First, you missed my point. In places like Canada you get free health care and I think even free collage paid for by tax dollars. I pay just as much and get less.
Also, health care (but not sure about dental) is a tax write off but that is a new tax law. It was not that way before 2003.
401K expenses are NOT tax deductable, you still have to pay taxes on it when you withdraw money from it. Just like an IRA, you can pay the taxes either when you put it in or when you take it out, but don't think for a second you are not paying taxes on every single dime of that money.
and you dare give.. _public education_ as your one example? Read this article. Out of "29 industrialized nations" 15 year olds in the US ranked 24th place in math. No, they don't make 24th place ribbons.
"Governments are great at running at a loss, simply because they can do it."
No shit? Tell me something I don't know. This might also be the reason I pay half my income in taxes and with what is left I still have to cover my own health care, dental, collage, and 401K. Even despite that we are still so far in debt my grandchildren's grandchildren will be paying half their income in tax also.
Running an access point is cheap. Maybe untill people start using the connection to hack computers and send spam and you have to find a way to police it. If someone on the network is being abusive do I fill out and snail mail 12 pages of paperwork and wait 10 to 14 buisness days for a response? I filled out a form requesting a social security statement today and it is going to take them 4 to 6 weeks to have someone review my request and mail the form. It takes H&R block 10 minutes to do my taxes for the year and 30 seconds to pull my statistics for the entire time I have been going there.
"textbook facts show that government _administration_ is cheaper than the private sector in several cases"
Only people who get income form the government ever seem to thinks more services should be government run and funded. You being "someone with a public admin background" are not really a neutral party. Remember, it was capitalism and not socialism that got us this far. How can the same people that oppose Microsoft's monopoly be for government provided services for things like internet access?
Because Socialism is the best solution to the problem? I pay assloads of money into social security, disibility insurance, welfare, and other thousands of other "give-to the-poor" government programs for what? Go Libertarian, liberals are artsy fags.
The "Powered by Google" logo on Yahoo is how I first found Google. At first, I went to Google instead mostly because their page loaded faster on my dialup.
It is the best of both worlds, Windows does not come with a Bash shell but nothing stops me from ssh'ing from $2500 Windows gaming machine to a $45 Linux jump box.
The point of the article was that you can run Linux as a layer on windows for drivers. The problem is that MS is not going to "kill Linux" by offering a Linux distro, if anything it would just bring more software and driver support to Linux. No to mention issues of cost, OSS, and people moving to Linux to get rid of MS in the first place. The article was just so retarded on so many levels it should have never been posted to slashot in the first place. Microsoft could probably write an OS that would give Linux a run for its money, but if they did then who would upgrade to the next version of Windows? Why are so many technical writers and journalists so fucking stupid?
Go for IT: Conference tells grade-nine girls By: Patricia Pickett
Lasha Dekker says it was mostly chance that led her to a career in IT - but that's not stopping her from encouraging young women to consider working in the same field.
Dekker, vice-president of developer and platform evangelism for Microsoft Canada Co., was a keynote speaker at Wednesday's Explore IT Conference, a one-day event that introduced grade-nine girls to career opportunities in IT. Conference organizers estimated around 500 students attended the event, held at the Alberta College of Art & Design (ACAD), the Southern Alberta Institute of Technology, Mount Royal College and the University of Calgary, all in Calgary.
Participants had a choice of several hands-on sessions where they could try everything from building their own computer network to generating computer animations or designing a Web site.
Dekker noted that today only 20 per cent of graduates from college or university computer science programs are women. "There is a tremendous opportunity for women in this area. For girls...interested in IT, I want to underscore that they should go for it, and for the ones that are not sure, they should at least consider it and explore the opportunities available in IT."
Dekker said her own career in IT naturally unfolded because of her early academic interests. "I just got lucky when I was in high school; sciences and math came easy," said Dekker, who holds a B.A. in computer sciences and statistics from McMaster University in Hamilton, Ont. "It is not because I received a lot of direction (that I ended up in IT). It was really by chance that I ended up in the career I am in today. But through my keynote, I hope to provide a bit of guidance (to attendees), which I didn't receive 20 years ago...in grade nine."
Conference organizers invited Dekker, whose group at Microsoft focuses on the enterprise, academic and student developer community, to participate in the conference because of her team's connections with the latter two developer categories.
To prepare for the conference, she said she spent two hours with a focus group of grade-nine girls in Toronto, brainstorming about young women's issues and concerns about going into IT. From this meeting, she came up with her Top Ten Myths and Facts presentation about IT careers.
"Some issues (the girls) brought up included fears that their friends will think (working in IT) is a geeky thing to do, and that IT work is not very social," she said. "They were concerned that there were limitations for women in this area of technology, and they felt there is a stigma associated with IT in terms of it not being a very exciting place to work. They also had the impression that IT workers are chained to a computer and their office for all of their days."
Dekker said she addressed these myths by talking to conference attendees about what a career in IT is really like, drawing from her own experiences. "You often have the opportunity to work around the world...and you are not chained to a computer. There are different customers to work with, and you can explore different areas of IT, including research and development, programming, sales and marketing."
