I mean, the next time a Brad Pitt comes along, my Bruce Willis charisma will have me fall from favor with those who play that stupid game. Stupid. Charisma for an IT position. Just plain stupid.
*sigh* and would anyone watch Baywatch if it was just a bunch of fat people running around? These people get all the benefits, we're gonna have to just live with this fact of life.
Trust/. to make things complicated. No wonder nobody listens to these/. techies. Here's the Karnaugh map dude,
Degree: N, Experience: X, SocialSecurity#: N - Janitor, cleaner Degree: Y, Experience: Y, SocialSecurity#: N - H1B coder Degree: N, Experience: N, SocialSecurity#: Y - Welfare Degree: N, Experience: Y, SocialSecurity#: Y - good job with companies whose HR values experience (current market) Degree: Y, Experience: N, SocialSecurity#: Y - welfare, even if you're a CMU/Berkeley/MIT grad Degree: Y, Experience: Y, SocialSecurity#: Y - welfare (in the current market), unless you have heaps of experience and a 4-year degree in which case junior sysadmin. Programming, even junior programmer is closed in this market. Wait 5 years and try again. Think grads with experience can't be on welfare? In the current market, guess again. Sorry to bring you back to reality dude
Even strictly within the administration field, lots of places require a BS degree just for system administration
A lot of places need BS for you to work there, it's important for career progression, especially if you want to go into Management. Remember if an illiterate MBA is standing there with a million dollars and wants to pay me to be a sysadmin but requires BS, that's expected. All jobs except for hardcore techie jobs require BS 'cos most people can't understand what us techies do.
But I have one thing a person who spent 4 years in college won't have over me, and thats 5 years experience as a System Administrator. Who would you rather have in charge of your systems, someone who has been doing this for a while now, or someone who's only read about it?
True, nobody's better at doing the job than someone that's done the job. And thus you get chicken and egg. I know a couple of people that have a CS Masters degree and a couple of postgrad CS degrees, but they're still unemployed.
Goalposts have moved people. Whether you have a degree or not is irrelevant, it's the experience that counts with employers now. CS-major from CMU or Berkeley is gonna get you nowhere, so drop out and do accountancy. Think I'm joking? 75% of University graduates believe they will be unemployed according to this survey of 14,000 students
At a massive UK telecom company, it's 7000 applications for 50 available positions.
There is absolutely no way to control media- any encryption scheme will be circumvented in no time flat.
That's the best idea. Once a month do a scan of the Kazaa network, see who's downloaded what. Kazaa logs what you download in the Windows registry. Royalties are paid by Kazaa on the basis of how many copies of a song have been downloaded.
You treat the net seriously, dont sit it next to the VCR and TV in the living room, you put it in the computer room with the books and materials.
Yeah, I think a lot of kids regard the computer as being the same as the TV (see killing - but doesn't affect you) and then transpose this belief to the computer. Trouble is a computer can *bite back*, it's totally different from a TV, and many Joe sizpack kids don't realise that. They should stick with their Playstations and then graduate to a computer *when they're ready*. The more mature scr1pt k1dd13s can grauduate
Yeah except that usually the 12 year old girl is some other 45 year old guy... Gross
Yeah, and when I take a woman home from the bar with some BIG D-cup and then I find out it's a wonderbra or implants. Gross. Why does everyone try to look beautiful for each other even if it means lying?
**Oooooops did I just hit on a profound question?**
You cannot say "CHAT IS BAD FOR ALL KIDS"
you can say chat is bad for YOUR kid.
You are correct. Unfortunately people and Governments are too stupid to respect individuality. They're like a Borg cube. The speed limit is 56mph for EVERYONE. If you break it then no matter if you're a University professor, the President, a whino or Joe sixpack you'll still get a ticket.
There's no general way to tell if a kid is mature enough for IRC (SAT--IRC or something?) so....... It's either gonna be OK or illegal. Islamic sharia law as laid down by Hadiths deals with this well - when a kid hits puberty he becomes adult and can do whatever. Trouble is the idea of cops pulling over young drivers all the time and examining their genitalia disturbs me.
