how do you go about getting this security clearance? I'm going to be a college graduate come spring time and I'm facing a very poor job market. I would gladly take a job working for the government at first. Can I get security clearance now so when I graduate I will be all that more attractive to government hiring?
"It is insufficient for individuals attempting to prove disability status under this test to merely submit evidence of a medical diagnosis of an impairment. Instead, the ADA requires them to offer evidence that the extent of the limitation caused by their impairment in terms of their own experience is substantial. Congress intended the existence of a disability to be determined in such a case-by-case manner."
This doesn't mean that carpel tunnel isn't a disablity you dolts, it's a very serious problem. This woman's case simply didn't prove that her affliction was serious enough for her to be considered under the ADA.
The university that I attend has deployed LDAP for use by it's some 25,000 students, faculty, volunteers, and anyone else associated with the school. As far as I can tell the university has written their own custom perl scripts for interfacing to the directory via a web browser. I have to say it works pretty damn nicely. I'm not sure what it says that they wrote their own scripts, but I suspect it was due to a lack of existing software to get the job done. I hope LDAP doesn't fall to the way side, because it's done very well for this campus.
That or somebody over at the BBC thinks that it just sounds better, costs less, or any number of other advantages that Ogg Vorbis has over MP3. Using a peice of software just because it's open source seems pretty silly to me. Use a peice of software because it's better, and if that happens to be OSS that's great. If not, then it probably means that the open source community needs to focus their attention on it.
is that you get to find out that so many websites are running the open-source database MySQL. It's nice to see, but of course ironically we only get to see the MySQL error messages when it's broken.
More on topic, I wonder why this game was never released? If they got as far as the prototype I'd think that the game was somewhere near completion. I guess I'll just have to wait for the site to come back up again, or for a karma whore to post a mirror or a cache.;-)
So after reading the article (I know, rare for a slashdotter) I started wondering who they named the probe after. Turns out they named it after a 17th century astronomer who was the first to observe Saturn's four moons.
Some more info on the man behind the name of the probe can be found here.
Worryingly, the origin of the contamination is unknown
What about plain old space dust? According to this article there's enough of it out there to hamper astronomists when viewing celestial objects from earth. More closer to the point this article describes how people involved in space exploration are concerned with peices of space dust, too small to be tracked, causing serious damage to orbiting satelites. The Cassini article says they're pretty sure that it's related to the deep cold of space, which is why they equipped it with heaters. But if it's not related to the cold, it's not out of the realm of posibility that maybe Cassini simply encountered some of this dust? Although you'd have to think the makers of the satelite thought of this already, but who knows.
Yes, that computer you see in the christmas tree is the actual one serving this web page and music! It is a Pentium 100 with 64MB RAM, running Red Hat Linux 7.2.
Lets count the seconds until the/. effect kicks in....
And many more... You just can't beat the PS2 right now simply because it has so many amazing games available for it. Sorry it's offtopic, but it's true.
but wouldn't it be funny if IBM contacted them and offered to purchase the info on the vulnerability, thus keeping it a secret? I've oft wondered if anything like this has every occurred. Software blackmail anyone?
I'm really glad to see that Linus didn't have too many ill words for MS. I think we could probably all stand to learn from his restraint. I think the whole Linux community would benefit very much if we gave up this Linux vs. the world attitude, no matter how romantic it may be, and just focus on our own community and what we can do to make Linux better. Reading throughout that interview I really got a feeling that Linus truly does appreciate the true hacker spirit in that he does his work "Just for Fun", like it used to be back in the 60's when the MIT boys would hack up the PDP-10 late at night.
"It takes two seconds to decide upon which special-function key to press."
Two seconds?!? I don't know who these test subjects where, but I doubt they were power users. I can absolutely FLY through the keyboard commands in emacs when I'm really in the zone when i'm coding. For example, C-x b to switch buffers, OR take my hands off the keyboard, grab the mouse, move it to the Buffers menu, select which buffer I want. That can't POSSIBLY be as fast as the keyboard shortcut, and it sure as heck doesn't take me two seconds to think of the command.
