If I had been making 35K I would have been plenty comfortable. I just don't see how people manage to spend that much money....
Uh, cost of living varies, dude. A lot. Here in Manhattan I rent a small(!) studio, don't have a car, and spend a moderate amount of money on entertainment and such (I'm single). I break EVEN. On 70k.
*sighs wistfully* Anyone else remember the good ol' days when you'd run a firewall to keep the bad guy outside from coming in? Nowadays it's all about preventing the bad stuff which is already inside from getting out.
Anyone remember the good old days when firefighters used to put fires out?
Also there is the fact that they are in business to make money- they wont woo many customers by turning away obvious adults with valid licenses.
Well, they do care. I'm only 18, but I am self-sufficient and work and live in Manhattan, NYC. Naturally, I like to go out and drink. To that end I am currently stuck using a completely fake out-of-state driver's license. It resembles the real licenses from that state fairly closely, so I usually have no problem. However, every now and then the manager or bouncer will have a clue, and discern some of the tell-tale signs of cheaply made fake driver licenses. At this point, it's a no-go. Doesn't matter that I might be dressed in spiffy clothes and have a wad of cash I'm obviously itching to spend -- they're nice about it and all, not assholes, but they are adamant that they cannot let me in. It seems as if even if my ID is really convincing, if it's fake they get in trouble. So they'd rather just not get in trouble, especially when 3 offenses (or something?) will get your liquor license taken away.
As for all of these upcoming privacy violations will be WELL WORTH IT to enforce our 21-year drinking age, right? I mean, sure I already support my own apartment, have quite gainful employment, pay ridiculous income taxes like everyone else and even quasi-support my unemployed S.O. -- gotta have all this process in place to try to stop me from being in bars, right? Even if it only succeeds about 1 out of 500 times...and even if even then I can just go to another bar across the street...onward!:)
I was forced to install windows the other day. All you have to do is type in your name and serial number. Oh, and the date/time/language if the defaults aren't already correct. Other than that, you just sit back and stare.
In New York, the BSA had these unbelievably tasteful ads featuring "the Big Apple" overlayed by a shooting target, and the words "The BSA is targeting New York."
You just have to love it -- I wonder how many people appreciated that in the weeks following the WTC attack, appreciated it enough, maybe, to pay some attention to the writing in marker: "Or, use Free Software: no license fees, no forced upgrades, no software auditing Gestapo." I don't know who wrote that, I think it was that guy over there.
I don't recall seeing and 'write with zeros' program for Unix.
RM(1) FreeBSD General Commands Manual RM(1)
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-P Overwrite regular files before deleting them. Files are
overwritten three times, first with the byte pattern 0xff,
then 0x00, and then 0xff again, before they are deleted.
I would like to see NO ads ever...No human being needs an ad for anything. If a person wants something, they are intelligent enough to go out and find what they need.
So when are you and your dormmates going to put down the bong and start paying for everything you read on the 'net that adveritising currently pays for? Even slashdot?
Well, it was accurate enough with my proxy's location (it said Brooklyn, NY. Really, it's in New York, NY but the difference is a few miles...). But it also said it wasn't a proxy:)
Another address I tried, a machine co-located in downtown Manhattan, comes up as Beijing, China. WTF!
Shit, my CO is on the next block over and I still haven't been able to get Verizon to install DSL. Maybe I can get 10Mbps over that metal plating that sits on top of the curb!
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No, then you're comparing transatlantic flights to one-mile (or shorter) drives. Drive a car from NY to LA, or fly from NY to LA?
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This is why almost all fanatical and effective terrorists come from politically and economically oppressed countries. In free countries with economic opportunity, the effective people are too busy starting their own companies, building factories or writing op-ed columns.
Free clue: Mr. Atta was not a starving sheep farmer from Afghanistan. He was a middle class student from Egypt, whose parents were more than able to pay for him to go to Hamburg, Germany, Europe and get an education... another 14 of the hijackers were from Saudi Arabia, not the poorest country in the world.
Which leaves luggage bombs, in the hopes of dropping the plane into the middle of a city. Facial scanning isn't going to do bugger all there.
Speaking of which, why is it that airspaces over our major cities isn't restricted? Every time I ask this question I usually get the reply that it'd be too much of a PITA to bother, but I don't buy that. If every plane in/out of LGA has to take an extra 10-15 minutes to go around Lower Manhattan and Midtown, have the terrorists already won?
