On this date in 1962 my father recorded the detonation and the resulting pulse from a "laboratory" he had set up in his suburban house in the San Fernado Valley {Northwest Los Angelews] The resulting paper "Distant Electromagnetic Observations of the High-Altitude Nuclear Detonation of July 9, 1962" was the only non-classified scientific paper which was published in The Journal of Geophysical Research about the pulse see: http://www.agu.org/pubs/crossref/1963/JZ068i006p01781.shtml
Some where around here I have a 35mm Strip chart negative of the detonation as recorded by the oscilloscope camera... I would donate the film to a university library for preservation but I have no idea who'd be interested in it. At 89 years old my dad now suffers from dementia and does not remember much about his days as a pocket protector / slip stick using Space Scientist / Engineer
Actually no it wasn't [at least for me]... I was more concerned with malware, Spam, and viruses.
Yahoo has the dubious distinction of having been subverted several times with login scripts which downloaded malware to unsuspecting users.I had to clean up a few of those messes... I don't use Yahoo mail nor to I recommend using it [it also had the quirk of leaving traces of mail sessions in the local browser cache... Never use Yahoo if you are trying to do something underhanded... [Your soon to be Ex will find out.]
While Hotmail was in its time king of Spam and email viruses who needs that?. I've used gmail for 10 years and have not had one piece of malware get through and not many pieces of spam escape their spam-trap. Yes the new UI sucks... but then again its UI is more likeable that WinRT/Metro [Windows 7 forever!]
Your point being? If "They" want you "They" will have you... boiled, fried, stewed, with or without a warrant...
Or have you forgotten The little rooms the NSA keeps on the backbones sniffing and sorting all the traffic. They don't need your server -- they already have it.
Haven't used Hotmail since '98 or '99... after they made some funky rules about usage... I got tired of having to re-enable my account [and kill the viruses]... For a while I had my own mail server but when I got the invite to gmail in '01 I put my request in on the domain beta and moved my domain. Smooth sailin' ever since. Who needs Hotmail?
Obviously a Troll from the 1%... I'm an experienced network admin in a small crappy southern town where they want pay $50K, crap benefits, and want you to work like a dog... but I could afford to accept that kind of wage here because the COL is lower if they'd here me... but here experience is unimportant -- cost is everything... being "old" is a disadvantage...
Of course I'm sure that since you are willing to save $45K it's covering the cost of your housing or Cadillacs at the expense of the guy you'd hire who has to live in a roach infested closet in Castro valley
So the reality is if you are an old tech professional and get fired or laid off you are not likely to get re-hired... The H1B program is a corporate welfare program. It should be eliminated as Pork. Yes I can hear the squeeling--- that's pork too...
If I sit in front of my TV equipped with this Intel marvel how it would react to a rubber mask of famous politicians or famous SF characters or a fantasy character-- what kind of commercials would be served and who would be looking to sell products to a an elven-vampire politician from the Second Foundation? Technology marketing at its finest!
By this analogy the Mafia should be allowed to operate freely because everyone needs 'insurance' so that bad things don't happen. We all know that if you don't pay your insurance to Vinnie and Tony something bad will happen...
Let's be honest: Apple's Walled Garden is *not* an "Ecosystem" -- it is a kind of monopoly. It is a "pay to play" garden where you will be cast out of the garden if you eat fruit from the Tree of Revenue without paying Apple it's cut.
Unfortunately for the teacher SC is a right to work state... which means that an employer in SC has the right to do things to their employees they would not do to their hunting dog-- and get away with it! If "dismissed for cause" a lawyer cannot charge more that $326 for representing the discharged employee before the SCDEW... Also understand that it is also an employment "At Will" state... means you can be given the boot at any time.
There will be no wrongful dismissal as no lawyer here would take the job [it might interfere with future work -- the 'good ol' boy network' is alive an well here... you screw with the powers that be and they will screw you and make sure you stay screwed.]
OTOH I find it ironic that Card's work [a self described homophobe] is being called pornographic.
