Basically, I've learned that I love working with and observing animals and even though it pays shit, fuck it. I'd rather spend the rest of my life poor and happy than well-off and miserable.
My friend, you are a very very wise man. It's so easy to say that phrase over and over while you sit at your 9-to-5, yet so few people actually act upon it. I'm rapidly finding out that the work world is nothing like I expected.
I graduated as a Bio major w/a CS concentration (basically 2 courses short of a major) back in '01. I spent the last two years trying to get my foot in the door in the IT world, as I LOVE computers. The bio major was by default, since we didn't have a CS major at my school and we NEEDED to major in something. I worked some odd jobs that were kind of related to computers, but they weren't exactly what I expected.
Last week I started working for a big corporation, imaging laptops all day for upgrades and new builds. It's working with computers, so I should be happy...right? Wrong. It's only taken me one week to realize how redundant IT can be. How all my associates can't tell me what a NOP instruction does. How this job, and more importantly this FIELD, is very different from what I expected.
So now I'm looking into trying to get into grad school. Bioinformatics would be the perfect blend of my background, and it would definitely be more cutting-edge than what I'm doing now. This isn't a spontaneous decision, as I've realized that a MS would make getting a cool job easier. It just seems that this job was the push I needed, the straw that broke the camel's back, to motivate me.
My long rambling point is, there's always other options. If you don't like what you're doing, fuck it...you only live once. Leave on Friday and don't ocme back on Monday. You owe it to yourself.
I totally agree. To be honest, I had never heard of Paul Graham previously until I read the article. And after reading it, I must say...I'm impressed!
One major problem I've had with computer science for quite a while now is the fact that there are very few articulate, intelligent speakers and writers associated with the profession. Typically when someone's in the press speaking on the behalf of computer scientists, it's some hothead screaming at the world, ranting incoherently. RMS comes to mind. True, he's brighter than 99% of the world, but there's something to be said about someone who can sit down and express their point without demeaning the listener.
Basically we lack introspective, analytical thinkers who are also well-spoken who can step back and examine where the world of CS is headed. I hope more people like Paul Graham materialize in the press, because I'm getting rather sick of what's out there these days.
The first benchmarks were done during March 2003 on a preview model running at 1.4 GHz. OS was an alpha version 7B5 and 7B8 of Panther, optimised for 64 bits processor, but the applications tested were only using 32 bits.
So they claim to have a 64-bit optimized version of the OS, but were still running 32-bit apps. If this is true (questionable at best, IMO), then hopefully I can scrape enough enough $$$ to pick one of these up in the near future.
This is true, although Bioinformatics is still a relatively small niche-market (compared to regular run-of-the-mill software engineering, at least). I graduated in the spring of '01 with a degree in Biology and a concentration in CS. My original intention was med school, but when I realized that med school wasn't for me I was half-way into college. So I stuck with Bio for my major, but turned my focus to CS.
After graduation, 9/11 hit and the IT industry got turned upside down. That made finding work as a sysadmin or netadmin (my goal after college) next to impossible. So I turned my focus to bioniformatics...
One thing I never anticipated was that although there are open positions in the Bioinformatics field, they just about always require at LEAST a MSci, most likely a PhD. Although I would love to get into this field, competition is extrememly stiff in grad school right now since there aren't a whole lot of grad programs in Bioinformatics.
I'll still probably end up TRYING to get into a grad school, but my chances are slim at best. Although if I do get in somewhere, the kind of hardware I'd be working with should give anyone on/. a boner (high, high, high-end clusters)!
I can't see the image (/.'ed already), but Samsung does make a 40" LCD TV that can double up as a real nice monitor, doing 1280x720 ( href="http://www.samsung.com/Products/Semiconducto r/TFTLCD/LCD_TV/LTA400W1/LTA400W1.htm>link
Hope you're not unemployed like my ass, because stuff like this DON'T come cheap! Heh, if I win that lottery though...
