Fool. It's not about the responsibility. It's about having the time to enjoy life. What's the point in having the ultimate boast worthy job - Money, power, everything else if you have no time? I actually like spending time with my friends and family. What I was trying to state is that it's easy to see why IT is regarded to be a non-rewarding career by many (Other than financially, and even that's going out of the window).
You're just a little off base regarding the no ambition statement too. I started my own business two years ago (Zero venture capital) and I'm now running with 15 well paid, well respected staff and a turnover you'd sell your soul for.
And given you decided to reduce what could have been a good discussion to insults, here; have some back. By the sounds of it you're the average geek kid with no friends anyway and a family that would probably rather have nothing do with you. Stick to your books mate, enjoy your lonely life - and don't worry. Money can always buy hookers who couldn't give a shit about your personal hygiene problems. If you really think that a high powered job is all there is to benchmark your life with, you have a lot to learn.
But seriously, try it sometime. Leave work early, shelve the books, can the Internet time and go make your loved ones happier. You'll be a better person for it.
Similar story with me (http://it.slashdot.org/comments.pl?sid=125280&cid =10498534), I haven't listed all of my jobs (Have also done things like checkout operator, first line technical support and many others). I think I would go back, but only if I could work out a way of earning slightly more out of it to cover my uni debts (Dont care about living the luxury life).
By the way... lowest wage for me was GBP 1.96 per hour which works out as about USD 3.70 at current exchange rates.:o
Shelf Stacker: Good fun, good people, ok money, no stress. Work (Maybe). Go home and chill. Labourer: Really hard work, short hours, great people, no stress, better money, understanding management. Go home, take a shower. Cleaner: No work, no stress, shit money, no management. Go home, take 2 showers, be chilled but poor. Warehouse Supervisor (Best of the lot): Good money, average hours, very little stress. Go home, think about it a little then relax. IT Administrator (Worst of the lot): Good money, stupid hours (80 a week at times), insane stress, continual learning, idiot staff, poor management. Go home, wait for the on-call mobile to ring and drive out to fix another moronic problem caused by moronic policies. IT Director (Own business): Shit money (for the hours), stupid hours (90+ a week), continual learning, idiot customers, no management (Phew!). Go home... wait, I am home and I've never stopped working!!!
If I could get another job as a labourer and work 80 hrs a week to pull the cash I would do it. Why? No more damn books to keep up with the curve, no more idiot customers, staff, or management. Best of all? Being able to go home and and not give a single thought as to when the next disaster phone call is coming.
Japan underwent a massive swing from one of the most conservative nations with respect to pornography to one of the most liberal, and extremely accepting of fetishes. There was a corresponding *decrease* in sex crimes.
Interesting view on the situation, but the link you provide doesn't really suggest any sort of link with sexual violence, more the loss of sexual innocence. I would certainly agree that pornography has desensitized, but then I would argue that knowledge is power and I'm sure people are generally more open to sex (and good varied sex) since porn became mainstream than before. Let's not get started on poor use of contraception and STDs though.
I think you might be interested to know that the countries where pornography is available, accepted and mainstream (Even the ultrahardcore forms) not only have lower incidence of sexual violence, but lower rates of teenage pregnancy too. Some would argue that the latter is due to the lower age of consent in those countries though (14 across much of Europe). The studies to support this are out there.
Personally, I've gone full circle. Started as a kid being turned on by the usual semi naked women, moved on to mainstream porn, on to the crazy hardcore multiple penetrations / bukkake / you name it. Now, about 12 years later? Tasteful lesbian movies (Look up Andrew Blake) that I can enjoy with my girl. Can't stand the ultra hardcore stuff any more. Too many limbs, and holes, and gunk. It's like a seriously fucked up game of 12 player naked twister on amyl-nitrate and astroglide!:)
It certainly is a crime... but it's yet to be tested in a court of law. There's some valid argument that forgetting the keys / password due to the stress of the process would be a valid defence.:)
I'm pleased to hear that! I was just thinking to myself: "Hey, I've used forms authentication a few times" (Admittedly including code that checks back end permissions on every page visit). So I'm glad that I'm not the most insecure coder in the world for doing it!
