I was a late bloomer, having gotten my C.S. Degree at age 35. In the five years since, having a degree hasn't necessarily helped me with employment, but it can't hurt, and i've been in situations in years past when the other candidate was chosen because he had the paper.
The best thing about my graduation was the three small children sitting in the audience watching their daddy walk across the stage; all of them are now young teenagers and they take it for granted that they are going to college, which is very, very cool!
This sucks, as the professional spammer is hard, if not impossible, to track down. Oh well, may as well make an example out of the easy guy to track down, like that teacher's assistant that sent homework reminders out to the parents of the class....
The trend in TV/Movies is to show violence and how seemingly 'normal' violence is and then gloss over the consequences of committing crime. In fact, consequences of criminal actions portrayed by Hollywood are minimalized at every turn. You punch somebody in the movies, you are cool; after all, it didn't seriously hurt the guy. He got back up and five minutes later didn't even have a bruise. In reality you assault someone and the damage doesn't go away for several days/weeks/months, you get arrested and if convicted go to jail, usually as a felon. After you serve your time and get out the consequences continue. You can't vote the rest of your life, can't own a gun, will certainly be barred from certain occupations, and will have a hard time with employment and anything else where background checks are used. So taking that into context, I think it's kind of cool to see a show that flips that scene around, and makes it look like slick geeks with microscopes can track your ass down (easily) and let consequences run their course.
While i'm all for leveraging any tool possible to combat spammers, as long as it follows the EFF's policy on SPAM filtering, I think it is important to standardize on a proposal created and put forth by the Open Source community, and the best game in town is SPF.
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The best thing about my graduation was the three small children sitting in the audience watching their daddy walk across the stage; all of them are now young teenagers and they take it for granted that they are going to college, which is very, very cool!
This sucks, as the professional spammer is hard, if not impossible, to track down. Oh well, may as well make an example out of the easy guy to track down, like that teacher's assistant that sent homework reminders out to the parents of the class....
I just switched to a LCD from a CRT, and the difference in eye strain is amazing!
Uhh, I think I would have changed me email address a long, long time ago.
The trend in TV/Movies is to show violence and how seemingly 'normal' violence is and then gloss over the consequences of committing crime. In fact, consequences of criminal actions portrayed by Hollywood are minimalized at every turn. You punch somebody in the movies, you are cool; after all, it didn't seriously hurt the guy. He got back up and five minutes later didn't even have a bruise. In reality you assault someone and the damage doesn't go away for several days/weeks/months, you get arrested and if convicted go to jail, usually as a felon. After you serve your time and get out the consequences continue. You can't vote the rest of your life, can't own a gun, will certainly be barred from certain occupations, and will have a hard time with employment and anything else where background checks are used. So taking that into context, I think it's kind of cool to see a show that flips that scene around, and makes it look like slick geeks with microscopes can track your ass down (easily) and let consequences run their course.
Let's git er done...