Is it me or does hearing something like this not suprise anyone anymore? Seriously, the DMCA is so vague and ambigious in it's scope that it can be applied to basically everything under the sun. The unfortunate thing about this is that companies who stifle and suffocate people with cease & desist letters whenever a new hole or exploit is discovered are just shooting themselves in the foot and put honest people at risk of going to jail for a long time.
Honestly, if there's a hole, eventually it will be discovered. The recent linux ptrace hole and sendmail hole come to mind in the *NIX world. If this kind of stuff can't be discussed in public, then dark smokey rooms hidden from the public eye will be the only place left. And when that happens and these companies lose millions and millions of dollars because somebody DID figure out how to crack their shitty security implementation on their own and exploit it privately.
I can understand why if you could either publicly disclose this info and risk going to jail for 4 years, or keep it to yourself and exploit the hell out of it at the company's expense and risk going to jail for fraud, you'd choose the latter. Not as honorable, but wtf...baby's gotta eat.
Would it be legal? I mean this is basically the Singaporian way of putting lojacks on SARS victims.
Honestly, I don't see what the huge uproar is about with SARS. I'm not trying to be insensitive, but this isn't exactly the Black Plague (yet). When new varients of diseases break out like this FUD runs rampant and people lose scope on how succeptible (or lack of) they really are to something like this.
For the last few months I've been doing short-term contract work for a major HMO in the area dealing with this kind of shit on a day-to-day basis. Let me tell you, it's a headache.
We purchase all of the new PCs we order with a Microsoft EA SA agreement. It's a nightmare trying to keep track of which boxes at which location have what version OS on them, what kind of upgrades they're covered up through, and so on. There's a dedicated guy just for our department that does nothing but dealing with licensing.
For anybody who's never taken the time to read through some of these contracts, print one out sometime or read through the EULA next time you upgrade Windows and be prepared to be suprised. Honestly, MS plays by their own rules.
The crappy thing is there is no real alternative. There's over 50,000 computers in this organization. Switching these boxen over to linux isn't an option (sorry guys, I love linux as much as the next guy, but the average 50 year-old in HR ISN'T going to be able to use it). And as expensive as dealing with MS is, it's still cheaper than buying 50,000 Macs and running OSX on them. Besides, most propritery medical apps only run on Windows from what I've seen.
"There are people, especially older people who lived through the McCarthy era, who might be intimidated by this," he said. "As of right now, the odds are very great that there will be no search made of a person's records at public libraries, so I don't want to scare people away."
Good. Those people SHOULD be intimidated, because they've lived through an era where absolute bullshit such as this went unchecked and they saw the results. And I don't CARE if it's unlikely that the public records will be unchecked. It's unlikely that someone will win the $300 million Powerball on Sunday, but that doesn't mean some guy won't be $300 million richer come Monday. It's also unlikely that my local library will run a check to see who's checked out "The Art Of War" and "1984", but that doesn't mean that it won't happen.
It's at times like these that you realize how blind the general public really is.
Does anyone else find it a tad annoying when a somewhat "professional" news site like OSNews has an interview in broken English? This isn't meant as a troll by any means, and yes I know that English isn't spoken by everyone around the world, but still...is it just me?
Regardless, I'm looking forward to trying RH 9.0. Although I run slackware and debian on most of my boxes at home, I've always had a laptop with the current version of RH just for some varitey. Say what you will about 8.0, but it looked nice IMHO!
The damages sought by the suits are astronomical: $150,000 per song, the maximum allowed by law.
Seriously, this is the most mind-blowing and re-fucking-tarded thing I've heard in quite a while. What's the kid supposed to do if he's found guilty? Mow the RIAA's lawns for the next 10,000 years in order to pay back the money the RIAA's "lost"? We're not talking about a broken window from a stray baseball here...we're talking about a lump sum that's WAY more than just about every country's national defecit on earth!
