You might wanna try out geekfinder.com. It's focused a lot on the userfriendly comic readership, but there are a lot of highly talented IS folks who submit thier info to geekfinder
Going to a 31337 h4x0r website and downloading a few scripts and tools doesn't make a student smart. I went thru a stage where I thought I was the man when I could do this stuff. Now I realize I knew nothing about what I was doing. Typing a report in Word was about as difficult as my 31337 hacking. Now, when I am a fairly competent admin on a large number of servers, I realize that while I know more than most, I still know jack.
Actually, major progress is being made recently in just this sort of thing. It's not a commercial solution, but Matt Carlson (of the wear-hard mailing list) created a pretty sweet hack of the M1 personal display into a covert glasses mount display. Several others on the wear-hard list have done similar things, and I will be soon as well, as soon as I can gather the 500 or so dollars I need to get a display to hack open
And finally, we are discovering universes
that are farther away and therefore younger than any we have previously discovered I REALLY hope you meant to say galaxies instead of universes. I am a physics major with a healthy lean towards computational cosmology, and I would really really hope that if we had discovered entire new universes, I would know about it. SDSS, however, has discovered quite a few new galaxies, so I will assume that is what you were referring to
Not a troll, I assure you, but rather an honest question.
I am against stereotypes of all kinds; stereotyping all kids as immature troublemakers is assinine.
This is no better than when I tell someone I grew up on a farm, and they immediadely characterize me as a bigoted slackjawed sister-fucking yokel.
It's an unfair stereotype, plain and simple, and I would think those of us who call ourselves the more educated members of society would want to fight such blatant steretypes.
The worst loophole I saw so far was when someone searches posts for mods a person they didnt like made, then metamods those posts. I saw some long decription about it once, but dont got a link handy. In theory if this is actually possible, a load of people could gang up one someone, mess with his moderation, and screw his karma VERY quick.
Assuming that IS true, and I doubt that they KNOW that it was a kid, maybe I could agree with you.
Nonetheless, I commonly see this assumption being made, whenever something gets h4x0r3d, its immediately 31337 skr1p7 kiddiez. Does anyone stop to think it might just be some lazy pissed off jackoff IT guy?
Step one: Destroy metamoderation, its horridly broken.
Step two: Have VA reach into their deep pockets and hire a few people who will FAIRLY patrol the mods and fix offenses, but only those that mod down. In other words, never take away someone having gotten modded up, but restore those who were unfairly modded down.
Step three: Allow those who got the +1 but dont wanna use it to turn it off permanantly - I post to start conversations, not to whore karma or get my name seen.
In case you hadn't noticed, a moderator actually modded me UP to make me look like a hypocrite. Underrated doesn't show on the main page, so it looks like I used my +1. Bravo.
looks like I can't even make a joke, one poking fun at MYSELF, without gettin modded down.
oh it is a sad day when passing ruffians can say "troll" at will to young posters. Why, even those who type and post insightfully are at considerably moderating stress at this period in history
So a childish mentality directly equates to a destructive nature? Children are inquisitive by nature, not destructive. Sure, that nature can sometimes cause them to commit bad deeds, but kids are not naturally malicious. If anything, its their parents and their environment that makes them that way. I have seen MANY more malicious adults than I will ever see in a group of children.
Being a child is a natural part of human life... theres nothing wrong or evil about it, so why do we use it as an insult to people for commiting acts that are more likely to come from the attitudes of bitter old men than children? I motion that from this day forth we call them script fogies. Heh.
Isn't anyone else bothered by how it is always assumed that it is a kid thats making these attacks? I used to be a kid once, and didn't appreciate everything being blamed on my generation. Be realistic, people, it takes EXPERIENCE to become a true asshole; kids are amateurs at best... the REAL jerks are the seasoned veterans
Forget the legal ramifications... using microsoft code in an Open Source and/or Free Software project would be like building your house out of straw when you get free bricks and know the Big Bad Wolf is on his way.
And here all this time i've been drooling over the microoptical glasses mount display, Why bother when I can have a chip implanted into my eyeball and just use the hardware to directly superimpose an image on my field of vision.
If you can't write a program that takes out NOSPAM, you aren't a real programmer.
And I suppose being able to do that makes you a real programmer? Wow and all this time here I thought I was just an average college level programmer who slapped together a few numerical computations and simulations for computational physics courses. Now, I see, 3ye 4m 4n 31337 h4x0r... excuse me while i r3w7 j00r b0x0rz!
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You might wanna try out geekfinder.com. It's focused a lot on the userfriendly comic readership, but there are a lot of highly talented IS folks who submit thier info to geekfinder
YHBT. (Stands for you have been trolled, in case you didn't know)
/. Michael, just a cheap imposter.
That's not really the
Going to a 31337 h4x0r website and downloading a few scripts and tools doesn't make a student smart. I went thru a stage where I thought I was the man when I could do this stuff. Now I realize I knew nothing about what I was doing. Typing a report in Word was about as difficult as my 31337 hacking. Now, when I am a fairly competent admin on a large number of servers, I realize that while I know more than most, I still know jack.
