> Who made the people then believe it's the best thing since orange-mango juice?
Who's hyping anything? HL2 is better than sex.
(And yes, I've had sex. In meatspace. With a female. A human female. But my PC was also in the room, and I was able to get some coding done after she fell asleep, so I don't have to turn in my geek card just yet.)
Now if you'll pardon me, I've got to try some of this orange-mango juice of which you speak. (This is shaping up to be a great week!)
> That's not the case, it's more like a competitor trying to get the little company to step up to the behemoth. Looking at how this is setup, I'm confused... How is this NOT an anti-trust violation?
MSFT and SUNW have plausible deniability in that they can claim the payments were for SCOX licenses.
As deniability goes, it's not very plausible, but as far as the law is concerned, it doesn't have to be. As long as the words on the paper are there, you don't even have to keep a straight face while reading them.
> Uh, huh. That would be why the Quran refers to Jews, Christians and Muslims as all "children of the book."
Uh, huh. That would be why the same book refers to Jews as the sons of pigs and monkeys, and you secular folks don't even wanna think about what that book says about what should happen to the atheists.
Also says its cheif prophet married a 7-year-old when he was in his 50s, but he was nice about it and waited 'til she was 9 before he "took her as his bride". (Well, at least I can see why Michael Jackson is rumored to have up:)
> Let me clue you into something - the muslim extremists are about as Islamic as the KKK are Christian. Taking what they say as representative of the religion is a great way to delude yourself, and justify all kinds of terrible things.
Let me clue you into something - it may be full of guys who fuck their cousins and their sheep (sometimes it's hard to tell the difference), but the KKK isn't within two years of completing a nuclear weapons development programme.
> So, just who now are we suppossed to be rooting for?
Unless you're a moslem, I'd suggest you root for the side that's not trying to kill or force into submission the 4.5 billion of us who haven't drunk its particular brand of theological Kool-Aid.
If you are a moslem, you're welcome to declare your allegiance with the other 4.5 billion of us at any time you like. But first - clean up your own house. The Hebrews sorta had their conquering urges beaten out of them over the millennia since the Book of Joshua was written. The Christans figured it out 500 years ago during the Reformation. You're welcome to join us, but you're long overdue, and we're getting really fucking sick of waiting.
> So which is more likely, a terrorist/rouge nation launching a missle at us, or a terrorist/rouge nation driving a nuke by truck into a city?
How about a rogue state selling a bomb (everyone likes cash) to some terrorists?
And when we say "Yo! The isotopic mixture floating over what's left of Manhattan smells an awful lot like what was cookin' in your part of the world!", they reply with "So? We were paid $1B for it. What's your point? There's plenty more where that came from, and unlike Afghanistan and Iraq, we have a missile-based nuclear deterrent against any retaliatory or preemptive action you might take. By the way, we have another warhead up for sale on eBay. You're welcome to bid on it if you like. Bidding starts at $10B 'cuz we think you're special."
> Electronic Arts, like all other companies, is comprised of people. If their creation can behave in an utterly inhumane manner, operating only to increase some arbitrary numbers in a computer system somewhere, then what's the point?
I'm sorry, I didn't quite catch that. Had to deploy a mutagenic virus against six worlds in order to get the 10,000,000 point "massive overkill" bonus and the special ending video. You were saying?
"Business is a good game -- lots of competition and minimum of rules. You keep score with money" - Nolan Bushnell, founder of Atari.
> The more complex the plumbing, the easier it is to stop up the works!
Long live 98SE!
98SE + Mozilla + 5 minutes of tweaks to kill NetBIOS = no open ports, and therefore no remote exploits.
Take a Ghost image (oh, no product activation either!), throw in a software firewall as an early warning system for spyware printer drivers, and the only really interesting hole is the JPEG GDI exploit from a few months back, because you can never be sure whether any particular closed-source application is packaged with its own buggy copy of that DLL.
I wouldn't want to do work on such a box, but it's pretty damn good for a gaming rig.
And for all y'all "Oh, but I could never live in rural America. It's so boring! There's nothing to do! No culture out there..." types.
Silicon Valley or Silicon Alley: Get paid $80K, pay 28% federal tax plus 9-10% state/city tax. House costs $500K-$1M.