I have a feeling that this will get dismissed (hopefully). These thick-headed RIAA turds can't get it through their greedy minds that chances are these students wouldn't have bought the CD's anyways. Why? Because they most likely are like every other CD out on the market these days...they SUCK! People aren't willing to drop $20 on a terrible CD these days so they can get the one song they like. That's a fact.
Though he's guessing, McGeady said it was possible Hawash was targeted because of charitable donations he made in 2000 to the Global Relief Foundation, a Muslim charity that purported to fund mosques and schools in the United States, as well as West Bank medical facilities.
If this IS the reason Hawash was detained, and it turns out he had absolutely no reason to be held against his will for so long, I hope there's hell to pay. Seriously, the organization was found to be legit, so wtf is the issue? That he donated $10K? Shit, if I HAD the money, I'd donate that much to the American Diabetes Associated right now. And being that he's a contractor for Intel, I'm sure he had a little bank saved up.
Regardless, this is getting absolutely scary. And for all those "If you have nothing to hide..." folks out there, save your breath. Come and tell me that when your mother's detained for being the 10th degree of seperation between her and some kid who sold groceries to a SUSPECTED terrorist.
It's nice to see a review like this. Usually with stuff like this (whether it's a distro, software package, etc.) there's a generic CHANGELOG that might say "Updated to Gnome ver. 2.x" but it won't say WHAT is new! I admit that I'm lazy, but I don't want to go to each software package's website to see what they've done on my own.
Just a pet peeve of mine, and I would like to see more reviews/articles like this. Now, back to the fake-RFC's and slew of other shitty April Fools jokes.
No, I don't like it... but support for NT4 is dropped at 30 june 2003 and that's not really far away.
This is true. However, as a company, you'd think that MS would feel obligated to support its products until the minute they drop support...which in this case isn't for another couple months. This would be like buying a new TV with a 1 year warrantee and bring it back 11 months into its life for service only to be told, "Sorry, it's just too close to expiration for us to care."
As I type this on my NT box at work (note to self: big HMO's won't spend money on OS upgrades despite making a shitload of money), I wonder how long it'll be until we get slammed by this. It can't be too hard to write up an exploit for this...it is just a jacked RPC anyway, right?
From the article: EarthLink Plus uses a proprietary "Web Accelerator" from Propel Software which reduces the size of Web pages and elements sent to users' browsers.
To me, that doesn't sound very promising. Some kind of funky TCP/IP compression perhaps, but if it only applies to webpages, who gives a shit? Granted, it's be cool to load up webpages faster if you're on dial-up (heaven forbid flash-heavy sites), but what about all uses OTHER than the web? P2P? IRC? FTP?
For me, I'll stick with my cable modem and download as fast as you can say "free pr0n".
From the article: It claims to detect and deter overclocking of a signal for microprocessors which includes a detection circuit and a prevention circuit,
I mean, come on Intel...was this REALLY necessary?
The sad thing is that there's fewer and fewer people willing to SAY that the Emperor has no clothes these days. Education is a big factor I'm sure, as John Q. Public doesn't have a clue as to what's going on with all the disgusting new laws and acts *cough* Patriot II *cough* that are being (or about to be) passed right under his nose.
And honestly, why would he? The average person (at least here in the US) doesn't think about their personal freedom and liberties like the average/.'er does. Honestly, I didn't either until the Patriot Act was passed. Politics bore the hell out of me...but when I realized that the US gov't turned into an Orwell-esque made-for-shitty-t.v. movie, I raised an eyebrow. And I try to educate people when possible about what's going on that ISN'T going to be on the nightly news at 10pm.
I'd insert the famous "Those who are willing to sacrifice personal liberty in the name..." quote, but it's been beat to death and I'd only be preaching to the quior. Fact is, it's a scary world out there that's getting even scarier. And as long as John Smith's golf game isn't directly affected in the middle of suburbia, ignorance will remain to be bliss.
Adobe wants to embrace commodity (PC) hardware-- think about it-- which makes more sense? a user base of 500 mac users or 5000 PC users?
