The author of TFA clearly neither has a clue about SETI, nor about computers.
Malicious signal carrying malicious data? The best SETI can hope to "detect" is a short burst of CW, a narrowband signal. That's like detecting someone talking but not actually hearing any of the talking.
Never minding the whole "aliens hacking our boxen without knowing how they work". I bet this dude takes ``Independence Day'' as a plausible scenario too. What a tool.
... and we will wind up with a whole generation of ``software engineers'' who stumble on stupid concepts like ``endianness'', ``alignment'', ``pointers'', ``memory management'', ''stack'' and other assorted mundaneness.
Yeah, that'll be really swell. For a look at corporate tomorrow, look at college today. The curriculum sucks (aimed at Java hence none of the computer basics are taught, and students come out with NO knowledge of what happens at OS level/ CPU level - and no, ivory tower classes like ``let's design our own datapath'' are pretty worthless here), while the students just don't know any better.
In fact, Microsoft itself (while a proponent of.NET) is lamenting that colleges are basically not teaching students the basics (that would be C, not VMd languages du jour).
I don't care if it's bogodomain or bogodomainXYZZY, I just want an internal DNS going on. If some numbnut decides to ``get with the program'' and buy his two-piece company the bogodomainXYZZY tld, well, that puts me in a bind - now I have to pick a different domain.
Being able to "afford" does not imply emptying out the wallet to buy. I don't want a public domain. Who is to say tomorrow when I get up frazzle.dazzle.microsoft.com won't be taken? In other words, these solutions are ridiculous. How about not breaking TLDs in the first place so I can retain my *.bogodomain?
What if you DON'T have an external domain? Say... on my home network I want to use my own DNS, but since I don't intend to host anything I don't need an external domain.
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...because we don't have them. To get an idea of how advanced human transportation is - there are still *steam engines* in service in a certain large country which has become the darling of many an IT HR department.
Nevermind horse and buggy for even less developed parts of the world.
Last I checked, space travel means riding on top of a controlled chemical explosion.
...because it isn't lucrative any more. It used to be a quick way to get $$$, but since IT is pretty much a commodity, you end up stuck with an average-paying job that really isn't all that great. IT just saps the life out of you. Weird hours. Any hours. Want to sleep? Tough shit - an important client's server went down. Highly stressful environment, although, it is not a/competitive/ environment, so I suppose that keeps the suicide numbers down. I highly suggest forgetting what a human female looks like if you chose IT 'cause you're sure as hell not going to see any. No life. No girlfriends. No going out. In some sense, an IT job is like an extremely high maintenance girlfriend, except you get none of the possible benefits, and it's not a bombshell either =(.
Looking at the crashes, I would suspect memory corruption, due to bad cooling, defective parts, poor grounding/isolation.
Nothing new. This is the first production batch and the quality is still so-so. This happens every time with consumer electronics - although, interestingly enough, not so much with PC(computer) parts. The people buying the consoles should have well known the risk.
Before I hit the -1 mod button, keep in mind that "Patriotism" means love for your country, not love for whatever current corrupt government du jour.
Illegal in the sense of intent. Your government has repeatedly lied making up one ridiculous excuse after another to sacrfice YOUR sons, brothers and fathers in this bloody conflict.
Let's see, first we attacked Saddam because we couldn't find any. Now I think the general consensus is that well, he *could* have had WMDs. Well, *coulda* is not pretext for war. Now, apparently the reason is that he was ``a bad man''. Uhuh. That never stopped USA from propping up ``brutal regimes'' before... INCLUDING Saddam (go google for a pic of Rummy shaking Saddam's hand back in the 80s). Another popular argument was that he instituted ``genocide on the Kurds'', which sounds good on paper, until you realize that Iraq had this "war" thang with Iran, with the Kurds on Iran's side. If you remember history, teh CCCP was on Iran's side, with US propping up Iraq, and providing it with the chemicals to gas those Kurds. Yup. USA was well complicit in the ``war'' crime it felt was necessary to destroy sovereign Iraq for!
