>A lot more people will benefit from gaining broadband than will be hurt by losing HAM frequencies.
Yep, with broadband prices and slow adoption this is a great avenue that will re-start competition, especially when local monopoly telecoms decide not to roll out DSL because they didn't get the proper back-room deal. Here in Illinois, many of the wealthier suburbs (and other locales) are only now getting DSL because SBC wanted both local and long distance rights. Well, SBC got it recently (or is on the fast track to do so) and in the meantime the cable people took this as a sign to raise their prices to a ridiculous amount.
The HAM savior argument is pretty flawed. Not only will increased broadband be a social change as it lets more people onto the information revolution, the very same infrastructure can be used to diagnose and detect disasters. Even in worst case scenarios HAM equipment (which should leave the hands of the hobbyist and goto the hands of trained professionals at the firestation) will actually work if the powerlines are down.
Its really shameless to be advocating HAMs just because it *might* have an emergency role as a defense because people don't want their pretty radio toys taken away from them. Funny how there's a consensus regarding RIAA et al changing their behavior and catching up with the times, but when it comes to HAM radio, its best to stay the course. The 'horseless carriage' hypocrisy strikes again.
Sorry but students are not the public figures that professors are. Often professors sign their name with their phd and the school they teach at to get extra clout in letters to the editor, the political process, are considered experts and testify in court, etc. Students have none of these powers of "celebrity."
A professor in social sciences can nominate anyone for a Nobel Peace Prize, can a student say the same?
In the end being a professor is a very, very public job and criticism of a public figure is nothing new, its just acadamia has yet to catch up with the real social changes the information revolution is bringing.
On top of this, professors are given web space by the universities they work for and can give a rebuttal that is easy to find with any search engine and it costs them nothing in hosting fees.
>Yes, that prof might have overreacted, but there's only that much abuse anyone can take
Then perhaps a job in the private sector is best for him. People make these lame apologies for politicians too. If its too hot in the kitchen...
Conversely, how do you know the positive comments are accurate? Ideally, people approach these sites (just as any source of info be it the tv news, the bible, etc) with a bit of skepticism and a grain of salt.
So? That's part of the job. Your assumption that the people reading this can't concieve of an angry student writing an angry review really belittles students as a whole. Imagine if we had people like this when USENET or the web kicked into full gear, there would be no huge trove of information, just people worried about their reputations and assuming that everyone in the world believes what they read.
Heh, maybe schools should be teaching critical thinking skills and skepticism for the sake of their own professors.
Who knows, maybe these (and others) are gifts to the FBI, NSA, or whoever and they wanted them to have more time to play with them before eeye went public.
If this was really introduced around the time of sp2, wouldn't that coincide with the anti-trust case and then years later the slap on the wrist they got? How's this for a quid pro quo "Leave us alone and we'll give you access to every computer in the world!"
The business-backed politicians who pushed the agreement through the three legislatures promised that NAFTA would generate prosperity that would more than compensate "ordinary" people for its lack of social protections. Foreign investors would make Mexico an economic tiger, turning its poor workers into middle-class consumers who would then buy US and Canadian goods, creating more jobs in the high-wage countries.
But as soon as the ink was dry on NAFTA, US factories began to shift production to maquiladora factories along the border, where the Mexican government assures a docile labor force and virtually no environmental restrictions. The US trade surplus with Mexico quickly turned into a deficit, and since then at least a half-million jobs have been lost, many of them in small towns and rural areas where there are no job alternatives.
Meanwhile, Mexico's overall growth rate has been half of what it needs to be just to generate enough jobs for its growing labor force. The NAFTA-inspired strategy of export-led growth undermined Mexican industries that sold to the domestic market as well as the sixty-year-old social bargain in which workers and peasant farmers shared the benefits of growth in exchange for their support for a privileged oligarchy. NAFTA provided the oligarchs with new partners--the multinational corporations--allowing them to abandon their obligations to their fellow Mexicans. Average real wages in Mexican manufacturing are actually lower than they were ten years ago. Two and a half million farmers and their families have been driven out of their local markets and off their land by heavily subsidized US and Canadian agribusiness. For most Mexicans, half of whom live in poverty, basic food has gotten even more expensive: Today the Mexican minimum wage buys less than half the tortillas it bought in 1994. As a result, hundreds of thousands of Mexicans continue to risk their lives crossing the border to get low-wage jobs in the United States.