One thing I wonder about based soley on my personal observations (that's my disclaimer, btw) is say Adobe DOES pick the pc as their primary platform...I wonder if (and by how much) piracy will rise?
Of all the mac users I've ever met, loyality to their platform was extremely important to them. That meant going out an *buying* all their software for their computer (what a concept, eh?). OTOH, of all the pc users I know and have met, piracy is rampant. "Why should I buy Photoshop 7.0 for $650 when I can download it on KaZaa in 20 minutes?" has been echoed more than once. If these people are forced to wintel boxen to use the newest version of Illustrator, they're most likely gonna be pissed off enough to give pirating expensive apps a definite consideration.
Of course, mac warez is by default a harder scene to get into, and hence pirated versions of software like this won't be as commonplace as pc versions. It's still out there though, as any other Hotline users will tell you.;)
I hate to say it, but this is kind of refreshing. This ins't a troll, so don't get me wrong...I'm a linux user myself. But after seeing the masses rip into MS yesterday when the thread about the IIS 5.0 hole was posted, I got a tad frustrated. Granted, I hate Microsoft as much as the next guy, but this just goes to show you that it's NOT just Microsoft that falls prey to holes and exploits. If it runs an OS, there's a chance it'll be cracked. Simple as that.
Hell, the linux kernel is without a doubt one of the most audited open source projects out there, and this bug STILL didn't surface until 2.4.20. Of course, I applaud the speed and availibility of patches and workarounds to the bug. Just remember, it happens to everyone.
So, driving to work in my Lincoln Navigator while smoking dope and listening to my pirated copy of Rage Against the Machine was probably not the best way to start the day
What the HELL are you talking about?!? That's the ONLY way to start the day! (especially on a Friday).
The parent post may be viewed as being OT or somewhat of a tangent, but it's the truth as any of us who live in the Urban US can attest to. I live in Minneapolis, MN. One of my best friends from college is a black male. His father is a high-ranking military official who lives in an affluent suburb. When my friend lived with his father the summer after we graduated from college, I asked him how many times he was pulled over for seemingly bullshit claims. In the 12 weeks my friend lived with his father, he was pulled over 13 times.
Granted, my friend probably was speeding once or twice in that 12-week period. However, that's still a rediculous ratio. At least he knew what to expect...his father told him to insist on giving his college student ID, his father's military ID, and some other IDs along with his license. Because he stressed the fact that he wasn't a straggler, my friend never even received a ticket. Just the typical "Move along, sir...", crap from cops.
I hate to say it, but sometimes it "pays" to be white in the US.
This reminds me of an ad that's played on our local radio for a high-end audio retailer:
There's two types of salesmen in other audio stores...the Specialist, who knows more and more about less and less until finally, he knows EVERYTHING about nothing.
And the Generalist, who knows less and less about more and more until finally, he knows nothing about everything.
I laugh when I hear it still because it's so damn true sometimes.
After glancing at the summary of the actual report (12MB pdf? No thanks.), only one thing crossed my mind:
BE AFRAID. BE VERY, VERY AFRAID.
I'm far from being considered a "political" guy, but this absolutely scares the shit out of me. DNA database??? Prohibition of Disclosure of Terrorism Investigation Detainee Information??? Sounds to me like a blank check for the gov't to do whatever the fuck they please. I'm trying not to be paranoid, but the people spearheading this seem to represent everything our forefathers stood against.
Bootdisks are a godsent for people like me. Hey, I hate dealing with having floppies go bad the second after you open up the pack as much as the next guy. However, when the shit hits the fan and any of my linux boxen start smoking, the first thing I grab is my Tom's RTBT (or whatever the hell Tom's Bootdisk is called) and go to town.
True, floppy drives are antique and are obsolete...and maybe that's why I still like having one around. Same reason I play my old 8-bit NES more than my Playstation 2 and why I use my PII 333MHz box more than my higher-end ultra-leet "f33r me bitches, i r0x0r" computer (sorry, too much time on IRC). There's something to be said about relics.
