My girlfriend can do things kind of like this, she walks around with her eyes shut, and i can ask her questions about anything i want and she always answers them clearfully and honestly (to my knowledge). I can ask her questions about anything - ex boyfriends, how she is feeling about herself, how she is feeling about me, what she wants for christmas (she got what she wanted) and what she got me for christmas (i didn't get what i wanted, but she didn't lie).
it is amazing to lay down with someone who hypnotizes themsleves. if she had a rough day, i can scratch her head or massage her feet (putting her to sleep) and after she's been asleep for about 20 minutes i can tell her that everything is going to be alright, that the people at work are morons or whatever, and the next day she's a new person. I've never had to talk her into the same thing twice, either. once i tell her that person X is a liar, she believes it unconditionally from that day on. A very powerful tool, but very dangerous also. I told her the plot to lord of the rings in her sleep last night and now today we watched the extended cut of the fellowship of the ring not once, but twice! she was shocked that she suddenly could understand the difference between Sauron and Saruman. every little plot detail that i told her about she pointed out to me, explaining them to me, and she could *not* believe that she suddenly understood the whole movie without asking me questions about it.
The subconscious mind is very powerful.
I wonder what would happen if these two women wound up sleeping in the same room one night - would they talk all night long in their sleep? what would they talk about - and would they recognize that they were both asleep and talk in some mumbles that you or I could not understand but that they could? I'd love to know what could happen if these two (or any two) could get something going while they were both asleep.
That's what 99.999% (five nines) of journalists do, man. That's all they do. Its all they want to do. They lay awake at night thinking of ways to do it more often than they do it now. They want 6 nines. They love it.
My former boss was a journalist in New Zealand. She would find someone to interview on some travesty in thier lives or whatever, and she'd drive up to their house, and pretend her car was broken down and ask to use the phone. Then the number would be "busy" so she'd start talking, and then have tea and then they'd spilled their guts and it all went into the news paper.
A specific example: she was assigned to get the dirt on a woman that had been raped by a politician. The victim wouldn't talk to journalists, so my boss pretended to pass out outsite the woman's place of employment. the woman (as any woman would do) rushed to help the stranger. she "revived" my boss and she eventually blabbed her mouth off about everything, which went straight into the paper, with a twist of opinion gleaned from the personality traits she gathered from her "rescuer."
My point: I never ever ever ever ever trust any journalist that ever utters an opinion under a journalistic premise. The so called journalist Bill O'Reilly's "The O'Reilly Factor" show is a good example of someone to not listen to. John Dvorak is another.
of course do what you want, but be wary of anyone trying to sell you something - be it a car or an idea.
Finally, if you're unhappy, move. You only live once.
Oh, dude I so agree with that statement. I grew up in Illinois, did short work stints in San Antonio, Texas, and Denver, Colorado. Then I moved again to Anchorage, Alaska, then Kansas City, then back to Anchorage, then small towns in Missouri, and now I'm in Sydney, Australia.
Man, life is far too short to just dream of other places, you have to take the initiative and go there.
I'm also trying to get a job in the US, but when I've had my fill of that place, I'm going to Scotland. That's highest right now on my places-i -want-to-go list, and there is no way in hell I'm not going.
My advice is to move where you want to be, then find a job there. Or, find a job where you want to move, then move there. But don't find a job you like then move to wherever it is, you'll never like where you go because you were made to go there.
Do what you love, live where you want, do what you like, and the money will come to you, that's my experience, anyway.
even paranoids i know allow any and all traffic out of any given subnet, but they heavily firewall incoming traffic.
see: the 'established' state of tcp connections.
we have a rule saying that *anything* can get out, and *nothing* can get in, unless it is part of an established connection. this allows anyone to connect to any services they want safely, and not be attacked on any open ports. our web servers run on a seperate network with 80 and 443 open.
anyway, change your isp or get a job there so you can fix it. in any event, complain your ass off.
The level of cynicism that Ask Slashdotters receive is absolutely outrageous. Give the guy a break.