I do read a lot of code / site security books and have passed the MS secure code exam (70-340) to go with my MCSD. It's something that always concerns me though - You never really can know enough.
Tell you something for nothing. Rackspace wont be getting my business (Nor that of my clients). There's something really screwed up about dropping a website (Or lots of em in this case) on the orders of a foreign government without even properly informing the customer the reasons why.
For sure, but we really don't know if the systems had rebooted by that point allowing him to put the car in neutral, change gear, stop engine etc. Which then of course would have allowed him to stamp on the brakes (and for them to have effect).
But like I said, only he'll really ever know what happened. Maybe if we had black boxes, but I get the feeling that's decades away. I'm just looking at the possibilities, and at this stage there's no way of definitively saying that he really was, or was not at fault.
Thank you... I've been beating on my server since the exploit was posted and I just couldn't work out how to get it to happen. Strange that the MS article (http://www.microsoft.com/security/incident/aspnet.mspx) states that Server 2003 is vulnerable.
Probably too late in the discussion for anyone to see this, but I can't seem to get this to work on my apps / server. Lets say I have this:
www.domain.com/securebit/securefile.aspx
which redirects to:
www.domain.com/login/login.aspx
I've tried replacing / with \ or %5C in the bit before "securefile" but it just doesn't work for me. I'm using forms authentication with role based permissions. Webconfig that handles this is (simplified):
That's not exactly right but it gives a good idea. I also have parent paths disabled, which I've been reading may or may not have an effect on this exploit. Have made the changes recommended already but I would really like to see if I can repeat the flaw on a testing server (Even if just to cover my ass with the customers!).
True, but if you held the brakes on (Say for a minute) and noticed absolutely no change in vehicle speed - Would you even bother to try any more? I know I wouldn't - I'd be more interested in concentrating on the road ahead / finding other options to make sure I didn't waste someone. This could of course explain why his brakes weren't left as smoking metal strips at the end of it.
I'm getting the feeling with this one that we'll never really know what happened.
Which will no doubt organise the hateful and ignorant conservative middle England to go out and attack Paediatricians, Pedometers and Pedontics practitioners.
No No NO! Some of us actually like musty old libraries. I dont know why but I have always felt a aura of knowledge when I walk into a good library and despite being a tech-head in every sense of the word I would be the last one standing to ensure they keep books in paper format - AND AS MANY AS POSSIBLE.
I dont know... I just sit in front of these damn screens for so many hours. Nothing seems to go in anymore. I read document after document, online papers, articles, blogs. None of it seems to have the same weight as a decent book that I can read without distraction, whether that is in the corner of my house or a library quiet room. Maybe it's because half of the content out there is rubbish (Publishers actually do something you know!) or maybe it's just the format, but I really don't like electronic books.
I'll live without it thank you, and I'll thank you to stay away from my musty books. This isn't progress!
This happened recently in the UK with a lorry driver. The police did try to charge the driver with dangerous driving but he was let off. Not quite the same as the automatic systems of the Renault, but certainly not the first time something like this has happened.
Actually, NASA TV was the only webcast I could find that wasn't being slashdotted into oblivion (The x-prize webcast started great but then seemed to cut out every 10 seconds).
NASA only seemed to cover it from just before seperation, which is why you may have thought that they didn't have a webcast for it.
Slashdot Mirror
Damnit... this, or that but definitely not "the".
Kevin Spacey did the recently in London: http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/entertainment/film/3675 592.stm
Fool. It's not about the responsibility. It's about having the time to enjoy life. What's the point in having the ultimate boast worthy job - Money, power, everything else if you have no time? I actually like spending time with my friends and family. What I was trying to state is that it's easy to see why IT is regarded to be a non-rewarding career by many (Other than financially, and even that's going out of the window).
