Hey if we build this thing in just the right spot at just the right height then while the Earth rotates the elevator can act as a giant baseball bat and our satellites can be the balls...
I dont think its necessarily an obvious attempt to mask hiring discrimination, but I do think that if the person who started this whole discussion actually openly states to people that he doesn't hire people with certs because he thinks they are stupid... Well then I can see someone talking to a lawyer after that. But who knows this guy could be the hiring manager for the local Petsmart looking to hire a crew of 2 sys admins at 30k a year to work on a network consisting of 6 workstations and an Internet connection... This kind of attitude does not fly at any of the large scale IT companies (at least no one would openly make the remark that started this).
All this talk about certifications being a detriment when placed on a resume or just the general attitude that people that have certifications have "too much time" on their hands is extremely laughable. So you are telling me that people that take the time to go above and beyond what is required of them and pursue further education are bad? Damn maybe I should have kept playing Everquest in my spare time instead of doing all that extra studying to better my knowledge base lol. Seriously I would love to know what companies have these narrow-minded managers so I can put them on my DO NOT WORK for list...
Just my opinion, but any hiring manager that openly states a prejudice against candidates who show that they are continuing their education via certification in a field is not worth their salt as a hiring manager. Every resume should have education and experience listed on it and the certification process is a good example that people are willing to continue their education and better themselves through certifications. I am not saying that in every case people with certifications will be better than those without, but in the same respect people with degrees are not always better than those without as well? What you are seeing is someone who potentially may be a good candidate and has some specific areas of talent that can be looked at during the hiring process. I also am surprised that you have had no experience with any company willing to pay for a certification for you in what you know because I have had the exact opposite. It seems fairly commonplace now in our realm to have companies give financial aid for certification as it is beneficial for the employee and the company (especially beneficial in the contractor realm...) Not trying to be a troll, but I can't take someone seriously who frowns upon further education?
I honestly see nothing wrong with having certifications. Yes there are people who are good at passing tests but have no real experience, but that type of scenario should be weeded out during the interview process. I know when we look at people that have lets say a CISSP or a CCNA we ask them questions not only about the subjects they are certified in, but also go further to ask them other specific questions to determine their knowledge level. Having Certs can get you in the door for an interview, but having no knowledge usually to back up those certs is an easy Thanks for coming but not interested in the end. On the flip side those who have certs and are knowledgable become highly marketable. I have found that having many years experience and some certs like the CISSP has helped me out enormously in the IT realm. If you really feel jilted because you are uber experienced and dont have a cert then go out and get one. If you are smart on a subject then the path to certification in your area of expertise should be fairly easy...
Like I said if the root problem is that sites are giving out copyrighted information for free then the proper person(s) to sue would be those site owners. Google or any other search engine for that matter should not be to blame because their product does exactly what it should do. It seems to me that they dont want to go after the root cause of the problem but instead attack the big company and get some quick publicity and possibly some quick money. And yes you can look in the phone book and possibly get the name of a company who sells stolen materials (ever seen the clothing line and accessory knock off stores)... Their information is listed in the phone book.
It is still a BS lawsuit. Its like how CISCO was trying to sue Blackhat for someone doing a briefing on something that they weren't suppose to have briefed. If the issue is with web sites hosting content stolen from another site then sue that site (or have the provider shut the site down) but dont sue a search engine for doing what it was meant to do. (Now if the web sites were shut down and then Google still displayed copyright material in their cache that is another thing and I think a request to remove that info from their cache would be legit, but the request should come first).
Also on the robots.txt file for those who asked you can use the disallow statement to stop search bots from indexing things on your site. Say u didnt want to have search engines index images then you could say:
User-agent: googlebot Disallow: picture.jpeg
Or you could block them from all your images directories as well.
Simple fact is that the site needs to fix its security to disallow images it doesnt want shared to anyone from being displayed via search engines. Another reader said to block the robots.txt which would stop the problem right there. There are just too many lawsuits wasting the time of the US judicial system nowadays. Sorry just annoyed once again that the laziness of the site owners seems to warrant them suing someone who isn't really the root cause of the problem. (Can't you sue yourself!)