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My friend, you are a very very wise man. It's so easy to say that phrase over and over while you sit at your 9-to-5, yet so few people actually act upon it. I'm rapidly finding out that the work world is nothing like I expected.
I graduated as a Bio major w/a CS concentration (basically 2 courses short of a major) back in '01. I spent the last two years trying to get my foot in the door in the IT world, as I LOVE computers. The bio major was by default, since we didn't have a CS major at my school and we NEEDED to major in something. I worked some odd jobs that were kind of related to computers, but they weren't exactly what I expected.
Last week I started working for a big corporation, imaging laptops all day for upgrades and new builds. It's working with computers, so I should be happy...right? Wrong. It's only taken me one week to realize how redundant IT can be. How all my associates can't tell me what a NOP instruction does. How this job, and more importantly this FIELD, is very different from what I expected.
So now I'm looking into trying to get into grad school. Bioinformatics would be the perfect blend of my background, and it would definitely be more cutting-edge than what I'm doing now. This isn't a spontaneous decision, as I've realized that a MS would make getting a cool job easier. It just seems that this job was the push I needed, the straw that broke the camel's back, to motivate me.
My long rambling point is, there's always other options. If you don't like what you're doing, fuck it...you only live once. Leave on Friday and don't ocme back on Monday. You owe it to yourself.
One major problem I've had with computer science for quite a while now is the fact that there are very few articulate, intelligent speakers and writers associated with the profession. Typically when someone's in the press speaking on the behalf of computer scientists, it's some hothead screaming at the world, ranting incoherently. RMS comes to mind. True, he's brighter than 99% of the world, but there's something to be said about someone who can sit down and express their point without demeaning the listener.
Basically we lack introspective, analytical thinkers who are also well-spoken who can step back and examine where the world of CS is headed. I hope more people like Paul Graham materialize in the press, because I'm getting rather sick of what's out there these days.
So they claim to have a 64-bit optimized version of the OS, but were still running 32-bit apps. If this is true (questionable at best, IMO), then hopefully I can scrape enough enough $$$ to pick one of these up in the near future.
After graduation, 9/11 hit and the IT industry got turned upside down. That made finding work as a sysadmin or netadmin (my goal after college) next to impossible. So I turned my focus to bioniformatics...
One thing I never anticipated was that although there are open positions in the Bioinformatics field, they just about always require at LEAST a MSci, most likely a PhD. Although I would love to get into this field, competition is extrememly stiff in grad school right now since there aren't a whole lot of grad programs in Bioinformatics.
I'll still probably end up TRYING to get into a grad school, but my chances are slim at best. Although if I do get in somewhere, the kind of hardware I'd be working with should give anyone on /. a boner (high, high, high-end clusters)!
Hope you're not unemployed like my ass, because stuff like this DON'T come cheap! Heh, if I win that lottery though...
Honestly, if there's a hole, eventually it will be discovered. The recent linux ptrace hole and sendmail hole come to mind in the *NIX world. If this kind of stuff can't be discussed in public, then dark smokey rooms hidden from the public eye will be the only place left. And when that happens and these companies lose millions and millions of dollars because somebody DID figure out how to crack their shitty security implementation on their own and exploit it privately.
I can understand why if you could either publicly disclose this info and risk going to jail for 4 years, or keep it to yourself and exploit the hell out of it at the company's expense and risk going to jail for fraud, you'd choose the latter. Not as honorable, but wtf...baby's gotta eat.
Honestly, I don't see what the huge uproar is about with SARS. I'm not trying to be insensitive, but this isn't exactly the Black Plague (yet). When new varients of diseases break out like this FUD runs rampant and people lose scope on how succeptible (or lack of) they really are to something like this.
We purchase all of the new PCs we order with a Microsoft EA SA agreement. It's a nightmare trying to keep track of which boxes at which location have what version OS on them, what kind of upgrades they're covered up through, and so on. There's a dedicated guy just for our department that does nothing but dealing with licensing.
