That is, if the person in your blind spot isn't texting, eating, applying makeup, looking at their iPad, sipping wine from a wine glass (seen this personally more than 10 times), completely immersed in their phone conversation, or any of the other things Los Angeleans seem to prefer to do than pay attention to what is going on outside their vehicle. There's a reason that, per person, there are more Body Shops in our fair city than any other major city.
(DC and NoVa are the same exact way. Only difference is that those that are paying attention are even more hostile than here.)
That's interesting logic.
The problem is, it's ill-informed. POPLINE is about PUBLIC health, not MEDICAL health. There's a huge difference. You see, POPLINE doesn't contain information on HOW TO have an abortion. It contains information on WHY, HOW MANY, and the METHEOD USED. These are qualitative and quanitative studies, not step by step directions.
I assure you it's not a joke or hoax. My wife works within the public health sector and will attest to the fact that it's real.
I tried it and netted 0 results. Even if you had 52 results returned, it's still off. You should have gotten waaaaaay more than that.
Oddly enough, according to friends that work at Hopkins, if you are within their walls you can see all 25k+ results. Leaving the walls and attempting the search nets 0 results.
The thing to remember here is Lucas OWNS ILM. That means he can give himself a HUGE discount on the special effects, effectively being able to do things other TV producers could only dream of.
Bill Gates knows for a fact that the reason there is this perceived glut (real or not real - I don't know the answer) of unfilled IT jobs in the US is not due to immigration, but due to the failures of the US to properly educate our children. (I specifically don't say the school systems because the parents, not the teachers, are the ones to blame. But that's another subject.) The Gates Foundation (Bill and Melinda's Charity) focuses on world health issues, as well as educational issues. He knows first hand that the current system of educating children is not keeping pace. I guess I don't understand how the solution is to bring in foreign workers as opposed to improving and incentivising better science education?
Mod Parent Up!
I completely agree. While we all hate pop-ups/unders, and spyware should be plain illegal (d@mn you congress for being so easily bought out!!!), we must realize that advertisements are a necessary part of "free" content. For instance, take the newspaper industry. Do you really think that your 50 cents is enough to even pay for the printing of a single daily newspaper? Absolutely not! The journalist's salaries are paid through advertisement money. And that's why when you open a newspaper, you'll see plenty of ads. Otherwise a newspaper would cost probably $10 a copy. Now who is going to spend $280 a month on a newpaper?
Ah, but you say, I get my news online! Why kill a tree if we can avoid it! Well, the Journalists, webmaster, photographers etc. still need paid, right? None of us are going to quit our jobs and work for free to report the news. So if the LA times or Baltimore Sun or CNN has ads on their website to pay for their costs, so be it. However, just like when you open a newspaper you don't have some hairy Quiznos (what the @#$% was that???) thing jump out and start singing, I don't want that to happen when I open a website. But so long as the advertisements are blatently offensive , annoying or invasive, I have no problem with them. "Free" is better than paying $10 for my news! And I'm glad I don't have to pay for/.
Anybody ever try to reach HP's phone support to their Linux Servers???
About 18 months ago we ordered several HP Proliant (I still can't get over that - it's like Michael Jordan on the Wizards) DL servers and copies of Red Hat Enterprise straight off their website. The version of Red Hat they shipped did not yet have driver support for their fan system (And my god those fans are LOUD), and the drivers were nowhere to be found on HP's website. So, we called HP. First we were routed to India/Pakistan/Kyrgstan/wherever, then finally found out they had somebody in the US for Linux support and we were routed back. That's right folks, ONE (as in singular) guy! He finally called us back and pointed us to some drivers somebody else (not HP) developed. (And a profound THANK YOU to whomever developed them. You saved our department's eardrums!)
Later, we needed another server and decided we'd test the waters with IBM. The install went MUCH easier, and when we called with a question, we were not routed all over the earth. There was little wait time and low and behold they had more than one techie who knew linux!
When I read the article I almost died of laughter!! It's possible things have changed, but I would never suggest an HP server for Linux.
Important? In what way? So they got to run shotgun a couple times.. that doesn't make them important. I would call the ESA "scrubs"...
