It's not like I agree with this, if indeed things happened as the article state... but a quick google on FooNet (AKA / DBA CIT ) turns up some VERY interesting results.
I claim to know nothing about SPEWS and how they go about adding to the blacklists, but they apparently are no stranger to it.
Furthermore, it seems that this IS NOT the first run-in with the FBI that FooNet/CIT has had: from here, if you scroll down a bit, you'll see the following text: The FBI executed a search warrant issued by the United States District Court for the Southern District of Ohio regarding the IRC network that we host
# We regret to inform you that on Saturday February 14, 2004 at approximately 8:35 am EST, FOONET/CIT's data center in Columbus, Ohio temporarily ceased operations. And this was from Feb. 14...
Another incident was reported out here on 07/12/03 (search the page for "foonet")... seems that 84898 spams swamped a box, and follow-up by FooNet sucked - e.g. they turned a blind eye.
There are far too many hits to return... if you're interested in more, you can always head here. For now, I'll close with this: I do not agree with the methods used, if they were as described... however, FooNet/CIT is no stranger to the FBI, and perhaps this is all rolled in to the Feb. 14th notice... maybe the FBI actually gave them 10 days to comply... I'd really like to see how this ends.
I have "no microsoft" in my domain name. I'm not gonna say which (as it will cause the attached server to fall over) - it's got a simple html-only notice up, so it's not even worth seeing.:)
Anyway, I believe that I'm covered under the "sucks" domain rulings. e.g. it's an expression of an opinion, not libel, and hence fine.
Excellent, Todd. That's EXACTLY where you hit this... and that's where I've chosen to hit this article. I started posting with just 3 comments! Guess I took too long with my example.;)
These are rats exposed to 60Hz AC EMF at 0.1 to 0.5mT for two hours (continuous). Also studied were rats exposed to 60Hz AC EMF at 0.1mT for 24 hours (continuous).
So I suppose, as an analog....
Go lie down in an MRI for a couple days straight. If you don't go deaf from the noise (they're loud), then you might see similar results. Oh, and don't wear deodorant... it contains aluminium which will cause it to be dragged through your arm... ouch.
Not that I'm saying there may well be something in this... but how many of us even use the shaver/hairdryer for 2 continuous hours in a sitting? It may well be (and is likely) that the effects are not cumulative, but are actually acute trauma scenarios. For instance, you can assert that dropping a grain of dust on your foot 5 times a day for 10 years would make for the same mass as, say, dropping a car on said foot. However, the problem then comes in saying, "therefore, the two are analogous - we will see the same damage from the dust as we would with the car".
Good point; GIAC/SANS serve as a good jumping-off point, and are a respected and reasonable cert/training program and information source, respectively.
If someone decided to get serious and release a worm with a (dare I say) "terrorist" payload. They could, literaly bring my comapny to its knees in a matter of seconds. Anyway, one of these days we are going to get hit with a "real" worm with the intent to do severe damage to corporate infrastructure. The long-lasting impact will be far beyond just the initial damage. How do we prepare?
We prepare via cybersquads and training of anti-terrorist folks via Information Assurance degrees. I remember seeing IA offered at 6 centers of excellence via a Slashdot story about 18 months ago (I think). And now, I'm at one of these centers (Iowa State University), doing a Master's in Information Assurance. I think that it is VITAL that we start to take a good, solid, strong look at computer/network security, as reports from a couple years back indicated that everyone else has cybersquads of terrorists ready to go. Me, I think that this will be our next battlefield. Seriously. Especially for countries that want to comply with Rules of Engagement; imagine - you nuke their computer systems, bring infrastructure to its knees, get civilians to clear out... and that is when you go in and route out the head honcho. On the other side of the coin, it would give a definite battlefield advantage to either feed your enemy misinformation or to allow no information to get through their comm networks.
