With so many sources of weather forecasts, with news, with notifications, an umbrella doing the same thing is pretty meh...
That the umbrella pairs with phone to help either from getting lost -- that's a feature possibly worth $105.
Until the umbrella blows inside out, then I'm back to $10 ones.
Perhaps these representatives imagine American taxpayers prefer US space exploration remain outsourced to Russia?
The reps in question are: Mike Coffman (R-Colo.), Mo Brooks (R-Ala.), and Cory Gardner (R-Colo.)
It must be (biologically) expensive to grow a shell, so this critter must have them for a pretty good reason. Protection from other snails? To survive dry periods?
To be less edible to "a small, slimy creature" with "lamp-like" eyes?
The claim of "a lot of Internet geeks and digerati have sounded many puzzlingly anti-intellectual" does not pass the litmus test. A great deal of learning (self and/or formal education) is needed, and not just intellectual skills but also diligent effort.
On the other hand, those that claim to be a computer expert because they can run a mail merge from Word, or copy an Excel macro from a website, or talk l33t, these people might abase intellectual effort because they make none. Posers, in a word.
This would not be the first time a few flashy shallow loudmouths are embraced by the news media as a trend. After all, no news sells no newspapers (or web site adverts).
Football, chess, and you left out boxing, hockey, and soccer, BAH!
These are mere analogues for killing. I was on the fencing team during my undergraduate years, and fencing is uniquely the ONLY sport in which one pretends to actually KILL OPPONENTS.
If people try to illegalize fencing, must I skewer them? Would I?
Football: a violent contact sport, frequently resulting in personal injury. Chess: A game in which you are encouraged to send blindly loyal soldiers of varying specialties to their untimely deaths all in the name of protecting a single political figure. Horse races: Involves brutally pitting horses against one another, some choose to include whipping. The horses get nothing but a fresh feed bag, while the trainers get millions in prize money, and book keepers rake in billions from the gambling. I'm sure there's something bad about golf, but all I could think of is "known to cause heart attacks in managers who should be behind their desks", but that's no loss for the world.
Anything can be portrayed in a bad light by phrasing it correctly.
Doctors, lawyers, and many other types of professionals are not "tested" when they apply for a job because they are LICENSED or otherwise certified. The process is somewhat more substantial that a given vendor's certification. There is no general well-recognized process to distinguish the professionals from the wanna-bees.
The licensing process is what prevents there from being any reputable rent-a-coder type sites for these professions.
The risk of loss of license also keeps practitioners in other professions somewhat on their toes more so than fear of loss of employment. Correspondingly, employers cannot so easily hire and fire licensed professionals as they can with us code-monkeys.
IMHO, US corporations will do anything and everything to prevent regulations requiring licensing of IT professionals. Their fears might be well founded: Next thing you know, we'll want to unionize!
I think the danger with books on this topic is that by the time you get them... half the content is about to be out of date, and the other half will not be current after one year.
Sorry to knock your opinion man, but the fact is that building an information security program is really quite distinct from the technology. For example, the Certified Information Systems Auditor (CISA) examination requires a vast knowledge of organizational processes, legal requirements, and risk assessment, but really very little about Linux or Vista or OS de jour. A really talented CSO attempts to define a technology-independent computer security plan, and so it is a given that the technology changes very fast.
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Many scientists are a bit on the autistic spectrum... Ergo, autism causes vaccines!
That the umbrella pairs ... that's a feature possibly worth $105.
Not when a $5 bluetooth-LE proximity tag will do the same job. And when your umbrella is wrecked, move the tag to the next one.
The tag can even beep if your app detects you are leaving and rain is forecast. Sorry to wreck the slashvertisement.
Quenda,
You're right, a small $5 solution is better than a fragile $105 solution. I stand corrected.
I'm not sure if I ever saw somebody admit to an error in /. before...
With so many sources of weather forecasts, with news, with notifications, an umbrella doing the same thing is pretty meh... That the umbrella pairs with phone to help either from getting lost -- that's a feature possibly worth $105. Until the umbrella blows inside out, then I'm back to $10 ones.
Perhaps these representatives imagine American taxpayers prefer US space exploration remain outsourced to Russia? The reps in question are: Mike Coffman (R-Colo.), Mo Brooks (R-Ala.), and Cory Gardner (R-Colo.)
Watts the big deal?
It must be (biologically) expensive to grow a shell, so this critter must have them for a pretty good reason. Protection from other snails? To survive dry periods? To be less edible to "a small, slimy creature" with "lamp-like" eyes?
On the other hand, those that claim to be a computer expert because they can run a mail merge from Word, or copy an Excel macro from a website, or talk l33t, these people might abase intellectual effort because they make none. Posers, in a word.
This would not be the first time a few flashy shallow loudmouths are embraced by the news media as a trend. After all, no news sells no newspapers (or web site adverts).
Goo might be a good rename, but how about GoGo? The mascot could be a dusty old Hoho.
Lets not all go blaming terrorist organizations on this one. ...
My money is on unionized workers facing layoffs or payroll cuts.
What about a company that specializes in hardening network infrastructure? They have concerns about payroll cuts AND increasing share holder value!
I won't suggest government agencies interested in expanding the "theater of security" because I don't have my tinfoil hat on.
Here's a helpful reference chart.
Wow, what a flash back in time...I watched this video at least a year or two ago....
Indeedy--the © notice at the end of the video is 2007! (Yeah, I really did WTFV.)
Irreducible complexity is an argument made by proponents of intelligent design that certain biological systems are too complex to have evolved from simpler, or "less complete" predecessors
So God wouldn't make things complex? Doesn't that imply that creationists believe that God cannot be more intelligent than themselves?
These are mere analogues for killing. I was on the fencing team during my undergraduate years, and fencing is uniquely the ONLY sport in which one pretends to actually KILL OPPONENTS.
If people try to illegalize fencing, must I skewer them? Would I?
Football: a violent contact sport, frequently resulting in personal injury. Chess: A game in which you are encouraged to send blindly loyal soldiers of varying specialties to their untimely deaths all in the name of protecting a single political figure. Horse races: Involves brutally pitting horses against one another, some choose to include whipping. The horses get nothing but a fresh feed bag, while the trainers get millions in prize money, and book keepers rake in billions from the gambling. I'm sure there's something bad about golf, but all I could think of is "known to cause heart attacks in managers who should be behind their desks", but that's no loss for the world.
Anything can be portrayed in a bad light by phrasing it correctly.
trickle-down economics *works*.
Yeah, it got Reagan elected. As an economic theory, it's bunk - rich people are rich because they spend a lot less than they earn.
Correction--Rich people are rich because they earn a lot more than they spend.
The licensing process is what prevents there from being any reputable rent-a-coder type sites for these professions.
The risk of loss of license also keeps practitioners in other professions somewhat on their toes more so than fear of loss of employment. Correspondingly, employers cannot so easily hire and fire licensed professionals as they can with us code-monkeys.
IMHO, US corporations will do anything and everything to prevent regulations requiring licensing of IT professionals. Their fears might be well founded: Next thing you know, we'll want to unionize!
I think the danger with books on this topic is that by the time you get them ... half the content is about to be out of date, and the other half will not be current after one year.
Sorry to knock your opinion man, but the fact is that building an information security program is really quite distinct from the technology. For example, the Certified Information Systems Auditor (CISA) examination requires a vast knowledge of organizational processes, legal requirements, and risk assessment, but really very little about Linux or Vista or OS de jour. A really talented CSO attempts to define a technology-independent computer security plan, and so it is a given that the technology changes very fast.