For anybody who's never taken the time to read through some of these contracts, print one out sometime or read through the EULA next time you upgrade Windows and be prepared to be suprised. Honestly, MS plays by their own rules.
The crappy thing is there is no real alternative. There's over 50,000 computers in this organization. Switching these boxen over to linux isn't an option (sorry guys, I love linux as much as the next guy, but the average 50 year-old in HR ISN'T going to be able to use it). And as expensive as dealing with MS is, it's still cheaper than buying 50,000 Macs and running OSX on them. Besides, most propritery medical apps only run on Windows from what I've seen.
Good. Those people SHOULD be intimidated, because they've lived through an era where absolute bullshit such as this went unchecked and they saw the results. And I don't CARE if it's unlikely that the public records will be unchecked. It's unlikely that someone will win the $300 million Powerball on Sunday, but that doesn't mean some guy won't be $300 million richer come Monday. It's also unlikely that my local library will run a check to see who's checked out "The Art Of War" and "1984", but that doesn't mean that it won't happen.
It's at times like these that you realize how blind the general public really is.
Regardless, I'm looking forward to trying RH 9.0. Although I run slackware and debian on most of my boxes at home, I've always had a laptop with the current version of RH just for some varitey. Say what you will about 8.0, but it looked nice IMHO!
Seriously, this is the most mind-blowing and re-fucking-tarded thing I've heard in quite a while. What's the kid supposed to do if he's found guilty? Mow the RIAA's lawns for the next 10,000 years in order to pay back the money the RIAA's "lost"? We're not talking about a broken window from a stray baseball here...we're talking about a lump sum that's WAY more than just about every country's national defecit on earth!
I have a feeling that this will get dismissed (hopefully). These thick-headed RIAA turds can't get it through their greedy minds that chances are these students wouldn't have bought the CD's anyways. Why? Because they most likely are like every other CD out on the market these days...they SUCK! People aren't willing to drop $20 on a terrible CD these days so they can get the one song they like. That's a fact.
Though he's guessing, McGeady said it was possible Hawash was targeted because of charitable donations he made in 2000 to the Global Relief Foundation, a Muslim charity that purported to fund mosques and schools in the United States, as well as West Bank medical facilities.
If this IS the reason Hawash was detained, and it turns out he had absolutely no reason to be held against his will for so long, I hope there's hell to pay. Seriously, the organization was found to be legit, so wtf is the issue? That he donated $10K? Shit, if I HAD the money, I'd donate that much to the American Diabetes Associated right now. And being that he's a contractor for Intel, I'm sure he had a little bank saved up.
Regardless, this is getting absolutely scary. And for all those "If you have nothing to hide..." folks out there, save your breath. Come and tell me that when your mother's detained for being the 10th degree of seperation between her and some kid who sold groceries to a SUSPECTED terrorist.
Just a pet peeve of mine, and I would like to see more reviews/articles like this. Now, back to the fake-RFC's and slew of other shitty April Fools jokes.
This is true. However, as a company, you'd think that MS would feel obligated to support its products until the minute they drop support...which in this case isn't for another couple months. This would be like buying a new TV with a 1 year warrantee and bring it back 11 months into its life for service only to be told, "Sorry, it's just too close to expiration for us to care."
As I type this on my NT box at work (note to self: big HMO's won't spend money on OS upgrades despite making a shitload of money), I wonder how long it'll be until we get slammed by this. It can't be too hard to write up an exploit for this...it is just a jacked RPC anyway, right?
To me, that doesn't sound very promising. Some kind of funky TCP/IP compression perhaps, but if it only applies to webpages, who gives a shit? Granted, it's be cool to load up webpages faster if you're on dial-up (heaven forbid flash-heavy sites), but what about all uses OTHER than the web? P2P? IRC? FTP?
For me, I'll stick with my cable modem and download as fast as you can say "free pr0n".
Oh yeah, that's the sound of burning bridges.
