"Community College IT" ...there's your problem
on
Recruiting IT Students?
·
· Score: 1, Interesting
Sorry to be a troll, but I would not recommend IT at a community college to anyone. IT is an odd mix of morons and truly remarkable people. None of the good IT people I know ever went through the thought process of, "hmm...what should I do? IT!" It was their hobby until enough money was thrown at them to make them do it for a living...and, some years later, they sit back and think, "hmmm...I guess this has become my career." I could not envision any of them ever attending a community college--they would go crazy with boredom and probably leave IT then.
I don't think you can just "choose" IT the way you can choose to become a doctor or an electrician, because each of those have clear paths to joining the profession and a clear standard for what it means to be in the profession. It really has to choose you, or you will not succeed.
I finished my computer engineering degree in 2000 and took a programming/engineering job. One year ago, I quit and became a grad student at one of the big four.
When asked "so, what can you do?" a year ago, I would answer, "programing C/C++, UNIX/Win32 environments,..." It was a sad and painful realization that I was nothing more than a digital carpenter.
When asked in a year, "so, what can you do?" I will answer, "solve hard problems."
I question whether the typical slashdotter knows what a "hard" problem is, I'll tell you it's one that can't be solved by simply (although with great skill and time investment) digging further into documentation and sourcecode. Since the vast majority of programming jobs require no solving of hard problems, I can understand the confusion regarding what a CS degree is for. Perhaps the best way of becoming a programmer has more in common with becoming a plumber than becoming an electrical engineer.
There's nothing wrong with being a programmer, but that's not for me.
I started as a Stanford CS (AI concentration) grad student in the fall and found the following in the list of available courses:
CS294 DARPA Grand Challenge Goal is to develop an entry into the DARPA Grand Challenge to build a ground vehicle that can drive autonomously from Los Angeles to Las Vegas. $2 million aware to winner; success requires major advances in core problems in artificial intelligence including robotic perception and high-speed control. Focus is on team-based design, development, implementation, and evaluation of cutting-edge AI algorithms in the context of the Grand Challenge. [prereq] Classes in basic AI algorithms, system design and methodology. Limited enrollment.
3 units, Autumn (Prof. Thrun)
Being a first year student with no AI experience, this wasn't really an option for me, but it still got my attention and looked like fun! (and...probably...a hellovalotta work).
As someone who was there, he was not directly encouraging people to drop out. It was a huge "follow your heart" theme, which may include dropping out if you don't feel you're in the right place--living someone else's dream for you rather than living your own. He said that he didn't feel right spending his parents' life savings on an education when he still didn't know what he wanted to study. He emphasized that what he did was right for him, not implying it was right for others. I don't consider this nearly as controversial as the Slashdot blurb makes it sound.
CBG: Oh yeah, everyone's real happy then. Lyndsey Nagle: Do I detect a note of sarcasm? Frink: (With sarcasm detector) Are you kidding? This baby is off
the charts mm-hai. CBG: A sarcasm detector, that's a real useful invention. (Sarcasm detector explodes)
- A jack that accepts video signal from a computer for work or GAMING - Backward or otherwise mounted cameras at all times giving "rear view" (eyes in the back of your head!) appearing off to the side of the main image - Your personal HUD! News, stock ticker, email, personal alerts and reminders, responding to voice activated commands - Night vision or infrared - Television receiver with subtitles - Zooming lenses
Okay, none of that will be helpful with 4x4 res, but think of the possibilities for future use!
Then again, think of the pranks you could pull on someone by splicing it.
it's funny to see slashdotters arguing over the definition of the incorrect definition of the word.
Screenshot of hacked SCO Redhat Page (Suing MS)
on
SCO.com Defaced
·
· Score: 1
I didn't know about the defacement described in the article until today. Last night, someone sent me a link to http://www.sco.com/redhat/ which had been defaced as shown here:
The following text was placed there (as shown in the above screenshot)...
SCO vs World
Recently we found parts of our code in almost all Microsoft(R) software. We want to bring an action against Microsoft(R) and our legal department is working on that. Parts of code found in in all Microsoft(R) products from MS-DOS(TM) 2.1 to Microsoft(R) Windows(TM) Longhorn. Currently we are checking older MS-DOS sources. It's obvious, that all while (1){ do_something; } and for (i = 0; i 16; i++) loops came from our code.
i've long opposed roe v. wade, although i'm undecided on the issue of abortion itself. i accepted your opportunity to read the blackmun opinion, but after reading for a while realized that it is really, really long.
is there a particular part you would recommend?
i'll lay out my concern and, specifically, what i want to find in the opinion:
where does the constitution forbid a medical practice from being banned by the proper legislative process? i don't see anything in the constitution that would forbid elected officials from banning any medical practice for any reason (except perhaps circumcision because it may be considered an infringement on religion). for example, some states freely forbid marajuana for medical use.
i'm sure there's something or it would have been reversed long ago, but the vast majority of row v. wade supporters have no idea. to most of them, they want to keep abortion legal, therefore it's a good ruling. the same is true of the pro-life side--they don't like abortion, therefore roe v. wade is bad law in their minds.
i'm an outlier on the issue in that the topic of abortion itself is far less important to me than what i see to be a poor interpretation of the constitution--literally adding things that aren't there, because one wishes they were there. i sincerely hope i'm wrong, but nobody has presented me with facts. what i'm equally worried about is how few people are able to draw a distinction between the favorability of a law and the constitutionality of a law.
