I work in the food service industry, particularly in the area which makes steak and pork. This device is nothing compared to some of the nightmare fuel machines that are in our plants. To give you guys a good idea, check out the Semi-automatic Neck Breaker (this is designed for poultry, not for cows or hogs, though). Just remember to thank the people who put the food on your table sometimes. And check out the rest of that site for more H. R. Geiger-borne instruments of fun.
Here in Colorado, USA, when my daughter was born four months ago, she was required by law to have a genetic screening test for phenylketenuria (PKU). This test involved blood being drawn from her heel and placed on a card. One test is done a day or two after birth, the other another two or three weeks later. Reading things like this makes me wonder if samples are used for other reasons in addition to determining PKU. I haven't heard if the cards were destroyed after the test results came back. Boy, it sure does start the X-Files part of the imagination going...
One problem about this concept is that you have to fully dedicate to the concept and not start off with a city or town that already has cars going through it. Case in point: Boulder, Colorado, USA.
Boulder is big into trying to dissuade people from driving cars and to use public transit or other means of getting around. People, bicycles, and other man-powered (or small engine-powered) vehicles have the right-of-way and will use and abuse this fact at any opportunity, walking in front of moving cars and riding against red lights. This causes nasty traffic jams, accidents, and generally pisses people off. The roads are quite cozy and not accomodating to any sort of car larger than a Honda Civic, like my pickup truck.
I would love to live in an auto-free town, riding my bike and using monorails or whatever transport the city provides. But trying to adapt existing cities to this mindset is asking for nothing but trouble.
While the adaptation of colors and revising the layout of the dollar bill is a nice deterrent, there is one thing that would be nice to see: dollar bills that the blind could use.
In Japan for years now, not only are the coins and dollar bills used in different colors (for easy glances to see how much money someone has), but they are of different sizes and shapes that make the coins recognizable by the blind. The 10,000 Yen bill is the longest, while the 1,000 is the shortest. Even the 5 Yen coin has a hole in it to separate it from the other coins (yes, this also goes back thousands of years to the Chinese "cash" coins).
Seeing as how all American bills are of the same size, I imagine that it must be slightly frustrating for a blind person to trust someone they don't know to be completely honest about money and take $5 instead of $50. Unfortunately, I can't see the Treasury Department putting some sort of Braille marker or other deliniating factor into future money production.
We had a computer club back in high school that met at lunch and more or less consisted of guys playing Marathon on the Macintosh computers in the programming class lab. The important thing, like a few others have said, is the focus and breadth of material. Will you focus on hardware and overclocking? How to build webpages? How to alter your grades? Will you have guest speakers?
The problem that I had found in high school was that there were three sets of "computer" courses-typing, programming, and a "computers for business" class that would give you a rundown of Office. There was no one class that would cover hardware, networking, Linux, or anything else that an adept geek would love to know. My recommendation is to try to form a club that will cover the things you wouldn't normally encounter in classes.
Big Blue has two main parts when you interview (at least, they did when I was a college hire four years ago). The first part is a test they call the IPAT (can't remember the acronym) and the second is the actual interviews. The IPAT is supposed to be a type of intelligence test to determine your analytical skills, broken down into three sections: pattern matching (a, b, a, b, what's next?), following instructions with a 5x5 matrix (i.e. switch the second and fourth columns-what entry will be in the second row, fourth column?), and math problems.
Being one of those kids growing up who received IQ tests all the time, I found the IPAT to be too formulaic. I thought that I had even found a question with two correct answers on the test. The question was:
What comes next? B, C, E, H, ?
K, L, M, N, O
I said that the answer could be either L or M. The answer would be L if the process involved skipping letters (0 skipped between B and C, 1 between C and E, etc.). But the answer could also be M if the series was a number-to-alpha conversion of the Fibonacci Series (2, 3, 5, etc.).
Turns out that this question wasn't on the test, but sending this info to the IPAT designer impressed someone and helped get me the job in the end.
In the article, it discusses two individuals who failed to change their default password on their voicemail, leaving them vulnerable to a scam where people would make collect calls to their voicemail (after someone gained access to it), where the message was replaced by someone saying, "yes, I'll accept the charges". AT&T agreed that the individuals did not make the calls, but insist that the individuals (or their companies) still pay about two-thirds of the bill.
Here's the real question-should the people be forced to pay the bill because they were too dumb to not understand the words, "change your default password immediately." I say that we have already made things in life enough idiot-proof and AT&T has every right to ask them for thousands of dollars. Call it a "Stupid Bill".
