Is it really necessary for us to be your information slaves? A quick search of Slashdot (not to mention, reading the post and/or the article it links to) turns up more information than necessary to answer your question. See the following URL:
You start off by saying "I think the certifications are bunk" and then proceed to explain that they indicate to other people that you have some skills and that your career has been bettered.
I don't think that anyone is claiming that a certification is anything but a piece of paper that indicates that you might have a clue. In my opinion, certifications certainly serve that purpose.
You also generalize; contrary to your claim, there are certainly certifications that prove that you have a top-notch skillset. For example, Cisco's CCIE certification is 100% deserving of the credit given to those who pass it (120k+ starting salaries and a lot of peer respect). Even the MCSD shows that you can at least do mildly adequate Windows programming (if there is such a thing).
Are there certifications that are less than what most people make them out to be? Sure. Are most certifications less valuable than what most people make them out to be? Unfortunately, yes. Are they "bunk" or worthless? Nope.
First of all, moderators didn't flame the guy, you WHIN^H^H^H^H users did. Flaming is always bad, regardless of whether or not the individual was right or wrong, or whether a comment just like his was moderated up. On the other hand, I didn't see a lot of blatant flames.. mostly just disagreements (I didn't read the entire thread).
Also, if every comment that agreed with every comment that was moderated up was, in turn, moderated up, people reading at +5 would see 10 comments that all made the same point. Somehow or another, through the use of magic or otherwise, one comment that asserts a valuable point must get moderated up (out of the 100 other ones that make the same valuable point).
I'm just telling you the way it is, not (necessarily) standing behind the system. You just seem to have gotten annoyed without having understood the ramifications of the entire situation.
I patented the use of the unique combination of upper-case characters ("CONNECT") employed by modulating and demodulating devices to indicate that a session was established over a given media.
I'm going to hunt you down like the patent-infringing dog you are.
Could you be any more stereotypical? You really believe in your heart of hearts that every person who has ever run for any position within the government is corrupt?
Even Windows 98 has a Second Edition and countless updates, Windows NT/2000 have always had build numbers, and the list goes on and on. What it amounts to is that 'year versioning' is the marketing/public side of versioning, and the real versioning takes place in the alleys, with my Internet Explorer 5's version at 5.00.2919.6307 q246094 (really!), and Office 97 at Service Release 2b and the Jet 3.5 update.
What it amounts to (as far as most people are concerned) is that year versioning is good for when I'm talking to my relatives so that all I have to do is say "does the screen with clouds at the beginning say 95 or 98?" to begin troubleshooting their problems at Christmas get-togethers, but when I'm talking to computer-savvy folks, things like "Slackware 7.0" don't even begin to describe what's really inside my box.
Comon folks.. I'm not asserting that my post was some sort of revolutionary stroke of genius (it's not, in case you weren't sure), but it's also remarkably straight-forward. All I was saying was that Linux wasn't related to DeCSS lawsuits, contrary to what the person I replied to thought.
I wasn't suggesting that BSD should've been mentioned; in fact, I was suggesting that neither the BSD community nor the Linux community have anything to do with DeCSS. I wasn't talking about DVD support or open-source distribution; neither was the individual whose post I replied to.
My pseudo-trash-talking was merely pointing out how quickly people on Slashdot jump on relating everything under the Sun to Linux and how dumb that is. That's all.
It makes perfect sense if you think about it (even if you don't agree with it).. so try (thinking).
As a person who prefers FreeBSD, I must sorrily point out that this has NOTHING TO DO WITH THE LINUX COMMUNITY. Oh, you might find a way to tie it back.. I could relate Kevin Bacon back to my dog if I tried hard enough, but get your head out of your crypt('ass') and realize that there are issues out there that aren't Linux-centric. This happens to be one of them.
Encryption != Linux Community DVD != Linux Community Crackers != Linux Community Hackers != Linux Community Open source != Linux Community Selfish, ignorant people who know that Linux is better than everything else in the world == Linux Community
Do I really think this is true? No. Am I justified in making this argument in response to your ridiculous post? Yup. (Don't worry, it's okay for me to justify my own post.. you can trust me).
It sickens me how it's acceptable to make the assumption that every article posted on Slashdot is directed at the heart and soul of the Linux community, when it's actually just interesting to people everywhere. Yes, even those of us who are in an "entirely different culture".. the FreeBSD one.