Jeez no one subscribes to the Giant Hampster in a Giant Wheel at the core of the Earth theory anymore? I mean if that hampster dies then we are all really screwed.
Actually this is a great initiative in my opinion and more things like this need to get done to proactively find threats and remove them from what has become a way too hostile Internet. Although I have to wonder if MS gets frustrated when they go to sites that install Claria software on their detection workstations...
Correct me if I'm wrong but aren't there simple commercial products like Niksun Netdetector that can simply reconstruct VOIP traffic from an Ethereal dump collected by simply by snooping the wire? Is this calling for new technology to collect the traffic or is this saying we want the magic black boxes at every provider to provide an instant tap anytime/anywhere...
Well they have $15 million in funding to go out and do the R&D work on Gigabit rate wireless. The worst thing that can happen is that they fail miserably, but I'm all for them spending some money on developing a new product.
Hopefully Amazon will offer a competitive price and that will hopefully lead to lower prices on Netflix...
If Amazon does a good job here I would probably switch over because I have noticed that everytime I start returning a lot of movies back to Netflix there is a mysterious slow down in delivery of new movies on their part. They blame it on the Post Office but there distro facility is right down the road and checking with the Post Office there really is no delay. It looks to me like Netflix either doesn't process returned movies quick enough or delays them so you get less movies per month if you happen to be watching/returning them too fast. Anyone else have that issue?
It really depends on what career field you join into. The Air Force has plenty of careers where you will be working in the back end and pretty much never get deployed to any outwardly dangerous zones... The onus is on the person joining to 1. Get a good score on the ASVAB so they can have a wider selection of jobs to choose from and 2. NEVER GO IN OPEN BECAUSE THEY WILL PROBABLY PUT YOU IN A SHITTY JOB! Oh yeah and 3. Get stationed in Germany where you can drink good beer underage!
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Four year Information Security Career Plan outlined (for free!)
1. Join the military. 2. Be an ISSO for like 2 years 3. Leave military after 4 years 4. Write on your resume that you are an InfoSec expert. 5. Get hired on by defense contractor company X.
I never knew that Texas didn't use the chair. I just did some research and found that the only "Chair" states are Alabama, Arkansas, Florida, Illinois, Kentucky, Nebraska, Oklahoma, South Carolina, Tennessee, Virginia so thanks for the correction. Scary thing is that 345 people were executed in Texas from Lethal Injection from 1982 - 2005 and Bush was Governor for 152 or those. And the total number of Lethal Injections in the country from 1976 to Present was 809. Damn Texas kills a lot of prisoners!
Bush hopes to save an enormous amount of energy by doing this! This measure will help his old buddies in the Texas penal system to cut costs on electricity used during executions now that they wont have to run the lights at the same time the chair is put in extra crispy mode!
Forgive me as I haven't read the ABM Treaties, but by the Title of the treaty I would gather that it has to do with missile based systems... A space based weapon does not need to be a traditional missile system, it would be more effective as either a laser system due to gravitational restraints or EMP or Radio based weaponry. Would these fall under violations of said treaties?
CGI, Graphics and Video Engineering are used heavily in developing technologies for airframes doing recon/surveillance and also used extensively to develop exercise scenarios involving multiple major commands....
Actually they semi were when with all the Stephen Seagal movies that were released years ago. I think every other movie dealt with an ass kicking Hapkido master beating down environmentaly unsound companies... Fire Down Below and etc... Even recently movies like The Day After Tomorrow (yes unrealistic I know) were made to bring attention to the really bad route we are taking as a species in destroying our planet.
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Hey if we build this thing in just the right spot at just the right height then while the Earth rotates the elevator can act as a giant baseball bat and our satellites can be the balls...