You're just a little off base regarding the no ambition statement too. I started my own business two years ago (Zero venture capital) and I'm now running with 15 well paid, well respected staff and a turnover you'd sell your soul for.
And given you decided to reduce what could have been a good discussion to insults, here; have some back. By the sounds of it you're the average geek kid with no friends anyway and a family that would probably rather have nothing do with you. Stick to your books mate, enjoy your lonely life - and don't worry. Money can always buy hookers who couldn't give a shit about your personal hygiene problems. If you really think that a high powered job is all there is to benchmark your life with, you have a lot to learn.
But seriously, try it sometime. Leave work early, shelve the books, can the Internet time and go make your loved ones happier. You'll be a better person for it.
Similar story with me (http://it.slashdot.org/comments.pl?sid=125280&cid =10498534), I haven't listed all of my jobs (Have also done things like checkout operator, first line technical support and many others). I think I would go back, but only if I could work out a way of earning slightly more out of it to cover my uni debts (Dont care about living the luxury life).
:o
By the way... lowest wage for me was GBP 1.96 per hour which works out as about USD 3.70 at current exchange rates.
Disagree. Here's some of my jobs over the years:
Shelf Stacker: Good fun, good people, ok money, no stress. Work (Maybe). Go home and chill.
Labourer: Really hard work, short hours, great people, no stress, better money, understanding management. Go home, take a shower.
Cleaner: No work, no stress, shit money, no management. Go home, take 2 showers, be chilled but poor.
Warehouse Supervisor (Best of the lot): Good money, average hours, very little stress. Go home, think about it a little then relax.
IT Administrator (Worst of the lot): Good money, stupid hours (80 a week at times), insane stress, continual learning, idiot staff, poor management. Go home, wait for the on-call mobile to ring and drive out to fix another moronic problem caused by moronic policies.
IT Director (Own business): Shit money (for the hours), stupid hours (90+ a week), continual learning, idiot customers, no management (Phew!). Go home... wait, I am home and I've never stopped working!!!
If I could get another job as a labourer and work 80 hrs a week to pull the cash I would do it. Why? No more damn books to keep up with the curve, no more idiot customers, staff, or management. Best of all? Being able to go home and and not give a single thought as to when the next disaster phone call is coming.
(Thanks 0x0d0a)
Interesting view on the situation, but the link you provide doesn't really suggest any sort of link with sexual violence, more the loss of sexual innocence. I would certainly agree that pornography has desensitized, but then I would argue that knowledge is power and I'm sure people are generally more open to sex (and good varied sex) since porn became mainstream than before. Let's not get started on poor use of contraception and STDs though.
:)
I think you might be interested to know that the countries where pornography is available, accepted and mainstream (Even the ultrahardcore forms) not only have lower incidence of sexual violence, but lower rates of teenage pregnancy too. Some would argue that the latter is due to the lower age of consent in those countries though (14 across much of Europe). The studies to support this are out there.
Personally, I've gone full circle. Started as a kid being turned on by the usual semi naked women, moved on to mainstream porn, on to the crazy hardcore multiple penetrations / bukkake / you name it. Now, about 12 years later? Tasteful lesbian movies (Look up Andrew Blake) that I can enjoy with my girl. Can't stand the ultra hardcore stuff any more. Too many limbs, and holes, and gunk. It's like a seriously fucked up game of 12 player naked twister on amyl-nitrate and astroglide!
It certainly is a crime... but it's yet to be tested in a court of law. There's some valid argument that forgetting the keys / password due to the stress of the process would be a valid defence. :)
Hey Timesprout, you've been quoted... heheh: eWeek Article
(Down near the bottom somewhere)
I'm pleased to hear that! I was just thinking to myself: "Hey, I've used forms authentication a few times" (Admittedly including code that checks back end permissions on every page visit). So I'm glad that I'm not the most insecure coder in the world for doing it!
I do read a lot of code / site security books and have passed the MS secure code exam (70-340) to go with my MCSD. It's something that always concerns me though - You never really can know enough.