But... we (the US) do have mechanisms in place now for this... and since the market sucks so bad, it's only a matter of time before the majority of us are wooed by some good offers by Uncle Sam (to say nothing of the Cybercorps scholarships - which I didn't take because of the time limit imposed; I'm also in a PhD program here).
is DON'T. Here are a few reasons why you really ought NOT to get a tech degree / persue a tech career: * As an MD, your next-door neighbors don't really expect you to "just pop over and check out Bob's heart a bit... just for 10 minutes". As a tech, you're expected to save your neighbors from themselves continuously. * As an MD, your time is respected (see above). * As an MD, you're employable. * As an MD, it pretty much stands that you're in a respectable profession with reasonable people. The same assumptions will not neccessarily be made in tech. * As an MD, if the patient dies, people are typically understanding. As a tech, if you can't revive someone's 80086 to run Windows XP PRO, then YOU SUCK. * As an MD, you'll see the field saturated with Indian and Pakistani folks. As a tech, you'll see the field cornered with Indian and Pakastani folks(1). * As a HOBBY, computers are great and are quite rewarding... as a CAREER path in this day and age, though... you really don't need the hassle. You served your "8-years-of-hell" already going through med school; no need to repeat it with a career. * If you're looking for some Mad Money / Retirement Money, look elsewhere. I personally ended up coming back to school for advanced degrees rather than go work in Texas for $28,000/year as a professional. * Respect, respect, respect. MD == "professional". Engineer/IT Person == "professional" also... but it's not seen that way these days.
G'luck. I personally wish that I'd have done what you did (med school and kept computing as a HOBBY) rather than the other way around.:( Sure, I have Gray's Anatomy, have done dissection, and know what bursae are... but guess what? That doesn't get me a damn dime.
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(1) I have nothing against either; I worked for/with Pakastanis in a mom-and-pop shop in the mid-90s... it was crazy.
That your university does NOT offer master's or PhD degrees.
How can I be so certain? Well, you need to (surprise!) re-use a lot of your earlier work ("self-plagarism")in your advanced degrees. You lay the foundation in the BS, extend it in the MS, and then develop a new twist in the PhD.
1) You'll donate those "not so great" systems to me, right? I mean, I'm running Not-So-Great Previous-Generation back here, after all.
2) What about CoreWars? It'd be great, especially if some of you are coders.
HUDs are a nice thing... but I think this will lead to bad stuff happening.
For example, there has been research done on HUD units that build the "highway in the sky" display for commercial pilots. These guys (commercial pilots, remember) were thrown into a simulator, told to land the plane, and did so.
Well... actually most of them did so. There were a few who actually saw the smaller plane pull out onto the runway right in front of them and promptly pulled up into a pattern for another go-round... the rest of the guys missed seeing the smaller plane pull out onto the runway... right in front of them.
Needless to say, there were a lot of people really shaken up that day, and 2 pilots reported that they shouldn't be flying at all, after seeing that.
The point of it is this: HUDs are nice and all, but they cause cognitive tunneling, which is awful - especially in people not trained for it. I meant to find the NASA Ames article, but I can't recall it off the top of my head. Rather, I direct you to C.D. Wickens & J. Lang, "Object Versus Space-Based Models of Visual Attention: Implications for the Design of Head-Up Displays," Journal of Experimental Psychology: Applied, 1 (1995), pp 179-193 for some background information.
But what I've always wanted was legos that could be remote controlled.
Aha, but you can. At least, you can if you are willing to build a bit. As part of my CSE X86 series at my undergrad hell-hole, we had to merge forces with all engineering disciplines and build lego robots, controlled through the parallel port. It's actually not as difficult as you would think, and the pinouts are quite freely available. Of course, you'll need a language with low-level hardware access, and an OS without an abstraction layer that will thwart your code.
Besides that, the rest is reasonably simple - you build the control box, hook the sucker up to your lego creation via an umbilical cord of wires, and viola - you're running via a wire.