"Oh yes son, I'm talkin' to you.."
While in Hawaii on vacation last September I prepaid for an hour of web cafe time. After answering all my emails and checking what news I felt like reading, I still had a good chunk of time left over and my GF was still in the same strip mall shopping. I decided it might be interesting to download and install ad-aware. (They were old windows 98 machines, so there was absolutely NO security.) In the 15 minutes or so I hung around watching and chatting with the clerk running the place, ad-aware ticked off over 2,000 spyware items found, and it wasn't anywhere near done!
Do you work for HP or Dell?
The problem this creates is a question of how much should each state (in the US) charge per computer. Maryland in it's infinite wisdom proceeded to pass a bill holding the manufacturer, not the consumer, liable to compensate the state for computer recycling programs. And the maximum each manufacturer had to pay - $5000 per year. Of course IBM, HP and Dell were happy as can be... $5k is toilet paper to them. Environmentalists were happy - claiming a start in the right direction. Big Oil was happy - somebody followed the model they laid down 15 years ago. The only people not happy - system builder who only build a hundred or so computers a year. Yeap, the computer repair shops that also build custom machines have to pay the same annual tax as HP. Brilliant! Big oil took similar steps lobbying states to raise inspection and licsensing fees until almost all the mom and pop gas stations disappeared.
I think it's better to charge the fee at the cash register, on a per computer basis. It levels the playing field.
This is just a ploy to get more HB-1 visas, so they can import cheaper workers.
Honestly, I find it insane that during the mass layoffs following the.com bust, the same organizations that were laying off IT pros were lobbying congress for more HB-1 visas to fill positions of people they were laying off!! I think we need to start lobbying congress for more HB-1 visas to fill the positions of CEOs and COOs....
Actually, if you search wikipedia there's a lot in there on this. I tend to believe that Marvin really did say it when he said "Pick a number, any number."
The whole entry can be found here: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Answer_to_ Life,_t he_Universe,_and_Everything
When I read the article I thought the same thing. If you build software into the switch / router / brouter / bridge , HP wouldn't need to worry about having OS source. The infected computer could be cut off from communication with the outside world until the machine was scanned and cleaned.
Firewalls can do a great job of preventing worms from entering via the network. But they don't prevent the lusers from brining in disks from home, infected with the latest mydoom strain or whathavenot...
Insightful - you must realize that we, as Americans, feel threatened whenever jobs are lost. I can safely assume most people who frequent this site are IT professionals. (Like myself.) After the dot com fallout, a LOT of IT jobs vanished. This was not 10 or 15 years ago, so the loss is still fresh, and recovery has not yet been fully actualized. Most all of us have had our wallets diminished due to this fallout. I used to be able to open the Sunday paper and find an entire 15 page section of IT jobs, now you're lucky to see one, and that's normally an ad for MCSE training. So, you understand, this is a very touchy subject in our field. It's not bigotry or xenophobia, in fact, I'd love to outsource everything inside the 495 Capitol Beltway, but it is fear of losing our jobs. That being said, outsourcing does create some jobs. While there is a total net loss of jobs, management positions do open up to the best and brightest to oversee work (and the plethora of god awful grammatical errors) done overseas. That was the positive. Here's the negative.
Last year over 11 million people had their identity stolen in the US alone. This year that figure is expected to double. Financial institutions are beginning to outsource their call centers and datacenters overseas, to countries where extradition laws are hard to enforce. (India, Pakistan, Bangladesh) It is nearly impossible to track the thief down, let alone recover the stolen funds. This is an issue that congress has been slow to act on, and will only continue to get worse.
Slashdot Mirror
"Yes, your neighbors will talk."
Fapping to pr0n in front of an open window, I bet they will.
That is, if the person in your blind spot isn't texting, eating, applying makeup, looking at their iPad, sipping wine from a wine glass (seen this personally more than 10 times), completely immersed in their phone conversation, or any of the other things Los Angeleans seem to prefer to do than pay attention to what is going on outside their vehicle. There's a reason that, per person, there are more Body Shops in our fair city than any other major city.