From that page: H.R.4754 Title: Making appropriations for the Departments of Commerce, Justice, and State, the Judiciary, and related agencies for the fiscal year ending September 30, 2005, and for other purposes. Sponsor: Rep Wolf, Frank R. [VA-10] (introduced 7/1/2004) Cosponsors (None) ... Latest Major Action: 7/8/2004 Passed/agreed to in House. Status: On passage Passed by the Yeas and Nays: 397 - 18 (Roll no. 346). ... 7/8/2004 1:47pm:
H.AMDT.654 Amendment (A023) offered by Mr. Otter. (consideration: CR H5358-5360; text: CR H5358-5359)
An amendment numbered 4 printed in the Congressional Record to limit "sneak and peek" search warrants by narrowing the circumstances under which notice of the execution of the warrant is delayed to circumstances where the court finds reasonable cause to believe that providing immediate notification of the warrant "will endanger the life or physical safety of an individual, result in flight from prosecution, or result in the destruction fo or tampering with the evidence sought under the warrant.". 7/8/2004 1:54pm:
H.AMDT.654 By unanimous consent, the Otter amendment was withdrawn.
No other occurances of "Otter" occur on that page. This ammendement does look related to the Patiot act, but it does not relate to monitoring reading habbits and it was withdrawn by unanimous consent 7 minutes after being proposed. No ammendments (accepted or rejected) to the bill had cosponsors.
I'm not an expert. Can someone explain this to me? All I was really trying to do is figure out who voted for and against it and I couldn't even find evidence of the vote at all.
Sorry I can't remember the exact quote, but I think this is close:
[Al Bundy]: A man can have dreams...like that a spaceship will land in the back yard and a woman with three hooters will come out [someone else]: Three? [Al Bundy]: Yeah, one in the back for slow dancing
The mp3 thing was annoying, but I updated to the yum.conf file suggested in the article and it still can't find galeon or any kind of gnutella (ran "yum info \*utella\*" and nothing returned).
These are hardly exotic packages. Why wouldn't they be included? I'll just get rpm's myself, but I would have expected FC2 to have at least galeon.
Join the dots with a line. There are only four rules:
1. Only straight lines are to be used (no curves, bends or corners) 2. These straight lines must start and end at a dot 3. You may only go through a dot one time 4. You may NOT intersect lines 5. You may NOT lift the pen from the paper during the process of solving the puzzle once you have laid it on the paper
Are you ready?
"I see five rules" "I'm sorry, but there are actually only four rules" [ZOT!] "AAAGGGGHHHHHHHH!!!!!"
now this is interesting. he wants linux today to censor the material it displays and has called on slashdotters to boycott it in order to pressure them into this censorship. is there something i'm missing?
/* i once heard someone say that ** we only use 10% of our brains ** because the rest is programming ** comments. ** ** he may have been on to something.*/
With all the confusion about whether or not a particular year is "The Year of the Penguin," I thought I'd volunteer a simple method you can apply to decide for yourself.
If it is January through May: this year If it is June through December: next year
Try it for yourself and you too may become an industry expert and visionary.
[warning: this post contains high degrees of sarcasm and may not be suitable for all readers]
what about the guy who had a website giving names, photos, and addresses of abortion doctors? should he have been forced to shut it down? some of those doctors turned up dead if i remember correctly. obviously, the killer should be prosecuted, but should the website be allowed to continue? i'm not sure what my opinion is on the subject, but i'm giving the question for your thoughts and a general consistancy check.
Re:Find people with longer circadian cycles
on
Living on Mars Time
·
· Score: 1
if i lived on mars time, could i impress women by telling them i have a long circadian cycle?
Slashdot Mirror
Sorry to be a troll, but I would not recommend IT at a community college to anyone. IT is an odd mix of morons and truly remarkable people. None of the good IT people I know ever went through the thought process of, "hmm...what should I do? IT!" It was their hobby until enough money was thrown at them to make them do it for a living...and, some years later, they sit back and think, "hmmm...I guess this has become my career." I could not envision any of them ever attending a community college--they would go crazy with boredom and probably leave IT then.
