Actually, remnants of the big bang is simply the best theory we have going.
It's a pretty good theory, though. Well tested, lots of lines of evidence. Ignoring it is like ignoring evolution, or better yet gravity. You won't see me walking off any cliffs and speculating that hey gravity might be wrong.
A hypothesis that makes no sense and is pulled out of ignorance is just gibberish and has no scientific merit. Skepticism is also an important part of science. But to post what you said as A/C I'd guess you're trolling.
What if the cosmic background "warmth" which hovers just above 2 Kelvin isn't the remnants of the Big Bang but rather a physical phenomenon produced by some more general
What you need to understand is that what you said, while sounding philosophical to the uneducated is gibberish. To a scientist what you said sounds something like "What if what I thought was my hand was actually an ardvaark in disguise". There are specific properties/features of the CMB that require it to be left over radiation from the Big Bang. Of course to understand this you also need to understand the Big Bang itself and why we'd collectively believe something so counter-intuitive as the universe beginning from a singularity. In other words you need to read your science historyf or the last couple of hundred years.
Management isn't the only way to stay ahead. I know plenty of developers over 45 years old. I know a few that are 60 (mainframe). That's more achievable than succeeding in starting your own IT business.
It takes a different type of person to manage. A good developer can be a good manager but that overlap isn't always there. And managers are much more expensive and much easier to cut in a rough economy. I've already turned down being groomed for management at a couple of companies. I dislike pure management and little hands on tech so much I honestly think I'd be opening myself up to severe depression if I took a management roll.
Saving plenty of money by the time you're 40 is a noble goal, but one that few achieve. When you're younger you're not that well paid and you're less careful. When you're older you have more responsibilities.
Starting your own company is also no silver bullet. I've been employee number 6 in a company that's now 200 strong. It's incredible how hard it is to break in to large companies if you're small - you're seen as a risk. Starting a business in any profession is a huge risk, and you'll be working many, many more hours. For every success there are dozens of failures and ruined personal lives.
I agree with more than 90% of what you've said but there is a signficant problem. It's easy to change companies every 3-5 years when you're in your 20s and 30s, especially when the economy is good. As you get older and have a family depending on you 5 things happen:
1) Because you're older you are a less desirable hire and companies will try to negotiate down on market rate. You can mitigate this to some extent by being competent and developing a reputation and a track record that says you can get jobs done that others might fail at. But the bottom line is there is ageism in this industry.
2) The consequences of the new job not working out becomes higher. Your family has to eat. You don't want to get into a position where they don't have money for the basics. Especially if you're the only bread winner. If you can avoid being the only bread winner it does take the pressure off a little.
3) The risk of your job not working out increases. Higher positions are more demanding. You will already have ideas on how things should be done and they may not fit in with your new role. The role itself may not be what you expected (conditions, pay, role). The trick is to stay flexible and roll with the punches..
4) Your specialised skills become outdated. It doesn't matter how many years of that old language you have or how expert you are. Even if a company has a niche that needs to be filled for now, they're looking to move off that old technology because it's difficult to hire for it. You have several ways to mitigate:
a. Reskill (but then you're still not as desirable as that cheap fresh out of college young gun who's got nothing but spare time and interest and has read 16 books and a certification on that new language.).
b. Play the niches. Realise your job security is zero and make sure you demand a high salary to fill that role that's difficult to hire for. (You still have to be reasonable). Realise that it will dry up, so keep renewing skills in other areas. Some companies will want someone with your background but only if you can talk current technologies too.
c. Go into management (but only if it's something you want to do or at least can tolerate. It's a whole other job)
d. Leave IT (but you'll face similar challenges in other industries, and reskilling is expensive in both time and money)
5) The longer you're in the industry the more exposure you have to periods of economic downturn. 2 years ago looking for a new job was an insanely risky proposition, with little chance of reward.
I bet they forgot to tick the "don't let our government gift more of our cool sh!t to America" box at the bottom either.
One day you're going to find our Queen left in a cardboard box on the steps of the Whitehouse with a note saying "sorry, we can't afford her any more, please take care of her - one lump of suger in her tea, etc."