I was actually one of the reviewers of this edition of the book and my name is on page xxii (CP). I found that AEleen is one sharp person concerning Unix systems administration. While reviewing the book the other reviewers and I would find some slight errors here or there and she was more than happy to try to incorporate this knowledge, along with any other knowledge about new tools we have into the book.
I keep this book on my desk, not just because my name is in it and I got a free copy, but because it allows me to check a variety of commands across different operating systems easily. My expertise is AIX with Linux and HP/UX right behind, and when I have unfortunate occasions working with Solaris, I can easily find what I am looking for in this book. It won't go totally in-depth into niche products or commands like LPARs or MC/ServiceGuard, but it will put me on the right path. I only have eight books on my desk that serve as good references, and this is one that I find myself reaching for when I get in a jam.
And yes, I believe AEleen called this book "Essential System Administration" rather than "Essential Unix Administration" because no one performs "system administration" on a Windows server-a book for that topic would be known as "Essential System Rebooting".
Of course, they missed some of the best figures out there from the wave 69 series such as the "Leia-Porkin' Ewok", "Shaved Bush Chewie", and "AT-AT Crushed Dak". Snoogans.
Here's a question that is related in part to what this numbskull did: suppose you are a sysadmin responsible for some set of vital systems like this guy was. You are fired/terminated/leave the company. However, during the course of your stay, you never documented anything (and I'm not talking about deleting documentation because you were pissed off and left). Consequently, your employer is definitely set back trying to figure out what you had in place. What are the legal ramifications from this?
My take on it would simply be that your employer did not pay enough attention to your activities abd subsequently due to their mismanagement you would not be at fault. Comments?
Duronio's logic bomb, the government charged, deleted files and led to $3 million in costs for PaineWebber to assess and repair the damage.
It just sounds like to me the guy set up a nice little crontab entry that no one bothered to check that did a rm -rf/* on their systems. But, then again, the article did say...
Duronio, a computer systems administrator, resigned from PaineWebber on Feb. 22 after complaining about his salary and bonuses. The logic bomb he allegedly constructed from November 2001 until February of this year was activated on March 4, U.S. Attorney Christopher Christie said in a statement.
So this guy was clearly dumb, executing something like this only two weeks after he left. I could see how it would take him from November to February to figure out how to work cron.
While the peak moves faster than light speed, the total energy of the pulse does not. This means Einstein's relativity is preserved, so do not expect super-fast starships or time machines anytime soon.
and...
Signals also get weaker and more distorted the faster they go, so in theory no useful information can get transmitted at faster-than-light speeds, though Robertson hopes his students and others can now rigorously and cheaply test those ideas.
Well, if you had this hooked up to some sort of computer network, all it really looks like you'll be able to do is smurf someone at 4 billion km/h.
I mean, De Niro as a mathematician? It could take the title of "Analyze This" to a whole new level. But, I suppose if he was in the next Good Will Hunting, he could take Robin Williams' place. That way, instead of just pinning Matt Damon to the wall after talking ill about his dead wife, he'd go all mafioso and have Vinni bust some kneecaps. "That cool with you, chief?"
that has grabbed my attention is Dance Dance Karnov. This game has changed the way I think about fat, naked, Russian, ex-carnival persons in our society. For example, what is the impetus of having large sweaty men wear tassles on their nipples? How would the size of a mutant Godzilla-fish thing impact the stock market? This requires further analysis.
The difficulty with getting proper training is that what you want for training doesn't always equal what the company wants for training. You may know of someone from a seminar who will give the best presentation on the latest and greatest tool, but business needs dictate that you need training on a tool that is ten years old. I've run into this quite a few times, being sent for classes where I didn't care for the subject but had to go because the business needed it.
Throw in a mix of PHBs and you will soon realize why you're enrolled in that OS/2 starter class.
"The workers are sorting plastic by heating it with a cigarette lighter and sniffing the fumes..."
Ah, yes, the high-tech China of the future. I also hear they test power cables by licking them to see if they feel a current and checking CD-ROM drives to see if they spin by placing them against their groins and seeing if they vibrate too much.
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Shinji: Whine whine whine whine whine.
Asuka: Ego driven retort with subtle sexual undertones.
Shinji: Whine whine whine piss moan.
Rei: Creepy silence followed by one-word retort.
Shinji: Whine whine bitch piss whine bitch moan.
Gendo: Evil overlord smile.