East Buttfuck, Wyoming: Get paid $50K. Pay 25% federal tax plus 0.0% state tax. House costs $60K-$100K.
If you've saved enough money for a down payment in the People's Republic of Kalifornia, you can buy a house for cash in rural America. And if you've been there long enough that you actually own your house in the People's Republic of Kalifornia, you can sell it, buy a house and a Ferrari, and have change left over for a fucking Porsche in rural America. That's right.
Wanna visit the opera? Hop in the Ferrari on Friday after work, tear up the asphalt (long live long straight highways featuring speed limits defined only by the words "reasonable and prudent" -- it's like the American Autobahn!), party your ass off all weekend, and come home on Sunday.
One look at the horrible things he's done to a Ferrari should make any self-respecting geek aspire to make John Romero our bitch. The best part about rural America isn't that a middle-class IT geek can enjoy such a lifestyle -- it's that he or she can pay for it on the interest and tax savings alone.
Who is John Galt? When you leave a high-tax state for rural America, you are.
> I'd say that the majority of us reading Slashdot have, at one time, really wanted to fly fighter jets. Yet that doesn't mean there is some unending supply of skilled fighter jet pilots among the Slashdot readership.
> >Sure, there's plenty of people who want to code games, but given the chance, the majority of them would utterly suck at it.
So in other words, a mass resignation and/or strike at EA would be effective, because all the Slashdotters are already working at SOE?
> If we don't deal with those "other" parts of the world, they are going to contiunue come after us as they did on 9/11.
The day the Muslims develop a culture capable of building an arcology (as opposed to merely deorbiting one) is the day humanity ceases to have to worry about Muslims "coming after us" - in space or on Earth.
Stranger things have happened in history, but I'm not holding my breath.
> The SIG for another/. poster is something like "History doesn't repeat itself, but it rhymes."
- Throw rock
- Hit other guy with stick
- Hit other guy with sharp stick
- Shoot stick at other guy with curved stick
- Hit other guy with sharp copper stick
- Hit other guy with sharp bronze stick
- Hit other guy with sharp iron stick
- Hit other guy with sharp steel stick
- Shoot stick at other guy with REALLY BIG curved stick.
- Shoot stick at other guy with stick with trigger.
- Shoot metal rock at other guy with rock with trigger.
- Drop exploding metal rocks on other guy
- Drop unstable atomic metal rocks on other guy.
- Build arcology between Mars and Jupiter orbit.
- Throw rock:)
> does anyone else find it annoying that these are scanned as jpg images? it might be a bit easier to read if the images were thrown into a pdf...
Does anyone else find it annoying that these are just million-digit-long strings of ones and zeroes? It might be a bit easier to read if the images were just pressed in ink onto pieces of paper...
> Let me see if I understand this right. This anonymous woman is complaining that her husband is "working late at the office" too much?
> >
I mean, just becasue she believes him doesn't mean we have to.
"Honey? I'm sorry..."
"You lying bastard. All these months of you coming home with beer on your breath and lipstick on your collar. All these months I spent thinking you're out late carousing with two-bit drunken floozies, but I know the truth. You've been at the lab working on those fucking video games again, haven't you!"
> I have to find a local group that plays Paranoia.
Huh? Where do you live, Citizen? AmeriComplex is the largest MMOLARP on the planet, featuring 300,000,000 LARPers playing 24/7!
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> "Would you give this book to an eager young programmer? Either it would be a bit like taking a sledgehammer to a kitten..."
> Goodness, how graphic. If someone wants eager young programmers to knock off kittens, there are alternatives.
Every time you post to Slashdot from work, your boss' kitten smashes a young programmer with a sledgehammer. Please, think of the young programmers.
> Anyone want to take a bet as to how long it will be until we see anal sex pr0n called "Brown-star Wars"? "The Back-end Empire strikes back", "Rectum of the Jedi?"
Already been done.
"Size matters not. Judge me by my size, do you?"
"Aren't you a little short for a Stormtrooper?"
"You came in that thing? You're braver than I thought!"
"Get in there, you big furry oaf! I don't care what you smell!"
And worst of all:
"Your feelings for them are strong. Especially for... sister."
> In 9 years (especially in a US prisson) they will not be rehabilitated, they will be angry, pissed off, without a future. They won't fit into society and be good citicens, much more likely they will have been pushed over the edge mentally and commit far worse crimes.
