I haven't seen a slashdot post yet that mentioned the solution to the second puzzle. I no, I haven't solved it (did play with it for a couple of hours though). Did you beat the second one? If so, how? I have this terrible feeling I'm missing something obvious.
All the artists I know have "CVs" and not resumes. Post grad art schools seem to prefer that terminology for some reason, even though it's the same thing. I've never interviewed a geek who called this resume as CV, though. And yes, I'm American.
When my building was being remodeled, there was on old bike (no brakes, missing a pedal) left in the living room by an old roommate. We chucked it out the back door into the courtyard (about a 30 foot drop) which bent the frame, forks, and both wheels. I still rolled, kind of. Instead of tossing it in the truck for a ride to the dump, we leaned against a wall in the lane to see how long it would take for someone to steal it. It took a day, but someone did. Maybe they needed the bolts or something.
Anybody tried a bic on parking meters? The ones in my area appear to use the same style lock... no suggesting that anyone try to rip off the parking police, of course.
Locks only keep honest folks out. Picking locks is MUCH easier than most people think. A coulple of weeks ago, I let my friend borrow my car to get his girlfriend from the airport. He lost the key. I drove the car for two days by picking the door and ignition locks until I had time to get a key made from the serial number. Give it a try, it's not as hard as you think (although if you experiment on your car and you don't know what you're doing, try the passenger door. Jamming that up is no where near as annoying as the driver's side).
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I'm guessing you weren't replying to my comment, but in case you were and you REALLY misunderstood: My family has been military for the past 200 years. I'm the first oldest son not to serve. The reason? I was told "Don't unless you have to, it will frustrate the hell out of you and burn you out. Don't do it" by career guys. Did you know that they make picture books now to explain how to operate an M1 Abrams? No text? See, most recruits don't know how to read. That is depressing. Don't get me wrong, I support our troops, and sometimes force is the only way to go. I try not to think we're fucked as a country, but we're running out of uneducated people (even though the public schools are cranking them out as fast as they can) and people willing to put up with the bullshit (and go to OTC) who can actually shoot a gun if they have to. Yes, I think Iraq was a mistake. On the other hand, if we stay there, I'm afraid we'll wind up drafting a bunch of frat boys who can read but don't understand the rest of it.
No, that wouldn't be funny, more like this (Reuters leader) Misguided, overly religous Muslim blows himself to kingdom come among a crowd of schoolkids. Fellow (name your favorite Islamic countries residents) refuse to bury him because he stinks of dead swine. Mullahs are debating how contaminated he is, and if his stink will offend the virgins in heaven. (Body to follow, they are trying to round up Palestinians to get the body parts into the little baggies.)
No, I haven't bothered. I think it's like down to $30 or so at Best Buy, but I would feel like a sucker if I paid for it twice. Their problem, not mine.
If you mean freedom to own a small yappy dog that will piss off everyone within a block and pee on everything... well, you can restrict that. Because there is nothing in the Constitution about a "Right to own a miniature poodle with a small bladder". That doesn't apply to my sidearm. And, an administrative code ruling about guns? The only such rulings I've heard of applied to public housing, and they were intended to remove guns from some of Chicago's most notoriously violent housing projects. That got overturned. See, the government CREATED the ghetto, and let the gangbangers run rampent for a few years. Then tried to (in a typical, liberal, misguided way for HUD) solve it by saying that law-abiding residents couldn't have guns. BZZZZT. Illegal. What would they shoot back at the crackheads with? I stand by my earlier guess that you are a slumlord.
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Kind of cool that machineguns ARE legal, isn't it? You just spend the $200, get signed off on by your local law enforcement, and get the feds your fingerprints and picture. Now you're legal, you just have to wait a few months. An expensive hobby, I suppose, but great fun:) And for the record, no crime has ever been committed with a NFA weapon. Would YOU go to all that trouble if you were a nutcase with a record?
No, Russia just needed a good enough reason for the US not to protest when they invaded another another country. Looks like they might take down Georgia. And not only will the US not say anything, they shouldn't. Now you have the only existing superpower (the US) AND the Russians invading places to kill terrorists. Don't kid yourself; if they aren't worth questioning, and you're 90% sure, and they just killed your kids, what would you do? Do I think this will work? No. Would total war work? Maybe, maybe not. Either way, things just got escalated and no matter who did it the Islamic terrorists are going to be the ones who get shot.
No, that's not always the case. Operation Flashpoint, for example, prints the CD key in the goddamn manual. Which I lost in the last move. And I probably lost the receipt long before that. Now what do I do?
I thought that was the whole point... what could be funnier than selling a muslim a computer that stinks of dead SWINE?
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Heh:) I guess I'm the second well-armed moron on the thread.