Lets not forget that free trade is largely an illusion when farmers keep getting subsidized and when social safety nets, wages, and the environment take a beating in the name of 'free trade.'
I have the same setup at home. Without a phone line you dont get pay per view or "showcases" nor suggestions (which I think are worthless) but everything that matters works fine.
I spoke to customer service about this once and they just said not to worry about it. You may want to do one phone call to make sure there aren't any upgrades waiting for you, but for the most part directv isn't doing anything with the directivos.
Exactly. Lots of computers running mydoom have a working anti-virus, its just that the owners won't pay for updates or they have no clue what an update is or why it would expire.
Granted it costs money to update virus scanners, but that should be part of the one time purchasing fee. I guess you get what you pay for, the last few dells I've played with on the residential front came with McAfee that expired in TWO months.
You can only blame the user for so much. They were sold lemons and they have to deal with lemons. If Dell et al cared about security they would cut a deal with the people from AVG or someone who can actually provide updates for free. Not to mention start ghosting their drives with service pack one and the patches for blaster. It would cost next to nothing to toss in a disk or CDROM with 'critical updates - install before putting computer on net' if moving up to a more current ghost image is too expensive.
Persoanlly, I don't see why ISPs can't get in on this. Everytime I switch broadband providers they send a guy out to install crap on my PC. I usually stop them, but their install packages are simple ad-ware or PPPoE drivers. Why not toss in a n anti-virus for a huge discount, if not free, if the computer doesn't have a working one? Its good for the network and its good for the customer. Yes, it shouldn't be mandatory but for the average person it would be a great opportunity to get an up to date scanner. Heck, toss in a firewall while you're at it and make sure their windows update settings are correct. They could automate this when they put their ad-ware and change the name of IE to IE provided by Comcast crap.
I'm reading a lot of testimonies that sound *excatly* like the classic symptoms of generalized anxiety disorder. I really hope people with GAD aren't fooling themselving into believing they have some "special" disorder that makes them "smart" instead of getting treatment for what they might really have.
AS is extremely rare, while depression and anxiety disorders are extremely common. It makes perfect sense that a GAD sufferer or a depressed person could interact and find pleasure in MUDs, IRC, etc.
For instance AS suffers usually have a very limited imagination and have limited abilities and interests. Modern technology is extremely varied and complex and I really can't see how someone with AS would naturally fall into the role of a coder or somesuch. The AS suffer would be unable to cope with changes like shifting to OOP or even a new language or different platform. There's a lot of glamorization regarding AS, and not everyone is buying it. Its a serious and debilitating disease and I doubt even a small percentage of those who claim to have it have even seen a doctor and been formally diagnosed. (this is not directed at the parent poster just using that post as a launching pad)
> Does the internet make you lonely, or does being lonely make you want to use the internet?
Yep. The same questions are asked when it comes to recreational drug use: consider the self-medicatating theory. At the end of the day it seems that most people are not trained too well in logic, buy whatever propaganda feeds their particular ideology or limited experience, and have no problem repeating these "studies" to anyone within earshot to prove how "right" they are.
You can even do a google search, but that doesn't change the fact that the n-series has no GUI OS or apps (comes with freeDOS), no CD burner, no monitor, and no DVD drive. How this compares to a fully equiped eMac is beyond me.
Eager to find this 300 dollar PC I jumped to Dell's site to find something close to the eMac.