If there were a picture of you under a word closely resembling "Dildo" you'd be upset, too.
Not as much as if my name closely resembled it. Her full name is "Dido Florian Cloud de Bounevialle O'Malley Armstrong". It doesn't even fit in the subject line for this post, and it's not a stage name. Her parents should be shot.
You missed a requirement: easy for the students to remove by hand
All computer viruses are easy to remove by hand. Just rip the computer out of the electrical and network sockets and throw the computer out the window. Use your hands to do this.
"Blame the government that set up a no-win situation."
You mean, blame the people that voted for the gov't that set up the no-win situation. People blame the gov't all the time -- without realizing THEY ARE THE GOV'T. As a citizen, you are responsible for your gov't...not the other way around.
You're talking as if the choice when you vote isn't between a pair of clowns that both once they're in government enact legislation that the people don't want.
I hid all the farmville etc, and found that I was still not reading anything interesting - it literally wasn't worth the time so I don't bother with FB much anymore.
Who knew that Billion was spelled differently in Canada, maybe it is like color and colour.
Well maybe it has a whole other meaning. Unless he has that sort of money, they might as well have 12 unicorns and 3 pixies. Seriously what even happens to this indvidiual now that he owes a fine he can't pay? Jail? Bankruptcy (or doesn't that discharge legal fines)?
According to certain TERMS OF SERVICE. Ooops, fixed that for ya.
What you think you wave a wad of dollar bills and everyone has to do what you say? Build your own fucking network. Society has rules. Society NEEDS rules. The internet has been mainstream for 20+ years. Joe Sixpack is not going to fix his machine unless you make him, or he would have done so already. The only reason this is a problem for you and me is because there's always the next vulnerability that's just waiting to be exploited. Neither you nor I are writing our own OS, nor do we have time to keep up with every single possible exploit for every single program we run. But if the botnet is out there, you can bet that some douche some day will try to use that exploit on YOU. If your machine is constantly being hammered, the bad guy only has to be lucky once.
Yeah that's fair. The ISP, often in a monopoly position, determines it's terms of service, which you cannot modify or realistically negotiate, and which they can change on a whim with little notice.
Ooops, fixed that for you.
See I can argue like a spoilt 3 year old as well.
Childish rants aside, you're the sort of disingenuous fool that, if I could build my own network and OS, would proceed to tell me to build my own society. Always setting the bar higher into the stratosphere of absurdity.
In the real world ISPs only exist to serve their customers. The moment they start to provide nothing for a customer's money on the weakest pretense, the customer just goes away, and eventually the ISP fails. That's the harsh economic reality. No one profits and no one wins when you set up an adversarial relationship with your customers. I guess I'm being unrealistic to expect someone with your social skills and your adversarial personality to comprehend that.
They're Internet SERVICE Providers. Not Internet Police, nor Internet Guardians. They exist to provide people with access to the Internet for a fee. Now a lot of ISPs already do plenty that is contrary to the best Interests of the customers. Bad behaviour ranges from price gouging and using misleading advertising, to draconian terms of service (usually because they're able to due to a monopoly or collusion), to playing fast and loose with customer's private data (often in the name of anti-piracy). Do you really want to give these same ISPs the power to take a customer's money and provide them with nothing based on nothing other than their own conclusion that a customer is infected? That's madness. An ISP should be providing a customer with help to remove the infection, not removing their access to the Internet.
Some of the advice being given here isn't very practical. Mine probably isn't either, unless of course you're particularly well off, but it could be a lot more fun.
How many clear cases of stifled innovation do we need before we have a major overhaul of copyright?
This was a patent case, not a copyright case. The two have very little to do with each other.
If you bother to read further I address patents too. Don't let that stop you from swooping down and labeling the whole post as trash though. Excellent troll.
Personally, I don't see a problem with this, since, if you're allowing botnet traffic, you're already abusing the TOS (with or without your knowledge -- and after the notice, certainly ignorance isn't an excuse), and as such you're not really entitled to "unbroken" service, or any service at all for that matter. I think providing this notice is a good compromise.
