While MySpace is the new GeoCities, userscripts.org has a wide variety of Greasemonkey hacks that lessen the amount of throwing up in your mouth you do when you visit the site.
V guvax rirelguvat jbhyq or n jubyr ybg orggre vs crbcyr whfg yrnearq gb pbzzhavpngr va ebg13. Guvax bs gur yvgrenel zrevgf bs fhpu n ynathntr, abg gb zragvba gur havdhr naq vagrerfgvat fbhaqf gung jbhyq or znqr jura crbcyr gevrq gb fcrnx!
They forgot the class currently being taught at the University of Washington (which I am taking at the moment). It looks at Google from a wide variety of standpoints-- including looking at Google as a 'Ravager of Worlds'-- and is definitely a nice departure from the traditional "learn how to Google stuff" class.
That factor has sort of evolved over the years and is now the Dancing Game Master. Dancing games are pretty much the new fighting games nowadays, and so who rules the arcade? The lone master of DDR who seems to have an overabundance of quarters and other tokens to put on the machine and reserve his spot in the game, as well as an overabundance of females to cheer him on.
And he's even worse than the Fighting Game Master in the sense that he usually has the physique to back up his game (as dancing games generally require a decent amount of physical shape to play), so there goes any idea of taking the fighting to the real world. No, with the Dancing Master you're stuck in his long and beefy shadow, and there's no hope of overcoming his might and the posse that he has formed out of those who he has beaten...
Might I suggest the University of Washington in Seattle? It has one of the finest Computer Science departments in the nation. If you don't want to go into something as scientific as Computer Science, there's always the Informatics program (one of the only programs of its type in the world) which looks at computers and information in the context of humanity, something that works well within the setting of network engineering.
It's not that we have to get security "cool" for people to take notice, it's that we have to make it more accessible. I do security work for a reasonably large university, and who creates the most incidents for us? Not Mr. Sixpack, but Professor Sixpack who has lectures to give, dissertations to lord over, and colleagues to impress. He may be far smarter than the average Mr. Sixpack, but when it comes to security-related matters he's just as dumb. Why? He doesn't have time to keep up with the latest patches or update his virus definitions, since he has a professional career to attend to. This is the same assumption that a lot of people have about security: it's simply too hard or too time-consuming to learn. So they just brush it off to the side and stick to the things they know.
Granted, security is not the easiest thing out there to grasp (far from it), but the basic security practices that can protect against most of the far-reaching threats out there take a minimum amount of time to learn. After that, they're almost second-nature. If we want people to learn and follow security practices like not opening attachments, keeping up with the latest patches and definitions, and not using the name of their cat for all of their passwords, we have to first convince them that following these steps is not a hard thing to do.
Anyone else think of the original, coloured-lighting intensive, Unreal when they saw this? Not that it's a bad thing or anything, I'm just wondering if this is a case of life imitating art (read: computer games).
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While MySpace is the new GeoCities, userscripts.org has a wide variety of Greasemonkey hacks that lessen the amount of throwing up in your mouth you do when you visit the site.
V guvax rirelguvat jbhyq or n jubyr ybg orggre vs crbcyr whfg yrnearq gb pbzzhavpngr va ebg13. Guvax bs gur yvgrenel zrevgf bs fhpu n ynathntr, abg gb zragvba gur havdhr naq vagrerfgvat fbhaqf gung jbhyq or znqr jura crbcyr gevrq gb fcrnx!
Here's hoping they cut Tom Bombadil out of this one, too...
...especially in the comments, from what I've seen.
All the while the US moves closer and closer to the Terrible Secret of Space!
Actually, according to Anglo-Saxon legend, wouldn't a Beowulf cluster be the only thing that could kill this beast?
They forgot the class currently being taught at the University of Washington (which I am taking at the moment). It looks at Google from a wide variety of standpoints-- including looking at Google as a 'Ravager of Worlds'-- and is definitely a nice departure from the traditional "learn how to Google stuff" class.
In that case, I'm suing you for using my dance moves! Since this is Lawsuit Nation, after all...
It already has begun.
"I dont want anyone to think were robosexual, so if anyone askes, your my debugger."
-Bender
I guess 640k of RAM really is good enough for anyone...
That factor has sort of evolved over the years and is now the Dancing Game Master. Dancing games are pretty much the new fighting games nowadays, and so who rules the arcade? The lone master of DDR who seems to have an overabundance of quarters and other tokens to put on the machine and reserve his spot in the game, as well as an overabundance of females to cheer him on.
And he's even worse than the Fighting Game Master in the sense that he usually has the physique to back up his game (as dancing games generally require a decent amount of physical shape to play), so there goes any idea of taking the fighting to the real world. No, with the Dancing Master you're stuck in his long and beefy shadow, and there's no hope of overcoming his might and the posse that he has formed out of those who he has beaten...
Might I suggest the University of Washington in Seattle? It has one of the finest Computer Science departments in the nation. If you don't want to go into something as scientific as Computer Science, there's always the Informatics program (one of the only programs of its type in the world) which looks at computers and information in the context of humanity, something that works well within the setting of network engineering.
Nahh. "Botox". They're trying to appeal to the retiree demographic.
Yeah, but I hear plumbing's a way crappier job...
/rimshot
It's not that we have to get security "cool" for people to take notice, it's that we have to make it more accessible. I do security work for a reasonably large university, and who creates the most incidents for us? Not Mr. Sixpack, but Professor Sixpack who has lectures to give, dissertations to lord over, and colleagues to impress. He may be far smarter than the average Mr. Sixpack, but when it comes to security-related matters he's just as dumb. Why? He doesn't have time to keep up with the latest patches or update his virus definitions, since he has a professional career to attend to. This is the same assumption that a lot of people have about security: it's simply too hard or too time-consuming to learn. So they just brush it off to the side and stick to the things they know.
Granted, security is not the easiest thing out there to grasp (far from it), but the basic security practices that can protect against most of the far-reaching threats out there take a minimum amount of time to learn. After that, they're almost second-nature. If we want people to learn and follow security practices like not opening attachments, keeping up with the latest patches and definitions, and not using the name of their cat for all of their passwords, we have to first convince them that following these steps is not a hard thing to do.
To him I owe my entire existence. Three cheers for David Bradley!
Actually, there's an upside to the advent of gibberish becoming more widespread in spam: it helps with ideas for googlewhacking...
Looking over the page's source, it looks like they borrowed a lot of their JavaScript. Talk about copying scripture...
/rimshot
Anyone else think of the original, coloured-lighting intensive, Unreal when they saw this? Not that it's a bad thing or anything, I'm just wondering if this is a case of life imitating art (read: computer games).
Well, at least at this stage of the game, Photoshop can't recognize Monopoly money. Boardwalk here I come!
Good ol' Hal. I'll never forget his "one with the boolean" statement. I didn't know so many UDubbers were Slashdotters.
...can be found here (PDF file).
I can one-up you: I got Meta Mod points. 'Tis the season to meta mod Trolls 'Unfair'...
While this isn't a weird present in and of itself, there is one problem with it: she has eczema.