I may be stating the obvious, but the reason that Orwell called his book 1984 was that he wrote it in 1948 - he just flipped the last two digits. It's ironic that he modelled the Oceania in his dystopia on the Soviet Union, while most of the 1984 references produced refer to the USA (and Britain, to a lesser extent).
Here at Georgia Tech OIT encrypts all packets by destination MAC address so only the intended recipient can view them.
Well, that shouldn't be a big deal - just get a list of active MAC addresses. You can do this by sniffing ARP. If you can't get a list, try brute forcing the MAC space for popular manufacturers (on campus). 16 million attempts per manufacturer for 2 or 3 manufacturers should get most NICs on campus.
Now, making all the network links switched will eliminate you ability to sniff packets (save for WiFi) and render the encryption issue moot.
This:giant-room" is fucking huge - it's 10,000 sq feet huge. A small section of the room has a pit of sharp spikes with a warning sign above it - "Pit of Spikes Will Kill You!".
The children are ushered in on the side of the room away from the pit of spikes, and get to spend the entire day in the room. Away from the pit of spikes are the bathrooms and eating facilities.
The stupid children fall into the pit of spikes.
The smart ones stay away.
Gee, I hope Johnny didn't piss anyone off that day.
I just don't think retards and delenquents belong in socioty
Well they are in society and you just have to deal. Perhaps Patriot Act 3 will enact a minimum IQ, but that hasn't happened yet.
I don't even mind dealing with the retarded - they're usually fairly decent, or at least as decent as anyone else. Perhaps they're too stupid to scheme properly, so they play it straight. Anyway, they're citizens, and I prefer them to willful idiots any day.
As for delinquents, discipline them young, while they still have a chance. Keep them away from soft-headed social workers and apply some corporal discipline where it's needed. The last thing I want or need is for these kids to get light treatment until they turn 18, whereupon they get thrown in prison (cirminal university) for something that used to get them two weeks in the county lockup. When you think about it, it makes no sense.
I want to see these kids reformed into decent people while it's still possible, and that means starting when they're young. Far better to have somebody doing auto repair or fixing plumbing for $25/hr than rotting in a cell for $30k/yr.
Routers. Nothing but routers. I'm not familiar with Cisco as a DB, but the company has revenue and market cap comparable to MS, so I thought everybody knew who they were.
BGP - Border Gateway Protocol. A mysticla (I'm not kidding) protocol that governs routing between connected autonomous networks. The porotocol is described in detail in various places, but the implementation of it is complex and limited mostly to those who have to handle it, which isn't a whole lot of people.
But we completely back to my original point. When you presume upon the future that you are going to be able to make the mortgage payments, you are putting yourself at risk for hurting your credit. Everyone on here is whining about how your credit can be our of your control because of job loss, people getting sick, etc., but really it's because people put themselves into debt into the first place that they can't get out of it once they are there.
That's why you maintain a cash buffer of 6 months and stagger your investments so that there is always cash available in 6 months or less. If you have a quarter million in cash, you are better off (in all cases) getting a low rate loan now and putting the money in bonds and CDs.
Plus, you suggestion doesn't make much sense to me. If you are making the house payment, then you can't use that money to save now. My original proposition was to save/invest your house payment you would be making and then eventually you could purchase the house. You are saying to make the house payment and then put some extra money into investment to offset the cost of interest on your house payment. That would require that you have twice your house payment per month to do both things.
I was responding to your story about people buying a house for cash. If you don't have a pile of cash, then it's a matter of financial planning over the next year, 2 years, and 10 years - do what works for you and remember, the best way to make money is to invest it over time.
A bad credit report should probably trigger some questions about the candidate's attitudes about personal responsibility, or ability to manage money (if that is part of his/her job).
Or, more likely, indicate that they were blindsided by an expensive medical condition. That does constitute the bulk of bad credit ratings.
Actually, there are funny rules about how these checks are counted. Probably, all of the mortgage related checks will count as one. Aside from that, don't they show the name of the agency performing the check? It'd be rather hard to believe that someone just got 10 mortgages.
yearly budget for health care was 30 billion. And, as the population of canada is 30 million
By comparison, the healthcare industry in the US costs something like $600B to $800B and the population is 250M. That makes for $2400US per person.
Looking at this, I'd say that Canadian healthcare is pretty damn cheap - with the exchange rate, it costs about a third of the US equivalent. The only thing really missing is what is actually covered.
