between SDI, our space program, and our nuclear program, we defeated the Russians. Ended 50 years of cold war.
We outspent them (reason 91,423 capitalism is better than communism). Ended up costing a lot less lives than WW3 would have. Plus we got lots of scientific advances in the process.
we have to scan lots of birth certificates. 7 million or so into single page tiffs.
to make sure they are not altered, a MD5 checksum will be recorded at the time of scanning for each file. So, to verify later, you should be able to make sure the MD5s match.
i get no training and no chance for advancement, monitarily or otherwise. no raise in the 5 years i have been there...
so my dream job is any job where i get training once in a while on things i am expected to support, and where i might get a raise if i do a solid job. its not just me, nobody else at the company gets raises either. still looking for another job, but the market isnt so good, at least in my area.
on the other hand, i know people (at other places) that are far more qualified than I am, and they have been looking for a job for quite some time more... so i cant complain too much, i guess.
to summarize, my dream job would be one where i could potentially advance for doing good work. oh, that and i want to be surrounded by hot chicks.
i run a small, non profit politically based website with a chatboard. many people have come on the chatboard and threatened me with physical harm and worse because of my views.
and now they want me to put my real home phone number and real home address in the DNS records?
yeah lets just go around beating up spammers. no trial, just vigilante justice.
why stop there? lets go around beating up anyone we dont like. screw the court system. i dont like evil conservatives, lets just kill them. no trial, no evidence necessary.
yeah that would be a world i would love to live in.
"Tell that to somebody whose relatives live in an area where nobody offers high-speed Internet access for under $60 per month."
Okay, I do all the time. I have an external USB CD burner I bought for 100 dollars. I burn that 20 meg framework (which is a lot less than most MS service packs, I might add) onto a CD. Along with anti-virus and anti-spyware software, among other things.
even if they have no modem access, CDs are cheap, and so is shipping them.
well thats a very nice post... all emotional and such.
but not very scientific, as none of your points are based on any sort of fact, its all merely anecdotal. here's a few facts for you:
the mt. st helens eruption released far more greenhouse gases in 1 day than have all the internal combustion engines combined in all of history.
the krakatoa eruption released far more greenhouse gases in 1 day than have all the internal combustion engines combined in all of history.
the pompeii eruption released far more greenhouse gases in 1 day than have all the internal combustion engines combined in all of history.
i could continue like this... my point is that whether you drive a spec or an SUV, it doesnt matter on the scale of the planet. Its a big planet, and the minor things we have done to it are nothing compared to the things that occur naturally anyways. we aren't big enough to affect the weather... yet...
"It's a classic catch-22 when you need to download the patches, but the act of downloading them makes you vulnerable... I have just bought my parents a new PC (with XP, they're not up to Linux just yet...) and I never thought twice about doing the windows-update thing... OTOH, they are behind a decent firewall (that does run Linux:-) so the risk is pretty minimal."
I think you need some help too. I've never seen C code with line numbers, or with print instead of printf. and where are your semi-colons? Back to Qbasic with you!
heh. we have some german made beast of a shredder at my work. cant recall the brand name off the top of my head.... but it has no problem with floppy disks and CDs, we shred those in there all the time.
remove the safety guard, it would have no problem with backup tapes, last years xmas fruitcake, or the occasional whistleblower...
just go get a 10$ walkman from radio shack, tune it into your local opera station, place walkman near the billboard... fun? okay, no, not really. but easily hackable it would seem...
Slight (major) problem with the "illegal war" thing. At the end of Gulf War I, there was no peace treaty, only a cease fire (something of which we had a dozen or so of in Afghanistan alone during that war). It went along the lines of "disarm all WMDS and prove to our satisfaction the destruction of said WMDs and cease all hostilities and we won't finish the job." Since Saddam violated the cease fire on many counts and on many occasions, the only way the continuation of hostilities by the US could be considered an illegal war would be if the first Gulf War was itself illegal. Since that was done by the authority of the UN, that's highly unlikely, unless you doubt the authority of the UN, in which case there's no one to call any war illegal. But of course, this conflicts with your erotic anti-Bush world dreams, so I'm sure you won't let facts get in your way.
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UFO defense ROCKED
and Nethack ROCKED
if those are prominent losers, you need to get back to your CS game.
SDI did work.
between SDI, our space program, and our nuclear program, we defeated the Russians. Ended 50 years of cold war.
We outspent them (reason 91,423 capitalism is better than communism). Ended up costing a lot less lives than WW3 would have. Plus we got lots of scientific advances in the process.
Mod me down now (-1, Pro-Reagan)
'I dont have 10 friends, you insensitive clod !'
I have 10 friends... if that is read as binary...
we have to scan lots of birth certificates. 7 million or so into single page tiffs.
to make sure they are not altered, a MD5 checksum will be recorded at the time of scanning for each file. So, to verify later, you should be able to make sure the MD5s match.
right?
is there a better way?
