Yeah yeah yeah. That's what I get for blindly trusting google's auto-correct. I thought I had it right in the first place, which I did, but was poorly advised...
I know out of all the readership of Slashdot, there have to be some good smash stories. My best are driving down a forest-lined road aptly named the Audubon at 85mph with an Amstrad 386 in tow, or when I threw my malfunctioning KDS 14" monitor off the balcony when I was at college. Good times.
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...they clone organs of humans, medicine will never be the same.
I'm trying to come to terms with the fact that medicine will probably become like computer repair in a way, where the doctor will think an organ goes bad, so they'll just replace it instead of performing proper diagnostics. I really can't say if it's bad or good, but it sure sounds creepy. Also, there are a (admittedly, small) number of diseases and ailments that would require the replacement of damn near the whole body. I wonder how that will go.
IPSec is the way to go for easily setting up VPN clients to access a wireless network (or any network, really). The initial IPSec server setup is difficult, to be sure, but then you have a portable setup that you could even use Windows or Mac OS X on. Setting up SSH tunnels is a pain in the ass for each client.
Logical fallacy. You have DIRECT CONTROL over what your child does, not over what some company whose bottom line is more important than your life does. If little Joey gets his hands on some video game that you don't approve of - get your own pair of nuts and take it away. Don't clog the legal system and waste enforcement resources on piddly bullshit like this.
I can still avoid all that bullshit. I buy combat boots for every day wear. I have a pair of Land's End something-or-anothers for loafing around when I'm too lazy to strap up. My shoes have warranties, not logos and ads.
Live in Chicago. It's not so bad here. I could do without the billboards, but there's nothing like Times Square here. I went there about a year and a half ago and almost threw up right on 6th. What a disgusting waste of power and man-hours that place is.
I'm more referring to the device that lets people send an audio tone straight into your skull (sorry, no link, at work), where you have no choice but to hear it. If that is ever used on me, I seriously guarantee that I will go to jail over what happens.
You are, of course, correct - but only for now. Once ads become super-invasive to the point where a normal person cannot walk outside without hearing and seeing them, people are going to start going ballistic (or at least I will). It's one thing to advertise for shit during a shit production, I'm perfectly capable of tuning it out or not going. It's quite another to bombard people with advertising to the point they have no recourse but to listen to it. I'm certain this is the dream of many marketers.
In fact, I'm all for advertisement. How would I know about cool gadget X without it? But the invasiveness and complete obnoxiousness of the current crop of ads really gets under my skin.
Go for 8, simply because the difference in brute force cracking time between 6 to 8 chars is (on current hardware) a few hours to ~ a million-ish years.
I believe that I read an article discussing TMI where it stated that the people who evacuated received a higher radiation dose from going out in the sun than did those living in the immediate area from the coolant discharge.
A small home-based router cannot handle the amount of packets and firewall rules a fully fleged computer can handle. Not to mention that the backplane on a consumer grade router is not that good, either. If you want to best a computer at the routing/firewall game, you need a professional router. No point in being a dick.
I personally top-post because, during my days as a bottom-poster, many people couldn't be bothered to learn the interface and "scroll down" to where my message was. So they'd simply assume I sent them nothing. It saves both of us time if I just type the email the way I know they'll read it, even if it isn't the preferred format:)
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Currently, Windows does not encrypt files shown to the Administrator. Don't know why, but it's a bad practice and you can pretty easily get Admin rights in Windows even if you don't have physical access.
Next time you have a bacterial infection, go sneeze on your pet. It won't get sick. See the point? Just because it's bacteria (which we have tons of in our intestines anyway), doesn't mean it's assuredly toxic to our specific biology.
It doesn't matter. Look at Japan, where they have the highest suicide rate amongst teenagers in the entire world - yet no guns. Or Canada, where the amount of guns per capita rivals the United States (and I would imagine, surpasses it) - yet no suicide problem exists. Every single instance of a child bringing a weapon to school in this county was in a low income, poorly educated neighborhood. I live in Chicago, I know the deal. It doesn't even happen as often as the media would like you to believe. Maybe once a year at most - which is not that much for an entire nation of approximately 300,000,000.
