That's not necessarily true. Is 10% higher or lower than in previous years? Is the data such that a trend can be measured? besides, I wouldn't say that cash is necessarily the a direct motivator. Identifying that a bug exists is often times easier than being able to fix it, and tipping off the people who are in a position to fix a problem in a piece of software you rely on is also a valid motivation.
Alternatively, getting your name out there as someone who is smart and gets things done can and often does lead to other opportunities.
It depends on the load you're using, and what choke. I don't have the patience for hunting anyway. I just have a thing for military firearms. I wish I could afford a Garand... that's a nice piece:-/
German Shepherds, and a 12-gauge shotgun. You can probably use the gun for other things, like killing noisy turkeys, and the dog will make an excellent addition to your family and/or good way to attract chicks if you take it for the occasional walk in the park (although, if the dog is out with you, its not home watching the house. Maybe get two and have them work on shifts).
I taught myself programming from 8th grade. Basic, C, Perl, even some FORTRAN and Z80 assembler. After high school, I did an internship at a DOE lab, coding in C. When I got to college, intro comp sci in Java was so easy, and boring, that I just couldn't take it. The school wouldn't let me try and CLEP to higher levels, and I wasn't willing to suffer. I switched departments, studied literature and history, and now make my living doing computer stuff (most of my coding is in Perl these days, and some C, mostly with FreeBSD and some Linux. Last job was Linux-only).
I could probably benefit from taking a rigorous data structures/algorithms class, but I'm not mostly a programmer but a system administrator. I started out with old shit computers as a kid 'cause I was interested, kept up with it, and it keeps me employed now (unlike nearly everyone that I had class with in the English department). The point being, those with the interest are going to have the interest, and just need the right opportunities to excel. Being forced to learn Excel isn't the same thing.
The big problem is probably educators and laymen confusing 'microcomputer applications', ie, basic office computer skills, with computer science and/or IT. If I thought I was in a computer science program and all I ever did was talk about a quick brown fox jumping over the lazy dog, well, I'd give up, too.
I was born in 1984, and I don't associate the term airship with any Final Fantasy (in fact, not being a gamer at all, I'm somewhat confused as to how there can be more than one Final Fantasy, but that's not the point). It does conjure up far more cool Led Zeppelin imagery for me, though. But that leads me to Zeppelins in general, and the Hindenburg and all that baggage... possibly due to the album cover of Led Zeppelin I.
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When I first saw reports and demos of Wave, my reaction was basically "wtf is this crap?" When some of the younger people at my last job (web hosting company) started using it and I saw it "in action," that basically just solidified my initial impression. I couldn't figure out what it was really for (in a "solution to a problem" sense) or why I would want to use it.
It seems to be just an extreme conclusion of an ADHD society. It gives too much too quickly, all jumbled up and mixed together. Maybe I'm just old fashioned, but I like my IM being separate from my email, and maybe its OK to use LDAP to pre-populate my contacts, but that's just about where I draw the line.
I suspect that I'm far from being the only person who also though Wave was pretty much just the worst idea ever and that using it would cause brain hemorrhages. No amount of marketing or alternate release schedules is going to make up for the fact that Wave was just insanely stupid and never should have seen the light of day in the first place.
The NSA has a virtual tour of the place on their website. Not exactly an immersible VRML experience or anything, but pretty nice none the less. There are also some nice videos in the flash frame on the main page, including a pretty cool overview of the 2009 CDX contest between the various military academies. The Press release for 2010 notes that Navy won this year (apparently in 2009, NSA Red Cell hacked Navy's website to say "we heart army" as one of their first actions, which probably had them motivated a little bit more this year).
They actually have a lot of publicly available information and seem to be making great steps towards demystifying their image and trying to un-do some recent damage. They're not anything like 'Enemy of the State'.
I'm not sure I've ever noticed a correlation between a blank stare and thinking. Usually, the blank stare is accompanied by not thinking.
The fact of the matter is, spying is going to happen whether "the people" like it or not. It sort of has to, as all governments and media sources are basically lie factories that can't be trusted, and so information must be verified. It's only contradictory if you don't expect everyone else to be doing it against your side, too. I expect my government and/or military to gather intelligence on other countries, and I expect other countries to to try it against us.
