Red Hat has just told a democratic people that live in constant fear of invasion by one of the most authoritarian and aggresive powers in the world to go fuck themselves--and it's all right because they don't belong to the U.N.?
Nixon did it because he was a shortsided coward. We thought China would make a great ally in the cold war. It didn't.
Exactly why should Taiwan be listed?
Because they are a free and democratic people. Look up a bit. Even Palestine is listed--and that is hardly free and democratic, not even a member of the U.N.
Insult my credentials. The first refuge of an incompetant, hide-bound, traditionalist. For your information, I wasn't the one who said the college is Club Med for the young. Rather, it was Mark Edmundson, Professor of English, from the University of Virginia. His essay is interesting and can be found here.
Maybe he considers himself a teacher at a 'party school,' I doubt it.
But really, I could hardly expect more of someone who went to college to learn how to monkey with computers rather than learn a real subject. Whenever I pick up one of the various journals on algorithmic complexity for a lark, it depresses me to see what passes for mathematics in the the field of computer science. In reality, the only reason computer science exists at all, is because corporations needed more people to run computers than were smart enough to pass the mathematics courses. Even the name suggests an inferiority complex. You have to tack on the science word at the end or nobody will believe you.
Raise your critical thinking skills. Teach you how to learn. Interact with experts. Help you grow.
That is repeated again and again without any evidence ever given to back it up. The degree farms that we call universities--and no I'm not talking about 'party schools'--don't do a great deal more for critical thinking skills than any other option that a young person can choose at that stage in life. And in many ways it does less. I've been challenged by many people in my life, whether they happen to be a professor, a employeer, a friend, or a lover.
You can teach a monkey C. It's a lot harder to teach people how to think, analyze, adapt, and overcome.
Which could explain why colleges are so terrible at it. In fact, they aren't even great at the former. Thinking, analyzing, and adapting are all things learned from living. The temporary refuges from the outside world that most colleges set up do more to hold back than push forward.
Tell me. When you want to hire someone. How do you judge their critical thinking skills? Do you just read the name in the section of the resume labelled Education?
You have to understand. College is Club Med for young people. You all are the customers. And what you all are buying can all be got for free at any good public library.
Colleges make up for this by providing all sorts of 'perks' that don't have anything to do with the service they are providing. Sports facillities, money for student associations and clubs, and a fat connection as well. They charge for these by tuition. It's a lump sum, so you can't opt-out of anything.
Since corporations are too badly mis-run to actually do real screening for ability in applicants, you need a bit of college. It's not such a bad place. Unfortunately, there are too many youngsters who are used to the authority of their parents and high school teachers. They don't understand the customer--business relationship. And college administrations take advantage of it.
So here's the solution. Like any badly run buearacracy, the college administration will fold, give in to your demands, and bend over for you, if you give them enough grief. Don't do anything that they can kick you out for, but give them a truck-load of pain through all the official channels possible. And if you run out of official channels, make some up. Don't give up until they give you a new car and a Phd as a settlement agreement.
If you are thinking of modding this funny--don't. It's all true.
I'm reasonably sure that he has just described a one time pad. For a second I wasn't sure what he meant, since that happens to be the only unbreakable crypto possible, but then I got it.
He didn't say 'incredibly weak.'
Rather, he said 'incredibly week.'
How can something be week (a calendar unit) rather than a week? While sometimes nouns are used as adverbs, extending the meaning. The most likely meaning for the adverb week, would be: having to do with a week, or weeks. And since our names for the week-days come from ancient gods, he was probably likening the one time pad to the unbeatable thunder god Thor.
Thor, of course, would be totally unbreakable.
For someone to see all this instantly--and then call it obvious--means that he is on a level of genius that our puny mathematical brains cannot possibly understand--nor should we try to.
(Mathematics is simply the art of finding equivalent statements. Psycho-analyze all the word problems and you're guareenteed at least D--so build from there.)
Automation is insanely simple, yes, but you try writing a script that will install something big without problems on all Linux platforms. You have the apt-get solution, which isn't a solution, because all you are really doing is limiting packages to old stuff. And you have the rpm solution which winds up being pretty complicated. If you have something better, there are quite a few distribution companies that would really like to hire you.
There is no way to save users from themselves. If a sizable part of the population need to use computers, there will always be a significant number of those who do stupid things from them. These problems will continue no matter how secure Windows becomes. These problems will occur on any software platform that is simple enough for the general population to use.