Actually, major progress is being made recently in just this sort of thing. It's not a commercial solution, but Matt Carlson (of the wear-hard mailing list) created a pretty sweet hack of the M1 personal display into a covert glasses mount display. Several others on the wear-hard list have done similar things, and I will be soon as well, as soon as I can gather the 500 or so dollars I need to get a display to hack open
And finally, we are discovering universes
that are farther away and therefore younger than any we have previously discovered
I REALLY hope you meant to say galaxies instead of universes. I am a physics major with a healthy lean towards computational cosmology, and I would really really hope that if we had discovered entire new universes, I would know about it. SDSS, however, has discovered quite a few new galaxies, so I will assume that is what you were referring to
Hegemon, I choose you!
Not a troll, I assure you, but rather an honest question.
I am against stereotypes of all kinds; stereotyping all kids as immature troublemakers is assinine.
This is no better than when I tell someone I grew up on a farm, and they immediadely characterize me as a bigoted slackjawed sister-fucking yokel.
It's an unfair stereotype, plain and simple, and I would think those of us who call ourselves the more educated members of society would want to fight such blatant steretypes.
Or maybe not.
The worst loophole I saw so far was when someone searches posts for mods a person they didnt like made, then metamods those posts. I saw some long decription about it once, but dont got a link handy. In theory if this is actually possible, a load of people could gang up one someone, mess with his moderation, and screw his karma VERY quick.
Assuming that IS true, and I doubt that they KNOW that it was a kid, maybe I could agree with you.
Nonetheless, I commonly see this assumption being made, whenever something gets h4x0r3d, its immediately 31337 skr1p7 kiddiez. Does anyone stop to think it might just be some lazy pissed off jackoff IT guy?
Step one: Destroy metamoderation, its horridly broken.
Step two: Have VA reach into their deep pockets and hire a few people who will FAIRLY patrol the mods and fix offenses, but only those that mod down. In other words, never take away someone having gotten modded up, but restore those who were unfairly modded down.
Step three: Allow those who got the +1 but dont wanna use it to turn it off permanantly - I post to start conversations, not to whore karma or get my name seen.
oh WOW THAT was clever. Even fooled me.
In case you hadn't noticed, a moderator actually modded me UP to make me look like a hypocrite. Underrated doesn't show on the main page, so it looks like I used my +1. Bravo.
and as I typed it, I forgot to click the box.
I would not complain if one were to mod the above -1, overrated.
I REALLY wish I could set it to default to NOT use the +1
NOW it's offtopic :)
:)
and there goes my karma
but thats ok, I will call myself a martyr.
Oh, how my life was ruined by the evil karma nazis.
I bet I'll get an NBC TV Movie.
'Course, I COULD use my +1 bonus to post this drivel, but I am being good
and so the vicious cycle continues. Why don't they like to be called kids?
I for one would give my left nut to be a kid again
(Score:0, Troll)
wow, harsh mods!
looks like I can't even make a joke, one poking fun at MYSELF, without gettin modded down.
oh it is a sad day when passing ruffians can say "troll" at will to young posters. Why, even those who type and post insightfully are at considerably moderating stress at this period in history
So a childish mentality directly equates to a destructive nature? Children are inquisitive by nature, not destructive. Sure, that nature can sometimes cause them to commit bad deeds, but kids are not naturally malicious. If anything, its their parents and their environment that makes them that way. I have seen MANY more malicious adults than I will ever see in a group of children.
Being a child is a natural part of human life... theres nothing wrong or evil about it, so why do we use it as an insult to people for commiting acts that are more likely to come from the attitudes of bitter old men than children? I motion that from this day forth we call them script fogies. Heh.
Phew! I was getting worried that I was inadvertanly becoming a troll or something. :)
Isn't anyone else bothered by how it is always assumed that it is a kid thats making these attacks? I used to be a kid once, and didn't appreciate everything being blamed on my generation. Be realistic, people, it takes EXPERIENCE to become a true asshole; kids are amateurs at best... the REAL jerks are the seasoned veterans
Forget the legal ramifications... using microsoft code in an Open Source and/or Free Software project would be like building your house out of straw when you get free bricks and know the Big Bad Wolf is on his way.
And here all this time i've been drooling over the microoptical glasses mount display, Why bother when I can have a chip implanted into my eyeball and just use the hardware to directly superimpose an image on my field of vision.
silly person, i wasnt trolling, i was being silly. There needs to be more sillyness in this world. Sillyness for all, I say!
If you can't write a program that takes out NOSPAM, you aren't a real programmer.
:)
And I suppose being able to do that makes you a real programmer? Wow and all this time here I thought I was just an average college level programmer who slapped together a few numerical computations and simulations for computational physics courses. Now, I see, 3ye 4m 4n 31337 h4x0r... excuse me while i r3w7 j00r b0x0rz!
heh
I have the weirdest feeling I've seen this article somewhere before...
and my summary of wile e.'s capabilities was accurate of course :)
lighten up, its humor. poor humor, quite possibly, but humor nonetheless. If ya dont like it, say its a lame-ass joke, ya son of a sillyperson
Ah, I guess my Jurassic Park references were a bit too subtle.
:)
Of course, one could argue that Wile E. Coyote is a cartoon and has hence never existed, so he is even less effective than the T-rex