Define "good pay". Back when I looked at working for a similar agency, the pay was usually GS-9 at max to start.
GS-9 is $47,448-$61,678 according to the 2012 locality tables - not very good at all considering someone with a similar education could earn 90-100k in private industry.
Sure, it's better than most people in Utah make, but by no means "good" pay by any objective metric.
Graduate studies costs 4-5x more than undergrad studies, and carry a stigma of "Well, you couldn't cut it there, why would we accept you here?".
If you don't receive full tuition reimbursement and a stipend (especially in a STEM field) you should not be pursuing a doctoral degree. Any halfway decent candidate can get a modest stipend and tuition reimbursement.
I personally am by no means living high on the hog, but I pay my rent and have a little leftover for the occasional beer with friends. If I hadn't been offered this funding, I'd have gone and worked in industry, because this would not make economic sense.
That seems fairly weird. Manning (allegedly) is the one whose conscience was in play
One could argue Manning simply wanted to screw over his employer. His employer happened to be the US army. If Manning had worked at McDonalds, maybe he'd just have taken some money from the till.
Maybe this is because people who drink coffee are less depressed?
One of the symptoms of severe depression is tireness. People with severe depression often sleep all day. People who are not severely depressed want to get up and out of bed, into the world, and drink coffee to help them do so.
Thus, mortality numbers are skewed by the suicides of the depressed (and thus more likely to fall ill, abuse drugs/alcohol, and/or commit suicide.)
Some of the finest people I've worked with in software have degrees distantly related to computer science, math, or software engineering. Music, religion, "interdisciplinary studies", and an accounting dropout are included in that mix. They are right to pish-posh it away. Actually, as an art person, you wouldn't happen to live near Phoenix, know Java well, and be interested in working on GIS applications for remote sensing, would you? We have a good product that probably could use a techie with an art background to improve its UI.
You want someone with a background in Human Computer Interaction (HCI).
Gavin Russell, prime minister of the student government, gathered scores of signatures on a petition supporting Mr. Christie before two staff members warned him that, if he continued, he could also face punishment.
Apparently petitions are also banned by the cryptofascists who run this school.
I have noticed a disproportionate number of intellectuals are depressed. Probably because they are smart enough to know no matter what you do you are screwed. This in turn leads to acting out against the dumb/happy people. The dumb/happy people are generally unphased because they didn't even realized you just dissed them making the intellectual even more furious. Which in turn leads them to target the dumbest group of all...that's right...government officials which gets twisted to be a political statement instead of the "kill all dumb people" it was truly intended as.
Smart parent... you get it pretty much on the nose. The technical term is "depressive realism".
CMU had a similar site pop up entitled "Before We Leave", which to my knowledge has not garnered any scorn from the administration.
From their FAQ page:
Life should be lived with no regrets. Undoubtedly there are people that you know (or know of) that you've always wanted to 'encounter' physically. With graduation right around the corner, these final weeks are your last chance. This site is devoted to facilitating those encounters.
So... you enter the andrew IDs of the top five people you have always wanted to get with. If they also list you in their top five, we will email both of you-- the rest is up to you. If nobody matches with you, c'est la vie-- at least you tried. It's as simple as that.
Your top five are safe: your desires will only be revealed if the other person also desires you. Otherwise they will be kept secret forever.
You can do this with commodity hardware. CMU's GREY program has been letting users not only open doors, but manage issues such as access control lists, key management, and usability issues associated with such a system. There's been a considerable amount of information published as a result of their research. They've been doing this since about 2005. It is by no means a new idea.
Or maybe it's a gas station that isn't manned 24/7?
I've seen gas stations in the suburbs where they only have a clerk from say, 8am-8pm. During late hours when they don't get much business, you can use a credit card at the pump, but there's no clerk.
Macbook cameras are wired such that the green light HAS to come on if the camera is activated. This is at harware level - the current must flow through the LED to power the camera, and it would require physical tampering to disable this privacy feature.
If your Macbook's iSight light glows green randomly, that should set off MASSIVE red flags.
In my state, if an area is not obviously private land, you have to post a "No Trespassing" sign. (Similarly, a business/gov't agency would have to mark an area "Restricted" or "Employees Only".
If no sign is posted, and the police are called, the police inform you you're trespassing, give you a little paper to this effect, and if you come back, you're arrested. But if the property owner tells you to leave, and you do, you have committed no trespass.
