The same thing happened in Europe with the introduction of the Euro. Folks perceived everything as being more expensive.
It was not just a perception, things actually got a lot more expensive. For example, in Germany, the conversion rate was 1.95 DM to 1 Euro, but nominal prices remained approximately the same. Something that used to cost 5 DM suddenly cost 5 Euro. Of course, it was a 100% price hike. That's why they call Euro "Teuro", short for "Expensivo."
But if you approach another company with the experience you seem to have gained already, I don't think your education is going to be high on the list of interview topics.
Sorry to bust your bubble, but this is just plain wrong. It was wrong when companies were hiring like crazy during the dot-com boom, it is even wronger today when recession hits. People without a degree are not only the first to go, they are very unlikely to get a job interview, no matter how much professional experience they have.
My advice: get a degree, learn in your spare free time, and during week ends. It is achievable within 4-5 years, if you are disciplined enough to put up with a lot of work. Plus you'll come to appreciate the learning experience, because a lot of topics in CS will still be eye openers and will seriously broaden your horizons. Don't give up this valuable experience. At least, give it a try, at least one year. It's worth it.
The KKK was a 'secret' society, the scimitar yielding hatebeards are in the open (without caps that is)
Even in muslim countries, islamists were more or less a secret society too until 30 or 20 years ago. They were only recently permitted to crawl out of their holes (where they should have remained).
The KKK was a political group, not necessarily a religious one
As are the islamists: a political group hellbent on shoving their twisted worldview down other peoples' throats (be they regular muslims or not). All in all, there are more similarities between both sects than you imagine.
You're confusing some proprietary C++ libraries with the C++ standard and the C++ Standard Library that both have nothing proprietary in them and that are cross-platform.
Actually, the only use for SSDs currently are ZILs (ZFS intent logs) and we're evaluating whether we put PostgreSQL transaction logs on an SSD, but that's another story. Our main storage farm is still HDD-based.
We do here at work. We need some modest 120+ TB of storage right now, and 30% of that content is highly dynamic (PostgreSQL databases). Anything but data center quality HDD would be silly, not to mention unreliable as hell and heavily expensive. SSDs are just for laptops or so, not for real data storage requirements.
he world is going to have to do something serious about islamists. Either bitchslap them all hard. Real hard. Or join them.
C'mon, the US official policy has been pro-islamist since, at least, 2006 or so. Just look at the Cablegate cables emanating from allied countries, e.g. from Morocco, but not only from there. There, US diplomats are reporting how they cultivated ties to the various islamist groups that were illegal at the time. They also invited them for talks in US universities and think tanks at the same time. In Libya, they militarily (!) removed a dictator that despite all his weirdness, kept the islamists in check (and promptly got "rewarded" for their help by the attack in Benghazi from the very same elements they worked so hard to get to power). In Egypt, the US were quick to abandon the secular opposition and supported Morsi and his new constitution. And, of course, in Syria, the US is teaming with Al Qaeda and other jihadists against one of the last secular regimes in the region. How much closer can you get by joining them? The US Government is in bed with them for quite some time... and that's a tragedy for people there who hoped for human rights, equal treatment of women and men, etc., and who will have to wait a couple of generations or more to undo the current damage.
If you need a narrow band VPN, you could always encrypt it in such a way that it can't be detected by the sniffers. For example, use something like the technique used by port knocking, i.e. utilize the time domain for your encrypted channel. In other words, don't send encrypted data directly, just send regular data and modulate the time intervals between the packets to reflect your encrypted data.
If they had this, they would have solved the spam problem by now... Speaking of spam: by intelligently encoding your encrypted data as spam, you could pass through the sniffers too.
What possible hope is there of peaceful development, democracy, arab spring and political improvement in Iran if they truly are under attack?
What makes you think that the so called "arab spring" which is really an "islamist winter" is about democracy? But save for that, you're right: Iran's society is undergoing a big transformation right now, and if attacked, that would slow down the inevitable downfall of their clerical system... which would be sad.
Even if you fix DNS and make it p2p and censorship resilient, they'll force the ISPs and tier-1 backbone operators to withdraw BGP route advertisements to (AS hosting) sites they don't want you to visit. Now try to fix that!
Of course yes! The only useful use for nuclear bombs may be in outer space to try to deflect asteroids, or to mine asteroids for some minerals. But in outer space, nuclear weapons are forbidden by international treaty. So we end up in a rather paradoxical situation here, where we have weapons whose only purpose on Earth, if actually used, is to commit genocide and we are not allowed to use them in space, where the could profit humankind, don't we?
In every society, there are some people who are unstable. It may be a little more in the US than elsewhere (or it may not), but the point is to deny unstable people as far as possible easy access to tools that they can use to harm other people in a big way. It's far too easy in the US for some unstable individual to get weapons and to wreak havoc.
Exactly. But there is a delete button on the big video bandwidth providers like YouTube, etc. As long as a video remains on some obscure channel/websites only, it is as good as "deleted" for the general populace.
(...) but the truly evil fringe of Islam is the Muslim Brotherhood and they and their associated groups like Hamas and Hezbollah are currently an the ascendancy in the region.
So are they in Syria, with friendly help of our "allies" Qatar, Turkey, Saudi Arabia, and heavily supported by the US and most EU Governments, no less.
In the part of the world where I live (and that's a first world country), they still sell DVDs in big retail stores. People still get their daily fix of entertainment and films from physical DVDs. They are very upset when their tablets don't have the ability to play them.
8 chars is a tiny key space by today's standards, and even then, you probably didn't use up all available 256 possibilities per char, right? Just brute force it, using a sensible strategy (maybe combined with John The Ripper?) and you're likely to be done in a couple of hours or days with standard hardware.
