I can't believe that an industry in constant need of talented people would find too many of any kind of person a problem. Employers that I hear speak on the topic of hiring have one thing one their minds; filling empty seats. And let me touch on female engineering talent- in my 25+ years of Software Development I've had the pleasure of working with TWO talented female engineers. Why only two? Well, from my experience I think a lot of it has to do with a ridiculous cultural stigma American pop society puts on education. I have seen this all throughout my educational experience growing up in the 70's, and I'm sure its changed little; in fact I'd be willing to put up some good money its only gotten worse. I specifically recall a very popular girl in high school explaining to me how she was going to get through life with her ass so she didn't have to study, at all. Wonder where she's at now?
He may not have an ass to poop out of either now that he will need to come to grips with the Streisand effect while watching the evening news with some of his more notoriously less-than-kind-to-child-rapists yet stronger-than-apes cell mates.
Naw, not every time. I'm either not as cynical as you, or I simply have lost my mind, but there are a few things Congress is loath to cross the people on. This will be one of those things I think.
This is EXACTLY what I want my government involved with. Of all the nonsense I am powerless to deal with on my own, which is admittedly a lot, I still (naively, perhaps), feel as though I can vote the bastards out of office for foisting off a ridiculous health care bill, printing money like its 1999, and sending my buddies to the Middle East, the ONE THING I am absolutely powerless to do anything about is the annoying way commercials up their volume. Here here, and well done for this true representative of the people. I hope she's successful.
Exactly correct, in my opinion. A number of LAMP set-ups diverge from the M in LAMP because they offer Postgresql (LAPP?) as an alternative to MySQL and I'm sure most of the admins speed right on by the psql option simply because they aren't familiar with it option, which is a shame really as I think psql is the superior one.
Right now I'll settle for some freedom. I don't feel like I have that now when I have to pay extra to keep the big three credit reporting agencies on top of keeping my information private.
Or not use their service. I resent having to "make sure" I'm not doing anything illegal. Small comfort the guy I read about just yesterday who copied some pr0n (and like it or not, pornography is legal, at least here) from some site and mixed in with the media was some kiddie pr0n. Through the machinations of how he got fingered and all I won't get into, but of course his life was ruined. In *THIS* country, I guess innocent until proven guilty is just some kind of worthless slogan. I'm sorry but I have a problem with the guilty until you prove yourself innocent philosophy. Or put it another way, I like my privacy, I shouldn't need to bother with the vagaries of legality or illegality unless I'm doing something I know to be illegal (not wrong, just illegal, there is a distinction, and not its not always clear which is which, wnd the problem with your philosophy.) Either we live in a free society or we don't, which is it?
To continue, and briefly, a friend of mine worked for a company who had a network spur that was little used, and served by these two OpenBSD machines, and these machines sat for a few years almost forgotten when one day their whole network started acting funny, a few name queries would end up in strange and obviously incorrect domains. A days of poking around led me to these two machines. Seems whomever set them up wanted them as a back door into this intranet, so they let one serve up a telnet port as well as name service. I don't think it was anything malicious, but whatever it was whomever set it up let the machine serve up bare, un-covered telnet, like a fool, no ssh tunnel, no nothing. Late at night I noticed both machine unusually active, so I took a look. Connected to the one machine was a telnet session with an endpoint somewhere in China. A closer look revealed the server's kernel had been recompiled. I didn't do any further analysis, I just shut down that port at the firewall and reported what I found. I think the company ended up retiring those servers and bringing that part of their intranet into the main fold of the corporate server stable.
You didn't know DNS could be used for evil??? Boy have I got a tale of woah for you involving an unsecured telnet port and a pair of forgotten BSD machines doing DNS duty deep in the bowels of one organization...
Reminds me of the tv commercial a few years back here in the States where a sweaty pulse beater looks up from a console and proudly exclaims "I got to the end of the internet."
I'm not so sure we have the whole story. I read in another news source that the guy actually stole $.5 Mil worth of equipment, or school admins found that 1/2 Mil of school property somehow found its way into his house, and some other assorted hi-jinks. I'm not resting my laurels on that statement as I didn't copy down the source, but that's what I remember reading.
I'm not arguing in favor of patents. If you start a business and I steal it from you, not just take the idea but tell you to your face that you were a partner but are no longer, and my lawyer slaps you with filed papers to that effect, is that a patent issue? Or a simple civil case, name your poison- say theft, breach of contract, breaking of agreements, christ, I could go on...
1) I don't give a DAMN what PETA thinks, never did, never will. I'll slaughter a million kittens before I give even the first wit of anything those hypocritical bastards have to say. 2) Next stop on the food production evolution: Soylent Green, which I'm sure PETA is all for.
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A lot of those guys were super-talented, I'd be surprised if they stayed unemployed for long.
I can't believe that an industry in constant need of talented people would find too many of any kind of person a problem. Employers that I hear speak on the topic of hiring have one thing one their minds; filling empty seats. And let me touch on female engineering talent- in my 25+ years of Software Development I've had the pleasure of working with TWO talented female engineers. Why only two? Well, from my experience I think a lot of it has to do with a ridiculous cultural stigma American pop society puts on education. I have seen this all throughout my educational experience growing up in the 70's, and I'm sure its changed little; in fact I'd be willing to put up some good money its only gotten worse. I specifically recall a very popular girl in high school explaining to me how she was going to get through life with her ass so she didn't have to study, at all. Wonder where she's at now?