Boulder is big into trying to dissuade people from driving cars and to use public transit or other means of getting around. People, bicycles, and other man-powered (or small engine-powered) vehicles have the right-of-way and will use and abuse this fact at any opportunity, walking in front of moving cars and riding against red lights. This causes nasty traffic jams, accidents, and generally pisses people off. The roads are quite cozy and not accomodating to any sort of car larger than a Honda Civic, like my pickup truck.
I would love to live in an auto-free town, riding my bike and using monorails or whatever transport the city provides. But trying to adapt existing cities to this mindset is asking for nothing but trouble.
In Japan for years now, not only are the coins and dollar bills used in different colors (for easy glances to see how much money someone has), but they are of different sizes and shapes that make the coins recognizable by the blind. The 10,000 Yen bill is the longest, while the 1,000 is the shortest. Even the 5 Yen coin has a hole in it to separate it from the other coins (yes, this also goes back thousands of years to the Chinese "cash" coins).
Seeing as how all American bills are of the same size, I imagine that it must be slightly frustrating for a blind person to trust someone they don't know to be completely honest about money and take $5 instead of $50. Unfortunately, I can't see the Treasury Department putting some sort of Braille marker or other deliniating factor into future money production.
Cathy: Today's competition is to knock a five year-old off a moveable staircase using no wheels and only gravity.
(Meanwhile, Silent Bob goes swinging by on a line thethered to the ceiling to knock the kid out.)
The problem that I had found in high school was that there were three sets of "computer" courses-typing, programming, and a "computers for business" class that would give you a rundown of Office. There was no one class that would cover hardware, networking, Linux, or anything else that an adept geek would love to know. My recommendation is to try to form a club that will cover the things you wouldn't normally encounter in classes.
And I don't mean "searching for pr0n".
Being one of those kids growing up who received IQ tests all the time, I found the IPAT to be too formulaic. I thought that I had even found a question with two correct answers on the test. The question was:
What comes next? B, C, E, H, ?
K, L, M, N, O
I said that the answer could be either L or M. The answer would be L if the process involved skipping letters (0 skipped between B and C, 1 between C and E, etc.). But the answer could also be M if the series was a number-to-alpha conversion of the Fibonacci Series (2, 3, 5, etc.).
Turns out that this question wasn't on the test, but sending this info to the IPAT designer impressed someone and helped get me the job in the end.
Here's the real question-should the people be forced to pay the bill because they were too dumb to not understand the words, "change your default password immediately." I say that we have already made things in life enough idiot-proof and AT&T has every right to ask them for thousands of dollars. Call it a "Stupid Bill".
I keep this book on my desk, not just because my name is in it and I got a free copy, but because it allows me to check a variety of commands across different operating systems easily. My expertise is AIX with Linux and HP/UX right behind, and when I have unfortunate occasions working with Solaris, I can easily find what I am looking for in this book. It won't go totally in-depth into niche products or commands like LPARs or MC/ServiceGuard, but it will put me on the right path. I only have eight books on my desk that serve as good references, and this is one that I find myself reaching for when I get in a jam.
And yes, I believe AEleen called this book "Essential System Administration" rather than "Essential Unix Administration" because no one performs "system administration" on a Windows server-a book for that topic would be known as "Essential System Rebooting".
VIOD THING (OMFG!!!1 LOLOLOLOOL!!!)
INIT HAX0R N00B!!!
WHIEL STFU DO
GOTO 10
DOEN
My take on it would simply be that your employer did not pay enough attention to your activities abd subsequently due to their mismanagement you would not be at fault. Comments?
It just sounds like to me the guy set up a nice little crontab entry that no one bothered to check that did a rm -rf /* on their systems. But, then again, the article did say...
Duronio, a computer systems administrator, resigned from PaineWebber on Feb. 22 after complaining about his salary and bonuses. The logic bomb he allegedly constructed from November 2001 until February of this year was activated on March 4, U.S. Attorney Christopher Christie said in a statement.
So this guy was clearly dumb, executing something like this only two weeks after he left. I could see how it would take him from November to February to figure out how to work cron.
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I wonder what why they had such a weird message?
Whilst fornicating in bed
Felt something new
Saying, "Melissa, is that you?"
And found Bill Gates naked, instead.
and...
Signals also get weaker and more distorted the faster they go, so in theory no useful information can get transmitted at faster-than-light speeds, though Robertson hopes his students and others can now rigorously and cheaply test those ideas.
Well, if you had this hooked up to some sort of computer network, all it really looks like you'll be able to do is smurf someone at 4 billion km/h.
Ah, yes, the high-tech China of the future. I also hear they test power cables by licking them to see if they feel a current and checking CD-ROM drives to see if they spin by placing them against their groins and seeing if they vibrate too much.