I dont think its necessarily an obvious attempt to mask hiring discrimination, but I do think that if the person who started this whole discussion actually openly states to people that he doesn't hire people with certs because he thinks they are stupid... Well then I can see someone talking to a lawyer after that. But who knows this guy could be the hiring manager for the local Petsmart looking to hire a crew of 2 sys admins at 30k a year to work on a network consisting of 6 workstations and an Internet connection... This kind of attitude does not fly at any of the large scale IT companies (at least no one would openly make the remark that started this).
All this talk about certifications being a detriment when placed on a resume or just the general attitude that people that have certifications have "too much time" on their hands is extremely laughable. So you are telling me that people that take the time to go above and beyond what is required of them and pursue further education are bad? Damn maybe I should have kept playing Everquest in my spare time instead of doing all that extra studying to better my knowledge base lol. Seriously I would love to know what companies have these narrow-minded managers so I can put them on my DO NOT WORK for list...
Just my opinion, but any hiring manager that openly states a prejudice against candidates who show that they are continuing their education via certification in a field is not worth their salt as a hiring manager. Every resume should have education and experience listed on it and the certification process is a good example that people are willing to continue their education and better themselves through certifications. I am not saying that in every case people with certifications will be better than those without, but in the same respect people with degrees are not always better than those without as well? What you are seeing is someone who potentially may be a good candidate and has some specific areas of talent that can be looked at during the hiring process. I also am surprised that you have had no experience with any company willing to pay for a certification for you in what you know because I have had the exact opposite. It seems fairly commonplace now in our realm to have companies give financial aid for certification as it is beneficial for the employee and the company (especially beneficial in the contractor realm...) Not trying to be a troll, but I can't take someone seriously who frowns upon further education?
I honestly see nothing wrong with having certifications. Yes there are people who are good at passing tests but have no real experience, but that type of scenario should be weeded out during the interview process. I know when we look at people that have lets say a CISSP or a CCNA we ask them questions not only about the subjects they are certified in, but also go further to ask them other specific questions to determine their knowledge level. Having Certs can get you in the door for an interview, but having no knowledge usually to back up those certs is an easy Thanks for coming but not interested in the end. On the flip side those who have certs and are knowledgable become highly marketable. I have found that having many years experience and some certs like the CISSP has helped me out enormously in the IT realm. If you really feel jilted because you are uber experienced and dont have a cert then go out and get one. If you are smart on a subject then the path to certification in your area of expertise should be fairly easy...
Like I said if the root problem is that sites are giving out copyrighted information for free then the proper person(s) to sue would be those site owners. Google or any other search engine for that matter should not be to blame because their product does exactly what it should do. It seems to me that they dont want to go after the root cause of the problem but instead attack the big company and get some quick publicity and possibly some quick money. And yes you can look in the phone book and possibly get the name of a company who sells stolen materials (ever seen the clothing line and accessory knock off stores)... Their information is listed in the phone book.
It is still a BS lawsuit. Its like how CISCO was trying to sue Blackhat for someone doing a briefing on something that they weren't suppose to have briefed. If the issue is with web sites hosting content stolen from another site then sue that site (or have the provider shut the site down) but dont sue a search engine for doing what it was meant to do. (Now if the web sites were shut down and then Google still displayed copyright material in their cache that is another thing and I think a request to remove that info from their cache would be legit, but the request should come first).
Also on the robots.txt file for those who asked you can use the disallow statement to stop search bots from indexing things on your site. Say u didnt want to have search engines index images then you could say:
User-agent: googlebot
Disallow: picture.jpeg
Or you could block them from all your images directories as well.
Simple fact is that the site needs to fix its security to disallow images it doesnt want shared to anyone from being displayed via search engines. Another reader said to block the robots.txt which would stop the problem right there. There are just too many lawsuits wasting the time of the US judicial system nowadays. Sorry just annoyed once again that the laziness of the site owners seems to warrant them suing someone who isn't really the root cause of the problem. (Can't you sue yourself!)
