It doesn't matter what types of web logs the SF council wants to regulate - the fact that they want to regulate some of them is indicative of the mindset of government agencies. When they provide you with a service, they get to chose what that service involves, not you.
Pay attention. The proposed regulation is *nothing new*. Only an extension of already existing policies for electioneering to a new medium.
Everything else in your post is just misguided strawman attacks on something you obviously haven't even bothered to read.
Why is it every knee jerk reactionary opinion like this gets modded up on slashdot.
Fuck moderators the first "fact/link" isn't even remotely accurate. SF wants to moderate blogs used for electioneering where people are paid. This is no different than moderation of printed campaign materials.... and to the second, if they wanted the FBI could watch your wired connection just *as* easy. Do you really think it is hard to get a federal wire tap against a private citizen?
Why don't you try being more informed before posting? And moderators stop bumping up crap just because it looks "smart".
First of all, anti-terrorism legislation requires hotels retain a photocopy of your driver's license. I find it highly unlikely that the hotel will accept a license in one name and payment via another name with only a credit card number.
Now maybe when you stay at The Hampton's Inn, or some other major chain they will always follow through on complying with regulations. But if you honestly believe low end, transient home hotels ask for ID you have obviously never been to one. Hell a lot of those places take cash, no questions asked.
With all of these studies is they typically work on the assumption you are just throwing a server, regardless of OS, on the net. That means there is no load balancer in front, no filtering at the border routers, no firewalls and nothing is ever blocked.
If a company or individual is actually doing this how on Earth can they possibly attest to the security of their server?
It stopped me in my tracks for a second. I have apparently become a member of the Old Guard and never realized it. I suppose I should start waxing poetically about how great/. was "in the old days".
Except it never was. Okay maybe before the first reset when everyone was around to share instead of having an attitude.
I know you are joking but most Americans and people from around the world don't get it when it comes to China and Taiwan.
Ask a Chinese mainlander about the island "country" and they will quickly tell you how Taiwan is nothing but a spoiled child who has left home for a little while but shall return. Most everyone from the mainland believes with full conviction that the island *is* part of their homeland.
As another posted commented is one big circle jerk. They interview candidates over and over again looking for some inane qualities because they feel this is how they get the best. Instead their process, by unintended selection, only pulls in people extremely generic "me-too'ers". Combine that with their rather lousy pay for the area and you can easily forsee the future for google as a generator for new tech and ideas.
Clever puzzles and suprise interview techniques are a sign of a weak interviewer, not a strong one. They tell very little about your ability to really think on your feet or solve complex issues.
In an encrypted file on the volume keep the safe master copy of important passwords or financial records for a company. Each admin or C(X)O carries one on their person.
If you have the entire contents in memory you can be assured of not skipping if there becomes contention for the disk. iTunes on the mac is famous for not skipping no matter the system load, guess why?
In fact, the wheel was invented in the golden crescent in historical times not in ancient pre-history as you imply. The invention of the wheel must have happend some time around 3000 B.C., which ensures that whoever did invent it was fully human and part of a complex society (a society whose name is, probably, still known today
That can't possibly be correct as pottery wheels were in use in Mesopotamia as far back as 3500B.C. Mesopotamians also had chariots before 3k B.C.
It wasn't on your desk because the technology was far more difficult than expected. As I understand this is basically the same thing Sonicare and other similar devices use to charge. While this makes it sounds like it would be easy, remember that those other devices require a specific orientation and only charge one device at a time. Charging numerous devices just tossed onto a pad is significantly more difficult and impressive.
God Malda can you not attibute anything properly? You either heard this from a friend who pulled it from the first blog to list it, or you saw it on one of the more popular sites such as gizmodo, but you, and the other site admins, the "we" portion of your writeup didn't find anything.
This may be hard for many to believe but both Gizmodo and Engadget have obtained very large readerships given their extensive focus on what would appear to be a narrow field. Both are read by tech strategists and links from each shared around at executive levels... keeping up the competition, ya know?
Actually you can excersize some of them, take the loss and lower your tax due in the next year. This can be extremely helpful if you need to lose just enough to drop down a tax bracket. With a little planning you can end up making more net after such a change in your taxable income.
Many like to refer to this as karma and make it some nebulous, fantastical belief. However, reciprocity is very real given that you choose to surround yourself with the proper people. People in my close peer group give easily and freely of each other and as a result when any of us stumble or run into hardship we have a large, extended family who is willing to help. Here in America many of us don't have much of a family life (I fall into this camp) so we can easily forget how important it can be to have others that count on you and most importantly others willing to be counted on when you are in need.
