The collective IQ has dropped significantly. About now, the 2nd generation of slashdotters are making their exodus to other news sites - or - worse - the real world. By leaving the collective and making the ratio of clue decreases, leaving the bottom-rung stallmanite slashdrones to pick up the slack, so to speak. in addition the average age is now lower.
Perhaps we should charter a report on slashdot groupthink. if i were in college i'd do it.
Alternately, i accept the idea that it is indeed brainded friday.
[Disclaimer - Due to the extraction of a wisdom tooth today and the subsequent mind-numbing hydrocodone, i do not claim responsibility for the content or readability of my above post. It makes sense as i type it. thats all that matters. =) ]
While this group seems quite rabid and ravenous.. i dont think they've actually killed anyone... Driven to suicide, yes.. killed the hopes & dreams.. yes..
The generation of highschoolers skipping college and going directly into IT has come and gone, and lets see where its left us.. I, for one, am unemployed. By the time these kids graduate high school, it seems 9 out of every 10 kids is going to be some kind of systems admin/analyst/etc. Howsabout we concentrate on improving teh quality of our education instead of the quantity? I mean, its not like the USA is exactly at the forefront of education..
There's a very good reason the Emergency Broadcast System was not used..
The Emergency Broadcast system is no longer used!
In 1994, EBS was replaced with EAS. EAS has some pretty big differences.
Stealing from the government's webpage:
Automatic Operation. The EAS digital system architecture allows broadcast stations, cable systems, participating satellite companies, and other services to send and receive emergency information quickly and automatically even if those facilities are unattended. Redundancy. The EAS requires monitoring of at least two independent sources for emergency information. This insures that emergency information is received and delivered to viewers and listeners. Less Intrusive. EAS tests are shorter and less obtrusive to viewers and listeners. Therefore, when people do hear or see the EAS messages, they will take them more seriously. Second Language. Do you or someone you know watch Spanish-language programming? EAS digital messages can be automatically converted into any language used by the broadcast station or cable system.
Still, i do ponder why the EAS wasn't activated. I mean, Shrubya is all up for that cold-war secret agent man underground shit. I hear he's having "The button" installed in all rooms of the white house, and wired directly into his libido, just in case any of his vital fluids become inpure...
[Disclaimer: Yes, i know there is no presidential button, unless our dear idiot president has had one installed.]
Slashdot requires sensationalism such as this to keep up it's reader base. I propose one of the following is true:
1) The editors are complete and total idiots.
2) The editors are actually brilliant businessmen who know how to tool their audience into a frenzy, keeping them addicted to the forum, where they return to the page every x minutes/hours to continue their bitching/arguments/debates/conversations/firstpost ing/trolling to their hearts content all the while racking up $$ in ad revenue.
1: Windows Bad. 2: Solaris Bad. Its a real UNIX. It's used in production environments. Its the most popular unix around. Worst of all: PEOPLE GET PAID TO ADMINISTER IT! (then get laid off.)
3: Linux Good! Its better than a real UNIX! It runs SLASHDOT!
[Disclaimer: I have nothing against Linux. It's its fan club i dislike.]
of course. I call it the religion of Stallmanism. Most religions need an icon of evil, something so unpure and unjust that it can do absolutely NO good, EVER. Microsoft is that icon for slashdot.:(
I believe most of microsofts "flukes" are looked at in the wrong light here.. the way i see it, their "innovation" as they call it, is just a way for them to make my job as a sysadmin (okay.. so i don't have a job right now. damned economy.) easier by integrating their products together in the best way possible - most of their products still have some backwards compatable functionality..
Unfortunately the chances of such a thing happening are about as slim as Slashdot having a pro-microsoft article, or a bill-gates tribute when/if he dies.
I'm going to assume you live up north. Regional attitudes towards youth vary. Here, in the south, right outside of nashville, the attitude that a yung'un should mind his elders even when his elders are morons still takes the helm.
Keep in mind that this *IS* the home of country music, you can count on seeing a rebel flag on one out of every 4 cars, and about half the population dropped out of highschool to pursue a lucrative job in fry cooking.
Laid off 3 times in 3 years. I feel pretty fucking raped, im angry, and while i don't think my IQ has suffered (I always type like this), i'm certainly a lot angrier, vengeful, and cynical than i was previously.
The first layoff was okay. It was a dot-com. The second layoff was seen coming from a mile away. Literally the 2nd day i was working there.
The third layoff was the straw. I was their best administrator, most certified individual and knew more about the systems than our "manager of unix systems", who was a technical manager - not a manager-manager. There were definately some political reasons behind it, and i know - for a fact - the manager was in on it, and was jealous that someone in their 20's knew more about the systems than someone in their 50's. Now that's rejection. I have more debt than most people in their 30's. And that one rejection will end up costing me more than i can calculate right now.