Assembling , Disassembling , why havent we taken over the world yet? for one million dollars?
i get no training and no chance for advancement, monitarily or otherwise. no raise in the 5 years i have been there...
so my dream job is any job where i get training once in a while on things i am expected to support, and where i might get a raise if i do a solid job. its not just me, nobody else at the company gets raises either. still looking for another job, but the market isnt so good, at least in my area.
on the other hand, i know people (at other places) that are far more qualified than I am, and they have been looking for a job for quite some time more... so i cant complain too much, i guess.
to summarize, my dream job would be one where i could potentially advance for doing good work. oh, that and i want to be surrounded by hot chicks.
i run a small, non profit politically based website with a chatboard. many people have come on the chatboard and threatened me with physical harm and worse because of my views.
and now they want me to put my real home phone number and real home address in the DNS records?
WHAT A BUNCH OF SHIT
dammit slashdot ate my {/sarcasm} tag!
ah well.
yeah lets just go around beating up spammers. no trial, just vigilante justice.
why stop there? lets go around beating up anyone we dont like. screw the court system. i dont like evil conservatives, lets just kill them. no trial, no evidence necessary.
yeah that would be a world i would love to live in.
Is there any chance this lawyer fellow is doing this to point out how stupid some of our patent laws are?
granted he is a lawyer and is probably just doing it for the money...
you brought their server to a crawl by posting that...
and im not sure which is worse to look at... the goatse man, or rhonda...
I would also like to know why if it is put in L2 orbit, why would it be unserviceable?
i mean, if we get something there in the first place, why couldnt we get something else to the same place in order to fix it?
photoshop and psp put a digital 'watermark' into the file. So, if the file was ever saved within photoshop, you could tell...
of course I imagine you could remove the watermark somehow...
thats great. really. but will it run on windows?
all the stuff I have to deal with has to run on windows, as well as access SQL databases, and things of that nature.
Show me how to do a SQL query in ruby, and then I will be impressed.
but sure, your hello world is slightly smaller than the first one I wrote on a 286 with borland C. congrats to you.
"Tell that to somebody whose relatives live in an area where nobody offers high-speed Internet access for under $60 per month."
Okay, I do all the time. I have an external USB CD burner I bought for 100 dollars. I burn that 20 meg framework (which is a lot less than most MS service packs, I might add) onto a CD. Along with anti-virus and anti-spyware software, among other things.
even if they have no modem access, CDs are cheap, and so is shipping them.
troll that which you do not know...
This hello world program comes in at 7680 bytes as an executable...
Private Sub Form1_Load(ByVal sender As System.Object, ByVal e As System.EventArgs) Handles MyBase.Load
MsgBox("Hello World")
Me.Close
End Sub
granted there is the 20 meg framework package, but really thats nothing these days, and that 20 megs supports a lot more than 'hello world'...
like it or not, its not as terrible as other things we have seen from ms.
well thats a very nice post... all emotional and such.
but not very scientific, as none of your points are based on any sort of fact, its all merely anecdotal. here's a few facts for you:
the mt. st helens eruption released far more greenhouse gases in 1 day than have all the internal combustion engines combined in all of history.
the krakatoa eruption released far more greenhouse gases in 1 day than have all the internal combustion engines combined in all of history.
the pompeii eruption released far more greenhouse gases in 1 day than have all the internal combustion engines combined in all of history.
i could continue like this... my point is that whether you drive a spec or an SUV, it doesnt matter on the scale of the planet. Its a big planet, and the minor things we have done to it are nothing compared to the things that occur naturally anyways. we aren't big enough to affect the weather... yet...
This site.... that should convince him he was scammed...
"It's a classic catch-22 when you need to download the patches, but the act of downloading them makes you vulnerable ... I have just bought my parents a new PC (with XP, they're not up to Linux just yet ...) and I never thought twice about doing the windows-update thing... OTOH, they are behind a decent firewall (that does run Linux :-) so the risk is pretty minimal."
are you talking just to hear yourself talk?
story here
I think you need some help too. I've never seen C code with line numbers, or with print instead of printf. and where are your semi-colons? Back to Qbasic with you!
heh. we have some german made beast of a shredder at my work. cant recall the brand name off the top of my head.... but it has no problem with floppy disks and CDs, we shred those in there all the time.
remove the safety guard, it would have no problem with backup tapes, last years xmas fruitcake, or the occasional whistleblower...
just go get a 10$ walkman from radio shack, tune it into your local opera station, place walkman near the billboard... fun? okay, no, not really. but easily hackable it would seem...
"When, exactly WHEN did Saddam "go after America"? When, and how?"
Read and learn something
Slight (major) problem with the "illegal war" thing. At the end of Gulf War I, there was no peace treaty, only a cease fire (something of which we had a dozen or so of in Afghanistan alone during that war). It went along the lines of "disarm all WMDS and prove to our satisfaction the destruction of said WMDs and cease all hostilities and we won't finish the job." Since Saddam violated the cease fire on many counts and on many occasions, the only way the continuation of hostilities by the US could be considered an illegal war would be if the first Gulf War was itself illegal. Since that was done by the authority of the UN, that's highly unlikely, unless you doubt the authority of the UN, in which case there's no one to call any war illegal. But of course, this conflicts with your erotic anti-Bush world dreams, so I'm sure you won't let facts get in your way.