Wait...Are you talking about women, or the Jews? I kind of lost track around the time you went completely apeshit and started accusing part of the population of various wars.
I must have missed something. One minute we're talking about limiting the government-granted monopolies of a technology to a certain number, the next we're talking about communism.
Government-granted monopolies are closer to communism than none...
Perhaps, if the law(in general) isn't widely known, it should either become widely known or be scrapped.
Democracy is about legitimacy, but if the average voter doesn't know the law he or she is trying to elect people to maintain, then how is that any more legitimate than having no recorded laws at all?
It's not men keeping women out of science and technology. It's women. The opportunities are all there, ready to be exploited. Women simply aren't applying themselves in that direction.
I'm in no position to speculate as to the cultural imperatives which cause this phenomenon, though I could theorize to some extent......But it is sexist. Women need to look past traditional gender roles and start applying themselves towards ALL directions, because if they continue to ignore some of the highest paying jobs in the world, the average income of men vs. women will never reach parity.
This has absolutely nothing to do with holes. Many MS viruses over the years have, but this isn't one of them. This is a case of "I unlocked and opened my door and let him into my house". This is just following that fundamental first principle of e-mail security from 25 years ago: Don't open attachments you don't trust. Are PCs badly designed because a user can stick a virus infected CD, DVD, Floppy, or USB drive into it and infect the computer? Is FTP a fundamentally flawed concept for a protocol with no use on the internet?
Because that's what you're saying. You're saying that allowing users to send files to each other is a terrible design decision, and that GAIM is better because it doesn't have that ability.
(Of course, it's a bit of a red herring because it supposedly supports client/server transfers, just not direct connections, which is irrelevant for a bug which basically fires out a link and goes "Click this! It's interesting!")
I disagree. It doesn't matter if you're using a web browser, an e-mail program, an instant messenger, an FTP client, or IRC. If you accept untrustworthy or unsolicited downloads and run them, you've got an insecure machine, but it's not the fault of the software. If you let random people into your house, you've got an insecure house, and it doesn't matter how big the lock you put on the front door is.
So, the only reason you like Open Source is because it's not Microsoft? That's unfortunate for you. If that's NOT the case, then your reply is just a straw man. For me, the majority of good open source developers I know have no great LOVE of microsoft, but are universally more concerned with making their own projects, rather than griping at Microsoft.
-- And no, the vast majority of slashdotters likely couldn't write a line of code if their lives depended on it. Just because you're a programmer doesn't mean everyone is. If you want to be literalist, they couldn't code their way out of a wet paper bag. I, of course, could make my way out of my wet paper bag using my Power Destructitron X.
You're an idiot. If GAIM is trying to mimic MSN functionallity, but doesn't support some MSN features, then it's broken, not fixed. Trying to spin it as a good thing is ridiculous. Trying to say that users shouldn't be allowed to self files because they're too stupid to do so is also ridiculous. Get off your high horse.
Bela Liptak, the Editor in Chief of the Process Control Handbook for Engineers, says that to control a process, we must first understand it. In this case, we don't really understand Global warming, even if we can show it exists. We don't know if it's part of the natural cycle the earth goes through, we don't know if it's caused by our own mismanagement (And don't discount that. The "Humans are too small to change the earth" arguement is verifably false -- Europe had to turn to burning coal because some irresponsible buffoon thought that humans would never cut down all the trees. Also, every piece of refined steel created during and after World War 2 is tainted with radioactivity that is in our atmosphere now because of nuclear weapons (So when we need a piece of steel without radioactivity, we take it from the sunken German battleships from WWI)). While limiting CO2 emissions is a prudent course of action until we learn more, it is by no means a sure-fire route to "Solving" the percieved problem.
Who cares about Microsoft these days? They were a pain in the ass back when they'd buy out or simply put out of business any company with an interesting product, but these days they're becoming top-heavy and can't play the game by those rules anymore. Instead of trying to screw people terribly, they've started trying to make software people actually want to use, and it seems to me that they've succeeded on many fronts. If you're not a doorknob, Windows XP is ridiculously stable, and with the correct preventative measures in place (not using IE, using the built-in SP2 firewall), it can definitely be "secure enough". My machine is never turned off, it just runs and runs.
Besides, some people do OSS programming because they enjoy programming. Myself, You couldn't likely pay me to be a programmer(mostly because of the higer wages, job satisfaction, and survivability of my current trade), but I've got a few open source projects, including one on sourceforge, and I've contributed some code that does some very cool things to a few fairly high profile open source projects, and I've had a grand time doing it.