So we're in agreement. Kill them.
(I'm in a gentle mood today, and suggest suffocation by weighing down their rib cages with pallets of a certain trademarked potted meat product. My motivation isn't revenge, it's the pay-per-view revenue as they wheeze out their last words as the CO2 panic sets in and the cameramen zoom in on a 3-pane view of their eyes bugging out, and fingers and toes wiggling in frantic panicked futility.)
> of the $1,400.00 she is bringing home, almost $400.00 of that is presently going towards insurance. > >
After looking up insurance, sure you can get $200.00 med insurance, but then it has a $10,000.00 deductible on it! Since we pay out maybe $2,000.00 a year max for medical costs this doesn't make sense.
It doesn't?
$200/m * 12 = $2400/y. Plus $2000/y medical cost. = $4400/y.
Versus:
$400/m * 12 = $4800/y. Plus your current (I'll be generous and assume zero) deductible.
You're already pretty close to the breakeven point, and we're ignoring Door Number Three: If the insurance company is charging you more than $2000/y, and you expect to incur $2000/y for benefits... fuck the insurance company! Buy your own medical services for $2000/y, and pocket the change in case of something catastrophic. Over the course of a lifetime, odds are in your favor that you'll come out ahead. (This is, after all, how the insurance companies make their money!)
But even in the short term, you come out ahead to the tune of $2800/y, and as a bonus, your doctor probably thinks of you as his best customer -- because you pay for his services upfront, and he doesn't have to spend $25 worth of his office workers' time filling out the forms that would ordinarily be associated with a $100 checkup! You win. Doc wins. Insurance company loses.
Being self-insured may or may not be the right thing for you -- but your post is a good reminder that there's a segment of the population that's uninsured... and they're uninsured by choice.
Careful what you ask for... you just might get it.
No, not the options themselves. But the whole fight about expensing options.
Options never needed to be expensed; any dilution from option grants shows up on the bottom line and any analyst with two brain cells to rub together can tell the difference between "earnings" and "fully diluted earnings"
But folks (including many people here) cried out in favor of expensing them, and in doing so, ensured that Mahogany Row (i.e. senior management and executives) is now the only part of the company has a realistic chance of getting an option-based lottery ticket, let alone winning with it.
If you're Warren Buffett or Bill Gates, that's just fine: less folks getting rich means more room at the top. If you're the government, that's also just fine: less chance of Joe Sixpack retiring early on a long-term capital gain (or effectively tax-free via an IRS section 83(b) election) means more tax dollars as restricted stock grants are taxed just like wages. If you're Joe Sixpack (or the Fred Winecase hiring them) and either of you are in the business of busting your balls to build something and motivate yourself and/or your employees, however, you're outa luck.
So be careful what you ask for -- because given half a chance, FASB will give it to you, and they'll give it to you good and hard.
> So how does it jump domains? Since each link points back to the infected box, I presume it has to be on the "open" internet to be really effective, otherwise, it should be limited to the local network only -- presuming you block any inbound requests to the infected box (what port are they on?)
If your goal is to set up a network of Paypal phish harvesters, you don't want to host them with a real hosting company. A network of "open" boxes on the wild and wooly Intarweb (which is where you'd expect to find the largest proportion of easily-compromised boxes -- namely the swath of/8s and/16s that make up the shithole that has become residential broadband) is where you'd target your attack, and where you'd host your harvesters.
Back to your original question: If you're a spammer, you don't give a fuck about collateral damage. If you get 10,000 boxes on the Intarweb to host Paypal phish harvesters for you, do you really care if there are also 500 boxes behind firewalls that are useless to your phishing operation because their spams only direct users to go to "192.168.99.99"? Hell, no.
> Will someone puleeese explain what's so great about tabbed browsing? Do I really need another mini window manager inside of my application? And for most Windows users moving away from XP most of the tabbing is already done by the task bar. I like Firefox as much as the next guy. I seriously entertain the idea that I'm missing something here. Something BIG. So tell me.
1) Go to www.BigNewsSiteorFaveBlog.com
2) Decide you want to read 15 of the 30-40 news articles available to you.
