I'm quite sure that there are lots of people on the CMU network that are fully capable of "guessing passords" on school run computers and "removing" files that they saw fit to remove without being discovered. one would like to think that these students would stand up for their friends who are suffering essentially the same fate.
as a software developer and young entrepreneur, I can tell you honestly that this is the best time I can possibly think of to be alive. the employment landscape is heavily sloped in my favor, salaries are completely ridiculous, opportunities are everywhere. if youre bitching about workign too many hours and being too stressed, youre a chump and I have no sympathy for you. go find a job that you enjoy with good hours and acceptable pay, because there are more than enough of them out there unless youre ridiculously unqualified.
Isn't Webster's generally considered to be a somewhat definitive reference on the definitions of english words?
just because you dont think the definition is logically consistent doesnt mean its a bad definition. free means what free means, not what you'd like it to mean.
can't really work in the real world? I disagree. as a matter of fact, the more times things like this happen -- the more information that starts off as billion dollar top secret encrypted info and then becomes nothing more than a little bit of code embedded in a widely distributed application -- the more its going to become obvious that free information can work very well.
your medical records, my civil court records, their credit records, the movie industry's precious DVD keys... all this information is going to become publicly available, and there's really no way to stop it - the best we can hope to do is figure out how to live best with the fact that information is very hard to contain.
If you're given this test and told to take it, don't. I think that's a pretty simple solution. Just say no. People can only discriminate against you if you let them.
a. You are from the US, in which case I'm confused regarding why youre so upset that the IT profession is becoming less "glamorous" in other countries that you don't live in and aren't from
b. You are from outside the US, in which case you are being quite hypocritical
>> A geek is not someone most girls want to be seen dating.
I heartily disagree. maybe you're not getting any pretty girls to talk to you, but a huge (huge) fraction of the ones that I talk to are very interested in intelligen guys with money and futures.
(most) girls aren't as vapid as you seem to imply. Abercrombie & Finch [sic, been to a mall lately?] isn't going to cover up a loser fratboy enough so that the average girl won't notice how much of a tool he is.
see, with the mugger and the fire department and all that stuff that we're paying for, we are all getting some benefit. we are keeping cops on the streets to fight crime, we're preventing city-destroying fires, whatever.
when we waste a hundred thousand dollars keeping some deformed baby on a ventilator for a few weeks before it dies, or worse, when it lives and our society has to support it for years and years, we're not gaining any benefit. we're simply taking on responsibility for the life of a human that cant bring anythign iton our society.
I like the in-patient idea - euthanasia should be widely available to everyone, and parents should be able to euthanize their offspring immediately at birth if they choose.
survival of the fittest, baby. technology isnt supposed to solve all our problems, its supposed to be a tool for people to use. if some people are too poor to afford it, that shouldn't be our primary concern.
I think it's kind of amusing how everyone wants to do away with floppy drives and ISA busses and other dead-end technology in the name of faster forward progress, but we're always worried about making sure the lower class is properly worried about. this is natural selection at work; don't let your conscience get in the way.
see, this is somethign that bugs me about those religious people who are always trying to get people to do what their god likes. they always say "I have a right to express my views too", and they do, under the first amendment. what they don't have the right to do is hold me hostage with their god's laws; disagreeing with abortion or euthanasia is one thing, actually trying to make it impossible for me to kill my baby is anyther thing entirely.
it might be their life, but its not their money and so its not their business. when their critically ill retarded handicapped genetically deficient baby ends up in the neonatal ICU for a couple weeks, who's footing the bill? people who pay for health insurance and don't use it. this my money and your money that is "saving" these babies.
I believe the year was 1899 when the Indiana tried to declare pi as being equal to 4, not 3 or 3.24. (Apparently somewhere in the soup of numbers that is pi, there are several consecutive nines, and the good folks in Indiana figured theyd just round up...)
I'll give you a possible objection to labeling my pages:
I DO NOT SUPPORT CENSORSHIP IN ANY FORM. I WILL SAY WHAT I WANT WHERE I WANT WHEN I WANT AND YOU CANT SHUT ME UP JUST BECAUSE I HAPPENED TO SAY FUCK. EOF.
I refuse to support a world in which major access providers are capable of not routing my page because it has some objectionable stuff on it.
someday, parents are going to have to grow up and realize that it's a big, bad world out there.
teach your children what filth is. tell them that your value system doesnt support men peeing on women or girls fucking snakes. if you raise them correctly, seeing this garbage isnt going to permanently scar their minds. and if you think it's going to, keep your damned kids off the internet.
I, for one, refuse to label my web pages. and I suspect that a huge number of people will make the same choice that I will if this passes, and there will be waaay too many of us to arrest.
well, if cars developed at the same rate as computers, today we'd all be driving a 100$ rolls royce that could go from 0-60 in 3 seconds, get 100 miles a gallon, and would explode twice a year killing everyone inside, as the proverb goes.
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wasn't BIND brought from 4.9.something to 8 so that it would be consistent with Sendmail? how are we at BIND9 without being at sendmail9?
(hates gratuitous version increment gaps)
I'm quite sure that there are lots of people on the CMU network that are fully capable of "guessing passords" on school run computers and "removing" files that they saw fit to remove without being discovered. one would like to think that these students would stand up for their friends who are suffering essentially the same fate.
you better believe it - this life rules.
as a software developer and young entrepreneur, I can tell you honestly that this is the best time I can possibly think of to be alive. the employment landscape is heavily sloped in my favor, salaries are completely ridiculous, opportunities are everywhere. if youre bitching about workign too many hours and being too stressed, youre a chump and I have no sympathy for you. go find a job that you enjoy with good hours and acceptable pay, because there are more than enough of them out there unless youre ridiculously unqualified.