Oh, did I mention that "if you won't do it, I'll do it myself" mentality makes no sense in the context of this article. What are you talking about? If you won't crack it, we'll crack it ourself? Umm.. are you a robot? I think you could post this on any article on Slashdot and it wouldn't necessarily be off-topic. You might be wrong, as you are now, but you wouldn't come off too horribly.
I'm just disgusted by Linux bigots. I don't shamelessly associate my operating system of choice with every popular Slashdot issue; not even by declaring myself a rebel from a different culture and babbling. Really.
Funk dat. I run linux, i run BeOS AND i run Windows 2000 and Windows 98. Linux doesn my firewall/routing. BeOS is a play toy. Windows 2000 is my workstation and windows 98 is my girlfriends computer.
Gee!
Gosh!
Wow!
I think I speak for all of Slashdot when I point out that you are cool because you have the courage to "funk dat" and use multiple operating systems. You go, boy!
Psst.. you guys.. keep the rebel talking and I'll call the authorities.
and.., if you 'fdisk/mbr' via linux commandline you get an error yes, it's a DOS/switch, not a linux -switch, so it would speak for itself to be done via DOS commandline
Yeah, and everyone who is smart enough to be deleting Linux and installing Win2000 can look at a 10-character command-line and determine what OS it was intended to be typed in.
Should be interesting to see whether this post gets moderated up or down. I think he's got a valid point, but will Mr. Moderator? I'd give it 50/50.. and that's not a good thing.
To put it bluntly, this is a meaningless, vague statement.
Blue is red to me if I say so. So what? I wasn't asserting that you couldn't call 'security issues' 'purple shoelaces' if you felt like it, I was discussing the difference between the terms security and privacy as they are commonly used in the context of security, privacy, and rights on the Internet.
Business interests try to split out "human rights" issues from that tradeoff.
Feel free to clue me in here, but I don't think anyone is talking about human rights (?).
privacy is one of the most effective security hooks
I'm beginning to think that you didn't even read the post that I was replying to. The post I replied to said that this story shouldn't be included in the YRO (Your Rights Online) section of Slashdot because it was merely a "security hole". I was simply explaining how it involved online rights by associating it with privacy. I made the assumption that it was obvious to most people that privacy involves rights.
For all I know, everything you said may be entirely right, but that still doesn't explain why you called my post 'bullshit' and then proceeded to babble about intellectual capital. I've never seen a productive post that started off with unsupported, inflammatory, analyses.
It's more of a privacy hole than a security hole (in the context that you used 'security').
People being able to acquire personal information and monitor your browsing habits without you knowing it doesn't increase the risk of them stealing your important files or sabotaging your network, it simply allows companies to violate Your Rights Online.
Here are some links for those of you who don't like area codes and don't like license agreements. Obviously, people from countries other than Canada are going to view these streams, regardless of anything anyone posts, so you might as well be able to do it easily:
That's the most useful information I've come across all day. I was hoping someone would post these so I didn't have to go hunt them down.
Thank you.
You are an anonymous coward, methinks.
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What was one of the reasons behind CT's posting of this article on Slashdot, if not to hear everyone's opinions on the movie? Gimme a break. A free in-depth review of a movie just for us is always worth having.
Let me guess, you think that anyone who posts a good comment is a "karma whore" since their posts get moderated up? I've seen karma-centric posts, and this isn't one of them.
Slashdot Mirror
Is it really necessary for us to be your information slaves? A quick search of Slashdot (not to mention, reading the post and/or the article it links to) turns up more information than necessary to answer your question. See the following URL:
http://slashdot.org/search.pl?quer y=Mike+Shavers
This just sets the precedent for the double brain transplants..
You start off by saying "I think the certifications are bunk" and then proceed to explain that they indicate to other people that you have some skills and that your career has been bettered.
I don't think that anyone is claiming that a certification is anything but a piece of paper that indicates that you might have a clue. In my opinion, certifications certainly serve that purpose.
You also generalize; contrary to your claim, there are certainly certifications that prove that you have a top-notch skillset. For example, Cisco's CCIE certification is 100% deserving of the credit given to those who pass it (120k+ starting salaries and a lot of peer respect). Even the MCSD shows that you can at least do mildly adequate Windows programming (if there is such a thing).