I know people who never had a mortgage, not because they were rich, but because they put off purchasing a home for 10 years to save for it instead. It is possible and you don't have to be "rich" to do it.
But it helps to be stupid. You see, with the mortgage rates running around 6%, and with the small matter of your mortgage being fully tax deductible, you have an effective rate of 4%, more or less. So, instead of buying a house for cash, be smart: buy a house with 30% down, then put the rest into something that beats 4% fro 30 years (damn easy).
Like those video rental place that ask for your drivers licenses to identify you. The only person that is legally entitled to your license is a police officer, a judge, or an officer of the dmv.
The video place can ask for your license, but you are under no obligation to provide it. Likewise, they are not obligated to rent to you.
IYWAL, you would know about the term "at will employment," which may or may not be applicable in this person's state.
If you knew much about business, you'd know that upper level positions are usually governed by something more formal than at-will employment. After all, you can't have your CFO or director of sales just walk out.
While MS isn't above dirty tricks like this, it's entirely possible that this is just faulty autodetection. I remember that there was some issue with sites detecting Mozilla as NS 4.x and sending a faulty stylesheet.
As has already been said, Opera should just add a config option to send an MSIE User-Agent.
Then there is the fact that property, being not a person, has no legal rights and is therefore guilty until proven innocent.
Ah yes, the basis of property seizure, right? That's one egregious hole in our legal code. IMHO, the best solution to it would be to legally tie it to its owner. Make provisions to cover lending and leasing (i.e. loaning a car to your buddy vs. renting them at Budget) and carve out an exception when you know that your renter is using it for illegal activities (some sort of accessory thing, probably).
It'll never happen, though. Too profitable for the drug warriors and local PDs
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I may be stating the obvious, but the reason that Orwell called his book 1984 was that he wrote it in 1948 - he just flipped the last two digits. It's ironic that he modelled the Oceania in his dystopia on the Soviet Union, while most of the 1984 references produced refer to the USA (and Britain, to a lesser extent).
Here at Georgia Tech OIT encrypts all packets by destination MAC address so only the intended recipient can view them.
Well, that shouldn't be a big deal - just get a list of active MAC addresses. You can do this by sniffing ARP. If you can't get a list, try brute forcing the MAC space for popular manufacturers (on campus). 16 million attempts per manufacturer for 2 or 3 manufacturers should get most NICs on campus.
Now, making all the network links switched will eliminate you ability to sniff packets (save for WiFi) and render the encryption issue moot.
Kind of hard to tell blatant stupidity from sarcasm.
no silly MS-only worms DOSing the whole net
Yeah, instead it was a silly sendmail worm DOSing the whole net.
The richest 5% already pay over 56% of the entire income tax base
Well, they do own 80% of the country.
It will be interesting now to see if California can siphon off more pork from the federal budget than Massachusetts.
Well, considering that their economy rivals that of Germany, it shouldn't be hard.
This :giant-room" is fucking huge - it's 10,000 sq feet huge. A small section of the room has a pit of sharp spikes with a warning sign above it - "Pit of Spikes Will Kill You!".
The children are ushered in on the side of the room away from the pit of spikes, and get to spend the entire day in the room. Away from the pit of spikes are the bathrooms and eating facilities.
The stupid children fall into the pit of spikes.
The smart ones stay away.
Gee, I hope Johnny didn't piss anyone off that day.
I just don't think retards and delenquents belong in socioty
Well they are in society and you just have to deal. Perhaps Patriot Act 3 will enact a minimum IQ, but that hasn't happened yet.
I don't even mind dealing with the retarded - they're usually fairly decent, or at least as decent as anyone else. Perhaps they're too stupid to scheme properly, so they play it straight. Anyway, they're citizens, and I prefer them to willful idiots any day.
As for delinquents, discipline them young, while they still have a chance. Keep them away from soft-headed social workers and apply some corporal discipline where it's needed. The last thing I want or need is for these kids to get light treatment until they turn 18, whereupon they get thrown in prison (cirminal university) for something that used to get them two weeks in the county lockup. When you think about it, it makes no sense.
I want to see these kids reformed into decent people while it's still possible, and that means starting when they're young. Far better to have somebody doing auto repair or fixing plumbing for $25/hr than rotting in a cell for $30k/yr.
Fourth, GW Bush was not and is no longer vested in energy corporations.
Nice of you to contradict yourself in a single sentence.
Um, you might want to go their before you assume that that's a government site.
