It's far better to teach beginning programmers in Pascal or Java than it is to use Perl, for example.
Could you elaborate on this point?
I am not primarily a programmer; I am a networking nerd for an ISP. I have however, in the course of my duties, had to utilize a variety of programmer-like skills. I learned programming originally in perl, because it was the closest thing to shell scripting (which I generally understood enough to accomplish my goals) that met my immediate needs. I'm curious what kind of bad habits I may have inherited from my initial exposure to perl as opposed to, say pascal.
Specificity would be appreciated as my goal is not to argue, but to hopefully learn and save myself some headaches...
So what you're saying is that even though her co worker didn't contribute as much to the success of the office, she should have just as much access to bonuses and promotions? Theres no problem with giving just enough at work to get by. But she has no right to expect a promotion over someone who is willing to go the extra mile...
I work with several females and I don't identify this as a gender specific issue. There are many males out there as well who think they should be able to coast into promotions. And frankly, that's just not reality.
The person who stays to put out the fires gets the recognition, and the promotions, and rightly so...
Because the free market economy has done so much for improving the free flow of information. Does it seem redundant to make both the sender and the recipient pay for the same bandwidth? What if other countries ban this type of thing, how could you regulate speed in one area, and not in another?
I'm curious as to what will be defined as "personal data." Email address? What about MRU lists or cookies? Also what's the definition of "notify." Does it count as notification if the company puts a one line blurb at the bottom of it's website? This legislation may be utilitarian in spirit, but I fear the letter of the law will change little. Business as usual...
I'm glad to hear you're in a safe enough area over there to stay concerned about your IT situation.
Stay Safe.
I work with an AV tech support team for an ISP, and our experience is generally that infections tend to be visible for about a month, and after that, we don't tend to see them again. That's not to say you'll be safe from them all, but I thought I'd at least swing an answer at that last question. We tend to stop getting calls about a month after the malware is first identified, so i would hazard a guess that a system unpatched for a flaw more than a month old would be reasonably safe. At least safe enough to chance updating online from behind a router, and installing firefox, opera, or another browser with fewer, or at least less severe and more speedily patched flaws. I'd assume you ought to be pretty ok. If you're particularly worried, you could use a hardware firewall, but I see no need for it. Don't look at porn with IE before you update, you'll be fine...
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It's far better to teach beginning programmers in Pascal or Java than it is to use Perl, for example.
Could you elaborate on this point? I am not primarily a programmer; I am a networking nerd for an ISP. I have however, in the course of my duties, had to utilize a variety of programmer-like skills. I learned programming originally in perl, because it was the closest thing to shell scripting (which I generally understood enough to accomplish my goals) that met my immediate needs. I'm curious what kind of bad habits I may have inherited from my initial exposure to perl as opposed to, say pascal. Specificity would be appreciated as my goal is not to argue, but to hopefully learn and save myself some headaches...
because it's difficult to install firefox 2.0 in ubuntu with a .exe ...
I'm also glad to note you didn't link directly to the executable. Yay, mods. yay.
I work with several females and I don't identify this as a gender specific issue. There are many males out there as well who think they should be able to coast into promotions. And frankly, that's just not reality.
The person who stays to put out the fires gets the recognition, and the promotions, and rightly so...
Because the free market economy has done so much for improving the free flow of information. Does it seem redundant to make both the sender and the recipient pay for the same bandwidth? What if other countries ban this type of thing, how could you regulate speed in one area, and not in another?
I'm curious as to what will be defined as "personal data." Email address? What about MRU lists or cookies? Also what's the definition of "notify." Does it count as notification if the company puts a one line blurb at the bottom of it's website? This legislation may be utilitarian in spirit, but I fear the letter of the law will change little. Business as usual...
Stay Safe.
I work with an AV tech support team for an ISP, and our experience is generally that infections tend to be visible for about a month, and after that, we don't tend to see them again. That's not to say you'll be safe from them all, but I thought I'd at least swing an answer at that last question. We tend to stop getting calls about a month after the malware is first identified, so i would hazard a guess that a system unpatched for a flaw more than a month old would be reasonably safe. At least safe enough to chance updating online from behind a router, and installing firefox, opera, or another browser with fewer, or at least less severe and more speedily patched flaws. I'd assume you ought to be pretty ok. If you're particularly worried, you could use a hardware firewall, but I see no need for it. Don't look at porn with IE before you update, you'll be fine...
A similar project was recently done by a group from MIT. Made it to Slashdot as well...
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