Actually, with a certain class of user, Windows' automatic updates make Windows more secure than Linux. Amoung windows users, that class is rather large. We may see less of the Code Red Viruses, but the Shoot Yourself in the Foot Viruses will continue.
Linux does have one advantage though. It is intensely hard to install programs for Linux. It is so complicated that it is very hard to automate. And as long as users have to install viruses by hand, and download the correct libraries to get them to run, you can be sure that Linux users won't have to worry much about a Linux virus spreading like wildfire across the net.
Considering the current tech job market, your best bet to find them would be under bridges and on top of benches. I've got a billion resumes right here for ya.
I'd have to disagree with the result. The bandwidth of the penis is given as 78 Mb/s. However, most of our genome is exactly the same for all human beings. So all that really has to be transmitted are the base pairs that differ. This is probably on the order of less than 1%. This means that a cable modem could probably transmit the same bandwidth as a penis using good compression software.
Quite true. As sure as my name is George W. Bush, President of the United States, I contantly worry that my 1337 hacking s7!11z will be be uncovered. Luckily I've got this encryption thingymigig on my laptop that protects my identity.
"Their technical support rep told me they were battling the latest Linux worm. It had infected some of their servers," wrote one UUNet customer, who asked not to be named.
Great, now everybody will be able to assemble malaria from scratch using internet mail-order DNA segments like was done with polio. Good going. Sequence some more deadly virus genomes while you're at it.
There is the danger of a man in the middle attack here. Quantum cryptography requires the private transmission of the secure data as well as the public transmission of your polarizer (or what not) settings. If the cracker can replace the public transmission with his own, then he can eavesdrop with impunity.
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Red Hat has just told a democratic people that live in constant fear of invasion by one of the most authoritarian and aggresive powers in the world to go fuck themselves--and it's all right because they don't belong to the U.N.?
Nixon did it because he was a shortsided coward. We thought China would make a great ally in the cold war. It didn't.
Exactly why should Taiwan be listed?
Because they are a free and democratic people. Look up a bit. Even Palestine is listed--and that is hardly free and democratic, not even a member of the U.N.
For those who browse without sigs
Redhat kowtows to China
And to the moderators--saying something bad about a Linux distributor doesn't automatically make a comment flamebait. Sometimes it's true.
Not surprised that they didn't comment on the newest UI change found in my sig.
Insult my credentials. The first refuge of an incompetant, hide-bound, traditionalist. For your information, I wasn't the one who said the college is Club Med for the young. Rather, it was Mark Edmundson, Professor of English, from the University of Virginia. His essay is interesting and can be found here. Maybe he considers himself a teacher at a 'party school,' I doubt it.
But really, I could hardly expect more of someone who went to college to learn how to monkey with computers rather than learn a real subject. Whenever I pick up one of the various journals on algorithmic complexity for a lark, it depresses me to see what passes for mathematics in the the field of computer science. In reality, the only reason computer science exists at all, is because corporations needed more people to run computers than were smart enough to pass the mathematics courses. Even the name suggests an inferiority complex. You have to tack on the science word at the end or nobody will believe you.
Raise your critical thinking skills. Teach you how to learn. Interact with experts. Help you grow.
That is repeated again and again without any evidence ever given to back it up. The degree farms that we call universities--and no I'm not talking about 'party schools'--don't do a great deal more for critical thinking skills than any other option that a young person can choose at that stage in life. And in many ways it does less. I've been challenged by many people in my life, whether they happen to be a professor, a employeer, a friend, or a lover.
You can teach a monkey C. It's a lot harder to teach people how to think, analyze, adapt, and overcome.
Which could explain why colleges are so terrible at it. In fact, they aren't even great at the former. Thinking, analyzing, and adapting are all things learned from living. The temporary refuges from the outside world that most colleges set up do more to hold back than push forward.
Tell me. When you want to hire someone. How do you judge their critical thinking skills? Do you just read the name in the section of the resume labelled Education?
You have to understand. College is Club Med for young people. You all are the customers. And what you all are buying can all be got for free at any good public library.
Colleges make up for this by providing all sorts of 'perks' that don't have anything to do with the service they are providing. Sports facillities, money for student associations and clubs, and a fat connection as well. They charge for these by tuition. It's a lump sum, so you can't opt-out of anything.
Since corporations are too badly mis-run to actually do real screening for ability in applicants, you need a bit of college. It's not such a bad place. Unfortunately, there are too many youngsters who are used to the authority of their parents and high school teachers. They don't understand the customer--business relationship. And college administrations take advantage of it.