Here's the big ad/cheap machine on the site: "Dimension 2400 Series $599 with a limited time 100 mail in rebate." Now that's cheap. Yet the eMac comes with a better video card. So we're looking at where Apple has always been, a few hundred dollars more expensive than the CHEAPEST PC. I think a fairer comparision would be the Sony Vaio which has all the multimedia software that comes on the Mac. Those start at $699 sans monitor.
Just because one thing is cheaper than another doesn't make that other thing "expensive." $799 for a eMac is still a good deal when you consider OSX v Windows, all the iX software, etc. Apple will always have some premium, but the real question is: is it fair to call a 799 desktop and a 1099 laptop expensive? Considering what people spend on average for computers in general that's still good pricing and far from the myth that a Apple will cost you an arm and a leg.
As much as I liked the tone of this article, it does come off as way too optimistic. Issues such as drivers, buying linux pre-installed, standards compliance, etc are glossed over. Granted this is a Linux 101 article, but these are important topics.
I think Linux expansion on the server end is doing more good than some think. If a small, mid, or large company migrages to Linux servers then they are more or less forced to drop prorietary crap like MAPI and open the door towards accepting standards over closed-proprietary standards, protocols, etc. With this mechanism in action tat means more competitors, less vendor lock-in, and a healthier IT market all around.
I don't see Linux as a MS-killer, Apple-killer, but as a carrier of open protocols and standardization. If Linux can deliver this than most of the problems in the IT industry will disappear. As we've seen many times before its much tougher to make a monopoly without proprietary protocols, vendor lock-in, etc.
Right now I would say the fastest way to getting things more "open" in general would be OSX on the desktop and Linux in the server room. Its a shame Apple isn't seen a serious player in the corporate environment, especially with their prices so low.
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>The person who wrote the worm is not very good anyways.
Actually the guy/people who wrote this virus are very, very good. While the media and geeks go crazy over "attacks" on sco and microsoft, the authors are quietly collecting email addresses to sell and usernames/passwords from the keystroke logger. They have been very successful in this digital sleight of hand. Right now the current guesses focus on Russian criminals putting this whole thing together.
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>Why should CBS want to bring in unneeded controversy into the Super Bowl that would distract from the game?
Like last years:
1. Drugs support terrorism.
2. Drugs will get you pregnant. (hilarious ad, I couldnt stop laughing).
3. Drugs will magically make armed pistols appear in desks and make you shoot your friend.
And all paid by my tax dollars when my local school district is hurting and I'm paying more for college than ever. This is the same DEA that wants to make anything cooked in hemp seed oil illegal. What are THEY smoking?
Right, I forgot about that. But for other.exe's (and other executable objects) it doesnt seem to do that and I believe domain and local policies alter this behavoir. I think the default policy on an NT domain is just to say 'too bad' but I could be wrong.
>Are you actually going to google.com every time you want to find a pic?
Firebird comes with a text box next to URL box that not only does google searches, but IMBD, eBay, amazon, etc searches. Its modular so you can download/create more sites to search.
There's even a toolbar for it, but I don't see the need why.
As far as page rank goes, I never saw the need for it and don't want the spyware. You didn't know? The pagerank option is given to you in exchange for running google spyware.
You just know that when he does try that line the girl will either be a mac user or still be running Win98 and the inevitable explanation will be even dorkier. Best to stick with, "I'm highly paid in the tech sector." Avoid saying 'programmer,' wear clean pants, and shower!
>Plus, life is too short to be an asshole all of the time.
Arguably, assholes are created not born. After the nth time explaining to the same people the same concepts (virus scanner, only download from download.com, etc) its time to face facts, accept the fact they will never learn, and tell them to leave you alone and buy a Mac for their next computer.
I don't mind doing small favors or explaining something, but I can only do this so many times. On top of it, once people know they can get a hold of you they will not call the people they pay to support them like Dell. At least then they can learn to help themselves. I'd much rather show people how to get their money's worth by calling the people who support their computer and showing them how to do simple searches on google or support.microsoft.com than being on call 24.7 everytime something 'funny' happens. I get enough of that at work.