I see this access of the Australian Government's documents analogous to a hiker who was exploring public land, and wandered into a private field. Without a fence, or a posted sign, they had no way to know they were trespassing, and any charges to that effect would be easily overturned.
Systems like this generally don't store an actual image of your fingerprint, just a hash. Not out of any sense of social justice, just because a hash takes less storage space than an image of your fingerprint.
So some scenarios you might be imagining might actually be out of the question. For example: no one is going to break into the database, steal your fingerprint, and frame you for a crime.
Screw opera. You know what I want on my iPhone? A text browser like links.
Most of what we read on the go (news, blog entries, tweets, facebook, etc) is text. It'd be nice to be able to use a text browser for these types of sites - I'll bet browsing would be a lot faster.
As much as I loved my macbook, it couldn't do basic tasks I need to do as an information security professional.
No promiscuous mode. Tools like wireshark, aircrack, fakeap, etc all didn't work properly due to issues with closed source wireless drivers.
There were two things keeping me on OSX for a while: iTunes and Photoshop.
Well, CS3 now runs in Wine, which left iTunes. I used to like iTunes as a music player, but lately I only keep it around to sync my iPod - songbird has gotten quite mature.
I after years of having utter disdain for "smartphones" I caved in and bought an iPhone. Initially I loved it, but little things like the inability to say, listen to last.fm in the background while tooling around in iCal really is starting to grate on me. I already do most of my day to day college work on a netbook, and when I graduate and can afford a new laptop and my phone contract ends, I will probably be sporting a Thinkpad and some sort of android phone.
I've seen a few people complain about speedI had been using NeoOffice for a long time (mainly because at the time I installed it, there was not a version of OOo that used Aqua widgets).
Now OOo has full OSX support, and I've found it significantly faster than NeoOffice (I don't have hard figures, but Neo Office took approximates as long as Photoshop to start up, which is pretty ridiculous).
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Define "good pay". Back when I looked at working for a similar agency, the pay was usually GS-9 at max to start.
GS-9 is $47,448-$61,678 according to the 2012 locality tables - not very good at all considering someone with a similar education could earn 90-100k in private industry.
Sure, it's better than most people in Utah make, but by no means "good" pay by any objective metric.
Graduate studies costs 4-5x more than undergrad studies, and carry a stigma of "Well, you couldn't cut it there, why would we accept you here?".
If you don't receive full tuition reimbursement and a stipend (especially in a STEM field) you should not be pursuing a doctoral degree. Any halfway decent candidate can get a modest stipend and tuition reimbursement.
I personally am by no means living high on the hog, but I pay my rent and have a little leftover for the occasional beer with friends. If I hadn't been offered this funding, I'd have gone and worked in industry, because this would not make economic sense.
One could argue Manning simply wanted to screw over his employer. His employer happened to be the US army. If Manning had worked at McDonalds, maybe he'd just have taken some money from the till.
Maybe this is because people who drink coffee are less depressed?
One of the symptoms of severe depression is tireness. People with severe depression often sleep all day. People who are not severely depressed want to get up and out of bed, into the world, and drink coffee to help them do so.
Thus, mortality numbers are skewed by the suicides of the depressed (and thus more likely to fall ill, abuse drugs/alcohol, and/or commit suicide.)
How does this compare to the amount that other large, successful companies spend on research?
Because guess what: long term gambles with no immediate payoff - that's basically corporate research.
What percent of Google's operating costs is spent on these projects, versus say, the amount spent on Microsoft Research or HP Labs?
(We all agree that having a corporate research division is good, right?)
You want someone with a background in Human Computer Interaction (HCI).
If you're looking for local hires, Arizona State has an HCI program: http://technology.asu.edu/appliedpsych
Why not make it a round 1.25? Delays the next raise, and allows you to not get stuck with a useless nickel that will probably get lost.
There's Google store in Mountain View, at the 'plex. They sell the same products as their online store.
Apparently petitions are also banned by the cryptofascists who run this school.
There is no linux version, since script kiddies don't use linux.
Usernames can't be trending topics, and a ton of people use the tag #wikileaks.
Cash is anonymous.
Anonymity protects privacy.
Privacy is necessary for a functioning democracy.