Man needs more than work to keep him alive. If the results of those labours happen to be a great piece of software (and natural selection in the form of users will see to that), then so be it. People who are involved with "this linux thing" because they hate microsoft aren't programmers, they're kiddies taking part in fame wars on slashdot. The vast majority of them have never written a line of code in their lives and couldn't if they wanted to.
Please tell me you're joking. Advocacy is one thing, but this is the worst case of "It's not a bug, it's a feature!" I've ever seen. Considering the alternative is a nice and simple "What is this you're trying to send me?" before clicking a download link, I think you're sixes and sevens for trying to claim that using a broken program is a good thing.
Correction -- New work starts munching STUPID MSN Messenger users.
If you accept an unsolicited download, you deserve everything you get. This bug can be protected against with a simple "What is this you're trying to send me?".
I'm trying to figure out how the fact that the beginning of the universe is the work of God changes anything. Supposedly, EVERYTHING is the work of God. Why does it matter if we watch?
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Gods work probably isn't trying to get random people killed on the other side of the world in retaliation for an attack five years ago which took the lives of an insignificant fraction of the people we've killed in vengence. As I recall, Jesus was all about this "turn the other cheek" thing, not too huge on the revenge on innocent people.
Also, no God, no Satan. Only Christians worship Satan. At least Jews really do only worship the one god they claim exists. Christians did a pitiful job of trying to rewrite the Talmud.
And how could I NOT love suicide bombers? They're the ultimate mindfuck. You want to run out and kill whoever hurt you, but they killed themselves, so you run off and kill completely unrelated people instead! It's like the anti-Jap, circa WWII. Unlike the Japanese, who would fight to the last man and force American soldiers to kill every Japanese soldier on the island they were trying to conquer, suicide bombers kill themselves, so American soldiers have notbody to kill. If there was a similar mindfuck to be done without dying or facing prosecution(Because I've heard both are quite unpleasant), I'd probably do it on weekends just because.
I'm being dead serious. The people we surround ourselves with are important to US, but they aren't important to anyone else. Jimmy is going to jail soon for beating Jane, who has a son on the way but it belongs to Trevor and I hate that prick and Rosa and I are going to tahiti this weekend where I'll propose.
Or somesuch. Nobody cares. The fact that these are huge events in the lives of the induvidual people involved doesn't change the fact that they're the insignificant minutae of the lives of people almost nobody knows. You don't need to read a persons blog to realize that, unless you haven't been watching.
Why would they need a podcast? They've got an entire news network.
And for the record, what you need to make a good podcast is the ability to read a script without sounding like you're reading a script, or to pull shit out of your ass without sounding like you're just rambling. No matter how self-righteous you are, in the end, people only want to listen to your blog to be entertained, so at least TRY not to be a complete and utter amateur.
To be honest, considering some of the mind games I've seen HR play over the years, I don't see any reason not to believe they'd pull something like this.
That said, the most incriminating thing on my own blog is that I'm very angry with my mother, but I still love her -- and that's pseudonymous.
If you think you're going to find control specialists who aren't eccentric, you're in for a long wait. Anyone with the qualifications to do the job is certifiably nuts, or they would have taken the nice and easy electrical route.:P
Considering that this thread is about a certain thing -- employers who specifically DO have a problem with that, I don't think it's a terrible thing to say.
Why is it that the word "Professionalism" means so little these days?
Part of that little word is being able to say "This is my life, this is my work.", and thus, if you exersize a tiny bit of professionalism, it doesn't matter what your church is, or what your political affiliation is, you'll do your best every day at work.
If you're hiring based on a persons personal life and disregarding professionalism, You're going to get useless people no matter how much sunday school they attend.
It has been said a million times, and it will be said a quadrillion more: Wisdom and intelligence are not the same thing. An intelligent person has tha ability to understand many things, but the wise person actually does.
Because I will. And you know what? The protien will metabolize at 70% efficiency. Thus, I can eat 30% more if I only eat brains. I bet you didn't know that, did you? DID YOU? Well, Maybe your brains aren't worth eating then.
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Wait...Are you talking about women, or the Jews? I kind of lost track around the time you went completely apeshit and started accusing part of the population of various wars.
I must have missed something. One minute we're talking about limiting the government-granted monopolies of a technology to a certain number, the next we're talking about communism.
