I believe in dealing with terror with overwhelming violence and am not normally sympathetic to idealogical subversion but this is different.
Regardless of how powerful and all knowing you feel the NSA needs to be, I cannot relate to any argument that they should know and store absolutely everything I ever say or write over any wire or store on any computer because of needing 'information dominance' while at the same time I SHOULD HAVE ABSOLUTELY NO FUCKING IDEA THAT THAT IS THE CASE. That's not government of the people by the people. The people need to now that the people know everything about the people, even if you believe the people need know everything about the people for the safety of the people.
I don't sympathise at all with the if.... the terrorists have won but in this case, Snowden is a national here and I do hope that one day a President and hopefully a hardliner pardons him a gives him some type of reward.
This is stupid comment even by Slashdot standards, fitting a now famous rhetorical form to boot. The Snowden leaks did in fact establish the NSA as that fearsome octupus. The more details we get the scarier this gets. They break into oems and steal encryption keys and they have malware that leaps over airgaps and they can blackmail either truthfully or untruthfully anyone they wish and you distrust them because they are incompetent.
You are extremely limited. I give fuckall about the Redskins, and don't hate me some injun. I care that the Federal Government is using its ever increasing powers to sanitize the American culture. That's outside its role. Have no problem with now on provisioning of trademarks. But to go back and erase an established entity is too much.
Oh, to be clear: I've said nothing about free speech. That's not the issue. The issue is activist moralistic government. It outgrows its mandate. And every overreach 'intellectuals' go into legalistic defenses. It wouldn't be so bad if they didn't haven't so many guns.
It doesn't clarify everything -- it clarifies a lot. It establishes a default. It says that where and whenever possible you allow people to do whatever the fuck they want to. And it excludes activist moralistic government. It's a standard to judge by not a template. Hope that helps.
You are believer in these moralistic goals. You are a member of the same religion.
A fun fact. Wow. What's a Catholic?
Haven't watched television is years and am non-political. Only thing I know is that the Government removed the trademark from a American name that has been part of the culture since 1933. Because someone is offended. It's overreach plain an simple. I've no problem with trademarks going forward. But this is the freaking Washington Redskins. Some grownup should have said at some point that we need to leave this one alone. It shows complete disregard for the body politic. The Government is morphing into an activist entity which sees itself above and beyond the body politic. Like a church, really. With guns. Lots of them. That is frightening.
This is not about trademarks, it's about heresy. The Government shouldn't be taking moral stances, unless where absolutely necessary. This name has been around since 1933. This is secular religion pure and simple. You're just a true believer.
Fuck you are living in fantasy world where everything is judged according to logical principals in some sort of vacuum. Fact is that trademark is a constant for whatever it's worth, and now the government is using a power in in means to curtail its citizens sphere of activity. You will be spouting some sort of stupid syllogism as the governments plants its boot in your face.
This the Government using its ever increasing means to enforce thought crime. Heresy. Name has been around since 1933. This a means to an end and the end isn't trademark law and you know it. It's a bunch of assholes in a office using the trademark authority of the United States of America to enforce against heresy. You are just spouting talking points.
This is just so that you can erase speech that you don't like. So that you can control what people do. All must conform to the good and true.
They have had that name since 1933. But now it's on the heresy list of the modern clergy, so the Government will work within its ever growing means to do away with it, with the support of true believers like you. Because it's obviously the proper role of Government to fight against heresy and thought crime, right? Because it isn't legal to yell fire in a theater, you see. This will not end well.
I don't believe this is true at all. These institutions are not ideologically neutral. It's a progressive march through the institutions. So don't expect progressives to get behind that line of reasoning.
I am actually interested in hearing an answer to that question. We can all sense that there is a too high. What's the metric? 15 may be too high and may not be too high, I don't know, do you? How?
Why are you shouting him down.
Yes corporate interest x, you can have any power you wish as long as we, the governing class, are unaffected, compensated appropriately, and given political cover.
Oh a low income internet service --- perfect! For the people!
There's no turning back. The left and the right establishment care nothing save for there own interests and we will live under a soft dictatorship with pretend elections before any real traction will be given to a class of political reformers. The tea party was the best hope. But we the people have no chance.
