The best classes I had in lecture format where the ones were the professor emailed us notes in powerpoint or pdf format so that we didn't have to keep detailed notes of our own and could pay attention and be engaged in the class. Also, if you missed a class you got the notes anyway and didn't have to harass other students (and in a class of 150-200 people, if one or two aren't there, its not like the professor notice). I wish more professors would do this.
It's probably for the best. I sort of slagged off in my 4th semester of Latin and would just look up translations of Cicero online and have it ready if I got called on. Caesar I'd just do, but technology enabled me to be even lazier in the second semester of my Senior year than I otherwise would have been. Not that Cicero is much relevant to my actual career, although the BOFH motto seems to be 'Auc Caesar, Auc Nihil' (and if it's not, it really should be).
That said, I didn't have a laptop at all when I was in high school, let a lone bring one to class. The first couple of years at college, I had eRacks setups in my dorm room and convinced IT to delegate me static IPs, so I could shell to my machine from anywhere else on campus, or get back in through the tunnel set up by the Comp Sci department on the Linux cluster if I were at home. I paid more attention in class back then.
I totally get the point of the ban, and frankly in a lecture hall setting there probably isn't a real need for the laptop as opposed to a seminar or lab setting. If I were to go back to school for another degree, chances are I wouldn't bring the laptop with me to class, however if I were told I couldn't, hell yeah I'd be pissed off.
I think foreigners should be able to come work in the US and that Americans should be able to to travel abroad to work as well and that fewer restrictions should be placed in both directions. It would definitely take the edge off of the sending jobs overseas crap anyway.
Ok, so worker will be required to get it when they next change jobs, and the industries that will be forced to require this first are the ones which typically hire the most illegals. The industries that hire the most illegals are construction, food service, etc. Those are also the industries where people are going to need to "change jobs" pretty soon, especially construction, due that sector having been hit the hardest by the economic issues. Yet again, this is just another way to control the poorer workers, all the while making them feel like having to register body scans to get a job building houses is for their own good 'cause it'll keep "illegals" from getting the jobs or "terrorists" from blowing them up.
How come its OK for capital to transfer across borders but labor can't move freely? How come I have to go through more trouble to get legal working status in another country than I do to invest in a foreign stock market? Is it because the nation state is the new lord's estate and they want to keep me on the manor? And to make sure we don't get any funny ideas, the Daddy Party tries to tell us we should hate our neighbors and do anything necessary to keep them out, fomenting racism and causing all sorts of animosity on both sides of the border, and the water, making sure that we're just as unwelcome abroad as they are here... screw this shit.
Not being from Europe, and also having no intention to use Windows 7 any time in the near future, I haven't seen this "choice screen" until I just searched for a screen shot of it. There appear to be little one-line descriptions, but nothing really substantive from which to base a choice upon if you didn't already know the differences between the browsers to some degree anyway (in which case, you'd have probably downloaded whichever one you want to use separately regardless of this court-mandated action). So, to my question: is there any way to measure how many of these downloads were due to users making an informed choice rather than just "clicking something" like they do with the "next" button on most graphical installers? And what happens if you just click "select later?" Does it still install IE and default to that?
I tried Oepra recently on Snow Leopard and saw no ads in the browser itself, unless I'm just so used to seeing ads on the web that I just mentally blocked them out. I didn't like it anyway and stopped using it after a giving it a shake for a couple of weeks, though.
If you can't read 90% of Shakespeare, then you're not putting in enough effort, and that's not a failing on his part, its a failing on yours. Remember, back in his time the theatre was the popular entertainment medium and that the same people who today are trolling *chan and bitching about their homework were going to see his plays and mostly groking them, linguistically if not in subtext all the time.
I'm no great fan of Foucault myself in particular, but structuralism as a means of literary criticism really interests me and I had to read some of him in college. Again, not too bad. Likewise, Plato isn't necessarily going to help you "make ends meet," but once you've taken care of the basics required for living, the rest of life is about being a more interesting person capable of enjoying a wider breadth of experience, and that's what education outside of the maths department is meant to provide.
So the fault, dear SlappyBastard, is not in your stars, but in yourself.
Without the engineers, the factory workers have nothing to build, but without the factory workers to build it, the engineers aren't bloody likely to do it themselves. Sure, maybe they build robots and completely automate the factory, but then what are all the people who are now out of work because their jobs were automated away supposed to do?