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Well, I've got an "assault rifle". It has two 30-round clips jungle-clipped together sticking out the bottom. Ever hear of a hurricane? How about looters? That's one reason to own such a weapon. The other, of course, would be to prevent tyranny by the government (whose soldiers are quite well armed with similar but even faster-cycling weapons). The assault weapons ban was a dumb-ass law anyway. They banned guns based on how they look, not how they function. As an example, I have an AK that was imported from a former soviet bloc country. The factory that exported it just left the muzzle brake off. The US company that imported it swapped out some pins, screws, other small parts, and changed the pistol grip. Perfectly legal, now it's a "US made" gun under the law. The only thing the "assault weapons" ban ever did was drive up the price for "pre-ban" guns with flash suppressors and bayonet lugs. Now collectors pay more, but nothing else ever came of it. Stupid laws should be repealed.
People shoot guns all the time on your property? What kind of an operation are you running, man? Do they shoot each other often, or are they shooting at the TV? Just curious.
No, it's not a mistake to equate terrorists with Islamic militants. Yes, there are other groups who seem to spawn a lot of terrorists. But, they are not a worldwide problem. The muslim terrorists are, and have been for a while. While we're at it, why are you essentially apologizing for a religion (I'm going to say that since they don't do a whole lot of condemning of terror on their end) that thinks that it is OK to shoot kids, saw people's heads off, blow up school buses, etc? Fuck the "Islamic separatists" or whatever you want to call them. Even if the terrorists aren't all that religious, they are using the islamic religion to further their ends. And the leaders of that religion (and the associated dictators/imams/religious police) seem quite happy with the arrangement. And hyperconfrontational? I'd have nuked their ass.
They are islamic, muslim, and terrorists. Islam in general has shown itself to be an evil religion lately. Want to be a dictator? Want to play god? Make your country a theocracy and impose Sharia. This isn't meant to be flamebait, but what GOOD has islam done lately? I haven't seen any. The Russians will probably be a lot less politically correct than the USA when dealing with this problem. I mean, the dickheads blew up a bunch of kids in a school! Russia knows that the US doesn't really care what they do in response. This should be interesting. I mean, what would you do? Invite the terrorists over for tea? What if it were your kid's school?
Here's my solution: find a buddy who works for a company that "upgrades" their salesman's laptops every two years and pays another company by the pound to haul them off and recycle them (read ship to China). Swap components to make workable machines. Stick the leftovers in a closet. Later, rinse, repeat. Great way to replicate a network:)
This is good advice. If you're a typical geek (at least typical for the ones I drink beer with) you probably have a couple closets full of old laptops, desktops, switches, and rolls of cat5 cable. Playing with it at home is probably the best way to learn.
Oddly enough, everyone I know who is good at Linux administration (or programming in general) is self-taught. Yes, you wind up with holes in your knowledge, but they are usually small. Take a class, you think you know it all, and all of a sudden you are in over your head when you see something new. I see it all the time in new hires. (I only bring up programming because config files really seem to confuse MCSE's, since there is nothing to click on and you actually have to type.)
Well, no, you couldn't be sued for that (I don't think, but IANAL). Doesn't seem much different than a credit check. But you're not talking about the same issue, the problem here is that some landlords seem to think that they can LEGALLY get tenants to sign away rights guaranteed by the federal government in a lease or EULA. You can't do that. Maybe you do now, but try that with someone educated and with a lawyer on retainer and you've got problems.
Ok, I have a LITTLE sympathy for your situation. I rent, so I can move on to a better job with little or no baggage, BUT one of my best friends owns my building. He only owns it because I told him that the previous owner wanted to sell it. And your "blacklist" doesn't exist. If you're a rental company, sure, maybe you have one. Maybe you share it. I wouldn't rent from you anyway. When I moved to the city I live in now, I went to a *large* property management company to get a list of rental properties they had available. They were all shit. I went back, and asked them if they had anything better, and the answer was "Oh, you're not a college student? You're an engineer? We gave you the wrong list." Wrong answer, if not illegal. The "professional" list was in the same price range, maybe a few hundred more on average, but in the ballpark of the first list of ghetto properties. MUCH better places though. The dumbass secretary/desk person saw the haircut and beard and thought "college student", I guess. Evicting people sucks, and I know that it happens, but you should just pick your tenants better. Or, if you're a slumlord, well, sucks to be you. If you do wind up in housing court over something like unpaid rent, yeah you don't need to worry. If you wind up in court over a BS clause like "no firearms allowed" expect to pay someone's lawyer bills. I think you would wind up paying mine I ever made the mistake of renting from you. Some of your tenants know the judge and his kids, too, you see. I'd tread real careful on bullshit leases if your tenants know how to read.