I also expect our country to take the necessary steps to protect itself from foreign espionage, just as I expect foreign countries to do the same. When a meat space spy gets caught, then they can either be traded, imprisoned, shot, or whatever. Sucks if its our guy "over there," but since I assume that foreign governments will do it to our operatives, then I don't have a problem with whatever we do to theirs when we catch them.
With "cyber" spies doing signals intelligence, computer hacking, or whatever, the likelihood of being captured is greatly reduced, as except in certain cases were a black bag op to a telco office deep in enemy territory is required, the action can usually be done safely from home turf.
So long as some basic rules of chivalry and professional courtesy apply (for instance, CIA and KGB officers agreeing not to shoot each other when they would come in contact in places such as Berlin), then no harm no foul. They call it the Great Game for a reason, and being able to keep yourself in a better position at the bargaining table helps to keep down the likelihood that it'll come to a major shooting war.
Both sides doing it helps to keep some amount of parity, and as long as your realize everyone's doing it and just take it in stride then there is nothing wrong with saying you support your side doing it, too. Everyone supports their team. It's only screwed up if you're genuinely upset when "they" do the same thing you're doing. Of course, that's probably most normal people who don't have much exposure to this sort of thing or the interest in actually paying attention.
Well, if the questions are about spying on foreign countries, then I don't have a problem with it, really. What's the difference between the CIA paying for a file clerk to pass them a copy of an embassy document and the NSA hacking into a file server and pulling the copy themselves? Stuff like that has been going on since the dawn of time and always will. No news there, and its completely different from warrant-less wiretapping on fellow citizens.
However, I do have problems with being referred to as a consumer. That pisses me off more than anything. I hate that word. It's just a polite term for a useless eater.
USBee has usb-based, software-driven oscilloscopes and logic analyzers to plug up with your computer. Not exactly the old, free-standing devices, but it might work for you. The price looks about right, too.
Yeah, I can see where I'd be mad about that, too, if I'd ever encountered it using FreeBSD since 2.2.8 in both a hobbyist and professional environment. Luckily, it's never been an issue.
no, but FreeBSD jails are basically the same thing as Solaris Zones, and FreeBSD supports ZFS and DTrace, too. Plus, the added benefit of also not being Linux.
See, by that logic the time in high school that I took about 250 AOL CDs off the display at CompUSA, ran 50 of them through a display model shredder that claimed to be able to shred anything, then took the other 200 out in the parking lot with some friends and drove around in multiple cars tossing the CDs from one car to the other through the windows, was also OK. Was it fun? Yes. Did I feel, at 16, that I was some how "sticking it to the man?" Sure.
In reality, however, it was just asinine and a waste of time. Some kids my age who weren't lucky enough to have their parents buy them whatever they wanted probably had to clean up the bit bits out of the shredder and also sweep up the CDs that we dropped in the parking lot. But hey, I didn't really break any laws or get in trouble, so no harm/no foul, right?
Between this and the time that I went into the Gateway retail store with a FreeBSD tshirt and asked the sales clerks questions about virtual memory page size that I knew they wouldn't be able to answer, maybe I don't really have room to talk, but this just seems like a bullshit stunt, and the fact that its easy to clean up after doesn't really change anything.
Besides, its still completely unrelated to being able to jailbreak the phone once you've paid for it. I didn't have a problem with that even before they decided that it wasn't a crime to modify your own property.
So, I got curious and clicked the link to the article. Then I clicked the link to the project's website, which beyond a splash screen with an INGSOC-esque logo with a half-assed latin slogan, you find a cheap-ass Drupal site which requires an OpenID account to log into. The list of logged-in users includes such gems as a guy named "poopcracker."
If this is cointelpro, its either extremely terrible, or extremely brilliant for looking so shoddy. Chances are, its just misguided vigilantism by people who read "gray hat python" and now think they can 'hack the Gibson'. I'm not sure which would disturb me more.