Chatting On-Line: A Dangerous Proposition for Children
Subcommittee on Telecommunications and the Internet
So what's new? I would have thought it pretty obvious that if a kid goes to the mall by himself, puts a sticker on his head saying, "I Am A l1ttl3 k1ddi3", and then starts talking to any random strangers that pass by, that he might be in a little bit of danger if the stranger is not a nice man.......
Everyone knows the real world is dangerous, but nobody says, "Make roads, stores, malls and all other places were people can meet children illegal". Simply install filtering software and educate.
Amend Don't talk to strangers -> Don't talk to strangers, even if they're on the Internet
Kill the fuckers. Just be careful, and don't get caught
A business in this position has a number of choices:
Agressive
Hire a hitman - this is unfortunately the most practical option if your probability of getting caught is zero *sigh*. Most practical method is a car bomb. *Nobody* checks the underside of their car before getting in. Invite him to pay him the money personally, and then poison him, the check will bounce. Find information about Al Qaeda poisons like Ricin here Group with the other injured companies and take him on together - Many have suggested this.
Hire a lawyer on a no-win no-fee basis - Just find some prior art and stick it in your lawyer's face.
Hit 'em back - inform the District Attorney that they are causing defamation to your company and to the public interest by threatening to sue for non-existant issues on Patents that are VOID, then show the DA your prior art. Just the threat can make this company back off of you. Also claim that the head of the company stated he would kill you and your family if you didn't pay and that he had *secrets* about your company. State no witnesses e.g. in the Mall. This will hit him with criminal charges and blackmail.
Hit 'em back dirty - dig some dirt up on the person suing you. If him or anyone in his family is a Doctor or teacher, then report them as a paedophile to the AMA/Teachers' Association anonymously. You can always do it non-anonymously and then say, "Oooh, I must have been mistaken" Be a true stars'n'stripes American - walk into their offices with a couple of machineguns and a few grenades. Massacre all of them.
Defensive
Cut your losses - bankrupt your company by giving yourself a personal bonus for "good performance" which equals the balance of your company (careful, don't do this illegally). Tell all your employees that you're reassigning them. Lock up your office, move your equipment elsewhere and then register a new company (preferably LLC) and take on your previous employees. This should be <<$30,000 Move - move your company to Mexico or Canada. You should be immune there.
If your adversary is an LLC (which would be the wise choice for a company like that) then a counter-suit will accomplish nothing as the boss probably gave the money to himself as soon as he sued the other companies. A bankrupt LLC is a stronger adversary than Micro$oft.
Someone who lives in say Idaho whos grew up around the KKK and so on whos never really spoken to anyone diffrent, could get on the net and see the REAL world for the first time and begin thinking for themselves.
or of course, they can go to their KKK websites.
But chances are they'll go to an AOL chatroom and meet diffrent people. Thats the first step to increasing tolerance.
How is a new-born foetus going to know that Indymedia.org is uncensored? How is he gonna know that CNN is a major news site?
Simple: Education, culture, media, friends and associates.
For every American, CNN and MSNBC are de facto news areas. Same as IP. "Internet Service Provider rebels against IP, starts using proprietary protocol" simply ain't gonna happen, it's like swimming against the flow, or eating sweet and sour dog meat. But in other countries, they've never heard of CNN and Yahoo. The websites and news sites they use are completely different. Their education system is censored according to Sharia law or whatever so they cannot comprehend the full scale and breadth of the Internet. If their ISP sets AlMuhajiroun as their portal homepage then THEY ARE SCREWED! But this does happen.
All I'm saying is this - free markets and competition does not guarantee quality and low price, and government controlled does not necessarily mean high prices and poor service. The sensible solution is to have free market competition and public funded services, and use the most appropriate one for the situation.
You are partially correct. Privatisation can work if the economic model is set up right. Railway privatisation would have worked if when a train was late they got fined $500 per passeneger inconvenienced, on the spot fine so that shareholders would IMMEDIATELY feel the hit. If a passeneger died in a train crash or whatever they would be fined $5million per passenger immediately (guilty until proven innocent).
If you hit the balance sheet (the only way you can hurt a company), the private model is best. If it's more abstract e.g. private contracters running airport security, then they'll just take the chance that Osama binLaden won't strike again, and if he does then screw it, the company running airline security goes bust and the CEO puts on his resume, "Head of airline security" and gets another higher paid job in 5 minutes. Nobody cares that much about the company they work for, not even the CEO. Federal workers would shut down the airport if they're not sure about something, and would go by the book. Bad for the customer, good for security.