Then either:
3-Tabbed) Click on the things that look interesting, and keep clicing on interesting while the 15 news articles load in separate tabs. By the time you've clicked the 15th thing, 10 of the 15 articles have already loaded and been rendered for you in their tabs. Hover the mouse button over an "X", and click once to close the tab without moving. (sweet on a conventional mouse, and really sweet on a touchpad-based laptop!)
or:
3-Untabbed-option-1) Click on the interesting thing. Click "back" (hoping that the stupid marketroids at the website haven't borked "back" on you). Click on the second interesting thing. Wait for the HTTP session to start. Read the article. Click "back" (and wait for the HTTP session to start as the original reloads). Click on the third interesting thing. Wait for... [repeat 15 times].
or:
3-Untabbed-2) Click on the interesting thing in a new window. When window focus changes to the newly-popped-up window, curse, and click on the first browser window. Click on the second interesting thing to pop up the next article in a new window. When window focus changes, curse, and click on the first browser window. [... repeat 15 times.]
If you read at the pace of a slug, and/or spend more time scrolling the article because you render all fonts in 24-point Gothic, tabbed browsing offers little advantage, because you spend a lot more time reading and scrolling through the article than you do loading and rendering it.
If you read quickly, and/or cram enough text onto the page to see an entire page with one or two presses of PgDn, the 500-1000 milliseconds of HTTP session initialization, page-loading, and HTML-rendering time is an appreciable fraction of the time you spend reading an article. For CNN articles, we're talking about 5-10 paragraphs of text (5-10K of text, tops) and hundreds of kilobytes of frames, ads, banners, style sheets, and other crap that has to come down the pipe (often requiring multiple HTTP sessions to different websites - DNS lag can also come into play), and that ratio can be significant.
Anything you can do to minimize the amount of time you spend waiting for content relative to reading content is a Good Thing. The larger that ratio of waiting:reading is, the bigger the advantage offered by tabbed browsing.
> I get to pay for Social Security without the hope of getting any,
get taxed without representation, and am also without hope of being trusted with any security clearance, not even one shared by hundreds of thousands, if not millions, of people in this area.
Apart from not being able to get a security clearance, I fail to see anything there that differentiates your lot from that of the Citizens!
To be serious for a moment: Even if aliens can't get a clearance and work directly for the government, they can still work for third-party private-sector contractors who are doing government work. Government will grow -- but if you're living in DC, you know all that money doesn't stay with the government: it goes to politically-favored contractors. Get hired by one of those contractors, and you're golden.
Furthermore, DC isn't the only city in the States. Cast the net (and use your contacts in your personal network) far and wide; all that this article is really saying is that the job market is inefficient.
Inefficient markets are loaded with opportunities. In an efficient market with a surplus of IT workers, employers would find local workers. The fact that this isn't happening, and that employers are hiring people from half a continent away, indicates that the job market is inefficient. That implies discrepancies in pricing, and the existence of opportunities that can be exploited -- not only for employers, but also for you.
> I would get it just to mess with my cat > When chasing laser pointer beams just gets too boring for him. It will certainly keep him out of the kitchen.
Mount a laser pointer onto the foam-disc gunpoints. Slip a coil of wire under the carpet. Strap a magnet to the cat.
Instant cat-food-powered combination electric generator and robotic weapons system!
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Who's hyping anything? HL2 is better than sex.
(And yes, I've had sex. In meatspace. With a female. A human female. But my PC was also in the room, and I was able to get some coding done after she fell asleep, so I don't have to turn in my geek card just yet.)
Now if you'll pardon me, I've got to try some of this orange-mango juice of which you speak. (This is shaping up to be a great week!)
MSFT and SUNW have plausible deniability in that they can claim the payments were for SCOX licenses.
As deniability goes, it's not very plausible, but as far as the law is concerned, it doesn't have to be. As long as the words on the paper are there, you don't even have to keep a straight face while reading them.
Uh, huh. That would be why the same book refers to Jews as the sons of pigs and monkeys, and you secular folks don't even wanna think about what that book says about what should happen to the atheists.
Also says its cheif prophet married a 7-year-old when he was in his 50s, but he was nice about it and waited 'til she was 9 before he "took her as his bride". (Well, at least I can see why Michael Jackson is rumored to have up :)
> Let me clue you into something - the muslim extremists are about as Islamic as the KKK are Christian. Taking what they say as representative of the religion is a great way to delude yourself, and justify all kinds of terrible things.