From the article: It claims to detect and deter overclocking of a signal for microprocessors which includes a detection circuit and a prevention circuit,
I mean, come on Intel...was this REALLY necessary?
And honestly, why would he? The average person (at least here in the US) doesn't think about their personal freedom and liberties like the average /.'er does. Honestly, I didn't either until the Patriot Act was passed. Politics bore the hell out of me...but when I realized that the US gov't turned into an Orwell-esque made-for-shitty-t.v. movie, I raised an eyebrow. And I try to educate people when possible about what's going on that ISN'T going to be on the nightly news at 10pm.
I'd insert the famous "Those who are willing to sacrifice personal liberty in the name..." quote, but it's been beat to death and I'd only be preaching to the quior. Fact is, it's a scary world out there that's getting even scarier. And as long as John Smith's golf game isn't directly affected in the middle of suburbia, ignorance will remain to be bliss.
One thing I wonder about based soley on my personal observations (that's my disclaimer, btw) is say Adobe DOES pick the pc as their primary platform...I wonder if (and by how much) piracy will rise?
Of all the mac users I've ever met, loyality to their platform was extremely important to them. That meant going out an *buying* all their software for their computer (what a concept, eh?). OTOH, of all the pc users I know and have met, piracy is rampant. "Why should I buy Photoshop 7.0 for $650 when I can download it on KaZaa in 20 minutes?" has been echoed more than once. If these people are forced to wintel boxen to use the newest version of Illustrator, they're most likely gonna be pissed off enough to give pirating expensive apps a definite consideration.
Of course, mac warez is by default a harder scene to get into, and hence pirated versions of software like this won't be as commonplace as pc versions. It's still out there though, as any other Hotline users will tell you. ;)
I hate to say it, but this is kind of refreshing. This ins't a troll, so don't get me wrong...I'm a linux user myself. But after seeing the masses rip into MS yesterday when the thread about the IIS 5.0 hole was posted, I got a tad frustrated. Granted, I hate Microsoft as much as the next guy, but this just goes to show you that it's NOT just Microsoft that falls prey to holes and exploits. If it runs an OS, there's a chance it'll be cracked. Simple as that.
Hell, the linux kernel is without a doubt one of the most audited open source projects out there, and this bug STILL didn't surface until 2.4.20. Of course, I applaud the speed and availibility of patches and workarounds to the bug. Just remember, it happens to everyone.
What the HELL are you talking about?!? That's the ONLY way to start the day! (especially on a Friday).
Granted, my friend probably was speeding once or twice in that 12-week period. However, that's still a rediculous ratio. At least he knew what to expect...his father told him to insist on giving his college student ID, his father's military ID, and some other IDs along with his license. Because he stressed the fact that he wasn't a straggler, my friend never even received a ticket. Just the typical "Move along, sir...", crap from cops.
I hate to say it, but sometimes it "pays" to be white in the US.
If I was a girl, this sounds a lot like something ELSE that'd be in the palm of my hand.
*click* brrrrrrrrrrrrrmmmmmm
There's two types of salesmen in other audio stores...the Specialist, who knows more and more about less and less until finally, he knows EVERYTHING about nothing.
And the Generalist, who knows less and less about more and more until finally, he knows nothing about everything.
I laugh when I hear it still because it's so damn true sometimes.
BE AFRAID. BE VERY, VERY AFRAID.
I'm far from being considered a "political" guy, but this absolutely scares the shit out of me. DNA database??? Prohibition of Disclosure of Terrorism Investigation Detainee Information??? Sounds to me like a blank check for the gov't to do whatever the fuck they please. I'm trying not to be paranoid, but the people spearheading this seem to represent everything our forefathers stood against.
Let's pray that this thing never gets passed.
True, floppy drives are antique and are obsolete...and maybe that's why I still like having one around. Same reason I play my old 8-bit NES more than my Playstation 2 and why I use my PII 333MHz box more than my higher-end ultra-leet "f33r me bitches, i r0x0r" computer (sorry, too much time on IRC). There's something to be said about relics.