That's because the level of arrogance has equally risen. One man makes a difference only when he is joined by others doing the same. My point is that anyone who chooses banks based on their browser support is on a crusade that is not, and will not, be taken up by the wise.
I read his post several times, and your points are valid. I had only one point, and I made it. And now I've made it again.
Most people don't have an "answer," so they criticize the question.
When the logic behind a question is flawed, then any answer to that question will also be flawed. It is only when you raise a question that can stand on its own that you will attract answers of equal merit. Often people treat symptoms, instead of treating problems, which leads to not solutions, but a covering of the problem. When you write a program that doesn't give the output you need, you do not write an additional program to fix it (treating the symptom), you fix your original program (treating the problem).
I'm way off topic now, but i hope you see what I mean. Leaving a bank based on its browser support is not treating the problem. It is treating a symptom.
if you don't support my browser, I'm not going to support you
If you think you're going to make a difference with this attitude think again. choose banks based on their interest, their customer service, and their desire to give you a loan:) Then convince them that IE isn't the only browser.
our DNS has IN TXT fields that we put MAC addresses into, and our dhcpd.conf is cronned to regenerate every 20 minutes or so from our zone file stored in CVS.
no xxxxx.com dns address, no corporate IP address.
No, its not secure, and no, we don't use it for security. But between that, our physical security and the fact that everything sensitive is locked down pretty tight with passwords and VPN, it works out well.
And they don't have to stop and restart the dhcpd, they can kill -HUP it. and they don't have to edit manually, write a perl script to fetch it, or use perl to execute a "dig @any your.domain.com AXFR" and get the stuff you want to write a new dhcpd.conf.
perl is MADE for these things, man.
AND DON'T RELY ON DNS OR DHCP FOR AUTHENTICATION. LDAP would probably be better. or even NIS or windows domain authentication. anything besides DHCP & DNS. guh.
Agreed. This isn't a homegrown site anymore, they're paid for this.
Surely they can take the time to write a cross-checker to see if any of the links in the submissions have been used in any previous stories, after redirects.
Surely it can't be that hard...
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Worked for Yahoo!, buddy.
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I'll ship out, thanks.
I'm no slob. I dress in clean jeans every day, I iron my t-shirts, and I buy and use deodorant, as well as soap and shampoo.
But I'll be buggered if I'm going to work for a company that thinks that professionalism has anything to do with the clothes you wear.
Trends like this have nothing to do with the collapse of dotcom culture, and everything to do with office managers grasping at the straws of job justification in an economy where things are not so stable, and their jobs could easily fly out the window like anyone else's.
I work for Yahoo! Australia & NZ, and I'm happy to say that I could wear a sleeveless hunting shirt with military boots, dread-locks and 15 year old cargo pants with more holes in them than I have centimeters around my waist. No one would even blink. Why? because they all know that I'm 100% capable of doing my job on any given day, no matter what I'm wearing.
Any employer that treats me differently -- or believes differently -- shows an immense lack of trust in me, and therefore cannot be trusted by me. A company less interested in its employee's happiness and more interested in its image will die a slow, painful death, and management will wonder why none of their employees will go the extra mile the whole way down.
So here I am, taking your bait and replying. At work, at midnight, in my jeans and my ironed t-shirt. Why? My employer goes the extra mile for me, which means I do the same for them.
I just wish I had known my ex-wife better before we had children. We are divorced, and I rarely get to see my daughter (which is my fault).
I also wish I'd waited - I was an immature punk when we had our daughter. If I had waited until now, I would have done things a lot differently, and I'd probably still be married.
Someone PLEASE get these people a decent TV, man! and a better camera!;)
Those photos would have a lot more impact on me if i could see them better. hehe these guys are doing great things but someone please donate a TV or bigger monitor or whatever they're using.
I thought about this for a while, but the keyboards that come on Mac laptops leave A LOT to be desired. shallow keys, half-height arrow keys, etc.
And don't get me started on Trackpads v. Trackpoints. If Apple had Trackpoints (the little nipple between G, B, and H on your keyboard) I think i could overlook the keyboard.