I don't think you can just "choose" IT the way you can choose to become a doctor or an electrician, because each of those have clear paths to joining the profession and a clear standard for what it means to be in the profession. It really has to choose you, or you will not succeed.
I finished my computer engineering degree in 2000 and took a programming/engineering job. One year ago, I quit and became a grad student at one of the big four.
..." It was a sad and painful realization that I was nothing more than a digital carpenter.
When asked "so, what can you do?" a year ago, I would answer, "programing C/C++, UNIX/Win32 environments,
When asked in a year, "so, what can you do?" I will answer, "solve hard problems."
I question whether the typical slashdotter knows what a "hard" problem is, I'll tell you it's one that can't be solved by simply (although with great skill and time investment) digging further into documentation and sourcecode. Since the vast majority of programming jobs require no solving of hard problems, I can understand the confusion regarding what a CS degree is for. Perhaps the best way of becoming a programmer has more in common with becoming a plumber than becoming an electrical engineer.
There's nothing wrong with being a programmer, but that's not for me.
I started as a Stanford CS (AI concentration) grad student in the fall and found the following in the list of available courses:
CS294 DARPA Grand Challenge
Goal is to develop an entry into the DARPA Grand Challenge to build a ground vehicle that can drive autonomously from Los Angeles to Las Vegas. $2 million aware to winner; success requires major advances in core problems in artificial intelligence including robotic perception and high-speed control. Focus is on team-based design, development, implementation, and evaluation of cutting-edge AI algorithms in the context of the Grand Challenge. [prereq] Classes in basic AI algorithms, system design and methodology. Limited enrollment.
3 units, Autumn (Prof. Thrun)
Being a first year student with no AI experience, this wasn't really an option for me, but it still got my attention and looked like fun! (and...probably...a hellovalotta work).
"Yes...that"
As someone who was there, he was not directly encouraging people to drop out. It was a huge "follow your heart" theme, which may include dropping out if you don't feel you're in the right place--living someone else's dream for you rather than living your own. He said that he didn't feel right spending his parents' life savings on an education when he still didn't know what he wanted to study. He emphasized that what he did was right for him, not implying it was right for others. I don't consider this nearly as controversial as the Slashdot blurb makes it sound.
CBG: Oh yeah, everyone's real happy then.
Lyndsey Nagle: Do I detect a note of sarcasm?
Frink: (With sarcasm detector) Are you kidding? This baby is off
the charts mm-hai.
CBG: A sarcasm detector, that's a real useful invention.
(Sarcasm detector explodes)
How about:
- A jack that accepts video signal from a computer for work or GAMING
- Backward or otherwise mounted cameras at all times giving "rear view" (eyes in the back of your head!) appearing off to the side of the main image
- Your personal HUD! News, stock ticker, email, personal alerts and reminders, responding to voice activated commands
- Night vision or infrared
- Television receiver with subtitles
- Zooming lenses
Okay, none of that will be helpful with 4x4 res, but think of the possibilities for future use!
Then again, think of the pranks you could pull on someone by splicing it.
actually...this time...it was hacking!
it's funny to see slashdotters arguing over the definition of the incorrect definition of the word.
I didn't know about the defacement described in the article until today. Last night, someone sent me a link to http://www.sco.com/redhat/ which had been defaced as shown here:
j pg
http://www.leonine.com/~dwoods/sco_vs_world_hack.
The following text was placed there (as shown in the above screenshot)...
SCO vs World
Recently we found parts of our code in almost all Microsoft(R) software. We want to bring an action against Microsoft(R) and our legal department is working on that. Parts of code found in in all Microsoft(R) products from MS-DOS(TM) 2.1 to Microsoft(R) Windows(TM) Longhorn. Currently we are checking older MS-DOS sources. It's obvious, that all while (1){ do_something; } and for (i = 0; i 16; i++) loops came from our code.
i've long opposed roe v. wade, although i'm undecided on the issue of abortion itself. i accepted your opportunity to read the blackmun opinion, but after reading for a while realized that it is really, really long.
is there a particular part you would recommend?
i'll lay out my concern and, specifically, what i want to find in the opinion:
where does the constitution forbid a medical practice from being banned by the proper legislative process? i don't see anything in the constitution that would forbid elected officials from banning any medical practice for any reason (except perhaps circumcision because it may be considered an infringement on religion). for example, some states freely forbid marajuana for medical use.
i'm sure there's something or it would have been reversed long ago, but the vast majority of row v. wade supporters have no idea. to most of them, they want to keep abortion legal, therefore it's a good ruling. the same is true of the pro-life side--they don't like abortion, therefore roe v. wade is bad law in their minds.
i'm an outlier on the issue in that the topic of abortion itself is far less important to me than what i see to be a poor interpretation of the constitution--literally adding things that aren't there, because one wishes they were there. i sincerely hope i'm wrong, but nobody has presented me with facts. what i'm equally worried about is how few people are able to draw a distinction between the favorability of a law and the constitutionality of a law.
