How about replying to the message, not the messenger.
The point is, the US is increasingly acting in ways contrary to the rest of the world. For a country that touts democracy, that's hardly democratic. I didn't vote for Bush, but I recognize that the majority did. So he's the president. The US takes the attitude that "The majority of the population of the World says X, but we know better".
Maybe all those people who voted for Bush know something I don't. And maybe all those countries who think the US is a rouge nation know something we don't. It's not comfortable being a minority, but the US is becoming one.
I can't beleive I read down this far. And becuse that reply was so quick to think up and type, I have to do it again to get past the slashdot 'quick post' monster.
DSL. As soon as the Telcos are forced to offer DSL without a voice line, it's going out. And if they try to hike the price, I'll move to cable. Since I don't have cable tv, cable broadband is the pricier option.
The ONLY calls we get on the landline are ones we don't want. Verizon selling something, non-proffits calling for money, politicians begging for votes.
That sounds like what happened to me a couple of times in Russia. Mostly opportunistic money grabbing, but that kid at the FSB building (what was the KGB) sure got upset! That was from the exterior of the building from about a block away.
My wife got totally freaked by those mall cops when she tried to take pictures to show her mom back home. A lot of stores have 'no recording devices' signs out front. I think the idea is to keep competitors from easily checking prices.
I think it's actually a power trip. Some people like to push other people around just because they can.
er, the DTD is specified (transitional)./. strips it out. Point is, the lokitorrent page format is very different from the kind of html on mpaa.org pages.
David Suzuki (Canadian biologist/environmental advocate) tells a fable about microbes in a test tube. The microbes double in number every day. At 6.25% capacity, a few scientist microbes start to get alarmed about dwindling rescources. The next day, at 12.5%, more microbes chime in about overpopulation. The politician microbes pooh-pooh them. After all, the test tube is 87.5% empty! At 25% the vast majority of the scientist microbes and a good many of the other microbes are getting worried, and finally convince the rest of the microbes there's a problem.
They all work feverishly, and come up with a solution.
Just about every IT person I've ever talked to (not to slam IT, 10+ years of my career have been IT) seems to take it as gosepel that users must be forced to change passwords every X days, unless you want hoards of hackers in your network.
The step nobody ever does is ask "Why?". Um, it's obvious isn't it? I don't want hackers breaking into the network!
Why force password changes? Either A) you're assuming a password has been compromised, in which case you should pay more attention to auditing so you really know when, and fix the leak, or B) you're assuming brute force attacks, in which case you need to actually measure the median attack time, and possibly increase it (delay between attempts, salt passwords, etc)
If someone has actually done B), great, force password changes. But implementing a security measure just because it gives you a warm fuzzy feeling just leaves you warm and fuzzy, and ignorant.
To be fair, there was one attempted border crossing. The guy who was stopped in Port Angeles, on his way to blow up LAX for Y2K.
But ya, in general, foreign terrorists get into the US on visitor or student visas. A lot of people incorrectly associate the idea of 'illegal alien' with 'terrorist'. Illegal aliens are the people who do the jobs none of the citizens want to do.
"Not only that, but with my cable internet connection, I get free,"
Well, I wouldn't say 'free', but 'bundled'.
Where the MPAA becomes evil is when Jack Valenti tells us that it's tough shit if our kid scratches his copy of Shrek. "The consumer can buy another one".
What is left out of the equation is simply building brand recognition. It's not often I will click on an add, but I might remember the name and go back later when I have the need and the time.
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You have two ropes that act as fuses. It takes 60 minutes to burn each one. You have nothing to measure them or cut them. You have to time 45 minutes. Yes, you have a lighter.
It's #56 here http://www.techinterview.org/index.html
in a slightly different form.
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Whether or not all languages are the same isn't really all that important eitherr. Lisp, e.g. is not all that complicated a language. It definately takes a completely different approach than C, but if after a year of using Lisp, you don't know it as well as someone who has been using it for 5 years, you should probably give up. Oh, sure, there will be the odd insight that the 5-year-person might have, but in general, from a language point of view, you should be pretty equal.
From a _design_ point of view, you might be quite different.
Look at it this way. You need a VB programmer to do some accounting applications. Do you hire the guy who has 5 years of VB doing games, or the guy with 2 years of C, doing accounting applications?
The 'years experience' is a poor metric, but is widely used. It's (IMO) better than the 'you have a village of trolls who need to divide up their gold with a burning rope' questions, but not much.