And one button mice... We all know that is not enough.
Sure, I can get an external keyboard & mouse, and I would if i were *given* a powerbook, but to me, that's just like having a Mac desktop, because it would never leave my desk. But, if were to *buy* a Mac, it would have to be a desktop, where I can replace the peripherals with something I like.
The point: they should try to make a few more people happy. I would have switched long ago if they had a full size laptop keyboard (every key full size) and a three button trackpoint pointer. I want a Mac in a Thinkpad case.
if you're 27 or younger, you're old enough to join the enlisted folks. if you're 32 or younger (and have a masters degree or higher) you can go to officer training school.
i wouldn't recommend it though. people that don't fit elsewhere find a home in the military. use your imagination.
surely we should have the freedom to have spelling which reflect regional accents and personal preference
No. Without a common language there can be no effective communication. What you are doing is the beginning of a dialect, not spelling things your own way. You either read and write English, or you don't. You can't bend it to your will.
No one could figure out that all i did was change the prompt from "$P$G" to that, and everyone was asking what the password was. haha, good old teacher was infinitely frustrated as well! IT WAS BEAUTIFUL.
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They're only using the protocol, not the frequency band. Sheesh, man.
There will be no interference.
That is amazing.
My girlfriend can do things kind of like this, she walks around with her eyes shut, and i can ask her questions about anything i want and she always answers them clearfully and honestly (to my knowledge). I can ask her questions about anything - ex boyfriends, how she is feeling about herself, how she is feeling about me, what she wants for christmas (she got what she wanted) and what she got me for christmas (i didn't get what i wanted, but she didn't lie).
it is amazing to lay down with someone who hypnotizes themsleves. if she had a rough day, i can scratch her head or massage her feet (putting her to sleep) and after she's been asleep for about 20 minutes i can tell her that everything is going to be alright, that the people at work are morons or whatever, and the next day she's a new person. I've never had to talk her into the same thing twice, either. once i tell her that person X is a liar, she believes it unconditionally from that day on. A very powerful tool, but very dangerous also. I told her the plot to lord of the rings in her sleep last night and now today we watched the extended cut of the fellowship of the ring not once, but twice! she was shocked that she suddenly could understand the difference between Sauron and Saruman. every little plot detail that i told her about she pointed out to me, explaining them to me, and she could *not* believe that she suddenly understood the whole movie without asking me questions about it.
The subconscious mind is very powerful.
I wonder what would happen if these two women wound up sleeping in the same room one night - would they talk all night long in their sleep? what would they talk about - and would they recognize that they were both asleep and talk in some mumbles that you or I could not understand but that they could? I'd love to know what could happen if these two (or any two) could get something going while they were both asleep.
wow.
That's what 99.999% (five nines) of journalists do, man. That's all they do. Its all they want to do. They lay awake at night thinking of ways to do it more often than they do it now. They want 6 nines. They love it.
My former boss was a journalist in New Zealand. She would find someone to interview on some travesty in thier lives or whatever, and she'd drive up to their house, and pretend her car was broken down and ask to use the phone. Then the number would be "busy" so she'd start talking, and then have tea and then they'd spilled their guts and it all went into the news paper.
A specific example: she was assigned to get the dirt on a woman that had been raped by a politician. The victim wouldn't talk to journalists, so my boss pretended to pass out outsite the woman's place of employment. the woman (as any woman would do) rushed to help the stranger. she "revived" my boss and she eventually blabbed her mouth off about everything, which went straight into the paper, with a twist of opinion gleaned from the personality traits she gathered from her "rescuer."
My point: I never ever ever ever ever trust any journalist that ever utters an opinion under a journalistic premise. The so called journalist Bill O'Reilly's "The O'Reilly Factor" show is a good example of someone to not listen to. John Dvorak is another.
of course do what you want, but be wary of anyone trying to sell you something - be it a car or an idea.
Finally, if you're unhappy, move. You only live once.
