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Wish I could mod you up. I picked up BS, MS, and PhD (why on this last one... I'm not entirely sure) in CS without I or my parents having to pay for it. There are scholarships available for undergrads and assorted "graduate assistant" positions if you continue to the graduate level. The biggest thing most people I've dealt with need to understand is there is nothing wrong with going to a state school.
At the college level your degree is heavily what you make of it. If you want to learn a lot about the field, you can. If you want to skate by and barely do what's required, you can. However, if you interview with for a position and it's clear that you never did anything beyond the basic coursework and never cared enough to dig deeper on anything you're probably not getting a job. Pick a field somewhere in the intersection of "you're interested in it" and "you can get a job in it" and actually apply yourself. Look at the edges of what's taught in school and find bits and pieces that are interesting to you. Learn several programming languages, just so you can see that they're so inter-related that you can pick up whatever the new hotness is well enough to get through a basic interview. Learn some basic desktop IT work along with that CS degree so you could identify how the OS ate itself or what part the magic smoke escaped from and replace it. Learn every trick you can find for debugging tough problems from debuggers, to profilers, to writing your own logging routines, to breaking out wireshark because god only knows what's ACTUALLY traveling over the wires.
None of these things necessarily require a degree but if I were to roll a die on either a programmer who has a degree and one that doesn't, with no other knowledge, my odds of getting someone useful are slanted toward the college degree.
I've used them all as well, and I usually prefer ssh -X. Of course, I'm working within a fast internal network and over given more latency other tools may be better suited. On a daily basis I run my email client on my Linux laptop and pipe the display to a rootless X display running under cygwin on my Windows desktop. I commonly forget that the app is not just another windows program.
Can RDP be set to mix remote applications with locally running ones? I like the idea of switching with just an alt-tab and copying between apps without getting stuck in a box where all the remote apps are running. For example, when running RDP if I hit alt-tab to switch applications can I cycle through the other apps on my desktop or just the ones within the remote session?
The BART cell phone repeater system has only been in place for a few years as a courtesy to riders. There are still emergency phones in stations (along with employees who have access to land lines) and the train conductors have the ability to call for assistance as well. People have built systems for calling for help in emergencies for decades before cell phones existed.
Live in a nice central american or asian dictatorship for a while and tell us what a hell hole this place is. This does look like a terrible decision and they should have overthrown the other case instead of extending the state powers to the feds, but the flying spittle does nothing for anyone's cause.
Though I agree with the sentiment, at least your gun doesn't broadcast it's presence in the house to the potential criminal. That is a significant difference between the two scenarios.
So you're one of those "network is the computer" guys or you misread/didn't read either of the first two sentences of the summary... I'm gonna go with "didn't read" on this one.
Actually as a person currently look to hire F/OSS experience would be a definite plus. It shows that an applicant is really interested in the field and the work. Granted, we're not the corporate IT office you refer to, but if an applicant for our software position (if anyone is curious and interested in north central FL.... http://tdt.com/news/jobs/softwareengineer.htm) was actually interested enough in programming to do outside projects that would be a positive.
In general you need something to make you stand out, and contributing to or starting a project is a reasonable way to stand out. I interviewed some current master's students and was optimistic until it was clear that they did exactly what coursework required but weren't interested in exploring for their own interest.
Not the only or maybe even the best explanation, but I'll take a stab at it.
Having that information would be useful/necessary when investigating why differential services are already being provided. As much as we want the gov't (at all levels) to be color blind, it isn't. I live in the south and racism is still evident, and I expect always will be to some degree. When a voting district has been gerrymandered in such a way as to weaken the impact of african american voters that census information would be useful to use as a tool when outing the people who made the district changes. Given racial sensus information an automated system could even look for patterns that show where previous or current generations have screwed with boundaries for similar reasons.
It's a lot harder to detect such manipulations without that data unless you live in/near the affected area.
This paints faaaar too black and white a picture of security. Factoring the huge RSA key that you're using within the next few days is "next to impossible" (the first pair of large primes I try could be the ones) but that doesn't make it bad security. What you have to do is raise the bar high enough that your data/house/identity is adequately protected. Absolutes do not exist. That said, I'm not making a judgment on this particular hack or its difficulty, just that claiming that the ONLY good security is absolutely uncrackable security is incorrect.
I was going to just mod you down, but the summary at least never said anything about lowering any part of the device below ambient. It said that the headband will "feel cold". Touch a piece of wood at room temperature. It will sometimes "feel" warm. Do the same thing with a piece of steel. It will "feel" cold. This is true even if both are at the exact same temperature. Heat conduction
The kids section of my local science museum even has hand-shaped pieces of different materials to demonstrate the effect.