Personally you don't have a problem with this because you're an advanced user interested in computers and all things technical. Saying that those who don't fall into that category and get infected don't deserve any service because they've fallen afoul of their TOS is pig ignorant....and that's without considering false positives and the like. Here's a thought? Why not provide contacts for a reputable service that can help clean the customer's machine for a reasonable fee?
How many clear cases of stifled innovation do we need before we have a major overhaul of copyright? Western government is traditionally quite good about their public attitude to corruption. However, if there's one area of corruption that is visible to Joe average and rampant it's IP law. You can't even make a toy model of a real aircraft or car without paying royalties. (As if this is what the manufacturer's first motivation is. What a joke!). Music and film royalties predominately go to middle men and both industries whine on and on about lost profit. Now we have a situation where coming up with a new idea isn't lucrative because you might just step into some obscure patent.It's become a game of which company can sue the other into oblivion. How is that suppose to encourage invention and innovation? Is it any wonder the western world's going backwards in these areas?
If slashdot ever allows real article moderation (and not that firehose abortion), in addition to 'flamebait' and 'troll', can we have a '-1, pedant bait' article? Seriously, at the time of this comment, of 35 articles, at least half are arguing over whether or not this is truly a spacecraft. It's really easy to shit on others from the safety of your parents' basement..
Well if we're going to be sloppy about it, I'll just define my basement as the boundary for outer space and revel in being the first astronaut in my family. Fuck it I'll define it as the heliopause and boast about my success in being the first person outside of the solar system.
It's really easy to shit on people making wild ass stupid claims that don't bear any resemblance to reality. It's called skepticism, and it's a healthy and natural part of the scientific method.
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Actually, remnants of the big bang is simply the best theory we have going.
It's a pretty good theory, though. Well tested, lots of lines of evidence. Ignoring it is like ignoring evolution, or better yet gravity. You won't see me walking off any cliffs and speculating that hey gravity might be wrong.
A hypothesis that makes no sense and is pulled out of ignorance is just gibberish and has no scientific merit. Skepticism is also an important part of science. But to post what you said as A/C I'd guess you're trolling.
What if the cosmic background "warmth" which hovers just above 2 Kelvin isn't the remnants of the Big Bang but rather a physical phenomenon produced by some more general
What you need to understand is that what you said, while sounding philosophical to the uneducated is gibberish. To a scientist what you said sounds something like "What if what I thought was my hand was actually an ardvaark in disguise". There are specific properties/features of the CMB that require it to be left over radiation from the Big Bang. Of course to understand this you also need to understand the Big Bang itself and why we'd collectively believe something so counter-intuitive as the universe beginning from a singularity. In other words you need to read your science historyf or the last couple of hundred years.
Now we agree less. A lot less.
Management isn't the only way to stay ahead. I know plenty of developers over 45 years old. I know a few that are 60 (mainframe). That's more achievable than succeeding in starting your own IT business.
It takes a different type of person to manage. A good developer can be a good manager but that overlap isn't always there. And managers are much more expensive and much easier to cut in a rough economy. I've already turned down being groomed for management at a couple of companies. I dislike pure management and little hands on tech so much I honestly think I'd be opening myself up to severe depression if I took a management roll.
Saving plenty of money by the time you're 40 is a noble goal, but one that few achieve. When you're younger you're not that well paid and you're less careful. When you're older you have more responsibilities.
Starting your own company is also no silver bullet. I've been employee number 6 in a company that's now 200 strong. It's incredible how hard it is to break in to large companies if you're small - you're seen as a risk. Starting a business in any profession is a huge risk, and you'll be working many, many more hours. For every success there are dozens of failures and ruined personal lives.
I agree with more than 90% of what you've said but there is a signficant problem. It's easy to change companies every 3-5 years when you're in your 20s and 30s, especially when the economy is good. As you get older and have a family depending on you 5 things happen:
1) Because you're older you are a less desirable hire and companies will try to negotiate down on market rate. You can mitigate this to some extent by being competent and developing a reputation and a track record that says you can get jobs done that others might fail at. But the bottom line is there is ageism in this industry.
