Of course it depends on the job. But if you interview well; if you are smart and can persuade me you're a hard worker; if you can write and speak clearly; if you show me that you can do a good job...then it doesn't matter if you "only" have a psychology degree. What the degree means to me more than anything (this is especially true for post-graduate degrees) is that you know how to complete a long and complex task. The specifics don't matter to me as much as the achievement of having completed the degree. I lead a team of smart researchers, and I "only" have a BA in music.
Just saw South Park S06E06 last night (Professor Chaos). Butters is feeling bummed and rejected and isolated and ignored and vows to disrupt life as we know it for everybody. And the power he's revolting against doesn't even notice.
So it will be with these protests unless and until a clearer message comes together, and until protests here and there turn into a real nationwide movement that wields genuine political power.
Once I was all about zip ties. Then I saw that cable lacing article on wikipedia that zippthorne posted about earlier and went bananas, lacing everything with marine whipping twine. But any time anything in your setup changes (namely, 12-72 hours after you're done with your cable management project) you have to start over.
So I'm all about velcro. monoprice has velcro ties for ultra-cheap.
I'm the first to say Comcast should come clean and declare actual guidelines, as it's only fair. But let's play a little math game for a second.
Comcast tells me I pay for 8 Mbps.
If I manage to saturate my download bandwidth for a whole month, I've downloaded 2.5 TB.
We gather that 250 GB (a tenth the maximum possible) is the threshold for getting a nastygram. Say you're downloading pr0n or TV shows or movies. And say it's high-def divx/xvid. An hour of high-def content with 5.1 channel surround sound is around 1 GB. So to get busted, you need to consistently download 250 hours of content per month, or almost 10 hours of downloaded TV per day.
Naturally when we start downloading 1080p content, the numbers will change, but for the time being this tells me I'm under the threshold, and it's probably safe to say that so is anyone else who isn't doing something quite extraordinary with their internet connection.
It's not just the government that needs this. Since we're funding this effort with our taxpayer dollars, I'm hopeful that some of the results from this work will lead to the availability of tools us normal folks can use to make sure our precious data can be preserved and passed down from one generation to the next.
MATURE 17+ Blood and Gore Intense Violence Strong Language Strong Sexual Content Use of Drugs
Coffee or no coffee, this is sufficient information for parents to decide whether little Johnny can play this game. As much as I love the GTA series, I have a four year old and a seven year old, and they don't get to watch me play this, let alone play it themselves.
Maybe if people would get it through their skulls that Windows ships with a BIG WINDOWS UPDATE LINK in the Start Menu for a REASON...
The problem is harder to solve than that.
Consider a gigantic worldwide firm that runs flavors of Windows servers and desktops from NT up through Longhorn on thousands upon thousands of machines, in dozens of facilities across the globe. Then consider that many of these servers may be running mission critical applications which are no longer being maintained. As a result, there are complex and thorough change management procedures in place that prevent casual application of the latest patches and updates. For any given server they may a) require weeks to test the patch to make sure nothing comes down; b) find the patch breaks an application and therefore cannot be deployed; or c) have a total ban on even breathing on their older servers lest something break.
This is why the "just patch your servers early and often" doesn't work for those larger companies. To the decision makers faced with evaluating business risk, the cost of staying up to the latest versions can seem as high (or higher) than the potential loss caused by a compromise.
So the answer ends up being in your in-line protection: firewalls, and (as they improve) intrusion prevention technologies that offer "virtual patches" for exploits before they hit the wild.
(Having said all this, if you have boxes with port 135 open to the public internet, you'd better have a good reason. And there aren't many good reasons.)
Amen. I started out inspired by CmdrTaco's Jubei project, bought a bunch of wood, started cutting it into the right shapes and decided it was too much like real work. So I gutted my Super Sprint (work in progress photos) and used that instead. I'm very happy with the results. Someday I'll finish it. It's a linux box running Advancemame.
I wimped out and used the VGA monitor approach. I spent *months* trying to get my MK3's monitor to work and finally gave up.
"Me too" on the J-Pac. Killer product. Don't get into MAME without one.
Last suggestion if you're into this: get your buttons and supplies and stuff from Happ Controls.
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Of course it depends on the job. But if you interview well; if you are smart and can persuade me you're a hard worker; if you can write and speak clearly; if you show me that you can do a good job...then it doesn't matter if you "only" have a psychology degree. What the degree means to me more than anything (this is especially true for post-graduate degrees) is that you know how to complete a long and complex task. The specifics don't matter to me as much as the achievement of having completed the degree. I lead a team of smart researchers, and I "only" have a BA in music.