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It was not just a perception, things actually got a lot more expensive. For example, in Germany, the conversion rate was 1.95 DM to 1 Euro, but nominal prices remained approximately the same. Something that used to cost 5 DM suddenly cost 5 Euro. Of course, it was a 100% price hike. That's why they call Euro "Teuro", short for "Expensivo."
Sorry to bust your bubble, but this is just plain wrong. It was wrong when companies were hiring like crazy during the dot-com boom, it is even wronger today when recession hits. People without a degree are not only the first to go, they are very unlikely to get a job interview, no matter how much professional experience they have.
My advice: get a degree, learn in your spare free time, and during week ends. It is achievable within 4-5 years, if you are disciplined enough to put up with a lot of work. Plus you'll come to appreciate the learning experience, because a lot of topics in CS will still be eye openers and will seriously broaden your horizons. Don't give up this valuable experience. At least, give it a try, at least one year. It's worth it.
A faraday cage is not enough. Make sure no optical signals can get out of the room.
The definition of "it" in this context is probably a license to view the content, not the content itself.
Even in muslim countries, islamists were more or less a secret society too until 30 or 20 years ago. They were only recently permitted to crawl out of their holes (where they should have remained).
As are the islamists: a political group hellbent on shoving their twisted worldview down other peoples' throats (be they regular muslims or not). All in all, there are more similarities between both sects than you imagine.
You're confusing some proprietary C++ libraries with the C++ standard and the C++ Standard Library that both have nothing proprietary in them and that are cross-platform.
Actually, the only use for SSDs currently are ZILs (ZFS intent logs) and we're evaluating whether we put PostgreSQL transaction logs on an SSD, but that's another story. Our main storage farm is still HDD-based.
We do here at work. We need some modest 120+ TB of storage right now, and 30% of that content is highly dynamic (PostgreSQL databases). Anything but data center quality HDD would be silly, not to mention unreliable as hell and heavily expensive. SSDs are just for laptops or so, not for real data storage requirements.
C'mon, the US official policy has been pro-islamist since, at least, 2006 or so. Just look at the Cablegate cables emanating from allied countries, e.g. from Morocco, but not only from there. There, US diplomats are reporting how they cultivated ties to the various islamist groups that were illegal at the time. They also invited them for talks in US universities and think tanks at the same time. In Libya, they militarily (!) removed a dictator that despite all his weirdness, kept the islamists in check (and promptly got "rewarded" for their help by the attack in Benghazi from the very same elements they worked so hard to get to power). In Egypt, the US were quick to abandon the secular opposition and supported Morsi and his new constitution. And, of course, in Syria, the US is teaming with Al Qaeda and other jihadists against one of the last secular regimes in the region. How much closer can you get by joining them? The US Government is in bed with them for quite some time... and that's a tragedy for people there who hoped for human rights, equal treatment of women and men, etc., and who will have to wait a couple of generations or more to undo the current damage.
Doesn't the government have the habit to privatize these kinds of tasks and have corporations act on its behalf?
The military is under civilian control, but the military are better at controlling their own weapons than some private corporation, IMHO.
If you need a narrow band VPN, you could always encrypt it in such a way that it can't be detected by the sniffers. For example, use something like the technique used by port knocking, i.e. utilize the time domain for your encrypted channel. In other words, don't send encrypted data directly, just send regular data and modulate the time intervals between the packets to reflect your encrypted data.
If they had this, they would have solved the spam problem by now... Speaking of spam: by intelligently encoding your encrypted data as spam, you could pass through the sniffers too.
What makes you think that the so called "arab spring" which is really an "islamist winter" is about democracy? But save for that, you're right: Iran's society is undergoing a big transformation right now, and if attacked, that would slow down the inevitable downfall of their clerical system... which would be sad.
Even if you fix DNS and make it p2p and censorship resilient, they'll force the ISPs and tier-1 backbone operators to withdraw BGP route advertisements to (AS hosting) sites they don't want you to visit. Now try to fix that!
Have you thought about using ZFS on FreeBSD? Running FreeBSD/amd64 here on a desktop machine with ZFS file systems without any problems.
Of course yes! The only useful use for nuclear bombs may be in outer space to try to deflect asteroids, or to mine asteroids for some minerals. But in outer space, nuclear weapons are forbidden by international treaty. So we end up in a rather paradoxical situation here, where we have weapons whose only purpose on Earth, if actually used, is to commit genocide and we are not allowed to use them in space, where the could profit humankind, don't we?
In every society, there are some people who are unstable. It may be a little more in the US than elsewhere (or it may not), but the point is to deny unstable people as far as possible easy access to tools that they can use to harm other people in a big way. It's far too easy in the US for some unstable individual to get weapons and to wreak havoc.
Yep, too sad. At least, most of Gopher has been archived.
Exactly. But there is a delete button on the big video bandwidth providers like YouTube, etc. As long as a video remains on some obscure channel/websites only, it is as good as "deleted" for the general populace.
So no more WAMs overheating?
So are they in Syria, with friendly help of our "allies" Qatar, Turkey, Saudi Arabia, and heavily supported by the US and most EU Governments, no less.
In the part of the world where I live (and that's a first world country), they still sell DVDs in big retail stores. People still get their daily fix of entertainment and films from physical DVDs. They are very upset when their tablets don't have the ability to play them.
8 chars is a tiny key space by today's standards, and even then, you probably didn't use up all available 256 possibilities per char, right? Just brute force it, using a sensible strategy (maybe combined with John The Ripper?) and you're likely to be done in a couple of hours or days with standard hardware.