I'm in my lower 20's, and can definately say it's true you get treated like a kid. When i got hired on at my last job, they almost instantly promoted the least competent admin to senior admin. After that, he contunally referred to me as "kid" and treating me like i was his arrogant young teenage son.
I could care less if i got into their cliques. I just wanted to work. I'm in it for the $. Well, last month, they took that away from me, based on - guess what - my age. Since im in my lower 20's, i have less experience, even though i have the same amount of years working with computers (as in real world, not playing on my pc at home) as their senior administrator. I think the reason was they promoted him to a manager of unix systems, and he didn't like that i quite literally knew more about the systems than he (for god sakes, he didn't even know what SSH, NIS, or SUDO were.)
:( I wish i could afford $100.. Unemployment around here only gives out $275 a week, and my bills take up all of that.:(:(:(
I'm 4/7ths through my MCSE, and everyone i spoke to, including the hiring manager i count as a friend, says i need that cert to get in the door around here nowadays. Jeez, this sucks.
Keep in mind there are a few different versions of the PERC, some better than others.
Just a note on EMC.. When i've had the joy of working with a Symmetrix, EMC has always done a wonderful job of never having any downtime. They would come out at any hour of the day or night to replace a redundant card or a spare disk that wasn't even being utilized. They always evaluate any changes before they are made. I'm sure its possible for them to make a mistake, but for mass storage they're the ones i would choose.
I've never had any problems with the PERC (PowerEdge Raid Controller) in the Dells i (used) to use for Sendmail servers. That kind of limits your choices, though..
By 2010, I don't see this as a problem. Hell, the local power company is already doing this.. not for that cheap, and they're not exactly palms.. but we have 8 years to go.
Slashdot Mirror
The collective IQ has dropped significantly. About now, the 2nd generation of slashdotters are making their exodus to other news sites - or - worse - the real world. By leaving the collective and making the ratio of clue decreases, leaving the bottom-rung stallmanite slashdrones to pick up the slack, so to speak. in addition the average age is now lower.
Perhaps we should charter a report on slashdot groupthink. if i were in college i'd do it.
Alternately, i accept the idea that it is indeed brainded friday.
[Disclaimer - Due to the extraction of a wisdom tooth today and the subsequent mind-numbing hydrocodone, i do not claim responsibility for the content or readability of my above post. It makes sense as i type it. thats all that matters. =) ]
Where would that fit?
While this group seems quite rabid and ravenous.. i dont think they've actually killed anyone... Driven to suicide, yes.. killed the hopes & dreams.. yes..
hmm. i wonder.. does it follow a progression? First you have a cult.. For instance..
Linux, or Christianity.
Then you move up to moronic cult. For instance, Stallmanism, or Baptistism.
Then you move up to murderous moronic cult.. Like Stallman-Raymondism and Whatever this guy is
What comes next? Autodarwination, I hope..
The generation of highschoolers skipping college and going directly into IT has come and gone, and lets see where its left us.. I, for one, am unemployed. By the time these kids graduate high school, it seems 9 out of every 10 kids is going to be some kind of systems admin/analyst/etc. Howsabout we concentrate on improving teh quality of our education instead of the quantity? I mean, its not like the USA is exactly at the forefront of education..
whoever you are.. I love your work :)
-analogboy
Why not give it back? It lacks the adolecent drama of a good flame.
The Emergency Broadcast system is no longer used!
In 1994, EBS was replaced with EAS. EAS has some pretty big differences.
Stealing from the government's webpage:
Still, i do ponder why the EAS wasn't activated. I mean, Shrubya is all up for that cold-war secret agent man underground shit. I hear he's having "The button" installed in all rooms of the white house, and wired directly into his libido, just in case any of his vital fluids become inpure...
[Disclaimer: Yes, i know there is no presidential button, unless our dear idiot president has had one installed.]
This was in star trek: TOS! The return of the archons, i think...
Okay.. i'll submit to a beating and yells of "geek!" now.
Slashdot requires sensationalism such as this to keep up it's reader base. I propose one of the following is true:
t ing/trolling to their hearts content all the while racking up $$ in ad revenue.
1) The editors are complete and total idiots.
2) The editors are actually brilliant businessmen who know how to tool their audience into a frenzy, keeping them addicted to the forum, where they return to the page every x minutes/hours to continue their bitching/arguments/debates/conversations/firstpos
I'll let you be the judge.
1: Windows Bad.
2: Solaris Bad. Its a real UNIX. It's used in production environments. Its the most popular unix around. Worst of all: PEOPLE GET PAID TO ADMINISTER IT! (then get laid off.)
3: Linux Good! Its better than a real UNIX! It runs SLASHDOT!