Hey, Taco... I think there might be kind of a difference between jailbreaking a phone you've paid for, and jailbreaking the display model at the store which is still Apple's property in a fairly straight forward way. I'm no fancy, big city lawyer, but it seems to me that might have some bearing on just how legal it is to do it.
I'm assuming that its subconcious. Until fairly recently in our history, contraceptives were rare and fairly ineffective, so the fact that you were having sex on a semi-regular basis pretty much guaranteed having kids. I suspect that we would find a fairly strong corrolation between the binge drinking speeders with rock climbing habits and the kids who are getting some. Not so much with the chess club kids.
There were French forces under the collaborationist Vichy government in North Africa fighting along side Italian troops when the US and UK invaded Morocco. I don't believe they tried very hard, though.
The first priority is survival of the species, with a built-in drive to make sure my descendents are the members of the species doing the surviving. That means having offspring.
You need to have more offspring at earlier stages of societal and technical advancement because there is a higher rate of mortality among younger offspring. The 19th century farmer needs to have more kids, because many will die, and the extra hands are needed to work the land.
Once you reach a critical mass where your population can produce more than it needs to consume to maintain survival, then you can start focusing on making tasks easier and life more comfortable. This is where we get science and art. Engineering largely stems from a desire to automate the process of reaching hard-to-get objects, be it fruit at the top of trees, oil at the bottom of the sea, or moon rocks.
I think the disconnect, and push-back from "nerd types" comes from this feeling that in a largely post-agricultural society, those with the most brain power should be the most worthy of mating, whereas the most mates still go to the most physically appealing. Of course, the obvious solution is that maybe nerds should try to "level up", to borrow from XKCD and not just focus on doing mathletes crap but go kick a friggin' ball around and show girls that, yes, if necessary, I could actually climb the tree to the get the banana and wouldn't just starve to death if i didn't have the internet to order a pizza.
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That's not necessarily true. Is 10% higher or lower than in previous years? Is the data such that a trend can be measured? besides, I wouldn't say that cash is necessarily the a direct motivator. Identifying that a bug exists is often times easier than being able to fix it, and tipping off the people who are in a position to fix a problem in a piece of software you rely on is also a valid motivation.
Alternatively, getting your name out there as someone who is smart and gets things done can and often does lead to other opportunities.
"Those who do not learn from history are doomed to repeat it" is just a long-winded corollary to "same shit, different day."
It depends on the load you're using, and what choke. I don't have the patience for hunting anyway. I just have a thing for military firearms. I wish I could afford a Garand... that's a nice piece :-/
German Shepherds, and a 12-gauge shotgun. You can probably use the gun for other things, like killing noisy turkeys, and the dog will make an excellent addition to your family and/or good way to attract chicks if you take it for the occasional walk in the park (although, if the dog is out with you, its not home watching the house. Maybe get two and have them work on shifts).
Youtube sucks. ...
Youtube fucking sucks.
Yes... yes it does. But that's not Verizon's problem, that's just Web 2.0.
I taught myself programming from 8th grade. Basic, C, Perl, even some FORTRAN and Z80 assembler. After high school, I did an internship at a DOE lab, coding in C. When I got to college, intro comp sci in Java was so easy, and boring, that I just couldn't take it. The school wouldn't let me try and CLEP to higher levels, and I wasn't willing to suffer. I switched departments, studied literature and history, and now make my living doing computer stuff (most of my coding is in Perl these days, and some C, mostly with FreeBSD and some Linux. Last job was Linux-only).
I could probably benefit from taking a rigorous data structures/algorithms class, but I'm not mostly a programmer but a system administrator. I started out with old shit computers as a kid 'cause I was interested, kept up with it, and it keeps me employed now (unlike nearly everyone that I had class with in the English department). The point being, those with the interest are going to have the interest, and just need the right opportunities to excel. Being forced to learn Excel isn't the same thing.
The big problem is probably educators and laymen confusing 'microcomputer applications', ie, basic office computer skills, with computer science and/or IT. If I thought I was in a computer science program and all I ever did was talk about a quick brown fox jumping over the lazy dog, well, I'd give up, too.
