Your use of the phrase 'the militarization of the internet' bothers me. DARPANET was founded by the military; it was only in the 1990's that the internet became commercialized, and made friendly to civilians. Never forget that the prime purpose of the internet was to found a command and control structure, to keep communications open to Cleveland if Chicago got nuked. Stop worrying about the militarization of a military network. This is a straw man.
You're free to create your own peacenik network, open and free of government control. But never forget that the US government will commandeer control of the Internet as it sees fit, according to what they believe is important for the security of our country and the safety of its citizens, whether or not they're correct.
I have yet to see proof that even 1 mac was infected with the trojan. where's the proof that hundreds of thousands were infected? out of how many million macs?
also, trojans are not viruses. generally speaking, a trojan must be kick-started by an unsuspecting user, while a virus can run on it's own in the background, without requiring user action. i haven't seen a virus on a Mac since MacOS 9.21, many many years ago.
I see pc infections on a fairly regular basis, although more spyware and fake AV programs than outright viruses like in the early 2000's.
windows phone 7 is ALSO being replaced by Windows Phone 8, without any upgrade patch.
Microsoft has their heads squarely jammed up their ass so they couldn't see that they had already named a device the surface, now confusing the marketplace. it's about as dumb as apple naming their new Ipad the New Ipad. The marketing MBAs behind these terrible name choices should be drawn and quartered.
my daughter, 12, for years has listened to the songs she likes on youtube, last.fm, pandora, and goodness-knows-where-else. she's lost 2 itunes cards (free money for apple) and overspent her account once, then never touched any of the 4 cards she's gotten since. I'd say that buying music is a foreign concept to her.
why announce products without 1) letting people buy them and 2) without even telling them the price (to set expectations for the device)? microsoft marketing rushed the announcement, if not the products. this could have waited 2 months for Windows 8 to be released.
There's an amazing amount of prejudice in HR, where they believe that Indian workers are smarter and work harder than American citizens. I've met a couple of examples that prove that such thoughts are unwarranted. Sometimes an American can do a better job, even without a degree from Hyderabad.
You only get out of your education what you put in. It's rare that the teacher fails the child; it's common that the child fails himself. Blaming the school or the system is a lot like being mad at the church for what a single priest does. the school and the system exist to handle the child's progress from teacher to teacher; most teacher's I've met care a lot more about what they're teaching than the children do, so it's up to the child to make the effort and demonstrate to the teacher that he wants to learn. Oh, a subject is too boring? That's your own darned fault or limitation.
Cooking is chemistry. If his parents won't send him to a REAL SCHOOL, then the least they can do is teach him a valuable life skill.
1) learn how to cook from recipe 2) make the same thing minus one of the ingredients 3) deduce what went wrong with the cooking, and what benefit that ingredient provides
Once he has learned to cook, he can at least get a job that's useful
no thank you. kids today don't need to learn how to shoot or how to blow shit up. they need to learn hygiene, nutrition, cooking, basic math skills so they don't get screwed at the store, and sex ed so they'll stop making so many goddamned babies. it wouldn't hurt them to understand how using credit cards is a great way to join the lower classes by indenturing yourself to debt, and maybe some history and civics lessons to understand how your vote doesn't count and won't be counted by electronic voting machines, but that's ok, they were probably going to vote for the GOP anyway because it's just so easy to listen to the pablum from Fox News and consider that the extent of all they need to know about domestic and foreign affairs.
how the fuck can Dropbox get a good rating when they've consistently undervalued the importance of my data to stay private? shutting off passwords for all users during maintenance, and failing to turn them back on was simply a human blunder - but a signal that security is an afterthought.
After Y2K, all the IT positions in Chicago started turning into 1 guy for at least 3 jobs. They want a network guy, a security guy, and a developer to maintain a website, all a company's computers, and to provide user support. At one company where I temped, I supported 70 servers (NT, 2000, 2003) and 350 users. They used to have 2 staff for that role. They let me go to hire a guy with more programming skills, because evidently they wanted to save another $40k/year on salaries. CHEAP BASTARDS.
network engineer jobs in indiana are almost all contract positions at $15-$19/hour. in chicago, as low as $11/hour. fuck that, it's nowhere near $40k/year.
I moved from Chicago, where I was earning $60k/year, to Indiana, where the going wage is $35k. I have 20+ years experience as a network & server engineer on many platforms. I can't afford to stay in IT if wages are going to suck so hard.
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Your use of the phrase 'the militarization of the internet' bothers me. DARPANET was founded by the military; it was only in the 1990's that the internet became commercialized, and made friendly to civilians. Never forget that the prime purpose of the internet was to found a command and control structure, to keep communications open to Cleveland if Chicago got nuked. Stop worrying about the militarization of a military network. This is a straw man.