Now, running R/C would be even easier. However, most standard servos that I know of (e.g. Futaba, JR, Hi-Tec) from flying R/C planes aren't likely to be what you're looking for. Rather, you can get high-performance servos for some extra dough, but hey, if it's what you want to do, then go for it.:)
My personal recommendation on a radio? The Futaba 4-channel digital radio (model number escapes me right now). It's awesome, and you can do flaperons / etc with it, so if you ever want to do R/C flying with fixed-wing craft, you'll be in good shape.
Hope this helps a bit -
That this is not in the spirit of modding. For instance, when he says, "look for it on ebay soon!", it sucks all the joy out of it for me. I thought that we, as a Geek Collective, made mods to overcome limitations imposed on our tastes. Instead, this seems to just be a mod to sell for profit.
Oh no, even though the 90s are done and finished, CEOs are still doing the whole "golden parachute" thing.
Granted, there are less investors to play the rape, pillage, and burn game with, but even with this in mind, you can rest assured that they (execs) have an entirely different experience than that of their workers.
>:-[
Remember, MS has more than Windows in its arsenal. I hate the OS, and all my server-side / data-stores use EnGarde Secure Linux, from Guardian Digital (the CEO is a sharp guy who is - get this - an ENGINEER! Running a company in this day and age of accountants! It's great). Anyway - the ONLY thing that keeps one of my computers bound up to MS (well, two, actually) are their:
* Office suite - Sorry, but OpenOffice still isn't [i]quite[/i] there; respectfully, I still think that MS has the edge there - though with Activation crap in Office 2003, I'll likely keep using Office 2k/XP and then make the next move to OpenOffice when they get a bit more interoperable (with regard to formats coming out the SAME on every machine... a bit like the old TeX idea - write once, publish anywhere)...
* Adobe PageMaker - In my university, we're editing the AOM (Academy of Management) journal for a 3-year stretch, and I'm the go-to guy for layout, etc. I work with the actual editor and he made the call to go with PM... it wasn't my call, but he said that the layout folks use PM so we could get it to press faster. PM isn't, say, as robust as Quark (from what I hear)... but hey, it's reasonably good at what it does. And (from what I know) there is no *nix port available.
So, for me, it's NOT about the OS at all - it's about the ancilaries, the applications and packages that can run on WinTel boxes and not *nix. And, don't get me wrong, I *HATE* the fact that I'm being held back by these 2 packages... but we have to realize that it's not technological prowess that's keeping MS afloat - it's solid market share. Incidentally, I happen to badly want to run OSX... but seeing as how it's a $3500 operating system, for all practical purposes, it's out of my league right now.:(
BTW: I'm a *nix freak but I don't believe in converting the heathens FOR WHOM THEIR OS DOES EVERYTHING THEY WANT/NEED/REQUIRE. It is, to me, about freedom of choice. And when you hold a gun to someone's head, it doesn't matter if the logo on it is a goofy 4-paned fluttering window or a cute penguin... or a cute devil - the result is the same. I understand that I'm going to get MegaFlamed for this, but it is what I believe: I love my *nix boxes, and they sure do have their place with my important data stores and web/db/ftp access... and I run them headless for the most part - but they're not for everyone.
But I still hope to hell that a ton of MS users jump ship looking for a more secure operating system - or at least one made by a company that takes security seriously.
That's AWESOME. I broke my tailbone a couple of years ago and had a week's worth of bed-time. Should have been more, though.:(
But... that having been said, I'd imagine that you over-engineered the hell out of it, right? Because... the only thing worse than back problems... is back problems WITH a broken nose from the desk falling on you.
**AA TARPIT.
Seriously.
I use tarpits to slow down email harvesting bots that refuse to comply with the normal "rules" of my site... why can't we use **AA tarpits to slow down these guys and make them burn their time and energy on a worthless cause? Granted, FINDING which connections are coming from **AA is the whole trick here.:(
The other class of felony, which nobody seems to be talking about, carries up to a 5 year prison term, and comes into play if you bring a camcorder (or other "audiovisual recording device") into a movie theater. So if a theater owner or usher catches you with a camcorder in a movie theater, and you're recording the movie you're watching, you would be in violation of this law. This is a form of piracy that has been around for a long time, but with the advent of digital camcorders and software that makes it easy to make DVDs or DiVX files out of digital video, it's a lot easier to distribute movies pirated this way.
