While blaming the actual hurricane formation on President Bush may be a bit farfetched, the fact of the matter is that the Bush administration is wholly responsible for the criminal lack of preperation that allowed this natural disaster to become such a catastrophe. Check out this link for details.
Here's a good link to the story...quite a bit of detail not present in either article cited in the submission.
Interesting that the sources that hold that the hole is gtting worse are European, while the sources that state everything's OK are American.....hmm....
Article is yet another dupe....original article can be found here.
Seriously, Zonk...this shit just isn't funny anymore. Perhaps you view your endless dupe posts as some sort of clever social commentary...or perhaps you've just taken a few too many sniffs of the huffing rag. Either way, we're getting pretty damned sick of it.
Do us all a favor and resign. While you're at it, wipe your hard drive and smash your modem.
Yeah...I thought this story warranted attention, too...three days ago, when I submitted it. Too bad my submission was rejected within a half-hour.
This is the third time a story I submitted has been rejected out of hand, only to be accepted from someone else days, if not weeks, later. I have a fair idea why, too, and let me just say to the person concerned: I sincerely hope that abusing your editorial power in this manner makes you feel better about yourself, since it's clear you have some major issues.
Before citing the article, you might want to try actually READING the article, genius.
From TFA:
A lawyer acting on behalf of Linus Torvalds has hailed as "favourable" the fact one in nine Australian vendors targeted by a letter campaign asking them to relinquish any legal claim to the 'Linux' name have agreed to do so.
Not that this even touches on the fact that the GP's post was criticizing the story fo claiming 1/9 was equal to 10%, which it clearly wasn't, but if you're going to correct a correction, you might want to FOLLOW YOUR OWN ADVICE, IDIOT.
I haven't found an IP yet that tests at less than 'Raised Concern'. Seems that 'Raised Concern' is to TrustedSource as 'Elevated' is to the Department of Homeland Security...
Fact: You can have the knowledge without having to pay to be Certified when it comes to computers.
This was exactly my situation before I learned (to my chagrin) that most employers simply won't take you seriously unless you throw the alphabet soup at them.
Another fact: Just because you have the certification does not mean you actually know the material as well as someone who is not certified.
Again, something I'm uncomfortably familiar with, having to work with more than one 'paper MCSE' in the past...
So what is the point of getting IT Certifications? To have a piece of paper?
You got it. Unfortunately, that piece of paper is the only way non-technically-minded individuals have to gauge your technical prowes, so they tend to attach unreasonable worth to them. This isn't a problem...it's an opportunity. "Turn the problem on its head...that's what the Bishop always said..." (apologies to Harry Harrison). Most people in the IT field are good test takers...if you don't think of yourself as a good test taker, you probbly haven't worked hard enough at it. In a world where you will be judged all too often by your alphabet soup, test taking is a skill you must master. Myself, I've only studied for exams from books, rather than take expensive classes, commonly take about 20 minutes to finish a certification exam, and I haven't failed one yet. Am I that much of a genius? Heck no...I just test well, that's all.
To my mind, the key to testing well (as well as actually coming away with knowledge you can useon the job), is to actually understand the material, rather than simply know the answers by rote. When you can answer the practice questions without looking at the multiple choice answers, and understand why your answer is correct, you're ready.
"The subtle sounds of shuffling feet running towards you. Those adoring eyes glazing at you with complete obedience. The moist soft tongue running up and down the back of your feet. That pendulum tail wagging back and forth that embodies the dog's adoration for you. If there were any companion animals vying to be man's best friend, the dog would be unmatched in terms of friendship, loyalty, and devotion.
If this is what you're looking for, how about you go down to you local Animal Shelter and get an actual dog? I'm sure they'll love you for getting them off Death Row...
Anyone who has loved a dog would testify that raising one is truly one of the most rewarding experiences in life. But owning a dog is no walk in the park--it requires the utmost responsibility.
Interesting commentary on today's society...people would rather invest in a virtual dog than accept the responsibility of owning an actual pet.
In the interest of stimulating more informed discussion, here is a link to a press release from Microsoft commending the Turkish and Moroccan authorities, as well as the FBI, for their prompt arrest of the suspects.
He makes the "In The Future There Will Be Robots!" comment in every Slashdot post he makes
Um...that's not even remotely true. Why would you make up an outrageous lie like that? And what made you think I wouldn't check?
that is why it is redundant, not because no one plays GTA.
Even if your previous statement was not blatantly false, it is still funny, given the context of GTA:VC. Therefore, unless the moderator in question has some sort of personal axe to grind, my original hypothesis regarding his ignorance of GTA:VC is still the most plausible explanation for his idiotic action.
