Stupid people are there so that intelligent or smart people are given a reason to shine. If everyone was smart, you'd be another drop in the bucket, but if you are, and they are not, then be happy you're stronger, smarter or better off, enjoy the advantage, help others if you want, or avoid helping them, all up to you.
Except social engineering has only partly to do with stupidity. It also has to do with trust. A smart person can easily be exploited if he trusts someone. It may take longer to gain that trust, but, arguably, if a smart person is exploited, the consequences could be that much worse.
And then, of course, there's the argument that even a smart person has a bad day every once in awhile. You could easily be caught off guard. Why do you think *true* high security places always have more than one guard in place at any time?
But an addon is not Mozilla's fault. Complain to the guys coding Firebug. (Unless of course there's some architecture thing in FF3 that is messing up Firebug. Then, I stand corrected.)
This is how you are able to catch a ball. Your brain doesn't do a physics calculation and determine where the ball will land. It guesses, watches, refines the guess, repeats, and eventually the guess is close enough so your hand is in the right spot to catch it.
Apparently that feature of the brain is broken for the players of the [Insert Name of Hated Sports Team].
(Hey...I try to make my put downs fun for everybody!)
Can you even imagine if that was enforced in the US?
I wish! Biggest pet peeve - people who insist on enforcing speed by sitting in the left hand lane. And, then, of course, when you have the nerve (and oh, what nerve I have) to pass them in the right hand lane, they flick you off or make some other rude gesture.
Happened to me the other day. I didn't tailgate or cut him off or anything. (I did flick my lights after about 6 miles of him sitting in the left lane right next to the car in the right.)
If it weren't for keyboards, none of us would be able to convey our ideas in written form. ur rite! kbrds mke it ez fr evrybdy 2 undrstnd us now. LOL ROFLMAO!
Really? I've been programming for corporate IT for 13+ years and I've only played with Java. I've never required it before interviewing other programmers, either. ...which means...absolutely nothing. The fact that you've been in IT for 13+ years (arguably when Java was just starting) means your skill set is in other languages. Thus, your resume would reflect that. Thus, your job searches would reflect that.
Thus, you have never needed Java. However, for developers who are new to the industry, it is difficult to avoid Java.
What's a Google? A whole freaken ton of answers. With advertising!
What's a Yahoo!? What you scream when you've just won the lottery.
What's a WinAmp? A speaker system facing out of a college dorm window.
What's a Slashdot? A fancy name for a DDOS attack.
What's a Firefox? A fox that got caught in the hen house and paid for it.
What's an eBay? Where eShips pull into the ePort.
What's a NewEgg? One that has been recently laid. (Duh?)
What's a Lightwave? Something that travels faster than a Soundwave.
What's a Nero? Nemo's long lost brother.
What's an Outlook Express? The biggest POS ever.
What's a Visual Studio? A room with "LIVE CAMERA WEB FEEDS!"
What's an AutoCAD? The instant response to a blue screen in Windows. (Auto Ctrl+Alt+Del)
but Oakland itself is rarely affected by the blight that sits there I don't know...a friend of mine (who is freaken huge - 6'4", 250lbs) got mugged (at gunpoint) right by the Pete (Peterson Center - where Pitt plays their basketball games) which is in the heart of the campus.
He just gave up his wallet. Didn't argue. Smart man.
Am I the only one who pictured laptops falling to the floor in fits of shaking and spasms when I read, "Senate Hearing On Laptop Seizures At US Border?"
Hypocrisy isn't just the south - it's people. I have yet to meet a person that did not have some sort of hypocrisy going on in their own life - myself included. This is the reason for the entire Biblical passage, "Take the log out of your own eye before you remove the speck from your neighbors." If people spent time fixing themselves and not worrying about other people's problems, the world would be a much more beautiful place.
I've said it before and I'll say it again - people are extremely motivated by their own self-interest and will do whatever it takes to protect that self-interest, even if it means lying to themselves about their actual flaws. Only when people can admit their flaws are they ever going to have a chance of actually fixing things in their lives.
Ignoring the fact that accessing an unsecured network is not a crime, not knowing the law is no excuse for committing a crime.
For example, a friend of mine recently received a speeding ticket. He hadn't been paying attention and didn't know that the limit had been reduced to 25MPH. (He was doing 40, thinking he had been in a 35 zone.)
So, although it is not politically correct to say this, the most intelligent kids go to VWO, the least intelligent go to VMBO. But, but...everybody is equal!
"With a few exceptions, Shakespeare did not invent the plots of his plays. Sometimes he used old stories (Hamlet, Pericles). Sometimes he worked from the stories of comparatively recent Italian writers, such as Boccaccio - using both well-known stories (Romeo and Juliet, Much Ado About Nothing) and little known ones (Othello). Shakespeare has been proven, by many authors, to have borrowed from the Arts, the Histories and the Sciences." I disagree that using the ideas surrounding a plot is plagiarism. There are only so many plot stories that can possibly exist: boy meets girl, good vs. evil, overcoming adversity, etc.
Shakespeare merely looked at history (which, arguably, has some of the best stories) and at other popular works and mimicked those works and plots.
Plagiarism, on the other hand, in my opinion, is an exact replica of someone's work without giving that person or people any credit for that work. So, just to illustrate my point...
