Ever read any Jung? Not all symbolic references are conscious. Sometimes the collective unconscious bubbles up and gives unintended meaning to such things.
Ahh, but isn't sin but another form of slavery? According to Christian theology, sin is what keeps man from the presence of God. If one fails to eliminate sin, i.e. receive forgiveness for it, he is thrown into the pits of Hell, to be forever tortured. Sounds like slavery to me.
Neo may not fit the picture of Christ as teacher/healer, but he certainly fits Christ as Soldier against Evil, wielding his terrible swift sword and stomping out the grapes of wrath.
Of course, I'm not really a Christian... I just sometimes like to fool them into thinking I might be:) And sometimes a cigar is just a cigar
Could be worse... our webfilter categorized the samba site as hacking... I got questioned by the internal auditor when I was looking at ways to better integrate our unix systems with our win2k systems. What was really irritating is that she didn't even bother to visit the site before asking me questions. Now the webfilter sits unplugged from the network... and no one seems to have noticed.
That's what code libraries are for just rewrite the function in the library, recompile the library, and relink the other programs... or even better, put it in a dynamic library and just recompile the library...
I'll buy that line of reasoning. However, it's still a failure of the training program. Call me elitist, but the training program should be designed to make the people who aren't truly interested fail. If it doesn't, then the training is worthless.
This, in my opinion is the biggest failing of the educational system--that people with neither the skill nor the inclination are able to become "qualified" in any field, simply because they pay their tuition and show up for class. The educational system spends far too much time coddling the weak students and not enough time challenging the strong ones. Yes, the strong students can challenge themselves... but it is they who deserve the mentoring that gets meted out to the people who shouldn't be there in the first place.
Damn I wish I had some mod points... I'd mod him up! I read the article at DoxPara (which I have looked at in the past and said "whoa... that's really cool... I wish I could really grok it...") and was hoping some of the better educated network folks would comment and help me understand this. I have to agree completely with the sentiment.
Of course, the skillful men are also the exception, not the rule... at least in my experience. Let's face it, in our industry, where you can buy your qualifications, the truly skilled are hard to come by, whatever their sex. Just because the female interns you hired were failures isn't a commentary on the abilities of women... it's a commentary on the inadequacies of the training programs they came from.
Um, warfighter, warfighting, etc, are a common part of military parlance. In fact, one of the core doctrine manuals for the Marine Corps is entitled Warfighting. It's been a while since I read it, but I wouldn't be surprised if that was actually a quote from it or from one of the other manuals. Let's face it... in today's world the fighting isn't necessarily done in the trenches by soldiers... a lot of it is done covertly and in small, highly mobile units. In these circumstances, information _is_ the ultimate weapon in the battlespace (yet another common military jargon word)... by knowing the enemy's moves before or as he makes them while hiding your own you win (basic Sun-Tzu). So, the geeks manning the computers are fighting just as hard to get the information as the grunts who are using it.
They already exist. Financial institutions already are required to run their databases against the Office of Foriegn Asset Control's list of Specially Designated Nationals and groups, using soundex to look for aliases. Technically they are supposed to run it nightly and report any matches (since our database software only allows us to access the data through a poorly designed reporting language, which allows very little optimization, we only run it monthly and when the list is changed... though that is sometimes 3 or 4 times in a week... a couple of times it was twice in one day). They are also required to run matches on any wire transfers and on new accounts when they are opened. Also, the regulatory agencies, FDIC for banks and NCUA for credit unions, have their own lists which also must be run.
In addition, another govt. department (can't remember the name off the top of my head) provides a quarterly file containing dead-beat dads, which we must also run against our database and provide the matches to the government.
Finally, on our Visas and Check Cards, we run a system called Falcon which can detect potential fraud in real time. We don't report that to the government, but it'd be a small change to do so it did. It also would be trivial to add rules to the expert system to report other trends than possible fraud.
Now, these are not all real time, but still there are already steps in place to get there.
I don't know the details, but I have a buddy who sells specialty chemicals used in coatings and one of his customers is working on a holographic storage device. They use one of his company's chemicals to modify the refactive index or something. Not much info, but people are working on it.
We use 172.16.x.x/31 (yeah, like I'd really give you any extra info) for a PtP link to one of our outside processors... we nat to them, they nat to us.
That's right... but if you do the sit ups before you have the back condition, you'll strengthen your back muscles so you don't get the back condition in the first place. He was talking about preventative measures, not treatments.