Government-granted monopolies are closer to communism than none...
Perhaps, if the law(in general) isn't widely known, it should either become widely known or be scrapped.
Democracy is about legitimacy, but if the average voter doesn't know the law he or she is trying to elect people to maintain, then how is that any more legitimate than having no recorded laws at all?
It's not men keeping women out of science and technology. It's women. The opportunities are all there, ready to be exploited. Women simply aren't applying themselves in that direction.
...But it is sexist. Women need to look past traditional gender roles and start applying themselves towards ALL directions, because if they continue to ignore some of the highest paying jobs in the world, the average income of men vs. women will never reach parity.
I'm in no position to speculate as to the cultural imperatives which cause this phenomenon, though I could theorize to some extent...
This has absolutely nothing to do with holes. Many MS viruses over the years have, but this isn't one of them. This is a case of "I unlocked and opened my door and let him into my house". This is just following that fundamental first principle of e-mail security from 25 years ago: Don't open attachments you don't trust. Are PCs badly designed because a user can stick a virus infected CD, DVD, Floppy, or USB drive into it and infect the computer? Is FTP a fundamentally flawed concept for a protocol with no use on the internet?
Because that's what you're saying. You're saying that allowing users to send files to each other is a terrible design decision, and that GAIM is better because it doesn't have that ability.
(Of course, it's a bit of a red herring because it supposedly supports client/server transfers, just not direct connections, which is irrelevant for a bug which basically fires out a link and goes "Click this! It's interesting!")
I disagree. It doesn't matter if you're using a web browser, an e-mail program, an instant messenger, an FTP client, or IRC. If you accept untrustworthy or unsolicited downloads and run them, you've got an insecure machine, but it's not the fault of the software. If you let random people into your house, you've got an insecure house, and it doesn't matter how big the lock you put on the front door is.
I don't joke around with zealots, and the grandparent, spinning the lack of file transfer capability as a feature, is the post of a zealots.
Doesn't congress have some little Iraqi kids to maim and slaughter?
The dichotomy is sickening. These nanny-state loving goons can all go to hell, as far as I'm concerned, and they will.
So, the only reason you like Open Source is because it's not Microsoft? That's unfortunate for you. If that's NOT the case, then your reply is just a straw man. For me, the majority of good open source developers I know have no great LOVE of microsoft, but are universally more concerned with making their own projects, rather than griping at Microsoft.
-- And no, the vast majority of slashdotters likely couldn't write a line of code if their lives depended on it. Just because you're a programmer doesn't mean everyone is. If you want to be literalist, they couldn't code their way out of a wet paper bag. I, of course, could make my way out of my wet paper bag using my Power Destructitron X.
You're an idiot. If GAIM is trying to mimic MSN functionallity, but doesn't support some MSN features, then it's broken, not fixed. Trying to spin it as a good thing is ridiculous. Trying to say that users shouldn't be allowed to self files because they're too stupid to do so is also ridiculous. Get off your high horse.
Bela Liptak, the Editor in Chief of the Process Control Handbook for Engineers, says that to control a process, we must first understand it. In this case, we don't really understand Global warming, even if we can show it exists. We don't know if it's part of the natural cycle the earth goes through, we don't know if it's caused by our own mismanagement (And don't discount that. The "Humans are too small to change the earth" arguement is verifably false -- Europe had to turn to burning coal because some irresponsible buffoon thought that humans would never cut down all the trees. Also, every piece of refined steel created during and after World War 2 is tainted with radioactivity that is in our atmosphere now because of nuclear weapons (So when we need a piece of steel without radioactivity, we take it from the sunken German battleships from WWI)). While limiting CO2 emissions is a prudent course of action until we learn more, it is by no means a sure-fire route to "Solving" the percieved problem.
Who cares about Microsoft these days? They were a pain in the ass back when they'd buy out or simply put out of business any company with an interesting product, but these days they're becoming top-heavy and can't play the game by those rules anymore. Instead of trying to screw people terribly, they've started trying to make software people actually want to use, and it seems to me that they've succeeded on many fronts. If you're not a doorknob, Windows XP is ridiculously stable, and with the correct preventative measures in place (not using IE, using the built-in SP2 firewall), it can definitely be "secure enough". My machine is never turned off, it just runs and runs.