Me writing a novel about a guy who has special, and even superhuman abilities, and who uses those abilities to take down an evil regime after being trained by his master is not necessarily plagiarism. That's just a simple "good vs. evil"-type story.
Me writing, "Do, or do not, there is no try." or "Luke raced through the trench towards the exhaust pipe with Vadar close on his tail."...that's plagiarism.
With Vista, Microsoft runs you. Really? Please tell me how, I'd be interested in knowing, 'cause I sure haven't seen Microsoft do anything on my computer.
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Stupid people are there so that intelligent or smart people are given a reason to shine. If everyone was smart, you'd be another drop in the bucket, but if you are, and they are not, then be happy you're stronger, smarter or better off, enjoy the advantage, help others if you want, or avoid helping them, all up to you.
Except social engineering has only partly to do with stupidity. It also has to do with trust. A smart person can easily be exploited if he trusts someone. It may take longer to gain that trust, but, arguably, if a smart person is exploited, the consequences could be that much worse.
And then, of course, there's the argument that even a smart person has a bad day every once in awhile. You could easily be caught off guard. Why do you think *true* high security places always have more than one guard in place at any time?
But an addon is not Mozilla's fault. Complain to the guys coding Firebug. (Unless of course there's some architecture thing in FF3 that is messing up Firebug. Then, I stand corrected.)
This is how you are able to catch a ball. Your brain doesn't do a physics calculation and determine where the ball will land. It guesses, watches, refines the guess, repeats, and eventually the guess is close enough so your hand is in the right spot to catch it.
Apparently that feature of the brain is broken for the players of the [Insert Name of Hated Sports Team].
(Hey...I try to make my put downs fun for everybody!)
This assumes, of course, that everything in life is like a jar of jellybeans.
Unfortunately, it's not. Life is like a box of chocolates. Ask Forrest's momma.
Can you even imagine if that was enforced in the US?
I wish! Biggest pet peeve - people who insist on enforcing speed by sitting in the left hand lane. And, then, of course, when you have the nerve (and oh, what nerve I have) to pass them in the right hand lane, they flick you off or make some other rude gesture.
Happened to me the other day. I didn't tailgate or cut him off or anything. (I did flick my lights after about 6 miles of him sitting in the left lane right next to the car in the right.)
Thus, you have never needed Java. However, for developers who are new to the industry, it is difficult to avoid Java.
Ooo...this is too much fun...
What's a Google? A whole freaken ton of answers. With advertising! What's a Yahoo!? What you scream when you've just won the lottery. What's a WinAmp? A speaker system facing out of a college dorm window. What's a Slashdot? A fancy name for a DDOS attack. What's a Firefox? A fox that got caught in the hen house and paid for it. What's an eBay? Where eShips pull into the ePort. What's a NewEgg? One that has been recently laid. (Duh?) What's a Lightwave? Something that travels faster than a Soundwave. What's a Nero? Nemo's long lost brother. What's an Outlook Express? The biggest POS ever. What's a Visual Studio? A room with "LIVE CAMERA WEB FEEDS!" What's an AutoCAD? The instant response to a blue screen in Windows. (Auto Ctrl+Alt+Del)Thank you! I'll be here all week. Try the veal.
He just gave up his wallet. Didn't argue. Smart man.
Am I the only one who pictured laptops falling to the floor in fits of shaking and spasms when I read, "Senate Hearing On Laptop Seizures At US Border?"
Wow. The implications of this sort of law is huge! I'm surprised the lawmakers were able to get any weight behind this.
Hypocrisy isn't just the south - it's people. I have yet to meet a person that did not have some sort of hypocrisy going on in their own life - myself included. This is the reason for the entire Biblical passage, "Take the log out of your own eye before you remove the speck from your neighbors." If people spent time fixing themselves and not worrying about other people's problems, the world would be a much more beautiful place.
I've said it before and I'll say it again - people are extremely motivated by their own self-interest and will do whatever it takes to protect that self-interest, even if it means lying to themselves about their actual flaws. Only when people can admit their flaws are they ever going to have a chance of actually fixing things in their lives.
Exactly. An oath does nothing if the person giving the oath has no morals to begin with.
ROTFLMAO Mod this guy up! Genius!
> That's what she said.
There. Fixed that for you.
Nope. Not then either. I feel stupid and angry at myself because I got caught, but not guilty. I deserve the ticket that I am getting.
Ignoring the fact that accessing an unsecured network is not a crime, not knowing the law is no excuse for committing a crime.
For example, a friend of mine recently received a speeding ticket. He hadn't been paying attention and didn't know that the limit had been reduced to 25MPH. (He was doing 40, thinking he had been in a 35 zone.)
Shakespeare merely looked at history (which, arguably, has some of the best stories) and at other popular works and mimicked those works and plots.
Plagiarism, on the other hand, in my opinion, is an exact replica of someone's work without giving that person or people any credit for that work. So, just to illustrate my point...
Me writing a novel about a guy who has special, and even superhuman abilities, and who uses those abilities to take down an evil regime after being trained by his master is not necessarily plagiarism. That's just a simple "good vs. evil"-type story.
Me writing,
"Do, or do not, there is no try."
or
"Luke raced through the trench towards the exhaust pipe with Vadar close on his tail."