Isn't Webster's generally considered to be a somewhat definitive reference on the definitions of english words?
just because you dont think the definition is logically consistent doesnt mean its a bad definition. free means what free means, not what you'd like it to mean.
can't really work in the real world? I disagree. as a matter of fact, the more times things like this happen -- the more information that starts off as billion dollar top secret encrypted info and then becomes nothing more than a little bit of code embedded in a widely distributed application -- the more its going to become obvious that free information can work very well.
your medical records, my civil court records, their credit records, the movie industry's precious DVD keys... all this information is going to become publicly available, and there's really no way to stop it - the best we can hope to do is figure out how to live best with the fact that information is very hard to contain.
I always chuckle when I read that my 3/60's codename was ferrari. (doesnt seem so fast anymore tho...)
If you're given this test and told to take it, don't. I think that's a pretty simple solution. Just say no. People can only discriminate against you if you let them.
Information wants to be $4.95.
a. You are from the US, in which case I'm confused regarding why youre so upset that the IT profession is becoming less "glamorous" in other countries that you don't live in and aren't from
b. You are from outside the US, in which case you are being quite hypocritical
I'm not really sure that the cDc is interested in being taken "seriously". I think that's the whole point. Lighten up.
heh. take a walk over to chestnut hill and stroll thru the BC campus sometime if youre into this kind of chick.
>> A geek is not someone most girls want to be seen dating.
I heartily disagree. maybe you're not getting any pretty girls to talk to you, but a huge (huge) fraction of the ones that I talk to are very interested in intelligen guys with money and futures.
(most) girls aren't as vapid as you seem to imply. Abercrombie & Finch [sic, been to a mall lately?] isn't going to cover up a loser fratboy enough so that the average girl won't notice how much of a tool he is.
see, with the mugger and the fire department and all that stuff that we're paying for, we are all getting some benefit. we are keeping cops on the streets to fight crime, we're preventing city-destroying fires, whatever.
when we waste a hundred thousand dollars keeping some deformed baby on a ventilator for a few weeks before it dies, or worse, when it lives and our society has to support it for years and years, we're not gaining any benefit. we're simply taking on responsibility for the life of a human that cant bring anythign iton our society.
I like the in-patient idea - euthanasia should be widely available to everyone, and parents should be able to euthanize their offspring immediately at birth if they choose.
no, thats not at all what I said or meant.
I'm gonna go completely offtopic here and just say that TVRs rule.
ok resume topic.
yes? and?
survival of the fittest, baby. technology isnt supposed to solve all our problems, its supposed to be a tool for people to use. if some people are too poor to afford it, that shouldn't be our primary concern.
I think it's kind of amusing how everyone wants to do away with floppy drives and ISA busses and other dead-end technology in the name of faster forward progress, but we're always worried about making sure the lower class is properly worried about. this is natural selection at work; don't let your conscience get in the way.
con-science = against science. (?)
see, this is somethign that bugs me about those religious people who are always trying to get people to do what their god likes. they always say "I have a right to express my views too", and they do, under the first amendment. what they don't have the right to do is hold me hostage with their god's laws; disagreeing with abortion or euthanasia is one thing, actually trying to make it impossible for me to kill my baby is anyther thing entirely.
it might be their life, but its not their money and so its not their business. when their critically ill retarded handicapped genetically deficient baby ends up in the neonatal ICU for a couple weeks, who's footing the bill? people who pay for health insurance and don't use it. this my money and your money that is "saving" these babies.
I believe the year was 1899 when the Indiana tried to declare pi as being equal to 4, not 3 or 3.24. (Apparently somewhere in the soup of numbers that is pi, there are several consecutive nines, and the good folks in Indiana figured theyd just round up...)
The Young Ones is probably the funniest thing I have ever seen on a television.
other than that nothing is really sticking out in my mind as "Really Funny British Stuff" but I'm sure I'm just temporarily forgetting something.
I'll give you a possible objection to labeling my pages:
I DO NOT SUPPORT CENSORSHIP IN ANY FORM. I WILL SAY WHAT I WANT WHERE I WANT WHEN I WANT AND YOU CANT SHUT ME UP JUST BECAUSE I HAPPENED TO SAY FUCK. EOF.
I refuse to support a world in which major access providers are capable of not routing my page because it has some objectionable stuff on it.
there are the mom and pop companies? dont think companies, think "groups of people".
and small groups of people (small compared to IBM and Corel) are writing GIMP, emacs, linux, etc.
it doesnt make much sense to start up a small company to write free software, but that doesnt stop people from just writing free software.
you are aware, of course, that this is the Ig Nobel Prize, we're talking about here, right?
anyone who wins one of these definitely wouldn't be considered to have been honored in any sense of the word.
someday, parents are going to have to grow up and realize that it's a big, bad world out there.
teach your children what filth is. tell them that your value system doesnt support men peeing on women or girls fucking snakes. if you raise them correctly, seeing this garbage isnt going to permanently scar their minds. and if you think it's going to, keep your damned kids off the internet.
I, for one, refuse to label my web pages. and I suspect that a huge number of people will make the same choice that I will if this passes, and there will be waaay too many of us to arrest.
well, if cars developed at the same rate as computers, today we'd all be driving a 100$ rolls royce that could go from 0-60 in 3 seconds, get 100 miles a gallon, and would explode twice a year killing everyone inside, as the proverb goes.