Are there certifications that are less than what most people make them out to be? Sure. Are most certifications less valuable than what most people make them out to be? Unfortunately, yes. Are they "bunk" or worthless? Nope.
First of all, moderators didn't flame the guy, you WHIN^H^H^H^H users did. Flaming is always bad, regardless of whether or not the individual was right or wrong, or whether a comment just like his was moderated up. On the other hand, I didn't see a lot of blatant flames.. mostly just disagreements (I didn't read the entire thread).
Also, if every comment that agreed with every comment that was moderated up was, in turn, moderated up, people reading at +5 would see 10 comments that all made the same point. Somehow or another, through the use of magic or otherwise, one comment that asserts a valuable point must get moderated up (out of the 100 other ones that make the same valuable point).
I'm just telling you the way it is, not (necessarily) standing behind the system. You just seem to have gotten annoyed without having understood the ramifications of the entire situation.
Where do you live?
I patented the use of the unique combination of upper-case characters ("CONNECT") employed by modulating and demodulating devices to indicate that a session was established over a given media.
I'm going to hunt you down like the patent-infringing dog you are.
Could you be any more stereotypical? You really believe in your heart of hearts that every person who has ever run for any position within the government is corrupt?
Wow.
Year Versioning is only half of the solution:
Even Windows 98 has a Second Edition and countless updates, Windows NT/2000 have always had build numbers, and the list goes on and on. What it amounts to is that 'year versioning' is the marketing/public side of versioning, and the real versioning takes place in the alleys, with my Internet Explorer 5's version at 5.00.2919.6307 q246094 (really!), and Office 97 at Service Release 2b and the Jet 3.5 update.
What it amounts to (as far as most people are concerned) is that year versioning is good for when I'm talking to my relatives so that all I have to do is say "does the screen with clouds at the beginning say 95 or 98?" to begin troubleshooting their problems at Christmas get-togethers, but when I'm talking to computer-savvy folks, things like "Slackware 7.0" don't even begin to describe what's really inside my box.
It's down for me (I get error 502 from my firewall)
*NEWSFLASH*
There are nerds in Russia.
*Stay tuned for more updates; every hour, on the hour*
Complaining that BSD isn't mentioned here says..
Comon folks.. I'm not asserting that my post was some sort of revolutionary stroke of genius (it's not, in case you weren't sure), but it's also remarkably straight-forward. All I was saying was that Linux wasn't related to DeCSS lawsuits, contrary to what the person I replied to thought.
I wasn't suggesting that BSD should've been mentioned; in fact, I was suggesting that neither the BSD community nor the Linux community have anything to do with DeCSS. I wasn't talking about DVD support or open-source distribution; neither was the individual whose post I replied to.
My pseudo-trash-talking was merely pointing out how quickly people on Slashdot jump on relating everything under the Sun to Linux and how dumb that is. That's all.
It makes perfect sense if you think about it (even if you don't agree with it).. so try (thinking).
So it doesn't matter whether I was right or wrong (that Linux has nothing to do with DeCSS), just that I am a BSD admin.
Thanks for doing us all such a service by showing us how bigoted you Linux warriors are.
Yeah, the thread was rather muddled. But, you did need to look a bit harder. Clicking on the 'Parent' button woulda done it for ya. :-)
Click here to see the Linux comment
As a person who prefers FreeBSD, I must sorrily point out that this has NOTHING TO DO WITH THE LINUX COMMUNITY. Oh, you might find a way to tie it back.. I could relate Kevin Bacon back to my dog if I tried hard enough, but get your head out of your crypt('ass') and realize that there are issues out there that aren't Linux-centric. This happens to be one of them.
Encryption != Linux Community
DVD != Linux Community
Crackers != Linux Community
Hackers != Linux Community
Open source != Linux Community
Selfish, ignorant people who know that Linux is better than everything else in the world == Linux Community
Do I really think this is true? No. Am I justified in making this argument in response to your ridiculous post? Yup. (Don't worry, it's okay for me to justify my own post.. you can trust me).
It sickens me how it's acceptable to make the assumption that every article posted on Slashdot is directed at the heart and soul of the Linux community, when it's actually just interesting to people everywhere. Yes, even those of us who are in an "entirely different culture".. the FreeBSD one.