(DC and NoVa are the same exact way. Only difference is that those that are paying attention are even more hostile than here.)
Maybe we can expect a "Lucas Arts International Space Station" (commonly refered to as the Death Star)?
What, nothing from Ann Coulter??
Ya know... we're always the fall guys. Sure, blame the admins for implementing your dumb policy.
That's interesting logic. The problem is, it's ill-informed. POPLINE is about PUBLIC health, not MEDICAL health. There's a huge difference. You see, POPLINE doesn't contain information on HOW TO have an abortion. It contains information on WHY, HOW MANY, and the METHEOD USED. These are qualitative and quanitative studies, not step by step directions.
It's the typical fanatical pro-lifer's viewpoint. Don't kill anything in the womb. Kill 'em once they're out.
FUD
I assure you it's not a joke or hoax. My wife works within the public health sector and will attest to the fact that it's real. I tried it and netted 0 results. Even if you had 52 results returned, it's still off. You should have gotten waaaaaay more than that. Oddly enough, according to friends that work at Hopkins, if you are within their walls you can see all 25k+ results. Leaving the walls and attempting the search nets 0 results.
The thing to remember here is Lucas OWNS ILM. That means he can give himself a HUGE discount on the special effects, effectively being able to do things other TV producers could only dream of.
Now whether or not that's a good thing........
I'm much more productive at viewing pron at work now! No more magazines for me! Hooray for the web!!!!
Bill Gates knows for a fact that the reason there is this perceived glut (real or not real - I don't know the answer) of unfilled IT jobs in the US is not due to immigration, but due to the failures of the US to properly educate our children. (I specifically don't say the school systems because the parents, not the teachers, are the ones to blame. But that's another subject.) The Gates Foundation (Bill and Melinda's Charity) focuses on world health issues, as well as educational issues. He knows first hand that the current system of educating children is not keeping pace. I guess I don't understand how the solution is to bring in foreign workers as opposed to improving and incentivising better science education?
Uh-oh! I guess we all better watch out for the giant cone of cold coming out of the tropicsphere and minute now...
Mod Parent Up! I completely agree. While we all hate pop-ups/unders, and spyware should be plain illegal (d@mn you congress for being so easily bought out!!!), we must realize that advertisements are a necessary part of "free" content. For instance, take the newspaper industry. Do you really think that your 50 cents is enough to even pay for the printing of a single daily newspaper? Absolutely not! The journalist's salaries are paid through advertisement money. And that's why when you open a newspaper, you'll see plenty of ads. Otherwise a newspaper would cost probably $10 a copy. Now who is going to spend $280 a month on a newpaper? Ah, but you say, I get my news online! Why kill a tree if we can avoid it! Well, the Journalists, webmaster, photographers etc. still need paid, right? None of us are going to quit our jobs and work for free to report the news. So if the LA times or Baltimore Sun or CNN has ads on their website to pay for their costs, so be it. However, just like when you open a newspaper you don't have some hairy Quiznos (what the @#$% was that???) thing jump out and start singing, I don't want that to happen when I open a website. But so long as the advertisements are blatently offensive , annoying or invasive, I have no problem with them. "Free" is better than paying $10 for my news! And I'm glad I don't have to pay for /.
Anybody ever try to reach HP's phone support to their Linux Servers??? About 18 months ago we ordered several HP Proliant (I still can't get over that - it's like Michael Jordan on the Wizards) DL servers and copies of Red Hat Enterprise straight off their website. The version of Red Hat they shipped did not yet have driver support for their fan system (And my god those fans are LOUD), and the drivers were nowhere to be found on HP's website. So, we called HP. First we were routed to India/Pakistan/Kyrgstan/wherever, then finally found out they had somebody in the US for Linux support and we were routed back. That's right folks, ONE (as in singular) guy! He finally called us back and pointed us to some drivers somebody else (not HP) developed. (And a profound THANK YOU to whomever developed them. You saved our department's eardrums!) Later, we needed another server and decided we'd test the waters with IBM. The install went MUCH easier, and when we called with a question, we were not routed all over the earth. There was little wait time and low and behold they had more than one techie who knew linux! When I read the article I almost died of laughter!! It's possible things have changed, but I would never suggest an HP server for Linux.