The recorders will go on sale in Japan from next month. They are expected to retail from about 130,000 yen(approx. 1,181 USD) for the cheapest model to 230,000 yen(approx. 2,090 USD) for the one-terabyte recorder, which stores data on two 500 gigabyte hard disk drives.
I saw this one on Loony Tunes...the robot bat is dressed up as an attractive female bat, and lures the lovestruck male bat offscreen, where it then explodes, charring the male bat most humourously.
At least that's the way I remember it. Stupid closed-head injury...
My suggestion would be to disable floppy as well as USB, and only allow transmission of information to and from this system via CD. USB is right out...don't let anyone try to convince you otherwise...it's an unacceptable security risk. Also, only allow data to be transferred to and from a protected 'sandbox' area on the system, and make certain that autorun of CD-ROMs is disabled in the registry. One more thing: keep the system in a locked room, and personally supervise, if not actually conduct, all data transfers.
Sure, it sounds paranoid...bit is it paranoid enough?
First of all, soliciting advice on the construction of a computer that meets DoD compliance on Slashdot, of all places, is probably not the brightest of ideas...you might want to keep this from your employers if you are interested in keeping your job.
Second, security stickers on their own simply aren't adequate to the task at hand. Remember, you're looking for tamper-proof, not merely tamper-evident...
Serves the bastards right...about 10 years ago, my GF at the time had AOL and cancelled...they just kept debiting her checking account, regardles of the flood of angry emails, snail mail letters, and phone calls she loosed upon them. In the end, she had to talk to the bank and persuade them to stop paying out to AOL. We could have stopped the abuse more easily by simply closing out the account, but she flatly refused to do that, on general principles (she was a very stubborn woman).
Slashdot Mirror
While blaming the actual hurricane formation on President Bush may be a bit farfetched, the fact of the matter is that the Bush administration is wholly responsible for the criminal lack of preperation that allowed this natural disaster to become such a catastrophe. Check out this link for details.
Here's a good link to the story...quite a bit of detail not present in either article cited in the submission.
Interesting that the sources that hold that the hole is gtting worse are European, while the sources that state everything's OK are American.....hmm....
Nice try, Zonk, but we know it's you.
Article is yet another dupe....original article can be found here.
Seriously, Zonk...this shit just isn't funny anymore. Perhaps you view your endless dupe posts as some sort of clever social commentary...or perhaps you've just taken a few too many sniffs of the huffing rag. Either way, we're getting pretty damned sick of it.
Do us all a favor and resign. While you're at it, wipe your hard drive and smash your modem.
I thought this warranted attention.
Yeah...I thought this story warranted attention, too...three days ago, when I submitted it. Too bad my submission was rejected within a half-hour.
This is the third time a story I submitted has been rejected out of hand, only to be accepted from someone else days, if not weeks, later. I have a fair idea why, too, and let me just say to the person concerned: I sincerely hope that abusing your editorial power in this manner makes you feel better about yourself, since it's clear you have some major issues.
All the article says is "more than 10%
Before citing the article, you might want to try actually READING the article, genius.
From TFA:
Not that this even touches on the fact that the GP's post was criticizing the story fo claiming 1/9 was equal to 10%, which it clearly wasn't, but if you're going to correct a correction, you might want to FOLLOW YOUR OWN ADVICE, IDIOT.
Log off before you hurt yourself.
no reading comprehension
You sure hit that nail on the head...if you go back and read the summary carefully , you'll note it says "More than 10 percent".
Pot, meet kettle.
It would seem that Cliff has a different opinion than you on this topic...
I haven't found an IP yet that tests at less than 'Raised Concern'. Seems that 'Raised Concern' is to TrustedSource as 'Elevated' is to the Department of Homeland Security...
Fact: You can have the knowledge without having to pay to be Certified when it comes to computers.
This was exactly my situation before I learned (to my chagrin) that most employers simply won't take you seriously unless you throw the alphabet soup at them.
Another fact: Just because you have the certification does not mean you actually know the material as well as someone who is not certified.
Again, something I'm uncomfortably familiar with, having to work with more than one 'paper MCSE' in the past...
So what is the point of getting IT Certifications? To have a piece of paper?
You got it. Unfortunately, that piece of paper is the only way non-technically-minded individuals have to gauge your technical prowes, so they tend to attach unreasonable worth to them.
This isn't a problem...it's an opportunity. "Turn the problem on its head...that's what the Bishop always said..." (apologies to Harry Harrison).