A significant portion of them weren't ever going to be engineers anyway, no matter how much time and effort was spent educating them. It just wasn't going to happen due to lack of aptitude or interest. Now, faced with no prospect, their choices are probably either join the military or become criminals. The ones that join the military, when they get out, still having no prospects because engineers star-trek'd all the jobs away, are either going to have to become criminals anyway, or police.
Sure, this is kind of a "slippery slope" argument, but realistically the point I'm trying to get at is, how can you possibly say that one job is "more important" than another, as long as they're both actually productive work? (besides, if we want to make it a value contest, agriculture is arguably the only necessary economic activity. Everything else, while wealth producing, doesn't make it possible for us to live, just live more easily).
I would probably lump it in with signals intelligence, or perhaps counter-intelligence as well. While disabling infrastructure and/or command/control is definitely attractive, it may or may not even be advantageous to do so. These days, just for example, America and China are so co-dependent on each other economically that blowing up a factory or even disabling the electrical grid would actually end up doing reciprocal economic damage to the perpetrating party by taking out part of a market and closing off cash flow. It's b.s. but there it is.
However, gathering information (intelligence) as well as poising the well (counter-intel) by corrupting databases, etc, would be incredibly useful. Knowing what data the other side is making their decisions on, as well as being able to make change to that data to give your opponent a false impression in order to gain the upper-hand in trade negotiations or raw diplomacy would be friggin' awesome.
Of course, there are countries with which we don't have such strong economic ties to preclude an actual "military" type attack, or even an actual war. However, between the big players (and frankly, even our "allies" -- Israel is notorious for spying on its so-called friends, and god only knows what MI6 is up to, for instance) the likelihood for big-time industrial espionage against the US, from the US, or between each other, I would suggest it still high.
Assuming this, I suspect that top targets would really be Commerce, Treasury and State and that those are the locations which need to be hardened more. No one is going to seriously suggest the NSA itself is going to be attacked successfully. The Pentagon, maybe/maybe not. However, those are where the expertise in defense and attack lie Civilian departments are more vulnerable and sweeter fruit to most foreign countries anyway.
I could be wrong though, but I think that's a fair appraisal of the situation.
In most cases, probably not. The methane is seeping out at low local concentrations over a vast area - there is no huge concentrated deposit like it is the case with oil or natural gas. Instead it is dissolved at low concentrations in the soil. Pure, concentrated methane hydrate deposits exist and might be useable for fuel extraction, though. Those are usually deeper in the oceans, where the hydrate is stabilized by water pressure. Getting the stuff to the surface without prematurely releasing the methane due to the pressure reduction is non-trivial, though. I suppose oil and natural gas are too cheap to make harvesting such methane hydrate deposits economically viable at the moment.
I thought methane was a natural gas? But then, i'm not a chemist.
Not to be crude about it, but there weren't lynchings in the antebellum south for the same reason people don't go around blowing up their own tractors (unless, of course, insurance money is involved).
Why do people always have to trot out 1984? Is that the only book people around here have read or something? There are plenty of real-life examples, ranging from the Inquisition (still unsuspected), the Salem Witch Trials, HUAC, Joe McCarthy... all that and I didn't even have to Godwin the thread.
There really needs to be an Orwell Corollary to the Godwin Law, because deserved or not, the references are really getting out of hand lately.
EC2 charges based on CPU time and bandwidth usage, so this sounds like it'd end up eating up a monthly fee of ~$netbook per month. Why would anybody want to spend their money on this?
Yeah, but he's a CIA troll who's writing a cyberpunk thriller one panel at a time, so isn't he the 'all of the above' option?
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In the US at least, the names of the accused are only withheld in the case where the perp is a minor. Of course, we are talking about botnet script-kiddies after all, so whose to say these upstanding individuals aren't actually minors as well?
No, that's not me. And I was deep in BOFH mode when I said/did it. However, I seriously doubt that there have been 50k emails of any significance and authenticity in the history of the internet and I'll stand by that.
I once cleared a mail queue of about 50k email messages... just looping through all the IDs and nuking them in Exim (large i/o issue on the server at the time, and i determined it all to be mail related). When someone questioned me on that, I responded with "there haven't been fifty-thousand legitimate emails in the whole history of the internet."
Moral of the story: question everything that comes over the wire, especially these days. Any insane requests such as the ones described in the article ought to be verified either in person or on the telephone, with you initiating the contact to a trusted source, otherwise you're pretty much just asking for trouble.
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The best classes I had in lecture format where the ones were the professor emailed us notes in powerpoint or pdf format so that we didn't have to keep detailed notes of our own and could pay attention and be engaged in the class. Also, if you missed a class you got the notes anyway and didn't have to harass other students (and in a class of 150-200 people, if one or two aren't there, its not like the professor notice). I wish more professors would do this.
