I believe the opposite.
I am IN school where they mainly teach us abstract concepts and not specific programming languages.
What good would it be to learn a specific programming language in the rapidly changing technological world? Keep your Cobol and teach me recursive binary tree algorithms.
If you cant go and teach yourself how to apply these concepts to specific languages, either you arent meant to be coding or your school did not help teach the second step of algorithms which is the application
Basically, since we were mainly taught algorithms, our assignments would be in a random language like C, java, etc, and we would code portions of these algorithms. Sink or swim, but it worked, I know everyone in my graduating class can code in any language efficiently and effectively.
*go waterloo*
first off im just wondering after reading these posts how many people thought you were discussing the flight data storage in airplanes referred to as "black boxes" *grin*
on a serious note, in my undergraduate studies in computer science, we were first taught how everything works with hardware, then how to hardwire program it, then microprogramming, and so on. By the time you progress to the next step you cannot forget about how things work and relative efficiency, for example whenever I do anything now I am always reminded of that damned microprogramming.
I dunno, if you are taking a black box approach to programming, chances are that you arent in a coding position where you need to take hardware into account. If you are in a situation when you cant/shouldnt take a black box approach I would hope that you have had enough schooling and/or experience/knowledge to take a more advanced approach
But if you are using frontpage...it doesnt matter what you do:P
i hope thats what my employer does too:)
that is the smartest, most reasonable way to manage...really who cares if people are keeping up to date with news at work...they could also just stare at the computer screen for an hour and accomplish nothing
or, if someone is smart/quick why should they not be able to take a quick look at news when they are done.
i cant even start to think what the best episodes are. i have saw so many sweet episodes that have left me laughing for days...how can one really choose the "best"? Their parodies are always good...i really enjoyed their lord of the flies parody show...but the BEST? i am not so decisive on which shows could be the BEST
and to those of you who say the simpsons still cant be funny...on the last show:
[ralph after being sprayed by pepper spray]:
Even my boogers are spicy!
[disco stu after getting hit by marge]:
Disco stu should have disco ducked!
you obviously are one of these useless admins
if you open some ports people can use kazaa (oh no! the devil!) and "do some cracking".
hah. watch out for those crazy crackers
and what is blocking 22 going to do?
blocking a default port for anything is only going to keep the stupid people out, who most likely arent abusing but casually using it
do you lock the kids inside too so the sunshine doesnt hurt them?
i hate over-protective parents/schools/authorities in general.
i was always taught if you made a mistake yourself you would never make it again...if you get everything given to you...you gain nothing
but ya...at least there is still a land of the free north of the american border...
didnt you hear? they strongly recommend the watercooling system which was on slashdot yesterday!
apparently balancing the bowl of water on one knee and the laptop on the other is not for the weak at heart...but you have to be pretty hardcore to risk burning you groin by putting a laptop on your lap!
(maybe the water might come in handy if you get a scalded sack)
The whole point of making rules is that they are reusable. So you dont worry about the number of them, they are relatively small in size. Imagine that previous example string repeated itself 1000 times in the whole file...using our rules we would save ourselves 1000 extra characters by making use of one extra rule that might cost us 5 chars at most.
Actually...it would be interesting if they replaced 'abcabdabcabd' with
1. 2 2
2. 3 c 3 d
3. a b
And then represent the string with '1'.
You save a half your space!:P
Its far better when dealing with compression to have more complex rules and smaller strings.
why dont i get to go to linux-dex instead of being @ work on a friday?
i would take advantage of the free booze and do some break dancing for ya.
booooooooooooooooooooooooo
*u can tell its a friday afternoon when slashdot gets really busy*
everyone else is just putting in time...working for the weekend...*loverboy*
Lets just say./ was hosted in finland (i assume they have no jurisdiction for web sites hosted elsewhere)
Some crazy skript kidding named FinishCowboy./roots the site and posts offensive materials. Is./ held responsible???
Lets say I wish to envoke some freedom of speech and rant about something which is offensive. Is this something that they would try to do something about???
Lets say that I start am the editor-in-cheif for this Finnish hosted./ site. If i get a higher paying job and want to screw over./ can I quit and allow open, non moderated posting on the website? Because technically i quit being the editor-in-cheif...so would my second in command guy get screwed?
If any of these are true please host./ in finland and lets have a field day in court! (just dont./ the courtroom or we will have more charges...since the court case will contain illegal-to-display information)
those wierd dreams in high school after playing doom....well those are unrelated to doom.
These are "wet" dreams that often occur during these ages...you could also talk to a psychologist about this while you discuss video games.
The man show can get that little fat kid dressed in a scouts outfit to try and find people to go into bestbuy and buy him a copy of Grand Theft Auto 4 instead of condoms and a 6pack.
The only let down is he wont be able to ask a redhead girl if her carpets match the curtains because unfortunately he will only be soliciting males since its best buy.
And dear god when I have children I may not buy them beer when they are 12 but they can have a gory game anyday...I REALLY dont want to find them in their room with 3 friends huddled around a wired magazine giggling or something *shudder*
Face recognition software like they have in Florida does not recognize faces overly well.