Oh, dude I so agree with that statement. I grew up in Illinois, did short work stints in San Antonio, Texas, and Denver, Colorado. Then I moved again to Anchorage, Alaska, then Kansas City, then back to Anchorage, then small towns in Missouri, and now I'm in Sydney, Australia.
Man, life is far too short to just dream of other places, you have to take the initiative and go there.
I'm also trying to get a job in the US, but when I've had my fill of that place, I'm going to Scotland. That's highest right now on my places-i -want-to-go list, and there is no way in hell I'm not going.
My advice is to move where you want to be, then find a job there. Or, find a job where you want to move, then move there. But don't find a job you like then move to wherever it is, you'll never like where you go because you were made to go there.
Do what you love, live where you want, do what you like, and the money will come to you, that's my experience, anyway.
-Naikrovek
even paranoids i know allow any and all traffic out of any given subnet, but they heavily firewall incoming traffic.
see: the 'established' state of tcp connections.
we have a rule saying that *anything* can get out, and *nothing* can get in, unless it is part of an established connection. this allows anyone to connect to any services they want safely, and not be attacked on any open ports. our web servers run on a seperate network with 80 and 443 open.
anyway, change your isp or get a job there so you can fix it. in any event, complain your ass off.
To be fair, I suppose these guys see *thousands* of submissions per week and easily forget what's been posted and what hasn't.
But writing a simple filter to check past stories for the same hyperlinks shoudln't be too hard, i wouldn't think.
Ah well.
they get paid to *not* do this. Why do they not read their own site?
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Mod me down if you must, but I have a good point here.
http://developers.slashdot.org/article.pl?sid=0
The level of cynicism that Ask Slashdotters receive is absolutely outrageous. Give the guy a break.
That's because the level of arrogance has equally risen. One man makes a difference only when he is joined by others doing the same. My point is that anyone who chooses banks based on their browser support is on a crusade that is not, and will not, be taken up by the wise.
I read his post several times, and your points are valid. I had only one point, and I made it. And now I've made it again.
Most people don't have an "answer," so they criticize the question.
When the logic behind a question is flawed, then any answer to that question will also be flawed. It is only when you raise a question that can stand on its own that you will attract answers of equal merit. Often people treat symptoms, instead of treating problems, which leads to not solutions, but a covering of the problem. When you write a program that doesn't give the output you need, you do not write an additional program to fix it (treating the symptom), you fix your original program (treating the problem).
I'm way off topic now, but i hope you see what I mean. Leaving a bank based on its browser support is not treating the problem. It is treating a symptom.
if you don't support my browser, I'm not going to support you
:) Then convince them that IE isn't the only browser.
If you think you're going to make a difference with this attitude think again. choose banks based on their interest, their customer service, and their desire to give you a loan
It is the browser that matters least in a bank.
and its very scalable (5000 hosts)
our DNS has IN TXT fields that we put MAC addresses into, and our dhcpd.conf is cronned to regenerate every 20 minutes or so from our zone file stored in CVS.
no xxxxx.com dns address, no corporate IP address.
No, its not secure, and no, we don't use it for security. But between that, our physical security and the fact that everything sensitive is locked down pretty tight with passwords and VPN, it works out well.
And they don't have to stop and restart the dhcpd, they can kill -HUP it. and they don't have to edit manually, write a perl script to fetch it, or use perl to execute a "dig @any your.domain.com AXFR" and get the stuff you want to write a new dhcpd.conf.
perl is MADE for these things, man.
AND DON'T RELY ON DNS OR DHCP FOR AUTHENTICATION. LDAP would probably be better. or even NIS or windows domain authentication. anything besides DHCP & DNS. guh.
why do you guys hate flash?
they're working on making the back button work, and all the other things you guys whine about.
Flash isn't that big of an annoyance for me. For me, annoyances are things like getting my car stolen, or getting into a fight.
You guys that think Flash is annoying need to step back and have a look at things.
He didn't say he was mad, the said they were upset. Mad != upset.