For you see any car that is recovered has a minimum amount of damage done to it and sometimes a large amount. The bulk of these repairs will be done using certified Honda parts and many of the repairs will be performed at Honda dealerships.
Simply because if anyone ever calls an employer on this, all the company needs to do is pull salary data for a large enough commute region and then point at the bottom of the scale and proclaim with pride, "This is our going pay rate! And look! It is well within industry standards for this region."
If you pay attention you'll notice few H1Bs ending up with complex titles or extra words like senior despite their skill set. This is solely to allow companies to pay highly experienced H1B workers at entry level salaries. Of course an American who is trained at the same level isn't going to take that job because they see it is too much work, responsibility, or skills required for the pay offered.
Of course Gamespot says the battery life is a bit more variable than that.
For those not playing at home IGN has had some incredibly biased coverage in this recent round of handheld launches going so far as to "talk down" about the Nintendo DS on the actual DS portion of IGN. While both portable gaming systems kick ass, they do it in different ways, the rampant fanboyism at IGN is somewhat sickening, especially given than when it was first started, way back as Next Generation and even before then when the site was run off a college server it was known to being one of the first gaming sites to push honest opinions.
I'm sorry, but if someone can't look at the code/documentation/google and work it out they shouldn't be working there. I'm the first one to explain to someone how things work - I don't mind if they've made some effort first (I've personally trained 4 or 5 people).
This isn't about solving some coding issue, this is about the documentation you provide for the things you create so that *other people* can understand them. Are all your process flows that you created documented on google? Of course not; should you be required to explain things over and over again to other team member? Again, of course not. This is where good charting and documentation abilities come in. This has absolutely nothing to do with getting a degree, instead it is all about your ability to work in a true team environment.
Degrees teach you to draw flowcharts (who uses them any more)
This is a rather horrible attitude to have. Sure a genuine geek can take a problem and run with it, but can they explain it to other people who may have less natural ability or insight who are also on the same team? Being able to chart and document process flow is an extremely undervalued part of working in teams, regardless of what that team is doing. Good process documentation prevents mistakes, saves time and allows everyone to work with equal footing which can open the door to unexpected shortcuts and "project miracles".
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One would think... I actually stopped moderating with a whiney post complaining about how moderation was broken and I would resume when it was fixed.
That was over two and a half years ago.
It doesn't matter what types of web logs the SF council wants to regulate - the fact that they want to regulate some of them is indicative of the mindset of government agencies. When they provide you with a service, they get to chose what that service involves, not you.
Pay attention. The proposed regulation is *nothing new*. Only an extension of already existing policies for electioneering to a new medium.
Everything else in your post is just misguided strawman attacks on something you obviously haven't even bothered to read.
Why is it every knee jerk reactionary opinion like this gets modded up on slashdot.
... and to the second, if they wanted the FBI could watch your wired connection just *as* easy. Do you really think it is hard to get a federal wire tap against a private citizen?
Fuck moderators the first "fact/link" isn't even remotely accurate. SF wants to moderate blogs used for electioneering where people are paid. This is no different than moderation of printed campaign materials.
Why don't you try being more informed before posting? And moderators stop bumping up crap just because it looks "smart".
First of all, anti-terrorism legislation requires hotels retain a photocopy of your driver's license. I find it highly unlikely that the hotel will accept a license in one name and payment via another name with only a credit card number.
Now maybe when you stay at The Hampton's Inn, or some other major chain they will always follow through on complying with regulations. But if you honestly believe low end, transient home hotels ask for ID you have obviously never been to one. Hell a lot of those places take cash, no questions asked.
With all of these studies is they typically work on the assumption you are just throwing a server, regardless of OS, on the net. That means there is no load balancer in front, no filtering at the border routers, no firewalls and nothing is ever blocked.
If a company or individual is actually doing this how on Earth can they possibly attest to the security of their server?
It stopped me in my tracks for a second. I have apparently become a member of the Old Guard and never realized it. I suppose I should start waxing poetically about how great /. was "in the old days".
Except it never was. Okay maybe before the first reset when everyone was around to share instead of having an attitude.
I know you are joking but most Americans and people from around the world don't get it when it comes to China and Taiwan.
Ask a Chinese mainlander about the island "country" and they will quickly tell you how Taiwan is nothing but a spoiled child who has left home for a little while but shall return. Most everyone from the mainland believes with full conviction that the island *is* part of their homeland.
As another posted commented is one big circle jerk. They interview candidates over and over again looking for some inane qualities because they feel this is how they get the best. Instead their process, by unintended selection, only pulls in people extremely generic "me-too'ers". Combine that with their rather lousy pay for the area and you can easily forsee the future for google as a generator for new tech and ideas.