Unless they dont allow masks, helmets, face paint or anything on your face then you can "beat the system" simply by doing what you probably already plan on doing. That and you wouldnt be able to let any raiders fans in if you banned that!:P
I am more concerned about TV trucks with nuclear bombs in them *cough* sum of all fears *cough* too bad they ruined the movie by screwing the plot up.
Ignorance is bliss...
I can assume you are american because canadians accept rumoured
as well as colour
and your motherour (not really but we should)
What do you have to offer
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At the risk of destroying all of my karma and having a swarm of 2600 guys wearing free kevin shirts coming after my bandwidth I dare to ask the question which I think we are all thinking
What do you have to offer the security world after being in the clinker for so long. I do not doubt your oldschool skills in any sense, however tthe field of security and networking which you
plan on consulting for has changed dramatically in the past few years.
What do you have to offer still? Despite your fame and being unargueably the cybercrime scapegoat, what skills do you possess that will benefit the security world in 2003? Have you had your relatives print 0-day exploits as well as your email? Do you have knowledge of current OS's and the security flaws they possess?
This is not a cheapshot at your abilities, however a simple question of how in the fast changing world of technology you have been able to maintain skills while not being able to touch a computer? By Moore's law you are way behind!
Wow im excited! I really have been looking hard to find a PDA that plays mp3's that I can fit 5 songs on! Maybe they are trying to shut down p2p sharing by making mp3 players have so little memory that nobody will want to download songs! Next come out with a 64 meg divx player and im hooked! Yay for gps, but what good is it knowing you are 60 miles 32'S 64'W of home if you only have 5 songs to listen to on the way! Didnt i read that the new smallest hd now has 20 gigs of space? Flash memory is all nice and dandy...but i want a minimum of a few gigs for any mp3 player.
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I believe the opposite.
I am IN school where they mainly teach us abstract concepts and not specific programming languages.
What good would it be to learn a specific programming language in the rapidly changing technological world? Keep your Cobol and teach me recursive binary tree algorithms.
If you cant go and teach yourself how to apply these concepts to specific languages, either you arent meant to be coding or your school did not help teach the second step of algorithms which is the application
Basically, since we were mainly taught algorithms, our assignments would be in a random language like C, java, etc, and we would code portions of these algorithms. Sink or swim, but it worked, I know everyone in my graduating class can code in any language efficiently and effectively.
*go waterloo*
first off im just wondering after reading these posts how many people thought you were discussing the flight data storage in airplanes referred to as "black boxes" *grin* :P
on a serious note, in my undergraduate studies in computer science, we were first taught how everything works with hardware, then how to hardwire program it, then microprogramming, and so on. By the time you progress to the next step you cannot forget about how things work and relative efficiency, for example whenever I do anything now I am always reminded of that damned microprogramming.
I dunno, if you are taking a black box approach to programming, chances are that you arent in a coding position where you need to take hardware into account. If you are in a situation when you cant/shouldnt take a black box approach I would hope that you have had enough schooling and/or experience/knowledge to take a more advanced approach
But if you are using frontpage...it doesnt matter what you do
im outside of the us and i just used it to encrypt "hah".( as per subject )
i hope thats what my employer does too :)
that is the smartest, most reasonable way to manage...really who cares if people are keeping up to date with news at work...they could also just stare at the computer screen for an hour and accomplish nothing
or, if someone is smart/quick why should they not be able to take a quick look at news when they are done.
bomb threats have nothing to do with aim/internet
someone could leave a piece of paper on the ground saying "i have placed a bomb in this school" and put it near the office.
what are you going to do? ban paper and pens in the school?
you cant shoot the messanger...even if he doesnt tell you where he comes from
come on now, i am sure that children could think of more ways to make bomb threats than aim...
sorry let me reword
:P
"oh golly. [HERE IS THE SARCASM]ignorance is bliss[end of sarcasm]...give me the red pill"
sorry...i do see how it could be confusing but i would really prefer the red
several questions come to mind.
why. why would you put a laptop into an oven.
was she sober.
and why didnt you tell her it wasnt done yet?
oh golly. ignorance is bliss...give me the red pill
i cant even start to think what the best episodes are. i have saw so many sweet episodes that have left me laughing for days...how can one really choose the "best"? Their parodies are always good...i really enjoyed their lord of the flies parody show...but the BEST? i am not so decisive on which shows could be the BEST
and to those of you who say the simpsons still cant be funny...on the last show:
[ralph after being sprayed by pepper spray]:
Even my boogers are spicy!
[disco stu after getting hit by marge]:
Disco stu should have disco ducked!
come on. thats funny.
you obviously are one of these useless admins if you open some ports people can use kazaa (oh no! the devil!) and "do some cracking".
hah. watch out for those crazy crackers
and what is blocking 22 going to do?
blocking a default port for anything is only going to keep the stupid people out, who most likely arent abusing but casually using it
do you lock the kids inside too so the sunshine doesnt hurt them?
i hate over-protective parents/schools/authorities in general.
i was always taught if you made a mistake yourself you would never make it again...if you get everything given to you...you gain nothing
but ya...at least there is still a land of the free north of the american border...
gravity is a theory...
dont hate the playah hate the game
next they can hopefully figure out why everyone does really stupid stuff to get rid of hiccups!