I was born in 1984, and I don't associate the term airship with any Final Fantasy (in fact, not being a gamer at all, I'm somewhat confused as to how there can be more than one Final Fantasy, but that's not the point). It does conjure up far more cool Led Zeppelin imagery for me, though. But that leads me to Zeppelins in general, and the Hindenburg and all that baggage... possibly due to the album cover of Led Zeppelin I.
When I first saw reports and demos of Wave, my reaction was basically "wtf is this crap?" When some of the younger people at my last job (web hosting company) started using it and I saw it "in action," that basically just solidified my initial impression. I couldn't figure out what it was really for (in a "solution to a problem" sense) or why I would want to use it.
It seems to be just an extreme conclusion of an ADHD society. It gives too much too quickly, all jumbled up and mixed together. Maybe I'm just old fashioned, but I like my IM being separate from my email, and maybe its OK to use LDAP to pre-populate my contacts, but that's just about where I draw the line.
I suspect that I'm far from being the only person who also though Wave was pretty much just the worst idea ever and that using it would cause brain hemorrhages. No amount of marketing or alternate release schedules is going to make up for the fact that Wave was just insanely stupid and never should have seen the light of day in the first place.
Tag this story good riddance and be done with it.
The NSA has a virtual tour of the place on their website. Not exactly an immersible VRML experience or anything, but pretty nice none the less. There are also some nice videos in the flash frame on the main page, including a pretty cool overview of the 2009 CDX contest between the various military academies. The Press release for 2010 notes that Navy won this year (apparently in 2009, NSA Red Cell hacked Navy's website to say "we heart army" as one of their first actions, which probably had them motivated a little bit more this year).
They actually have a lot of publicly available information and seem to be making great steps towards demystifying their image and trying to un-do some recent damage. They're not anything like 'Enemy of the State'.
I'm not sure I've ever noticed a correlation between a blank stare and thinking. Usually, the blank stare is accompanied by not thinking.
The fact of the matter is, spying is going to happen whether "the people" like it or not. It sort of has to, as all governments and media sources are basically lie factories that can't be trusted, and so information must be verified. It's only contradictory if you don't expect everyone else to be doing it against your side, too. I expect my government and/or military to gather intelligence on other countries, and I expect other countries to to try it against us.
I also expect our country to take the necessary steps to protect itself from foreign espionage, just as I expect foreign countries to do the same. When a meat space spy gets caught, then they can either be traded, imprisoned, shot, or whatever. Sucks if its our guy "over there," but since I assume that foreign governments will do it to our operatives, then I don't have a problem with whatever we do to theirs when we catch them.
With "cyber" spies doing signals intelligence, computer hacking, or whatever, the likelihood of being captured is greatly reduced, as except in certain cases were a black bag op to a telco office deep in enemy territory is required, the action can usually be done safely from home turf.
So long as some basic rules of chivalry and professional courtesy apply (for instance, CIA and KGB officers agreeing not to shoot each other when they would come in contact in places such as Berlin), then no harm no foul. They call it the Great Game for a reason, and being able to keep yourself in a better position at the bargaining table helps to keep down the likelihood that it'll come to a major shooting war.
Both sides doing it helps to keep some amount of parity, and as long as your realize everyone's doing it and just take it in stride then there is nothing wrong with saying you support your side doing it, too. Everyone supports their team. It's only screwed up if you're genuinely upset when "they" do the same thing you're doing. Of course, that's probably most normal people who don't have much exposure to this sort of thing or the interest in actually paying attention.
Well, if the questions are about spying on foreign countries, then I don't have a problem with it, really. What's the difference between the CIA paying for a file clerk to pass them a copy of an embassy document and the NSA hacking into a file server and pulling the copy themselves? Stuff like that has been going on since the dawn of time and always will. No news there, and its completely different from warrant-less wiretapping on fellow citizens.
However, I do have problems with being referred to as a consumer. That pisses me off more than anything. I hate that word. It's just a polite term for a useless eater.
War is peace?
you mean like an imac? /ducks (disclaimer: typed from a 24" imac while at work)
USBee has usb-based, software-driven oscilloscopes and logic analyzers to plug up with your computer. Not exactly the old, free-standing devices, but it might work for you. The price looks about right, too.