Let me clue you into something - it may be full of guys who fuck their cousins and their sheep (sometimes it's hard to tell the difference), but the KKK isn't within two years of completing a nuclear weapons development programme.
> So, just who now are we suppossed to be rooting for?
Unless you're a moslem, I'd suggest you root for the side that's not trying to kill or force into submission the 4.5 billion of us who haven't drunk its particular brand of theological Kool-Aid.
If you are a moslem, you're welcome to declare your allegiance with the other 4.5 billion of us at any time you like. But first - clean up your own house. The Hebrews sorta had their conquering urges beaten out of them over the millennia since the Book of Joshua was written. The Christans figured it out 500 years ago during the Reformation. You're welcome to join us, but you're long overdue, and we're getting really fucking sick of waiting.
How about a rogue state selling a bomb (everyone likes cash) to some terrorists?
And when we say "Yo! The isotopic mixture floating over what's left of Manhattan smells an awful lot like what was cookin' in your part of the world!", they reply with "So? We were paid $1B for it. What's your point? There's plenty more where that came from, and unlike Afghanistan and Iraq, we have a missile-based nuclear deterrent against any retaliatory or preemptive action you might take. By the way, we have another warhead up for sale on eBay. You're welcome to bid on it if you like. Bidding starts at $10B 'cuz we think you're special."
I'm sorry, I didn't quite catch that. Had to deploy a mutagenic virus against six worlds in order to get the 10,000,000 point "massive overkill" bonus and the special ending video. You were saying?
"Business is a good game -- lots of competition and minimum of rules. You keep score with money"
- Nolan Bushnell, founder of Atari.
Long live 98SE!
98SE + Mozilla + 5 minutes of tweaks to kill NetBIOS = no open ports, and therefore no remote exploits.
Take a Ghost image (oh, no product activation either!), throw in a software firewall as an early warning system for spyware printer drivers, and the only really interesting hole is the JPEG GDI exploit from a few months back, because you can never be sure whether any particular closed-source application is packaged with its own buggy copy of that DLL.
I wouldn't want to do work on such a box, but it's pretty damn good for a gaming rig.
80ms to Lou Malnati's Chicago Style Pizza. 70ms to Newegg.
Some things are made of bits. For everything else, there's UPS and FedEx.
Silicon Valley or Silicon Alley: Get paid $80K, pay 28% federal tax plus 9-10% state/city tax. House costs $500K-$1M.
East Buttfuck, Wyoming: Get paid $50K. Pay 25% federal tax plus 0.0% state tax. House costs $60K-$100K.
If you've saved enough money for a down payment in the People's Republic of Kalifornia, you can buy a house for cash in rural America. And if you've been there long enough that you actually own your house in the People's Republic of Kalifornia, you can sell it, buy a house and a Ferrari, and have change left over for a fucking Porsche in rural America. That's right.
Wanna visit the opera? Hop in the Ferrari on Friday after work, tear up the asphalt (long live long straight highways featuring speed limits defined only by the words "reasonable and prudent" -- it's like the American Autobahn!), party your ass off all weekend, and come home on Sunday.
One look at the horrible things he's done to a Ferrari should make any self-respecting geek aspire to make John Romero our bitch. The best part about rural America isn't that a middle-class IT geek can enjoy such a lifestyle -- it's that he or she can pay for it on the interest and tax savings alone.
Who is John Galt? When you leave a high-tax state for rural America, you are.
>
>Sure, there's plenty of people who want to code games, but given the chance, the majority of them would utterly suck at it.
So in other words, a mass resignation and/or strike at EA would be effective, because all the Slashdotters are already working at SOE?
The day the Muslims develop a culture capable of building an arcology (as opposed to merely deorbiting one) is the day humanity ceases to have to worry about Muslims "coming after us" - in space or on Earth.
Stranger things have happened in history, but I'm not holding my breath.
> The SIG for another /. poster is something like "History doesn't repeat itself, but it rhymes."
- Throw rock :)
- Hit other guy with stick
- Hit other guy with sharp stick
- Shoot stick at other guy with curved stick
- Hit other guy with sharp copper stick
- Hit other guy with sharp bronze stick
- Hit other guy with sharp iron stick
- Hit other guy with sharp steel stick
- Shoot stick at other guy with REALLY BIG curved stick.