Clever puzzles and suprise interview techniques are a sign of a weak interviewer, not a strong one. They tell very little about your ability to really think on your feet or solve complex issues.
In an encrypted file on the volume keep the safe master copy of important passwords or financial records for a company. Each admin or C(X)O carries one on their person.
Well, the process can still be paged out. So you don't really gain anything from doing that.
And VM paging in has priority over what? All other disk access you say?
If you have the entire contents in memory you can be assured of not skipping if there becomes contention for the disk. iTunes on the mac is famous for not skipping no matter the system load, guess why?
In fact, the wheel was invented in the golden crescent in historical times not in ancient pre-history as you imply. The invention of the wheel must have happend some time around 3000 B.C., which ensures that whoever did invent it was fully human and part of a complex society (a society whose name is, probably, still known today
That can't possibly be correct as pottery wheels were in use in Mesopotamia as far back as 3500B.C. Mesopotamians also had chariots before 3k B.C.
It wasn't on your desk because the technology was far more difficult than expected. As I understand this is basically the same thing Sonicare and other similar devices use to charge. While this makes it sounds like it would be easy, remember that those other devices require a specific orientation and only charge one device at a time. Charging numerous devices just tossed onto a pad is significantly more difficult and impressive.
Who in their right mind goes with the on-board NIC in a server environment?
Are you kidding?
How about everyone? Regardless of PC, Sun, Alpha or whatever hardware.
God Malda can you not attibute anything properly? You either heard this from a friend who pulled it from the first blog to list it, or you saw it on one of the more popular sites such as gizmodo, but you, and the other site admins, the "we" portion of your writeup didn't find anything.
This may be hard for many to believe but both Gizmodo and Engadget have obtained very large readerships given their extensive focus on what would appear to be a narrow field. Both are read by tech strategists and links from each shared around at executive levels... keeping up the competition, ya know?
Actually you can excersize some of them, take the loss and lower your tax due in the next year. This can be extremely helpful if you need to lose just enough to drop down a tax bracket. With a little planning you can end up making more net after such a change in your taxable income.
Reciprocity.
Many like to refer to this as karma and make it some nebulous, fantastical belief. However, reciprocity is very real given that you choose to surround yourself with the proper people. People in my close peer group give easily and freely of each other and as a result when any of us stumble or run into hardship we have a large, extended family who is willing to help. Here in America many of us don't have much of a family life (I fall into this camp) so we can easily forget how important it can be to have others that count on you and most importantly others willing to be counted on when you are in need.
Oh but they do!
For you see any car that is recovered has a minimum amount of damage done to it and sometimes a large amount. The bulk of these repairs will be done using certified Honda parts and many of the repairs will be performed at Honda dealerships.
Simply because if anyone ever calls an employer on this, all the company needs to do is pull salary data for a large enough commute region and then point at the bottom of the scale and proclaim with pride, "This is our going pay rate! And look! It is well within industry standards for this region."
If you pay attention you'll notice few H1Bs ending up with complex titles or extra words like senior despite their skill set. This is solely to allow companies to pay highly experienced H1B workers at entry level salaries. Of course an American who is trained at the same level isn't going to take that job because they see it is too much work, responsibility, or skills required for the pay offered.
It's not nice to correct people when you are in fact, wrong.
Of course Gamespot says the battery life is a bit more variable than that.
For those not playing at home IGN has had some incredibly biased coverage in this recent round of handheld launches going so far as to "talk down" about the Nintendo DS on the actual DS portion of IGN. While both portable gaming systems kick ass, they do it in different ways, the rampant fanboyism at IGN is somewhat sickening, especially given than when it was first started, way back as Next Generation and even before then when the site was run off a college server it was known to being one of the first gaming sites to push honest opinions.
I'm sorry, but if someone can't look at the code/documentation/google and work it out they shouldn't be working there. I'm the first one to explain to someone how things work - I don't mind if they've made some effort first (I've personally trained 4 or 5 people).
This isn't about solving some coding issue, this is about the documentation you provide for the things you create so that *other people* can understand them. Are all your process flows that you created documented on google? Of course not; should you be required to explain things over and over again to other team member? Again, of course not. This is where good charting and documentation abilities come in. This has absolutely nothing to do with getting a degree, instead it is all about your ability to work in a true team environment.
While your first point is spot on...
Degrees teach you to draw flowcharts (who uses them any more)
This is a rather horrible attitude to have. Sure a genuine geek can take a problem and run with it, but can they explain it to other people who may have less natural ability or insight who are also on the same team? Being able to chart and document process flow is an extremely undervalued part of working in teams, regardless of what that team is doing. Good process documentation prevents mistakes, saves time and allows everyone to work with equal footing which can open the door to unexpected shortcuts and "project miracles".
White man.