SC is home to bonehead ideas, bonehead politics, and cherishes their 'heritage' [read: 'we like to remember when we were slave owners' and 'ya ain't supposed to call 'em slaves no more, y'all call 'em em-ploy-ees.']. But an Animal Rights group interfering with Bonehead Bubbas fun is just plain pigeon brained! They could have gotten shot Dead... and if the the sheriffs had looked the other way the hunters might have 'winged-em'... accidentally of course... Colleton County is one of the poorest counties in the state and in a state that is 'none too bright' they are the dimest...
And what give me the right to say these things? I was born in South Carolina... but raised in Southern California...
Correction: Blatantly Corrupt Legislative Members(The finest group of law makers money can buy... which explains why we have no health care and no 100 Mbit internet at home, and are rapidly falling behind)
Blatantly Ignorant Judicial Branch Court Justices (when has a corporation ever been human? Really?)
Blatantly Clueless Executive branch executive (Let's see... you promised hope and all we got were these lousy bumper stickers...)
How about Mr. P being upset that Microsoft got in the way of the Russian governments prosecution of Human Rights organizations, dissident organizations or "rogue millionaires" on the basis that they were pirating the software?
The best way to slap a corporation back into line is by not buying what they are selling...
Can you imagine what America would be like if Congress could not buy what the Corporations are selling... and were actually doing what they were hired to do?
Either way, this is just another gay attempt at social engineering through popular media.
No. It is a straight attempt a social engineering by little grey men from space. You know them guys and gals from Roswell that do kinky stuff to Humans in the name of weird science. If INS and DHS could get a hold of them I betcha they'd make it in to a reality TV series: Cops Vs. Aliens.
It is pitch black. Can you see the slavering fangs? Do you feel the "razor-sharp claws? Do you hear the horrible gurgling noises? You have been eaten by a Grue... one of the typical members of Slashdot.
Um... As a boomer I have to agree with you... Our generation was promised a lot too and what did we get? An 2nd rate Actor with dementia and later a village idiot from Texas... not that we weren't warned (see Gladiator at Law and The Space Merchants).
We didn't get to cruise in Cyber Space we got Snow Crashed in AOL.
Who cares for places like Face Book? What happened to the cool places? Who's running Simulacron-3?
We've been talking about AI for 60 years but it appears the Ghost in the Shell is still born (regardless of those promoting a Singularity... unless it's name is Rush)
So what you're saying is if I were "cured" (never been tested but I think I'm a marginal case) I would no longer say a management type "You are being a stupid ass." Instead, I would say "You are an exceptional manager for being such a stupid ass."
Um... Somehow telling the truth is so much more satisfying... Who needs a cure?
Mayby they thought that all GNU programmers --- "Them Thar Godless Communists" --- are named Percy...
Of course if I'd been named Percy... I suppose I'd want to be a "godless communist"
But Stallman isn't a Percy by a long shot... but he does believe in code and ideas being free.
As for "reward enough" I don't suppose that they've bother to read "For the Fun of It" by Linus Torvalds...
as for the premise of "Open Source + Money = Slavery" I have to ask? For whom? The User? The Programmer? Or for the VC that makes billions off of someone else's ideas?
I don't believe people should be rewarded for "marketing" or "Selling" someone else's idea. That way of doing business is indeed slavery and that pretty much how we got in the mess we're in...
the GNU license is about freedom... Where as Closed Source is generally all about slavery: for the user and for the programmer... the only person that's free is the one that is pocketing your money
Slashdot Mirror
On this date in 1962 my father recorded the detonation and the resulting pulse from a "laboratory" he had set up in his suburban house in the San Fernado Valley {Northwest Los Angelews] The resulting paper "Distant Electromagnetic Observations of the High-Altitude Nuclear Detonation of July 9, 1962" was the only non-classified scientific paper which was published in The Journal of Geophysical Research about the pulse see: http://www.agu.org/pubs/crossref/1963/JZ068i006p01781.shtml
Some where around here I have a 35mm Strip chart negative of the detonation as recorded by the oscilloscope camera... I would donate the film to a university library for preservation but I have no idea who'd be interested in it. At 89 years old my dad now suffers from dementia and does not remember much about his days as a pocket protector / slip stick using Space Scientist / Engineer
Sane? Modern Web?
Insensitive clod! this is /.