I'll dive in burn with you on this one. You missed one other major point that the Fedora developers had. A large majority of their user base is desktop systems where there is not some great IT staff or distant administrator. I am the admin in my boxes. No one else has a login. If I want to install packages without a password that shouldn't be difficult. I configured the repositories, I added the public keys after evaluating how much I trusted the repo. Letting the normal user (still me) install packages isn't the end of the world people make it out to be. In the case where I let my friend log into my machine remotely to look at something or help me debug or whatever, they WOULD NOT be able to install packages unless they logged into the local console (yes that was part of this change).
All this said, I personally would not turn on this option for my own desktops because I don't like the idea of my unprivileged account being able to hose the OS. Then again, repairing/reinstalling the OS is not a big deal compared to replacing the files in/home.
What this all comes down to is that it is not nearly as cut-and-dried as people on either side are shouting that it is.
Sounds good in theory, but if you're rotating a small ship wouldn't the differences in "gravity" be awfully disorienting? Beyond that, small enough (i.e. around the sizes that we can currently construct) and you may find that the gravity affecting your feet is significantly different than that affecting your head. I don't know if anyone has studied the affects of something like that, but it could very well be more damaging then having the entire body at a lower gravity.
For a more impressive feat, check out the Synthesis kernel written back in 1988. Also written entirely in assembly, and as stated in the linked wikipedia entry, that OS kernel was the "mother of all self-modifying code." It actually handled things like thread scheduling by generating a custom assembly snippet to jump to the correct point in the next thread to execute.
Imagine I have a 7 foot (or higher) privacy fence around my back yard. I have an expectation of privacy. Or I happen to own 150 acres in the middle of nowhere. I have less, but still some, expectation of privacy there as well.
The article is crap, but you got the reasons reversed. It definitely matters, but it's not news. The leader of one of the largest and most influential countries in the world is being replaced, and that matters. If something strange had happened it would be news, as it is we're just seeing the electoral system do the same thing it always does.
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stop trying to make them into tiny computers that only consume mindless data.
Yeah, that's what an iPad is for!
So very true. In the end it all comes down to trust and as I posted above (before noticing yours) Thompson explained it extremely well.
Sorry to tell you, but Ken Thompson talked about you how you pretty much have to trust someone back in 1984: http://cm.bell-labs.com/who/ken/trust.html
If no one else, you have to trust the compiler author isn't pulling a fast one on you....
Nice of you to get her the tablet she's always wanted.
Wish I could mod you up. I picked up BS, MS, and PhD (why on this last one... I'm not entirely sure) in CS without I or my parents having to pay for it. There are scholarships available for undergrads and assorted "graduate assistant" positions if you continue to the graduate level. The biggest thing most people I've dealt with need to understand is there is nothing wrong with going to a state school.
At the college level your degree is heavily what you make of it. If you want to learn a lot about the field, you can. If you want to skate by and barely do what's required, you can. However, if you interview with for a position and it's clear that you never did anything beyond the basic coursework and never cared enough to dig deeper on anything you're probably not getting a job. Pick a field somewhere in the intersection of "you're interested in it" and "you can get a job in it" and actually apply yourself. Look at the edges of what's taught in school and find bits and pieces that are interesting to you. Learn several programming languages, just so you can see that they're so inter-related that you can pick up whatever the new hotness is well enough to get through a basic interview. Learn some basic desktop IT work along with that CS degree so you could identify how the OS ate itself or what part the magic smoke escaped from and replace it. Learn every trick you can find for debugging tough problems from debuggers, to profilers, to writing your own logging routines, to breaking out wireshark because god only knows what's ACTUALLY traveling over the wires.
None of these things necessarily require a degree but if I were to roll a die on either a programmer who has a degree and one that doesn't, with no other knowledge, my odds of getting someone useful are slanted toward the college degree.
I've used them all as well, and I usually prefer ssh -X. Of course, I'm working within a fast internal network and over given more latency other tools may be better suited. On a daily basis I run my email client on my Linux laptop and pipe the display to a rootless X display running under cygwin on my Windows desktop. I commonly forget that the app is not just another windows program.
Can RDP be set to mix remote applications with locally running ones? I like the idea of switching with just an alt-tab and copying between apps without getting stuck in a box where all the remote apps are running. For example, when running RDP if I hit alt-tab to switch applications can I cycle through the other apps on my desktop or just the ones within the remote session?
Bull.
The BART cell phone repeater system has only been in place for a few years as a courtesy to riders. There are still emergency phones in stations (along with employees who have access to land lines) and the train conductors have the ability to call for assistance as well. People have built systems for calling for help in emergencies for decades before cell phones existed.
Sadly they'd still be beaten by my local ambulance chaser who is in the phonebook as "A Accident Attorney"....
