I love this. How many people are reading this through Internet Explorer? Why aren't our mom's using Linux? Mostly because they love us. Too many would have to publicly proclaim from the rooftops:
"My mom uses Linux and I read/. through IE!"
If she really loved you, she wouldn't put you through that and suffer M$.
Re:American media companies?
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Net-Nexus Seoul
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I did a SANS conference, and if you're serious and don't know where to start it really is worth every damn cent you pay for it. It seems like a big dollar amount, but if you're not sure about InfoSec and you need to learn fast and well - this is the best way to do it. The boot camps they offer also let you deal with specific issues to your systems with direct feedback from the instructors.
I disagree with what you did to that town, but you really need to admire your town's commitment to education.
I personally wouldn't starve to death for anyone's homework assignment.
The originals were full of those moments that stick in your mind forever. Name one from the new shite. George Lukas would have been better off to hand off the whole thing to someone else and then rubber stamp it. That way we wouldn't have to wade through a one man lake of mediocrity, looking for the good bits. Spoiler. There weren't any.
Metals and other issues
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Assuming that all the factors line up again (or different factors work out) AND life reaches multicellular levels AND eventually sapience AND they are psychologically enough like us to want to reach out to the universe AND they are an engineering species (if dolphins eventually reach full sapience, their lack of hands make constructing massive radios a little bit of a trick) AND they develop a metallurgical technology so they can discover radio waves (a biosciences technology could possibly reach incredible advances without ever discovering radio) AND they aim the transmitter in the right direction (or build a super massive omni-directional one) AND they don't give up too soon or start transmitting too late AND they send a signal we understand as a signal AND...
I love SETI and I WANT it to succeed, but do I think it will... not so much.
Elements don't have an inherent strength, carbon as graphite and carbon as diamond as an example. Part of the reason an alloy CAN be stronger than a common form of element is that atomic bond potentials can be optimized. More bonds, and more stable bonds - stronger material.
Wouldn't it be easier to beat something like Carnivor by/. it, ie - including the above post in our sigs. Let them read millions of dull technical open source rant emails a day. If that doesn't let my 'vive la resistance' emails through....
Use Opera at work. I do. Works great and best of all my manager is too stupid to know how to check the Opera history.
Sigh. Thriving in a Dilbert world...
I can't help but agree. Where I work, one of the senior developers' creed is: trust the user. Every time he says this, I think of my next performance review and getting comments like "Good work on finding those bugs by the way."
The simple rule should always be: You are not the user, so design it for morons and maniacs.
I'm going to make some sweeping generalizations here.
The problem is, you guys don't vote. What percentage of eligible voters turned out for the last presidential election? 50%? Less? When you are empowered to direct your government, but choose not to, you're responsible for it's actions.
Americans have an international reputation for being simultaneously arrogant and apathetic. I'm Canadian, living in a major city, so I meet Americans all the time, here on business or whatever. Individually, you guys are just like us... collectively, there's some sort of break down.
Techies who go to Tim's are there for the best damn coffee they have ever tried. I agree that KK donuts are better tasting, but if you pack more grease than a big mac and more sugar than cotton candy into ANYTHING, then deep fry it, its going to taste pretty damn good.
Oh, and being up here in Canuck land, where are all these damn tech jobs?
They want it because they're sick of Microsoft, they hear good things and well... who knows - they're monks - I don't pretend to understand how they think. My cousin emailed me and asked me to spend a few days helping him out. I agreed.
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I love this. How many people are reading this through Internet Explorer? Why aren't our mom's using Linux? Mostly because they love us. Too many would have to publicly proclaim from the rooftops:
/. through IE!"
"My mom uses Linux and I read
If she really loved you, she wouldn't put you through that and suffer M$.
Seoul is in South Korea which is not fascist.
Cretin.
I did a SANS conference, and if you're serious and don't know where to start it really is worth every damn cent you pay for it. It seems like a big dollar amount, but if you're not sure about InfoSec and you need to learn fast and well - this is the best way to do it. The boot camps they offer also let you deal with specific issues to your systems with direct feedback from the instructors.
I disagree with what you did to that town, but you really need to admire your town's commitment to education. I personally wouldn't starve to death for anyone's homework assignment.
The originals were full of those moments that stick in your mind forever. Name one from the new shite. George Lukas would have been better off to hand off the whole thing to someone else and then rubber stamp it. That way we wouldn't have to wade through a one man lake of mediocrity, looking for the good bits. Spoiler. There weren't any.
Assuming that all the factors line up again (or different factors work out)
AND life reaches multicellular levels
AND eventually sapience
AND they are psychologically enough like us to want to reach out to the universe
AND they are an engineering species (if dolphins eventually reach full sapience, their lack of hands make constructing massive radios a little bit of a trick)
AND they develop a metallurgical technology so they can discover radio waves (a biosciences technology could possibly reach incredible advances without ever discovering radio)
AND they aim the transmitter in the right direction (or build a super massive omni-directional one)
AND they don't give up too soon or start transmitting too late
AND they send a signal we understand as a signal
AND...
I love SETI and I WANT it to succeed, but do I think it will... not so much.
Elements don't have an inherent strength, carbon as graphite and carbon as diamond as an example. Part of the reason an alloy CAN be stronger than a common form of element is that atomic bond potentials can be optimized. More bonds, and more stable bonds - stronger material.
Wouldn't it be easier to beat something like Carnivor by /. it, ie - including the above post in our sigs. Let them read millions of dull technical open source rant emails a day. If that doesn't let my 'vive la resistance' emails through....
Use Opera at work. I do. Works great and best of all my manager is too stupid to know how to check the Opera history. Sigh. Thriving in a Dilbert world...
I can't help but agree. Where I work, one of the senior developers' creed is: trust the user. Every time he says this, I think of my next performance review and getting comments like "Good work on finding those bugs by the way." The simple rule should always be: You are not the user, so design it for morons and maniacs.
I'm going to make some sweeping generalizations here. The problem is, you guys don't vote. What percentage of eligible voters turned out for the last presidential election? 50%? Less? When you are empowered to direct your government, but choose not to, you're responsible for it's actions. Americans have an international reputation for being simultaneously arrogant and apathetic. I'm Canadian, living in a major city, so I meet Americans all the time, here on business or whatever. Individually, you guys are just like us... collectively, there's some sort of break down.
Techies who go to Tim's are there for the best damn coffee they have ever tried. I agree that KK donuts are better tasting, but if you pack more grease than a big mac and more sugar than cotton candy into ANYTHING, then deep fry it, its going to taste pretty damn good. Oh, and being up here in Canuck land, where are all these damn tech jobs?
They want it because they're sick of Microsoft, they hear good things and well... who knows - they're monks - I don't pretend to understand how they think. My cousin emailed me and asked me to spend a few days helping him out. I agreed.