Actually no it wasn't [at least for me]... I was more concerned with malware, Spam, and viruses.
Yahoo has the dubious distinction of having been subverted several times with login scripts which downloaded malware to unsuspecting users.I had to clean up a few of those messes... I don't use Yahoo mail nor to I recommend using it [it also had the quirk of leaving traces of mail sessions in the local browser cache... Never use Yahoo if you are trying to do something underhanded... [Your soon to be Ex will find out.]
While Hotmail was in its time king of Spam and email viruses who needs that?. I've used gmail for 10 years and have not had one piece of malware get through and not many pieces of spam escape their spam-trap. Yes the new UI sucks... but then again its UI is more likeable that WinRT/Metro [Windows 7 forever!]
Your point being? If "They" want you "They" will have you... boiled, fried, stewed, with or without a warrant...
Or have you forgotten The little rooms the NSA keeps on the backbones sniffing and sorting all the traffic. They don't need your server -- they already have it.
noia + noia = paranoia.
Haven't used Hotmail since '98 or '99... after they made some funky rules about usage... I got tired of having to re-enable my account [and kill the viruses]... For a while I had my own mail server but when I got the invite to gmail in '01 I put my request in on the domain beta and moved my domain. Smooth sailin' ever since. Who needs Hotmail?
Nowhere else do you find such an intolerant monoculture as the tenured elite in their ivory towers.
Wait... what about Libertarians on \ ???
Obviously a Troll from the 1%... I'm an experienced network admin in a small crappy southern town where they want pay $50K, crap benefits, and want you to work like a dog... but I could afford to accept that kind of wage here because the COL is lower if they'd here me... but here experience is unimportant -- cost is everything... being "old" is a disadvantage...
months back I was reading a NYTimes article [See: http://www.nytimes.com/2012/01/29/us/bay-area-technology-professionals-cant-get-hired-as-industry-moves-on.html?pagewanted=all ] about of the number of experienced tech people in Silicon Valley that can't get jobs because the big companies like Google, Apple, Oracle, and so forth are interested in young and cheap --- that's how the execs afford to pay themselves so well...
Of course I'm sure that since you are willing to save $45K it's covering the cost of your housing or Cadillacs at the expense of the guy you'd hire who has to live in a roach infested closet in Castro valley
So the reality is if you are an old tech professional and get fired or laid off you are not likely to get re-hired... The H1B program is a corporate welfare program. It should be eliminated as Pork. Yes I can hear the squeeling--- that's pork too...
If I sit in front of my TV equipped with this Intel marvel how it would react to a rubber mask of famous politicians or famous SF characters or a fantasy character-- what kind of commercials would be served and who would be looking to sell products to a an elven-vampire politician from the Second Foundation? Technology marketing at its finest!
By this analogy the Mafia should be allowed to operate freely because everyone needs 'insurance' so that bad things don't happen. We all know that if you don't pay your insurance to Vinnie and Tony something bad will happen...
Let's be honest: Apple's Walled Garden is *not* an "Ecosystem" -- it is a kind of monopoly. It is a "pay to play" garden where you will be cast out of the garden if you eat fruit from the Tree of Revenue without paying Apple it's cut.
Unfortunately for the teacher SC is a right to work state... which means that an employer in SC has the right to do things to their employees they would not do to their hunting dog-- and get away with it! If "dismissed for cause" a lawyer cannot charge more that $326 for representing the discharged employee before the SCDEW... Also understand that it is also an employment "At Will" state... means you can be given the boot at any time.
There will be no wrongful dismissal as no lawyer here would take the job [it might interfere with future work -- the 'good ol' boy network' is alive an well here... you screw with the powers that be and they will screw you and make sure you stay screwed.]
OTOH I find it ironic that Card's work [a self described homophobe] is being called pornographic.
The anonymous astroturfer was incorrect... there is no source code on the page that was linked...
SC is home to bonehead ideas, bonehead politics, and cherishes their 'heritage' [read: 'we like to remember when we were slave owners' and 'ya ain't supposed to call 'em slaves no more, y'all call 'em em-ploy-ees.']. But an Animal Rights group interfering with Bonehead Bubbas fun is just plain pigeon brained! They could have gotten shot Dead... and if the the sheriffs had looked the other way the hunters might have 'winged-em'... accidentally of course... Colleton County is one of the poorest counties in the state and in a state that is 'none too bright' they are the dimest...