It would be very nice if windows users, by default, can just run as User and have a nice GUI to do a runas Administrator with big warnings about how theyre about to install software, etc. I think that's the biggst problem in the windows world - installing stuff is seen as no big deal, when really its not something to be taken lightly.
It contains a keylogger, that's a lot more dangerous than a DDOS zombie. I think the sco nonsense is just a cover to give these spammers and hackers some leeway. While the open-source community is taking the heat, they'll be reaping in the profits from stolen bank account passwords and potential mass-mailing zombies.
>Now when to the bullshit questions and requirements stop?
Well put. The Resume/Interview process is like this leftover from when you always called anyone above you 'Sir' and tried to avoid making eye-contact. The workplace has gotten a bit more egalitarian since the 50s, yet the hiring process hasn't.
There are classes, seminars, books etc if not a whole industry giving out these simple pieces of advice on 'how to get a job' but in real life its often much more of an art than it is a science. Some of the advice in this thread is just silly like 'don't use a template.' Do you really want to hire someone whose so compulsive-obsessive about the 'look and feel' of his resume that he'll make a special formatted one just for every application, especially when applying to dozens of jobs? Yeah, that's the guy you want developing software when the deadline approaches. "But I can't get these buttons to FEEL right!" Hey, you hired him knowing how he was.
The worst part is the traditional advice is useless in a world where your resume gets imported into a database and HR simply does searches when looking to fill a position. I doubt your helvecta fonts and tables will do you much good when its been transfered to ascii on some wacky web interface for the HR people.
The more I read in this thread, the more I realize why my co-workers tend to be idiots. If all it takes to get a job is a clean suit and a fancy formatted resume, well no wonder there's so much incompetence. Arguably, the people who put off the 'best vibes' are high-level social engineers who also will use those skills to do as little work as possible, play on the guilt of others, etc.
>That would not work, as the spammers would just set up their own sendmail servers and pump out spam to their heart's content.
Actually, no.
If your smtp didn't see the generated 'hash' then it would just insert an X-header into the email and the client software would raise its probability of spam up a signficant degree. There will be lots of false positives at first but white-listing, smart adaptive spam filters, and a little manual work will probably keep that down to a minimum. Fast forward a couple years and spamming is just unprofitable.
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>FYI, Microsoft just released the source code to Allegiance
Hell, they just released the source code to NT and Windows2k! Man, give them some credit!
>A lot more people will benefit from gaining broadband than will be hurt by losing HAM frequencies.
Yep, with broadband prices and slow adoption this is a great avenue that will re-start competition, especially when local monopoly telecoms decide not to roll out DSL because they didn't get the proper back-room deal. Here in Illinois, many of the wealthier suburbs (and other locales) are only now getting DSL because SBC wanted both local and long distance rights. Well, SBC got it recently (or is on the fast track to do so) and in the meantime the cable people took this as a sign to raise their prices to a ridiculous amount.
The HAM savior argument is pretty flawed. Not only will increased broadband be a social change as it lets more people onto the information revolution, the very same infrastructure can be used to diagnose and detect disasters. Even in worst case scenarios HAM equipment (which should leave the hands of the hobbyist and goto the hands of trained professionals at the firestation) will actually work if the powerlines are down.
Its really shameless to be advocating HAMs just because it *might* have an emergency role as a defense because people don't want their pretty radio toys taken away from them. Funny how there's a consensus regarding RIAA et al changing their behavior and catching up with the times, but when it comes to HAM radio, its best to stay the course. The 'horseless carriage' hypocrisy strikes again.
The Canadians are doing BPL mixed with wireless RIGHT NOW. I guess in the end, if your emergency services truly end with volunteers with radios its high time to re-assess your emergency systems.
>How about starting RateTheStudents.com ?
Sorry but students are not the public figures that professors are. Often professors sign their name with their phd and the school they teach at to get extra clout in letters to the editor, the political process, are considered experts and testify in court, etc. Students have none of these powers of "celebrity."