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I haven't seen a slashdot post yet that mentioned the solution to the second puzzle. I no, I haven't solved it (did play with it for a couple of hours though). Did you beat the second one? If so, how? I have this terrible feeling I'm missing something obvious.
All the artists I know have "CVs" and not resumes. Post grad art schools seem to prefer that terminology for some reason, even though it's the same thing. I've never interviewed a geek who called this resume as CV, though. And yes, I'm American.
How, exactly, do you go about making a CLI easy to use when the average user calls the case the "hard drive"? Just wondering.
When my building was being remodeled, there was on old bike (no brakes, missing a pedal) left in the living room by an old roommate. We chucked it out the back door into the courtyard (about a 30 foot drop) which bent the frame, forks, and both wheels. I still rolled, kind of. Instead of tossing it in the truck for a ride to the dump, we leaned against a wall in the lane to see how long it would take for someone to steal it. It took a day, but someone did. Maybe they needed the bolts or something.
Anybody tried a bic on parking meters? The ones in my area appear to use the same style lock... no suggesting that anyone try to rip off the parking police, of course.
Locks only keep honest folks out. Picking locks is MUCH easier than most people think. A coulple of weeks ago, I let my friend borrow my car to get his girlfriend from the airport. He lost the key. I drove the car for two days by picking the door and ignition locks until I had time to get a key made from the serial number. Give it a try, it's not as hard as you think (although if you experiment on your car and you don't know what you're doing, try the passenger door. Jamming that up is no where near as annoying as the driver's side).
I'm guessing you weren't replying to my comment, but in case you were and you REALLY misunderstood: My family has been military for the past 200 years. I'm the first oldest son not to serve. The reason? I was told "Don't unless you have to, it will frustrate the hell out of you and burn you out. Don't do it" by career guys. Did you know that they make picture books now to explain how to operate an M1 Abrams? No text? See, most recruits don't know how to read. That is depressing. Don't get me wrong, I support our troops, and sometimes force is the only way to go. I try not to think we're fucked as a country, but we're running out of uneducated people (even though the public schools are cranking them out as fast as they can) and people willing to put up with the bullshit (and go to OTC) who can actually shoot a gun if they have to. Yes, I think Iraq was a mistake. On the other hand, if we stay there, I'm afraid we'll wind up drafting a bunch of frat boys who can read but don't understand the rest of it.
Not if they don't have any. I't not like you would have to do it more than once, if things were really getting out of control.
No, that wouldn't be funny, more like this (Reuters leader) Misguided, overly religous Muslim blows himself to kingdom come among a crowd of schoolkids. Fellow (name your favorite Islamic countries residents) refuse to bury him because he stinks of dead swine. Mullahs are debating how contaminated he is, and if his stink will offend the virgins in heaven. (Body to follow, they are trying to round up Palestinians to get the body parts into the little baggies.)
No, I haven't bothered. I think it's like down to $30 or so at Best Buy, but I would feel like a sucker if I paid for it twice. Their problem, not mine.
If you mean freedom to own a small yappy dog that will piss off everyone within a block and pee on everything... well, you can restrict that. Because there is nothing in the Constitution about a "Right to own a miniature poodle with a small bladder". That doesn't apply to my sidearm. And, an administrative code ruling about guns? The only such rulings I've heard of applied to public housing, and they were intended to remove guns from some of Chicago's most notoriously violent housing projects. That got overturned. See, the government CREATED the ghetto, and let the gangbangers run rampent for a few years. Then tried to (in a typical, liberal, misguided way for HUD) solve it by saying that law-abiding residents couldn't have guns. BZZZZT. Illegal. What would they shoot back at the crackheads with? I stand by my earlier guess that you are a slumlord.
Kind of cool that machineguns ARE legal, isn't it? You just spend the $200, get signed off on by your local law enforcement, and get the feds your fingerprints and picture. Now you're legal, you just have to wait a few months. An expensive hobby, I suppose, but great fun :) And for the record, no crime has ever been committed with a NFA weapon. Would YOU go to all that trouble if you were a nutcase with a record?
No, Russia just needed a good enough reason for the US not to protest when they invaded another another country. Looks like they might take down Georgia. And not only will the US not say anything, they shouldn't. Now you have the only existing superpower (the US) AND the Russians invading places to kill terrorists. Don't kid yourself; if they aren't worth questioning, and you're 90% sure, and they just killed your kids, what would you do? Do I think this will work? No. Would total war work? Maybe, maybe not. Either way, things just got escalated and no matter who did it the Islamic terrorists are going to be the ones who get shot.
No, that's not always the case. Operation Flashpoint, for example, prints the CD key in the goddamn manual. Which I lost in the last move. And I probably lost the receipt long before that. Now what do I do?
I thought that was the whole point... what could be funnier than selling a muslim a computer that stinks of dead SWINE?