So here's the solution. Like any badly run buearacracy, the college administration will fold, give in to your demands, and bend over for you, if you give them enough grief. Don't do anything that they can kick you out for, but give them a truck-load of pain through all the official channels possible. And if you run out of official channels, make some up. Don't give up until they give you a new car and a Phd as a settlement agreement.
If you are thinking of modding this funny--don't. It's all true.
I'm reasonably sure that he has just described a one time pad. For a second I wasn't sure what he meant, since that happens to be the only unbreakable crypto possible, but then I got it.
He didn't say 'incredibly weak.'
Rather, he said 'incredibly week.'
How can something be week (a calendar unit) rather than a week? While sometimes nouns are used as adverbs, extending the meaning. The most likely meaning for the adverb week, would be: having to do with a week, or weeks. And since our names for the week-days come from ancient gods, he was probably likening the one time pad to the unbeatable thunder god Thor.
Thor, of course, would be totally unbreakable.
For someone to see all this instantly--and then call it obvious--means that he is on a level of genius that our puny mathematical brains cannot possibly understand--nor should we try to.
(Mathematics is simply the art of finding equivalent statements. Psycho-analyze all the word problems and you're guareenteed at least D--so build from there.)
Do you know that the given MD5 was correct? If the got to the binary, what's to stop them from altering the MD5 given on the website.
Automation is insanely simple, yes, but you try writing a script that will install something big without problems on all Linux platforms. You have the apt-get solution, which isn't a solution, because all you are really doing is limiting packages to old stuff. And you have the rpm solution which winds up being pretty complicated. If you have something better, there are quite a few distribution companies that would really like to hire you.
There is no way to save users from themselves. If a sizable part of the population need to use computers, there will always be a significant number of those who do stupid things from them. These problems will continue no matter how secure Windows becomes. These problems will occur on any software platform that is simple enough for the general population to use.
Actually, with a certain class of user, Windows' automatic updates make Windows more secure than Linux. Amoung windows users, that class is rather large. We may see less of the Code Red Viruses, but the Shoot Yourself in the Foot Viruses will continue.
Linux does have one advantage though. It is intensely hard to install programs for Linux. It is so complicated that it is very hard to automate. And as long as users have to install viruses by hand, and download the correct libraries to get them to run, you can be sure that Linux users won't have to worry much about a Linux virus spreading like wildfire across the net.
Big names, big companies
Oh, has Microsoft bought a both again?
Probably refrences the discovery of Pluto.
Quaoar? I think you mean Planet X!
Considering the current tech job market, your best bet to find them would be under bridges and on top of benches. I've got a billion resumes right here for ya.
I'd have to disagree with the result. The bandwidth of the penis is given as 78 Mb/s. However, most of our genome is exactly the same for all human beings. So all that really has to be transmitted are the base pairs that differ. This is probably on the order of less than 1%. This means that a cable modem could probably transmit the same bandwidth as a penis using good compression software.
which uses the body's conductivity to transmit data at an amazing 10 megabits per second
Oh, god. Imagine the new possibilities for porn.
I thought you were exagerating until I clicked to www.nytimes.com, and found this article on the front page.
James Boyle's book Shamans, Software and Spleens : Law and the Construction of the Information Society looks like something that I will be getting a hold of. The article mentions a public domain book that I would like to take a look at as well. Anybody got the link?
Medieval Basket Weaving with a minor in Underwater Plumbing.
Quite true. As sure as my name is George W. Bush, President of the United States, I contantly worry that my 1337 hacking s7!11z will be be uncovered. Luckily I've got this encryption thingymigig on my laptop that protects my identity.
"Their technical support rep told me they were battling the latest Linux worm. It had infected some of their servers," wrote one UUNet customer, who asked not to be named.
According to Wired News, the problem is the new linux worm.
I was referring to polio as the virus, not malaria. I even wrote an article about P. falciparum once.
But that's beside the point, dumbass. I was making a joke. Get a clue.
Next time I'll include this: :)
now everybody will be able to assemble americans from scratch using internet mail-order DNA
Oh, god. I hope no one sequences the French.
Great, now everybody will be able to assemble malaria from scratch using internet mail-order DNA segments like was done with polio. Good going. Sequence some more deadly virus genomes while you're at it.
There is the danger of a man in the middle attack here. Quantum cryptography requires the private transmission of the secure data as well as the public transmission of your polarizer (or what not) settings. If the cracker can replace the public transmission with his own, then he can eavesdrop with impunity.