A professor in social sciences can nominate anyone for a Nobel Peace Prize, can a student say the same?
In the end being a professor is a very, very public job and criticism of a public figure is nothing new, its just acadamia has yet to catch up with the real social changes the information revolution is bringing.
On top of this, professors are given web space by the universities they work for and can give a rebuttal that is easy to find with any search engine and it costs them nothing in hosting fees.
>Yes, that prof might have overreacted, but there's only that much abuse anyone can take
Then perhaps a job in the private sector is best for him. People make these lame apologies for politicians too. If its too hot in the kitchen...
>How do you know the comments are accurate?
Conversely, how do you know the positive comments are accurate? Ideally, people approach these sites (just as any source of info be it the tv news, the bible, etc) with a bit of skepticism and a grain of salt.
>But sometimes they are simply irresponsible
So? That's part of the job. Your assumption that the people reading this can't concieve of an angry student writing an angry review really belittles students as a whole. Imagine if we had people like this when USENET or the web kicked into full gear, there would be no huge trove of information, just people worried about their reputations and assuming that everyone in the world believes what they read.
Heh, maybe schools should be teaching critical thinking skills and skepticism for the sake of their own professors.
Who knows, maybe these (and others) are gifts to the FBI, NSA, or whoever and they wanted them to have more time to play with them before eeye went public.
If this was really introduced around the time of sp2, wouldn't that coincide with the anti-trust case and then years later the slap on the wrist they got? How's this for a quid pro quo "Leave us alone and we'll give you access to every computer in the world!"
Why, yes it did.
Good piece here
>If you'd prefer the stability of a socialist system, then by all means, move to a communist country!
Logical fallacy here. You are ignoring other solutions like better economic planning and fixing the problems our policies have done.
Good piece at the nation here: Lets not forget that free trade is largely an illusion when farmers keep getting subsidized and when social safety nets, wages, and the environment take a beating in the name of 'free trade.'
I have the same setup at home. Without a phone line you dont get pay per view or "showcases" nor suggestions (which I think are worthless) but everything that matters works fine.
I spoke to customer service about this once and they just said not to worry about it. You may want to do one phone call to make sure there aren't any upgrades waiting for you, but for the most part directv isn't doing anything with the directivos.
Exactly. Lots of computers running mydoom have a working anti-virus, its just that the owners won't pay for updates or they have no clue what an update is or why it would expire.
Granted it costs money to update virus scanners, but that should be part of the one time purchasing fee. I guess you get what you pay for, the last few dells I've played with on the residential front came with McAfee that expired in TWO months.
You can only blame the user for so much. They were sold lemons and they have to deal with lemons. If Dell et al cared about security they would cut a deal with the people from AVG or someone who can actually provide updates for free. Not to mention start ghosting their drives with service pack one and the patches for blaster. It would cost next to nothing to toss in a disk or CDROM with 'critical updates - install before putting computer on net' if moving up to a more current ghost image is too expensive.
Persoanlly, I don't see why ISPs can't get in on this. Everytime I switch broadband providers they send a guy out to install crap on my PC. I usually stop them, but their install packages are simple ad-ware or PPPoE drivers. Why not toss in a n anti-virus for a huge discount, if not free, if the computer doesn't have a working one? Its good for the network and its good for the customer. Yes, it shouldn't be mandatory but for the average person it would be a great opportunity to get an up to date scanner. Heck, toss in a firewall while you're at it and make sure their windows update settings are correct. They could automate this when they put their ad-ware and change the name of IE to IE provided by Comcast crap.
I'm reading a lot of testimonies that sound *excatly* like the classic symptoms of generalized anxiety disorder. I really hope people with GAD aren't fooling themselving into believing they have some "special" disorder that makes them "smart" instead of getting treatment for what they might really have.
AS is extremely rare, while depression and anxiety disorders are extremely common. It makes perfect sense that a GAD sufferer or a depressed person could interact and find pleasure in MUDs, IRC, etc.