Live in a nice central american or asian dictatorship for a while and tell us what a hell hole this place is. This does look like a terrible decision and they should have overthrown the other case instead of extending the state powers to the feds, but the flying spittle does nothing for anyone's cause.
Inciting violence against/threatening a federal judge.... nice work committing a federal crime there. Way to go.
Though I agree with the sentiment, at least your gun doesn't broadcast it's presence in the house to the potential criminal. That is a significant difference between the two scenarios.
So you're one of those "network is the computer" guys or you misread/didn't read either of the first two sentences of the summary... I'm gonna go with "didn't read" on this one.
Actually as a person currently look to hire F/OSS experience would be a definite plus. It shows that an applicant is really interested in the field and the work. Granted, we're not the corporate IT office you refer to, but if an applicant for our software position (if anyone is curious and interested in north central FL.... http://tdt.com/news/jobs/softwareengineer.htm) was actually interested enough in programming to do outside projects that would be a positive.
In general you need something to make you stand out, and contributing to or starting a project is a reasonable way to stand out. I interviewed some current master's students and was optimistic until it was clear that they did exactly what coursework required but weren't interested in exploring for their own interest.
Not the only or maybe even the best explanation, but I'll take a stab at it.
Having that information would be useful/necessary when investigating why differential services are already being provided. As much as we want the gov't (at all levels) to be color blind, it isn't. I live in the south and racism is still evident, and I expect always will be to some degree. When a voting district has been gerrymandered in such a way as to weaken the impact of african american voters that census information would be useful to use as a tool when outing the people who made the district changes. Given racial sensus information an automated system could even look for patterns that show where previous or current generations have screwed with boundaries for similar reasons.
It's a lot harder to detect such manipulations without that data unless you live in/near the affected area.
This paints faaaar too black and white a picture of security. Factoring the huge RSA key that you're using within the next few days is "next to impossible" (the first pair of large primes I try could be the ones) but that doesn't make it bad security. What you have to do is raise the bar high enough that your data/house/identity is adequately protected. Absolutes do not exist. That said, I'm not making a judgment on this particular hack or its difficulty, just that claiming that the ONLY good security is absolutely uncrackable security is incorrect.
I was going to just mod you down, but the summary at least never said anything about lowering any part of the device below ambient. It said that the headband will "feel cold". Touch a piece of wood at room temperature. It will sometimes "feel" warm. Do the same thing with a piece of steel. It will "feel" cold. This is true even if both are at the exact same temperature. Heat conduction
The kids section of my local science museum even has hand-shaped pieces of different materials to demonstrate the effect.
I'll dive in burn with you on this one. You missed one other major point that the Fedora developers had. A large majority of their user base is desktop systems where there is not some great IT staff or distant administrator. I am the admin in my boxes. No one else has a login. If I want to install packages without a password that shouldn't be difficult. I configured the repositories, I added the public keys after evaluating how much I trusted the repo. Letting the normal user (still me) install packages isn't the end of the world people make it out to be. In the case where I let my friend log into my machine remotely to look at something or help me debug or whatever, they WOULD NOT be able to install packages unless they logged into the local console (yes that was part of this change).
All this said, I personally would not turn on this option for my own desktops because I don't like the idea of my unprivileged account being able to hose the OS. Then again, repairing/reinstalling the OS is not a big deal compared to replacing the files in /home.
What this all comes down to is that it is not nearly as cut-and-dried as people on either side are shouting that it is.
Sounds good in theory, but if you're rotating a small ship wouldn't the differences in "gravity" be awfully disorienting? Beyond that, small enough (i.e. around the sizes that we can currently construct) and you may find that the gravity affecting your feet is significantly different than that affecting your head. I don't know if anyone has studied the affects of something like that, but it could very well be more damaging then having the entire body at a lower gravity.
Why should I be targeted just because I decided to watch both Heroes and CSI
Because of your poor choice of shows? It's really more about protecting you from yourself.
Wasn't there a book about that? I think someone burned my copy.
At some point the anti-government rant is too vague to be effective.
For a more impressive feat, check out the Synthesis kernel written back in 1988. Also written entirely in assembly, and as stated in the linked wikipedia entry, that OS kernel was the "mother of all self-modifying code." It actually handled things like thread scheduling by generating a custom assembly snippet to jump to the correct point in the next thread to execute.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Self-modifying_code#Alexia_Massalin.27s_Synthesis_kernel
Imagine I have a 7 foot (or higher) privacy fence around my back yard. I have an expectation of privacy. Or I happen to own 150 acres in the middle of nowhere. I have less, but still some, expectation of privacy there as well.
The article is crap, but you got the reasons reversed. It definitely matters, but it's not news. The leader of one of the largest and most influential countries in the world is being replaced, and that matters. If something strange had happened it would be news, as it is we're just seeing the electoral system do the same thing it always does.
Lead on, we're right behind you.