"...you should hardly ever have to touch the mouse again to move between windows. My friends always laugh at me when I say that I hate using the mouse because when I'm really tooling along on my computer reaching for the mouse slows me down....I'm glad someone else finally understands this!
"Google, however, has vowed not to go down the pay-for-placement road, preferring to stake its future on the strength of its search technology."
And this is exactly why I will only use Google for my searching needs. Why would I want a lesser relevant result just because some company with cash thinks I should see thier website first?
"It is in many important respects a model of ambiguity or indeed even self-contradiction. That is most unfortunate for a piece of legislation that profoundly affects a crucial segment of the economy worth tens of billions of dollars."
Yea, but I'll bet dollars to donuts if Slashdot offered karma points in reward for cash donations, manhour donations, or writing letters for this proposed lobbying foundation we'd have Dmitri out in 3 hours flat.
So, how about it/.? Get +5 karma or maybe a neat little logo next to your name identifying you as a Slashdot lobbier if you donate money through Slashdot to this foundation?
It's amazing who they'll put into the changelog...
on
Linux Kernel 2.4.10
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these days.
"Keith Owens: get rid of drivers/scsi/53c700-mem.c file"
Oh yea?! Well I deleted/tmp/jar_cache42039.tmp, where's my acknowledgment?? I'm sure this guy had very good reasons for recommending the removal of this file, but it still struck me as pretty funny.
seeing as how they don't seem to warmly welcome the idea of Russia bringing tourists onto the ISS every couple months. If Russia can build a commercial space station to cater to those who want to buy their way into space, it aleviates NASA from having to deal with the issue of tourists on the ISS. Like the article said, the ISS is for science, the new space station will be for vacationers.
but have you ever seen one? Check out this image I found a little while back.
(http://antwrp.gsfc.nasa.gov/apod/ap010221.html for the concerned web surfer)
When I read stuff like this, I can't help but wonder how long it's going to be before we'll all travel at super-sonic speeds for our presonal excursions, not just the ultra-rich.
"Windows is a 32-bit patch to a 16-bit GUI for an 8-bit operating system written for a 4-bit processor by a 2-bit company that can't stand 1-bit of competition"
Guess now we have to think of something for a 64-bit part. And relax... it's just a joke. Laugh a little.
Slashdot Mirror
PS-Go with Booz, we got a nifty acronym- BAH! (sorry...)
LOL, good stuff! Thanks for the insight.
Nope, no drug busts and pretty good grades. Thanks for the info!
how do you go about getting this security clearance? I'm going to be a college graduate come spring time and I'm facing a very poor job market. I would gladly take a job working for the government at first. Can I get security clearance now so when I graduate I will be all that more attractive to government hiring?
This doesn't mean that carpel tunnel isn't a disablity you dolts, it's a very serious problem. This woman's case simply didn't prove that her affliction was serious enough for her to be considered under the ADA.
The university that I attend has deployed LDAP for use by it's some 25,000 students, faculty, volunteers, and anyone else associated with the school. As far as I can tell the university has written their own custom perl scripts for interfacing to the directory via a web browser. I have to say it works pretty damn nicely. I'm not sure what it says that they wrote their own scripts, but I suspect it was due to a lack of existing software to get the job done. I hope LDAP doesn't fall to the way side, because it's done very well for this campus.
That or somebody over at the BBC thinks that it just sounds better, costs less, or any number of other advantages that Ogg Vorbis has over MP3. Using a peice of software just because it's open source seems pretty silly to me. Use a peice of software because it's better, and if that happens to be OSS that's great. If not, then it probably means that the open source community needs to focus their attention on it.
Merry X-mas all..
but their website, on the other hand, seems to have vanished quite quickly.
is that you get to find out that so many websites are running the open-source database MySQL. It's nice to see, but of course ironically we only get to see the MySQL error messages when it's broken.
;-)
More on topic, I wonder why this game was never released? If they got as far as the prototype I'd think that the game was somewhere near completion. I guess I'll just have to wait for the site to come back up again, or for a karma whore to post a mirror or a cache.