Besides, some people do OSS programming because they enjoy programming. Myself, You couldn't likely pay me to be a programmer(mostly because of the higer wages, job satisfaction, and survivability of my current trade), but I've got a few open source projects, including one on sourceforge, and I've contributed some code that does some very cool things to a few fairly high profile open source projects, and I've had a grand time doing it.
Man needs more than work to keep him alive. If the results of those labours happen to be a great piece of software (and natural selection in the form of users will see to that), then so be it. People who are involved with "this linux thing" because they hate microsoft aren't programmers, they're kiddies taking part in fame wars on slashdot. The vast majority of them have never written a line of code in their lives and couldn't if they wanted to.
Please tell me you're joking. Advocacy is one thing, but this is the worst case of "It's not a bug, it's a feature!" I've ever seen. Considering the alternative is a nice and simple "What is this you're trying to send me?" before clicking a download link, I think you're sixes and sevens for trying to claim that using a broken program is a good thing.
Correction -- New work starts munching STUPID MSN Messenger users.
If you accept an unsolicited download, you deserve everything you get. This bug can be protected against with a simple "What is this you're trying to send me?".
I'm trying to figure out how the fact that the beginning of the universe is the work of God changes anything. Supposedly, EVERYTHING is the work of God. Why does it matter if we watch?
Gods work probably isn't trying to get random people killed on the other side of the world in retaliation for an attack five years ago which took the lives of an insignificant fraction of the people we've killed in vengence. As I recall, Jesus was all about this "turn the other cheek" thing, not too huge on the revenge on innocent people.
Also, no God, no Satan. Only Christians worship Satan. At least Jews really do only worship the one god they claim exists. Christians did a pitiful job of trying to rewrite the Talmud.
And how could I NOT love suicide bombers? They're the ultimate mindfuck. You want to run out and kill whoever hurt you, but they killed themselves, so you run off and kill completely unrelated people instead! It's like the anti-Jap, circa WWII. Unlike the Japanese, who would fight to the last man and force American soldiers to kill every Japanese soldier on the island they were trying to conquer, suicide bombers kill themselves, so American soldiers have notbody to kill. If there was a similar mindfuck to be done without dying or facing prosecution(Because I've heard both are quite unpleasant), I'd probably do it on weekends just because.
I'm being dead serious. The people we surround ourselves with are important to US, but they aren't important to anyone else. Jimmy is going to jail soon for beating Jane, who has a son on the way but it belongs to Trevor and I hate that prick and Rosa and I are going to tahiti this weekend where I'll propose.
Or somesuch. Nobody cares. The fact that these are huge events in the lives of the induvidual people involved doesn't change the fact that they're the insignificant minutae of the lives of people almost nobody knows. You don't need to read a persons blog to realize that, unless you haven't been watching.
Why would they need a podcast? They've got an entire news network.
And for the record, what you need to make a good podcast is the ability to read a script without sounding like you're reading a script, or to pull shit out of your ass without sounding like you're just rambling. No matter how self-righteous you are, in the end, people only want to listen to your blog to be entertained, so at least TRY not to be a complete and utter amateur.
To be honest, considering some of the mind games I've seen HR play over the years, I don't see any reason not to believe they'd pull something like this.
That said, the most incriminating thing on my own blog is that I'm very angry with my mother, but I still love her -- and that's pseudonymous.
If you were a REAL bad boy, you'd want a bike that could actually outrun police cars, right?
If you think you're going to find control specialists who aren't eccentric, you're in for a long wait. Anyone with the qualifications to do the job is certifiably nuts, or they would have taken the nice and easy electrical route. :P
Considering that this thread is about a certain thing -- employers who specifically DO have a problem with that, I don't think it's a terrible thing to say.
Why is it that the word "Professionalism" means so little these days?
Part of that little word is being able to say "This is my life, this is my work.", and thus, if you exersize a tiny bit of professionalism, it doesn't matter what your church is, or what your political affiliation is, you'll do your best every day at work.
If you're hiring based on a persons personal life and disregarding professionalism, You're going to get useless people no matter how much sunday school they attend.
It has been said a million times, and it will be said a quadrillion more: Wisdom and intelligence are not the same thing. An intelligent person has tha ability to understand many things, but the wise person actually does.
DO ***NOT*** MAKE ME EAT YOUR BRAINS.
Because I will. And you know what? The protien will metabolize at 70% efficiency. Thus, I can eat 30% more if I only eat brains. I bet you didn't know that, did you? DID YOU? Well, Maybe your brains aren't worth eating then.