Power consolidated is never willingly relinquished.
Been self learning for years and could save an aspiring newbie tons of time suggesting appropriate books and subject sequence.
At the end of the day, nobody will come out ready for the job market from a boot camp, but I wouldn't be surprised at all if a good boot camp could shave a significant multiple of its time off the process.
10 boxes on windows and a least a couple semi-power users of one or more office applications with defined workflows that help them get their job done. If all they use is webmail and surf the web then yeah but what 10 box office does that. Nobody there manages their everything in outlook?
I'll lay out what I did and what's happening to me and offer advice. This is of course just me and my experience and there are numerous paths to follow with none of them being guaranteed.
I was teaching and needed to earn a higher wage and so began to hit programming (related) books. I studied python and C and Assembly and networking and read and re-read and spent no time at all doing exercises. A couple of years back I got a job doing software support for development shop with a couple of substantial products with a small number of important clients. In addition to the prosaic bug-hunting and describing, I had cause to write python scripts to interface with our system api's and had cause to learn t-sql to acquire data-sets or perform operations for clients not accommodated by our user interface. I do a good job. Increasingly, I spent my time learning basics -- like assembly -- not doing exercises just reading and rereading, not to write code in assembly -- i don't think i'll ever have to do that-- but rather to understand what's going underneath the high level abstractions. This is critical. I don't know if it will be useful me, but it makes me comfortable, when working with higher level abstraction tools. That's important. Because the more useful the work you do professionally the higher level of abstraction you will be working at, and the higher level abstraction you are working at, the less likely you will be to understand the details underpinning the operations -- indeed this perhaps it the greatest productivity enhancement brought on by the OOP paradigm. But you can still feel comfortably oriented if you have a good basic understanding of what *must* be going on under the hood. And for me at least, that comfort helps me to forge forward at high levels of abstraction, because otherwise I'd always have a gnawing feeling that I'm floating on air and do not understand anything and that I need to go back to basics, the over-focusing on which would likely lead farther away from gainful employment in the industry.
So what's the upshot? Learn basics -- to facilitate your life's work in the abstraction domain. You'll be happier, more productive, and more fulfilled in your work.
Next point.
After a couple of years my manager turns to me and gives me my long awaited access to the source code, and gives me a mandate to learn up on particular framework (a JSF implementation for the record.) So now I'm reading core java and core java server faces like a madman, but am still employed in my support role facing little pressure to 'produce' which is key. Also, trust me, you cannot compare learning Java and JSF while staring into the belly of real life enterprise application code wading through source files with a modern IDE (navigable!!) trying to figure things out. It's night and day different from tutorial land learning. I cannot overstate that -- night and day.
At the same time, I do not believe, as a rule, that you can self-teach yourself these frameworks to get yourself hired as an entry level learn on the job programmer, because I do not believe there are such positions. Programmers are paid well, and companies dish out that type of money because they have things they need done and they've no need to train.
But, once your in, your in. Which means that if you can get yourself into a software support role and learn basics and work your self into source code access and then study the relevant technologies -- then that, I believe, is a reliable way into the field, because 1. by the time you get access, they know you are competent and that they like you and 2. by the time you get access, you will already be providing value to the company proportional to your wage, and 3. while you are learning the technologies (and it's not 'rocket science' if you know the basics) you will have a real life application before your eyes to study, and 4. (an not least, at all) this real life application you are studying you will already know outside in, because you have become an support expert in it.
We should be killing violent criminals end of story. Eradicate the evil. It isn't an issue of punishment. Prison is torture. Certain crimes constitute forfeiture of a right to live on this earth. No more thug life.
Don't talk smack about your heritage, reality is bigger than you. No one questions scientific methodology, only discussions concerning the epistemological significance of the various methods. Philosophy of science was once of interest before show me the beef became the arbiter of what's real. No one even questions observable evolutionary dynamics (scientific) but only the historical projections fantastically based thereon.