So basically, the du-jour argument for further destabilizing the middle east, *promoting* terrorist Islamists (Saddam's Iraq was a secular state that repressed radical Islamism), and killing more Americans day-by-day - is that... Bush thought Saddam shouldn't be ruling Iraq anymore! How laughable! Since when did the Bushoviks get the right to police the freaking world, removing leaders it doesn't like under false pretext?
So yeah, it's an illegal war. The rest of gov't being complicit in allowing it doesn't legalize it.
Yeah, it's not like you'll need it for anything now that you've got the Messiah in the office.
Once again, go hit the books. If it wasn't for the French military help, the USA wouldn't exist. France as Vichy France would have still been France. There's a difference.
As regards to USA's European Theatre contributions, don't get too haughty. By D-Day time, it was more about biting off more Europe that the Bolsheviks could... and firebombing (hey... WP is in the news recently now too) cities. Yup, seems like the USAF has a "thang" for dropping incendiary explosives on civilan populations. Funny that, if I recall, Dresden never had any military value (but plenty cultural), and by then was overflowing with ailing, young, old, POWs, and tons of displaced citizens fleeing the red hordes.
Go read Slaughterhouse 5, Kurt Vonnegut.
I didn't bash Texas. You obviously have a problem with the french, apparently . Funny that - that's gratitude for being able to live in America versus British Colony XYZ, I suppose.
Btw I have nothing against Brits. I just hate mindless jingoism fueled by ignorance and hypocrisy. I bet your bigotry began right about the time of ``freedom fries'' and other such anti-French nonsense fueled by rightful opposition to what is now clearly an illegal war?
OT: Next time your tongue itches to say something stupid about the French, remind yourself why the Statue of Liberty is in New York, again.
Anywho, personally I can't wait to see Sony go down in flames over this. Some part of me is almost disappointed that a couple of adolescents with an axe to grind/haven't/ yet found way to exploit the rootkit and thus come into posession of the first corporate-created zombie botnet (make Windows security jokes all you want, this is for real).
I did. The first is a fact. The second is how the the ``IT'' word is used by delusional PHBs.
Anyway, I do find it amusing that any post,where I criticize the ``IT industry'' or anything associated with it, gets modded down. Did I find Slashdot's soft spot? Is Slashdot populated by individuals who do nothing but run cables all day, while comparing themselves to the likes of Tannenbaum, Knuth, Djikstra or Gates?
I wouldn't say WiFi has been ruining my "college experience". In fact, I actually have gone to classes where I would otherwise not have, simply by having the knowledge that if today's lecture was going to be a bore (and something I already know), I could browse away.
This kinda bugs me. Why is CS ``IT?'' Computer Science is not ``IT'' - it's much closer to Mathematics, albeit in it's code-monkey incarnation it is purely applied rather than theoretical. Sysadmin/Netadmin is IT. Software Engineering is not IT. Algorithm design is not IT. Knuth is not IT. DJB is not IT. Djiksta is not IT. Steve Jobs is not IT. Eurgh.
IT is just silly buzzword used by PHBs to collectively group anyone who can do more than play Sollitaire on a computer. Ja, und?
It is equally easy for me to put on a nice sharp-looking shirt a pair of slacks as it is to put a crummy t-shirt and pair of worn jeans. I wear the the former at work, because I certainly need to maintain a certain kind of class - for myself at the very least, but certainly to maintain respectability whenever I have to go on site, or whenever clients/potentials visit us. I dress the same way for college. I don't consider this to be exorbitant. Certainly this does not fit into the general college "I just got up after a hangover" fasion. Other people think these are nice clothes - they're not. They are dirt cheap. They are no three-piece suits.
Don't bring up cost. You don't get paid minimum wage, I presume. it doesn't cost much to buy a week's worth of shirts and a pair of slacks, plus some socks and shoes. Hell, you don't have to buy it all at once. It doesn't need to be some ridiculous over-the-top (cost-wise) brand, because no one really cares. The idea is to conform, not to stand out, so pack away the washed-out jeans and 70s t-shirts, and get with the program;-).
