I was going to scold Slashdot for posting a job ad on the front page. Imagine all the crap resumes that'll wind up in the HR inbox now.
Then I realized I despise HR, especially those in the hiring/recruiting section.
I'm imagining some choice resume snippets from this crowd -
- I live in my moms basement and never leave, so I won't go stir crazy
- I've seen that John Carpenter movie about monsters in Antarctica like 9 times
- I could totally do a rad experiment where I overclock an old PDP-11 processor to 9ghz since its so cold
- UHF? VHF? Fah! I can replace that with a hacked WRT router running linux for like $5
- Penguin/Linux jokes galore
I was leading a GREAT team, but the extra stress of having to lead guys with 5-30 years of experience more than I had, while dealing with the requests from a CTO at an aggressive start up wasn't worth the extra money. I left and got a raise to go back to being a regular line-grunt developer. I now work under a lead that is every bit as stressed as I was.
So I disagree, moving up to a lead is not necessarily the best promotion to get.
Quit screwing around with the internet. The rest of the world is rather fond of you, but this is really trying our patience. If maybe you had STARTED with this botnet thing we'd respect what you're trying to do, but no. You started with "protecting the children" so kiss off.
"scientists studied 74 vets with PTSD and 250 civilians "
Is it possible that they aren't spotting PTSD but a wiring from a soldier? I am a civillian with NO military experience, but I do hang around several soldiers and police officers. Each group has similar mannerisms and they have ALL had similar experiences within that group (basic training for the green guys, the academy for the blue ones). I see a good chance that this new scan could be picking that up.
A more valid group would be:
- some vets without PTSD
- some vets with PTSD
- some civillians with PTSD
- some civillians without PTSD
Of those four groups some significant correlation would be helpful too. For example a set of soldiers from Afghanistan with and without PTSD. A set of civillians that had been through the same or similar trauma (say armed robbery or 9/11 or plane accident). Breaking it down by age would also be useful, a Vietnam veteran who has had a few years either with or without treatment would be a lot different than a recent return home from the Sandbox.
I'm not a huge fan of DHS, but come on there are so many other government agencies that hardly ever get any abuse at all. DHS has had a lot of cock ups, and should be ridden hard to shape up or dissolve, but this is hardly an opening sentence kind of cock up.
Now where is the full list of orgs that have or have not done it? I suspect its going to be a lot like reading the pork report.
Well I DID say it was an attempt at a bad analogy.
The point I was trying to make was similar to that of some other folks. Yes IE8 does not fix this specific flaw, however it does address many other vulnerabilities and outright flaws in IE6.
I believe the expression is "throwing the baby out with the bathwater".
I'm not a numismatist but it'd be neat to have a bill thats been to Antartica and back.
It says in the article that the cash is "recycled", so that means that its rare for new money to enter or leave the system.So lets extend "wheres george" with a specific group.
Can any Slashdotter down at McMurdo start recording serial numbers for the cash that you handle and publish that? Photographic evidence a plus.
Sooner or later one of the staff will come home and spend that and it'll get around.
No the moral is if you're a university you have access to a large number of people who are clever, smart, bored, and willing to do normally expensive work for free.
Kudos for pointing out the bug. It just always baffles me why universities don't do things like using their students as cheap labor while giving them real-world examples of work in their chosen fields or using professors as consultants and advisors from time to time.
My requirements weren't as stiff, but I found myself with an external drive that was used for offsite copying/sneakernet use between my *nix box, the wifes Mac, and friends Windows boxes.
I don't recall what FS was used, but it wasn't FAT or NTFS. I did set up a FAT partition with driver installer packages for that filesystem for most major OS's along with a README file with general instructions for mounting it on Windows and OS X and Ubuntu.
As long as there are tolerable drivers for any given OS, this gives the freedom to use the right filesystem for the task without sacrificing interoperability.
We've reached an accord then. I'll keep my sane and sensible land management and environmental policies (such as those espoused by Ducks Unlimited, Ted Nugent, and other hunting and outdoorsman type organizations). You can keep your green label, your carbon credits, and your ever so successful climate change summits.