WAIT A SECOND... what if you're a cyborg, like Steve Mann... what if you cannot easily turn off your AV glasses with video overlay without becoming sick, dizzy, and disoriented? Rediculous of me to bring up? Perhaps, but just think a few years down the road when wearables are near-commodity and BTO items. What then? Do we ALL just not watch movies in public? Or do we all gather, check our cybernetics, and then wander into the theater, all dizzy and disoriented like a bunch of sheep to the slaughter?
Oh, wait....
I want to know if Linux runs slower under VirtualPC.
Erm. Are you asking if it runs slower under VPC than under a native Linux box on the same hardware? Then the answer is yes, software will be slower than hardware.
If you're asking if Linux runs slower than a Windows product under VPC, the answer came in an earlier reply - Linux doesn't run at all under VPC right now... and in the next-gen VPC, who knows what the Linux support will be like?
Also - right now, my choice is VMware because:
1) I can run *nix boxes under it (or, indeed, anything I want that'll run with my hardware!)
2) It supports bridged networking mode.
Actually, most FBI folks are college graduates. This means that they're entitled to a GS-7 rating pretty much right off the bat. Also, if they go the Special Agent way (e.g. physical/mental/visual/auditory acuity testing, and carrying a firearm), that'll pump them up and put them in line for even higher GS pay grade designations. Consider: SysAdmin: $??? If you can get work, I've seen anything from $28K/year up. NetAdmin: $??? Programmer I: $50K/year... for ever. If you don't get laid off next Thursday. FBI Agent (GS7): $35,158 for the first year, terminating in $45,706 after year 10. FBI Special Agent (GS10, say): $47,360/year 1; $61,570/year 10.
Now... let's consider this: say that you're good at what you do, and your section decides that you need a cybersquad... let's say this happens 5 years in:
Year1: GS7
$35158 Year2: GS8
$38937 Year3: GS8
$40235 Year4: GS9
$43006 Year5: GS9
$44440 Year6: GS10 (they promote you to lead the squad)
$47360 Year7: GS10
$48939 Year8: GS11 (you get off your butt and get a MS)
$52035 Year9: GS11
$53770 Year10: GS12
$62366 Year11: GS12
$64445 Year12: GS12
$66524 Year13: GS12
$68603 Year14: GS12
$70682 Year15: GS12
$72761 Year16: GS12
$74840 Year17: GS13
$74163 Year18: GS13
$76635 Year19: GS13
$79108 Year20: GS14
$87639
Then you're free to do whatever you want; you've got a government pension at this point. You also have job security and so on. Maybe people WON'T want to work at the FBI for $35K/year, but I was looking at the FS paygrade (for a Network Security Officer / Foreign Service) and they were STARTING out at $56K/year or so. Also, if you're good in the FBI, it is my impression (if you have clued-in people above you) that you can rack up a nice living for yourself - to the tune of taking an appointment directly at a GS13 grade ($74,163 base) out-of-the-box.
Everything listed here is the BASE appointment pay. And, of course, don't forget the simple truth these days: it may be the case that a person is choosing between taking a "measly" $35K/year... and $0/year.;)
Head here for the actual pay grad table: http://www.opm.gov/oca/03tables/html/sf.as p?
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It's 7+/- 2 for STM. And if you can't chunk the (718) as one "bit", then you're on the losing side of S(hort) T(erm) M(emory). I gotta tell you, if everything's 718, and you have to dial 718 to get anywhere, it should not add an inordinate amount of load to the system.
