In other words, 'forget them... they are just ignorant heretics.' I kind of think that is worse. It allows people to judge and keep their noses up in the air.
Have you considered that "having a well-rounded liberal arts education" is critical to employability? It is. If you can cogently discuss the Byzantine Empire, perhaps do Calculus, deliberate the nature of political systems, and can craft a decent metaphor, it says something about your adaptability.
What exactly does any of this have to do with a college/university degree? I'm sorry, but I've met so many dummies out of supposedly 'good' schools that these degrees hold no weight to me. On top of that, I know plenty of people that can do the things you describe with only a high school diploma or less.
Yes, this is all anecdotal, but in my experience a degree does not necessarily make someone employable on its own.
You should have called the police... What they did does not sound like a civil matter.. it sounds like fraud.... I dont see how that isn't identity theft
This is not I.D. theft. The owner of the property has to transfer the account to you. They have a legal agreement with you and they probably send that to the utility company also. This has happened to me for some utilities like gas and water. Though, laws of this sort are probably different depending on where you are, so YMMV.
In the US trading done by an automated computer program is illegal. Whether it should be or not I do not know. But apparently drastic market sways were once caused when computers used certain software to control sale and purchases. In order to drop the amplitude and frequency of those sways automated trading was deemed illegal.
[citation needed]
I've seen these boxes and the company wasn't trying to hide them. Maybe you speak of certain market(s) rules?
The rods are located near the outer edges of the retina. This is why very distant stars that are barely visible appear brighter if you use your peripheral vision to view them by looking off to the side.
Neat. I always thought that was because I stared at the sun too much as a child.
Oh, I hope not. That would be terrible. That would be vendor lock-in of the very worst kind. Assuming all vendors agreed on a standard (not foreseeable), none of them would follow it precisely (think HTML/Javascript/CSS). Large vendors would start creating artificial barriers-to-entry. Regulation would crop up to "protect the consumer" -- failing entirely to protect anyone, the bureaucracy would also serve as barrier-to-entry. The big players would have no intensive to do a great job, only a mediocre one.
There's no need to imagine such a thing. Look out that basement window and see that it's been here for decades.
You are way over thinking this. It's not DNS. DNS is done after the connection is made, it won't slow down transfer speeds. Probably not netflix, they should be setup for late-day load spikes.
I think you can be safely sure that you are running into the inherent fault of cable technology. Between 7PM and 10PM are high usage times when everyone and their mother is using the internet. And because cable is shared, things slow down.
So, fault Comcast for not provisioning enough bandwidth for your neighborhood.
I'm not disagreeing, it's entirely possible. I merely think it's unlikely. The scale of the attack does appear small, but the NASA example I used was nothing to care about, intent to attack matters.
The NASA attack you speak of was also breach of systems. This is a trivial DDOS on a few Web servers. While annoying, it's not the end of the world.
If they aren't already encrypting their mail, using Google isn't really changing anything.
What company out there does this on a regular basis? And you know, CIA and NSA don't count.
Implementing PGP/GPG organization wide seems almost impossible to me. Can I expect my users to generate keys, make sure they have revocation keys, and submit them to a key server?
I'm confused, are you saying that the majority of people who cheat on their taxes are Rich? I would actually say that the Rich are less likely to cheat because they are the ones that can afford to pay someone to find legal ways to pay less taxes. If you think the Tax system is unfair and favors those with more, fine, but don't call them "cheaters"
Just because it's "legal" doesn't make it any less cheating.
Dude, seriously? I'm no Don Juan, but provided I don't have to hunt for it beforehand putting on a condom is about a ten-second process, one-handed (and that's including opening the package). Some paper towels for afterwards, which you already need anyway, and you're set.
Paper towels... really? I don't believe your entire post. Any man that can use paper towels across his meat piston afterwards without screaming bloody murder is a twisted man.
I like to consider myself a geek. I'd like to submit this definition: A geek is one who spends most of their time(professionally or personally) on a certain set of tasks/skills or gaining knowledge for said set of tasks/skills.
I'd like to consider myself a computer geek. And I've met many finance, mechanical, math, and political science geeks. And I've also met people who work in said fields but I would in no way call geeks. The word geek has positive connotations in my book.
Unless of course you can't stand bars. Ihave been in only one where it was any fun most bars are boring unless you are talkative. If you don't care about talking to random strangers then bars are useless. You haveto do something to waitfor thehours that women actually show up that aren't taken
Keep in mind, the OP is asking for a social life, not exactly a way to 'pick up chicks.' So, talking to random strangers can gain you friends(or atleast an interesting conversation). And, you're still more likely to find girls that are friends of friends, so even if that is your goal, talking to strangers can be a means to an end.
Troll part(but truthful): So suck it up and stop thinking you're above other people or that they are not interesting because they don't look like you. Yes, I'm making huge inferences here about you but that's how I used to be, and a bar ended up being a good place to meet people you wouldn't necessarily talk to.
I label myself as a geek. Does that mean I put myself in a certain sub-set of people? Is there even such a thing as geek culture? I'd say no, and I'm not what you'd consider an average geek.
However, I do love when my girl calls me a geek. Makes me feel all warm inside.
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In other words, 'forget them... they are just ignorant heretics.' I kind of think that is worse. It allows people to judge and keep their noses up in the air.
I can break your whole world with one question:
What exactly makes a stone out of a material that costs next to nothing to produce so valuable?
One answer: "Oooh Shiny!"
What exactly does any of this have to do with a college/university degree? I'm sorry, but I've met so many dummies out of supposedly 'good' schools that these degrees hold no weight to me. On top of that, I know plenty of people that can do the things you describe with only a high school diploma or less.