Those aren't stars... they're particles of dust and other types of debris superheated by the shields outside the ship. If you look closely, you see a motionless starfield beyond the "stars" you see in the windows.
I'm impressed... though it's probably an accident. I work for a Credit Union IT department, and from sitting on the users mailing list for the software that runs our operations, I'm not too impressed with the level of competence of IT personnel at credit unions. 'Course what can you expect when a system administrator barely makes 30k a year. NOt only do most CU IT departments seem to be incompetent, the managers of their home banking products are often not even IT people. Where I work, they decided to outsource the front end of the website (not the home banking portion, however), and stupidly allowed the developer to put a clause in the contract that they don't have to even attempt to support any browser not specifically mentioned in the contract. So, our site does _not_ work with Mozilla, even though the home banking section does (it's such a simple product there's no way it wouldn't work with anything... except maybe netscape 1.1:) And our idiot home banking manager refuses to dump this other company.
You can also just submit the incorporation paperwork, and they will accept that as proof that you are the organization you say you are. That's what we used at work, because we don't have a Dun & Bradstreet number (we're a member-owned, non-profit credit union... not sure if that's the reason or not, just know the accounting manager looked at me funny when I asked for the number when I renewed our cert this year... previous management had not documented our challenge phrase, so we had to start over from scratch).
I've found from experimentation that the _only_ port you need to open for NWN is 5121/udp (or whatever port you run your server on). Of course that is for a private game that isn't publicized... I haven't tried to see what I need to open to get it listed publically.
Whaddya mean far into the future? Of course they can use this technology to predict earthquakes... they forgot to mention they're using it to cause them:)
That would most likely have been Comerica... it's the biggest bank around here... and I do think I remember seeing a rather large Comerica office last time I was in Ferndale (it's hard to remember... I only go there for the bars:)
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Ever read any Jung? Not all symbolic references are conscious. Sometimes the collective unconscious bubbles up and gives unintended meaning to such things.
Ahh, but isn't sin but another form of slavery? According to Christian theology, sin is what keeps man from the presence of God. If one fails to eliminate sin, i.e. receive forgiveness for it, he is thrown into the pits of Hell, to be forever tortured. Sounds like slavery to me.
Neo may not fit the picture of Christ as teacher/healer, but he certainly fits Christ as Soldier against Evil, wielding his terrible swift sword and stomping out the grapes of wrath.
Of course, I'm not really a Christian... I just sometimes like to fool them into thinking I might be:) And sometimes a cigar is just a cigar
Could be worse... our webfilter categorized the samba site as hacking... I got questioned by the internal auditor when I was looking at ways to better integrate our unix systems with our win2k systems. What was really irritating is that she didn't even bother to visit the site before asking me questions. Now the webfilter sits unplugged from the network... and no one seems to have noticed.
That's what code libraries are for just rewrite the function in the library, recompile the library, and relink the other programs... or even better, put it in a dynamic library and just recompile the library...
I'll buy that line of reasoning. However, it's still a failure of the training program. Call me elitist, but the training program should be designed to make the people who aren't truly interested fail. If it doesn't, then the training is worthless.
This, in my opinion is the biggest failing of the educational system--that people with neither the skill nor the inclination are able to become "qualified" in any field, simply because they pay their tuition and show up for class. The educational system spends far too much time coddling the weak students and not enough time challenging the strong ones. Yes, the strong students can challenge themselves... but it is they who deserve the mentoring that gets meted out to the people who shouldn't be there in the first place.
Damn I wish I had some mod points... I'd mod him up! I read the article at DoxPara (which I have looked at in the past and said "whoa... that's really cool... I wish I could really grok it...") and was hoping some of the better educated network folks would comment and help me understand this. I have to agree completely with the sentiment.
Of course, the skillful men are also the exception, not the rule... at least in my experience. Let's face it, in our industry, where you can buy your qualifications, the truly skilled are hard to come by, whatever their sex. Just because the female interns you hired were failures isn't a commentary on the abilities of women... it's a commentary on the inadequacies of the training programs they came from.
Hmmm... double-click NAV icon in the task bar, go to LiveUpdate, click update definitions. That requires a lot of technical know-how:)
The sad truth is people think they need to pay someone full-time to take care of that.
Besides which, it's Australia... they're just getting out of spring down there and heading into summer...