As in regards to the IT industry. Get out of it. I seriously pity anyone who considers IT to be a `career path'. It is not and I certainly don't regard that way. I am a Software Engineer currently in college, and although for the time being I am employed as a cog within an IT infrastructure, in no way or shape do I ever lose focus. I still regard myself as a software engineer, and given the opportunity, do the kind of work that suits me at my job.
IT has got to be one of the worst industries around. On one hand, the tasks performed (maintanance of comps for someone else) is menial, "low brow" no matter what your clients claim otherwise to appease you, and regarded with contempt. An IT worker is one step above blue collar labor - but at least with physical labor you get respect as a man performing some physical task. IT work is far worse - you're not doing something technical enough to warrant merit, nor something physcal enough to warrant respect from others, and that includes the opposite sex. Nevermind the whole don't-have-a-life thing, since working in IT means you work any time, weird hours, whatever. I go to school and go to work, and I don't remember the last time I saw a female =(.
In other news, Microsoft is not the oppressive, overbearing monopolist tyrant everyone makes them out to be. Full story at 11.
I mean common, there's got to be some hidden motive behind this move, right? M$ is trying to shove its software onto OSS platforms now. OMFG! [/sarcasm]
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Sounds like someone needs to transfer. /I hate UIC.
The author of TFA clearly neither has a clue about SETI, nor about computers.
Malicious signal carrying malicious data? The best SETI can hope to "detect" is a short burst of CW, a narrowband signal. That's like detecting someone talking but not actually hearing any of the talking.
Never minding the whole "aliens hacking our boxen without knowing how they work". I bet this dude takes ``Independence Day'' as a plausible scenario too. What a tool.
... and we will wind up with a whole generation of ``software engineers'' who stumble on stupid concepts like ``endianness'', ``alignment'', ``pointers'', ``memory management'', ''stack'' and other assorted mundaneness.
.NET) is lamenting that colleges are basically not teaching students the basics (that would be C, not VMd languages du jour).
Yeah, that'll be really swell. For a look at corporate tomorrow, look at college today. The curriculum sucks (aimed at Java hence none of the computer basics are taught, and students come out with NO knowledge of what happens at OS level/ CPU level - and no, ivory tower classes like ``let's design our own datapath'' are pretty worthless here), while the students just don't know any better.
In fact, Microsoft itself (while a proponent of
I don't care if it's bogodomain or bogodomainXYZZY, I just want an internal DNS going on. If some numbnut decides to ``get with the program'' and buy his two-piece company the bogodomainXYZZY tld, well, that puts me in a bind - now I have to pick a different domain.
Being able to "afford" does not imply emptying out the wallet to buy. I don't want a public domain. Who is to say tomorrow when I get up frazzle.dazzle.microsoft.com won't be taken? In other words, these solutions are ridiculous. How about not breaking TLDs in the first place so I can retain my *.bogodomain?
I used to get Technics kits for Christmas, and I loved them. Sometimes I wish I still had my kits around so I could hack up something cool.
What if you DON'T have an external domain? Say... on my home network I want to use my own DNS, but since I don't intend to host anything I don't need an external domain. \
...because we don't have them. To get an idea of how advanced human transportation is - there are still *steam engines* in service in a certain large country which has become the darling of many an IT HR department.
Nevermind horse and buggy for even less developed parts of the world.
Last I checked, space travel means riding on top of a controlled chemical explosion.
...because it isn't lucrative any more. It used to be a quick way to get $$$, but since IT is pretty much a commodity, you end up stuck with an average-paying job that really isn't all that great. IT just saps the life out of you. Weird hours. Any hours. Want to sleep? Tough shit - an important client's server went down. Highly stressful environment, although, it is not a /competitive/ environment, so I suppose that keeps the suicide numbers down. I highly suggest forgetting what a human female looks like if you chose IT 'cause you're sure as hell not going to see any. No life. No girlfriends. No going out. In some sense, an IT job is like an extremely high maintenance girlfriend, except you get none of the possible benefits, and it's not a bombshell either =(.