I deride the "green" label because it is such a useless label. It in no way represents an understanding of anything nor an effective change in lifestyle.
There is a very large, but mostly silent group that actually understands about and care about our environment. We've been out there learning to appreciate nature and doing our small part to protect it. The most we ever get out of it is dirty and occasionally a good meal. We're tired of you trendy assholes, your useless labels, and your holier than thou attitude.
You sit and crunch numbers and watch things happen on TV. We see our favorite mountains get less snow each year. We see our favorite access paths get graveled and paved over so your fat ass can drive where we used to camp. We see your tears when we drive by with a fresh deer then take your money when you want them out of your organic garden.
While we're busy staying out of each others way I will be:
- climbing ice covered mountains
- backpacking
- caving - you have not met a more cautious group of environmentalists. Talk about saving the world once you've entered and left a micro-ecosystem without a trace
- working from home (no commute)
- walking to the shops (1/2 to 1 mile from home, no need to drive)
- keep my 25 year old car on the road
I do none of that to be "green". I do it because its a way that I can improve my life and the world around me.
Specifically harvest and sell these beans with the usual "its green 25-50%" markup plus the 10-15% free trade thing. Becomes desirable to save these species for profitability, the green-tards are separated from their money before they can do something annoying with it, and everyone wins.
...to save all of you ungrateful fucks from a planet killing asteroid. Would you like to thank us or try and penalize us. Remember we only sent ONE of our nukes up."
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What are you doing in Yakutsk? Live there? Work crew?
Got any pics of the area?
I was going to scold Slashdot for posting a job ad on the front page. Imagine all the crap resumes that'll wind up in the HR inbox now.
Then I realized I despise HR, especially those in the hiring/recruiting section.
I'm imagining some choice resume snippets from this crowd -
- I live in my moms basement and never leave, so I won't go stir crazy
- I've seen that John Carpenter movie about monsters in Antarctica like 9 times
- I could totally do a rad experiment where I overclock an old PDP-11 processor to 9ghz since its so cold
- UHF? VHF? Fah! I can replace that with a hacked WRT router running linux for like $5
- Penguin/Linux jokes galore
News to me. I was a team lead and bailed on it.
I was leading a GREAT team, but the extra stress of having to lead guys with 5-30 years of experience more than I had, while dealing with the requests from a CTO at an aggressive start up wasn't worth the extra money. I left and got a raise to go back to being a regular line-grunt developer. I now work under a lead that is every bit as stressed as I was.
So I disagree, moving up to a lead is not necessarily the best promotion to get.
Dear Austrailia,
Quit screwing around with the internet. The rest of the world is rather fond of you, but this is really trying our patience. If maybe you had STARTED with this botnet thing we'd respect what you're trying to do, but no. You started with "protecting the children" so kiss off.
"scientists studied 74 vets with PTSD and 250 civilians "
Is it possible that they aren't spotting PTSD but a wiring from a soldier? I am a civillian with NO military experience, but I do hang around several soldiers and police officers. Each group has similar mannerisms and they have ALL had similar experiences within that group (basic training for the green guys, the academy for the blue ones). I see a good chance that this new scan could be picking that up.
A more valid group would be:
- some vets without PTSD
- some vets with PTSD
- some civillians with PTSD
- some civillians without PTSD
Of those four groups some significant correlation would be helpful too. For example a set of soldiers from Afghanistan with and without PTSD. A set of civillians that had been through the same or similar trauma (say armed robbery or 9/11 or plane accident). Breaking it down by age would also be useful, a Vietnam veteran who has had a few years either with or without treatment would be a lot different than a recent return home from the Sandbox.
I'm not a huge fan of DHS, but come on there are so many other government agencies that hardly ever get any abuse at all. DHS has had a lot of cock ups, and should be ridden hard to shape up or dissolve, but this is hardly an opening sentence kind of cock up.
Now where is the full list of orgs that have or have not done it? I suspect its going to be a lot like reading the pork report.
..and showing them text advertisements for criminal defence lawyers.
Well I DID say it was an attempt at a bad analogy.