Federal workers go by the book very slowly, private workers just maximise shareholder benefits - and so MUST be IMMEDIATELY massively fined if they screw even 1 customer. Now go choose the most appropriate one for your needs.
Forget security, every company should run 802.11 WEP-disabled with no VPN and no encryption.
This way companies are supporting the ultimate open-source. If M$ was an open-source corporation/. wouldn't bitch about them so much (as in all internal network traffic and servers open)
Damn you *BSD and *nix people giving companies security, making them closed. Using open source code to make corporations closed. Oh man. You *nix and *BSD people are self-defeating.
Then again, there are comedians comparing MySQL and Postgresql with Oracle and DB2, clueless people comparing Ext3 or Raiser-fs with Veritas.
Don't get me wrong, there are some good open source software, but not many so far that can even remotly compare with their commercial counterparts.
What you say is correct. You must be committed to see through a massive project. This doesn't happen in open source, except for critical areas like the kernel. The majority of coders write an application e.g. MySQL and takes *ages* to add new features (e.g. subselects) that would require you to gut the code you've written and almost start coding again from scratch.
The MySQL and PostgreSQL people arent stupid, when Borland open-sourced Interbase they were like "Oh my GOD! These megacorporate development teams totally outclass us." Even Postgres can't even now come anywhere near Interbase despite the fact they've got all that code to copy-and-paste from. Heck Postgres only a short time ago fixed their field size limitation.
What we need to do now is work out how succesful open source projects e.g. Samba, Apache get through difficult times, e.g. meticulous bug-hunting OpenBSD-style, massive code rewrites. Then we can stick this message onto the front of Sourceforge.
Only if you can "tune" your lzipFS and trade compression for speed. Something like:
tunelzipfs -c [compression %]/dev/sda1
Uhhh, dude, I was kidding, *someone please mod parent as funny before other innocent people get confused*. Lzip is lossy compression. With a MySQL database or similar this would REALLY test the recovery features. Since MySQL doesn't attach a CRC to each field to ensure field data integrity, you might as well set lzip to 100% compression.
In other words when you try to save a file to lzipFS it might as well return, "yeah" immediately. You tell lzipFS to fsync() and it'll return "yeah" immediately
class lzipFS { ..... long int fsync() { // cache->doflush();/* what we save will be lossy so, what's the point? */ return YEEEEAH_FSYNC_SUCCESFUL; ..... }}
Simple solution - wearable computing. Attach the heatsink to the user's ass. That way when the user runs a CPU-intensive task it will *HURT*, encouraging him to buy a CPU that runs cooler like a Transmeta. Pentium owners and AMD overclockers will get permanent scars. This way we'll get more efficient software when these important Manager people start complaining.
Bill Gates buys Itanium, then can't sit down for a week. He sells Itanium then optimises and removes bloat from Windows.
DOE tries to find a good warning sign for the nuclear waste dump out in Nevada. This is one of those scary yet true things our government actually does; research into finding what exactly can be interpreted as "dangerous" 10,000 years from now.
Obvious - there's radiation there, so put a Geiger counter into a corpse's hand, and leave him there. His other hand will cover a gaping hole in his radiation suit.
/. hAxOrS - this is what good GUI design is all about.
The only thing that can put people off from buying Hershey bars is a corpse draped across the shelf with a half-eaten Hershey bar in his hand. Any other sign is open to interpretation - even the traditional skull & crossbones sign will be interpreted by pirates as their equivalent of "Stars & Stripes"
More effective cooling - install a reservoir in the laptop, and fill it with freezer spray (freely available). This will cool the CPU/heatsink to -50 Celsius, just target the spray at the CPU.
Please don't joke about lawyers, dude. They're having a really hard time. Quoting article
According to a 1992 poll conducted by California Lawyer magazine, 70 percent of lawyers surveyed said they would start a new career if they could. A 1990 American Bar Association survey indicated that 23 percent of all lawyers were dissatisfied with their careers. A 1990 John Hopkins University study found that lawyers had a greater rate of depression than workers in any of the 104 other occupations studied.
...... Lawyers have among the highest suicide rates, lowest popularity ratings, highest pressure, and longest hours of almost any profession that exists.