Yes, this is all anecdotal, but in my experience a degree does not necessarily make someone employable on its own.
So you are saying that our whole freaking planet is a reality show? agh!
Get me an intergalactic lawyer. I am going to sue! I never signed a release form to allow them to put me on a TV show.
Good luck, intergalactic law is pretty... anarchist.
You must move to the right hand lane for faster moving traffic (regardless of speed) or you get a ticket for obstructing the flow of traffic.
So which lane should I choose if I'm in a slow-moving vehicle and I want to turn left?
Lots of left turns on the expressway where you're at?
Yeah, they use this funky 'service' command instead of the one true way: hand-running the script in /etc/init.d
Running a daemon as a service keeps it monitored. If the service failed for any reason, it's restarted. Totally hands-off for the admin.
(That is, if it has the same behavior as svscan as I recall...)
You should have called the police... What they did does not sound like a civil matter.. it sounds like fraud.... I dont see how that isn't identity theft
This is not I.D. theft. The owner of the property has to transfer the account to you. They have a legal agreement with you and they probably send that to the utility company also. This has happened to me for some utilities like gas and water. Though, laws of this sort are probably different depending on where you are, so YMMV.
*cough* katrina *cough*
In the US trading done by an automated computer program is illegal. Whether it should be or not I do not know. But apparently drastic market sways were once caused when computers used certain software to control sale and purchases. In order to drop the amplitude and frequency of those sways automated trading was deemed illegal.
[citation needed]
I've seen these boxes and the company wasn't trying to hide them. Maybe you speak of certain market(s) rules?
The rods are located near the outer edges of the retina. This is why very distant stars that are barely visible appear brighter if you use your peripheral vision to view them by looking off to the side.
Neat. I always thought that was because I stared at the sun too much as a child.
There's no need to imagine such a thing. Look out that basement window and see that it's been here for decades.
You are way over thinking this. It's not DNS. DNS is done after the connection is made, it won't slow down transfer speeds. Probably not netflix, they should be setup for late-day load spikes.
I think you can be safely sure that you are running into the inherent fault of cable technology. Between 7PM and 10PM are high usage times when everyone and their mother is using the internet. And because cable is shared, things slow down.
So, fault Comcast for not provisioning enough bandwidth for your neighborhood.
I'm not disagreeing, it's entirely possible. I merely think it's unlikely. The scale of the attack does appear small, but the NASA example I used was nothing to care about, intent to attack matters.
The NASA attack you speak of was also breach of systems. This is a trivial DDOS on a few Web servers. While annoying, it's not the end of the world.
If they aren't already encrypting their mail, using Google isn't really changing anything.
What company out there does this on a regular basis? And you know, CIA and NSA don't count.
Implementing PGP/GPG organization wide seems almost impossible to me. Can I expect my users to generate keys, make sure they have revocation keys, and submit them to a key server?
They're not all stupid; some are merely alcoholics.
That's why smart alcoholics take Ibuprofen.
Any chance you'd be willing to share what you do?
What OS have to do with pirated software?
Pirated software is a competitor on the same price point.
Now, I know it's not en vogue to point this out, but they do have central heating and cars in Canada. You'd be ok.
Until it's -30F outside and you dump your car in a snow bank 20 miles outside of the nearest town.
I'm in SW Montana and people do die because of things like this. Also why it's stupid not to have some sort of survival kit in your car.
I'm confused, are you saying that the majority of people who cheat on their taxes are Rich? I would actually say that the Rich are less likely to cheat because they are the ones that can afford to pay someone to find legal ways to pay less taxes. If you think the Tax system is unfair and favors those with more, fine, but don't call them "cheaters"
Just because it's "legal" doesn't make it any less cheating.
Dude, seriously? I'm no Don Juan, but provided I don't have to hunt for it beforehand putting on a condom is about a ten-second process, one-handed (and that's including opening the package). Some paper towels for afterwards, which you already need anyway, and you're set.
Paper towels... really? I don't believe your entire post. Any man that can use paper towels across his meat piston afterwards without screaming bloody murder is a twisted man.
You just cited a part of the article that even Wikipedia thinks: [citation needed].
Even shopping with girls can actually be a lot of fun (exhausting though) if you just like those people.
You must be a masochist.
I like to consider myself a geek. I'd like to submit this definition: A geek is one who spends most of their time(professionally or personally) on a certain set of tasks/skills or gaining knowledge for said set of tasks/skills.
I'd like to consider myself a computer geek. And I've met many finance, mechanical, math, and political science geeks. And I've also met people who work in said fields but I would in no way call geeks. The word geek has positive connotations in my book.
Unless of course you can't stand bars. Ihave been in only one where it was any fun most bars are boring unless you are talkative. If you don't care about talking to random strangers then bars are useless. You haveto do something to waitfor thehours that women actually show up that aren't taken
Keep in mind, the OP is asking for a social life, not exactly a way to 'pick up chicks.' So, talking to random strangers can gain you friends(or atleast an interesting conversation). And, you're still more likely to find girls that are friends of friends, so even if that is your goal, talking to strangers can be a means to an end.
Troll part(but truthful): So suck it up and stop thinking you're above other people or that they are not interesting because they don't look like you. Yes, I'm making huge inferences here about you but that's how I used to be, and a bar ended up being a good place to meet people you wouldn't necessarily talk to.
I label myself as a geek. Does that mean I put myself in a certain sub-set of people? Is there even such a thing as geek culture? I'd say no, and I'm not what you'd consider an average geek.
However, I do love when my girl calls me a geek. Makes me feel all warm inside.