Oh, and don't cross the streams.
Um, warfighter, warfighting, etc, are a common part of military parlance. In fact, one of the core doctrine manuals for the Marine Corps is entitled Warfighting. It's been a while since I read it, but I wouldn't be surprised if that was actually a quote from it or from one of the other manuals. Let's face it... in today's world the fighting isn't necessarily done in the trenches by soldiers... a lot of it is done covertly and in small, highly mobile units. In these circumstances, information _is_ the ultimate weapon in the battlespace (yet another common military jargon word)... by knowing the enemy's moves before or as he makes them while hiding your own you win (basic Sun-Tzu). So, the geeks manning the computers are fighting just as hard to get the information as the grunts who are using it.
Of course, they're much less likely to get hurt.
They already exist. Financial institutions already are required to run their databases against the Office of Foriegn Asset Control's list of Specially Designated Nationals and groups, using soundex to look for aliases. Technically they are supposed to run it nightly and report any matches (since our database software only allows us to access the data through a poorly designed reporting language, which allows very little optimization, we only run it monthly and when the list is changed... though that is sometimes 3 or 4 times in a week... a couple of times it was twice in one day). They are also required to run matches on any wire transfers and on new accounts when they are opened. Also, the regulatory agencies, FDIC for banks and NCUA for credit unions, have their own lists which also must be run.
In addition, another govt. department (can't remember the name off the top of my head) provides a quarterly file containing dead-beat dads, which we must also run against our database and provide the matches to the government.
Finally, on our Visas and Check Cards, we run a system called Falcon which can detect potential fraud in real time. We don't report that to the government, but it'd be a small change to do so it did. It also would be trivial to add rules to the expert system to report other trends than possible fraud.
Now, these are not all real time, but still there are already steps in place to get there.
I don't know the details, but I have a buddy who sells specialty chemicals used in coatings and one of his customers is working on a holographic storage device. They use one of his company's chemicals to modify the refactive index or something. Not much info, but people are working on it.
Hadn't thought of that. D'oh... I stand corrected.
Sounds like every truck on the road around here anyway...
We use 172.16.x.x/31 (yeah, like I'd really give you any extra info) for a PtP link to one of our outside processors... we nat to them, they nat to us.
even, even simpler:
dig without options pulls the hints by default.That's right... but if you do the sit ups before you have the back condition, you'll strengthen your back muscles so you don't get the back condition in the first place. He was talking about preventative measures, not treatments.
Those aren't stars... they're particles of dust and other types of debris superheated by the shields outside the ship. If you look closely, you see a motionless starfield beyond the "stars" you see in the windows.
I'm impressed... though it's probably an accident.
I work for a Credit Union IT department, and from sitting on the users mailing list for the software that runs our operations, I'm not too impressed with the level of competence of IT personnel at credit unions. 'Course what can you expect when a system administrator barely makes 30k a year. NOt only do most CU IT departments seem to be incompetent, the managers of their home banking products are often not even IT people. Where I work, they decided to outsource the front end of the website (not the home banking portion, however), and stupidly allowed the developer to put a clause in the contract that they don't have to even attempt to support any browser not specifically mentioned in the contract. So, our site does _not_ work with Mozilla, even though the home banking section does (it's such a simple product there's no way it wouldn't work with anything... except maybe netscape 1.1:) And our idiot home banking manager refuses to dump this other company.
You can also just submit the incorporation paperwork, and they will accept that as proof that you are the organization you say you are. That's what we used at work, because we don't have a Dun & Bradstreet number (we're a member-owned, non-profit credit union... not sure if that's the reason or not, just know the accounting manager looked at me funny when I asked for the number when I renewed our cert this year... previous management had not documented our challenge phrase, so we had to start over from scratch).
Just a tip...
I've found from experimentation that the _only_ port you need to open for NWN is 5121/udp (or whatever port you run your server on). Of course that is for a private game that isn't publicized... I haven't tried to see what I need to open to get it listed publically.
Whaddya mean far into the future? Of course they can use this technology to predict earthquakes... they forgot to mention they're using it to cause them :)
That would most likely have been Comerica... it's the biggest bank around here... and I do think I remember seeing a rather large Comerica office last time I was in Ferndale (it's hard to remember... I only go there for the bars:)
As long as we don't have to deal with crazy, incestuous genetically engineered Japanese-French families (and especially their ninjas) we'll be fine...