And what give me the right to say these things? I was born in South Carolina... but raised in Southern California...
Correction:
Blatantly Corrupt Legislative Members(The finest group of law makers money can buy... which explains why we have no health care and no 100 Mbit internet at home, and are rapidly falling behind)
Blatantly Ignorant Judicial Branch Court Justices (when has a corporation ever been human? Really?)
Blatantly Clueless Executive branch executive (Let's see... you promised hope and all we got were these lousy bumper stickers...)
Why?
How about Mr. P being upset that Microsoft got in the way of the Russian governments prosecution of Human Rights organizations, dissident organizations or "rogue millionaires" on the basis that they were pirating the software?
The best way to slap a corporation back into line is by not buying what they are selling...
Can you imagine what America would be like if Congress could not buy what the Corporations are selling... and were actually doing what they were hired to do?
The original concept of Satan was "Ha Satan" -- the Accusing Angel...
Google's Motto is "Don't Be Evil" (now we discover -- Or Else!)
Google's CEO says "You can run but you can't hide... we will accuse you" (Maybe they are planning to start selling new names?)
Google's Net Neutrality stance is "Don't be neutral... all your sites are belong to us"
Therefore Google = HaSatan;
And I, for One, welcome our new Satanic Overlord...
Either way, this is just another gay attempt at social engineering through popular media.
No. It is a straight attempt a social engineering by little grey men from space. You know them guys and gals from Roswell that do kinky stuff to Humans in the name of weird science. If INS and DHS could get a hold of them I betcha they'd make it in to a reality TV series: Cops Vs. Aliens.
Actually, it sounds more like Denny Crane
The Low Country:
22 Jobs on Dice, an undereducated populace, and as the birth place of hellfire and damnation, a polite familiarity with the Nether Regions.
A place the only The Fallen One can love.
From the description of your circumstances: Do not expect respect-- ever.
Some people get it... if this is really a "software company" they should get it.
Do what you can do, deliver it on time, and within circumstance.
That said, do not allow your self to be a doormat for the ignorant-- time to prepare your resume...
It is pitch black. Can you see the slavering fangs? Do you feel the "razor-sharp claws? Do you hear the horrible gurgling noises? You have been eaten by a Grue... one of the typical members of Slashdot.
I'm not cynical... I'm optimistically challenged!
Until the Gladiator / Pro Wrestlers catch on... then you are in trouble.
Um... As a boomer I have to agree with you... Our generation was promised a lot too and what did we get? An 2nd rate Actor with dementia and later a village idiot from Texas... not that we weren't warned (see Gladiator at Law and The Space Merchants).
We didn't get to cruise in Cyber Space we got Snow Crashed in AOL.
Who cares for places like Face Book? What happened to the cool places? Who's running Simulacron-3?
We've been talking about AI for 60 years but it appears the Ghost in the Shell is still born (regardless of those promoting a Singularity... unless it's name is Rush)
So what you're saying is if I were "cured" (never been tested but I think I'm a marginal case) I would no longer say a management type "You are being a stupid ass." Instead, I would say "You are an exceptional manager for being such a stupid ass." Um... Somehow telling the truth is so much more satisfying... Who needs a cure?
Mayby they thought that all GNU programmers --- "Them Thar Godless Communists" --- are named Percy...
Of course if I'd been named Percy... I suppose I'd want to be a "godless communist"
But Stallman isn't a Percy by a long shot... but he does believe in code and ideas being free.
As for "reward enough" I don't suppose that they've bother to read "For the Fun of It" by Linus Torvalds...
as for the premise of "Open Source + Money = Slavery" I have to ask? For whom? The User? The Programmer? Or for the VC that makes billions off of someone else's ideas?
I don't believe people should be rewarded for "marketing" or "Selling" someone else's idea. That way of doing business is indeed slavery and that pretty much how we got in the mess we're in...
the GNU license is about freedom... Where as Closed Source is generally all about slavery: for the user and for the programmer... the only person that's free is the one that is pocketing your money