Information theory says that the "1" carries no information, and the "781"--being the same on 95% of my calls--carries less than a single bit of information. That "1781" should only amount to a fraction of a digit's worth of memory strain. Aha - so you do address this. Well... best of luck to you, then. This reminds me (not in an offensive way) of the Simpsons episode with 363 "classic" and 969 area codes. The one in which they say, "and studies have shown that even a monkey can remember 3 extra numbers... you're not dumber than a monkey, are you?", and Homer stands up and asks, "how big of a monkey?".;)
Hasn't this been going on for a LONG time now? Example: oogle.com and friends. Typically I've seen them go to that god-awful mp3search or whoever that throws up about 20 popups. >|-[
Makes me mad.
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It's not like I agree with this, if indeed things happened as the article state... but a quick google on FooNet (AKA / DBA CIT ) turns up some VERY interesting results.
I google'd quickly on a hunch, and sure enough I got some rather interesting hits.
I claim to know nothing about SPEWS and how they go about adding to the blacklists, but they apparently are no stranger to it.
Furthermore, it seems that this IS NOT the first run-in with the FBI that FooNet/CIT has had: from here, if you scroll down a bit, you'll see the following text: The FBI executed a search warrant issued by the United States District Court for the Southern District of Ohio regarding the IRC network that we host # We regret to inform you that on Saturday February 14, 2004 at approximately 8:35 am EST, FOONET/CIT's data center in Columbus, Ohio temporarily ceased operations. And this was from Feb. 14 ...
Another incident was reported out here on 07/12/03 (search the page for "foonet") ... seems that 84898 spams swamped a box, and follow-up by FooNet sucked - e.g. they turned a blind eye.
There are far too many hits to return ... if you're interested in more, you can always head here. For now, I'll close with this: I do not agree with the methods used, if they were as described ... however, FooNet/CIT is no stranger to the FBI, and perhaps this is all rolled in to the Feb. 14th notice ... maybe the FBI actually gave them 10 days to comply... I'd really like to see how this ends.
I have "no microsoft" in my domain name. I'm not gonna say which (as it will cause the attached server to fall over) - it's got a simple html-only notice up, so it's not even worth seeing. :)
Anyway, I believe that I'm covered under the "sucks" domain rulings. e.g. it's an expression of an opinion, not libel, and hence fine.
Granted, IANAL and I never cease to be amazed. :-/
Excellent, Todd. That's EXACTLY where you hit this ... and that's where I've chosen to hit this article. I started posting with just 3 comments! Guess I took too long with my example. ;)
These are rats exposed to 60Hz AC EMF at 0.1 to 0.5mT for two hours (continuous). Also studied were rats exposed to 60Hz AC EMF at 0.1mT for 24 hours (continuous).
So I suppose, as an analog ....
Go lie down in an MRI for a couple days straight. If you don't go deaf from the noise (they're loud), then you might see similar results. Oh, and don't wear deodorant ... it contains aluminium which will cause it to be dragged through your arm... ouch.
Not that I'm saying there may well be something in this ... but how many of us even use the shaver/hairdryer for 2 continuous hours in a sitting? It may well be (and is likely) that the effects are not cumulative, but are actually acute trauma scenarios. For instance, you can assert that dropping a grain of dust on your foot 5 times a day for 10 years would make for the same mass as, say, dropping a car on said foot. However, the problem then comes in saying, "therefore, the two are analogous - we will see the same damage from the dust as we would with the car".
It just does not follow.
Good point; GIAC/SANS serve as a good jumping-off point, and are a respected and reasonable cert/training program and information source, respectively.
If someone decided to get serious and release a worm with a (dare I say) "terrorist" payload. They could, literaly bring my comapny to its knees in a matter of seconds.
... and that is when you go in and route out the head honcho. On the other side of the coin, it would give a definite battlefield advantage to either feed your enemy misinformation or to allow no information to get through their comm networks.
... we (the US) do have mechanisms in place now for this ... and since the market sucks so bad, it's only a matter of time before the majority of us are wooed by some good offers by Uncle Sam (to say nothing of the Cybercorps scholarships - which I didn't take because of the time limit imposed; I'm also in a PhD program here).