[Disclaimer: I have nothing against Linux. It's its fan club i dislike.]
of course. I call it the religion of Stallmanism. Most religions need an icon of evil, something so unpure and unjust that it can do absolutely NO good, EVER. Microsoft is that icon for slashdot. :(
I believe most of microsofts "flukes" are looked at in the wrong light here.. the way i see it, their "innovation" as they call it, is just a way for them to make my job as a sysadmin (okay.. so i don't have a job right now. damned economy.) easier by integrating their products together in the best way possible - most of their products still have some backwards compatable functionality..
I still use kermit. kermit's cool. anything named after a muppet kicks ass.
No more mortgage! Woohoo!
Unfortunately the chances of such a thing happening are about as slim as Slashdot having a pro-microsoft article, or a bill-gates tribute when/if he dies.
ten bucks says he threatens to nuke it :)
I'm going to assume you live up north. Regional attitudes towards youth vary. Here, in the south, right outside of nashville, the attitude that a yung'un should mind his elders even when his elders are morons still takes the helm.
Keep in mind that this *IS* the home of country music, you can count on seeing a rebel flag on one out of every 4 cars, and about half the population dropped out of highschool to pursue a lucrative job in fry cooking.
You caught me. But it's not fair.. you're a doctor. :P And is picking at nit's healthy? I was always told if you don't leave it alone it won't heal.
I was using the webster's definition: 2. Pure, passionless; nonsexual; philosophical.
I haven't yet read the symposium (Finished apology phaedo, and crito, Fell asleep halfway through the republic)..
I can agree here.
Laid off 3 times in 3 years. I feel pretty fucking raped, im angry, and while i don't think my IQ has suffered (I always type like this), i'm certainly a lot angrier, vengeful, and cynical than i was previously.
The first layoff was okay. It was a dot-com. The second layoff was seen coming from a mile away. Literally the 2nd day i was working there.
The third layoff was the straw. I was their best administrator, most certified individual and knew more about the systems than our "manager of unix systems", who was a technical manager - not a manager-manager. There were definately some political reasons behind it, and i know - for a fact - the manager was in on it, and was jealous that someone in their 20's knew more about the systems than someone in their 50's. Now that's rejection. I have more debt than most people in their 30's. And that one rejection will end up costing me more than i can calculate right now.
I love you. in the platonic sense, of course.
Repeating wat they hear, and not looking into why or how is one of my biggest pet peeves.
*GASP!* You just didn't provide *FACTS AND FIGURES* did you? SINNER! Go sit in the corner.
Slashdot doesn't subsist on facts and figures. Wild speculation and fingerpointing is all you need here.
And might suggest starting to wear a four-leaf clover, or maybe hang a horseshoe above your door?
I'm in my lower 20's, and can definately say it's true you get treated like a kid. When i got hired on at my last job, they almost instantly promoted the least competent admin to senior admin. After that, he contunally referred to me as "kid" and treating me like i was his arrogant young teenage son.
I could care less if i got into their cliques. I just wanted to work. I'm in it for the $. Well, last month, they took that away from me, based on - guess what - my age. Since im in my lower 20's, i have less experience, even though i have the same amount of years working with computers (as in real world, not playing on my pc at home) as their senior administrator. I think the reason was they promoted him to a manager of unix systems, and he didn't like that i quite literally knew more about the systems than he (for god sakes, he didn't even know what SSH, NIS, or SUDO were.)
:( I wish i could afford $100.. Unemployment around here only gives out $275 a week, and my bills take up all of that. :( :( :(
I'm 4/7ths through my MCSE, and everyone i spoke to, including the hiring manager i count as a friend, says i need that cert to get in the door around here nowadays. Jeez, this sucks.
Keep in mind there are a few different versions of the PERC, some better than others.
Just a note on EMC.. When i've had the joy of working with a Symmetrix, EMC has always done a wonderful job of never having any downtime. They would come out at any hour of the day or night to replace a redundant card or a spare disk that wasn't even being utilized. They always evaluate any changes before they are made. I'm sure its possible for them to make a mistake, but for mass storage they're the ones i would choose.
I've never had any problems with the PERC (PowerEdge Raid Controller) in the Dells i (used) to use for Sendmail servers. That kind of limits your choices, though..
By 2010, I don't see this as a problem. Hell, the local power company is already doing this.. not for that cheap, and they're not exactly palms.. but we have 8 years to go.
I don't see why this will be a problem.
To each his own i guess. Though, IMHO, it's a bit tasteless. This culture views death a little too seriously for a tombstone to be a billboard.
If i *WERE* to be buried, i'd want to be put under in a photon torpedo tube. Is that geek, or what?
I'd want my vault to be a Sun E5500 rack.