Victor Doerksen, Alberta's Minister of Innovation and Science, said his government division, one of the conference's Silver Sponsors (contributing between Can$ 3,000 and $5,999), supports science awareness not just for girls but also for all young people at the event's target grade level. "This is when students (start) to make decisions about what they will take in high school and beyond. We want to encourage them to stay in math and sciences to give them more options for the future."
Encouraging technology skills development will help the province compete over the next several years as the world moves toward a global, knowledge-based economy, Doerksen said. "The skill requirements will continue to grow, and we just need more people in (technology) fields with skills and talents to make us more globally competitive."
The only complaint I have about my line of work is that it is 99% male. Of course we are rarely the kind of people girls dig, but the few girls in the company pretty much have their pick of any guy they want from where I sit. Can someone point me to a decent paying profession that is 99% female (and no gay dudes)? I would change careers in a second:)
Yes, but the number is not the actual key. The actual key would be unknown, and hashed against some type of long mathematical algorithm involving the large prime number to produce the encrypted file. And apposed to other methods where you can brute force guess several thousand combinations per second, this would be more like combinations per minute on most hardware. So the time it would take to guess a "password" like Sl4shd0t! would be much longer than say DES due to the additional time required to verify each guess.
Also, if you saved the number to an ASCII text file, the size of file would be almost 8 meg! Imagine how much CPU power it would require to crack an encryption method based on an 8 meg prime number.
Make sure you put the entire project in the hands of a project coordinator who is not technical enough to understand the details of the project but their resume lists lots of people and management skillz. Also make sure the people on the project understand only the portion of the project they are working on. Engineers who understand all aspects of the project are overrated. It is more fun to have finger pointing and 4 hour conference calls every time something is not working right.
I think the point of the story is not just to report "news" but open up the topic for discussion. I am sure making the front page will cause at least a few more people to investigate the claim, or at the least monitor the behavior more closely of their shuffle.
I though MDK just recently became financially stable, now they want to increase their company size? What will they really gain by becomming a much larger company releasing mostly the same exact product?
Sorry, I can remember reading about a patent filed years ago that did this exact thing. One of the ideas behind it was that if you had a PDA type device, you could exchange phone numbers/buisness cards etc. just by shaking hands. I am not sure of my exact source, but a quick google search turned up this published Oct. 1996.
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Exactly, where do people come up with some of this stuff?
Also, health care (but not sure about dental) is a tax write off but that is a new tax law. It was not that way before 2003.
401K expenses are NOT tax deductable, you still have to pay taxes on it when you withdraw money from it. Just like an IRA, you can pay the taxes either when you put it in or when you take it out, but don't think for a second you are not paying taxes on every single dime of that money.
and you dare give.. _public education_ as your one example? Read this article. Out of "29 industrialized nations" 15 year olds in the US ranked 24th place in math.
No, they don't make 24th place ribbons.
Like pleading the 5th.
No shit? Tell me something I don't know. This might also be the reason I pay half my income in taxes and with what is left I still have to cover my own health care, dental, collage, and 401K. Even despite that we are still so far in debt my grandchildren's grandchildren will be paying half their income in tax also.
Running an access point is cheap.
Maybe untill people start using the connection to hack computers and send spam and you have to find a way to police it. If someone on the network is being abusive do I fill out and snail mail 12 pages of paperwork and wait 10 to 14 buisness days for a response?
I filled out a form requesting a social security statement today and it is going to take them 4 to 6 weeks to have someone review my request and mail the form. It takes H&R block 10 minutes to do my taxes for the year and 30 seconds to pull my statistics for the entire time I have been going there.
Only people who get income form the government ever seem to thinks more services should be government run and funded. You being "someone with a public admin background" are not really a neutral party. Remember, it was capitalism and not socialism that got us this far. How can the same people that oppose Microsoft's monopoly be for government provided services for things like internet access?
Here is Comcast's annual balance sheet.
Because Socialism is the best solution to the problem? I pay assloads of money into social security, disibility insurance, welfare, and other thousands of other "give-to the-poor" government programs for what? Go Libertarian, liberals are artsy fags.
Nothing in life is free, what they mean to say is that they are going to use tax money to pay for the service.
You must be the only person on Slashdot that does not think there is enough "government" and taxes in this country as it is.
I _really_ don't need the government taking even more of my money because they think they are better at spending it then I am.
The "Powered by Google" logo on Yahoo is how I first found Google. At first, I went to Google instead mostly because their page loaded faster on my dialup.
It is the best of both worlds, Windows does not come with a Bash shell but nothing stops me from ssh'ing from $2500 Windows gaming machine to a $45 Linux jump box.
blah blah Bash blah blah. You kids and your hand holding. Real geeks find a buffer overflow and do it on the stack.
The point of the article was that you can run Linux as a layer on windows for drivers. The problem is that MS is not going to "kill Linux" by offering a Linux distro, if anything it would just bring more software and driver support to Linux. No to mention issues of cost, OSS, and people moving to Linux to get rid of MS in the first place.
The article was just so retarded on so many levels it should have never been posted to slashot in the first place.