Oh, did I mention that "if you won't do it, I'll do it myself" mentality makes no sense in the context of this article. What are you talking about? If you won't crack it, we'll crack it ourself? Umm.. are you a robot? I think you could post this on any article on Slashdot and it wouldn't necessarily be off-topic. You might be wrong, as you are now, but you wouldn't come off too horribly.
I'm just disgusted by Linux bigots. I don't shamelessly associate my operating system of choice with every popular Slashdot issue; not even by declaring myself a rebel from a different culture and babbling. Really.
Funk dat. I run linux, i run BeOS AND i run Windows 2000 and Windows 98. Linux doesn my firewall/routing. BeOS is a play toy. Windows 2000 is my workstation and windows 98 is my girlfriends computer.
Gee!
Gosh!
Wow!
I think I speak for all of Slashdot when I point out that you are cool because you have the courage to "funk dat" and use multiple operating systems. You go, boy!
Psst.. you guys.. keep the rebel talking and I'll call the authorities.
and.., if you 'fdisk /mbr' via linux commandline you get an error yes, it's a DOS /switch, not a linux -switch, so it would speak for itself to be done via DOS commandline
Yeah, and everyone who is smart enough to be deleting Linux and installing Win2000 can look at a 10-character command-line and determine what OS it was intended to be typed in.
I doubt that very much.
No.
This is probably the link you want (rather than a link to another web page):
http://www.newgrounds.com/vendetta/ vendetta.zip
(I'm getting a whopping 3.7k/s from my box with switched 100mbit to an OC-3.. actually, now it's 2.8k/s.. only 5 hrs to go!)
Should be interesting to see whether this post gets moderated up or down. I think he's got a valid point, but will Mr. Moderator? I'd give it 50/50.. and that's not a good thing.
If you embossed that prayer onto a scenic picture of mountains, trees, etc. and then framed it..
I'd buy it.
It'd be like the "Footsteps" poem that touches my soul so deeply (or something).
I wonder how a human resources department will handle the Slashdot Effect. Should be interesting, not to mention overwhelming.
It's a security risk to me if I say so
To put it bluntly, this is a meaningless, vague statement.
Blue is red to me if I say so. So what? I wasn't asserting that you couldn't call 'security issues' 'purple shoelaces' if you felt like it, I was discussing the difference between the terms security and privacy as they are commonly used in the context of security, privacy, and rights on the Internet.
Business interests try to split out "human rights" issues from that tradeoff.
Feel free to clue me in here, but I don't think anyone is talking about human rights (?).
privacy is one of the most effective security hooks
I'm beginning to think that you didn't even read the post that I was replying to. The post I replied to said that this story shouldn't be included in the YRO (Your Rights Online) section of Slashdot because it was merely a "security hole". I was simply explaining how it involved online rights by associating it with privacy. I made the assumption that it was obvious to most people that privacy involves rights.
For all I know, everything you said may be entirely right, but that still doesn't explain why you called my post 'bullshit' and then proceeded to babble about intellectual capital. I've never seen a productive post that started off with unsupported, inflammatory, analyses.
It's more of a privacy hole than a security hole (in the context that you used 'security').
People being able to acquire personal information and monitor your browsing habits without you knowing it doesn't increase the risk of them stealing your important files or sabotaging your network, it simply allows companies to violate Your Rights Online.
Here are some links for those of you who don't like area codes and don't like license agreements. Obviously, people from countries other than Canada are going to view these streams, regardless of anything anyone posts, so you might as well be able to do it easily:
NBC
NewVR
CBC
Global
ABC
CTV
OnTV
PBS
TVO
SRC
CTS
CFMT
WB
CITY
I must say that watching people argue on some crazy talk show in French is rather humorous.
That's the most useful information I've come across all day. I was hoping someone would post these so I didn't have to go hunt them down.
Thank you.
What was one of the reasons behind CT's posting of this article on Slashdot, if not to hear everyone's opinions on the movie? Gimme a break. A free in-depth review of a movie just for us is always worth having.
Let me guess, you think that anyone who posts a good comment is a "karma whore" since their posts get moderated up? I've seen karma-centric posts, and this isn't one of them.