Law is a profession which always has to deal with the ethical problems of its stuff. And us coders are thinking of forming a professional body for ethics, heh, do lawyers have one? Argghhhh! Don't sympathise with the enemy! All lawyers must die! <Krusty the Clown> Bwa ha, ha ha, ha huh, huhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhh </Krusty the Clown>
Science Fiction has proven many times to be prophecy. Artificial Intelligence is hard SF. It has basis in the real world. I may come to pass. It may not, as well. But to say we will never be able to create "HAL" is ridiculous. It may be 100 years, and "never in our lifetimes" may be accurate. But it may happen. Never rule our science.
Narrow-minded people. Like using the brain tissue of human foetuses in CPUs won't cause a computer to understand. WAKE UP PEOPLE. It's not going to be Pentium 4 20GHz, it's going to be interfaced with eel neurons or something. Real-life thinking computers.
Heck we might not even notice when this happens. People don't bother about computer architecture, just products and stuff. Did the whole world make a big deal out of SiS integrating Northbridge and Southbridge onto one chip? Was it on CNN? Nope. But they did make a big deal out of human cloning.
I think one day Intel will release a Pentium 5 and say, "Oh yeah, BTW 20% of this chip is biological". They'll pay off the senators so nobody questions them. And then one fine morning these biological CPUs will mutate or "evolve" and migrate through the keyboard and connect directly to the nerves in your fingertips forming a symbiotic relationship. Next step: Borg. Just like Sharon Apple and the neural interface in the YF-21 in the manga movie Macross
AMD can get a head start though because the Itanium runs so hot it'll bake any biological component integrated with it. Go AMD!
A comment like "Insert a five iteration for-loop" would be quicker thant typing:
"for(int i=0;i5;i++){}"
Now that's Rapid Application Development baby. "Download JavaBeans for calendar and accounting. Connect these JavaBeans together, accounting fields that require DATE are connected to calendar".
Phew. But then what would happen to us Java/C++ developers? Doh! OSS developers using embrace and extend for a change. Heh.
Where %s is automatically substituted with the search keywords you enter.
Ahh... of course! How intuitive! Man, Windows is so much easier than this Lunix crap!
Now let's see, what's the name of that conf file? Errrr uhhhhh, oh man. Will I have to learn how to use emacs? What's that again tar -zxvf ? What the heck is the f for? Even after reading the manual I don't get why that's necessary. Why doesn't the tar man pages say AT THE TOP, "Usual usage for extracting a compressed file:.tar file tar -xvf ;.tar.gz file tar -zxvf" What if I accidentally extract it after a cd / ?
I prefer "double-click the ZIP file and drag-n-drop"
BTW several more registry keys are necessary because in HTTP GET requests a space character must be substituted by %20 and multiple keywords seperated by "+", etc.
Lunix needs a centralised conf file abstraction mechanism, so that we can access every conf file on the system in the aggregate via a registry-type interface. Imagine the power to replace every conf file on your system simultaneously. Hmmmmm
I thought regular fluorescent lighting already fucked shit up, since its not really a steady light (like incandescent) but really flickers on and off REALLY fast. Some guy thought a cool way to basicly broadcast info from these lights was by slightyly altering the timing to transmit data....
I hope I don't get an RTFM, but anyway is there a linux browser with the Quick Search feature (Web accessories) that IE has had since v4.0 where I set the registry key
HKEY_CURRENT_USER\Software\Microsoft\Internet Explorer\SearchUrl\g (Default) = http://www.google.com/search?q=%s&sa=Google+Search Where %s is automatically substituted with the search keywords you enter.
Using this I just type in the address bar:
g mcdonalds big mac rat found inside
... or whatever, and the search results with Google appear immediately? Can any linux browsers do this or do I need to use a tcsh script with lynx?