Even without a terrorist threat, a pure accident above such extremely densely packed, vital areas would be catastrophic. Why do we still let planes in the sky above Manhattan, the Pentagon, etc.?
No, but once someone tells you, it's fairly easy to remember that cat is just short for catenate. By contrast, if the command had been rqszx, I personally would probably have to write it down somewhere for a long time before I could use it off the top of my head...
And frankly, the only two types of damage suffered in a terrorist attack are human suffering/death financial losses. I fail to see why wiping 1 million hard drives is necessarily qualitatively different from demolishing one building.
Hard drives do not contain people that get burned to death, buried by rubble, or forced to jump 90 stories, you miserable little puke.
What if your hard drive crashes? Your data is lost through no one's fault but your own. Moral of the story: if you don't back up your work, ESPECIALLY work that took you "years of your life" to complete, then you lose your right to whine when you get fucked.
Uhh...one would assume that a professional programmer would have at least some formal education in his belt, and in most non-English-speaking countries English is one of those things they teach you in school. Certainly you don't have to learn the entire language to know what words like 'where' mean.
Think about Unix: How long did it take you to learn that "cat" means "display some text"?
cat means "catenate", not "display some text". cat will work regardless of whether the input is actually text, regardless of whether the output is actually a display. It makes sense.
*shrug* I don't get them, either. We are actually forced to use SexChange/Outspook at work, but they are apparently able to filter all the virii out. And I've never received anything on my home (all Unix) network either. Too bad, too -- I was really hoping for a juicy, incriminating piece from that "random file from your hard drive" virus:)
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I suppose the obvious is that the author can produce his manuscript by himself whereas a new artist will need a lot of investment to record an album.
Oh yeah?
What if the "spoils" are your life savings, i.e. someone is suing you?
What if they are your life, i.e. you are on trial for a serious crime?
Talk about what's important and not on slashdot all you want, if you're ever in a situation like this you'll be dying to hire Johnny Cochran.
If I had been making 35K I would have been plenty comfortable. I just don't see how people manage to spend that much money....
Uh, cost of living varies, dude. A lot. Here in Manhattan I rent a small(!) studio, don't have a car, and spend a moderate amount of money on entertainment and such (I'm single). I break EVEN. On 70k.
Hey, C/C++ programming job ain't too shabby, and I didn't even have to graduate. Good luck learning to draw those push buttons!
*sighs wistfully* Anyone else remember the good ol' days when you'd run a firewall to keep the bad guy outside from coming in?
Nowadays it's all about preventing the bad stuff which is already inside from getting out.
Anyone remember the good old days when firefighters used to put fires out?
Also there is the fact that they are in business to make money- they wont woo many customers by turning away obvious adults with valid licenses.
:)
Well, they do care. I'm only 18, but I am self-sufficient and work and live in Manhattan, NYC. Naturally, I like to go out and drink. To that end I am currently stuck using a completely fake out-of-state driver's license. It resembles the real licenses from that state fairly closely, so I usually have no problem. However, every now and then the manager or bouncer will have a clue, and discern some of the tell-tale signs of cheaply made fake driver licenses. At this point, it's a no-go. Doesn't matter that I might be dressed in spiffy clothes and have a wad of cash I'm obviously itching to spend -- they're nice about it and all, not assholes, but they are adamant that they cannot let me in. It seems as if even if my ID is really convincing, if it's fake they get in trouble. So they'd rather just not get in trouble, especially when 3 offenses (or something?) will get your liquor license taken away.
As for all of these upcoming privacy violations will be WELL WORTH IT to enforce our 21-year drinking age, right? I mean, sure I already support my own apartment, have quite gainful employment, pay ridiculous income taxes like everyone else and even quasi-support my unemployed S.O. -- gotta have all this process in place to try to stop me from being in bars, right? Even if it only succeeds about 1 out of 500 times...and even if even then I can just go to another bar across the street...onward!
Dude, just make another dime-a-dozen yahoo mail account and register yourself. It's not like they insist on REAL information, unlike the bars...
I was forced to install windows the other day. All you have to do is type in your name and serial number. Oh, and the date/time/language if the defaults aren't already correct. Other than that, you just sit back and stare.