It's probably for the best. I sort of slagged off in my 4th semester of Latin and would just look up translations of Cicero online and have it ready if I got called on. Caesar I'd just do, but technology enabled me to be even lazier in the second semester of my Senior year than I otherwise would have been. Not that Cicero is much relevant to my actual career, although the BOFH motto seems to be 'Auc Caesar, Auc Nihil' (and if it's not, it really should be).
That said, I didn't have a laptop at all when I was in high school, let a lone bring one to class. The first couple of years at college, I had eRacks setups in my dorm room and convinced IT to delegate me static IPs, so I could shell to my machine from anywhere else on campus, or get back in through the tunnel set up by the Comp Sci department on the Linux cluster if I were at home. I paid more attention in class back then.
I totally get the point of the ban, and frankly in a lecture hall setting there probably isn't a real need for the laptop as opposed to a seminar or lab setting. If I were to go back to school for another degree, chances are I wouldn't bring the laptop with me to class, however if I were told I couldn't, hell yeah I'd be pissed off.
I think foreigners should be able to come work in the US and that Americans should be able to to travel abroad to work as well and that fewer restrictions should be placed in both directions. It would definitely take the edge off of the sending jobs overseas crap anyway.
Ok, so worker will be required to get it when they next change jobs, and the industries that will be forced to require this first are the ones which typically hire the most illegals. The industries that hire the most illegals are construction, food service, etc. Those are also the industries where people are going to need to "change jobs" pretty soon, especially construction, due that sector having been hit the hardest by the economic issues. Yet again, this is just another way to control the poorer workers, all the while making them feel like having to register body scans to get a job building houses is for their own good 'cause it'll keep "illegals" from getting the jobs or "terrorists" from blowing them up.
How come its OK for capital to transfer across borders but labor can't move freely? How come I have to go through more trouble to get legal working status in another country than I do to invest in a foreign stock market? Is it because the nation state is the new lord's estate and they want to keep me on the manor? And to make sure we don't get any funny ideas, the Daddy Party tries to tell us we should hate our neighbors and do anything necessary to keep them out, fomenting racism and causing all sorts of animosity on both sides of the border, and the water, making sure that we're just as unwelcome abroad as they are here... screw this shit.
Not being from Europe, and also having no intention to use Windows 7 any time in the near future, I haven't seen this "choice screen" until I just searched for a screen shot of it. There appear to be little one-line descriptions, but nothing really substantive from which to base a choice upon if you didn't already know the differences between the browsers to some degree anyway (in which case, you'd have probably downloaded whichever one you want to use separately regardless of this court-mandated action). So, to my question: is there any way to measure how many of these downloads were due to users making an informed choice rather than just "clicking something" like they do with the "next" button on most graphical installers? And what happens if you just click "select later?" Does it still install IE and default to that?
I tried Oepra recently on Snow Leopard and saw no ads in the browser itself, unless I'm just so used to seeing ads on the web that I just mentally blocked them out. I didn't like it anyway and stopped using it after a giving it a shake for a couple of weeks, though.
If you can't read 90% of Shakespeare, then you're not putting in enough effort, and that's not a failing on his part, its a failing on yours. Remember, back in his time the theatre was the popular entertainment medium and that the same people who today are trolling *chan and bitching about their homework were going to see his plays and mostly groking them, linguistically if not in subtext all the time.
I'm no great fan of Foucault myself in particular, but structuralism as a means of literary criticism really interests me and I had to read some of him in college. Again, not too bad. Likewise, Plato isn't necessarily going to help you "make ends meet," but once you've taken care of the basics required for living, the rest of life is about being a more interesting person capable of enjoying a wider breadth of experience, and that's what education outside of the maths department is meant to provide.
So the fault, dear SlappyBastard, is not in your stars, but in yourself.
Without the engineers, the factory workers have nothing to build, but without the factory workers to build it, the engineers aren't bloody likely to do it themselves. Sure, maybe they build robots and completely automate the factory, but then what are all the people who are now out of work because their jobs were automated away supposed to do?
A significant portion of them weren't ever going to be engineers anyway, no matter how much time and effort was spent educating them. It just wasn't going to happen due to lack of aptitude or interest. Now, faced with no prospect, their choices are probably either join the military or become criminals. The ones that join the military, when they get out, still having no prospects because engineers star-trek'd all the jobs away, are either going to have to become criminals anyway, or police.