Anyway, one of these days we are going to get hit with a "real" worm with the intent to do severe damage to corporate infrastructure. The long-lasting impact will be far beyond just the initial damage. How do we prepare?
We prepare via cybersquads and training of anti-terrorist folks via Information Assurance degrees. I remember seeing IA offered at 6 centers of excellence via a Slashdot story about 18 months ago (I think). And now, I'm at one of these centers (Iowa State University), doing a Master's in Information Assurance. I think that it is VITAL that we start to take a good, solid, strong look at computer/network security, as reports from a couple years back indicated that everyone else has cybersquads of terrorists ready to go. Me, I think that this will be our next battlefield. Seriously. Especially for countries that want to comply with Rules of Engagement; imagine - you nuke their computer systems, bring infrastructure to its knees, get civilians to clear out
But
is DON'T. Here are a few reasons why you really ought NOT to get a tech degree / persue a tech career: ... just for 10 minutes". As a tech, you're expected to save your neighbors from themselves continuously. ... as a CAREER path in this day and age, though ... you really don't need the hassle. You served your "8-years-of-hell" already going through med school; no need to repeat it with a career. ... but it's not seen that way these days.
:( Sure, I have Gray's Anatomy, have done dissection, and know what bursae are ... but guess what? That doesn't get me a damn dime.
... it was crazy.
* As an MD, your next-door neighbors don't really expect you to "just pop over and check out Bob's heart a bit
* As an MD, your time is respected (see above).
* As an MD, you're employable.
* As an MD, it pretty much stands that you're in a respectable profession with reasonable people. The same assumptions will not neccessarily be made in tech.
* As an MD, if the patient dies, people are typically understanding. As a tech, if you can't revive someone's 80086 to run Windows XP PRO, then YOU SUCK.
* As an MD, you'll see the field saturated with Indian and Pakistani folks. As a tech, you'll see the field cornered with Indian and Pakastani folks(1).
* As a HOBBY, computers are great and are quite rewarding
* If you're looking for some Mad Money / Retirement Money, look elsewhere. I personally ended up coming back to school for advanced degrees rather than go work in Texas for $28,000/year as a professional.
* Respect, respect, respect. MD == "professional". Engineer/IT Person == "professional" also
G'luck. I personally wish that I'd have done what you did (med school and kept computing as a HOBBY) rather than the other way around.
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(1) I have nothing against either; I worked for/with Pakastanis in a mom-and-pop shop in the mid-90s
That your university does NOT offer master's or PhD degrees.
How can I be so certain? Well, you need to (surprise!) re-use a lot of your earlier work ("self-plagarism")in your advanced degrees. You lay the foundation in the BS, extend it in the MS, and then develop a new twist in the PhD.
Did they have permission to distribute The Italian Job (S)VCDs?*
* See the screencap for The Bear, their FTP program, for details.
1) You'll donate those "not so great" systems to me, right? I mean, I'm running Not-So-Great Previous-Generation back here, after all.
2) What about CoreWars? It'd be great, especially if some of you are coders.
HUDs are a nice thing ... but I think this will lead to bad stuff happening. ... actually most of them did so. There were a few who actually saw the smaller plane pull out onto the runway right in front of them and promptly pulled up into a pattern for another go-round ... the rest of the guys missed seeing the smaller plane pull out onto the runway ... right in front of them .
For example, there has been research done on HUD units that build the "highway in the sky" display for commercial pilots. These guys (commercial pilots, remember) were thrown into a simulator, told to land the plane, and did so.
Well
Needless to say, there were a lot of people really shaken up that day, and 2 pilots reported that they shouldn't be flying at all, after seeing that.