Most people in the IT field are good test takers...if you don't think of yourself as a good test taker, you probbly haven't worked hard enough at it. In a world where you will be judged all too often by your alphabet soup, test taking is a skill you must master. Myself, I've only studied for exams from books, rather than take expensive classes, commonly take about 20 minutes to finish a certification exam, and I haven't failed one yet. Am I that much of a genius? Heck no...I just test well, that's all.
To my mind, the key to testing well (as well as actually coming away with knowledge you can useon the job), is to actually understand the material, rather than simply know the answers by rote. When you can answer the practice questions without looking at the multiple choice answers, and understand why your answer is correct, you're ready.
The promoter, Alfredo Romeo, calls them Blobjects which he heard described in a speech by Bruce Sterling.
Here's a link to the Bruce Sterling speech, referenced by Alfredo Romeo, courtesy of
boingboing.
Big deal...at my office there's a printer that randomly shreds documents without any sort of modification. ^_^
"The subtle sounds of shuffling feet running towards you. Those adoring eyes glazing at you with complete obedience. The moist soft tongue running up and down the back of your feet. That pendulum tail wagging back and forth that embodies the dog's adoration for you. If there were any companion animals vying to be man's best friend, the dog would be unmatched in terms of friendship, loyalty, and devotion.
If this is what you're looking for, how about you go down to you local Animal Shelter and get an actual dog? I'm sure they'll love you for getting them off Death Row...
Anyone who has loved a dog would testify that raising one is truly one of the most rewarding experiences in life. But owning a dog is no walk in the park--it requires the utmost responsibility.
Interesting commentary on today's society...people would rather invest in a virtual dog than accept the responsibility of owning an actual pet.
I'm still waiting for the virus that infects systems through vulnerabilities in IE or Outlook/OE, then:
- Installs Firefox
- Configures it to be the default browser
- Imports the IE favorites to the bookmarks,
- Edits the registry to disable IE as much as possible
- Installs Thunderbird
- Configures it to be the default email client
- Imports contents of Outlook and OE address book to Thunderbird
- Uninstalls Outlook Express and OE
- Deletes itself
The writer of this 'virus' should get a frickin' medal.In the interest of stimulating more informed discussion, here is a link to a press release from Microsoft commending the Turkish and Moroccan authorities, as well as the FBI, for their prompt arrest of the suspects.
Schweeet.
He makes the "In The Future There Will Be Robots!" comment in every Slashdot post he makes
Um...that's not even remotely true. Why would you make up an outrageous lie like that? And what made you think I wouldn't check?
that is why it is redundant, not because no one plays GTA.
Even if your previous statement was not blatantly false, it is still funny, given the context of GTA:VC. Therefore, unless the moderator in question has some sort of personal axe to grind, my original hypothesis regarding his ignorance of GTA:VC is still the most plausible explanation for his idiotic action.
Did the book offer any insights on how the robots propose to protect us from the Terrible Secret of Space?
Whatever nitwit modded this 'redundant' obviously has never played GTA: Vice City.
*sigh*
OMG! It took you over four hours to respond to my post, when it usually takes you about that number of minutes to hammer out your usual incoherence.
What's wrong...Mom kick you off the computer again?
From TFA:
I saw this one on Loony Tunes...the robot bat is dressed up as an attractive female bat, and lures the lovestruck male bat offscreen, where it then explodes, charring the male bat most humourously.
At least that's the way I remember it. Stupid closed-head injury...
My suggestion would be to disable floppy as well as USB, and only allow transmission of information to and from this system via CD. USB is right out...don't let anyone try to convince you otherwise...it's an unacceptable security risk. Also, only allow data to be transferred to and from a protected 'sandbox' area on the system, and make certain that autorun of CD-ROMs is disabled in the registry. One more thing: keep the system in a locked room, and personally supervise, if not actually conduct, all data transfers.
Sure, it sounds paranoid...bit is it paranoid enough?
Wow...where to begin...
First of all, soliciting advice on the construction of a computer that meets DoD compliance on Slashdot , of all places, is probably not the brightest of ideas...you might want to keep this from your employers if you are interested in keeping your job.
Second, security stickers on their own simply aren't adequate to the task at hand. Remember, you're looking for tamper-proof, not merely tamper-evident...
Serves the bastards right...about 10 years ago, my GF at the time had AOL and cancelled...they just kept debiting her checking account, regardles of the flood of angry emails, snail mail letters, and phone calls she loosed upon them. In the end, she had to talk to the bank and persuade them to stop paying out to AOL. We could have stopped the abuse more easily by simply closing out the account, but she flatly refused to do that, on general principles (she was a very stubborn woman).