I'm sorry about your nephew's best friend and his family, but blaming a gun on someone's suicide is like blaming water for someone drowning. Yeah, it happens. yeah, it sucks, but the issue is not the gun. The issue was his depression. Seriously, if I had a child who was *actually* mentally retarded, or *actually* physically depressed, I would get rid of the gun, because I know I couldn't trust them with it. But a well-raised, intelligent human being is not going to see a gun and do stupid shit with it. Look at me for an example, I'm not dead, yet I've been shooting since I was 10. I was taught to respect guns and how to handle them so that they're safe. On the other hand, I've also been shot at by a moron with an unverified shotgun. Total education issue there. His dad probably never sat down with him and explained it. He thought it was the coolest thing, while I had already put 2-3,000 rounds through various rifles and shotguns by that point. Take away the awe of the thing and kids will treat it like a gun, not a magic toy.
And calling any "image" I have of gun ownership "ideal" is really a argument dodger, because we all know shit happens, but almost every issue involving guns and kids involves parents and laziness. A kid doesn't have the ability to purchase a firearm, so the duty rests on the parent not to be sloppy. Too bad that some are, but see sloppy parenting is illegal - owning a gun should not be. Why wreck what tens of millions are capable of doing without harm, because of a few morons? Things like Columbine would have happened if guns were illegal or not. Hell, all of the guns those kids had were illegally owned - as you cannot own a gun as a minor, especially not an automatic. So making guns illegal doesn't even make them hard to get...
Accidents happen. That's why you prevent children from accessing weapons they are not yet responsible enough to handle. I would never let a 5 yr old near a live firearm alone, however, I would let my son/daughter (for the sake of argument, I have neither) learn what one is, hold it (unloaded), understand it, so that their intrigue is fulfilled. Making things taboo is exactly why kids bring guns to school and kill their classmates on accident. If my kid ever got their hands on my pistol and brought it to school, I belong in prison.
Also, if it comes to the point my child is depressed, if I haven't made a good enough connection with them that they feel the need to break into my gun locker and shoot themselves in the head without ever talking to me about it first, I have failed as a parent. This whole problem is due to lax parenting. Guns are here, they won't go away, and to deny that is a folly at best. The best method of dealing with guns now is education.
So from the equivalent of two paragraphs, you determine you know me enough to know not to hire me? I'm a great employee, unless everyone I've ever worked for is a liar. I do my job, I do it well, even when working in a warehouse or packaging wine. Don't patronize me like I don't know how or try to get out of this mess, I genuinely was trying to find work only to be shunned at every turn except by temp positions and under-the-table cash jobs.
If you want to know, here were my contracts: Apartment (1 year - left at 8mos due to school and cockroaches, had to move, the place was horrific - landlord never contacted me at the address I PROVIDED ON THE LEASE nor the phone number - which was a landline BTW. Find out over a year later I was sued for due rent, and a judgement applied against me. Called the county, only to find out that I have to talk to the landlord to get rid of it. Now first off, if the asshat had asked me when I moved out for it, he would have had it. But now, I can't even contact the guy, or the apartment building manager, to pay him off. Believe me, I tried. The woman at the county clerk's office basically broke the law just to give me his address.) and Cellphone (1 year, turned into two year because AT&T wanted it that way - when AT&T bought Suncom, they really screwed me to the floor: I lost all the good past payment history because they purged it, and then when I wanted to renew and upgrade my phone, it became two years due to some dumb problem they had with my plan - yes I should have shopped around, my fault, I was 20, young and nieve, now I know better).
But why should my credit rating affect my job-worthiness? How was I not "resourceful", as you say, in that situation? Sometimes people truly do get the shaft. I admit when I make errors, for example, I should not have quit the job I had at the time I lived in that apartment, nor should I have moved without getting everything straight with management, but I really don't see how I should be denied work at a lowly $12/hr job because of those errors.
I understand your position in HR if you're hiring for upper management where a lot of money is at stake; that makes sense. However, I was applying as a fucking scanner monkey and got turned down. Best Buy even checks credit ratings. Guess where I couldn't work? Funny thing is, I always paid my credit card.
And before you say anything: yes, I applied at Walmart; yes, I applied at three Walgreen's and a CostCo during the pre-Christmas season. Plus more. Temp agencies were denying new applicants, etc etc...