Slashdot Mirror
Degree: N, Experience: X, SocialSecurity#: N - Janitor, cleaner
Degree: Y, Experience: Y, SocialSecurity#: N - H1B coder
Degree: N, Experience: N, SocialSecurity#: Y - Welfare
Degree: N, Experience: Y, SocialSecurity#: Y - good job with companies whose HR values experience (current market)
Degree: Y, Experience: N, SocialSecurity#: Y - welfare, even if you're a CMU/Berkeley/MIT grad
Degree: Y, Experience: Y, SocialSecurity#: Y - welfare (in the current market), unless you have heaps of experience and a 4-year degree in which case junior sysadmin. Programming, even junior programmer is closed in this market. Wait 5 years and try again. Think grads with experience can't be on welfare? In the current market, guess again. Sorry to bring you back to reality dude
Oh BTW by BS I mean bullsh**t, not Bachelors.
Goalposts have moved people. Whether you have a degree or not is irrelevant, it's the experience that counts with employers now. CS-major from CMU or Berkeley is gonna get you nowhere, so drop out and do accountancy. Think I'm joking? 75% of University graduates believe they will be unemployed according to this survey of 14,000 students
At a massive UK telecom company, it's 7000 applications for 50 available positions.
**Oooooops did I just hit on a profound question?**
Beauty is in the eye of the beholder.
There's no general way to tell if a kid is mature enough for IRC (SAT--IRC or something?) so....... It's either gonna be OK or illegal. Islamic sharia law as laid down by Hadiths deals with this well - when a kid hits puberty he becomes adult and can do whatever. Trouble is the idea of cops pulling over young drivers all the time and examining their genitalia disturbs me.
Everyone knows the real world is dangerous, but nobody says, "Make roads, stores, malls and all other places were people can meet children illegal". Simply install filtering software and educate.
Amend Don't talk to strangers -> Don't talk to strangers, even if they're on the Internet
Agressive
Hire a hitman - this is unfortunately the most practical option if your probability of getting caught is zero *sigh*. Most practical method is a car bomb. *Nobody* checks the underside of their car before getting in. Invite him to pay him the money personally, and then poison him, the check will bounce. Find information about Al Qaeda poisons like Ricin here
Group with the other injured companies and take him on together - Many have suggested this.
Hire a lawyer on a no-win no-fee basis - Just find some prior art and stick it in your lawyer's face.
Hit 'em back - inform the District Attorney that they are causing defamation to your company and to the public interest by threatening to sue for non-existant issues on Patents that are VOID, then show the DA your prior art. Just the threat can make this company back off of you. Also claim that the head of the company stated he would kill you and your family if you didn't pay and that he had *secrets* about your company. State no witnesses e.g. in the Mall. This will hit him with criminal charges and blackmail.
Hit 'em back dirty - dig some dirt up on the person suing you. If him or anyone in his family is a Doctor or teacher, then report them as a paedophile to the AMA/Teachers' Association anonymously. You can always do it non-anonymously and then say, "Oooh, I must have been mistaken"
Be a true stars'n'stripes American - walk into their offices with a couple of machineguns and a few grenades. Massacre all of them.
Defensive
Cut your losses - bankrupt your company by giving yourself a personal bonus for "good performance" which equals the balance of your company (careful, don't do this illegally). Tell all your employees that you're reassigning them. Lock up your office, move your equipment elsewhere and then register a new company (preferably LLC) and take on your previous employees. This should be <<$30,000
Move - move your company to Mexico or Canada. You should be immune there.
If your adversary is an LLC (which would be the wise choice for a company like that) then a counter-suit will accomplish nothing as the boss probably gave the money to himself as soon as he sued the other companies. A bankrupt LLC is a stronger adversary than Micro$oft.
Simple: Education, culture, media, friends and associates.
For every American, CNN and MSNBC are de facto news areas. Same as IP. "Internet Service Provider rebels against IP, starts using proprietary protocol" simply ain't gonna happen, it's like swimming against the flow, or eating sweet and sour dog meat. But in other countries, they've never heard of CNN and Yahoo. The websites and news sites they use are completely different. Their education system is censored according to Sharia law or whatever so they cannot comprehend the full scale and breadth of the Internet. If their ISP sets AlMuhajiroun as their portal homepage then THEY ARE SCREWED! But this does happen.
If you hit the balance sheet (the only way you can hurt a company), the private model is best. If it's more abstract e.g. private contracters running airport security, then they'll just take the chance that Osama binLaden won't strike again, and if he does then screw it, the company running airline security goes bust and the CEO puts on his resume, "Head of airline security" and gets another higher paid job in 5 minutes. Nobody cares that much about the company they work for, not even the CEO. Federal workers would shut down the airport if they're not sure about something, and would go by the book. Bad for the customer, good for security.