For instance AS suffers usually have a very limited imagination and have limited abilities and interests. Modern technology is extremely varied and complex and I really can't see how someone with AS would naturally fall into the role of a coder or somesuch. The AS suffer would be unable to cope with changes like shifting to OOP or even a new language or different platform. There's a lot of glamorization regarding AS, and not everyone is buying it. Its a serious and debilitating disease and I doubt even a small percentage of those who claim to have it have even seen a doctor and been formally diagnosed. (this is not directed at the parent poster just using that post as a launching pad)
> Does the internet make you lonely, or does being lonely make you want to use the internet?
Yep. The same questions are asked when it comes to recreational drug use: consider the self-medicatating theory. At the end of the day it seems that most people are not trained too well in logic, buy whatever propaganda feeds their particular ideology or limited experience, and have no problem repeating these "studies" to anyone within earshot to prove how "right" they are.
> Look at or search dell's site for "n series".
You can even do a google search, but that doesn't change the fact that the n-series has no GUI OS or apps (comes with freeDOS), no CD burner, no monitor, and no DVD drive. How this compares to a fully equiped eMac is beyond me.
Eager to find this 300 dollar PC I jumped to Dell's site to find something close to the eMac.
Here's the big ad/cheap machine on the site:
"Dimension 2400 Series $599 with a limited time 100 mail in rebate." Now that's cheap. Yet the eMac comes with a better video card. So we're looking at where Apple has always been, a few hundred dollars more expensive than the CHEAPEST PC. I think a fairer comparision would be the Sony Vaio which has all the multimedia software that comes on the Mac. Those start at $699 sans monitor.
Just because one thing is cheaper than another doesn't make that other thing "expensive." $799 for a eMac is still a good deal when you consider OSX v Windows, all the iX software, etc. Apple will always have some premium, but the real question is: is it fair to call a 799 desktop and a 1099 laptop expensive? Considering what people spend on average for computers in general that's still good pricing and far from the myth that a Apple will cost you an arm and a leg.
As much as I liked the tone of this article, it does come off as way too optimistic. Issues such as drivers, buying linux pre-installed, standards compliance, etc are glossed over. Granted this is a Linux 101 article, but these are important topics.
I think Linux expansion on the server end is doing more good than some think. If a small, mid, or large company migrages to Linux servers then they are more or less forced to drop prorietary crap like MAPI and open the door towards accepting standards over closed-proprietary standards, protocols, etc. With this mechanism in action tat means more competitors, less vendor lock-in, and a healthier IT market all around.
I don't see Linux as a MS-killer, Apple-killer, but as a carrier of open protocols and standardization. If Linux can deliver this than most of the problems in the IT industry will disappear. As we've seen many times before its much tougher to make a monopoly without proprietary protocols, vendor lock-in, etc.
Right now I would say the fastest way to getting things more "open" in general would be OSX on the desktop and Linux in the server room. Its a shame Apple isn't seen a serious player in the corporate environment, especially with their prices so low.
>The person who wrote the worm is not very good anyways.
Actually the guy/people who wrote this virus are very, very good. While the media and geeks go crazy over "attacks" on sco and microsoft, the authors are quietly collecting email addresses to sell and usernames/passwords from the keystroke logger. They have been very successful in this digital sleight of hand. Right now the current guesses focus on Russian criminals putting this whole thing together.
>Why should CBS want to bring in unneeded controversy into the Super Bowl that would distract from the game?
Like last years:
1. Drugs support terrorism.
2. Drugs will get you pregnant. (hilarious ad, I couldnt stop laughing).
3. Drugs will magically make armed pistols appear in desks and make you shoot your friend.
And all paid by my tax dollars when my local school district is hurting and I'm paying more for college than ever. This is the same DEA that wants to make anything cooked in hemp seed oil illegal. What are THEY smoking?
