I worry that the long term effects will not become apparent until years later, like I suspect [utah.edu] might happen with PDE inhibitors like Viagra, Cialis and Levitra.
Well, I guess if you're going to take away my PDE inhibitors, I might as well sleep anyway.
High school was a complete waste of my time. I had a friend who dropped out, got his GED, went to the branch campus of a very good school (the same one I ended up going to) for a year, after which he could move to the main campus (assuming good grades).
If I had to do it all over again, this is exactly what I would do. Instead, I begged and begged to be allowed to take college courses for high school (and college) credit. Luckily in Ohio they have a program just for that (Post Secondary Enrollment Option); they even pay tuition and books. Still, my high school would only let me take up to 10 credits per semester, and that only counted for 2 high school classes per semester (10 college credits = 2 high school credits?!).
Point is, some are dropping out because it's absolutely worthless.
You both have interesting points. But, in the end, if people are going to get my personal information and abuse it, I think I might be better off being able to point to the widespread availability of my info rather than just sitting there shrugging because I didn't know that Club Fufu stripped it off of my drivers license 7 years ago.
In other words, if your credit card isn't stolen, then you made the purchase, right?
What is interesting, in a disturbiung way, is that Marie Curies workbooks that she used while discovering radium are still considered dangerously radioactive.
Curiously, given this story, there is a similar story floating around about Paris Hilton, albeit not involving science workbooks.
When someone tells you that there is a consensus among scientists on a certain issue, they have proved nothing about the issue itself..
You could make that point about any scientific finding ever made. Science does not prove anything; it only rules out alternatives (never exhausting all alternatives) and builds evidence in support of hypotheses.
Gravity could be the result of supernatural forces carrying everything downward at 9.8 m/s^2, but there's consensus around the natural cause. Pointing out that consensus != proof is pretty useless. Saying it's unscientific is just plain wrong.
What the hell do you think the guy with the cameraphone posting on YouTube is doing? Or the numerous students demanding badge numbers? You can't interfere with police business. The protocol here is to document and deal with after the fact.
Just as a little backstory, one of the quotes the guy has on his facebook (which he now has taken down) was "I like to find the most difficult solutions to the simplest of problems".
Wait, it's finally legal to electrocute people with stupid facebook profiles, and no one told me?
As a sysadmin, you are somewhere between a software developer and an office admin / secretary. Should you change the toner in the printer or should the office admin? Don't know, don't care. All I know is that has nothing to do with my job, and my boss would be pretty angry if he found out I was billing them software developer rates to change toner.
You're a sysadmin. In case you forgot, that means you're supposed to administrate the system. (Since when was a printer not part of the network?) You are a support role. Come to terms with it.
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Then what constitutes a site? A second level domain name? What if 99% of the Internet was under one domain name? An extreme example, but it makes the point. These statistics are about as useful as Christmas tree in April, or some other ridiculous analogy.
Most porn sites have one or two teaser (no pun intended) pages, and the rest are behind a login challenge, and thus would not be indexed. How is this accounted for in their results?
Maybe you were kidding, but just in case you weren't: this is a horrible idea. It ignores the cost of turnover to the business (huge!). It's much better to get the employees to buy-in.
Do people really think Windows does a good job with backward compatibility? From my perspective, they just do a good job motivating vendors to get their software up to speed with the next Windows version.
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I worry that the long term effects will not become apparent until years later, like I suspect [utah.edu] might happen with PDE inhibitors like Viagra, Cialis and Levitra.
Well, I guess if you're going to take away my PDE inhibitors, I might as well sleep anyway.
High school was a complete waste of my time. I had a friend who dropped out, got his GED, went to the branch campus of a very good school (the same one I ended up going to) for a year, after which he could move to the main campus (assuming good grades).
If I had to do it all over again, this is exactly what I would do. Instead, I begged and begged to be allowed to take college courses for high school (and college) credit. Luckily in Ohio they have a program just for that (Post Secondary Enrollment Option); they even pay tuition and books. Still, my high school would only let me take up to 10 credits per semester, and that only counted for 2 high school classes per semester (10 college credits = 2 high school credits?!).
Point is, some are dropping out because it's absolutely worthless.
You both have interesting points. But, in the end, if people are going to get my personal information and abuse it, I think I might be better off being able to point to the widespread availability of my info rather than just sitting there shrugging because I didn't know that Club Fufu stripped it off of my drivers license 7 years ago.
In other words, if your credit card isn't stolen, then you made the purchase, right?
Small chance? You've never been to a club, have you. Everyone's there for the same reason, and it ain't for the $10 Popov martinis.
What is interesting, in a disturbiung way, is that Marie Curies workbooks that she used while discovering radium are still considered dangerously radioactive.
Curiously, given this story, there is a similar story floating around about Paris Hilton, albeit not involving science workbooks.
Heaven forbid an outsider come to this site and find this story in the science category.
When someone tells you that there is a consensus among scientists on a certain issue, they have proved nothing about the issue itself..
You could make that point about any scientific finding ever made. Science does not prove anything; it only rules out alternatives (never exhausting all alternatives) and builds evidence in support of hypotheses.
Gravity could be the result of supernatural forces carrying everything downward at 9.8 m/s^2, but there's consensus around the natural cause. Pointing out that consensus != proof is pretty useless. Saying it's unscientific is just plain wrong.
c i told u that emailz r prety much da same as ims i dont relly c what the diff is its just sending msgs to diff ppl way2go judge ttyl
Once again, a security-minded professional ignores the fact that the market ignores security.
What the hell do you think the guy with the cameraphone posting on YouTube is doing? Or the numerous students demanding badge numbers? You can't interfere with police business. The protocol here is to document and deal with after the fact.
Just as a little backstory, one of the quotes the guy has on his facebook (which he now has taken down) was "I like to find the most difficult solutions to the simplest of problems".
Wait, it's finally legal to electrocute people with stupid facebook profiles, and no one told me?
Who said anything about a programmer? I said software developer. The fact that you don't know the difference puts your comment in context pretty well.
As a sysadmin, you are somewhere between a software developer and an office admin / secretary. Should you change the toner in the printer or should the office admin? Don't know, don't care. All I know is that has nothing to do with my job, and my boss would be pretty angry if he found out I was billing them software developer rates to change toner.
You're a sysadmin. In case you forgot, that means you're supposed to administrate the system. (Since when was a printer not part of the network?) You are a support role. Come to terms with it.
Finally, a sysadmin with people skills!
And any organ transplants would require a new license.
self-fulfilling prophecy.
Leave my mother out of this.
Is that Britney Spears singing, or did my hard drive just die?
Then what constitutes a site? A second level domain name? What if 99% of the Internet was under one domain name? An extreme example, but it makes the point. These statistics are about as useful as Christmas tree in April, or some other ridiculous analogy.
Most porn sites have one or two teaser (no pun intended) pages, and the rest are behind a login challenge, and thus would not be indexed. How is this accounted for in their results?
I suspect that the porn content of the Net is highly underrated. Having done such surveys in my life for businesses
I want your job.
Maybe you were kidding, but just in case you weren't: this is a horrible idea. It ignores the cost of turnover to the business (huge!). It's much better to get the employees to buy-in.
Mod legitimate questions down!!!
Visicalc is a DOS program.
Do people really think Windows does a good job with backward compatibility? From my perspective, they just do a good job motivating vendors to get their software up to speed with the next Windows version.