Hiring IT people on as 'contractors' is the equivilent to renting workers from manpower. It was recently disclosed that manpower temp agency is one of the largest (if not the largest) employer in America. This is just a way for jerk wad employers to circumvent America's labor laws and devalue people's work. How many people do you know that now make less for doing more?, even in a professional field like IT, just because they have to compete with 'scab' workers who have turned to these rip-off deals out of desperation. In the long run this hurts everyone of course, even the pigs in their lofty gated communities. I applaud the HP contractors and hope they are able to set a precidence. I believe that the IT community as a whole has gotten a raw deal. Any other skilled service industry is unionized. Not that unions are perfect but they at least provide a voice for skilled people handed unfair deals and a decision to either eat crap or starve to death.
It has been repeatedly stated in this thread that the demo scene arose out of the warez scene. This assertion is false. The demo scene pre-dates the warez scene. People were cooking up early 'demos' to showcase the primitive 'multimedia capabilities' of early computers, as well as their own programming prowess. It was a short time later that people stripping protection from software began labeling their releases with nicks and creating (or stealing) demos to put into their loaders for the pupose of self glorification. I was a fan of the early demo scene, often using these demos to try to show non-geek friends how cool computers were. I felt it was semi important to point out that the demo scene was not the product of the warez scene.
I am a big sci fi fan like most of you and have followed several series through the years. I gotta say I think bsg75 is one of the best. For those who can't or don't get 'sci-fi channel' (like me) - I can tell you that the first season was available several months before it was out in the us. I believe it was aired on a (british?) satellite network called 'skyone'. A friend of mine finds torrents for these episodes and brings them over. For those who said the first season was short, keep in mind that the first 3 episodes appeared seperately in the form of a 'mini-series'. One curious note - I don't believe that the us version of the show goes to the 'BSG 75' emblem on the way in and out of commercial breaks. I am not sure what BSG 75 refers to, anyone know? Also, the 'chorus vocals' that are in the tribal drumming part of the intro song (on the skyone episodes) is missing in the us theme - kind of weird. That's all I have - check the show out, its great.
This is an official announcement that the DHS has won my highly-coveted 'Dumbass of the Day' award for 2-24-05. This distinction is usually awarded to random fellow drivers I encounter on my often death-defying commute home. If you ever get to feeling stupid, just hop in your car and drive around for a confidence booster.
More on topic (moron topic?) - Awarding scum-bag adware jerks with high paying govt. jobs is not why I pay my taxes. I guess the right-wingers in charge like to surround themselves with like-thinking individuals. In any case, the award still stands - congratulations.
I've paid into social security my whole life and it will be gone by the time I qualify, who is leaching off of who(m)? I never get to leach off of anyone, except an occasional fserve...
This article looks like the paper you would find on your desk the first day of 'security 101' class. As others have stated, nothing new is offered here, the conceptual model presented is not detailed yet flawed none the less, and the font size is the icing on the cake of annoyance.
I am unaware of any av software I have seen (I have seen and configured most) that cannot extract rar (even embedded levels deep) and scan the enveloped files. It seems like tech news sites are taking a que from american media (and american leadership) by sensationalizing non problems. There are plenty of real issues to deal with and bs problems like these make it harder to sift through all the crap to find what really matters. The command-line virus scanner I used to scan files that were uploaded to my bbs in 1986 could scan within rar (and most other) compressed files. Perhaps the people reporting news on technical news sites should have some sort of technical background and (preferably) experience.
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Hiring IT people on as 'contractors' is the equivilent to renting workers from manpower. It was recently disclosed that manpower temp agency is one of the largest (if not the largest) employer in America. This is just a way for jerk wad employers to circumvent America's labor laws and devalue people's work. How many people do you know that now make less for doing more?, even in a professional field like IT, just because they have to compete with 'scab' workers who have turned to these rip-off deals out of desperation. In the long run this hurts everyone of course, even the pigs in their lofty gated communities. I applaud the HP contractors and hope they are able to set a precidence. I believe that the IT community as a whole has gotten a raw deal. Any other skilled service industry is unionized. Not that unions are perfect but they at least provide a voice for skilled people handed unfair deals and a decision to either eat crap or starve to death.
It has been repeatedly stated in this thread that the demo scene arose out of the warez scene. This assertion is false. The demo scene pre-dates the warez scene. People were cooking up early 'demos' to showcase the primitive 'multimedia capabilities' of early computers, as well as their own programming prowess. It was a short time later that people stripping protection from software began labeling their releases with nicks and creating (or stealing) demos to put into their loaders for the pupose of self glorification. I was a fan of the early demo scene, often using these demos to try to show non-geek friends how cool computers were. I felt it was semi important to point out that the demo scene was not the product of the warez scene.
I am a big sci fi fan like most of you and have followed several series through the years. I gotta say I think bsg75 is one of the best. For those who can't or don't get 'sci-fi channel' (like me) - I can tell you that the first season was available several months before it was out in the us. I believe it was aired on a (british?) satellite network called 'skyone'. A friend of mine finds torrents for these episodes and brings them over. For those who said the first season was short, keep in mind that the first 3 episodes appeared seperately in the form of a 'mini-series'. One curious note - I don't believe that the us version of the show goes to the 'BSG 75' emblem on the way in and out of commercial breaks. I am not sure what BSG 75 refers to, anyone know? Also, the 'chorus vocals' that are in the tribal drumming part of the intro song (on the skyone episodes) is missing in the us theme - kind of weird. That's all I have - check the show out, its great.
This is an official announcement that the DHS has won my highly-coveted 'Dumbass of the Day' award for 2-24-05. This distinction is usually awarded to random fellow drivers I encounter on my often death-defying commute home. If you ever get to feeling stupid, just hop in your car and drive around for a confidence booster. More on topic (moron topic?) - Awarding scum-bag adware jerks with high paying govt. jobs is not why I pay my taxes. I guess the right-wingers in charge like to surround themselves with like-thinking individuals. In any case, the award still stands - congratulations.
I've paid into social security my whole life and it will be gone by the time I qualify, who is leaching off of who(m)? I never get to leach off of anyone, except an occasional fserve...
This article looks like the paper you would find on your desk the first day of 'security 101' class. As others have stated, nothing new is offered here, the conceptual model presented is not detailed yet flawed none the less, and the font size is the icing on the cake of annoyance.
I am unaware of any av software I have seen (I have seen and configured most) that cannot extract rar (even embedded levels deep) and scan the enveloped files. It seems like tech news sites are taking a que from american media (and american leadership) by sensationalizing non problems. There are plenty of real issues to deal with and bs problems like these make it harder to sift through all the crap to find what really matters. The command-line virus scanner I used to scan files that were uploaded to my bbs in 1986 could scan within rar (and most other) compressed files. Perhaps the people reporting news on technical news sites should have some sort of technical background and (preferably) experience.