The point I was trying to make was similar to that of some other folks. Yes IE8 does not fix this specific flaw, however it does address many other vulnerabilities and outright flaws in IE6.
I believe the expression is "throwing the baby out with the bathwater".
Barence, the submitter, shouldn't bother eating more fruits and vegetables. It won't fix his FUDish writing so why bother?
I'm not a numismatist but it'd be neat to have a bill thats been to Antartica and back.
It says in the article that the cash is "recycled", so that means that its rare for new money to enter or leave the system.So lets extend "wheres george" with a specific group.
Can any Slashdotter down at McMurdo start recording serial numbers for the cash that you handle and publish that? Photographic evidence a plus.
Sooner or later one of the staff will come home and spend that and it'll get around.
Everything is a good idea on IRC
You mean like reading and posting to slashdot in the middle of the workday?
WTF are you talking about?
Go install Opera. Mouse nav has NOTHING to do with the website and everything to do with the browser.
No the moral is if you're a university you have access to a large number of people who are clever, smart, bored, and willing to do normally expensive work for free.
Kudos for pointing out the bug. It just always baffles me why universities don't do things like using their students as cheap labor while giving them real-world examples of work in their chosen fields or using professors as consultants and advisors from time to time.
Peeing into a Mr. Coffee shouldn't have yielded drinkable water either.
WOOOSH!
I was referring to the OP's concerns about having explodables running his home.
So how about that natural gas stove, furnace, and water heater then?
My requirements weren't as stiff, but I found myself with an external drive that was used for offsite copying/sneakernet use between my *nix box, the wifes Mac, and friends Windows boxes.
I don't recall what FS was used, but it wasn't FAT or NTFS. I did set up a FAT partition with driver installer packages for that filesystem for most major OS's along with a README file with general instructions for mounting it on Windows and OS X and Ubuntu.
As long as there are tolerable drivers for any given OS, this gives the freedom to use the right filesystem for the task without sacrificing interoperability.
We've reached an accord then. I'll keep my sane and sensible land management and environmental policies (such as those espoused by Ducks Unlimited, Ted Nugent, and other hunting and outdoorsman type organizations). You can keep your green label, your carbon credits, and your ever so successful climate change summits.
I deride the "green" label because it is such a useless label. It in no way represents an understanding of anything nor an effective change in lifestyle.
There is a very large, but mostly silent group that actually understands about and care about our environment. We've been out there learning to appreciate nature and doing our small part to protect it. The most we ever get out of it is dirty and occasionally a good meal. We're tired of you trendy assholes, your useless labels, and your holier than thou attitude.
You sit and crunch numbers and watch things happen on TV. We see our favorite mountains get less snow each year. We see our favorite access paths get graveled and paved over so your fat ass can drive where we used to camp. We see your tears when we drive by with a fresh deer then take your money when you want them out of your organic garden.
While we're busy staying out of each others way I will be:
- climbing ice covered mountains
- backpacking
- caving - you have not met a more cautious group of environmentalists. Talk about saving the world once you've entered and left a micro-ecosystem without a trace
- working from home (no commute)
- walking to the shops (1/2 to 1 mile from home, no need to drive)
- keep my 25 year old car on the road
I do none of that to be "green". I do it because its a way that I can improve my life and the world around me.
No I pay taxes so that the courts can take care of these things instead of the masses.
Something might be a bit off on the priorities there.
Absolutely. Those Pacific islands should be figuring out what coffee grown in their soil or crapped out by the local fauna will taste like.
Free market saves.
Specifically harvest and sell these beans with the usual "its green 25-50%" markup plus the 10-15% free trade thing. Becomes desirable to save these species for profitability, the green-tards are separated from their money before they can do something annoying with it, and everyone wins.
What makes you think his client wants anything different.
...to save all of you ungrateful fucks from a planet killing asteroid. Would you like to thank us or try and penalize us. Remember we only sent ONE of our nukes up."
Doesn't matter. The chokepoint is at the local tower not at the backhaul. So doing this at noon in your timezone should be adequate.
Now if their network is so janky that New York is still seeing problems at 3PM when LA starts in...