Tell you something for nothing. Rackspace wont be getting my business (Nor that of my clients). There's something really screwed up about dropping a website (Or lots of em in this case) on the orders of a foreign government without even properly informing the customer the reasons why.
For sure, but we really don't know if the systems had rebooted by that point allowing him to put the car in neutral, change gear, stop engine etc. Which then of course would have allowed him to stamp on the brakes (and for them to have effect).
But like I said, only he'll really ever know what happened. Maybe if we had black boxes, but I get the feeling that's decades away. I'm just looking at the possibilities, and at this stage there's no way of definitively saying that he really was, or was not at fault.
Thank you... I've been beating on my server since the exploit was posted and I just couldn't work out how to get it to happen. Strange that the MS article (http://www.microsoft.com/security/incident/aspnet .mspx) states that Server 2003 is vulnerable.
www.domain.com/securebit/securefile.aspx
which redirects to:
www.domain.com/login/login.aspx
I've tried replacing / with \ or %5C in the bit before "securefile" but it just doesn't work for me. I'm using forms authentication with role based permissions. Webconfig that handles this is (simplified):That's not exactly right but it gives a good idea. I also have parent paths disabled, which I've been reading may or may not have an effect on this exploit. Have made the changes recommended already but I would really like to see if I can repeat the flaw on a testing server (Even if just to cover my ass with the customers!).
True, but if you held the brakes on (Say for a minute) and noticed absolutely no change in vehicle speed - Would you even bother to try any more? I know I wouldn't - I'd be more interested in concentrating on the road ahead / finding other options to make sure I didn't waste someone. This could of course explain why his brakes weren't left as smoking metal strips at the end of it.
I'm getting the feeling with this one that we'll never really know what happened.
Which will no doubt organise the hateful and ignorant conservative middle England to go out and attack Paediatricians, Pedometers and Pedontics practitioners.
No wait... that was something else...
Interesting, I'd never heard that before. Thanks.
No No NO! Some of us actually like musty old libraries. I dont know why but I have always felt a aura of knowledge when I walk into a good library and despite being a tech-head in every sense of the word I would be the last one standing to ensure they keep books in paper format - AND AS MANY AS POSSIBLE.
I dont know... I just sit in front of these damn screens for so many hours. Nothing seems to go in anymore. I read document after document, online papers, articles, blogs. None of it seems to have the same weight as a decent book that I can read without distraction, whether that is in the corner of my house or a library quiet room. Maybe it's because half of the content out there is rubbish (Publishers actually do something you know!) or maybe it's just the format, but I really don't like electronic books.
I'll live without it thank you, and I'll thank you to stay away from my musty books. This isn't progress!
Lol... I just posted this same thing right after you. A search on the BBC website states he was found innocent: Runaway lorry driver cleared
This happened recently in the UK with a lorry driver. The police did try to charge the driver with dangerous driving but he was let off. Not quite the same as the automatic systems of the Renault, but certainly not the first time something like this has happened.
0 /9 1259.stms id_364000/ 364260.stme wsid_363000/ 363407.stms tm
Found some links:
http://news.bbc.co.uk/hi/english/uk/newsid_9100
http://news.bbc.co.uk/hi/english/uk/new
http://news.bbc.co.uk/hi/english/uk/n
http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/uk/368677.
Actually, NASA TV was the only webcast I could find that wasn't being slashdotted into oblivion (The x-prize webcast started great but then seemed to cut out every 10 seconds).
NASA only seemed to cover it from just before seperation, which is why you may have thought that they didn't have a webcast for it.
Nice one. :) Nothing like one overwhelming feeling overpowering another one.
On the M&Ms - DON'T EAT EM, they'll be worth money some day! I bet that made quite a few people in the crowd feel a little sick. :D
Or not... excellent. They still made it! :D
Now that is cool. Of course, something tells me not to believe you - but that's just healthy internet scepticism. :)