Cant they already track that? I mean they have your SSN already when you are born. They are bound to know when you turn 18....when you register to the Selective Service, you register with your SSN. My thought would be that they could just cross reference.
While I am thankful for the sysadmin pageant, I am equally greatful that there is no swimsuit portion of the contest. While it would be nice for some, I do not think I wish to see our DBA's in Speedo's.
You definitely got off easy compared to the punishment you would have met from some of us! I would have set your password expiration to every hour on the hour, and gradually gotten worse from there:-.
I think I would just rather have the beer. After all, the only way half the things my management wants to get accomplished get done is in their own little fantasy land, so I may as well join them there for a while *grin*.
(ever tried to program "hello world" in brainfuck?).
I had heard of it....Read a little on it...Simple to the point of going crazy. Worth taking a look into on a rainy day or two. Wouldn't dream of using it on a practical level though:-)
I'm sure we are all refreshed and challenged by your unique point of view. So, basically, what you are saying is, just because there are standard languages out there that everyone has come to know and use, we should completely bow and use your language of choice because you hate all others? That's bullshit. I'm not a hacker unless I write something using a "non standard" language that 80 percent of us dont even know? (ad nauseum) Honestly, no offense, but who gives two shits whether you prefer one language over another? IMHO, when you adhere to thinking like that, you SERIOUSLY limit what you are truly capable of doing. It's not about trying to make your language of choice look like the glory boy of its day, but, as posted previously (many times), getting the job done with the best tool possible. Why am I going to write something in O'Caml if PHP will help me get the job done quickly because of the readily available tools to me? Oh, I forgot, because I might need to use ELEGANT Lambda Calculus Expressions. Nope, sorry, I'm still not convinced. I'm going to stick with PHP or Perl for that (which also work well with MySQL, you didnt point that out). When I need something that is a little beefier (maybe a MODULE for PERL, oh, I forgot, we're hating that too), I will look at writing it in C or something comparable for the task. Im sorry you hate a language merely because of run time errors. Woah! What a concept, a runtime error! All coders, great or small, have run time errors at some point. Its a fact of life. Run time errors are one of the few inevitables in your life. You will pay taxes, you will die, YOU WILL HAVE RUN TIME ERRORS. Great hackers identify the need to work through those errors to become better at what they do. Just because it's easier on you doesn't make it better. I agree, we all have our languages of choice, but please don't cram it down my throat why the rest of the world should adhere to using it and promoting it. I mean, its already pretty full of the Deja Moo (if you dont know what that is, google it.) we all hear on a daily basis as it is!:-)
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Oh yeah. Forgot only males have to register. What was I thinking?
Cant they already track that? I mean they have your SSN already when you are born. They are bound to know when you turn 18....when you register to the Selective Service, you register with your SSN. My thought would be that they could just cross reference.
Yes, and sadly, the good majority of them know about it.
Thanks, you're the first person to notice since I changed it. Cheers.
At least they wont attempt to hack into a Gibson Supercomputer with Apple Notebooks. OR WILL THEY!
While I am thankful for the sysadmin pageant, I am equally greatful that there is no swimsuit portion of the contest. While it would be nice for some, I do not think I wish to see our DBA's in Speedo's.
You definitely got off easy compared to the punishment you would have met from some of us! I would have set your password expiration to every hour on the hour, and gradually gotten worse from there :-.
Well, I never let on how big the beer needed to be! Either that or, errr, they just dont have that much vision to sustantiate such a lush fantasy.
I think I would just rather have the beer. After all, the only way half the things my management wants to get accomplished get done is in their own little fantasy land, so I may as well join them there for a while *grin*.
(ever tried to program "hello world" in brainfuck?). :-)
I had heard of it....Read a little on it...Simple to the point of going crazy. Worth taking a look into on a rainy day or two. Wouldn't dream of using it on a practical level though
I'm sure we are all refreshed and challenged by your unique point of view. So, basically, what you are saying is, just because there are standard languages out there that everyone has come to know and use, we should completely bow and use your language of choice because you hate all others? That's bullshit. I'm not a hacker unless I write something using a "non standard" language that 80 percent of us dont even know? (ad nauseum) Honestly, no offense, but who gives two shits whether you prefer one language over another? IMHO, when you adhere to thinking like that, you SERIOUSLY limit what you are truly capable of doing. It's not about trying to make your language of choice look like the glory boy of its day, but, as posted previously (many times), getting the job done with the best tool possible. Why am I going to write something in O'Caml if PHP will help me get the job done quickly because of the readily available tools to me? Oh, I forgot, because I might need to use ELEGANT Lambda Calculus Expressions. Nope, sorry, I'm still not convinced. I'm going to stick with PHP or Perl for that (which also work well with MySQL, you didnt point that out). When I need something that is a little beefier (maybe a MODULE for PERL, oh, I forgot, we're hating that too), I will look at writing it in C or something comparable for the task. Im sorry you hate a language merely because of run time errors. Woah! What a concept, a runtime error! All coders, great or small, have run time errors at some point. Its a fact of life. Run time errors are one of the few inevitables in your life. You will pay taxes, you will die, YOU WILL HAVE RUN TIME ERRORS. Great hackers identify the need to work through those errors to become better at what they do. Just because it's easier on you doesn't make it better. I agree, we all have our languages of choice, but please don't cram it down my throat why the rest of the world should adhere to using it and promoting it. I mean, its already pretty full of the Deja Moo (if you dont know what that is, google it.) we all hear on a daily basis as it is! :-)