I bet Google didn't think of one use of this new service - annoying and harassing the hell out of people whose phone number you happen to know.
"Honey, why did ``Joe's Male Escort Service and Gay Bar call your cell twenty times last night?''"
Looking at the crashes, I would suspect memory corruption, due to bad cooling, defective parts, poor grounding/isolation.
Nothing new. This is the first production batch and the quality is still so-so. This happens every time with consumer electronics - although, interestingly enough, not so much with PC(computer) parts. The people buying the consoles should have well known the risk.
Meet in #fuck_the_mpaa on ${IRC_SERVER}.
/IRC ain't going anywhere.
Before I hit the -1 mod button, keep in mind that "Patriotism" means love for your country, not love for whatever current corrupt government du jour.
Illegal in the sense of intent. Your government has repeatedly lied making up one ridiculous excuse after another to sacrfice YOUR sons, brothers and fathers in this bloody conflict.
Let's see, first we attacked Saddam because we couldn't find any. Now I think the general consensus is that well, he *could* have had WMDs. Well, *coulda* is not pretext for war. Now, apparently the reason is that he was ``a bad man''. Uhuh. That never stopped USA from propping up ``brutal regimes'' before... INCLUDING Saddam (go google for a pic of Rummy shaking Saddam's hand back in the 80s). Another popular argument was that he instituted ``genocide on the Kurds'', which sounds good on paper, until you realize that Iraq had this "war" thang with Iran, with the Kurds on Iran's side. If you remember history, teh CCCP was on Iran's side, with US propping up Iraq, and providing it with the chemicals to gas those Kurds. Yup. USA was well complicit in the ``war'' crime it felt was necessary to destroy sovereign Iraq for!
So basically, the du-jour argument for further destabilizing the middle east, *promoting* terrorist Islamists (Saddam's Iraq was a secular state that repressed radical Islamism), and killing more Americans day-by-day - is that... Bush thought Saddam shouldn't be ruling Iraq anymore! How laughable! Since when did the Bushoviks get the right to police the freaking world, removing leaders it doesn't like under false pretext?
So yeah, it's an illegal war. The rest of gov't being complicit in allowing it doesn't legalize it.
Yeah, it's not like you'll need it for anything now that you've got the Messiah in the office. Once again, go hit the books. If it wasn't for the French military help, the USA wouldn't exist. France as Vichy France would have still been France. There's a difference. As regards to USA's European Theatre contributions, don't get too haughty. By D-Day time, it was more about biting off more Europe that the Bolsheviks could... and firebombing (hey... WP is in the news recently now too) cities. Yup, seems like the USAF has a "thang" for dropping incendiary explosives on civilan populations. Funny that, if I recall, Dresden never had any military value (but plenty cultural), and by then was overflowing with ailing, young, old, POWs, and tons of displaced citizens fleeing the red hordes. Go read Slaughterhouse 5, Kurt Vonnegut.
I didn't bash Texas. You obviously have a problem with the french, apparently . Funny that - that's gratitude for being able to live in America versus British Colony XYZ, I suppose.
Btw I have nothing against Brits. I just hate mindless jingoism fueled by ignorance and hypocrisy. I bet your bigotry began right about the time of ``freedom fries'' and other such anti-French nonsense fueled by rightful opposition to what is now clearly an illegal war?
Speaking of which, ``Open Standards'' as in those proposed by, say, ``The Open Group'' or ``The X Consortium'' had nothing to do with Open Source.
I may be an OSS fanboi, but cut the BS. Open Standards can exist just fine witout Open Source.
OT: Next time your tongue itches to say something stupid about the French, remind yourself why the Statue of Liberty is in New York, again.
/haven't/ yet found way to exploit the rootkit and thus come into posession of the first corporate-created zombie botnet (make Windows security jokes all you want, this is for real).