Routers. Nothing but routers. I'm not familiar with Cisco as a DB, but the company has revenue and market cap comparable to MS, so I thought everybody knew who they were.
BGP - Border Gateway Protocol. A mysticla (I'm not kidding) protocol that governs routing between connected autonomous networks. The porotocol is described in detail in various places, but the implementation of it is complex and limited mostly to those who have to handle it, which isn't a whole lot of people.
As far as networks: The Internet is the most important network that I can think of, and what does it run on?
Well, it's the biggest, and it runs on Cisco, Bay , and Juniper, all communicating through the black magic that is BGP.
The funny part is, were this anywhere save New York or Tokyo, it'd come across as bitter irony.
You know what sucks about fiber to the desktop? Moving your computer and *SNAP* $15 for a new patch cable.
when it's the phone company and they're the ones calling you, they get really confused.
I don't see why. I have an ATT cellphone, and ATT has called me twice trying to sell me ATT cellphone service.
But we completely back to my original point. When you presume upon the future that you are going to be able to make the mortgage payments, you are putting yourself at risk for hurting your credit. Everyone on here is whining about how your credit can be our of your control because of job loss, people getting sick, etc., but really it's because people put themselves into debt into the first place that they can't get out of it once they are there.
That's why you maintain a cash buffer of 6 months and stagger your investments so that there is always cash available in 6 months or less. If you have a quarter million in cash, you are better off (in all cases) getting a low rate loan now and putting the money in bonds and CDs.
Plus, you suggestion doesn't make much sense to me. If you are making the house payment, then you can't use that money to save now. My original proposition was to save/invest your house payment you would be making and then eventually you could purchase the house. You are saying to make the house payment and then put some extra money into investment to offset the cost of interest on your house payment. That would require that you have twice your house payment per month to do both things.
I was responding to your story about people buying a house for cash. If you don't have a pile of cash, then it's a matter of financial planning over the next year, 2 years, and 10 years - do what works for you and remember, the best way to make money is to invest it over time.
A bad credit report should probably trigger some questions about the candidate's attitudes about personal responsibility, or ability to manage money (if that is part of his/her job).
Or, more likely, indicate that they were blindsided by an expensive medical condition. That does constitute the bulk of bad credit ratings.
Actually, there are funny rules about how these checks are counted. Probably, all of the mortgage related checks will count as one. Aside from that, don't they show the name of the agency performing the check? It'd be rather hard to believe that someone just got 10 mortgages.
yearly budget for health care was 30 billion. And, as the population of canada is 30 million
By comparison, the healthcare industry in the US costs something like $600B to $800B and the population is 250M. That makes for $2400US per person.
Looking at this, I'd say that Canadian healthcare is pretty damn cheap - with the exchange rate, it costs about a third of the US equivalent. The only thing really missing is what is actually covered.
I know people who never had a mortgage, not because they were rich, but because they put off purchasing a home for 10 years to save for it instead. It is possible and you don't have to be "rich" to do it.
But it helps to be stupid. You see, with the mortgage rates running around 6%, and with the small matter of your mortgage being fully tax deductible, you have an effective rate of 4%, more or less. So, instead of buying a house for cash, be smart: buy a house with 30% down, then put the rest into something that beats 4% fro 30 years (damn easy).
Like those video rental place that ask for your drivers licenses to identify you. The only person that is legally entitled to your license is a police officer, a judge, or an officer of the dmv.
The video place can ask for your license, but you are under no obligation to provide it. Likewise, they are not obligated to rent to you.
IYWAL, you would know about the term "at will employment," which may or may not be applicable in this person's state.
If you knew much about business, you'd know that upper level positions are usually governed by something more formal than at-will employment. After all, you can't have your CFO or director of sales just walk out.
While MS isn't above dirty tricks like this, it's entirely possible that this is just faulty autodetection. I remember that there was some issue with sites detecting Mozilla as NS 4.x and sending a faulty stylesheet.
As has already been said, Opera should just add a config option to send an MSIE User-Agent.
Then there is the fact that property, being not a person, has no legal rights and is therefore guilty until proven innocent.
Ah yes, the basis of property seizure, right? That's one egregious hole in our legal code. IMHO, the best solution to it would be to legally tie it to its owner. Make provisions to cover lending and leasing (i.e. loaning a car to your buddy vs. renting them at Budget) and carve out an exception when you know that your renter is using it for illegal activities (some sort of accessory thing, probably).
It'll never happen, though. Too profitable for the drug warriors and local PDs