The fact that you think I blame everything but myself means you don't know either me or my situation very well to really be passing judgement. I did make mistakes, do you seriously believe my mistakes should be the basis, the actual SOLE REASON I was unemployed/denied employment? It's not like I just said "Fuck these guys." I just had no money. This whole diatribe isn't even really about ME, it's about good people getting fucked over by stupid hiring practices. I'm just one of a million. What I'm really pissed about is that when someone such as myself wants to get out of debt without resorting to bankruptcy, it seems almost impossible without relying on family or friends, which I HATE doing. I simply wanted to pay whatever people said I owed and get in the clear. But because of that debt, I was denied work. Catch-22. I fail to see how that's my fault and I fail to see how that's irresponsible, but you take what you want from my story.
Nope, didn't lie, what a great assumption though... I had trouble finding a job, and in the meantime bills didn't seem to want to stop. It's pretty fucking hard not to default on a payment when you have no income. Nor did I "rip a bunch of businesses off", I had no damn money and had no way to pay at the time. They had every right to get mad, but that's what happens when you're starting out and are forced into year or two long contracts with no way out.
Besides, your excuse for pulling credit records is poor, as you can verify anyone's employment background by calling their list of employers and asking about it, instead of being lazy and asking a company like Experian, whose data is *KNOWN* to be error-prone, what the deal is with said applicant's employment history. In my case, I really just wanted to just pay off my debt, but I couldn't because of my debt. That's fucking wrong.
I wasn't nit picking, it's just that your sentence made no sense to me. But you're right Speak is the proper word, same difference, though.
I'm pretty sure violent crime has dropped in cities like Houston which allow CCW. There may be other mitigating factors, but CCW does not increase the crime rate, this I am sure of. You'll always have nutjobs try to pull stunts with an armed populace, but you can't really ever be rid of those types of situations.
Now, the second link you provided had no real information on CCW, but just home ownership. Honestly, if you don't teach your kids about gun safety and you have a gun in your home, you should be treated like a criminal, because that's criminal negligence, in my opinion.
Welcome to my life. I got rejected to work at a smallish appraisal corporation ( 125 people nationally, and 20 locally) after two interviews because of my credit score. The wage: $12/hr. I seriously got denied a twelve dollar an hour job because of my credit score. What it really does is turn people who just want to work and pay shit back into criminals. I seriously considered theft for a living, because that seemed like all that was left. Thank god a buddy of mine managed to hook me up with a pretty nice deal and I'm on the way out, but it seriously took months and I have a feeling there are judgements against me now. May as well declare bankruptcy at this point.
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Yeah yeah yeah. That's what I get for blindly trusting google's auto-correct. I thought I had it right in the first place, which I did, but was poorly advised...
I know out of all the readership of Slashdot, there have to be some good smash stories. My best are driving down a forest-lined road aptly named the Audubon at 85mph with an Amstrad 386 in tow, or when I threw my malfunctioning KDS 14" monitor off the balcony when I was at college. Good times.
WinXP has built in IPSec VPN compatibility. I'm pretty sure Win2k does too, but I know Win98 doesn't.
IPSec is the way to go for easily setting up VPN clients to access a wireless network (or any network, really). The initial IPSec server setup is difficult, to be sure, but then you have a portable setup that you could even use Windows or Mac OS X on. Setting up SSH tunnels is a pain in the ass for each client.
Logical fallacy. You have DIRECT CONTROL over what your child does, not over what some company whose bottom line is more important than your life does. If little Joey gets his hands on some video game that you don't approve of - get your own pair of nuts and take it away. Don't clog the legal system and waste enforcement resources on piddly bullshit like this.
I can still avoid all that bullshit. I buy combat boots for every day wear. I have a pair of Land's End something-or-anothers for loafing around when I'm too lazy to strap up. My shoes have warranties, not logos and ads.
Live in Chicago. It's not so bad here. I could do without the billboards, but there's nothing like Times Square here. I went there about a year and a half ago and almost threw up right on 6th. What a disgusting waste of power and man-hours that place is.
I'm more referring to the device that lets people send an audio tone straight into your skull (sorry, no link, at work), where you have no choice but to hear it. If that is ever used on me, I seriously guarantee that I will go to jail over what happens.
You are, of course, correct - but only for now. Once ads become super-invasive to the point where a normal person cannot walk outside without hearing and seeing them, people are going to start going ballistic (or at least I will). It's one thing to advertise for shit during a shit production, I'm perfectly capable of tuning it out or not going. It's quite another to bombard people with advertising to the point they have no recourse but to listen to it. I'm certain this is the dream of many marketers.
In fact, I'm all for advertisement. How would I know about cool gadget X without it? But the invasiveness and complete obnoxiousness of the current crop of ads really gets under my skin.