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I believe in dealing with terror with overwhelming violence and am not normally sympathetic to idealogical subversion but this is different. Regardless of how powerful and all knowing you feel the NSA needs to be, I cannot relate to any argument that they should know and store absolutely everything I ever say or write over any wire or store on any computer because of needing 'information dominance' while at the same time I SHOULD HAVE ABSOLUTELY NO FUCKING IDEA THAT THAT IS THE CASE. That's not government of the people by the people. The people need to now that the people know everything about the people, even if you believe the people need know everything about the people for the safety of the people. I don't sympathise at all with the if .... the terrorists have won but in this case, Snowden is a national here and I do hope that one day a President and hopefully a hardliner pardons him a gives him some type of reward.
This is stupid comment even by Slashdot standards, fitting a now famous rhetorical form to boot. The Snowden leaks did in fact establish the NSA as that fearsome octupus. The more details we get the scarier this gets. They break into oems and steal encryption keys and they have malware that leaps over airgaps and they can blackmail either truthfully or untruthfully anyone they wish and you distrust them because they are incompetent.
Mankind needs energy. The sea creatures will...adapt.
It was the Dukes?
You are extremely limited. I give fuckall about the Redskins, and don't hate me some injun. I care that the Federal Government is using its ever increasing powers to sanitize the American culture. That's outside its role. Have no problem with now on provisioning of trademarks. But to go back and erase an established entity is too much.
Another moron who will be spouting legalistic syllogism as the boot crushes his face.
"the government tell them their shit stinks and it's past time they cleaned up their act or pay the consequences" That's good, you honest fuck.
Oh, to be clear: I've said nothing about free speech. That's not the issue. The issue is activist moralistic government. It outgrows its mandate. And every overreach 'intellectuals' go into legalistic defenses. It wouldn't be so bad if they didn't haven't so many guns.
It doesn't clarify everything -- it clarifies a lot. It establishes a default. It says that where and whenever possible you allow people to do whatever the fuck they want to. And it excludes activist moralistic government. It's a standard to judge by not a template. Hope that helps. You are believer in these moralistic goals. You are a member of the same religion. A fun fact. Wow. What's a Catholic?
Haven't watched television is years and am non-political. Only thing I know is that the Government removed the trademark from a American name that has been part of the culture since 1933. Because someone is offended. It's overreach plain an simple. I've no problem with trademarks going forward. But this is the freaking Washington Redskins. Some grownup should have said at some point that we need to leave this one alone. It shows complete disregard for the body politic. The Government is morphing into an activist entity which sees itself above and beyond the body politic. Like a church, really. With guns. Lots of them. That is frightening.
This is not about trademarks, it's about heresy. The Government shouldn't be taking moral stances, unless where absolutely necessary. This name has been around since 1933. This is secular religion pure and simple. You're just a true believer.
Fuck you are living in fantasy world where everything is judged according to logical principals in some sort of vacuum. Fact is that trademark is a constant for whatever it's worth, and now the government is using a power in in means to curtail its citizens sphere of activity. You will be spouting some sort of stupid syllogism as the governments plants its boot in your face.
This the Government using its ever increasing means to enforce thought crime. Heresy. Name has been around since 1933. This a means to an end and the end isn't trademark law and you know it. It's a bunch of assholes in a office using the trademark authority of the United States of America to enforce against heresy. You are just spouting talking points.
This is just so that you can erase speech that you don't like. So that you can control what people do. All must conform to the good and true. They have had that name since 1933. But now it's on the heresy list of the modern clergy, so the Government will work within its ever growing means to do away with it, with the support of true believers like you. Because it's obviously the proper role of Government to fight against heresy and thought crime, right? Because it isn't legal to yell fire in a theater, you see. This will not end well.
I don't believe this is true at all. These institutions are not ideologically neutral. It's a progressive march through the institutions. So don't expect progressives to get behind that line of reasoning.
I am actually interested in hearing an answer to that question. We can all sense that there is a too high. What's the metric? 15 may be too high and may not be too high, I don't know, do you? How? Why are you shouting him down.
Yes corporate interest x, you can have any power you wish as long as we, the governing class, are unaffected, compensated appropriately, and given political cover. Oh a low income internet service --- perfect! For the people! There's no turning back. The left and the right establishment care nothing save for there own interests and we will live under a soft dictatorship with pretend elections before any real traction will be given to a class of political reformers. The tea party was the best hope. But we the people have no chance. Power consolidated is never willingly relinquished.