Heh :) I guess I'm the second well-armed moron on the thread.
Well, I've got an "assault rifle". It has two 30-round clips jungle-clipped together sticking out the bottom. Ever hear of a hurricane? How about looters? That's one reason to own such a weapon. The other, of course, would be to prevent tyranny by the government (whose soldiers are quite well armed with similar but even faster-cycling weapons). The assault weapons ban was a dumb-ass law anyway. They banned guns based on how they look, not how they function. As an example, I have an AK that was imported from a former soviet bloc country. The factory that exported it just left the muzzle brake off. The US company that imported it swapped out some pins, screws, other small parts, and changed the pistol grip. Perfectly legal, now it's a "US made" gun under the law. The only thing the "assault weapons" ban ever did was drive up the price for "pre-ban" guns with flash suppressors and bayonet lugs. Now collectors pay more, but nothing else ever came of it. Stupid laws should be repealed.
People shoot guns all the time on your property? What kind of an operation are you running, man? Do they shoot each other often, or are they shooting at the TV? Just curious.
No, it's not a mistake to equate terrorists with Islamic militants. Yes, there are other groups who seem to spawn a lot of terrorists. But, they are not a worldwide problem. The muslim terrorists are, and have been for a while. While we're at it, why are you essentially apologizing for a religion (I'm going to say that since they don't do a whole lot of condemning of terror on their end) that thinks that it is OK to shoot kids, saw people's heads off, blow up school buses, etc? Fuck the "Islamic separatists" or whatever you want to call them. Even if the terrorists aren't all that religious, they are using the islamic religion to further their ends. And the leaders of that religion (and the associated dictators/imams/religious police) seem quite happy with the arrangement. And hyperconfrontational? I'd have nuked their ass.
They are islamic, muslim, and terrorists. Islam in general has shown itself to be an evil religion lately. Want to be a dictator? Want to play god? Make your country a theocracy and impose Sharia. This isn't meant to be flamebait, but what GOOD has islam done lately? I haven't seen any. The Russians will probably be a lot less politically correct than the USA when dealing with this problem. I mean, the dickheads blew up a bunch of kids in a school! Russia knows that the US doesn't really care what they do in response. This should be interesting. I mean, what would you do? Invite the terrorists over for tea? What if it were your kid's school?
Here's my solution: find a buddy who works for a company that "upgrades" their salesman's laptops every two years and pays another company by the pound to haul them off and recycle them (read ship to China). Swap components to make workable machines. Stick the leftovers in a closet. Later, rinse, repeat. Great way to replicate a network :)
This is good advice. If you're a typical geek (at least typical for the ones I drink beer with) you probably have a couple closets full of old laptops, desktops, switches, and rolls of cat5 cable. Playing with it at home is probably the best way to learn.
Oddly enough, everyone I know who is good at Linux administration (or programming in general) is self-taught. Yes, you wind up with holes in your knowledge, but they are usually small. Take a class, you think you know it all, and all of a sudden you are in over your head when you see something new. I see it all the time in new hires. (I only bring up programming because config files really seem to confuse MCSE's, since there is nothing to click on and you actually have to type.)
Well, no, you couldn't be sued for that (I don't think, but IANAL). Doesn't seem much different than a credit check. But you're not talking about the same issue, the problem here is that some landlords seem to think that they can LEGALLY get tenants to sign away rights guaranteed by the federal government in a lease or EULA. You can't do that. Maybe you do now, but try that with someone educated and with a lawyer on retainer and you've got problems.
Ok, I have a LITTLE sympathy for your situation. I rent, so I can move on to a better job with little or no baggage, BUT one of my best friends owns my building. He only owns it because I told him that the previous owner wanted to sell it. And your "blacklist" doesn't exist. If you're a rental company, sure, maybe you have one. Maybe you share it. I wouldn't rent from you anyway. When I moved to the city I live in now, I went to a *large* property management company to get a list of rental properties they had available. They were all shit. I went back, and asked them if they had anything better, and the answer was "Oh, you're not a college student? You're an engineer? We gave you the wrong list." Wrong answer, if not illegal. The "professional" list was in the same price range, maybe a few hundred more on average, but in the ballpark of the first list of ghetto properties. MUCH better places though. The dumbass secretary/desk person saw the haircut and beard and thought "college student", I guess. Evicting people sucks, and I know that it happens, but you should just pick your tenants better. Or, if you're a slumlord, well, sucks to be you. If you do wind up in housing court over something like unpaid rent, yeah you don't need to worry. If you wind up in court over a BS clause like "no firearms allowed" expect to pay someone's lawyer bills. I think you would wind up paying mine I ever made the mistake of renting from you. Some of your tenants know the judge and his kids, too, you see. I'd tread real careful on bullshit leases if your tenants know how to read.