2) The consequences of the new job not working out becomes higher. Your family has to eat. You don't want to get into a position where they don't have money for the basics. Especially if you're the only bread winner. If you can avoid being the only bread winner it does take the pressure off a little.
3) The risk of your job not working out increases. Higher positions are more demanding. You will already have ideas on how things should be done and they may not fit in with your new role. The role itself may not be what you expected (conditions, pay, role). The trick is to stay flexible and roll with the punches..
4) Your specialised skills become outdated. It doesn't matter how many years of that old language you have or how expert you are. Even if a company has a niche that needs to be filled for now, they're looking to move off that old technology because it's difficult to hire for it. You have several ways to mitigate:
a. Reskill (but then you're still not as desirable as that cheap fresh out of college young gun who's got nothing but spare time and interest and has read 16 books and a certification on that new language.).
b. Play the niches. Realise your job security is zero and make sure you demand a high salary to fill that role that's difficult to hire for. (You still have to be reasonable). Realise that it will dry up, so keep renewing skills in other areas. Some companies will want someone with your background but only if you can talk current technologies too.
c. Go into management (but only if it's something you want to do or at least can tolerate. It's a whole other job)
d. Leave IT (but you'll face similar challenges in other industries, and reskilling is expensive in both time and money)
5) The longer you're in the industry the more exposure you have to periods of economic downturn. 2 years ago looking for a new job was an insanely risky proposition, with little chance of reward.
I bet they forgot to tick the "don't let our government gift more of our cool sh!t to America" box at the bottom either.
One day you're going to find our Queen left in a cardboard box on the steps of the Whitehouse with a note saying "sorry, we can't afford her any more, please take care of her - one lump of suger in her tea, etc."
Hey! You can't make fun of the Queen like that!!!
You should have correctly spelt sugar.
But if my life is for rent and I don't learn to buy
Well I deserve nothing more than I get
Cos nothing I have is truly mine
If there were a picture of you under a word closely resembling "Dildo" you'd be upset, too.
Not as much as if my name closely resembled it. Her full name is "Dido Florian Cloud de Bounevialle O'Malley Armstrong". It doesn't even fit in the subject line for this post, and it's not a stage name. Her parents should be shot.
Traditionally trolls have lived under bridges, but it appears that they've infiltrated NASA and are now making their way into outer space!!!
BE....WARE.....OF....SPACE....TROLLS
(especially if you're a recording artist)
You have been warned. We will now return you to your regularly scheduled IP rights battle.
I don't even know if I'm joking.
You missed a requirement: easy for the students to remove by hand
All computer viruses are easy to remove by hand. Just rip the computer out of the electrical and network sockets and throw the computer out the window. Use your hands to do this.
"Blame the government that set up a no-win situation."
You mean, blame the people that voted for the gov't that set up the no-win situation. People blame the gov't all the time -- without realizing THEY ARE THE GOV'T. As a citizen, you are responsible for your gov't...not the other way around.
You're talking as if the choice when you vote isn't between a pair of clowns that both once they're in government enact legislation that the people don't want.
I hid all the farmville etc, and found that I was still not reading anything interesting - it literally wasn't worth the time so I don't bother with FB much anymore.
Who knew that Billion was spelled differently in Canada, maybe it is like color and colour.
Well maybe it has a whole other meaning. Unless he has that sort of money, they might as well have 12 unicorns and 3 pixies. Seriously what even happens to this indvidiual now that he owes a fine he can't pay? Jail? Bankruptcy (or doesn't that discharge legal fines)?
You make an excellent point. At least limited connectivity to help fix the problem should be provided.
According to certain TERMS OF SERVICE. Ooops, fixed that for ya.
What you think you wave a wad of dollar bills and everyone has to do what you say? Build your own fucking network. Society has rules. Society NEEDS rules. The internet has been mainstream for 20+ years. Joe Sixpack is not going to fix his machine unless you make him, or he would have done so already. The only reason this is a problem for you and me is because there's always the next vulnerability that's just waiting to be exploited. Neither you nor I are writing our own OS, nor do we have time to keep up with every single possible exploit for every single program we run. But if the botnet is out there, you can bet that some douche some day will try to use that exploit on YOU. If your machine is constantly being hammered, the bad guy only has to be lucky once.