Go for 8, simply because the difference in brute force cracking time between 6 to 8 chars is (on current hardware) a few hours to ~ a million-ish years.
I believe that I read an article discussing TMI where it stated that the people who evacuated received a higher radiation dose from going out in the sun than did those living in the immediate area from the coolant discharge.
A small home-based router cannot handle the amount of packets and firewall rules a fully fleged computer can handle. Not to mention that the backplane on a consumer grade router is not that good, either. If you want to best a computer at the routing/firewall game, you need a professional router. No point in being a dick.
No :)
I personally top-post because, during my days as a bottom-poster, many people couldn't be bothered to learn the interface and "scroll down" to where my message was. So they'd simply assume I sent them nothing. It saves both of us time if I just type the email the way I know they'll read it, even if it isn't the preferred format :)
Absolutely Beautimus...
Currently, Windows does not encrypt files shown to the Administrator. Don't know why, but it's a bad practice and you can pretty easily get Admin rights in Windows even if you don't have physical access.
Buy a similar motherboard and just pull the chip if it's a DIP.
Next time you have a bacterial infection, go sneeze on your pet. It won't get sick. See the point? Just because it's bacteria (which we have tons of in our intestines anyway), doesn't mean it's assuredly toxic to our specific biology.
It doesn't matter. Look at Japan, where they have the highest suicide rate amongst teenagers in the entire world - yet no guns. Or Canada, where the amount of guns per capita rivals the United States (and I would imagine, surpasses it) - yet no suicide problem exists. Every single instance of a child bringing a weapon to school in this county was in a low income, poorly educated neighborhood. I live in Chicago, I know the deal. It doesn't even happen as often as the media would like you to believe. Maybe once a year at most - which is not that much for an entire nation of approximately 300,000,000.
I'm sorry about your nephew's best friend and his family, but blaming a gun on someone's suicide is like blaming water for someone drowning. Yeah, it happens. yeah, it sucks, but the issue is not the gun. The issue was his depression. Seriously, if I had a child who was *actually* mentally retarded, or *actually* physically depressed, I would get rid of the gun, because I know I couldn't trust them with it. But a well-raised, intelligent human being is not going to see a gun and do stupid shit with it. Look at me for an example, I'm not dead, yet I've been shooting since I was 10. I was taught to respect guns and how to handle them so that they're safe. On the other hand, I've also been shot at by a moron with an unverified shotgun. Total education issue there. His dad probably never sat down with him and explained it. He thought it was the coolest thing, while I had already put 2-3,000 rounds through various rifles and shotguns by that point. Take away the awe of the thing and kids will treat it like a gun, not a magic toy.
And calling any "image" I have of gun ownership "ideal" is really a argument dodger, because we all know shit happens, but almost every issue involving guns and kids involves parents and laziness. A kid doesn't have the ability to purchase a firearm, so the duty rests on the parent not to be sloppy. Too bad that some are, but see sloppy parenting is illegal - owning a gun should not be. Why wreck what tens of millions are capable of doing without harm, because of a few morons? Things like Columbine would have happened if guns were illegal or not. Hell, all of the guns those kids had were illegally owned - as you cannot own a gun as a minor, especially not an automatic. So making guns illegal doesn't even make them hard to get...
Accidents happen. That's why you prevent children from accessing weapons they are not yet responsible enough to handle. I would never let a 5 yr old near a live firearm alone, however, I would let my son/daughter (for the sake of argument, I have neither) learn what one is, hold it (unloaded), understand it, so that their intrigue is fulfilled. Making things taboo is exactly why kids bring guns to school and kill their classmates on accident. If my kid ever got their hands on my pistol and brought it to school, I belong in prison.
Also, if it comes to the point my child is depressed, if I haven't made a good enough connection with them that they feel the need to break into my gun locker and shoot themselves in the head without ever talking to me about it first, I have failed as a parent. This whole problem is due to lax parenting. Guns are here, they won't go away, and to deny that is a folly at best. The best method of dealing with guns now is education.
So from the equivalent of two paragraphs, you determine you know me enough to know not to hire me? I'm a great employee, unless everyone I've ever worked for is a liar. I do my job, I do it well, even when working in a warehouse or packaging wine. Don't patronize me like I don't know how or try to get out of this mess, I genuinely was trying to find work only to be shunned at every turn except by temp positions and under-the-table cash jobs.