It sounds like Michael Newman is just jealous that Slashdot has a MUCH larger viewing audience than his rag!
Important? In what way? So they got to run shotgun a couple times.. that doesn't make them important. I would call the ESA "scrubs"... "Oh yes son, I'm talkin' to you.."
While in Hawaii on vacation last September I prepaid for an hour of web cafe time. After answering all my emails and checking what news I felt like reading, I still had a good chunk of time left over and my GF was still in the same strip mall shopping. I decided it might be interesting to download and install ad-aware. (They were old windows 98 machines, so there was absolutely NO security.) In the 15 minutes or so I hung around watching and chatting with the clerk running the place, ad-aware ticked off over 2,000 spyware items found, and it wasn't anywhere near done!
Do you work for HP or Dell? The problem this creates is a question of how much should each state (in the US) charge per computer. Maryland in it's infinite wisdom proceeded to pass a bill holding the manufacturer, not the consumer, liable to compensate the state for computer recycling programs. And the maximum each manufacturer had to pay - $5000 per year. Of course IBM, HP and Dell were happy as can be... $5k is toilet paper to them. Environmentalists were happy - claiming a start in the right direction. Big Oil was happy - somebody followed the model they laid down 15 years ago. The only people not happy - system builder who only build a hundred or so computers a year. Yeap, the computer repair shops that also build custom machines have to pay the same annual tax as HP. Brilliant! Big oil took similar steps lobbying states to raise inspection and licsensing fees until almost all the mom and pop gas stations disappeared. I think it's better to charge the fee at the cash register, on a per computer basis. It levels the playing field.
This is just a ploy to get more HB-1 visas, so they can import cheaper workers. Honestly, I find it insane that during the mass layoffs following the .com bust, the same organizations that were laying off IT pros were lobbying congress for more HB-1 visas to fill positions of people they were laying off!! I think we need to start lobbying congress for more HB-1 visas to fill the positions of CEOs and COOs....
Actually, 99% of gun use is against paper. But that's not to be-little the paper target people, they have feelings too!!
Actually, if you search wikipedia there's a lot in there on this. I tend to believe that Marvin really did say it when he said "Pick a number, any number."
_ Life,_t he_Universe,_and_Everything
The whole entry can be found here:
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Answer_to
When I read the article I thought the same thing. If you build software into the switch / router / brouter / bridge , HP wouldn't need to worry about having OS source. The infected computer could be cut off from communication with the outside world until the machine was scanned and cleaned. Firewalls can do a great job of preventing worms from entering via the network. But they don't prevent the lusers from brining in disks from home, infected with the latest mydoom strain or whathavenot...
Insightful - you must realize that we, as Americans, feel threatened whenever jobs are lost. I can safely assume most people who frequent this site are IT professionals. (Like myself.) After the dot com fallout, a LOT of IT jobs vanished. This was not 10 or 15 years ago, so the loss is still fresh, and recovery has not yet been fully actualized. Most all of us have had our wallets diminished due to this fallout. I used to be able to open the Sunday paper and find an entire 15 page section of IT jobs, now you're lucky to see one, and that's normally an ad for MCSE training. So, you understand, this is a very touchy subject in our field. It's not bigotry or xenophobia, in fact, I'd love to outsource everything inside the 495 Capitol Beltway, but it is fear of losing our jobs. That being said, outsourcing does create some jobs. While there is a total net loss of jobs, management positions do open up to the best and brightest to oversee work (and the plethora of god awful grammatical errors) done overseas. That was the positive. Here's the negative.
Last year over 11 million people had their identity stolen in the US alone. This year that figure is expected to double. Financial institutions are beginning to outsource their call centers and datacenters overseas, to countries where extradition laws are hard to enforce. (India, Pakistan, Bangladesh) It is nearly impossible to track the thief down, let alone recover the stolen funds. This is an issue that congress has been slow to act on, and will only continue to get worse.