Oh yeah? MS Visual C++, version 6.0, right now, today:
#include
int main()
{
const i = 1.0;
double d = 1.0;
if(i == d)
cout << "yes" << endl;
else
cout << "no" << endl;
return 0;
}
You guessed it. It prints no.
In New York, the BSA had these unbelievably tasteful ads featuring "the Big Apple" overlayed by a shooting target, and the words "The BSA is targeting New York."
You just have to love it -- I wonder how many people appreciated that in the weeks following the WTC attack, appreciated it enough, maybe, to pay some attention to the writing in marker: "Or, use Free Software: no license fees, no forced upgrades, no software auditing Gestapo." I don't know who wrote that, I think it was that guy over there.
I don't recall seeing and 'write with zeros' program for Unix.
RM(1) FreeBSD General Commands Manual RM(1)
...
-P Overwrite regular files before deleting them. Files are
overwritten three times, first with the byte pattern 0xff,
then 0x00, and then 0xff again, before they are deleted.
Hope this helps
I would like to see NO ads ever...No human being needs an ad for anything. If a person wants something, they are intelligent enough to go out and find what they need.
So when are you and your dormmates going to put down the bong and start paying for everything you read on the 'net that adveritising currently pays for? Even slashdot?
Well, it was accurate enough with my proxy's location (it said Brooklyn, NY. Really, it's in New York, NY but the difference is a few miles...). But it also said it wasn't a proxy :)
Another address I tried, a machine co-located in downtown Manhattan, comes up as Beijing, China. WTF!
Shit, my CO is on the next block over and I still haven't been able to get Verizon to install DSL. Maybe I can get 10Mbps over that metal plating that sits on top of the curb!
No, then you're comparing transatlantic flights to one-mile (or shorter) drives. Drive a car from NY to LA, or fly from NY to LA?
This is why almost all fanatical and effective terrorists come from politically and economically oppressed countries. In free countries with economic opportunity, the effective people are too busy starting their own companies, building factories or writing op-ed columns.
... another 14 of the hijackers were from Saudi Arabia, not the poorest country in the world.
Free clue: Mr. Atta was not a starving sheep farmer from Afghanistan. He was a middle class student from Egypt, whose parents were more than able to pay for him to go to Hamburg, Germany, Europe and get an education
Which leaves luggage bombs, in the hopes of dropping the plane into the middle of a city. Facial scanning isn't going to do bugger all there.
Speaking of which, why is it that airspaces over our major cities isn't restricted? Every time I ask this question I usually get the reply that it'd be too much of a PITA to bother, but I don't buy that. If every plane in/out of LGA has to take an extra 10-15 minutes to go around Lower Manhattan and Midtown, have the terrorists already won?
Even without a terrorist threat, a pure accident above such extremely densely packed, vital areas would be catastrophic. Why do we still let planes in the sky above Manhattan, the Pentagon, etc.?
WTF do you mean, ``point''? It's a sig. On slashdot. Get real, man.
No, but once someone tells you, it's fairly easy to remember that cat is just short for catenate. By contrast, if the command had been rqszx, I personally would probably have to write it down somewhere for a long time before I could use it off the top of my head...
Isn't that the whole point of going to college?
And frankly, the only two types of damage suffered in a terrorist attack are human suffering/death financial losses. I fail to see why wiping 1 million hard drives is necessarily qualitatively different from demolishing one building.
Hard drives do not contain people that get burned to death, buried by rubble, or forced to jump 90 stories, you miserable little puke.
What if your hard drive crashes? Your data is lost through no one's fault but your own. Moral of the story: if you don't back up your work, ESPECIALLY work that took you "years of your life" to complete, then you lose your right to whine when you get fucked.
Uhh...one would assume that a professional programmer would have at least some formal education in his belt, and in most non-English-speaking countries English is one of those things they teach you in school. Certainly you don't have to learn the entire language to know what words like 'where' mean.
Think about Unix: How long did it take you to learn that "cat" means "display some text"?
cat means "catenate", not "display some text". cat will work regardless of whether the input is actually text, regardless of whether the output is actually a display. It makes sense.
*shrug* I don't get them, either. We are actually forced to use SexChange/Outspook at work, but they are apparently able to filter all the virii out. And I've never received anything on my home (all Unix) network either. Too bad, too -- I was really hoping for a juicy, incriminating piece from that "random file from your hard drive" virus :)