I'd be upset too. Are you not upset when someone breaks their promise to you? I sure as hell am.
right. email is a bike messenger. you don't load bike messengers down with a 40 volume brief that weighs 100 lbs.
if they want to send big documents, call a courier with a truck. FTP or HTTP.
That's the way I explain it and it always gets through.
Mod this mo-fo up. This man is the smartest person ever to post on slashdot. You, QuantumG. Make babies. Now. Yes, NOW.
Agreed. This isn't a homegrown site anymore, they're paid for this.
Surely they can take the time to write a cross-checker to see if any of the links in the submissions have been used in any previous stories, after redirects.
Surely it can't be that hard...
Worked for Yahoo!, buddy.
I'll ship out, thanks.
I'm no slob. I dress in clean jeans every day, I iron my t-shirts, and I buy and use deodorant, as well as soap and shampoo.
But I'll be buggered if I'm going to work for a company that thinks that professionalism has anything to do with the clothes you wear.
Trends like this have nothing to do with the collapse of dotcom culture, and everything to do with office managers grasping at the straws of job justification in an economy where things are not so stable, and their jobs could easily fly out the window like anyone else's.
I work for Yahoo! Australia & NZ, and I'm happy to say that I could wear a sleeveless hunting shirt with military boots, dread-locks and 15 year old cargo pants with more holes in them than I have centimeters around my waist. No one would even blink. Why? because they all know that I'm 100% capable of doing my job on any given day, no matter what I'm wearing.
Any employer that treats me differently -- or believes differently -- shows an immense lack of trust in me, and therefore cannot be trusted by me. A company less interested in its employee's happiness and more interested in its image will die a slow, painful death, and management will wonder why none of their employees will go the extra mile the whole way down.
So here I am, taking your bait and replying. At work, at midnight, in my jeans and my ironed t-shirt. Why? My employer goes the extra mile for me, which means I do the same for them.
jeremiah johnson.
Agreed.
I just wish I had known my ex-wife better before we had children. We are divorced, and I rarely get to see my daughter (which is my fault).
I also wish I'd waited - I was an immature punk when we had our daughter. If I had waited until now, I would have done things a lot differently, and I'd probably still be married.
Perl.
Someone PLEASE get these people a decent TV, man! and a better camera! ;)
Those photos would have a lot more impact on me if i could see them better. hehe these guys are doing great things but someone please donate a TV or bigger monitor or whatever they're using.
I thought about this for a while, but the keyboards that come on Mac laptops leave A LOT to be desired. shallow keys, half-height arrow keys, etc.
And don't get me started on Trackpads v. Trackpoints. If Apple had Trackpoints (the little nipple between G, B, and H on your keyboard) I think i could overlook the keyboard.
And one button mice... We all know that is not enough.
Sure, I can get an external keyboard & mouse, and I would if i were *given* a powerbook, but to me, that's just like having a Mac desktop, because it would never leave my desk. But, if were to *buy* a Mac, it would have to be a desktop, where I can replace the peripherals with something I like.
The point: they should try to make a few more people happy. I would have switched long ago if they had a full size laptop keyboard (every key full size) and a three button trackpoint pointer. I want a Mac in a Thinkpad case.
my two cents on the "Switch" campaign.
if you're 27 or younger, you're old enough to join the enlisted folks. if you're 32 or younger (and have a masters degree or higher) you can go to officer training school.
i wouldn't recommend it though. people that don't fit elsewhere find a home in the military. use your imagination.
surely we should have the freedom to have spelling which reflect regional accents and personal preference
No. Without a common language there can be no effective communication. What you are doing is the beginning of a dialect, not spelling things your own way. You either read and write English, or you don't. You can't bend it to your will.
agreed, "boxen" is not a word. "Boxes" is a word.
Non-words used as words is like, so 1999, man.
I ran this in DOS:
prompt "Enter Password:"
No one could figure out that all i did was change the prompt from "$P$G" to that, and everyone was asking what the password was. haha, good old teacher was infinitely frustrated as well! IT WAS BEAUTIFUL.
I got kicked out for a year (not beautiful).