The point of it is this: HUDs are nice and all, but they cause cognitive tunneling, which is awful - especially in people not trained for it. I meant to find the NASA Ames article, but I can't recall it off the top of my head. Rather, I direct you to C.D. Wickens & J. Lang, "Object Versus Space-Based Models of Visual Attention: Implications for the Design of Head-Up Displays," Journal of Experimental Psychology: Applied, 1 (1995), pp 179-193 for some background information.
But what I've always wanted was legos that could be remote controlled. :)
Aha, but you can. At least, you can if you are willing to build a bit. As part of my CSE X86 series at my undergrad hell-hole, we had to merge forces with all engineering disciplines and build lego robots, controlled through the parallel port. It's actually not as difficult as you would think, and the pinouts are quite freely available. Of course, you'll need a language with low-level hardware access, and an OS without an abstraction layer that will thwart your code.
Besides that, the rest is reasonably simple - you build the control box, hook the sucker up to your lego creation via an umbilical cord of wires, and viola - you're running via a wire.
Now, running R/C would be even easier. However, most standard servos that I know of (e.g. Futaba, JR, Hi-Tec) from flying R/C planes aren't likely to be what you're looking for. Rather, you can get high-performance servos for some extra dough, but hey, if it's what you want to do, then go for it.
My personal recommendation on a radio? The Futaba 4-channel digital radio (model number escapes me right now). It's awesome, and you can do flaperons / etc with it, so if you ever want to do R/C flying with fixed-wing craft, you'll be in good shape.
Hope this helps a bit -
I'm not sure how this sits with me.
My $.02
Oh no, even though the 90s are done and finished, CEOs are still doing the whole "golden parachute" thing. Granted, there are less investors to play the rape, pillage, and burn game with, but even with this in mind, you can rest assured that they (execs) have an entirely different experience than that of their workers. >:-[
So, for me, it's NOT about the OS at all - it's about the ancilaries, the applications and packages that can run on WinTel boxes and not *nix. And, don't get me wrong, I *HATE* the fact that I'm being held back by these 2 packages ... but we have to realize that it's not technological prowess that's keeping MS afloat - it's solid market share. Incidentally, I happen to badly want to run OSX ... but seeing as how it's a $3500 operating system, for all practical purposes, it's out of my league right now. :(
BTW: I'm a *nix freak but I don't believe in converting the heathens FOR WHOM THEIR OS DOES EVERYTHING THEY WANT/NEED/REQUIRE. It is, to me, about freedom of choice. And when you hold a gun to someone's head, it doesn't matter if the logo on it is a goofy 4-paned fluttering window or a cute penguin ... or a cute devil - the result is the same. I understand that I'm going to get MegaFlamed for this, but it is what I believe: I love my *nix boxes, and they sure do have their place with my important data stores and web/db/ftp access ... and I run them headless for the most part - but they're not for everyone.
But I still hope to hell that a ton of MS users jump ship looking for a more secure operating system - or at least one made by a company that takes security seriously.
That's AWESOME. I broke my tailbone a couple of years ago and had a week's worth of bed-time. Should have been more, though. :(
But ... that having been said, I'd imagine that you over-engineered the hell out of it, right? Because ... the only thing worse than back problems ... is back problems WITH a broken nose from the desk falling on you.
**AA TARPIT. Seriously. I use tarpits to slow down email harvesting bots that refuse to comply with the normal "rules" of my site ... why can't we use **AA tarpits to slow down these guys and make them burn their time and energy on a worthless cause? Granted, FINDING which connections are coming from **AA is the whole trick here. :(
WAIT A SECOND ... what if you're a cyborg, like Steve Mann ... what if you cannot easily turn off your AV glasses with video overlay without becoming sick, dizzy, and disoriented? Rediculous of me to bring up? Perhaps, but just think a few years down the road when wearables are near-commodity and BTO items. What then? Do we ALL just not watch movies in public? Or do we all gather, check our cybernetics, and then wander into the theater, all dizzy and disoriented like a bunch of sheep to the slaughter?
Oh, wait ....
