Sounds ok, BUT suppose now McDs, KFC and every other fscking chain under then sun gets in on the act? How much bandwidth is being shared by how many people then?
Frankly, he could have studied basket weaving in college and still learned enough to be a good programmer from on-the-job experience.
He could have studied anything (or not studied) and still acquired any skill through on-the-job experience given sufficient intelligence, talent and patience from an employer. What's your point?
Software engineering (large scale projects) is one of the most intellectually demanding activities out there, requiring understanding of complex virtual artifacts and huge amounts of discipline in the management of those artifacts. "Good programmers" are just not good enough for this.
We should be teaching "programming" as part of most degrees because many jobs require small amounts of programming. On the other hand, we need to recognise the difficulty of large scale software engineering and train people for that
task.
There is still a market for talented computer science people.
Have you ever worked on a large software project?
I'm strongly of the opinion that only a small percentage (less than 1%) of the population can effectively contribute to a large software project. There should be computer science degrees out there for such people.
Currently far too many (dumb) people are trained in computer science. They should be taught to "program" as part of some other degree.
I would have said that Google should be very
careful about searches involving other "search"
sites. Excluding all other search engines
would clearly be abuse of monopoly power.
Even without a contract.
I don't think that you could ever make a human invisible. Certainly not completely. Only transparent objects could possibly be made invisible by your process.
And that will only work with some forms of radiation.
I could imagine that you could construct something so that no photons escaped your body. Then you'd be unrecognisable but people would still know that you were there. A low-tech implementation is a stocking mask!
McDonalds,Burger King and numerous other "restuarant" chains are engaged in a secret conspiracy to breed a species of human which prefers tasteless, fatty junk food.
Clearly, these humans are destined for pig transplants in the next life!
But the difference between spam mail and web traffic is that the web server can exert considerable control over web traffic. The web server can easily block referrals from Slashdot (or generally keep track of floods of referrals from one source and block them).
It is much harder to reliably detect spam mail and you've already paid the badwidth costs by the time you receive it. Therefore, the spam mail problem is quite different.
It may be that a new form of DoS attack is found which has similarities, but for the time being, these two problems are completely different
Slashdot Mirror
Or don't you guys watch documentaries?
This is my boomstick!!!
The world is going to hell in a handbasket.
Are you think I'm not, 'cause you're stupid which just lends credence to my point. Post on!
I still think that my comment is more correct.
He could have studied anything (or not studied) and still acquired any skill through on-the-job experience given sufficient intelligence, talent and patience from an employer. What's your point?
Software engineering (large scale projects) is one of the most intellectually demanding activities out there, requiring understanding of complex virtual artifacts and huge amounts of discipline in the management of those artifacts. "Good programmers" are just not good enough for this.
We should be teaching "programming" as part of most degrees because many jobs require small amounts of programming. On the other hand, we need to recognise the difficulty of large scale software engineering and train people for that task.
Have you ever worked on a large software project?
I'm strongly of the opinion that only a small percentage (less than 1%) of the population can effectively contribute to a large software project. There should be computer science degrees out there for such people.
Currently far too many (dumb) people are trained in computer science. They should be taught to "program" as part of some other degree.
I'm not a hitness freak!
Doesn't seem hard to do at least a little correlation and show editors the top few matches. Would catch 90% of the dupes for 10% of the effort :-)
... let alone know what it means!
Adverse != averse
More GRRRR!
GRRRRRR!
Damn /.ed already
God I wish "people" could spell.
I would have said that Google should be very careful about searches involving other "search" sites. Excluding all other search engines would clearly be abuse of monopoly power. Even without a contract.
Then they are nice targets for terrorists. VB programmers plus terrorists, what a perfect combination.
Except that the metric system is clearly better (just ask NASA), whereas the name GNU/Linux is slightly worse than just plain old Linux.
And that will only work with some forms of radiation.
I could imagine that you could construct something so that no photons escaped your body. Then you'd be unrecognisable but people would still know that you were there. A low-tech implementation is a stocking mask!
Time for a few more editors here at /.
Clearly, these humans are destined for pig transplants in the next life!
WOD!
It is much harder to reliably detect spam mail and you've already paid the badwidth costs by the time you receive it. Therefore, the spam mail problem is quite different.
It may be that a new form of DoS attack is found which has similarities, but for the time being, these two problems are completely different