, a week ago I finished my first 'album' (although was a release on tape... long painful hardware related story.. but it matches some of my heroes like Werewolf Jerusalem and other such folk).. Hand painted and signed etc. It still exists but alas is rare.
You do realise you can connect to multiple sites at once? I get around 760k/s max out of my DSL now. I tend to go to archive.org and download 3 or 4 creative commons movies down at once - each appears rate limited (by archive.org) at 130k/s - but all 4 come down at the same(ish) speed. Mind you, one or two International sites have given me 400-500k/s - just not often. But I like to be able to download whilst not affecting my VPN or other things.
Alas, the summers can peak to around 42oC in places. Melbourne is often around the low to mid 30s in really bad summers. Western Australia however can go a lot lot lot higher.
Ah, a reference to Pi. Just made my day.
of course when I typed
I meant to type:
Being completely off-topic, I will assume by 'witch' you mean a Wiccan that is using Scandanavian deity names in ritual? Now, if you were participating in traditional witch-like practices thats another matter too together, but would most likely involve the Vanir rather than the Aesir.