Right, I forgot about that. But for other .exe's (and other executable objects) it doesnt seem to do that and I believe domain and local policies alter this behavoir. I think the default policy on an NT domain is just to say 'too bad' but I could be wrong.
>Considering IE is here to stay
Imagine if Microsoft had that defeatist attitude when they wrote IE to replace the browser everyone was using and knew well - Netscape.
>Are you actually going to google.com every time you want to find a pic?
Firebird comes with a text box next to URL box that not only does google searches, but IMBD, eBay, amazon, etc searches. Its modular so you can download/create more sites to search.
There's even a toolbar for it, but I don't see the need why.
As far as page rank goes, I never saw the need for it and don't want the spyware. You didn't know? The pagerank option is given to you in exchange for running google spyware.
>"You know I invented CTRL ALT DEL?"
You just know that when he does try that line the girl will either be a mac user or still be running Win98 and the inevitable explanation will be even dorkier. Best to stick with, "I'm highly paid in the tech sector." Avoid saying 'programmer,' wear clean pants, and shower!
>Plus, life is too short to be an asshole all of the time.
Arguably, assholes are created not born. After the nth time explaining to the same people the same concepts (virus scanner, only download from download.com, etc) its time to face facts, accept the fact they will never learn, and tell them to leave you alone and buy a Mac for their next computer.
I don't mind doing small favors or explaining something, but I can only do this so many times. On top of it, once people know they can get a hold of you they will not call the people they pay to support them like Dell. At least then they can learn to help themselves. I'd much rather show people how to get their money's worth by calling the people who support their computer and showing them how to do simple searches on google or support.microsoft.com than being on call 24.7 everytime something 'funny' happens. I get enough of that at work.
It would be very nice if windows users, by default, can just run as User and have a nice GUI to do a runas Administrator with big warnings about how theyre about to install software, etc. I think that's the biggst problem in the windows world - installing stuff is seen as no big deal, when really its not something to be taken lightly.
It contains a keylogger, that's a lot more dangerous than a DDOS zombie. I think the sco nonsense is just a cover to give these spammers and hackers some leeway. While the open-source community is taking the heat, they'll be reaping in the profits from stolen bank account passwords and potential mass-mailing zombies.
>Now when to the bullshit questions and requirements stop?
Well put. The Resume/Interview process is like this leftover from when you always called anyone above you 'Sir' and tried to avoid making eye-contact. The workplace has gotten a bit more egalitarian since the 50s, yet the hiring process hasn't.
There are classes, seminars, books etc if not a whole industry giving out these simple pieces of advice on 'how to get a job' but in real life its often much more of an art than it is a science. Some of the advice in this thread is just silly like 'don't use a template.' Do you really want to hire someone whose so compulsive-obsessive about the 'look and feel' of his resume that he'll make a special formatted one just for every application, especially when applying to dozens of jobs? Yeah, that's the guy you want developing software when the deadline approaches. "But I can't get these buttons to FEEL right!" Hey, you hired him knowing how he was.
The worst part is the traditional advice is useless in a world where your resume gets imported into a database and HR simply does searches when looking to fill a position. I doubt your helvecta fonts and tables will do you much good when its been transfered to ascii on some wacky web interface for the HR people.
The more I read in this thread, the more I realize why my co-workers tend to be idiots. If all it takes to get a job is a clean suit and a fancy formatted resume, well no wonder there's so much incompetence. Arguably, the people who put off the 'best vibes' are high-level social engineers who also will use those skills to do as little work as possible, play on the guilt of others, etc.
...suggest this when the video clip has almost seconds worth of Natalie Portman?!
>That would not work, as the spammers would just set up their own sendmail servers and pump out spam to their heart's content.
Actually, no.
If your smtp didn't see the generated 'hash' then it would just insert an X-header into the email and the client software would raise its probability of spam up a signficant degree. There will be lots of false positives at first but white-listing, smart adaptive spam filters, and a little manual work will probably keep that down to a minimum. Fast forward a couple years and spamming is just unprofitable.