Just saw South Park S06E06 last night (Professor Chaos). Butters is feeling bummed and rejected and isolated and ignored and vows to disrupt life as we know it for everybody. And the power he's revolting against doesn't even notice.
So it will be with these protests unless and until a clearer message comes together, and until protests here and there turn into a real nationwide movement that wields genuine political power.
Once I was all about zip ties. Then I saw that cable lacing article on wikipedia that zippthorne posted about earlier and went bananas, lacing everything with marine whipping twine. But any time anything in your setup changes (namely, 12-72 hours after you're done with your cable management project) you have to start over.
So I'm all about velcro. monoprice has velcro ties for ultra-cheap.
My home theater: https://www.facebook.com/photo.php?fbid=10150195660470606&l=49d60950a5
My wife's 2010 MacBook Air running Lion provides a login prompt 16 seconds after you touch the power button.
Or perhaps convert it to ASCII to see if pi actually represents a story of some kind that is being told to us by the aliens.
You know that's the revelation at the end of a sci-fi novel by a certain revered astronomer, right?
Naturally the ad under this /. story is for an online tetris clone. http://twitpic.com/1ruas4
You must be new here.
Watch it buddy, I'm in the highly prestigious and arbitrarily exclusive 5 Digit UID Club. I'm 1.57 orders of magnitude less new here than you. ;-)
FTFL: "multiAVCHD is free and no one can charge you, should you decide to obtain/download it."
There is in fact a free software Blu-ray authoring tool. And it is rather nice.
http://multiavchd.deanbg.com/
Comcast tells me I pay for 8 Mbps.
If I manage to saturate my download bandwidth for a whole month, I've downloaded 2.5 TB.
We gather that 250 GB (a tenth the maximum possible) is the threshold for getting a nastygram. Say you're downloading pr0n or TV shows or movies. And say it's high-def divx/xvid. An hour of high-def content with 5.1 channel surround sound is around 1 GB. So to get busted, you need to consistently download 250 hours of content per month, or almost 10 hours of downloaded TV per day.
Naturally when we start downloading 1080p content, the numbers will change, but for the time being this tells me I'm under the threshold, and it's probably safe to say that so is anyone else who isn't doing something quite extraordinary with their internet connection.
It's not just the government that needs this. Since we're funding this effort with our taxpayer dollars, I'm hopeful that some of the results from this work will lead to the availability of tools us normal folks can use to make sure our precious data can be preserved and passed down from one generation to the next.
Here's what my GTA:SA PS2 ESRB rating says:
MATURE 17+
Blood and Gore
Intense Violence
Strong Language
Strong Sexual Content
Use of Drugs
Coffee or no coffee, this is sufficient information for parents to decide whether little Johnny can play this game. As much as I love the GTA series, I have a four year old and a seven year old, and they don't get to watch me play this, let alone play it themselves.
Maybe if people would get it through their skulls that Windows ships with a BIG WINDOWS UPDATE LINK in the Start Menu for a REASON...
The problem is harder to solve than that.
Consider a gigantic worldwide firm that runs flavors of Windows servers and desktops from NT up through Longhorn on thousands upon thousands of machines, in dozens of facilities across the globe. Then consider that many of these servers may be running mission critical applications which are no longer being maintained. As a result, there are complex and thorough change management procedures in place that prevent casual application of the latest patches and updates. For any given server they may a) require weeks to test the patch to make sure nothing comes down; b) find the patch breaks an application and therefore cannot be deployed; or c) have a total ban on even breathing on their older servers lest something break.
This is why the "just patch your servers early and often" doesn't work for those larger companies. To the decision makers faced with evaluating business risk, the cost of staying up to the latest versions can seem as high (or higher) than the potential loss caused by a compromise.
So the answer ends up being in your in-line protection: firewalls, and (as they improve) intrusion prevention technologies that offer "virtual patches" for exploits before they hit the wild.
(Having said all this, if you have boxes with port 135 open to the public internet, you'd better have a good reason. And there aren't many good reasons.)
The manual is available online [pdf] if you're like me and have to know every detail about this lovely piece of gear.
I have:
DeBeers: the *other* white monopoly.
I wimped out and used the VGA monitor approach. I spent *months* trying to get my MK3's monitor to work and finally gave up.
"Me too" on the J-Pac. Killer product. Don't get into MAME without one.
Last suggestion if you're into this: get your buttons and supplies and stuff from Happ Controls.
No, guys! Those vents? It's a coffee machine. --W