Yeah that's fair. The ISP, often in a monopoly position, determines it's terms of service, which you cannot modify or realistically negotiate, and which they can change on a whim with little notice.
Ooops, fixed that for you.
See I can argue like a spoilt 3 year old as well.
Childish rants aside, you're the sort of disingenuous fool that, if I could build my own network and OS, would proceed to tell me to build my own society. Always setting the bar higher into the stratosphere of absurdity.
In the real world ISPs only exist to serve their customers. The moment they start to provide nothing for a customer's money on the weakest pretense, the customer just goes away, and eventually the ISP fails. That's the harsh economic reality. No one profits and no one wins when you set up an adversarial relationship with your customers. I guess I'm being unrealistic to expect someone with your social skills and your adversarial personality to comprehend that.
They're Internet SERVICE Providers. Not Internet Police, nor Internet Guardians. They exist to provide people with access to the Internet for a fee. Now a lot of ISPs already do plenty that is contrary to the best Interests of the customers. Bad behaviour ranges from price gouging and using misleading advertising, to draconian terms of service (usually because they're able to due to a monopoly or collusion), to playing fast and loose with customer's private data (often in the name of anti-piracy). Do you really want to give these same ISPs the power to take a customer's money and provide them with nothing based on nothing other than their own conclusion that a customer is infected? That's madness. An ISP should be providing a customer with help to remove the infection, not removing their access to the Internet.
Did you seriously stop after reading title? And then criticise the researchers for not noticing things?
You're both missing the point. The point is that with a bit of luck the earth could swallow WV!
Some of the advice being given here isn't very practical. Mine probably isn't either, unless of course you're particularly well off, but it could be a lot more fun.
How many clear cases of stifled innovation do we need before we have a major overhaul of copyright?
This was a patent case, not a copyright case. The two have very little to do with each other.
If you bother to read further I address patents too. Don't let that stop you from swooping down and labeling the whole post as trash though. Excellent troll.
Personally, I don't see a problem with this, since, if you're allowing botnet traffic, you're already abusing the TOS (with or without your knowledge -- and after the notice, certainly ignorance isn't an excuse), and as such you're not really entitled to "unbroken" service, or any service at all for that matter. I think providing this notice is a good compromise.
Personally you don't have a problem with this because you're an advanced user interested in computers and all things technical. Saying that those who don't fall into that category and get infected don't deserve any service because they've fallen afoul of their TOS is pig ignorant. ...and that's without considering false positives and the like. Here's a thought? Why not provide contacts for a reputable service that can help clean the customer's machine for a reasonable fee?
How many clear cases of stifled innovation do we need before we have a major overhaul of copyright? Western government is traditionally quite good about their public attitude to corruption. However, if there's one area of corruption that is visible to Joe average and rampant it's IP law. You can't even make a toy model of a real aircraft or car without paying royalties. (As if this is what the manufacturer's first motivation is. What a joke!). Music and film royalties predominately go to middle men and both industries whine on and on about lost profit. Now we have a situation where coming up with a new idea isn't lucrative because you might just step into some obscure patent.It's become a game of which company can sue the other into oblivion. How is that suppose to encourage invention and innovation? Is it any wonder the western world's going backwards in these areas?
If slashdot ever allows real article moderation (and not that firehose abortion), in addition to 'flamebait' and 'troll', can we have a '-1, pedant bait' article? Seriously, at the time of this comment, of 35 articles, at least half are arguing over whether or not this is truly a spacecraft. It's really easy to shit on others from the safety of your parents' basement. .
Well if we're going to be sloppy about it, I'll just define my basement as the boundary for outer space and revel in being the first astronaut in my family. Fuck it I'll define it as the heliopause and boast about my success in being the first person outside of the solar system.
It's really easy to shit on people making wild ass stupid claims that don't bear any resemblance to reality. It's called skepticism, and it's a healthy and natural part of the scientific method.
You don't need bittorrent to have proper support for resumable downloads. Why isn't this standard? I feel like I'm stuck in 1992.
Sorry.
U cnt hv my frst brn f off twtr