- Shoot stick at other guy with stick with trigger.
- Shoot metal rock at other guy with rock with trigger.
- Drop exploding metal rocks on other guy
- Drop unstable atomic metal rocks on other guy.
- Build arcology between Mars and Jupiter orbit.
- Throw rock
Does anyone else find it annoying that these are just million-digit-long strings of ones and zeroes? It might be a bit easier to read if the images were just pressed in ink onto pieces of paper...
Can't speak for you or him, but I use www.mozilla.org...
>
> I mean, just becasue she believes him doesn't mean we have to.
"Honey? I'm sorry..."
"You lying bastard. All these months of you coming home with beer on your breath and lipstick on your collar. All these months I spent thinking you're out late carousing with two-bit drunken floozies, but I know the truth. You've been at the lab working on those fucking video games again, haven't you!"
Huh? Where do you live, Citizen? AmeriComplex is the largest MMOLARP on the planet, featuring 300,000,000 LARPers playing 24/7!
> Goodness, how graphic. If someone wants eager young programmers to knock off kittens, there are alternatives.
Every time you post to Slashdot from work, your boss' kitten smashes a young programmer with a sledgehammer. Please, think of the young programmers.
D'oh. I was not aware of that. Agreed -- that changes everything.
> (I was a quant at Bank One -- now JP Morgan -- and developed an ESO pricing model)
(Heh, I'm glad I don't do this for a living. Hope you made out OK in the merger.)
Already been done.
"Size matters not. Judge me by my size, do you?"
"Aren't you a little short for a Stormtrooper?"
"You came in that thing? You're braver than I thought!"
"Get in there, you big furry oaf! I don't care what you smell!"
And worst of all:
"Your feelings for them are strong. Especially for... sister."
> t3d_2_big.jpg
> td3_psus_big.jpg
> t3d_wiring_big.jpg
> t90_2_big.jpg
> t90_system_board_big.jpg
Slashdot.
Porn for Nerds. JPGs that matter.
So we're in agreement. Kill them.
(I'm in a gentle mood today, and suggest suffocation by weighing down their rib cages with pallets of a certain trademarked potted meat product. My motivation isn't revenge, it's the pay-per-view revenue as they wheeze out their last words as the CO2 panic sets in and the cameramen zoom in on a 3-pane view of their eyes bugging out, and fingers and toes wiggling in frantic panicked futility.)
>
> After looking up insurance, sure you can get $200.00 med insurance, but then it has a $10,000.00 deductible on it! Since we pay out maybe $2,000.00 a year max for medical costs this doesn't make sense.
It doesn't?
$200/m * 12 = $2400/y. Plus $2000/y medical cost. = $4400/y.
Versus:
$400/m * 12 = $4800/y. Plus your current (I'll be generous and assume zero) deductible.
You're already pretty close to the breakeven point, and we're ignoring Door Number Three: If the insurance company is charging you more than $2000/y, and you expect to incur $2000/y for benefits... fuck the insurance company! Buy your own medical services for $2000/y, and pocket the change in case of something catastrophic. Over the course of a lifetime, odds are in your favor that you'll come out ahead. (This is, after all, how the insurance companies make their money!)
But even in the short term, you come out ahead to the tune of $2800/y, and as a bonus, your doctor probably thinks of you as his best customer -- because you pay for his services upfront, and he doesn't have to spend $25 worth of his office workers' time filling out the forms that would ordinarily be associated with a $100 checkup! You win. Doc wins. Insurance company loses.
Being self-insured may or may not be the right thing for you -- but your post is a good reminder that there's a segment of the population that's uninsured... and they're uninsured by choice.
No, not the options themselves. But the whole fight about expensing options.
Options never needed to be expensed; any dilution from option grants shows up on the bottom line and any analyst with two brain cells to rub together can tell the difference between "earnings" and "fully diluted earnings"
But folks (including many people here) cried out in favor of expensing them, and in doing so, ensured that Mahogany Row (i.e. senior management and executives) is now the only part of the company has a realistic chance of getting an option-based lottery ticket, let alone winning with it.