Been self learning for years and could save an aspiring newbie tons of time suggesting appropriate books and subject sequence. At the end of the day, nobody will come out ready for the job market from a boot camp, but I wouldn't be surprised at all if a good boot camp could shave a significant multiple of its time off the process.
Excellent comment. So basically you learn what you need to get the job done. When you will need to understand pointers, you will learn pointers.
10 boxes on windows and a least a couple semi-power users of one or more office applications with defined workflows that help them get their job done. If all they use is webmail and surf the web then yeah but what 10 box office does that. Nobody there manages their everything in outlook?
I'll lay out what I did and what's happening to me and offer advice. This is of course just me and my experience and there are numerous paths to follow with none of them being guaranteed. I was teaching and needed to earn a higher wage and so began to hit programming (related) books. I studied python and C and Assembly and networking and read and re-read and spent no time at all doing exercises. A couple of years back I got a job doing software support for development shop with a couple of substantial products with a small number of important clients. In addition to the prosaic bug-hunting and describing, I had cause to write python scripts to interface with our system api's and had cause to learn t-sql to acquire data-sets or perform operations for clients not accommodated by our user interface. I do a good job. Increasingly, I spent my time learning basics -- like assembly -- not doing exercises just reading and rereading, not to write code in assembly -- i don't think i'll ever have to do that-- but rather to understand what's going underneath the high level abstractions. This is critical. I don't know if it will be useful me, but it makes me comfortable, when working with higher level abstraction tools. That's important. Because the more useful the work you do professionally the higher level of abstraction you will be working at, and the higher level abstraction you are working at, the less likely you will be to understand the details underpinning the operations -- indeed this perhaps it the greatest productivity enhancement brought on by the OOP paradigm. But you can still feel comfortably oriented if you have a good basic understanding of what *must* be going on under the hood. And for me at least, that comfort helps me to forge forward at high levels of abstraction, because otherwise I'd always have a gnawing feeling that I'm floating on air and do not understand anything and that I need to go back to basics, the over-focusing on which would likely lead farther away from gainful employment in the industry. So what's the upshot? Learn basics -- to facilitate your life's work in the abstraction domain. You'll be happier, more productive, and more fulfilled in your work. Next point. After a couple of years my manager turns to me and gives me my long awaited access to the source code, and gives me a mandate to learn up on particular framework (a JSF implementation for the record.) So now I'm reading core java and core java server faces like a madman, but am still employed in my support role facing little pressure to 'produce' which is key. Also, trust me, you cannot compare learning Java and JSF while staring into the belly of real life enterprise application code wading through source files with a modern IDE (navigable!!) trying to figure things out. It's night and day different from tutorial land learning. I cannot overstate that -- night and day. At the same time, I do not believe, as a rule, that you can self-teach yourself these frameworks to get yourself hired as an entry level learn on the job programmer, because I do not believe there are such positions. Programmers are paid well, and companies dish out that type of money because they have things they need done and they've no need to train. But, once your in, your in. Which means that if you can get yourself into a software support role and learn basics and work your self into source code access and then study the relevant technologies -- then that, I believe, is a reliable way into the field, because 1. by the time you get access, they know you are competent and that they like you and 2. by the time you get access, you will already be providing value to the company proportional to your wage, and 3. while you are learning the technologies (and it's not 'rocket science' if you know the basics) you will have a real life application before your eyes to study, and 4. (an not least, at all) this real life application you are studying you will already know outside in, because you have become an support expert in it.
We should be killing violent criminals end of story. Eradicate the evil. It isn't an issue of punishment. Prison is torture. Certain crimes constitute forfeiture of a right to live on this earth. No more thug life.
Don't talk smack about your heritage, reality is bigger than you. No one questions scientific methodology, only discussions concerning the epistemological significance of the various methods. Philosophy of science was once of interest before show me the beef became the arbiter of what's real. No one even questions observable evolutionary dynamics (scientific) but only the historical projections fantastically based thereon.
Yes, yes, teach us about longevity and enlightenment, gentile.
I've never even seen a mod point, but +1 to you, sir!