apparently has a policy of deciding who to promote based purely on how well they present themselves at the interview - little or no attention is paid to references, line manager's opinion or past performance.
I think you're not allowed to discriminate based on experience these days. In case people without much experience find it hard to get a job. Which is a problem, because experience is all I have. No degrees, no college, no nothing. Didn't waste time with all that.
Sort of on-topic: I'd just like to say that recently I decided to code a Java app for Smartphones that is a token generator (MD5 of minutes since 1970 and known string appended) - it works pretty well. I'm sure all you bastards will find some flaws in it though.
Victor Steinbrueck Park is a 0.8 acre (3,000 m) park
Dude, that's not a park. That's someone's back garden. *This* is a park: RegentsPark (487 acre), or a couple from the city I'm in now: Blaise Castle (650 acre), and The Downs (400 acre)
One without any security updates that require reboots to become effective. See the difference? On Linux, it's almost exclusively kernel updates that require reboots. And even then, if you've built your own kernel from source, and the problem is in a module, you can usually just patch the code, and modprobe -rv module ; modprobe -v module.
Course, if it's a module you don't use, you can just delete that module, and not load it.
Also, there are kernel patches that make a large percentage of exploits fall over.
A girl I know changed her "It was shit and boring" opinion of Borat's American adventures when I told her that all those people he met? They weren't actors. Then she realised how funny and smart the guy is.
Course, it's not a great endorsement - being thought you're smart if you didn't get the whole parody thing yourself.
Though to be fair, if you go and kick a big, tough, strongman in the shins, you can't complain that he reacted disproportionally, and you're now in hospital.
From what I hear (in the UK), it sounds like Georgia was testing, toying with the Russians, and got the shock of their life.
But I don't know about the history of the region, so I don't know how accurate that impression is.
It's quite interesting sometimes to read the "Have Your Say" on news.bbc.co.uk - it's interesting to read a:, what people are saying, and b:, what the masses recommend (mod up).
Recently, there have been a lot of Russians complaining of the EU, Nato, and the US's double standards - supporting Kosovan independence from Serbia, but then they side with the Georgians against the mainly Russian South Ossestia.
So, if you have a GigE lan, any trojaned machine can poison your DNS during one night...
People at home are safe though - that's the main thing. People on the local net at home are generally known people, with access to your house (WiFi excepted), and could probably find easier ways to steal your identity, capture keystrokes, etc. And you're safe from Internet people too - at the end of my 8Mb connection, I think I'd notice a Gb of traffic heading my way, to say nothing of it taking 125 times longer anyway.
Yep:) When I heard about a problem with NHS dentists in Somerset, I thought - why is this on the news.
I think though that people just don't even contemplate them any more. It's one of those "facts" that "everyone knows" - there are never any NHS dentist spaces.
Slashdot Mirror
My favourite (which works best over the phone/face to face):
p as in psychology, k as in knight, g as in gnome, x as in xylophone.
apparently has a policy of deciding who to promote based purely on how well they present themselves at the interview - little or no attention is paid to references, line manager's opinion or past performance.
I think you're not allowed to discriminate based on experience these days. In case people without much experience find it hard to get a job. Which is a problem, because experience is all I have. No degrees, no college, no nothing. Didn't waste time with all that.
But it's hard to find good looking women on slashdot.
Wait - this isn't a dating site?
all they do is run around and bang chicks
Is that the pinnacle of human achievement then?
Say I borrow your phone for a couple of hours
Well, if you can get hold of my phone, all bets are off, of course. You'd still need to know my username and password too though.
It really doesn't matter. If you don't know the key, you can't work out what the md5 hash will be.
Sort of on-topic: I'd just like to say that recently I decided to code a Java app for Smartphones that is a token generator (MD5 of minutes since 1970 and known string appended) - it works pretty well. I'm sure all you bastards will find some flaws in it though.
To be fair, it has to be (according to my rules, which I'm making up now) within a decent sized city. Say > 250k inhabitants.
Or not.
Victor Steinbrueck Park is a 0.8 acre (3,000 m) park
Dude, that's not a park. That's someone's back garden. *This* is a park: RegentsPark (487 acre), or a couple from the city I'm in now: Blaise Castle (650 acre), and The Downs (400 acre)
Sure, it doesn't do anything. But doesn't the uptime look great.
That depends. What OS is it running?
One without current security updates.
One without any security updates that require reboots to become effective. See the difference? On Linux, it's almost exclusively kernel updates that require reboots. And even then, if you've built your own kernel from source, and the problem is in a module, you can usually just patch the code, and modprobe -rv module ; modprobe -v module.
Course, if it's a module you don't use, you can just delete that module, and not load it.
Also, there are kernel patches that make a large percentage of exploits fall over.
Freeview/freesat has everything I'd ever want to watch,
Guess you're not interested in Cricket? And the 45 min summary on Five in the evening doesn't count.
Imagine showing your kids the Parthenon, the Sphinx, the Great Pyramid, The Statue of Liberty, and the Kremlin.
Huh? Why not get out there, meet people from those countries, eat the food they eat, get drunk with them, and actually experience the world?
A girl I know changed her "It was shit and boring" opinion of Borat's American adventures when I told her that all those people he met? They weren't actors. Then she realised how funny and smart the guy is.
Course, it's not a great endorsement - being thought you're smart if you didn't get the whole parody thing yourself.
HTTPS would be a start, no? IPv6 too, while you're at it. Cmon, into the 21st century with you, Slashdot.
But I think that the Russians are more interested in control than they are in the welfare of 70,000 people in South Ossetia.
Of course they are. One might suggest though, that if someone is itching to do something, it's prudent if you don't give them a nice excuse to do it.
Though to be fair, if you go and kick a big, tough, strongman in the shins, you can't complain that he reacted disproportionally, and you're now in hospital.
From what I hear (in the UK), it sounds like Georgia was testing, toying with the Russians, and got the shock of their life.
But I don't know about the history of the region, so I don't know how accurate that impression is.
It's quite interesting sometimes to read the "Have Your Say" on news.bbc.co.uk - it's interesting to read a:, what people are saying, and b:, what the masses recommend (mod up).
Recently, there have been a lot of Russians complaining of the EU, Nato, and the US's double standards - supporting Kosovan independence from Serbia, but then they side with the Georgians against the mainly Russian South Ossestia.
Whooosh.
Your head.
Bring back Morse code - even faster than texting.
Some people take flights (gasp) outside their own country, continent even. The insanity of it all...
So, if you have a GigE lan, any trojaned machine can poison your DNS during one night...
People at home are safe though - that's the main thing. People on the local net at home are generally known people, with access to your house (WiFi excepted), and could probably find easier ways to steal your identity, capture keystrokes, etc. And you're safe from Internet people too - at the end of my 8Mb connection, I think I'd notice a Gb of traffic heading my way, to say nothing of it taking 125 times longer anyway.
http://calum.org/posts/running-firefox-as-another-user-using-sudo is a very good idea.
A bunch more here :)
Yep :) When I heard about a problem with NHS dentists in Somerset, I thought - why is this on the news.
I think though that people just don't even contemplate them any more. It's one of those "facts" that "everyone knows" - there are never any NHS dentist spaces.