Microsoft could probably write an OS that would give Linux a run for its money, but if they did then who would upgrade to the next version of Windows?
Why are so many technical writers and journalists so fucking stupid?
Yes, but how hard it is to verify something like this before running the story?
Go for IT: Conference tells grade-nine girls
By: Patricia Pickett
Lasha Dekker says it was mostly chance that led her to a career in IT - but that's not stopping her from encouraging young women to consider working in the same field.
Dekker, vice-president of developer and platform evangelism for Microsoft Canada Co., was a keynote speaker at Wednesday's Explore IT Conference, a one-day event that introduced grade-nine girls to career opportunities in IT. Conference organizers estimated around 500 students attended the event, held at the Alberta College of Art & Design (ACAD), the Southern Alberta Institute of Technology, Mount Royal College and the University of Calgary, all in Calgary.
Participants had a choice of several hands-on sessions where they could try everything from building their own computer network to generating computer animations or designing a Web site.
Dekker noted that today only 20 per cent of graduates from college or university computer science programs are women. "There is a tremendous opportunity for women in this area. For girls...interested in IT, I want to underscore that they should go for it, and for the ones that are not sure, they should at least consider it and explore the opportunities available in IT."
Dekker said her own career in IT naturally unfolded because of her early academic interests. "I just got lucky when I was in high school; sciences and math came easy," said Dekker, who holds a B.A. in computer sciences and statistics from McMaster University in Hamilton, Ont. "It is not because I received a lot of direction (that I ended up in IT). It was really by chance that I ended up in the career I am in today. But through my keynote, I hope to provide a bit of guidance (to attendees), which I didn't receive 20 years ago...in grade nine."
Conference organizers invited Dekker, whose group at Microsoft focuses on the enterprise, academic and student developer community, to participate in the conference because of her team's connections with the latter two developer categories.
To prepare for the conference, she said she spent two hours with a focus group of grade-nine girls in Toronto, brainstorming about young women's issues and concerns about going into IT. From this meeting, she came up with her Top Ten Myths and Facts presentation about IT careers.
"Some issues (the girls) brought up included fears that their friends will think (working in IT) is a geeky thing to do, and that IT work is not very social," she said. "They were concerned that there were limitations for women in this area of technology, and they felt there is a stigma associated with IT in terms of it not being a very exciting place to work. They also had the impression that IT workers are chained to a computer and their office for all of their days."
Dekker said she addressed these myths by talking to conference attendees about what a career in IT is really like, drawing from her own experiences. "You often have the opportunity to work around the world...and you are not chained to a computer. There are different customers to work with, and you can explore different areas of IT, including research and development, programming, sales and marketing."
Victor Doerksen, Alberta's Minister of Innovation and Science, said his government division, one of the conference's Silver Sponsors (contributing between Can$ 3,000 and $5,999), supports science awareness not just for girls but also for all young people at the event's target grade level. "This is when students (start) to make decisions about what they will take in high school and beyond. We want to encourage them to stay in math and sciences to give them more options for the future."
Encouraging technology skills development will help the province compete over the next several years as the world moves toward a global, knowledge-based economy, Doerksen said. "The skill requirements will continue to grow, and we just need more people in (technology) fields with skills and talents to make us more globally competitive."
The only complaint I have about my line of work is that it is 99% male. Of course we are rarely the kind of people girls dig, but the few girls in the company pretty much have their pick of any guy they want from where I sit. Can someone point me to a decent paying profession that is 99% female (and no gay dudes)? I would change careers in a second :)
Yes, but the number is not the actual key. The actual key would be unknown, and hashed against some type of long mathematical algorithm involving the large prime number to produce the encrypted file. And apposed to other methods where you can brute force guess several thousand combinations per second, this would be more like combinations per minute on most hardware. So the time it would take to guess a "password" like Sl4shd0t! would be much longer than say DES due to the additional time required to verify each guess.
Also, if you saved the number to an ASCII text file, the size of file would be almost 8 meg! Imagine how much CPU power it would require to crack an encryption method based on an 8 meg prime number.
Make sure you put the entire project in the hands of a project coordinator who is not technical enough to understand the details of the project but their resume lists lots of people and management skillz. Also make sure the people on the project understand only the portion of the project they are working on. Engineers who understand all aspects of the project are overrated. It is more fun to have finger pointing and 4 hour conference calls every time something is not working right.
I think the point of the story is not just to report "news" but open up the topic for discussion. I am sure making the front page will cause at least a few more people to investigate the claim, or at the least monitor the behavior more closely of their shuffle.
Here is a direct link to the picture to save bandwidth.
I though MDK just recently became financially stable, now they want to increase their company size? What will they really gain by becomming a much larger company releasing mostly the same exact product?
There is a reason that almost every time you see a computer in a movie it is a mac. Apple has a good relationship with the movie industry.
Sorry, I can remember reading about a patent filed years ago that did this exact thing. One of the ideas behind it was that if you had a PDA type device, you could exchange phone numbers/buisness cards etc. just by shaking hands. I am not sure of my exact source, but a quick google search turned up this published Oct. 1996.
Oh, and the "keeping with the Jones's" is something people are less concerned about today.