You're free to create your own peacenik network, open and free of government control. But never forget that the US government will commandeer control of the Internet as it sees fit, according to what they believe is important for the security of our country and the safety of its citizens, whether or not they're correct.
I have yet to see proof that even 1 mac was infected with the trojan. where's the proof that hundreds of thousands were infected? out of how many million macs?
also, trojans are not viruses. generally speaking, a trojan must be kick-started by an unsuspecting user, while a virus can run on it's own in the background, without requiring user action. i haven't seen a virus on a Mac since MacOS 9.21, many many years ago.
I see pc infections on a fairly regular basis, although more spyware and fake AV programs than outright viruses like in the early 2000's.
Microsoft always steals from Apple. Nothing new here, move along.
windows phone 7 is ALSO being replaced by Windows Phone 8, without any upgrade patch.
Microsoft has their heads squarely jammed up their ass so they couldn't see that they had already named a device the surface, now confusing the marketplace. it's about as dumb as apple naming their new Ipad the New Ipad. The marketing MBAs behind these terrible name choices should be drawn and quartered.
my daughter, 12, for years has listened to the songs she likes on youtube, last.fm, pandora, and goodness-knows-where-else. she's lost 2 itunes cards (free money for apple) and overspent her account once, then never touched any of the 4 cards she's gotten since. I'd say that buying music is a foreign concept to her.
Naming the device the Microsoft Shark would have made the device 30x cooler.
why announce products without 1) letting people buy them and 2) without even telling them the price (to set expectations for the device)? microsoft marketing rushed the announcement, if not the products. this could have waited 2 months for Windows 8 to be released.
can you imagine the consternation created if voyager hits the edge of our system, then bounced back?
"The response to the Server Administrator position has been overwhelming!"
so this _is_ a big fucking scam
There's an amazing amount of prejudice in HR, where they believe that Indian workers are smarter and work harder than American citizens. I've met a couple of examples that prove that such thoughts are unwarranted. Sometimes an American can do a better job, even without a degree from Hyderabad.
HR is generally lazy and despicable, dishonest and immoral
You only get out of your education what you put in. It's rare that the teacher fails the child; it's common that the child fails himself. Blaming the school or the system is a lot like being mad at the church for what a single priest does. the school and the system exist to handle the child's progress from teacher to teacher; most teacher's I've met care a lot more about what they're teaching than the children do, so it's up to the child to make the effort and demonstrate to the teacher that he wants to learn. Oh, a subject is too boring? That's your own darned fault or limitation.
perhaps he could join a militia and construct bombs or run the family's meth business.
Cooking is chemistry. If his parents won't send him to a REAL SCHOOL, then the least they can do is teach him a valuable life skill.
1) learn how to cook from recipe
2) make the same thing minus one of the ingredients
3) deduce what went wrong with the cooking, and what benefit that ingredient provides
Once he has learned to cook, he can at least get a job that's useful
BUT he still needs to learn how to read.
jobs are hard to find. shut up, slave!
no thank you. kids today don't need to learn how to shoot or how to blow shit up. they need to learn hygiene, nutrition, cooking, basic math skills so they don't get screwed at the store, and sex ed so they'll stop making so many goddamned babies. it wouldn't hurt them to understand how using credit cards is a great way to join the lower classes by indenturing yourself to debt, and maybe some history and civics lessons to understand how your vote doesn't count and won't be counted by electronic voting machines, but that's ok, they were probably going to vote for the GOP anyway because it's just so easy to listen to the pablum from Fox News and consider that the extent of all they need to know about domestic and foreign affairs.
how the fuck can Dropbox get a good rating when they've consistently undervalued the importance of my data to stay private? shutting off passwords for all users during maintenance, and failing to turn them back on was simply a human blunder - but a signal that security is an afterthought.
After Y2K, all the IT positions in Chicago started turning into 1 guy for at least 3 jobs. They want a network guy, a security guy, and a developer to maintain a website, all a company's computers, and to provide user support. At one company where I temped, I supported 70 servers (NT, 2000, 2003) and 350 users. They used to have 2 staff for that role. They let me go to hire a guy with more programming skills, because evidently they wanted to save another $40k/year on salaries. CHEAP BASTARDS.
network engineer jobs in indiana are almost all contract positions at $15-$19/hour. in chicago, as low as $11/hour. fuck that, it's nowhere near $40k/year.
As a long-time IT pro, I expect to give up evenings & weekends & vacation time for my job. But not if the pay is crap.
I moved from Chicago, where I was earning $60k/year, to Indiana, where the going wage is $35k. I have 20+ years experience as a network & server engineer on many platforms. I can't afford to stay in IT if wages are going to suck so hard.
does Pirate Bay strive for legitimacy, and fear government-sponsored takedowns if they're linked to Anonymous?
fish flakes - it's what's for breakfast!
it hurtssss ussss
I know! I just migrated my company to LibreOffice, and I'm not sure why I would want to migrate back.