So after reading the article (I know, rare for a slashdotter) I started wondering who they named the probe after. Turns out they named it after a 17th century astronomer who was the first to observe Saturn's four moons.
Some more info on the man behind the name of the probe can be found here.
What about plain old space dust? According to this article there's enough of it out there to hamper astronomists when viewing celestial objects from earth. More closer to the point this article describes how people involved in space exploration are concerned with peices of space dust, too small to be tracked, causing serious damage to orbiting satelites. The Cassini article says they're pretty sure that it's related to the deep cold of space, which is why they equipped it with heaters. But if it's not related to the cold, it's not out of the realm of posibility that maybe Cassini simply encountered some of this dust? Although you'd have to think the makers of the satelite thought of this already, but who knows.
Lets count the seconds until the
4... 3... 2... 1...
You mean besides,
All
the
really
really
great
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?
And many more... You just can't beat the PS2 right now simply because it has so many amazing games available for it. Sorry it's offtopic, but it's true.
but wouldn't it be funny if IBM contacted them and offered to purchase the info on the vulnerability, thus keeping it a secret? I've oft wondered if anything like this has every occurred. Software blackmail anyone?
I'm really glad to see that Linus didn't have too many ill words for MS. I think we could probably all stand to learn from his restraint. I think the whole Linux community would benefit very much if we gave up this Linux vs. the world attitude, no matter how romantic it may be, and just focus on our own community and what we can do to make Linux better. Reading throughout that interview I really got a feeling that Linus truly does appreciate the true hacker spirit in that he does his work "Just for Fun", like it used to be back in the 60's when the MIT boys would hack up the PDP-10 late at night.
Two seconds?!? I don't know who these test subjects where, but I doubt they were power users. I can absolutely FLY through the keyboard commands in emacs when I'm really in the zone when i'm coding. For example, C-x b to switch buffers, OR take my hands off the keyboard, grab the mouse, move it to the Buffers menu, select which buffer I want. That can't POSSIBLY be as fast as the keyboard shortcut, and it sure as heck doesn't take me two seconds to think of the command.
[insert joke about Microsoft OS's needing this software here]
And this is exactly why I will only use Google for my searching needs. Why would I want a lesser relevant result just because some company with cash thinks I should see thier website first?
One molucule thick???? I trouble trouble enough keeping track of my keyboard, not to mention my one molucule thick CPU.
Why wasn't this pointed out in 1996?
Yea, but I'll bet dollars to donuts if Slashdot offered karma points in reward for cash donations, manhour donations, or writing letters for this proposed lobbying foundation we'd have Dmitri out in 3 hours flat.
/.? Get +5 karma or maybe a neat little logo next to your name identifying you as a Slashdot lobbier if you donate money through Slashdot to this foundation?
So, how about it
these days.
/tmp/jar_cache42039.tmp, where's my acknowledgment?? I'm sure this guy had very good reasons for recommending the removal of this file, but it still struck me as pretty funny.
"Keith Owens: get rid of drivers/scsi/53c700-mem.c file"
Oh yea?! Well I deleted
seeing as how they don't seem to warmly welcome the idea of Russia bringing tourists onto the ISS every couple months. If Russia can build a commercial space station to cater to those who want to buy their way into space, it aleviates NASA from having to deal with the issue of tourists on the ISS. Like the article said, the ISS is for science, the new space station will be for vacationers.
but have you ever seen one? Check out this image I found a little while back.
(http://antwrp.gsfc.nasa.gov/apod/ap010221.html for the concerned web surfer)
When I read stuff like this, I can't help but wonder how long it's going to be before we'll all travel at super-sonic speeds for our presonal excursions, not just the ultra-rich.
"Windows is a 32-bit patch to a 16-bit GUI for an 8-bit operating system written for a 4-bit processor by a 2-bit company that can't stand 1-bit of competition"
Guess now we have to think of something for a 64-bit part. And relax... it's just a joke. Laugh a little.