If you're Warren Buffett or Bill Gates, that's just fine: less folks getting rich means more room at the top. If you're the government, that's also just fine: less chance of Joe Sixpack retiring early on a long-term capital gain (or effectively tax-free via an IRS section 83(b) election) means more tax dollars as restricted stock grants are taxed just like wages. If you're Joe Sixpack (or the Fred Winecase hiring them) and either of you are in the business of busting your balls to build something and motivate yourself and/or your employees, however, you're outa luck.
So be careful what you ask for -- because given half a chance, FASB will give it to you, and they'll give it to you good and hard.
If your goal is to set up a network of Paypal phish harvesters, you don't want to host them with a real hosting company. A network of "open" boxes on the wild and wooly Intarweb (which is where you'd expect to find the largest proportion of easily-compromised boxes -- namely the swath of /8s and /16s that make up the shithole that has become residential broadband) is where you'd target your attack, and where you'd host your harvesters.
Back to your original question: If you're a spammer, you don't give a fuck about collateral damage. If you get 10,000 boxes on the Intarweb to host Paypal phish harvesters for you, do you really care if there are also 500 boxes behind firewalls that are useless to your phishing operation because their spams only direct users to go to "192.168.99.99"? Hell, no.
1) Go to www.BigNewsSiteorFaveBlog.com
2) Decide you want to read 15 of the 30-40 news articles available to you.
Then either:
3-Tabbed) Click on the things that look interesting, and keep clicing on interesting while the 15 news articles load in separate tabs. By the time you've clicked the 15th thing, 10 of the 15 articles have already loaded and been rendered for you in their tabs. Hover the mouse button over an "X", and click once to close the tab without moving. (sweet on a conventional mouse, and really sweet on a touchpad-based laptop!)
or:
3-Untabbed-option-1) Click on the interesting thing. Click "back" (hoping that the stupid marketroids at the website haven't borked "back" on you). Click on the second interesting thing. Wait for the HTTP session to start. Read the article. Click "back" (and wait for the HTTP session to start as the original reloads). Click on the third interesting thing. Wait for... [repeat 15 times].
or: 3-Untabbed-2) Click on the interesting thing in a new window. When window focus changes to the newly-popped-up window, curse, and click on the first browser window. Click on the second interesting thing to pop up the next article in a new window. When window focus changes, curse, and click on the first browser window. [ ... repeat 15 times.]
If you read at the pace of a slug, and/or spend more time scrolling the article because you render all fonts in 24-point Gothic, tabbed browsing offers little advantage, because you spend a lot more time reading and scrolling through the article than you do loading and rendering it.
If you read quickly, and/or cram enough text onto the page to see an entire page with one or two presses of PgDn, the 500-1000 milliseconds of HTTP session initialization, page-loading, and HTML-rendering time is an appreciable fraction of the time you spend reading an article. For CNN articles, we're talking about 5-10 paragraphs of text (5-10K of text, tops) and hundreds of kilobytes of frames, ads, banners, style sheets, and other crap that has to come down the pipe (often requiring multiple HTTP sessions to different websites - DNS lag can also come into play), and that ratio can be significant.
Anything you can do to minimize the amount of time you spend waiting for content relative to reading content is a Good Thing. The larger that ratio of waiting:reading is, the bigger the advantage offered by tabbed browsing.
Apart from not being able to get a security clearance, I fail to see anything there that differentiates your lot from that of the Citizens!
To be serious for a moment: Even if aliens can't get a clearance and work directly for the government, they can still work for third-party private-sector contractors who are doing government work. Government will grow -- but if you're living in DC, you know all that money doesn't stay with the government: it goes to politically-favored contractors. Get hired by one of those contractors, and you're golden.
Furthermore, DC isn't the only city in the States. Cast the net (and use your contacts in your personal network) far and wide; all that this article is really saying is that the job market is inefficient.
Inefficient markets are loaded with opportunities. In an efficient market with a surplus of IT workers, employers would find local workers. The fact that this isn't happening, and that employers are hiring people from half a continent away, indicates that the job market is inefficient. That implies discrepancies in pricing, and the existence of opportunities that can be exploited -- not only for employers, but also for you.
> When chasing laser pointer beams just gets too boring for him. It will certainly keep him out of the kitchen.
Mount a laser pointer onto the foam-disc gunpoints. Slip a coil of wire under the carpet. Strap a magnet to the cat.
Instant cat-food-powered combination electric generator and robotic weapons system!