Yeah, I can see where I'd be mad about that, too, if I'd ever encountered it using FreeBSD since 2.2.8 in both a hobbyist and professional environment. Luckily, it's never been an issue.
no, but FreeBSD jails are basically the same thing as Solaris Zones, and FreeBSD supports ZFS and DTrace, too. Plus, the added benefit of also not being Linux.
See, by that logic the time in high school that I took about 250 AOL CDs off the display at CompUSA, ran 50 of them through a display model shredder that claimed to be able to shred anything, then took the other 200 out in the parking lot with some friends and drove around in multiple cars tossing the CDs from one car to the other through the windows, was also OK. Was it fun? Yes. Did I feel, at 16, that I was some how "sticking it to the man?" Sure.
In reality, however, it was just asinine and a waste of time. Some kids my age who weren't lucky enough to have their parents buy them whatever they wanted probably had to clean up the bit bits out of the shredder and also sweep up the CDs that we dropped in the parking lot. But hey, I didn't really break any laws or get in trouble, so no harm/no foul, right?
Between this and the time that I went into the Gateway retail store with a FreeBSD tshirt and asked the sales clerks questions about virtual memory page size that I knew they wouldn't be able to answer, maybe I don't really have room to talk, but this just seems like a bullshit stunt, and the fact that its easy to clean up after doesn't really change anything.
Besides, its still completely unrelated to being able to jailbreak the phone once you've paid for it. I didn't have a problem with that even before they decided that it wasn't a crime to modify your own property.
So, I got curious and clicked the link to the article. Then I clicked the link to the project's website, which beyond a splash screen with an INGSOC-esque logo with a half-assed latin slogan, you find a cheap-ass Drupal site which requires an OpenID account to log into. The list of logged-in users includes such gems as a guy named "poopcracker."
If this is cointelpro, its either extremely terrible, or extremely brilliant for looking so shoddy. Chances are, its just misguided vigilantism by people who read "gray hat python" and now think they can 'hack the Gibson'. I'm not sure which would disturb me more.
Hey, Taco... I think there might be kind of a difference between jailbreaking a phone you've paid for, and jailbreaking the display model at the store which is still Apple's property in a fairly straight forward way. I'm no fancy, big city lawyer, but it seems to me that might have some bearing on just how legal it is to do it.
since when is 1962 in the 50s? rounding error?
Mr Universe, is that you?
I'm assuming that its subconcious. Until fairly recently in our history, contraceptives were rare and fairly ineffective, so the fact that you were having sex on a semi-regular basis pretty much guaranteed having kids. I suspect that we would find a fairly strong corrolation between the binge drinking speeders with rock climbing habits and the kids who are getting some. Not so much with the chess club kids.
Well, there haven't been any Nazi insurgencies or Soviet invasions, so they must be doing their job!
There were French forces under the collaborationist Vichy government in North Africa fighting along side Italian troops when the US and UK invaded Morocco. I don't believe they tried very hard, though.
I look at it like this:
The first priority is survival of the species, with a built-in drive to make sure my descendents are the members of the species doing the surviving. That means having offspring.
You need to have more offspring at earlier stages of societal and technical advancement because there is a higher rate of mortality among younger offspring. The 19th century farmer needs to have more kids, because many will die, and the extra hands are needed to work the land.
Once you reach a critical mass where your population can produce more than it needs to consume to maintain survival, then you can start focusing on making tasks easier and life more comfortable. This is where we get science and art. Engineering largely stems from a desire to automate the process of reaching hard-to-get objects, be it fruit at the top of trees, oil at the bottom of the sea, or moon rocks.
I think the disconnect, and push-back from "nerd types" comes from this feeling that in a largely post-agricultural society, those with the most brain power should be the most worthy of mating, whereas the most mates still go to the most physically appealing. Of course, the obvious solution is that maybe nerds should try to "level up", to borrow from XKCD and not just focus on doing mathletes crap but go kick a friggin' ball around and show girls that, yes, if necessary, I could actually climb the tree to the get the banana and wouldn't just starve to death if i didn't have the internet to order a pizza.