Allow every state to make it's own laws and get rid of the feds?
Ummm. We tried that. It didn't work for some reason.
Remember the Jim Crow laws?
Remember the "Grandfather Clauses"?
Remember Segregation?
I am all for cutting taxes and spending, but the federal government is there for a reason. Some of you need to remember back when President Johnson had to send the military to desegregate schools in the south.
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I had a job interview just like this for my current job. Hundreds of people applied. I finished the programming test in 11 minutes flat with no mistakes. The closest competitor finished in about an hour.
Don't bad-mouth this guy, there are a lot of incompetent people in this industry. Have any of you actually put out a job ad and sifted through the thousand plus resumes that inevitably follow?
- CAF4
Arcades are still alive and kicking. A few of my local favorites have included PCs with LAN and internet gaming. Nothing beats first person shooters or StarCraft when you have three or four buddies playing in the same room. It is fairly cheap and easier than a LAN party at home since everything is already set up.
Warning: The parent of this post contains useful research and content about IT careers - this is obviously not allowed on slashdot. What stupid jackass modded it down? I have heard similar gloomy forecasts about the future of IT before, and they all contain a grain of truth - none of us are immune to replacement or obsolescence.
"I am a lawyer who cannot configure a f*&$ing mail server. Instead of asking for help from people who do know how, I am going to sue the Danish company who is doing the world a good service. I do not care if they are volunteers trying to make the internet a better place for no money, I want compensation."
Stupid jackass. Why is it that attorneys pretend to know everything? Is this kind of arrogance required to pass the California State Bar? I don't pretend that since I have a masters degree in computer science that I can fix a car, take a case to court, or perform surgery. I seek help from professionals to do things that I cannot. People like this guy are what is wrong with our country.
Is uptime - my redhat box has been up for a week without rebooting. The NT 4 systems at work cannot go for more than four days without a crash or required reset.
Let's hear it folks, post your best Redhat, NT, XP, and 2K uptimes. What is the highest pid you have ever achieved?
Read this part of the article:
"recycling computers from the US and Europe."
That's right kids, the problem is caused by all of us.
Aren't there [safe?] computer disposal facilities here in the states that take scrap computer components in order to remove gold and silver from the circuit boards? It seems a more logical alternative than what is happening now.
Very well said, you have my admiration. I have met many people in this industry who are more interested in high pay and easy work rather than the actual satisfaction of doing the work. Many of those are the same people who cannot find jobs in this economy.
Summary: H1B Good + Americans Bad = +5 Interesting!!! H1B Bad + Americans First = -1 Troll/FlameBait!!
If the moderators here cannot live with criticism and opinions on both sides of the story, then GO MOD ANOTHER FORUM. That said, I am all for a limited number of H1 Visas here, and the people come here willingly. They are not slave labor, and yes the H1B people get paid less than Americans do, but the visas cost MONEY. If you want a level employment playing field, I would suggest raising the cost of those Visas and actually issuing more of them. I would like to see the economic penalty the same for hiring any worker, thus bringing everything down to qualifications. I have worked with an equal number of incompetent H1B and american workers, and I would hate to see either side either subsidised or taken advantage of. Just hit the mod down button, you're going to do it anyways.
He was broken into twice, I remember one breakin used a bug in an older version WU-FTPD. He needed ftp services on the machine, so he ended up switching software to keep the kids out.
I have to admit that the security trick worked, and VMWare performed well for what he needed the box to do.
I had a friend who ran all of his INET services through a VMWARE instance on his Linux box. He would get hit by a script kiddie, and then use the ROLLBACK feature to undo the damage. He would patch the hole on the virtual machine and start up the site as if nothing happened.
Is not a prelude to Microsoft marketing a new anti-virus product. A mere $89.99 will buy you the software to get rid of the virus they handed you.
Anyone remember DOS 6.22? It was the pay-for-bugfixes to the almost nonfunctionally screwed up DOS 6.0. Microsoft has done this before.
I think that no snide comment of mine can truly do justice to this phenomenal screw of on Microsoft's part. But we can all try anyways!
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Allow every state to make it's own laws and get rid of the feds? Ummm. We tried that. It didn't work for some reason. Remember the Jim Crow laws? Remember the "Grandfather Clauses"? Remember Segregation? I am all for cutting taxes and spending, but the federal government is there for a reason. Some of you need to remember back when President Johnson had to send the military to desegregate schools in the south. -----------------
I had a job interview just like this for my current job. Hundreds of people applied. I finished the programming test in 11 minutes flat with no mistakes. The closest competitor finished in about an hour. Don't bad-mouth this guy, there are a lot of incompetent people in this industry. Have any of you actually put out a job ad and sifted through the thousand plus resumes that inevitably follow? - CAF4
Honestly, I could give a rats ass about music. Where is the technology news here?