/me does a headstand and chugs a glass of water
no way...thats crazy talk!
didnt you hear? they strongly recommend the watercooling system which was on slashdot yesterday!
apparently balancing the bowl of water on one knee and the laptop on the other is not for the weak at heart...but you have to be pretty hardcore to risk burning you groin by putting a laptop on your lap!
(maybe the water might come in handy if you get a scalded sack)
go waterloo. ownage
The whole point of making rules is that they are reusable. So you dont worry about the number of them, they are relatively small in size. Imagine that previous example string repeated itself 1000 times in the whole file...using our rules we would save ourselves 1000 extra characters by making use of one extra rule that might cost us 5 chars at most.
Actually...it would be interesting if they replaced 'abcabdabcabd' with
:P
1. 2 2
2. 3 c 3 d
3. a b
And then represent the string with '1'.
You save a half your space!
Its far better when dealing with compression to have more complex rules and smaller strings.
why dont i get to go to linux-dex instead of being @ work on a friday? i would take advantage of the free booze and do some break dancing for ya. booooooooooooooooooooooooo *u can tell its a friday afternoon when slashdot gets really busy* everyone else is just putting in time...working for the weekend...*loverboy*
Lets just say ./ was hosted in finland (i assume they have no jurisdiction for web sites hosted elsewhere) ./roots the site and posts offensive materials. Is ./ held responsible??? ./ site. If i get a higher paying job and want to screw over ./ can I quit and allow open, non moderated posting on the website? Because technically i quit being the editor-in-cheif...so would my second in command guy get screwed?
./ in finland and lets have a field day in court! (just dont ./ the courtroom or we will have more charges...since the court case will contain illegal-to-display information)
Some crazy skript kidding named FinishCowboy
Lets say I wish to envoke some freedom of speech and rant about something which is offensive. Is this something that they would try to do something about???
Lets say that I start am the editor-in-cheif for this Finnish hosted
If any of these are true please host
Who really lives in finland anyway?
those wierd dreams in high school after playing doom....well those are unrelated to doom.
These are "wet" dreams that often occur during these ages...you could also talk to a psychologist about this while you discuss video games.
The man show can get that little fat kid dressed in a scouts outfit to try and find people to go into bestbuy and buy him a copy of Grand Theft Auto 4 instead of condoms and a 6pack.
The only let down is he wont be able to ask a redhead girl if her carpets match the curtains because unfortunately he will only be soliciting males since its best buy.
And dear god when I have children I may not buy them beer when they are 12 but they can have a gory game anyday...I REALLY dont want to find them in their room with 3 friends huddled around a wired magazine giggling or something *shudder*
Face recognition software like they have in Florida does not recognize faces overly well. :P
Unless they dont allow masks, helmets, face paint or anything on your face then you can "beat the system" simply by doing what you probably already plan on doing. That and you wouldnt be able to let any raiders fans in if you banned that!
I am more concerned about TV trucks with nuclear bombs in them *cough* sum of all fears *cough* too bad they ruined the movie by screwing the plot up.
Question to ANY person there
How many Realdolls do you plan on buying once you start selling *insert product of vendor here*
Cuz damn...i know I would be supporting the rest of the technology community if I prospered!
P.S. Buy slashdot a tester model.
Ignorance is bliss... I can assume you are american because canadians accept rumoured as well as colour and your motherour (not really but we should)
At the risk of destroying all of my karma and having a swarm of 2600 guys wearing free kevin shirts coming after my bandwidth I dare to ask the question which I think we are all thinking
What do you have to offer the security world after being in the clinker for so long. I do not doubt your oldschool skills in any sense, however tthe field of security and networking which you plan on consulting for has changed dramatically in the past few years.
What do you have to offer still? Despite your fame and being unargueably the cybercrime scapegoat, what skills do you possess that will benefit the security world in 2003? Have you had your relatives print 0-day exploits as well as your email? Do you have knowledge of current OS's and the security flaws they possess?
This is not a cheapshot at your abilities, however a simple question of how in the fast changing world of technology you have been able to maintain skills while not being able to touch a computer? By Moore's law you are way behind!
Wow im excited! I really have been looking hard to find a PDA that plays mp3's that I can fit 5 songs on! Maybe they are trying to shut down p2p sharing by making mp3 players have so little memory that nobody will want to download songs! Next come out with a 64 meg divx player and im hooked! Yay for gps, but what good is it knowing you are 60 miles 32'S 64'W of home if you only have 5 songs to listen to on the way! Didnt i read that the new smallest hd now has 20 gigs of space? Flash memory is all nice and dandy...but i want a minimum of a few gigs for any mp3 player.