Jeez no one subscribes to the Giant Hampster in a Giant Wheel at the core of the Earth theory anymore? I mean if that hampster dies then we are all really screwed.
Jeez everyone knows that video games were invented by Al Gore!
Seriously though this story makes me think back on how much fun I used to have playing River Raid and PitFall (damn those alligators!)
I don't know about everyone else but from the picture in the article it looks like they have discovered the first weave.
Actually this is a great initiative in my opinion and more things like this need to get done to proactively find threats and remove them from what has become a way too hostile Internet. Although I have to wonder if MS gets frustrated when they go to sites that install Claria software on their detection workstations...
Obviously he meant to say "lead to greater deficiencies" not efficiencies!
Correct me if I'm wrong but aren't there simple commercial products like Niksun Netdetector that can simply reconstruct VOIP traffic from an Ethereal dump collected by simply by snooping the wire? Is this calling for new technology to collect the traffic or is this saying we want the magic black boxes at every provider to provide an instant tap anytime/anywhere...
Well they have $15 million in funding to go out and do the R&D work on Gigabit rate wireless. The worst thing that can happen is that they fail miserably, but I'm all for them spending some money on developing a new product.
Hopefully Amazon will offer a competitive price and that will hopefully lead to lower prices on Netflix...
If Amazon does a good job here I would probably switch over because I have noticed that everytime I start returning a lot of movies back to Netflix there is a mysterious slow down in delivery of new movies on their part. They blame it on the Post Office but there distro facility is right down the road and checking with the Post Office there really is no delay. It looks to me like Netflix either doesn't process returned movies quick enough or delays them so you get less movies per month if you happen to be watching/returning them too fast. Anyone else have that issue?
It really depends on what career field you join into. The Air Force has plenty of careers where you will be working in the back end and pretty much never get deployed to any outwardly dangerous zones... The onus is on the person joining to 1. Get a good score on the ASVAB so they can have a wider selection of jobs to choose from and 2. NEVER GO IN OPEN BECAUSE THEY WILL PROBABLY PUT YOU IN A SHITTY JOB! Oh yeah and 3. Get stationed in Germany where you can drink good beer underage!
Four year Information Security Career Plan outlined (for free!)
1. Join the military.
2. Be an ISSO for like 2 years
3. Leave military after 4 years
4. Write on your resume that you are an InfoSec expert.
5. Get hired on by defense contractor company X.
Its that simple.
I never knew that Texas didn't use the chair. I just did some research and found that the only "Chair" states are Alabama, Arkansas, Florida, Illinois, Kentucky, Nebraska, Oklahoma, South Carolina, Tennessee, Virginia so thanks for the correction. Scary thing is that 345 people were executed in Texas from Lethal Injection from 1982 - 2005 and Bush was Governor for 152 or those. And the total number of Lethal Injections in the country from 1976 to Present was 809. Damn Texas kills a lot of prisoners!
Its obvious that Bush is trying to screw the Vampires by messing with their work schedule.
Well then I am glad that I have been sticking to 9 mL shots then :)
Bush hopes to save an enormous amount of energy by doing this! This measure will help his old buddies in the Texas penal system to cut costs on electricity used during executions now that they wont have to run the lights at the same time the chair is put in extra crispy mode!
Forgive me as I haven't read the ABM Treaties, but by the Title of the treaty I would gather that it has to do with missile based systems... A space based weapon does not need to be a traditional missile system, it would be more effective as either a laser system due to gravitational restraints or EMP or Radio based weaponry. Would these fall under violations of said treaties?
CGI, Graphics and Video Engineering are used heavily in developing technologies for airframes doing recon/surveillance and also used extensively to develop exercise scenarios involving multiple major commands....
Actually they semi were when with all the Stephen Seagal movies that were released years ago. I think every other movie dealt with an ass kicking Hapkido master beating down environmentaly unsound companies... Fire Down Below and etc... Even recently movies like The Day After Tomorrow (yes unrealistic I know) were made to bring attention to the really bad route we are taking as a species in destroying our planet.