If you want to know, here were my contracts: Apartment (1 year - left at 8mos due to school and cockroaches, had to move, the place was horrific - landlord never contacted me at the address I PROVIDED ON THE LEASE nor the phone number - which was a landline BTW. Find out over a year later I was sued for due rent, and a judgement applied against me. Called the county, only to find out that I have to talk to the landlord to get rid of it. Now first off, if the asshat had asked me when I moved out for it, he would have had it. But now, I can't even contact the guy, or the apartment building manager, to pay him off. Believe me, I tried. The woman at the county clerk's office basically broke the law just to give me his address.) and Cellphone (1 year, turned into two year because AT&T wanted it that way - when AT&T bought Suncom, they really screwed me to the floor: I lost all the good past payment history because they purged it, and then when I wanted to renew and upgrade my phone, it became two years due to some dumb problem they had with my plan - yes I should have shopped around, my fault, I was 20, young and nieve, now I know better).
But why should my credit rating affect my job-worthiness? How was I not "resourceful", as you say, in that situation? Sometimes people truly do get the shaft. I admit when I make errors, for example, I should not have quit the job I had at the time I lived in that apartment, nor should I have moved without getting everything straight with management, but I really don't see how I should be denied work at a lowly $12/hr job because of those errors.
I understand your position in HR if you're hiring for upper management where a lot of money is at stake; that makes sense. However, I was applying as a fucking scanner monkey and got turned down. Best Buy even checks credit ratings. Guess where I couldn't work? Funny thing is, I always paid my credit card.
And before you say anything: yes, I applied at Walmart; yes, I applied at three Walgreen's and a CostCo during the pre-Christmas season. Plus more. Temp agencies were denying new applicants, etc etc...
The fact that you think I blame everything but myself means you don't know either me or my situation very well to really be passing judgement. I did make mistakes, do you seriously believe my mistakes should be the basis, the actual SOLE REASON I was unemployed/denied employment? It's not like I just said "Fuck these guys." I just had no money. This whole diatribe isn't even really about ME, it's about good people getting fucked over by stupid hiring practices. I'm just one of a million. What I'm really pissed about is that when someone such as myself wants to get out of debt without resorting to bankruptcy, it seems almost impossible without relying on family or friends, which I HATE doing. I simply wanted to pay whatever people said I owed and get in the clear. But because of that debt, I was denied work. Catch-22. I fail to see how that's my fault and I fail to see how that's irresponsible, but you take what you want from my story.
Nope, didn't lie, what a great assumption though... I had trouble finding a job, and in the meantime bills didn't seem to want to stop. It's pretty fucking hard not to default on a payment when you have no income. Nor did I "rip a bunch of businesses off", I had no damn money and had no way to pay at the time. They had every right to get mad, but that's what happens when you're starting out and are forced into year or two long contracts with no way out.
Besides, your excuse for pulling credit records is poor, as you can verify anyone's employment background by calling their list of employers and asking about it, instead of being lazy and asking a company like Experian, whose data is *KNOWN* to be error-prone, what the deal is with said applicant's employment history. In my case, I really just wanted to just pay off my debt, but I couldn't because of my debt. That's fucking wrong.
I wasn't nit picking, it's just that your sentence made no sense to me. But you're right Speak is the proper word, same difference, though.
I'm pretty sure violent crime has dropped in cities like Houston which allow CCW. There may be other mitigating factors, but CCW does not increase the crime rate, this I am sure of. You'll always have nutjobs try to pull stunts with an armed populace, but you can't really ever be rid of those types of situations.
Now, the second link you provided had no real information on CCW, but just home ownership. Honestly, if you don't teach your kids about gun safety and you have a gun in your home, you should be treated like a criminal, because that's criminal negligence, in my opinion.
Hmm? I don't think that word means what you think it means (or I just am dumb...)
Welcome to my life. I got rejected to work at a smallish appraisal corporation ( 125 people nationally, and 20 locally) after two interviews because of my credit score. The wage: $12/hr. I seriously got denied a twelve dollar an hour job because of my credit score. What it really does is turn people who just want to work and pay shit back into criminals. I seriously considered theft for a living, because that seemed like all that was left. Thank god a buddy of mine managed to hook me up with a pretty nice deal and I'm on the way out, but it seriously took months and I have a feeling there are judgements against me now. May as well declare bankruptcy at this point.