The guy wouldn't have a leg to stand on...
He may not have an ass to poop out of either now that he will need to come to grips with the Streisand effect while watching the evening news with some of his more notoriously less-than-kind-to-child-rapists yet stronger-than-apes cell mates.
Better than the usual "using the internet to google poison because I hate my wife" scenario.
...a huge legal mess to me. Glad I'm not involved. Ok, time to enjoy a movie from my HP Media Vault...
Naw, not every time. I'm either not as cynical as you, or I simply have lost my mind, but there are a few things Congress is loath to cross the people on. This will be one of those things I think.
This is EXACTLY what I want my government involved with. Of all the nonsense I am powerless to deal with on my own, which is admittedly a lot, I still (naively, perhaps), feel as though I can vote the bastards out of office for foisting off a ridiculous health care bill, printing money like its 1999, and sending my buddies to the Middle East, the ONE THING I am absolutely powerless to do anything about is the annoying way commercials up their volume. Here here, and well done for this true representative of the people. I hope she's successful.
Not so much a problem for the folks on the spacecraft, relativity can make the journey very manageable for them.
Populate it with those /. virgins in the earlier thread and I think we have a winner.
We don't want people embracing open source if by "embrace" they mean "take this free code, create my own product, and sell it".
Why not, as long as any GPL'd source "goes back into the pool", as it were.
Exactly correct, in my opinion. A number of LAMP set-ups diverge from the M in LAMP because they offer Postgresql (LAPP?) as an alternative to MySQL and I'm sure most of the admins speed right on by the psql option simply because they aren't familiar with it option, which is a shame really as I think psql is the superior one.
Right now I'll settle for some freedom. I don't feel like I have that now when I have to pay extra to keep the big three credit reporting agencies on top of keeping my information private.
If I know my nephew he'd be really happy with a book on cloning and a piece of amber with a huge ancient mosquito embedded in it.
Or not use their service. I resent having to "make sure" I'm not doing anything illegal. Small comfort the guy I read about just yesterday who copied some pr0n (and like it or not, pornography is legal, at least here) from some site and mixed in with the media was some kiddie pr0n. Through the machinations of how he got fingered and all I won't get into, but of course his life was ruined. In *THIS* country, I guess innocent until proven guilty is just some kind of worthless slogan. I'm sorry but I have a problem with the guilty until you prove yourself innocent philosophy. Or put it another way, I like my privacy, I shouldn't need to bother with the vagaries of legality or illegality unless I'm doing something I know to be illegal (not wrong, just illegal, there is a distinction, and not its not always clear which is which, wnd the problem with your philosophy.) Either we live in a free society or we don't, which is it?
"Aqui en Mexico, todos los trabajadores tenemos acceso a servicios de salud publica."
Aun así, están trepando las paredes para entrar en el Norte.
Hey, that's fucking hilarious.
To continue, and briefly, a friend of mine worked for a company who had a network spur that was little used, and served by these two OpenBSD machines, and these machines sat for a few years almost forgotten when one day their whole network started acting funny, a few name queries would end up in strange and obviously incorrect domains. A days of poking around led me to these two machines. Seems whomever set them up wanted them as a back door into this intranet, so they let one serve up a telnet port as well as name service. I don't think it was anything malicious, but whatever it was whomever set it up let the machine serve up bare, un-covered telnet, like a fool, no ssh tunnel, no nothing. Late at night I noticed both machine unusually active, so I took a look. Connected to the one machine was a telnet session with an endpoint somewhere in China. A closer look revealed the server's kernel had been recompiled. I didn't do any further analysis, I just shut down that port at the firewall and reported what I found. I think the company ended up retiring those servers and bringing that part of their intranet into the main fold of the corporate server stable.
You didn't know DNS could be used for evil??? Boy have I got a tale of woah for you involving an unsecured telnet port and a pair of forgotten BSD machines doing DNS duty deep in the bowels of one organization...
Great. Then they can use the friggin' thing, because I sure won't.
...that was really awful.
Reminds me of the tv commercial a few years back here in the States where a sweaty pulse beater looks up from a console and proudly exclaims "I got to the end of the internet."
I'm not so sure we have the whole story. I read in another news source that the guy actually stole $.5 Mil worth of equipment, or school admins found that 1/2 Mil of school property somehow found its way into his house, and some other assorted hi-jinks. I'm not resting my laurels on that statement as I didn't copy down the source, but that's what I remember reading.
If human meat is like pork I'll pass. I don't dig on swine. Too salty. Fish & chicken for me.
Yeah, and the attempts to squash the knowledge will be just as successful as Apple. When will they ever learn?
Now- how many more posts before this thread gets Godwined?
I'm not arguing in favor of patents. If you start a business and I steal it from you, not just take the idea but tell you to your face that you were a partner but are no longer, and my lawyer slaps you with filed papers to that effect, is that a patent issue? Or a simple civil case, name your poison- say theft, breach of contract, breaking of agreements, christ, I could go on...
1) I don't give a DAMN what PETA thinks, never did, never will. I'll slaughter a million kittens before I give even the first wit of anything those hypocritical bastards have to say.
2) Next stop on the food production evolution: Soylent Green, which I'm sure PETA is all for.