I want to know if Linux runs slower under VirtualPC. Erm. Are you asking if it runs slower under VPC than under a native Linux box on the same hardware? Then the answer is yes, software will be slower than hardware. If you're asking if Linux runs slower than a Windows product under VPC, the answer came in an earlier reply - Linux doesn't run at all under VPC right now ... and in the next-gen VPC, who knows what the Linux support will be like?
Also - right now, my choice is VMware because:
1) I can run *nix boxes under it (or, indeed, anything I want that'll run with my hardware!)
2) It supports bridged networking mode.
Actually, most FBI folks are college graduates. This means that they're entitled to a GS-7 rating pretty much right off the bat. Also, if they go the Special Agent way (e.g. physical/mental/visual/auditory acuity testing, and carrying a firearm), that'll pump them up and put them in line for even higher GS pay grade designations. Consider: ... for ever. If you don't get laid off next Thursday.
... let's consider this: say that you're good at what you do, and your section decides that you need a cybersquad ... let's say this happens 5 years in:
... and $0/year. ;)
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SysAdmin: $??? If you can get work, I've seen anything from $28K/year up.
NetAdmin: $???
Programmer I: $50K/year
FBI Agent (GS7): $35,158 for the first year, terminating in $45,706 after year 10.
FBI Special Agent (GS10, say): $47,360/year 1; $61,570/year 10.
Now
Year1: GS7
$35158
Year2: GS8
$38937
Year3: GS8
$40235
Year4: GS9
$43006
Year5: GS9
$44440
Year6: GS10 (they promote you to lead the squad)
$47360
Year7: GS10
$48939
Year8: GS11 (you get off your butt and get a MS)
$52035
Year9: GS11
$53770
Year10: GS12
$62366
Year11: GS12
$64445
Year12: GS12
$66524
Year13: GS12
$68603
Year14: GS12
$70682
Year15: GS12
$72761
Year16: GS12
$74840
Year17: GS13
$74163
Year18: GS13
$76635
Year19: GS13
$79108
Year20: GS14
$87639
Then you're free to do whatever you want; you've got a government pension at this point. You also have job security and so on. Maybe people WON'T want to work at the FBI for $35K/year, but I was looking at the FS paygrade (for a Network Security Officer / Foreign Service) and they were STARTING out at $56K/year or so. Also, if you're good in the FBI, it is my impression (if you have clued-in people above you) that you can rack up a nice living for yourself - to the tune of taking an appointment directly at a GS13 grade ($74,163 base) out-of-the-box.
Everything listed here is the BASE appointment pay. And, of course, don't forget the simple truth these days: it may be the case that a person is choosing between taking a "measly" $35K/year
Head here for the actual pay grad table:
http://www.opm.gov/oca/03tables/html/sf.a
Can you imagine a Beow--ell, nevermind.
It's 7+/- 2 for STM. And if you can't chunk the (718) as one "bit", then you're on the losing side of S(hort) T(erm) M(emory). I gotta tell you, if everything's 718, and you have to dial 718 to get anywhere, it should not add an inordinate amount of load to the system.
... best of luck to you, then. This reminds me (not in an offensive way) of the Simpsons episode with 363 "classic" and 969 area codes. The one in which they say, "and studies have shown that even a monkey can remember 3 extra numbers ... you're not dumber than a monkey, are you?", and Homer stands up and asks, "how big of a monkey?". ;)
Information theory says that the "1" carries no information, and the "781"--being the same on 95% of my calls--carries less than a single bit of information. That "1781" should only amount to a fraction of a digit's worth of memory strain.
Aha - so you do address this. Well
He's base-ten'ing it. 4! in base 10 *is* 24 ... but here in base-2 land, everyone's pointed out the result, so I'll not beat this further.
... let this woman sue the living shit outta RIAA. Amen.
Hasn't this been going on for a LONG time now? Example: oogle.com and friends. Typically I've seen them go to that god-awful mp3search or whoever that throws up about 20 popups. >|-[ Makes me mad.