Okay, I found it!
The bill was sponsored by Rep Bernard Sanders, Bernard [VT] and I see no reference to a Rep Otter.
Ammendment information is here
Vote results are here
Maybe someone can tell me what I'm missing here...
...
...
...
...
From the article:
[the "effort"] lost by 210-210
Rep. C.L. Butch Otter, R-Idaho, a sponsor of the defeated provision
The bill is H.R. 4754
Well, I looked up HR4754
From that page:
H.R.4754
Title: Making appropriations for the Departments of Commerce, Justice, and State, the Judiciary, and related agencies for the fiscal year ending September 30, 2005, and for other purposes.
Sponsor: Rep Wolf, Frank R. [VA-10] (introduced 7/1/2004) Cosponsors (None)
Latest Major Action: 7/8/2004 Passed/agreed to in House. Status: On passage Passed by the Yeas and Nays: 397 - 18 (Roll no. 346).
7/8/2004 1:47pm:
H.AMDT.654 Amendment (A023) offered by Mr. Otter. (consideration: CR H5358-5360; text: CR H5358-5359)
An amendment numbered 4 printed in the Congressional Record to limit "sneak and peek" search warrants by narrowing the circumstances under which notice of the execution of the warrant is delayed to circumstances where the court finds reasonable cause to believe that providing immediate notification of the warrant "will endanger the life or physical safety of an individual, result in flight from prosecution, or result in the destruction fo or tampering with the evidence sought under the warrant.".
7/8/2004 1:54pm:
H.AMDT.654 By unanimous consent, the Otter amendment was withdrawn.
No other occurances of "Otter" occur on that page. This ammendement does look related to the Patiot act, but it does not relate to monitoring reading habbits and it was withdrawn by unanimous consent 7 minutes after being proposed. No ammendments (accepted or rejected) to the bill had cosponsors.
I'm not an expert. Can someone explain this to me? All I was really trying to do is figure out who voted for and against it and I couldn't even find evidence of the vote at all.
Maybe now there really will be websites that can En1argE Y0 Ur PeN1$
Sorry I can't remember the exact quote, but I think this is close:
[Al Bundy]: A man can have dreams...like that a spaceship will land in the back yard and a woman with three hooters will come out
[someone else]: Three?
[Al Bundy]: Yeah, one in the back for slow dancing
The mp3 thing was annoying, but I updated to the yum.conf file suggested in the article and it still can't find galeon or any kind of gnutella (ran "yum info \*utella\*" and nothing returned).
These are hardly exotic packages. Why wouldn't they be included? I'll just get rpm's myself, but I would have expected FC2 to have at least galeon.
Join the dots with a line. There are only four rules:
1. Only straight lines are to be used (no curves, bends or corners)
2. These straight lines must start and end at a dot
3. You may only go through a dot one time
4. You may NOT intersect lines
5. You may NOT lift the pen from the paper during the process of solving the puzzle once you have laid it on the paper
Are you ready?
"I see five rules"
"I'm sorry, but there are actually only four rules"
[ZOT!]
"AAAGGGGHHHHHHHH!!!!!"
now this is interesting. he wants linux today to censor the material it displays and has called on slashdotters to boycott it in order to pressure them into this censorship. is there something i'm missing?
the triple bypass is also cursed. ...sorry it had to come to that.
most geeks play strip uno all the time. it's strip duo that's a little more rare for them.
provided new evidence supporting the existence of dark energy, the force
I think Lucas may have a case here...at least to try
submitted by starannihilator
Okay, now you're just ASKING for it!
#include <stdio.h>
#include <stdlib.h>
#include <biolib.h>
#include <bio/protein.h>
#include <bio/dnalib.h>
#include <bio/rnalib.h>
/* i once heard someone say that
** we only use 10% of our brains
** because the rest is programming
** comments.
**
** he may have been on to something.*/
With all the confusion about whether or not a particular year is "The Year of the Penguin," I thought I'd volunteer a simple method you can apply to decide for yourself.
If it is January through May: this year
If it is June through December: next year
Try it for yourself and you too may become an industry expert and visionary.
[warning: this post contains high degrees of sarcasm and may not be suitable for all readers]
"Hai. Hai. Hai. Bye. ...Hi"
what about the guy who had a website giving names, photos, and addresses of abortion doctors? should he have been forced to shut it down? some of those doctors turned up dead if i remember correctly. obviously, the killer should be prosecuted, but should the website be allowed to continue? i'm not sure what my opinion is on the subject, but i'm giving the question for your thoughts and a general consistancy check.
if i lived on mars time, could i impress women by telling them i have a long circadian cycle?