The reason these metrics are used is that it's a lot harder to measure the 'important' stuff, like teamwork and design skills.
One could argue that the puzzle quetions also show how someone works under pressure. I once had an interviewer continue to drill down into petty detail on a question. I got it 'right' when I finally ran out of detail, and said I'd have to get out my book and get back to him.
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Steve McConnel has a great line in 'Code Complete' about how one or two years is enough to learn any language. If you don't know it by then, you never will. I wish I could find the exact quote at the moment. I'm thinking of adding ot my resume for all those jobs that want '5 years exp in embeded C and Java UI design'.
Reminds me of the case of a teenager who cracked into NASA and downloaded a bunch of C source that was useless to anyone but NASA. It wasn't secret code, there was no damage done. But prosecuters claimed damages equivalent to the cost of writing the code.
Again, as if NASA didn't have it anymore, and had to 're-write' it.
I guess if the Black Plauge doesn't count, then you're probably right. But I do think when talking about 'human history', it's important to scale for increased population.
My point had everything to do with the comment to which it replied. The poster said that 6000 dead is not an outstanding loss of life. Actually, considering what the death toll will rise to, I beg to differ.
However, it's not really the number of dead that make it newsworthy. The total number of dead on 9/11 was, relatively speaking, pretty insignificant, but it was an extremely newsworthy event.
It's not how many die, but the shoking way in which they die, that grabs our attention. As someone else noted, the same number will die of smoking, and probably in car accidents as well. We don't find those newsworthy because they happen all the time.
Planes flying into buildings and earthquakes like this don't happen every day. That they happen outside my backyard doesn't make them less newsworthy.
To say that today's news is only relevant if it affects the price of RAM is, or someone I know, is IMO prejudiced.
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How about replying to the message, not the messenger.
The point is, the US is increasingly acting in ways contrary to the rest of the world. For a country that touts democracy, that's hardly democratic. I didn't vote for Bush, but I recognize that the majority did. So he's the president. The US takes the attitude that "The majority of the population of the World says X, but we know better".
Maybe all those people who voted for Bush know something I don't. And maybe all those countries who think the US is a rouge nation know something we don't. It's not comfortable being a minority, but the US is becoming one.
Actually, you can patent a gene fragment.
e /elsi/patents.shtml/
http://www.ornl.gov/sci/techresources/Human_Genom
I can't beleive I read down this far.
And becuse that reply was so quick to think up and type, I have to do it again to get past the slashdot 'quick post' monster.
DSL. As soon as the Telcos are forced to offer DSL without a voice line, it's going out. And if they try to hike the price, I'll move to cable. Since I don't have cable tv, cable broadband is the pricier option.
The ONLY calls we get on the landline are ones we don't want. Verizon selling something, non-proffits calling for money, politicians begging for votes.
That sounds like what happened to me a couple of times in Russia. Mostly opportunistic money grabbing, but that kid at the FSB building (what was the KGB) sure got upset! That was from the exterior of the building from about a block away.
My wife got totally freaked by those mall cops when she tried to take pictures to show her mom back home. A lot of stores have 'no recording devices' signs out front. I think the idea is to keep competitors from easily checking prices.
I think it's actually a power trip. Some people like to push other people around just because they can.
Dunno, but www.tv-swarm.com seems to have gone down at the same time.
er, the DTD is specified (transitional). /. strips it out. Point is, the lokitorrent page format is very different from the kind of html on mpaa.org pages.
lokitorrent source is:
mpaa.org pages don't have a doctype specified. Not a smoking gun, but more evidence that smothing smells fishy.
David Suzuki (Canadian biologist/environmental advocate) tells a fable about microbes in a test tube. The microbes double in number every day. At 6.25% capacity, a few scientist microbes start to get alarmed about dwindling rescources. The next day, at 12.5%, more microbes chime in about overpopulation. The politician microbes pooh-pooh them. After all, the test tube is 87.5% empty! At 25% the vast majority of the scientist microbes and a good many of the other microbes are getting worried, and finally convince the rest of the microbes there's a problem.
They all work feverishly, and come up with a solution.
They build a new test tube.
For the grandmotherly ex-co-worker who is counting the pennies until she can retire, I trade use of her car.
For the big-shot salesman ex-co-worker who pulles in 200K/year BSing people, $30/hr, and I really should charge more.
The real difference is that the grandmother can get same-week service, the salesman, I try to get to call a local pro for $100/hr first.
I also don't charge anyone for email followup.