Federal workers go by the book very slowly, private workers just maximise shareholder benefits - and so MUST be IMMEDIATELY massively fined if they screw even 1 customer. Now go choose the most appropriate one for your needs.
This way companies are supporting the ultimate open-source. If M$ was an open-source corporation /. wouldn't bitch about them so much (as in all internal network traffic and servers open)
Damn you *BSD and *nix people giving companies security, making them closed. Using open source code to make corporations closed. Oh man. You *nix and *BSD people are self-defeating.
The MySQL and PostgreSQL people arent stupid, when Borland open-sourced Interbase they were like "Oh my GOD! These megacorporate development teams totally outclass us." Even Postgres can't even now come anywhere near Interbase despite the fact they've got all that code to copy-and-paste from. Heck Postgres only a short time ago fixed their field size limitation.
What we need to do now is work out how succesful open source projects e.g. Samba, Apache get through difficult times, e.g. meticulous bug-hunting OpenBSD-style, massive code rewrites. Then we can stick this message onto the front of Sourceforge.
In other words when you try to save a file to lzipFS it might as well return, "yeah" immediately. You tell lzipFS to fsync() and it'll return "yeah" immediately
class lzipFS { /* what we save will be lossy so, what's the point? */
.....
long int fsync() {
// cache->doflush();
return YEEEEAH_FSYNC_SUCCESFUL;
.....
}}
Problem solved: Use lzip
MBA Managers won't notice ;-)
For the hardcore, we can build lzip into the FS. So we'll have Reiserfs, ext2, ext3, JFS, and lzipFS. Heck lzipFS might be faster than RAM!
Bill Gates buys Itanium, then can't sit down for a week. He sells Itanium then optimises and removes bloat from Windows.
/. hAxOrS - this is what good GUI design is all about.
The only thing that can put people off from buying Hershey bars is a corpse draped across the shelf with a half-eaten Hershey bar in his hand. Any other sign is open to interpretation - even the traditional skull & crossbones sign will be interpreted by pirates as their equivalent of "Stars & Stripes"
More effective cooling - install a reservoir in the laptop, and fill it with freezer spray (freely available). This will cool the CPU/heatsink to -50 Celsius, just target the spray at the CPU.
Argghhhh! Don't sympathise with the enemy! All lawyers must die!
<Krusty the Clown> Bwa ha, ha ha, ha huh, huhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhh </Krusty the Clown>
Heck we might not even notice when this happens. People don't bother about computer architecture, just products and stuff. Did the whole world make a big deal out of SiS integrating Northbridge and Southbridge onto one chip? Was it on CNN? Nope. But they did make a big deal out of human cloning.
I think one day Intel will release a Pentium 5 and say, "Oh yeah, BTW 20% of this chip is biological". They'll pay off the senators so nobody questions them. And then one fine morning these biological CPUs will mutate or "evolve" and migrate through the keyboard and connect directly to the nerves in your fingertips forming a symbiotic relationship. Next step: Borg. Just like Sharon Apple and the neural interface in the YF-21 in the manga movie Macross
AMD can get a head start though because the Itanium runs so hot it'll bake any biological component integrated with it. Go AMD!
Phew. But then what would happen to us Java/C++ developers? Doh! OSS developers using embrace and extend for a change. Heh.
What if I accidentally extract it after a cd / ?
I prefer "double-click the ZIP file and drag-n-drop"
BTW several more registry keys are necessary because in HTTP GET requests a space character must be substituted by %20 and multiple keywords seperated by "+", etc.
Lunix needs a centralised conf file abstraction mechanism, so that we can access every conf file on the system in the aggregate via a registry-type interface. Imagine the power to replace every conf file on your system simultaneously. Hmmmmm
HKEY_CURRENT_USER\Software\Microsoft\Internet Explorer\SearchUrl\g
(Default) = http://www.google.com/search?q=%s&sa=Google+Searc
Where %s is automatically substituted with the search keywords you enter.
Using this I just type in the address bar:
g mcdonalds big mac rat found inside
... or whatever, and the search results with Google appear immediately? Can any linux browsers do this or do I need to use a tcsh script with lynx?