Anywho, personally I can't wait to see Sony go down in flames over this. Some part of me is almost disappointed that a couple of adolescents with an axe to grind
Now that it's got the John Duh-vorak seal of approval, I'll make sure to steer clear of it.
Actually no. I RTFMd, and still haven't a clue what the 360 has to do with Dvorak's navelgazing w.r.t to GUIs and some-such.
Or maybe I just need more coffee. I hate mondays.
I did. The first is a fact. The second is how the the ``IT'' word is used by delusional PHBs.
Anyway, I do find it amusing that any post,where I criticize the ``IT industry'' or anything associated with it, gets modded down. Did I find Slashdot's soft spot? Is Slashdot populated by individuals who do nothing but run cables all day, while comparing themselves to the likes of Tannenbaum, Knuth, Djikstra or Gates?
Perhaps... perhaps...
I wouldn't say WiFi has been ruining my "college experience". In fact, I actually have gone to classes where I would otherwise not have, simply by having the knowledge that if today's lecture was going to be a bore (and something I already know), I could browse away.
This kinda bugs me. Why is CS ``IT?'' Computer Science is not ``IT'' - it's much closer to Mathematics, albeit in it's code-monkey incarnation it is purely applied rather than theoretical. Sysadmin/Netadmin is IT. Software Engineering is not IT. Algorithm design is not IT. Knuth is not IT. DJB is not IT. Djiksta is not IT. Steve Jobs is not IT. Eurgh.
IT is just silly buzzword used by PHBs to collectively group anyone who can do more than play Sollitaire on a computer. Ja, und?
Not IT. IT are dudes running cable so the software developers can get some work done.
It'd be nice if SOlaris understood the concept of *virtual consoles*, or been able to switch between X and a VT.
I didn't know OpenBSD had VC support. Turns out the hot-key combo was different - it's Ctrl-Alt-F#.
Bollocks.
;-).
It is equally easy for me to put on a nice sharp-looking shirt a pair of slacks as it is to put a crummy t-shirt and pair of worn jeans. I wear the the former at work, because I certainly need to maintain a certain kind of class - for myself at the very least, but certainly to maintain respectability whenever I have to go on site, or whenever clients/potentials visit us. I dress the same way for college. I don't consider this to be exorbitant. Certainly this does not fit into the general college "I just got up after a hangover" fasion. Other people think these are nice clothes - they're not. They are dirt cheap. They are no three-piece suits.
Don't bring up cost. You don't get paid minimum wage, I presume. it doesn't cost much to buy a week's worth of shirts and a pair of slacks, plus some socks and shoes. Hell, you don't have to buy it all at once. It doesn't need to be some ridiculous over-the-top (cost-wise) brand, because no one really cares. The idea is to conform, not to stand out, so pack away the washed-out jeans and 70s t-shirts, and get with the program
As in regards to the IT industry. Get out of it. I seriously pity anyone who considers IT to be a `career path'. It is not and I certainly don't regard that way. I am a Software Engineer currently in college, and although for the time being I am employed as a cog within an IT infrastructure, in no way or shape do I ever lose focus. I still regard myself as a software engineer, and given the opportunity, do the kind of work that suits me at my job.
IT has got to be one of the worst industries around. On one hand, the tasks performed (maintanance of comps for someone else) is menial, "low brow" no matter what your clients claim otherwise to appease you, and regarded with contempt. An IT worker is one step above blue collar labor - but at least with physical labor you get respect as a man performing some physical task. IT work is far worse - you're not doing something technical enough to warrant merit, nor something physcal enough to warrant respect from others, and that includes the opposite sex. Nevermind the whole don't-have-a-life thing, since working in IT means you work any time, weird hours, whatever. I go to school and go to work, and I don't remember the last time I saw a female =(.
Depressing.
In other news, Microsoft is not the oppressive, overbearing monopolist tyrant everyone makes them out to be. Full story at 11.
I mean common, there's got to be some hidden motive behind this move, right? M$ is trying to shove its software onto OSS platforms now. OMFG! [/sarcasm]