Just about every IT person I've ever talked to (not to slam IT, 10+ years of my career have been IT) seems to take it as gosepel that users must be forced to change passwords every X days, unless you want hoards of hackers in your network.
The step nobody ever does is ask "Why?". Um, it's obvious isn't it? I don't want hackers breaking into the network!
Why force password changes? Either A) you're assuming a password has been compromised, in which case you should pay more attention to auditing so you really know when, and fix the leak, or B) you're assuming brute force attacks, in which case you need to actually measure the median attack time, and possibly increase it (delay between attempts, salt passwords, etc)
If someone has actually done B), great, force password changes. But implementing a security measure just because it gives you a warm fuzzy feeling just leaves you warm and fuzzy, and ignorant.
To be fair, there was one attempted border crossing. The guy who was stopped in Port Angeles, on his way to blow up LAX for Y2K.
But ya, in general, foreign terrorists get into the US on visitor or student visas. A lot of people incorrectly associate the idea of 'illegal alien' with 'terrorist'. Illegal aliens are the people who do the jobs none of the citizens want to do.
"Not only that, but with my cable internet connection, I get free,"
Well, I wouldn't say 'free', but 'bundled'.
Where the MPAA becomes evil is when Jack Valenti tells us that it's tough shit if our kid scratches his copy of Shrek. "The consumer can buy another one".
Symantics:
Self replicating Viruses are called Worms. Viruses, by definition, require stupid-human intervention.
Can it be used to turn of face recognition cameras?
What is left out of the equation is simply building brand recognition. It's not often I will click on an add, but I might remember the name and go back later when I have the need and the time.
"Internet Explorer and ASP IS the "bug"."
I think you meant ActiveX, not ASP?
You have two ropes that act as fuses. It takes 60 minutes to burn each one. You have nothing to measure them or cut them. You have to time 45 minutes. Yes, you have a lighter. It's #56 here http://www.techinterview.org/index.html in a slightly different form.
Whether or not all languages are the same isn't really all that important eitherr. Lisp, e.g. is not all that complicated a language. It definately takes a completely different approach than C, but if after a year of using Lisp, you don't know it as well as someone who has been using it for 5 years, you should probably give up. Oh, sure, there will be the odd insight that the 5-year-person might have, but in general, from a language point of view, you should be pretty equal.
From a _design_ point of view, you might be quite different.
Look at it this way. You need a VB programmer to do some accounting applications. Do you hire the guy who has 5 years of VB doing games, or the guy with 2 years of C, doing accounting applications?
The 'years experience' is a poor metric, but is widely used. It's (IMO) better than the 'you have a village of trolls who need to divide up their gold with a burning rope' questions, but not much.
The reason these metrics are used is that it's a lot harder to measure the 'important' stuff, like teamwork and design skills.
One could argue that the puzzle quetions also show how someone works under pressure.
I once had an interviewer continue to drill down into petty detail on a question. I got it 'right' when I finally ran out of detail, and said I'd have to get out my book and get back to him.
Steve McConnel has a great line in 'Code Complete' about how one or two years is enough to learn any language. If you don't know it by then, you never will. I wish I could find the exact quote at the moment. I'm thinking of adding ot my resume for all those jobs that want '5 years exp in embeded C and Java UI design'.
Reminds me of the case of a teenager who cracked into NASA and downloaded a bunch of C source that was useless to anyone but NASA. It wasn't secret code, there was no damage done. But prosecuters claimed damages equivalent to the cost of writing the code.
Again, as if NASA didn't have it anymore, and had to 're-write' it.
I guess if the Black Plauge doesn't count, then you're probably right. But I do think when talking about 'human history', it's important to scale for increased population.
My point had everything to do with the comment to which it replied. The poster said that 6000 dead is not an outstanding loss of life. Actually, considering what the death toll will rise to, I beg to differ.
However, it's not really the number of dead that make it newsworthy. The total number of dead on 9/11 was, relatively speaking, pretty insignificant, but it was an extremely newsworthy event.
It's not how many die, but the shoking way in which they die, that grabs our attention. As someone else noted, the same number will die of smoking, and probably in car accidents as well. We don't find those newsworthy because they happen all the time.
Planes flying into buildings and earthquakes like this don't happen every day. That they happen outside my backyard doesn't make them less newsworthy.
To say that today's news is only relevant if it affects the price of RAM is, or someone I know, is IMO prejudiced.
But a couple of thousand in two towers is?