Sure, this is kind of a "slippery slope" argument, but realistically the point I'm trying to get at is, how can you possibly say that one job is "more important" than another, as long as they're both actually productive work? (besides, if we want to make it a value contest, agriculture is arguably the only necessary economic activity. Everything else, while wealth producing, doesn't make it possible for us to live, just live more easily).
Wikipedia is great for anything involving mathematics or Star Wars. Everything else seems kind of suspect to me.
The dentist would probably give them to me if I asked. Are you sure that's the same thing?
Don't crack dealers have prior art on this business model?
I would probably lump it in with signals intelligence, or perhaps counter-intelligence as well. While disabling infrastructure and/or command/control is definitely attractive, it may or may not even be advantageous to do so. These days, just for example, America and China are so co-dependent on each other economically that blowing up a factory or even disabling the electrical grid would actually end up doing reciprocal economic damage to the perpetrating party by taking out part of a market and closing off cash flow. It's b.s. but there it is.
However, gathering information (intelligence) as well as poising the well (counter-intel) by corrupting databases, etc, would be incredibly useful. Knowing what data the other side is making their decisions on, as well as being able to make change to that data to give your opponent a false impression in order to gain the upper-hand in trade negotiations or raw diplomacy would be friggin' awesome.
Of course, there are countries with which we don't have such strong economic ties to preclude an actual "military" type attack, or even an actual war. However, between the big players (and frankly, even our "allies" -- Israel is notorious for spying on its so-called friends, and god only knows what MI6 is up to, for instance) the likelihood for big-time industrial espionage against the US, from the US, or between each other, I would suggest it still high.
Assuming this, I suspect that top targets would really be Commerce, Treasury and State and that those are the locations which need to be hardened more. No one is going to seriously suggest the NSA itself is going to be attacked successfully. The Pentagon, maybe/maybe not. However, those are where the expertise in defense and attack lie Civilian departments are more vulnerable and sweeter fruit to most foreign countries anyway.
I could be wrong though, but I think that's a fair appraisal of the situation.
In most cases, probably not. The methane is seeping out at low local concentrations over a vast area - there is no huge concentrated deposit like it is the case with oil or natural gas. Instead it is dissolved at low concentrations in the soil. Pure, concentrated methane hydrate deposits exist and might be useable for fuel extraction, though. Those are usually deeper in the oceans, where the hydrate is stabilized by water pressure. Getting the stuff to the surface without prematurely releasing the methane due to the pressure reduction is non-trivial, though. I suppose oil and natural gas are too cheap to make harvesting such methane hydrate deposits economically viable at the moment.
I thought methane was a natural gas? But then, i'm not a chemist.
CharlieChan?
Not to be crude about it, but there weren't lynchings in the antebellum south for the same reason people don't go around blowing up their own tractors (unless, of course, insurance money is involved).
Why do people always have to trot out 1984? Is that the only book people around here have read or something? There are plenty of real-life examples, ranging from the Inquisition (still unsuspected), the Salem Witch Trials, HUAC, Joe McCarthy... all that and I didn't even have to Godwin the thread.
There really needs to be an Orwell Corollary to the Godwin Law, because deserved or not, the references are really getting out of hand lately.
Only if you're a commie....
EC2 charges based on CPU time and bandwidth usage, so this sounds like it'd end up eating up a monthly fee of ~$netbook per month. Why would anybody want to spend their money on this?
Keeping myself thinking that botnets are lame keeps me from realizing that only a sucker keeps going to work instead of running a botnet.
well, no balls means no point in pulling out. (oh yeah... i went there)
Yeah, but he's a CIA troll who's writing a cyberpunk thriller one panel at a time, so isn't he the 'all of the above' option?
In the US at least, the names of the accused are only withheld in the case where the perp is a minor. Of course, we are talking about botnet script-kiddies after all, so whose to say these upstanding individuals aren't actually minors as well?
No, that's not me. And I was deep in BOFH mode when I said/did it. However, I seriously doubt that there have been 50k emails of any significance and authenticity in the history of the internet and I'll stand by that.
I once cleared a mail queue of about 50k email messages... just looping through all the IDs and nuking them in Exim (large i/o issue on the server at the time, and i determined it all to be mail related). When someone questioned me on that, I responded with "there haven't been fifty-thousand legitimate emails in the whole history of the internet."
Moral of the story: question everything that comes over the wire, especially these days. Any insane requests such as the ones described in the article ought to be verified either in person or on the telephone, with you initiating the contact to a trusted source, otherwise you're pretty much just asking for trouble.
Or especially when you're looking for a new job, knowing some people.