I have noticed a disproportionate number of intellectuals are depressed. Probably because they are smart enough to know no matter what you do you are screwed. This in turn leads to acting out against the dumb/happy people. The dumb/happy people are generally unphased because they didn't even realized you just dissed them making the intellectual even more furious. Which in turn leads them to target the dumbest group of all...that's right...government officials which gets twisted to be a political statement instead of the "kill all dumb people" it was truly intended as.
Smart parent... you get it pretty much on the nose. The technical term is "depressive realism".
You don't need a proxy or perl to game facebook places... you can do it by changing one line in your about:config and hard code "geo.wifi.uri"
I wrote up a full tutorial on my blog for those who are interested.
CMU had a similar site pop up entitled "Before We Leave", which to my knowledge has not garnered any scorn from the administration.
From their FAQ page:
Life should be lived with no regrets. Undoubtedly there are people that you know (or know of) that you've always wanted to 'encounter' physically. With graduation right around the corner, these final weeks are your last chance. This site is devoted to facilitating those encounters.
So... you enter the andrew IDs of the top five people you have always wanted to get with. If they also list you in their top five, we will email both of you-- the rest is up to you. If nobody matches with you, c'est la vie-- at least you tried. It's as simple as that.
Your top five are safe: your desires will only be revealed if the other person also desires you. Otherwise they will be kept secret forever.
This is not a new phenomenon.
You can do this with commodity hardware. CMU's GREY program has been letting users not only open doors, but manage issues such as access control lists, key management, and usability issues associated with such a system. There's been a considerable amount of information published as a result of their research. They've been doing this since about 2005. It is by no means a new idea.
Insiders being paid off to look the other way?
Maybe.
Or maybe it's a gas station that isn't manned 24/7?
I've seen gas stations in the suburbs where they only have a clerk from say, 8am-8pm. During late hours when they don't get much business, you can use a credit card at the pump, but there's no clerk.
Macbook cameras are wired such that the green light HAS to come on if the camera is activated. This is at harware level - the current must flow through the LED to power the camera, and it would require physical tampering to disable this privacy feature.
If your Macbook's iSight light glows green randomly, that should set off MASSIVE red flags.
In my state, if an area is not obviously private land, you have to post a "No Trespassing" sign. (Similarly, a business/gov't agency would have to mark an area "Restricted" or "Employees Only".
If no sign is posted, and the police are called, the police inform you you're trespassing, give you a little paper to this effect, and if you come back, you're arrested. But if the property owner tells you to leave, and you do, you have committed no trespass.
I see this access of the Australian Government's documents analogous to a hiker who was exploring public land, and wandered into a private field. Without a fence, or a posted sign, they had no way to know they were trespassing, and any charges to that effect would be easily overturned.
Systems like this generally don't store an actual image of your fingerprint, just a hash. Not out of any sense of social justice, just because a hash takes less storage space than an image of your fingerprint.
So some scenarios you might be imagining might actually be out of the question. For example: no one is going to break into the database, steal your fingerprint, and frame you for a crime.
I think the debate will be moot in 5 years, when materials science gets to the point that super thin convertibles are possible.
Screw opera. You know what I want on my iPhone? A text browser like links.
Most of what we read on the go (news, blog entries, tweets, facebook, etc) is text. It'd be nice to be able to use a text browser for these types of sites - I'll bet browsing would be a lot faster.
As much as I loved my macbook, it couldn't do basic tasks I need to do as an information security professional.
No promiscuous mode. Tools like wireshark, aircrack, fakeap, etc all didn't work properly due to issues with closed source wireless drivers.
There were two things keeping me on OSX for a while: iTunes and Photoshop.
Well, CS3 now runs in Wine, which left iTunes. I used to like iTunes as a music player, but lately I only keep it around to sync my iPod - songbird has gotten quite mature.
I after years of having utter disdain for "smartphones" I caved in and bought an iPhone. Initially I loved it, but little things like the inability to say, listen to last.fm in the background while tooling around in iCal really is starting to grate on me. I already do most of my day to day college work on a netbook, and when I graduate and can afford a new laptop and my phone contract ends, I will probably be sporting a Thinkpad and some sort of android phone.
I've seen a few people complain about speedI had been using NeoOffice for a long time (mainly because at the time I installed it, there was not a version of OOo that used Aqua widgets).
Now OOo has full OSX support, and I've found it significantly faster than NeoOffice (I don't have hard figures, but Neo Office took approximates as long as Photoshop to start up, which is pretty ridiculous).