All my PC wants to do nowadays is surf pr0n! I can't get it to stop!
Linux will have a much better corporate future if tomorrows business execs actually learn how to use it.
It also warms my heart to see fewer tax payer dollars going into Microsoft's pocket.
From the article: ..."
"In addition to creating new software to entice people to buy more powerful computers
So Microsoft is writing slow, bloated code on purpose to make us buy faster machines?
Arcades are still alive and kicking. A few of my local favorites have included PCs with LAN and internet gaming. Nothing beats first person shooters or StarCraft when you have three or four buddies playing in the same room. It is fairly cheap and easier than a LAN party at home since everything is already set up.
KNR C or ANSI C? hehe
The last thing I want to hear when I get home from a hard days work....D000d! 3y3 h4xx0R3d Ur h0wS3!!
Warning: The parent of this post contains useful research and content about IT careers - this is obviously not allowed on slashdot. What stupid jackass modded it down? I have heard similar gloomy forecasts about the future of IT before, and they all contain a grain of truth - none of us are immune to replacement or obsolescence.
98% of root DNS queries are probably for pr0n sites. Those are *not* unnecessary queries!
King Khufu's secret pr0n collection!
He was hiding it from his mummy..
(Ducking tomatoes)
"I am a lawyer who cannot configure a f*&$ing mail server. Instead of asking for help from people who do know how, I am going to sue the Danish company who is doing the world a good service. I do not care if they are volunteers trying to make the internet a better place for no money, I want compensation."
Stupid jackass. Why is it that attorneys pretend to know everything? Is this kind of arrogance required to pass the California State Bar? I don't pretend that since I have a masters degree in computer science that I can fix a car, take a case to court, or perform surgery. I seek help from professionals to do things that I cannot. People like this guy are what is wrong with our country.
Is uptime - my redhat box has been up for a week without rebooting. The NT 4 systems at work cannot go for more than four days without a crash or required reset.
Let's hear it folks, post your best Redhat, NT, XP, and 2K uptimes. What is the highest pid you have ever achieved?
Read this part of the article:
"recycling computers from the US and Europe."
That's right kids, the problem is caused by all of us.
Aren't there [safe?] computer disposal facilities here in the states that take scrap computer components in order to remove gold and silver from the circuit boards? It seems a more logical alternative than what is happening now.
Very well said, you have my admiration.
I have met many people in this industry who are more interested in high pay and easy work rather than the actual satisfaction of doing the work.
Many of those are the same people who cannot find jobs in this economy.
Summary:
H1B Good + Americans Bad = +5 Interesting!!!
H1B Bad + Americans First = -1 Troll/FlameBait!!
If the moderators here cannot live with criticism and opinions on both sides of the story, then GO MOD ANOTHER FORUM.
That said, I am all for a limited number of H1 Visas here, and the people come here willingly. They are not slave labor, and yes the H1B people get paid less than Americans do, but the visas cost MONEY.
If you want a level employment playing field, I would suggest raising the cost of those Visas and actually issuing more of them. I would like to see the economic penalty the same for hiring any worker, thus bringing everything down to qualifications. I have worked with an equal number of incompetent H1B and american workers, and I would hate to see either side either subsidised or taken advantage of.
Just hit the mod down button, you're going to do it anyways.
He was broken into twice, I remember one breakin used a bug in an older version WU-FTPD. He needed ftp services on the machine, so he ended up switching software to keep the kids out.
I have to admit that the security trick worked, and VMWare performed well for what he needed the box to do.
I had a friend who ran all of his INET services through a VMWARE instance on his Linux box. He would get hit by a script kiddie, and then use the ROLLBACK feature to undo the damage. He would patch the hole on the virtual machine and start up the site as if nothing happened.
Bless your souls for keeping those sites up late at night.
I wonder if MS is going to include AMD 64 bit extensions into Win2K or XP. We already know that Linux will before the new AMD is even released.
If you remember, MS jumped through hoops to include Intel MMX support.
For a change I would like to see Intel make chip designs to be compatible with AMD innovations.
Do I have to pay a license fee for all of my pr0n?
You forgot:
"First Post!"
"Can the telescope see Natalie Portman nude?"
and finally:
"Can you view pr0n with it?"
It's how you use it. :D
Is not a prelude to Microsoft marketing a new anti-virus product. A mere $89.99 will buy you the software to get rid of the virus they handed you.
Anyone remember DOS 6.22? It was the pay-for-bugfixes to the almost nonfunctionally screwed up DOS 6.0. Microsoft has done this before.
I think that no snide comment of mine can truly do justice to this phenomenal screw of on Microsoft's part. But we can all try anyways!